Ah yes, this one has popped up every now and then (search the forums for 'pampas grass', 'tiger bread', or 'leather sofa' for more info).
However, I'm loathe to believe it as the only people I know with pampas grass are my parents. ;)
Oh crap! I just realised they buy tiger bread and have a leather sofa too! :shock:
Lol. I have heard that. I reckon it's just because the swinging revolution is seen as being a 70's thing and having Pampas grass is a sure sign you are locked in the 70's!
Having said that, we buy Tiger Bread and have a cream leather sofa... erk. Although the only plants we have at the front are uncontrolled weeds growing through the unsurfaced drive.
But do you offer your friends a bowl to put their car keys in?
What is pampas grass...???
Lilith
And what's with the leather sofas?
not forgetting if you wear an ankle chain
Think this is a throw back to the 70's. I used to live in Formby and it was rumoured there that the pampas grass was a sign. Mind you in those days nearly everyone had it - makes you wonder lol
yea.....it was a sign in the 70's.....pre-sat-navs......I mean how the hell was anyone to find the party....easy just look for the Pampas grass !!
I think this one is a bit of an urban myth, like the wives of soldiers in Garrison towns putting a packet of soap powder in the window when thier husbands where away on duty (OMO = on my own) so that the single guys would know it was safe to call and that other wives in the married quarters would know they were alone an perhaps vulnerable, in Army Quarters everyone knows who is away and who isn't everyone knows who needs help, the only window event was when there was a power cut (common back when I was serving), people with candles would light one and put it in the window so that anyone who had been caught short without light would know they could go round for comfort and assistance (especially with young children and babies).
Can you imagine it, back when the myth started Pampass Grass was very popular, would you really knock on a strangers door and tell them you came for a shag cos they have pampass grass ?
How on earth you could spread the word nationwide back then when it was all about contact magazines and naturist camps and still be sure that the right message was being sent by having the grass in your garden or that the people with the grass new about the "tradition" I don't know.
If you come across a big pile of Pampas in the front garden its more than likely come from an over wrought pissed off over tired Mum of an over active and over loud toddler.
nope, just a sign of bad taste.
Tiger bread though?!
I never understood that one. :shock:
i do know one woman who used to use the washing powder OMO in the window
It stood for old man out to her boyfriend so he knew when it was safe to pop round
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