Not many people have understood this compo
and they're just 'shopping what your parents tell you - not what would happen if it were true
( The Coast Of Yemen, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:30, archived)

Isn't he one of the old bastards in last of the summer wine?

( Randomgazz, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:33, archived)

aye
the smelly one with the face like a bag of spanner...


bless his soul. *bows head*
(thisismyclone, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:35, archived)

I guess the fact that he's now dead means
Compo --------» Compost


_*tish-boom*
(thisismyclone, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:37, archived)

Nah,
it's CaroWallis's dog apparently.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:35, archived)

I've been trying
and failing (to my own satisfaction at least) to animate a child's head deflating as he picks his brains out through his nose. Not sure if that counts, but I take your point
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:34, archived)

I've been trying to think of things all day
I try desperately not to tell my kids the kind of freaky stuff my mum told me, like if you swallow apple pips a tree will grow out of your ear. I haven't been able to come up with anything 'shoppable though
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:34, archived)

my mother told me taht if I swallowed raw jelly cubes
(before they have been put in water and set) that they swell up in your tummy and go hard and you die.
She told me this just after I had eaten a cube. The bastard.
I still vividly remember that moment, I cried and cried and it has affected me all my life. I was only 4.
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:37, archived)

this is one of the reasons
why I don't want to tell my kids that kind of thing. also because at some point you have to tell them that you've lied to them. it's one thing to have Santa and tooth fairies and things, but horrific things that might happen we didn't like the idea of
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:41, archived)