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  • #593517
    eclipse
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    When I was a kid,someone told me if I swallow my gum,all my insides would get glued together.People also said if a cat or dog follows you around,it’s a gilgul and just tell it you’re moichel it(“mochul loch” 3 times).When I told people I was afraid to get a computer (even though I write)because it would waste a lot of time,they told me I’m being silly…ahem…Here I am,doing what exactly??:)

    #717706
    blinky
    Participant

    If you eat watermelon pits you grow a watermelon tree in your stomach

    #717707
    Sacrilege
    Member

    “People also said if a cat or dog follows you around,it’s a gilgul and just tell it you’re moichel it”

    I’m always saying that to pesky flies 🙂

    #717708
    artchill
    Participant

    If you are making a silly face and a Chicago style cold wind gust comes through, your face will be stuck like that forever!!

    #717709

    im not sure what people mean exactly by bubbe maasehs

    and if they are using the term in a belittling way

    some “bubbe maasehs” come from bubbes who had Kedusha no one here can even imagine.

    the cat gilgul maaseh has sources.

    i think we’ll change the title

    #717710
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    If a cat was following me, I’d be pretty suspicious. Cats don’t usually follow strangers.

    Now, if I had been feeding it…

    #717712
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Oh! Folk stories?

    I believe in Hansel and Gretel, and in the three little pigs.

    #717713

    if you put powder around your bed at night, when you wake up you will see what looks like chicken feet prints….

    #717714
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    Is it called superstitious? Whatever its called my mother was very into it! Definately the gum one! And the one where if someone stepped over you you would stop growing! The worst was if you walked in your socks C”V something terrible would happen. We would jump all over the house if we couldnt find our shoes I once took a step in my socks by mistake and i couldnt sleep that night i was so scared. But maybe that does have a source. I dont know.

    #717715
    Sacrilege
    Member

    If you drink havdala you get a hairy chest.

    #717717

    If my Aunt had a beard, she would be my uncle.

    #717718
    blinky
    Participant

    no sac- i heard it differently- if a girl drinks it they grow a beard!

    #717719
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    Blinky i heard that one too! If you drink the Havdalah wine you grow a beard. And however high you hold the Havdalah candle thats how tall your chosson will be.

    #717720
    Sacrilege
    Member

    blinky

    that explains it 😉

    #717721
    Imanonov
    Participant

    If you donate $18 to Vaad Hatzdokoh you’ll never wake up dead.

    #717722

    Sac

    uh oh….do you have a beard? lol

    #717723
    blinky
    Participant

    Bestima and sac- there must be some basis of truth to it if a few ppl heard of it… i also heard of the havdala candle!

    #717724
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    Imanonov lol!

    #717725
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Kupat Hair!!

    #717726
    aries2756
    Participant

    You can’t go to the zoo if you are pregnant because you can only look at beautiful things.

    #717727
    Sacrilege
    Member

    PB

    A very handsome one at that.

    #717729
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    aries i know that is written somewhere dont remember where though

    #717730
    eclipse
    Member

    How about these?

    -7 boys in a row “you go straight to gan eden”

    -Chilul Hashem and Motzi Shem Ra…no full teshuva

    -Tooth Fairy Benefit Card(part of Obama’s Stimulus Package)

    -What goes around comes around

    -what goes up must come down

    #717731
    real-brisker
    Member

    walking over a person

    #717732

    Sac

    you may not want to boast about that. You may scare off WIY;-)

    #717733
    maah
    Member

    “You can’t go to the zoo if you are pregnant because you can only look at beautiful things. “

    This is a great example of why we must keep mesorah, whether it makes sense or not!!

    The actual saying, minhag, whatever you want to call it is, you shouldn’t look at animals, while pregnant. many seforim bring it down.

    (Bronx zoo, Bronx ppl looking at zoo while pregnant, you get the picture)

    now imagine someone said you should only look at pretty things, you’ll say they’re nuts, and go to the zoo. In reality the person was correct we shouldn’t go to the zoo, but the reasoning was incorrect. lesson learnt stick to mesorah, whether you understand it or not.

