My elder brother, now a layabout, used to tell me and my (twin) brother all kinds of tosh when we were too young to know any better (yes, yes, when we were 32). He told us, for instance, that when we went to secondary school, instead of sitting on the floor in assembly, we would each have our own 'Jim'll Fix It' chair that rose out of the floor. He also told us that all the teachers were robots (he wasn't that far off with some of them). Being pathologically gullible, we believed it all and were genuinely disappointed when we finally arrived there!

His best ever fabrication involved the strange pastime my brother and I indulged in while sharing the same double bed (relax) - we used to screw up the curtain each of us had overhead, then throw it forwards. The point being, the one whose curtain unfurled most spectacularly was the winner. He told us that what we were practising was the ancient persian art of 'yashma'. Which would have been splendid, except in an english lesson around this time we were asked to put our hands up and tell everyone if we had any unusual hobbies. Thankfully, it was my brother who told the teacher and the rest of the class all about 'yashma', to the profound bemusement of all.

Oddly enough, we were not taken into care by the authorities...

My bloke was an absolute horror to his little brother who was ten years younger than him so a prime target.

He told him that ladies hid sweetys under their dressses, so in the middle of a busy shopping arcade stood in a queue he promptly layed on the floor with his head firmly stuck up a ladies dress shouting "I can't see any sweetys!!"

His mother was not impressed :hihi:

When I was little (too young to know anything is my defence!), my brother would pretend to snatch my nose and hold it in his hand. Putting his thumb between two fingers...
I couldn't help but fall for it every time and burst into tears and tamtrums until I got my nose back!!

:clap:

that was hilarious Lord snooty(glad you stayed around after your night out)
:hihi:
i have identical twin brothers and as the horrible big sister I was, used to tell one of them that he was adopted and we only picked him cos he looked like the other brother
Sad thing is he sort of beleived me

Me and my sibling once told our younger 9 yr old brother that mum and dad had to get a special birth certificate when he was born because he was a hemaphrodite. We told him that his willy would drop off when he turned 11 and he'd be a girl hence the special certificate where our parents could change his name to Jemima.

We kept this evil charade going for ages by saying mum was looking at dresses for him until he confronted our mum about it. Needless to say we got a stern barracking for our rotten behaviour.

I had hillarious fun as a child with my sister, she was older than me and normally well behaved.. on one occasion mum had given us a bowl of cherries to eat upstairs, i can actually remember sitting at the top of the stairs (i will have been 3, max 4) and my sister egging me on to put half of one of the cherries over my thumb and pretend to my unsuspecting parents that i had serious injured myself, i agreed and went downstairs, holding my thumb up to my mum (who was behind the ironing board), and her screaming to my dad "Jesus Christ, David!" thats all i remember, whether or not my mum, dad and sister found the incident funny afterwards escapes me lol
(sorry about the blasphemy)

She also told me i was the girl out of the My Naughty Little Sister books.

Originally posted by LordSnooty
when we went to secondary school...

Didn't you go to boarding school, Lord Snooty?? lol :smile:

Er....strictly speaking, no. As I have stated quite openly on other posts, I have not always been a Lord. Au contraire, when young I was a mere urchin and lived a life of penuary on the mean streets of North East Derbyshire. The nearest I got to being a boarder was breaking into the school library one evening. I seem to recall not really knowing what to do once in there. I think we just read a few books, tidied up a bit, then left without trace. I wasn't very good at being a yob - hence the peerage.

I was the youngest of three - never quite knowing who was to blame my mother used to ask us to stick our tongues out....whoever was lying would have white spots on their tongue!!

if you were telling the truth you would stick your tongue out as far as it would go....but knowingly if you were telling a porkie pie you would be hesitant to stick your tongue out too far...

I still use it on my own kids and it really does work.....

excellent tool for parents of young children!!!!

I've an older brother and we used to play alot of Spectrum computer games when we were younger. There was one game I used to ALWAYS beat him on which used to really **** him off.

Years later I admitted it was cos I always made sure I was the person who set the game to start playing. I'd set it up in one player mode so he was playing against the computer - and he'd not know. I'd be using my 'end' of the keyboard (this was yrs ago remember) and pretend to be playing/pressing the keys so I'd appear to always win!

