"How eccentric are your people?"

[JanH]

\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,1794085,00.html\Love these quotes}

The pea-ness one made me LOL ("In the three-minute silence that followed, my dad shook so hard that he slid under the table." )

Forgot to add, PsychoFlame. You wouldn't believe how many adults have enjoyed frogs legs at our place, happily thinking they were eating 'spring chicken'!

I used to be terrified of my nan's "giraffe excluder" to stop the giraffes coming under the door - used to conjour up pictures of flat, limboing giraffes. Shudder.

Don't know why but in our family sheep were always called 'woolly pigs'?

They were always called Wooley jumpers in our house.

the father of a friend of mine taught him count to 10 in "indian". it was complete gobbly-di-gook, but he can still do it to this day.

Count to 10 in indian reminds that when I was a kid someone (cant remember who) taught me to recite the full pepsi advert. Lipsmakinthirstquencyacetastingmotivatinggoodbuzzincooltalkinhighwalkingfastlivinevergivincoolfizzin..pepseeeee!

Apparently my FIL once very carefully opened some walnut shells at christmas, removed the nut from inside, glued it back together so it looked unopened, but with notes inside stating 'ha ha - got here first'

He also got rid of a lamp he hated by telling my SIL (then about 6) to hold it for him and to be very careful and then dropping it as he handed it over.

He is a very funny (evil) man

we had some Lombardy poplars in our garden. they were very tall and my brother thought mum and dad were calling them long bloody poplars. the name stuck. (although lombardy poplars tend not to come up in conversation very often, except when mum recounts this story.)

About 50 years ago when my Dad was little he went on holiday with his family and they parked the car and decided to walk to a place called "Fairy Glen" whicch according to my Grandpa was only half a mile away. Turns out they were slightly lost and it was an awful to further than he said, So now for the past 50 years "Its only half a mile to fairy glen" is used when someone is basically talking bollocks.