Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 25, 2019

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Our variation of that warning was slightly different. “A little birdie’s gonna lay a little turdie on that lip.”

Aww, Gracie looks so sweet and innocent.

In my family it was, “Turkey, turkey, come sit on <child’s name>’s lip.” Why? I dunno. But it’s kind of comforting to see that other people were also threatened with avian visitors and it wasn’t just me….

Had to teach my son how to pout.

That’s not a pout. This here’s a pout.

Aw. This makes me happy. My dad just said, “A birdie’s gonna land on that lip.” He preferred an economy of words. He was from MO and partly raised in TX. Is this a Texas thing? Southern thing?

No familiar with that one. But I heard plenty of others. FYI: I’m not blind from sitting too close to the tv!

For us it was perch on your lip.

Gracie is WAY too smart to fall for something like that.

When I had a pet bird she would sometimes perch on my lip.

Mom used to say " Stick it out further, so I can put a rocking chair on it."

Kinda’ contradicts the supposed taste of bird’s nest soup…

When my daughter was 7, as we were crossing a a busy intersection, a man who’s face was deformed was crossing in the other direction. We were barely out of earshot, thank goodness for the noise of the traffic, my child said “I wonder if the wind changed on him!” From an old expression; ‘if the wind changes your face will stay like that.’ I was so embarrassed. I really don’t know where they get these expressions.

The expression I remember was “Don’t trip on that!”

I never heard that expression, nor anything similar.

Probably just as well. As a child, I might have liked the idea of a bird nesting on me… maybe even on my lip.

For that matter, my parents never tried to frighten me with lies, not even “little” ones. They simply taught me what was “right” and “wrong” and what was and wasn’t “acceptable”. And so I not only learned, but I learned to trust them, too.