The 'sayings' that were fashionable in school, stay with you forever

[FrankButchersDickieBow]

I remember a saying with school, that if you sneezed 8 times on the run, you would have an orgasm. I'm forty fuckin three and just sneezed 6 times on the run andi never thought 'oh I need a tissue' I thought, 'ooh another 2 sneezes and I'll have an orgasm' 🤣🤣

Nothing fact based please.

Just the sayings that went round in school that you kinda believed but were vvu!!

If an ambulance passed you when you were walking to school, you had to grab hold of your collar and chant
“ touch collar, never swallow,
Never die in an ambulance “
Or you’d end up dying in one when you got older !

I’m betting that anybody who went to a Welsh school remembers the Black Nun from residential trips

Singing
We are the (town) girls
We wear our hair in curls
We wear our dungarees to show our dirty knees
We wear our bras too tight
To show that we can fight
Alabunga, Alabunga
I saw the boy next door
He got me on the floor
I said something something
Something something
My mamma jumped for joy
It was a baby boy
Alabunga
Alabunga

My dad swears that head on the roof story was based on a real event in the news

[quote Scarby9]@EBearhug
On the rocking on chairs topic, a child (8) in my class kept tipping his chair forwards on two legs. People (well, mostly me as the teacher) kept tripping over the legs and I repeatedly asked then told him to keep 4 legs on the floor.

One lesson, there was a sudden crash. He had swung so far forward that the chair had slipped suddenly backwards away from under him, crashing his head forward onto the table as he fell.

Almost instantly, a hen's egg sized lump came up on his forehead. I treated it with the ubiquitous wet paper towel, did my 'I told you so' speech and we carried on

Ten minutes later he did exactly the same again.

This time it was the lump that took the blow. He was in such pain we had to send him home for the rest of the day.

And the class self-policed chair swinging after that![/quote]
Sorry to be that person, but if you'd sent him to the medical room like you should have done with a 'hen's egg sized lump' he wouldn't have banged it twice.
If I was his mum I'd have complained.

@LionMother and @WeatherwaxLives I remember people folding socks down to hide them, and not showing laces. I didn't bother with that - I just went sockless in my Reebok Classics, but that had its own myths.

A gap between someones 2 front teeth meant theyd be rich when older.

Turns out that isn't at all true...

Did you also use to do handstands on the grass in summer, chanting “Sun Rain Thunder Lightning, something something and Away we go!” Then doing a crap handstand and displaying your knickers to all and sundry?

Our version was:
Thunder and lightning, very very frightening, Jellywobble, GO!
You could insert the names of other types of handstand instead of jellywobble, but I can't remember what they were. Jellywobble was shaking your legs about. The person who stayed up longest won and got to say the rhyme and choose the handstand for the next round.

That if you ate m&ms that they gave you cancer.

@Standrewsschool and @Lobsterquadrille2
I heard the same thing too, I lived in Hatfield!
Also had a rumour going around the school that there was a gang locally that would snip off boys testicles with some pliers if they caught them - I was very glad I was a girl!
Oh, I just thought of the one that scared me the most, the year before moving up to secondary school (St. Audrey's) we were warned by older children that we would have our heads put in the toilets and the then the toilet would be flushed, I was really scared by that one, and tried to avoid the toilets as much as possible! (I ended up really loving that school, and was so sad in the third year when we moved to a different town, and therefore to a different school - I mainly hated the new school).

@Thisisnotreallymyname

If an ambulance passed you when you were walking to school, you had to grab hold of your collar and chant “ touch collar, never swallow, Never die in an ambulance “ Or you’d end up dying in one when you got older !

We would all stop what we were doing and have to touch our belly buttons if an ambulance went by or if we heard one but i dont remember why..

Some types of cancer are linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the mouth and throat. It's likely that some types of HPV are spread by oral sex.

If you get an apple, twist it while you say the alphabet and the letter you reach when it comes off it's the first letter of the name of the person you'll fall in love with

Oh, and it's bad luck to step on three grates, or between the bandy man's legs (underneath a sign post)

That the doorknobs in the convent ( l went to a catholic school ) had to be replaced frequently as the nuns “pleasured” themselves on them ..

