i don't think people intend to mislead their children/ grandchildren/ nephews/ nieces. . .but it seems that a lot of untrue statements get passed along to younger generations and i can't understand why. perhaps you have heard some of the following:
- if you are bad, santa will put coal in your stocking.
- i will refrain from my whole santa rant, but how many bad kids have ever received coal on Christmas? did you ever see any of the bad kids in your school pull out their stash of coal on the 26th of december? i saw plenty of them bringing cool stuff to school after vacation. . .so how could anyone buy into this?
- if you wear a ball cap (now called a "hat") you will go bald.
- this never bothered me because i wanted to go bald (still do, but doesn't look like it will happen). what bothers me is that someone would say that to a child. for me it was a grandparent that delivered such news. what is so disappointing is that such a falsehead is easily dispelled by watching baseball. take a look at pete rose for example. . .or randy johnson. these guys wore a hat for most of their lives and have enough hair to wear-out hedge trimmers.
- babies are cute.
- later this was modified into "when you have kids, you will think they are cute. . .even if they are ugly". this just isn't true. babies are ugly. i mean really ugly. occasionally they will do something that we think is cute, but that doesn't make them cute.
- the detroit lions will eventually have a winning season
- ok, i haven't heard this exactly. . .but i've heard statements that are close to this. keep dreaming.
more later. . .
peace and java
