# Things your mom warned you about.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 7, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749 "2000-03-07T15:09:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749/41 "2000-03-16T03:15:00Z")

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Actually, My mom always warned me about cracking my knuckles, I **loved** cracking my knuckles.  
“You’ll develop arthritis!”

Today, on cold, damp days, man my joints ache…

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“If I pinch my nose with my fingers, close my mouth tight,  
and blow real hard, I can make my ears bleed. It’s  
not as cool as Superman’s X-ray vision, but it’s my own  
special talent.”

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749/42 "2000-03-16T03:51:00Z")

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My mom’s a diabetic, along with a whole bunch of other members of her family, and her saying was always “Don’t eat sugar, you’ll become diabetic.” Of course, sugar consumption has nothing to do with BECOMING diabetic, it only has an effect after one becomes diabetic. It used to scare me silly, but my dad convinced me that my mom was wrong. My mom doesn’t say that to me anymore; now she says, “Don’t eat so much sugar, it’ll be hard to give it up when you become diabetic.”

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~Kyla

“Don’t Do It.”

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**Author:** ![Shagrath\_Borgir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Shagrath\_Borgir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagrath_Borgir)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749/43 "2000-03-16T05:08:00Z")

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> Originally posted by PurpleCrackwhore:  
> \*\*If you don’t stop making that face your face is going to freeze likt that!  
> \*\*

Al Gore is living proof of this…

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God WAS my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and i had to eat him.

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**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-mom-warned-you-about/14749/44 "2000-03-16T05:20:00Z")

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> Originally posted by manhattan:  
> \*\*Man! I waited two months for someone to post this topic, and no one bit on my Johnny Cash reference!
> 
> I’ve been spending too much time in GQ.
> 
> \*\*

Poor manhattan. I’ve had allusions fall flat, too, so I feel your pain.

Catrandom (am I helping?)

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