# Bald-Faced Lies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-faced-lies/39073>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 31, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-faced-lies/39073 "2000-10-31T13:40:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-faced-lies/39073/81 "2003-01-17T14:40:49Z")

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1. Athlete’s foot can be cured by massaging a mixture of honey and grass mulch into the affected skin. The honey brings out certain phytochemicals in the grass that are toxic to athlete’s foot fungus.

2. The term “monkey wrench” was coined by William Shakespeare, and was used to mean a hindrance, eg.: “To throw a monkey wrench into the works”.

3. Women who take the Pill are 30% more likely to develop ingrown toenails.

4. Shuffleboard was invented by the Picts, and games were used to determine succession to chiefdom.

5. Because of a typo in the minutes of a town-hall meeting, the use of toilet paper was rendered illegal in the town of Scansit, British Columbia from January 30 to June 12, 1992, when the error was noticed and corrected.

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**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-faced-lies/39073/82 "2003-01-17T16:10:09Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*  
> \*\*Everytime you buy something at the store, the scanners are hooked up to a giant computer that tracks peoples’ purchases…by the government. \*\*

**Guinastasia** is Russian for “DaleGribble.”

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