Another great use for beer: With proper aim, you can hit a robber in the head with a can of beer before he shoots you, then you can still drink the beer. If you attempt this after drinking too many beers you will probably miss and then he will shoot you and drink your beer instead. Not good. You just wasted beer.

This article forgot to mention that garden hoses, especially cheap ones made with a high ratio of recycled plastics contain lead and other toxic chemicals in the plastic and brass fittings. In addition, hoses are often used to spray chemicals on the garden, and may retain those chemicals on surfaces. The best advice is for children never to drink out of a garden hose, no matter what distance away from the end, and for all people to wash their hands carefully after handling a garden hose before ingesting anything. I found this advice at several sites, Consumer Reports, EPA, the California health department, several hose manufacturers and others.

The garden hoses around my house often contain anole lizards. Probably a hazard when trying to get a drink.

And, of course, some plants and the burned wood, are poisonous: oleander a common poisonous plant.

Why are they all myths if some are clearly correct?

Spit on a wound? Get way, way out. Add some Strep species, anaerobes, then seal them into the wound with some "liquid skin", and you have a lovely setup for a lousy infection.

Please don't anyone do this.

And yes, trust me because I really am a doctor.

Mythbusters proved you can swim right after eating. They had an entire swim team swim right after eating and never had a single problem. That myth has been busted and the person who wrote this article did not do a good job researching this myth. It has also been proven not to be true by other people.

If the beer is already open you'll waste some. Better to throw a brick at the robber.

As someone who is battling cellulitis because I went kayaking last week with a cut leg, I wish I had read this before I went. Not fun taking amoxicillan for 10 days.

How about spitting on the robber, drinking beer from the garden hose and then going for a swim with the lizard?

My mum always told me: spit on the robber, have a gulp of beer from the garden hose and then go for a swim with the lizard. I never did any of these and I'm still alive & kicking.

Throw the lizard at the robber, while he is distracted tie him up with the garden hose (though remembering not to drink out of it), then drink the beer in triumph.

I like how "Lizard" is the most discussed thing, considering it isn't in the article.. or I can't read.

In 1972, on Pensacola Beach, one of my fellow Tars stepped on a fish resembling a catfish that someone had buried on the beach as they considered it a junk fish. It's dorsal fin was embedded in the guys foot. I had been down the beach talking to a lady who told me her husband out in the water was a Navy Doctor. Since we were all Navy, I went and got her and her husband. He jerked the fish out of the foot and then someone said "Get some seawater to wash it." The doc said "Seawater is not sanitary, Has anyone got a beer." We gave him a cold one and he poured it on the wound and then took a drink, his fee I guess. I didn't see in the article anything about blowing flame from your mouth, so I guess that's OK to do. I had a friend who would put lighter fluid in the front of his mouth, walk up to someone at a party getting ready to light a cigarette, light his cigarette lighter, say you need a light, and then proceed to blow flame out of his mouth.

im having a robber/lizard party. to disscuss more myths BYB. who's coming.

Better yet, hit the robber with a bottle of Scotch, the bottle will hold and you can drink the beer while doing this.....I swam in the Gulf when I was young and it fixed all cuts etc...wouldn't do it now....so, about this party? Does the lizard talk?

Oops, then drink the Scotch...maybe I have had one too many beers

Drink the beer and share some with the robber. Take your lizard on your hose and choke it. This will make the hose safe to drink from so invite that cute next door girl over for a swim while eating tuna sandwiches. I have no idea what I just said.

lol..but I loved it!! Sometimes people take things way too seriously and this is just what I need to laugh....ohhhh yeah....scotch, beer, robber, lizard...and tuna sandwiches

Wade, I didn't see that episode of Mythbusters, but you are correct.  I've repeatedly gone swimming right after eating, and there was never any harm in doing that.  I suppose if you really pigged out and then went for a swim, it could make you tire out faster, but that's about it.

Oh this is great!!!! I'm coming over for a cold one!! And i'll bring the robber!!!

are you bringing the robber or the rubber?

The real deal with eating and swimming in the ocean anyway is you shouldn't because the lil darlings will spit up there food while they are being sooo behaved in all. And it will chum in the oh so grateful sharks and then everyone will scream shark and go on a hunt for the terrible beasts.

Seriously, Folks, I am glad you didn't take all of this supposedly knowledgable doctor's comments to be the ultimate truth. I give credence to the Wind-Cold attack theory of Chinese Medicine. I have seen people get sick after being exposed to very cold air conditioning on their shoulders, many times and recently.

BTW thank all of you for the best humor of the day....Laughter is the best medicine, hmmm, I wonder is that is considered to be a myth, too?

God, I sometimes wonder who digs up this worthless c...!

I'll stick with Mother thank-you.