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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My parents are pathological liars...We were told by my parents:
* My real mother is Germaine Greer and I was abandoned at a hippy commune
* My sister was bought off the gypsies for either a paper plate or coca cola bottle
* If we were naughty Idi Amin was going to get us
* All lesbians were satanic vampires involved in cults
* My uncle's caged galah had a blanket put over his cage every night so he could read Playboy in peace.
* Dracula was a real bloke who would grab people off the streets of Fitzroy and pop them in the back of his Kingswood Stationwagon (my bastard parents drove such a car).
Their favourite though was how Tootsie the dog was sent to a farm. It had been said to me so many times that, 20 years later, I still believed it. Until my mother drunkenly remarked to a friend "Oh what about when you lie to your kids about sending a dog to a farm when you really have it put down. Ha ha ha ha ha." In front of me.
Twunts.
(, Fri 16 Jan 2004, 0:47, Reply)
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