Lies Your Parents Told YouI once overheard a neighbour use the phrase "nig nog". I asked my father what it meant. As quick as a flash he said, "It's a type of biscuit. A bit like a hobnob." Can you beat this? BTW: We're keeping this thread open for an extra week as we're enjoying the stories so much.
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:29)
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Parental liesAt the height of the Edwina's Eggs scares, I was about eight years old and totally uninterested in any news programmes when there was an episode of Thundercats to be watched elsewhere.
One evening, after a weekend family dinner consisting mainly of an omelette, my father casually remarked that we could probably expect a visit from Sam and Ella later that evening.
Not knowing what the fuck he was on about, I eagerly sat around waiting to meet whoever these mystery friends of my parents were for a good three hours, glancing out of the front windows every now and again to see if they had arrived - and thus missing Noel Edmond's Saturday Roadshow (in retrospect, probably not such a bad thing).
It was several years later that I discovered they were making a clever-clever play on words with "salmonella". Bastages.
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