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

[KelperRose]

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

"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

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.

Ha ha ha ha!! What a brilliant thread "Marty marty marty" brilliant!

I can't think of a lie my parents told me ...

But ... a very good friend of mine had a Hamster as a child. It was a very naughty hamster and used to escape and chew through wires for things like the television, the VHS player, speakers etc etc... anyway, her brother revealed to her, at a birthday dinner a couple of years ago, that her parents had actually poisoned the hamster because of the chaos it used to cause and it had not died naturally - which she had always believed until that point.

She was still really upset when she told me the story (can't remember why her older brother chose the occasion to tell her) and of course good friend that I am I was in stitches!!! :o

part way through this thread with tears streaming down my face
Marking my place to come back later
Marty...marty...marty

myhumps my humps my lovely camel humps :o

My great grandad told us some corkers:

My sister adamently argued with her class teacher in year 2 that a man sat on the end of the pier with a large fishing rod and intermittently pulled out the plug causing the sea to go away (tides) even at 29 she's still whenever it's mentioned!

He told us that wheat bales in fields were taken to factories and sliced up to make shredded wheat but the farmer left some in the fields to feed to shy giants!

We were also told that cows that grazed in fields with hills were bred to have one set of legs longer than the other to stop them toppling down the hill!

Please don't let this thread die! It's been great

I remember asking my dad when I was about 6 why birds didn't get electrocuted when they sat on pylon wires - he told me they had rubber feet so they were insulated. I went through several years of being top of my year in science before repeating it to a boyfriend aged 16, only thought to question it when he cracked up...

Mind you, when my son started to understand the tooth fairy, I was slightly tipsy silly and also told him about the tongue fairy and eyeball fairy, for when they needed to get bigger - when he realised I was joking a few months later, he was only disappointed he wouldn't get the extra money!

We very nearly called our new puppy, arrived yesterday, Marty, just for the pleasure of calling Marty, Marty, Marty Marty. Only the thought that none of us would be able to stop laughing and that we would out ourselves to MNrs in the park stopped us.

When I was at university my brainy engineering friend told me that the world was actually flat but spinning so fast, like a spinning coin, that it appeared round and that's why people said it was round. I beloved him for months. I have 2 honours degrees (although admittedly not in science) but am obviously a complete idiot.

I had a moment of madness last week and told DS that the bogeys in his nose were melted brains falling out from watching too much TV/playing computer games... He is 8 so I didn't think for a second he would believe me but he is telling EVERYONE and keeps eating bananas (which I told him mend the brain). I feel so evil but he has stopped tv completely!

I am dying at 'Marty Marty Marty'

A friend at uni told me that cars parked outside showrooms aren't ever stolen because they dont have engines. He said if someone wanted to buy a car it was towed round the back to a big garage where the engine would be lifted in by a small crane.

I believed him until I noticed him sniggering as I faithfully repeated the story to someone else not for the first time

My dad hated cats so much he would not admit they existed. When confronted with one of the creatures he claimed it was a cross between a rabbit and a bear called a Rabear. Only stupid people called these animals cats, said my dad. I didn't consider myself stupid, so I called my cat Rabear...
I can't remember when the truth dawn, but it was after I was married, so quite late.

DH told DD the same story about the ice cream van's music meaning it had run out - she believed it for 4 years and only copped this summer (bloomin' van comes nightly to the estate in summer[grr])

My mother DIDn't lie to me when I was about 8, after a geography lesson in Sept/Oct sorta time, when the class teacher doing geography asked where was Lapland? I answered "up near the North Pole, where Santa keeps his reindeers" -to much hilarity in the class at the time (a mixed class of Y3 & 4). So a few weeks later, I was sat down at home and the truth about Santa was explained to me - I was devestated!! I hadn't been that bothered about everyone laughing at me, but this was cruel

A dear friend of mine was told by his dad that Guinness is made from peat in the same way wine is made from grapes. He believed it until, aged 18 and recounting the tale of jolly Irish peat tramplers to his incredulous uni housemates, the truth dawned...

I was told at the age of around 7 by a teacher that sheep have telescopic legs so they can stand on the side of hills. I believed it for years.

PENCILS FROM PENNSYLVANIA - that is genius.

I might do the Rabear thing, fluffy little buggers.

A girl at school had half the class convinced that in their house they only had limited "toilet time" every day, so if you needed to go and you'd run out of time, you had to borrow some from someone else in the house or just wet yourself.

I used to think the bales in fields covered in black polyvinyl were cows in sleeping bags.

My OH told our friend that people got their stripy effect lawns by sowing 2 different sorts of grass seed.