I enjoy lying
to the boys. The eldest is getting difficult to trick, he tends to disbelieve everything I say now, but the other two, 13 and 14, are still gullible. When we went on holiday this summer, I managed to convince them that "jet-ski" is a russian word, meaning "jet", and that the guitarist from ZZ-Top, Billy Gibbons is now cleanly shaven and a presenter on day-time TV. They have (sadly) been corrected in their belief that "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree" is in fact NOT the American national anthem. I like to believe that a few carefully chosen un-truths will lie dormant, hidden, perhaps for decades, like some Cambodian land-mine. Until one day, some time in the future, it will come out in casual conversation, and by then they may even have forgotten HOW they know it, they'll just KNOW this absolutely wrong piece of trivia. Makes me laugh, just thinking about it. Proper evil laughter too!
(Lump, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 15:27, 5 replies)

You, sir, are brilliant
I hope that one day if I have kids they will believe "Jet-ski" is Russian for jet!
(TMAce needs to enter another image challenge sometime, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 15:40, closed)

*click*
Reminds me of something my dad would do. Thankfully, I learnt at an early age not to trust a word the bugger said. My sister, on the other hand...
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 29 Nov 2010, 16:36, closed)

Haha! Brilliant!
Reminds me of one of my housemates in second year of uni. We were making lasagne, and he opened his cupboard to realise he didn't have any pasta. I suggested we make some, since I had the ingredients in my cupboard, and he returned the classic line, 'Don't be stupid! We can't grow pasta in time for dinner!"

Turns out his dad told him when he was little that pasta grew on trees (probably aided by the classic BBC documentary), and he never learnt the truth 'til he turned 20 and I shattered his world.
( guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 17:45, closed)

This is something I support wholeheartedly. I hope you also lie about your heritage - multi-generational porkies are the best.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 18:44, closed)

my grandmother did something similar
she told me that if you spill milk and leave it overnight, it is cleared up by fairies and that's why you don't need to cry over it.

How silly I felt when I offered up this gem during my early days at secondary school.
( fluffymitten NAN, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:35, closed)