Any one else's Year 6 still giggling this morning because..

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the shop in the reading passage in yesterday's SATs paper was apparantly called The Sugared Plum?

No? Just my ds then. I blame the parents....

If it's from the book 'At the Sign of the Sugared Plum' by Mary Hooper, that's really a teenage book...to reignite the 'Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' debate :-)

Glad he didn't know that- he'd fins that even funnier!

Why is it funny? Is it some slang I just don't know for testicle or something? I'm always keen to expand my repertoire of double entendres...

Fnaar fnaar

Maybe it's only at ds's school? But yes, plums are testicles.

My dd didn't mention it. I think she quite enjoyed the passage though.

Don't speak to me about 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. DD1 has just done it in Year 9 - which is fine - but when she told me the plot and the ending I broke down in to gasping, heaving sobs. Rather shocked both of us. It must be my age.......

Oh, yes, a choice phrase from Viz is coming back to me... but I don't think it's used by the boys here.

WOW.... I am learning loads with these SATS..!!Not sure if i will be able to eat a plum the same again !!!!

you buggers...

'Maybe it's only at ds's school? But yes, plums are testicles.'

Well, that's my factoid for the day. I shall 'innocently' test that phrase out on my teenagers this evening and see if I can make them choke on their pasta.

Abra1d...would love to know the outcome !!!!

Me too Abra - I think I have given birth to a family of 'Finbarr Saunders' - my teens wil snort at anything:

The number 69

BMW

even the word 'Pianist' has them in fits I blame the parents too

Will report back!

I don't know about pianist. I am obviously living a too-sheltered life.

BMW...? What's that one?

I've just mentioned plums to Ds 13 'he went pink, said muuuum and walked out! Obviously means the same in his school.

DS1 (Yr6) looked at me oddly until I explained the title, then he smirked. Not sure I should have anything

said anything

HE ...he... I am still struggling on pianist and BMW as well ..I have invented something but might be too rude !!!!

Ds did not bat an eyelid when i asked him about S/P and carried on talking about it while I was driving......We didn't crash though, through my fit of the giggles that i was trying to pretend was a coughing/sneezin fit

Pianist, sounds a bit like...

ok i have made it official in our house.....nuts are now plums...he he... sounds so much better ..(mummy he hit me in the plums...) I have 3 ds's !!

Used to be a Radio Merseyside show called.....Hold your plums!

We did giggle!

OK, total blanks drawn here when I idly dropped the expression into conversation. Are my children socially disadvantaged?

Mind boggling at how you dropped it into the conversation......maybe it's a regional thing? Or an age thing? If yours are older they may be onto bigger and better rude words?

Completely off thread but I'm glad that I now know what the book was, as my dd (13) has it in her school bag. Not sure my ds will want to read it to find out more about the story, but you never know.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, anyone?