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	An Old Wives Tale.
		What would she think if it were only 40 degrees and I went outside with my hair wet and without a jacket?
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		You are absolutely correct that it is an old wives tale.
	www.agingfabulous.com /an-old-wives-tale (469 words)

	Old wives' tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today old wives' tales are also common among children's peer sex education in school playgrounds.
		Most old wives' tales are false and are used to discourage unwanted behavior, usually in children.
		This is an example of an old wives' tale in peer sex education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_wives'_tale (2046 words)

	Old Wives' Tales
		Old wives' tales are perhaps as old as language itself.
		Many old wives' tales, especially those surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, have been proven false or ineffective by advances in medicine and technology.
		Some old wives' tales about health and sickness have some basis in fact, whereas other, newer ones seem to reflect a kind of technophobia, such as those related to watching television.
	kidshealth.org /parent/general/aches/old_wives_tales.html (1797 words)

	Misc/old wives tales
		Old wives' tales are still being told, but they are also being subejcted to scientific scrutiny.
		Other old wives' tales have been conclusively disproved or are hanging by a thread.
		One old wives' tale was suggested for years in advertisements in Britain: that nursing mothers should drink a pint of beer a day because it was good for the baby.
	tafkac.org /misc/old_wives_tales.html (950 words)

	Schulers Books (The Old Wives' Tale - 1/132)
		And the fact that the change from the young girl to the stout ageing woman is made up of an infinite number of infinitesimal changes, each unperceived by her, only intensifies the pathos.
		It was at this instant that I was visited by the idea of writing the book which ultimately became "The Old Wives' Tale." Of course I felt that the woman who caused the ignoble mirth in the restaurant would not serve me as a type of heroine.
		It is an absolute rule that the principal character of a novel must not be unsympathetic, and the whole modern tendency of realistic fiction is against oddness in a prominent figure.
	www.schulers.com /books/ar/o/The_Old_Wives__Tale (1601 words)

	Amazon.com: The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics): Books: Arnold Bennett,John Wain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century.
		To sum up the experience of The Old Wives Tale, a tale of three women living their lives, and their lives changing them (or perhaps not changing them, is that it is the most honest approach to human psychology I have ever read.
		In the end though, Bennett's old wives are what compels you to finish the story since you want to see how their lives end and how their relationship to each other changes through the years.
	www.amazon.com /Old-Wives-Tale-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140182551 (2908 words)

	Bicycle Crank Length: Lies, Misinformation, and Old Wives' Tales
		Old Wives' Tale #1: Tall riders who haven't tried a proper length crank often claim that they don't want a longer crank because it will hurt their "jump".
		Old Wives' Tale #3: Some people claim that too long a crank will ruin their spinning motion.
		Old Wives' Tale #5: Somebody is always concerned that going to a longer crank will cause a drop in cadence, resulting in a loss of power.
	www.nettally.com /palmk/crwives.html (1867 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Old Wives' Tale: Livres en anglais: Arnold Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The sisters are reunited years later when they are old, and Bennett skillfully contrasts what has remained stable in their characters with the differences time and environment have produced in their personalities.
		The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days.
		This edition of The Old Wives' Tale gives fascinating critical insights into Bennett's most wide-ranging novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece.
	www.amazon.fr /Old-Wives-Tale-Arnold-Bennett/dp/1404384189 (388 words)

	Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old Wives' Tale Twentieth Century Literature - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Against the grain of these characterizations, this essay argues that The Old Wives' Tale imaginatively maps provincialism's relation to the cosmopolitan, but that an irruption of the imperial in the novel complicates this relationship, with implications for the fate of Edwardian realism.
		The Old Wives' Tale might therefore be described as a cosmopolitan narrative in its realist method, but a provincial one in the local focus of its subject matter.
		The intrusion of the imperial upon the domestic English landscape of The Old Wives' Tale--particularly in the emblematic figure of an elephant that runs amok--complicates notions such as Matthew Arnold's that the provincial appears antipodal to a metropolitan center and that it evinces a partiality of vision by contrast to cosmopolitanism's totalizing perspective.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_2_49/ai_113419434 (740 words)

	washingtonpost.com: An Old 'Wives' Tale
		But in "The Stepford Wives," an adaptation of novelist Ira Levin's cautionary tale and the 1975 film of the same name, the Rudnick formula is stale business indeed.
		So he drives her and the two kids to Stepford, Conn., an idyllic corner of suburban affluence, where the houses are ridiculously large and the people are pleasant but strange.
		This is the land of Betty Crocker gone insane, where too many beautiful wives (and dementedly zealous homemakers) defer like slaves to their husbands.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A31188-2004Jun10?language=printer (586 words)

