# Stuff my mom falls for **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910 "2012-03-15T23:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/41 "2012-03-17T23:39:35Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Amusingly, trying to convince grandma that cork was made from cork trees, and so if the world needed more cork all people needed to do was plant more cork trees, was just as lost a cause. It’s not really that simple, because the cork can’t be harvested until the tree is about 25 years old: [Quercus suber - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Oak) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/42 "2012-03-17T23:46:30Z")
My first (late) husband believed in all of Edgar Cayce’s prophecies, and also believed that he could get rid of warts (and clouds) by concentrating on them. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/43 "2012-03-17T23:50:33Z")
Just found out that my father-in-law is ordering his medications from some company in India. :smack: Well, he says it’s a “Canadian pharmacy that gets some of their supplies from India” - yeah, sure, whatever. And he’s calling my husband because the meds supposedly shipped on February 29th… Well, checking the tracking number, it got ready for shipment that day, and was scanned as arriving in **Germany** two days ago, and god knows when it’ll show up here. And of course now he’s all pissed because his cut-rate maybe-not-real meds are slow to show up. I don’t even know how they got the address for this place - they don’t have a computer and tend to come here for anything online, which is rare and they usually end up not doing anything via online anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/44 "2012-03-17T23:56:03Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > My first (late) husband believed in all of Edgar Cayce’s prophecies… Yep. Mom’s into that crap, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/45 "2012-03-18T00:07:25Z")
Just remembered something I haven’t thought about in years. Remember when crystals and their magical powers were all the rage in the 80’s? I was talking to a guy I didn’t know very well who was explaining in depth all the different healing properties of various crystals. I thought he was kidding around and I chuckled. He then said in a very ominous tone “Do not laugh at what you do not understand.” That made me really guffaw. We did not become close friends. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/46 "2012-03-18T00:39:28Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > My best friend is a Mercola fanatic… I know way too many people who are. I sympathize. ☹ One of my best friends fell for a pyramid scheme way late in the game (Women Helping Women or some such “club”). Worse yet, she convinced a mutual friend to “invest” as well. I tried my damnedest to warn them but they wouldn’t believe me since they knew people who got paid off. Needless to say, they lost a couple grand. The same friend fell for one of those “no money down” real estate seminar scams. I didn’t even bother trying that time. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/47 "2012-03-18T02:30:01Z")
[Anyone else ever known a family that sells Shackle vitamins?](http://www.shaklee.com/index.shtml) They will swear to you that Shaklee vitamins are better than store brand, but it is more or less a super-high-priced scam. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/48 "2012-03-18T12:43:28Z")
Oh, and always remember this: the fact that a lot of people die in hospitals proves that it’s dangerous to go to a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/49 "2012-03-18T13:15:06Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I of course benefit from this misconception of his but I don’t want his money. He doesn’t understand that neither does the government. Let’s hope you never have to cross paths with Medicaid. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910/50 "2012-03-18T13:54:13Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Anyone else ever known a family that sells Shackle vitamins?](http://www.shaklee.com/index.shtml) > > They will swear to you that Shaklee vitamins are better than store brand, but it is more or less a super-high-priced scam. Yep, the scam’s in the marketing; the products are basic vitamin products but Shaklee tells folks they’ll become millionaire heroes to the masses once they embrace the wonder of Shaklee vitamins. Big pharma keeps them down! Fight the power…w/ vitamins! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-my-mom-falls-for/615910.md?page=2)