I'm suspicious of the story that my dad gave some of our barn cats to a farmer. What farmer wants someone else's defective barn cats? Or that two of them "ran away" together at the same time. I don't know what he did with them though. he's not really the animal murdering type (neglect is more his style) but who knows.

If you swallowed chewing gum, it sits in your stomach for up to 7 years.

I was told that children who misbehave get sent to the "naughty boys'/girls' home".

I was told must study hard to make myself something else

me making a duck face My Mum:" Your face might stick like that! And you never get a husband!" The latter indeed happened. LOL. It is unbelievable that the saying with the stuck face is so common!!

I can't remember anything that wasn't along the lines of 'Jesus knows all about that dirty magazine you brought in here'

My mom told me that if you point at the moon it'll cut your ear off. I tried it once as an adult and she still freaked out