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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Sock shopsDad - a tour guide in Belgium, informed me on a trip to Amsterdam that what we were passing were Sock Shops - it just so happened that 'sex' was Dutch for socks. The gaudy colours and strange zoning passed me by entirely.
Twenty years later a trip to Amsterdam with my girlfriend was educational and remarkably sock free....
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