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My dad used to say if he caught any of us picking our noses 'Did you catch the monkey?', so I believe there was a monkey up my nose!! Never questioned how it got there or how a big monkey could live in my nose but it kept me thnking for years!
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My parents said "stop chewing your nails or when you stop when you're older, you'll get ingrown nails." I thought that meant that when the nails got long enough, they would turn around and start growing back towards my fingertips and eventually go into the skin, so I was scared to stop. To this day, I chew my nails.
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my mum said that if i picked my nose i would eventually pick away my nose and end up looking like micheal jackson. i always beleaved that was why his nose was so funny....
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my mom used to tell me that i shouldn't bite my fingernails because there were worms under them. i'd always thought she meant that the worms would stick out from under my fingernails and squirm around. i found out years later that kids can indeed get li'l tapeworms from ingesting the dirt under the fingernails. yum!
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My Uncle was missing half of his pinky finger. Whenever one of us kids would ask him what had happened he always responded by saying "I picked my nose and a booger bit it off. I believed him until I was about 8 years old.
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I was told as a kid that if you picked your nose and ate it your skin would turn green.
I often wondered about the origins of the Incredible Hulk...
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My cousin had a thumb-sucking complex which her parents found necessary to remove. The "blackened thumb" scared her, but not enough for her to stop. So at one point her father caught her in the act, grabbed her thumb and showed it to her that it was black. Scared straight. He had coated the palms of his hands in black oily substance, and when he grabbed her thumb he rubbed it on her...very clever and amusing.
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My mother told me that when I sniffed up to clear my nose, the snots went down the back of my throat and would stick to my chest, making me ill. When I asked how things that I ate, which went down my throat, didn't stick to my chest I was told that "that's different and doesn't make people ill". I was certainly more careful not to sniff up, but thought it perfectly acceptable after that to pick my nose and eat it!
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I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.
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My mother once told me that if I ate my boogers they would turn into maggots in my belly and I would have to get my stomach pumped.
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My mother once told me that i shouldn't sniff to clear my nose, because the boogers would go into my brain. After that, i was scared to do it, even though i didn't believe her.
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My kids believe if they pick their nose their butts will fall off!
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I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.
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My older cousin told me that when you picked your nose, you'd actually pick a part of your brain. I didnt pick my nose after that...
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If you suck your thumb you'll grow up to be healthy, strong, intelligent and avoid all sorts of other addictive behaviour. Well, three out of four ain't bad...
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My boyfriend told his little brother that snot was actually dead parts of your brain. He believed until in his early twenties!
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My gran once told me that if I didn't stop sucking my fingers, they would get smaller and smaller like a lollipop.
Being inquisitive, I just sucked them more to see if she was right.
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My sister always had one finger up her nose as a child. I told her that the 'bogies' were bits of dried brain she was picking out and if she didn't stop she would die. She believed me, but it didn't stop her nose picking habits.
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my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick.
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If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.