There was a part of the playground at my school that only the brave kids would go to as we thought that the trees would spit poison at you causing you to melt akin to the wicked witch..said trees had weird ugly fungal growths on them.
And then the high school was supposedly haunted by the ghost of an old headteacher who hung themselves after getting a student pregnant.
There was also a grim little ditty grafitied in the girls loos that would re-appear regularly after being washed off "if the rivers red use the dirtpath instead" rumoured to have been put there by a boy but really it was the group of thug girls who hung out in that half of the toilet block during breaks that meant no one else got a look in at all or they would deck you

Similar story, a young couple ran out of petrol near Broadmoor (about 10 miles from where we lived) the man left to get petrol, hours later a team of police cars swarmed up and then there was a banging on the roof of the car, the police men shouted ‘get out of the car, walk towards us and don’t look back’. The banging continued and curiosity got the better of her and she turned around and an inmate of the hospital had impaled her boyfriends severed head on a stick and was banging it on the roof of the car. She ended up in Broadmoor. I lived about 10 miles from. Broadmoor in the 60s and 70s, it never happened but I did hear that story - in my version it happened in America.

@Lobsterquadrille2 the "oggy oggy oggy " thing came from a comedian called Max Boyce.
His other catchphrase was "cos I was there" at the end of a long complicated story. He "knew it was true cos he was there"
I remember at primary school, if you saw an ambulance you had to hold your collar until you saw something else - I think a black cat or dog, but I can't remember properly.

One rumour that went round our school was that there was a couple in a blue Volvo who would try and entice you into the car and would then murder you.
The whole school was then taken into the hall and told about this. It was true. There was a letter from the police saying that this was happening and the whole ‘don’t talk to strangers’ thing.

Looking back now we weren’t the world away from Fred and Rose West, and it was about the right time!

We definitely had a few of these already mentioned such as walking over three drains is bad luck. Tying shoelaces in a bow was lame so we all tucked them into our shoes/trainers.
We also had a science teacher who always had a strange looking orange tan who was literally known as Mrs Orange xxxx and we were all desperate to know why she was that colour. One day someone actually plucked up the courage to ask her why she was so orange and she said she ate many carrots all the time so that must be why. People actually believed her and tried eating lots of carrots to see if they too would turn orange! It wasn’t until many years later I realized she must have used fake tan religiously. Fake tan wasn’t really widely used when we were school age so we’d never seen it before.

Well I remember that saying! Sneezed 9 times a few years ago .. nada!

I still won’t walk over three drains!

@Callaird, you've got me creased up laughing! It's absolutely true, in the seventies we really did fit half the village in a 4 seater car with a few dogs to boot! Coming home from dances we'd fight over who was sitting on whom & who got the relative peace of the "dog end" with said hound.

I remember going on holiday, 6 of us plus dog in a mini estate car towing a tiny caravan meant for 4. We had to get out & walk up all steep hills (apart from the dog).

Not RTFT but so many I got too excited and didn't want to forget haha

Yes to Blue Lady/White Lady - saying you killed her appropriately coloured baby would lead her to scratch you head to toe overnight and you'd wake covered in blood

Yes to the McChicken Sandwich cyst (bork)

Yes to lickadickaday, but also onlygayssaywhat said really quickly and laughing when they said what, and you've dropped your gay card whilst pointing at the floor and laughing when they looked (so much homophobia in kids pranks!)

Someone knew someone who's cousin was mistreating with a test tube stolen from science when her mum walked in causing her to close her legs and shatter it inside her

Disabilities were caused by the dad urinating inside the women during sex

Yes to shag bands

Lol at chinny thing @winewolfhowls haha what region did you go to school?

I was East Yorkshire FYI. I had more but forgot em

Green M & M’s were an aphrodisiac
Someone apparently was impaled by a javelin on school sports day

In our school there were old stone ruins in the grounds and if you went down a certain number of steps the White Lady would appear....