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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Not so much a lie......as an uncorrected assumption. My mum is a fairly modern parent, and so she never really lied to me, so I never believed in the tooth fairy or santa claus (although we did still all pretend we believed he existed, for some unknown reason) or anything like that.
However, she did like in indulge in a little of the wacky baccy on occasion, and so until I was about 13 I thought that the crumbling of the brown stuff was just a natural part of rolling a cigarette...
Like I say, she never actually told me this, but since I almost never saw a cigarette being rolled "properly" (as most of my family indulge), I never questioned its existence or, more crucially, its legality...
(, Fri 16 Jan 2004, 17:25, Reply)
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