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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Bed warmerMy Dad has always had an evil sense of humour, especially when it comes to tormenting gullable kids. We were staying in a hotel in Cambridge when I was about 10, and at the breakfast table, I was looking around at the antique tat that adorned the walls.
I pointed to what a thought was a very long handled banjo, without strings, hanging over the fireplace. It was infact a bed-warmer, but my dad in a proud and informative voice told me that it was used for scooping your balls off the bottom of a hot bath, if you had been sat in the water for too long, and that I wouldn't quite understand yet.
I can remember my Mother crying at the table after he told me that, and my Dad doing the same for a few years to come when I announced "Look Dad, there's a ball scoop" at antique fairs and pubs.
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