Independent Leyton Orient Forum

My Granny told us that If you sneezed with your eyes open your eyeballs would pop out.
We believed that for years

Tories were genuine and told the truth....

Leyton Orient would be the first team to do the League and Cup double.

Watching Orient was fun.

The Queen didn't poo.

Trolls only lived under bridges

Jo Swinson could become Prime minister.

Treading in dog's sh*t will bring you luck.

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:16 pm Leyton Orient would be the first team to do the League and Cup double.

How old are you?

Must be over 131 years old as Preston won double in 1888

Eating carrots will make you see in the dark.

If I carried on doing that I would go blind

That telling lies made the baby Jesus cry.

I believed that if you pulled a face and the wind changed direction, you would be stuck like that.

if you kissed girls you made them have babies.

"We won the war, in 1944" - groups of us boys would march round the playground singing this. Shame we were a year out but it scanned a lot better.

Don't step on the cracks (in the pavement) otherwise the polar bears will get you.

I believed that tinned salmon sandwiches on pan bread and real butter was top grub. I still do.

Trickle down economics.

Bonio said " "We won the war, in 1944" - groups of us boys would march round the playground singing this. Shame we were a year out but it scanned a lot better."...................Used to do that in Islington too. Strange
Like Max I was in a time when tinned salmon was the bee's knees. Me too still have salmon sarnies about once a week. Having two siblings who were much older than me, learn't me to be wary at a very young age and so wasn't particularly gullible. My uncle told me was going to cut some piglets throats. But he went for the other end. That made me even more wary.

You could untie your belly button.

I believed that Orient would win the FA Cup one day.

I also believed that the Labour Party represented ordinary working class people

Article_50 said :- I believed that Orient would win the FA Cup one day.

I also believed that the Labour Party represented ordinary working class people


See my thread about Urban myths

When I was small child, I was very scared of thunderstorms. My Aunt used to tell me that it was god moving his furniture around.

HARVEY T DENTON wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:25 pm You could untie your belly button.

Wouldn't that depend on whether your belly button was an innae or an outae

Bengal Tigers could be 30 feet long
Apple trees would grow out your head if you swallowed the pips
Foreign languages were just a simple letter substitution code (so the French, for example, just used a different letter for "E", and so on)