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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I was unusually well informed......my parents always tended to tell me the proper names for things, when I was about 2 or 3 (instead of a papap being a car, or a bobo being a horse, etc). It was always:
Me: What's that Mummy?
Mum: It's a horse.
Get me?
Cue hilarity when other people assume you've been brought up by normal parents, so you call things silly names. My (well brought-up) Grandma for example.
Grandma: Look at that bobo!
(long pause)
Me: Grandma, it's a horse.
And those ice-cream van jingles that mean I need to stop being so anally-retentive and go kill someone.
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