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My son (19) has just found out I lied to him and he is not happy

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KelperRose · 28/10/2012 13:15

When he was little we took him to Disneyland Paris and he fell in love with Chip from Chip and Dale....

He followed them around got their autographs and was besotted with Chip...he didn't like Dale

Upon leaving we went to the giftshop to buy him a cuddly chip toy, only they were all out of Chips and only had Dales left.

So I bought the Dale and told him it was Chip .....the difference is in colour of their nose

For years and years this soft toy has been his bedtime companion he still cuddles it now......

Then on Thursday he went to the Disney shop with his girlfriend to buy her baby cousin a present and he wanted suggested a Chip

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thewhistler · 31/10/2012 20:50

Just watching a nature programme. Pine martens on it. Silent alas.

So DH goes "Marty, Marty, Marty."

An in joke that is now an extended one.

LeBoob · 31/10/2012 14:56

"Marty, Marty,Marty" is now an' 'in' joke between me and dp, we was face timing our 14 week old while his dm was here earlier & said it. Baby laughed, dm was all Hmm

Grin
GreatGretzky · 30/10/2012 22:49

Grin Grin at dwarves in cashpoints, haggis goats, and 'my humps' camel.

"Marty marty marty" had me and DH in fits! Surprised we didn't wake the DC!

LittleBoxes · 30/10/2012 13:05

I've said this before, but my mum convinced me that the Tweets (of Birdie Song fame) were AC/DC in bird costumes. She'd even roped my brother into the deception.

I believed this (and spouted it as an 'interesting fact') for 10 years, until I was at university and someone put me out of my misery.

MrsReiver · 30/10/2012 10:51

A group of us at university managed to convince a lovely, but gullible, English student that Haggii were indeed wild animals living in the Highlands. They are unfortunately very easy to catch as due to their right legs being shorter than their left legs they can only run in one direction around the hills. The hunters just set up a large net and chase them into it.

He was sceptical until I included the clincher, in a flash on inspiration I told him that because they are perfectly spherical with thick black fur, they are skinned before cooking. The skins are then cut into two half spheres are used for the tops of the bearskins worn by the Buckingham palace guards. I have no idea how I kept a straight face telling him that.

PeggyCarter · 30/10/2012 09:51

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VerityClinch · 30/10/2012 07:55

Are there?! Oh, I'm setting the Sky+ for that one.

Then when everyone is a but tipsy on Christmas afternoon I'm going to put it on and DEMAND SOME EXPLANATIONS FROM MY MOTHER

ZombieArmsDragOnTheFloor · 30/10/2012 07:41

I actually LOLed when Chris Packham announced on the One Show that there would be pine martens on Autumn watch.

chinley · 29/10/2012 21:36

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GruesomewhereInCanada · 29/10/2012 21:30

chinley if it was the same worm medicine that I was given when I was little then it could have been chopped up worms, as it tasted so bloody rank

freddiefrog · 29/10/2012 14:22

LOL at 'Marty Marty Marty'

My grandfather told me that cats eyes were real cats in little boxes in a tunnel under the road. I believed it for years

We also had an 11 year old hamster

CentreYourCheese · 29/10/2012 13:25

I told my little brother that he was a baby gorilla that had been left on our doorstep, and we shaved his fur off every night when he was asleep.

I also told him that the whole world used to be black and white until a scientist invented colour one day, and that's why old films and photos were in B&W.

And I had him convinced for years that if you go on a mystery tour, the driver gets blindfolded so no one knows where you are going.

Bad, bad sister Grin

ClaireDeTamble · 29/10/2012 13:01

We have DD1 utterly convinced that when the ice cream man plays a song it means he has run out of ice creams.

To be fair, DH only told her that once, now every time she hears the ice cream van she very seriously says:

"Mommy, he's playing music, that means he's run out doesn't it?"

To which of course reply "Yes, it does", whilst inwardly laughing and feeling slightly guilty all at the same time.

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PrincessSymbian · 28/10/2012 23:59

Oh Mean! Just shows the difference between intelligence and common sense!
Stbxh and I told our dd that Pennsylvania is called that because that's where all the pencils are made. And that Pennsylvania had an outbreak of Zombies during the nineteen seventies.
We are horrible parents who shall surely suffer for our cruelty

MeanAndMeaslyMiddleAges · 28/10/2012 23:32

Another gem from my dh - he convinced me that if you spun a DVD round really fast on your finger the film would project onto the ceiling. I was a bit confused how uou'd get the sound and he told me that it would sense it wasn't plugged into a device and display subtitles.

I have two fucking degrees!

IvantaOuiOui · 28/10/2012 23:29

For years my children have believed that 'Blackpool Pleasure Beach' was the little fair on the pier with the big wheel and carousel. This year they realised they'd been had. We just never took them to the other end.

RandallPinkFloyd · 28/10/2012 23:28

rofling my way through this, Especially not twigging that it would be cruel to keep little people in cash machines until 20 years old!

(Seriously though, it took me til sl1nky's post to figure out why Whales would have a welsh accent [hblush] )

HoratiaWinWOOHOOHOOHOOd · 28/10/2012 23:20

weeping with laughter

MeanAndMeaslyMiddleAges · 28/10/2012 22:56

campari it's a constant wonder to me that I didn't get pregnant until I was 31 tbh.

Campari · 28/10/2012 22:38

Fire damaged condoms!!!! LOL Grin

MmeLindor · 28/10/2012 21:41

I love this thread.

I was about 19 years old before I realised what the strange plant that my uncle had growing in his cupboard was. And why he and the other uncles and aunts were sharing just one cigarette.

Sl1nkyMalinki · 28/10/2012 21:38

Dying laughing! Welsh whales....genius Grin

Interestingly my DH was also told the haggis story, maybe it's a generational thing?!

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