It was definitely my winning which counted to me then - not the taking part bit...

oh cruel!! I had one of those my fave game was Horace!!

bit like pacman/munchman

Older siblings? :confused:

My brother is 14 years my younger, and came to watch a tae kwon do class when he was five to see if he fancied taking it up with me, my sister and dad.

He had us all captivated explaining how he doesn't need to do tae kwon do as he has his own martial art called wizz bang gong and 'all the power is generated from this little finger'.

He went on to competently demonstrate some particularly spectacular moves, thereby convincing my father that either
a) he didn't need to do tkd or
b) he was best kept away from people the rest of us knew
(I was never sure which) :hihi:

I am so glad to be an only child! :D Siblings sound awful!

Originally posted by shieshuk
oh cruel!! I had one of those my fave game was Horace!!

bit like pacman/munchman

Horace goes skiing! i used to love that game! when i was about 5 or 6 my dad had it and i used to beg him to put it on for me, it would take about an hour to load and then when it finally did i set off skiing, and two seconds later id fell over and got carried off on a stretcher and i was bored of it! lol :clap:

Originally posted by x_LoUiSe_x
Horace goes skiing! i used to love that game! when i was about 5 or 6 my dad had it

It took me ages to get past the 'frogger' bit at the beginning to actually get to the ski slope. I'd slog away at it with my Kempston joystick and eventually make it to the other side... to last about 2 seconds on the slope because I didn't get chance to practice that bit much.

Originally posted by Kristian
I am so glad to be an only child! :D Siblings sound awful!

It's great when you are the oldest, like I am, I have 3 sisters and a brother.

My sister told me that me my freckles would fall off and I would bleed to death

My sister used to tell me that I was her twin really, despite the fact that she's the oldest, I'm the youngest and there's a brother in between. She told me that my brother rudely pushed his way out of our mum's tummy when it was my turn and so I was born after him but was in fact older than him. He used to get soo wound up when I told him he was younger than me :hihi:

The same sister also used to tell me that every night she drank magic potion from a magic bottle (actually a christmas tree decoration) which took her to fairyland. She would never let me drink from the bottle, despite my begging, so one day I sneaked into her room when she wasn't there to drink from the magic bauble. I was soo disappointed when I wasn't transported to fairyland :cry:

Originally posted by Kristian
I am so glad to be an only child! :D Siblings sound awful!

I am officially instituting an Adopt a Sibling organisation. You can have my sister Kristian! Permanent loan. No need to express any gratitude mate - I'm just extremely happy to help you out.

Originally posted by redrobbo
I am officially instituting an Adopt a Sibling organisation. You can have my sister Kristian! Permanent loan. No need to express any gratitude mate - I'm just extremely happy to help you out.

Hmmm. Does this mean I have to share my eventual inheritance? I don't want my new sister eyeing up my Mom's jewellery, there's some nice pieces in there that would suit me. Not that I've tried them on, obviously! :blush:

My brother, knowing that I was terrified of the moon (don't ask me why) used to hold my head so that I was looking at it, and play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" till I cried.

He also used to hold me upside down by the ankles over the attic banister rails.

I believe he comes on this forum sometimes - you remember that, bro?? Love ya now though!

Originally posted by BoroughGal
My brother, knowing that I was terrified of the moon (don't ask me why) used to hold my head so that I was looking at it, and play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" till I cried.

Frightened of the moon? Am I gonna have fun with you tonight! :D

Originally posted by Kristian
I am so glad to be an only child! :D Siblings sound awful!

An only child.....I wonder why ...:lol:

Sorry Kris xx

Originally posted by shieshuk
An only child.....I wonder why ...:lol:

Sorry Kris xx

My Mom knew quite early on that I'd not be able to share my dolls or wendy house with any new arrivals! :D

Slow tonight....6 mins to respond!!!

Yeah imagine you were a 'MINE'.....'WHY' & an 'AGAIN' child...........Your poor mother!!!

AND you still crave the attention on here..damn you - you always get there first!!! LOL :hihi: