Re: poll ideas quest 2007

[rgiskard]

Favorite lie you tell children!

• Santa Claus brings you presents.
• If you goto college you'll get a good job.
• The Easter Bunny brings you candy.
• Tooth Fairy takes your teeth and gives you $$ (no not your pid, money).
• School is good for you, and will help you learn.
• God.
• Not God.
• You'll grow up to be something special, like president!!
• Tooth Fairy takes your tooth and creates furies from it to ruin your life.
• Light is a particle.
• Light is a wave.
• Light is magic, and so is electricity.

[dwu]

And:

Perl 6 will be released in your lifetime.

[technojosh]

• Winning isn't everything
• You can be anything you want to be

and in completely poor taste:

• ...daddy will be right back

[ambrus]

• You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Update 2017-10-01: see Re: poll ideas quest 2012 (lies to children).

[Gavin]

• You can teach an old dog Chimp new tricks.

[Tux]

• Children are brought by the stork
• Children are drawn from cabbage
• If you be silent for 15 minutes you get a cookie
• I always had good notes at school when I was young