    #717734
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    elipse do the 7 boys haveto be in a row? I have 7 boys and i think anyone who raises 7 boys whichever order they come in definately deserves to go straight to Gan Eden!!!

    #717735
    eclipse
    Member

    I heard “in a row”,but I agree with you!

    #717736
    Sacrilege
    Member

    I think anyone who has 7 GIRLS should go straight to Gan Eden!

    #717737
    bpt
    Participant

    If you take the un-cut bilke from shaleshudos, pierce it with the knife you used to cut the bilke you ate at shaleshudos, place it under your pillow, wake up at midnight and look in the mirror, you’ll see the person you’re destine to marry.

    Heard in Camp Mogen Av, back in the ’70s

    #717738
    bpt
    Participant

    That, and grasping your thumb with your other hand will protect you from the shaidim that were in the trees at night (the trees that lined the path from the shul to your bunk, where you needed to go to get your flashlight for night activity)

    #717739
    oomis
    Participant

    The mesorah of not looking at ugly things during pregnancy has its basis in the story of Yaakov Avinu and his flocks of sheep that gave birth to speckled, spotted, and ringed lambs when the mothers looked at the staffs that he carved in those designs when mating.

    The not walking in socks goes to the halacha of an aveil not wearing shoes. So it is an ayin hara to walk in shoeless socks UNLESS one is sitting shiva. Bare feet are not the same problem.

    I held the havdala candle at least six feet high every motzai Shabbos and STILL married a short guy. So there.

    #717740
    deiyezooger
    Member

    “if you put powder around your bed at night, when you wake up you will see what looks like chicken feet prints…. “

    ??? ??? ???? ????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ????? ??????? ?????? ??? ?? ???? ????????

    (????? ?)

    #717741
    WIY
    Member

    Sacrilege

    LOL! Im maskim!

    #717742
    BEST IMA
    Participant

    Sacrilege anyone who raises 7 of anything deserves to go straight to Gan Eden!

    #717743

    i personally would NEVER walk over someone. i dont know why. but it was very important to my Bubby and thats good enough for me.

    #717744
    Sacrilege
    Member

    “I held the havdala candle at least six feet high every motzai Shabbos and STILL married a short guy”

    So your saying I should get off the chair? 😉

    #717745
    WIY
    Member

    BEST IMA

    I just raised 7 fingers into the air. Thanks for the tip. 😉

    #717746
    deiyezooger
    Member

    “That, and grasping your thumb with your other hand will protect you from the shaidim that were in the trees at night”

    ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ????? ??????? ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???? ??????? ????? ???

    ????? ??

    #717747
    bpt
    Participant

    Best Ima is right.. raise 7 kids and you’ve already been thru gehenom!

    #717748

    BP

    I know people who would gladly take that “Gehenom”.

    #717749
    Rak Od Pa'am
    Member

    WIY

    Glad to see you rcovered

    #717750
    eclipse
    Member

    For that effort,WIY,you get to go to Garden of Eat-in.

    #717752
    Sacrilege
    Member

    BPT

    “raise 7 kids and you’ve already been thru gehenom”

    *Gasp* I’m telling!

    #717753
    blinky
    Participant

    If you eat the crusts of your bread, you grow strong bones!

    If you put your tooth under your pillow, you will find $ there the next morning!

    #717754

    BP Totty-

    I know you were kidding, but that comment can kill somone who is still waiting for the bracha of children

    #717755

    How about, if you stand while you eat, you get fat feet? I dated a girl who did it all the time….she was a size 0(zero)!

    #717756
    bpt
    Participant

    I was afraid of that, but whats the alternative? Hide the fact that we have kids? Suppress each cute story we know of that pertaint to children? Or negate the fact that they are hard to raise?

    I know how painful that topic is, and meant no harm. I sure hope none was taken.

    #717757
    real-brisker
    Member

    mod 80 – did u hear if u walk over u have to walk back

    #717758
    ronrsr
    Member

    anyone who posts regularly in the coffeeroom will never post while dead.

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