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1.  Erin - September 23, 2008 at 11:12 am

I call Mom Spy. It’s a trap! Don’t fall for it!

2.  Christina - September 23, 2008 at 11:18 am

I agree, possibly a pointed query. Say something like, “Well, I googled it and this is what google turned up.” and claim NO personal knowledge.

3.  Holiday Djinn - September 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

I agree w/ Erin. Seriously, Mother’s typically read the local newspaper for Obit’s and Wedding announcements, they get their hard news from the internet/T.V. There is no way she is reading police reports.

Tell her to go to wikipedia and look it up.

4.  bonnie - September 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Good lord! She would have to be your grandma to not know that! Seriously, was she born before 1950? Was she raised in a religious compound? She KNOWS!

5.  bonocat - September 23, 2008 at 3:40 pm

No, really this could definately be my mom. She used to read the police reports when I was away at college living by myself; and she does not know the meaning of the word bong, I had to explain to her what getting ’stoned’ meant! She actually thought they were talking in the bible sense of the word.

6.  Trixie - September 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm

That’s so cute. Unfortunately my parents don’t remember the 60s that they lived through, so the word bong is definitely in their vocab.

You could really blow her mind and tell her all the different things you can make a bong out of

7.  MJ - September 23, 2008 at 7:21 pm

Oh come on. My mom knows what a bong is. Plus, it sounds like this mom works in a legal setting… if she doesn’t know what a bong is after working in the legal field, someone should educate her!

8.  Nancy - September 24, 2008 at 8:53 am

Reading the police reports doesn’t have to have anything to do with being in the legal field. Most newspapers have a ‘Police Blotter’ column that recounts the latest police reports–usually for entertainment value. But I must agree that a mom would have to be in the 70 yr old and up range (or lived a very sheltered life) to not have heard of a bong before.

9.  Pat - September 24, 2008 at 9:18 am

Tell her you heard blown glass referred to as a “bong.”

10.  Holiday Djinn - September 24, 2008 at 11:06 am

You could also go with, “Mom, they probably just misspelled “Bomb”.

This would do two things. I would create plausible deniability about bong knowledge, and cause her to worry needlessly about random people carrying bombs in her home town.

11.  STR - September 24, 2008 at 1:42 pm

This sounds exactly like a panic phone call I recieved from my mom while I was in college… “I just read an article in the newspaper about freak dancing. What is it? Do you participate in this? I don’t like the sound of it…”

12.  jeffrey - September 26, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Just be cruel and tell her it’s a slang term for a comon item, like a cell phone or purse. Hilarity will insue.

13.  GMack - September 26, 2008 at 1:57 pm

I agree with jeffery. Could be fun

14.  kim - September 26, 2008 at 2:53 pm

My mom is in her early 60’s lived through the 60’s still doesn’t know what a bong is, and I’m keeping her blissfully ignorant