	Peele's Attack on Simony in The Old Wives Tale
		Ardolino talks about Peele's attack on simony in The Old Wives Tale and stated that the use of the name of Simon is not a mistake on Peele's part or a reference to the actor playing the role of the churchwarden, but an indication of the simoniac practices of the Catholic Church.
		The demand by the avaricious church officials that the exorbitant funerary dues of one hundred mourning gowns be paid for Jack's sanctified burial is directly connected with anticlerical satire and the Reformation attack on simony.
		In The Old Wives Tale, Peele shows the benefits of a voluntary system of charity as opposed to the coercion practiced by the churchwarden.
	www.geocities.com /j_marchus/ardolino.html (808 words)

	» Blog Archive » Are Pregnancy Old Wives Tales True?
		The old wives tale says if you’re having a boy, you carry all the weight low on the abdomen and gain weight only in front.
		The old wives tale says if you’re having a girl, due to presence of her hormones and yours, you feel worse than if you’re having a boy.
		The old wives tale is to lay down and have someone take a necklace and charm and hold it over your pregnant belly.
	www.christinetalks.com /?p=19 (880 words)

	Old Wives Tales
		But I am planning on a pregnancy and have tried many old wives tales to try and ensure that this child will be a girl.
		One wives' tale I heard when I was pregnant was if your legs resemble tree trunks, it's a boy.
		Then once I was pregnant, he began to follow me around whenever he saw me. I have a 3 month old girl, and my nephew adores her, but alas he ignores me once again.
	www.frontiernet.net /~tezcan/gender.htm (2045 words)

	cbs13.com - Croup Old Wives' Tale Debunked
		As it turns out, Senay observes, the reason people thought sitting in front of a steamy shower worked may have been that the attention itself they were giving the child helped.
		Neto said although unproven, taking wee ones outside in the cold air will often alleviate symptoms of croup, which affects children up to five years old (after that age, it is called laryngitis).
		But most children will be better even after sitting outside for a few minutes," she said, advising parents to "remain calm, wrap the child up and go outside, and most children who have been in cool air for a few minutes will feel better and sound better.
	cbs13.com /health/health_story_074235823.html (1004 words)

	Granny's Old Wives' Tales (Jamaica)
		The funniest old wives tale, I ever heard, Granny told me one day as we were passing a cemetry and I was pointing to some flowers.
		Granny was an expert when it came to raising babies, therefore it wasn't unusual for her tales to include a few anecdotes regarding the wee ones.
		Granny was not a new age guru or a sage, but she always had a tale to soothe every situation I was going through.
	www.jamaicans.com /culture/mygranny/grannysoldwivestales.shtml (1466 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Critter Country (Murderous Moggies) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The superstition itself is older, with print sightings of it recorded from 1607 and 1708, so that 1791 verdict should be viewed with the realization that the jury was probably influenced by a snippet of "everybody knows" lore when it came time to explain a death for which there was no apparent cause.
		It is possible a cat might lie across the face of a sleeping child and thus upon extremely rare instances accidentally cause a death, but that is not the old wives' tale at hand wherein the cat does so with malice aforethought.
		A news story emerging in December 2000 appeared at first blush to be an instance of this sort of accident when a woman said she found her six-week-old son dead in his crib with the family cat laying on the baby's face.
	www.snopes.com /critters/wild/catsuck.htm (822 words)

	Full moon theories can be murder / Police, coroners put spin on old wives' tale
		Until, that is, a number of years ago, when she was called by the British Broadcasting Co., which was checking out the ancient myth of lunacy.
		Arguably the last year of the old century, 1999 saw two full moons in January and somebody was slain on each of them.
		For those who do believe in lunacy, perhaps the most dangerous time is a rare triple confluence of the full moon with the winter solstice and the lunar perigee, when the moon is closest to the Earth.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/02/MN1163.DTL (1117 words)

	Pregnancy Old Wives Tales
		We decided to put together a few pregnancy and TTC old wives tales.
		Focus on meeting your mans needs, if the male partner climaxes first, old wives' tale says you're guaranteed a boy.
		It has been known that when it is the time you are ovulating and the man asks for sex, it is a sure fire for a boy!
	womens-place.com /pregnancy/oldwives.php (469 words)

	Old wives' tale - Gurupedia
		Some old wives' tales are true, and those that aren't often have roots in truth or are used to trick people into doing something.
		British spread a rumour that their pilots were eating carrots to give them improved vision, concealing the truth about the invention of radar.
		Again, this is an attempt to discourage masturbation (usually among young males) by associating it with blindness.
	www.gurupedia.com /o/ol/old_wives_tale.htm (268 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		eBook Description: The Old Wives' Tale celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three generations.
		The fact is, that while in the county they were also in the district; and no person who lives in the district, even if he should be old and have nothing to do but reflect upon things in general, ever thinks about the county.
		So far as the county goes, the district might almost as well be in the middle of the Sahara.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook28082.htm (2668 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Hour Missed Brooks
		What's not in doubt, however, are the lack of deaths associated with swimming right after eating — there hasn't been so much as one drowning attributed to this, not even a near drowning.
		For something that was supposed to be fatal if you so much as dipped a toe, this particular old wives' tale proved to be a dud.
		Those who are very careful about not taking any risks that are avoidable might want to put off striking out for the other side of the lake right after having tucked into a large meal.
	www.snopes.com /oldwives/hourwait.asp (1043 words)

	Old Wives Tale??? - RC Groups
		The only thing that comes to mind is what I thought was an "Old Wives Tale".
		The "tale" comes from the old days of wood-over-glass and hard rubber cases.
		Its 4 years old, sits on concrete in the shop with an ACE CVC connected and it still test 120 MAH.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=364 (1289 words)

	TIME.com: Old Wives' Tale Confirmed? -- Sep. 17, 1956 -- Page 1
		Worldwide superstition long decreed that almost all abnormalities in newborn children—from port-wine stain to the absence of a limb—were the result of shock suffered by the mother during pregnancy.
		Medical science seemed to demolish these old wives' tales, but now, as a result of exact, deductive reasoning, it is coming to believe that in some few cases, at least, the old wives were right.
		Not only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,893564,00.html (536 words)

	The Old Wives' Tale
		That corner cupboard was already old in service; it had held the medicines of generations.
		It had been repapered twice in their lives, and each papering stood out in their memories like an epoch; a third epoch was due to the replacing of a drugget by a resplendent old carpet degraded from the drawing-room.
		Constance walked away from the bed to the dressing-table and began to loose her hair and brush it, holding back her head, shaking it, and bending forward, in the changeless gesture of that rite.
	www.pos1.info /t/thldw.htm (18749 words)

	Cedar old wives tale? - Discussion Forums
		It still doesn't tell us very much and I suspect that cedar will remain pretty much on par with spruce for a fairly long period of time and the differences may only show past a certain age.
		Just because there are as yet no 60 year old cedar topped steel strings to test is no reason to assume they will poop out when they reach that point.
		But if it's awesome it would prove that a 90 plus year old guitar with a cedar top can indeed still sound damn good.
	www.acousticguitar.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/014681-2.html (1169 words)

	The Old Wives' Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908.
		It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age.
		It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Old_Wives'_Tale (103 words)

	Another old wives’ tale proven false (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nothing like a sweet vanilla wafer breaks the ice with a 2-year-old.
		And nothing like a half box being eaten gets an old guy in trouble.
		Ruby Gray and I became best buddies early in our annual family week at the beach.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/columnists/tomwright/060716.shtml (306 words)

	Old Wives' Tale - The Fuselage
		A friend of mine and I were discussing Special and she mentioned that it is an old wives' tale that if a bird flies into your window, someones going to die.
		Owls are thought to signal an imminent death in a lot of Mexican legends, for example.
		My friend who told me about the OWT said a bird flew into their window a few days before her mother died.
	www.thefuselage.com /Threaded/showthread.php?t=4233 (657 words)

	Old Wives' Tale - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall - World's Largest Selection!
		'[Arnold Bennett's] superb Old Wives' Tale, wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest 'long novel' that has been written in English and in the English fashion, in this generation.'
		Still, she did not desire to move, nor was she in the least anxious as to her surroundings.
		The "Old Wives' Tale" was first published in 1908.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/old-wives'-tale-bennett-ebooks.htm (397 words)

	The Web's Old Wives Tale: People Don't Read Online
		Web execs feel good saying it to justify investing as little as possible–and in the lowest quality content they can get away with.
		Or are you still buying into that old wives tale that people don't read online?
		What a relief to see some stats, although we knew it, too.
	www.grokdotcom.com /2007/03/29/the-webs-old-wives-tale-people-dont-read-online (1664 words)

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