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Ha - I had the exact same thing happen to me. The sadistic nuns who ran the place also said that "crikey" meant "Christ kill me" (blimey & crikey were quite popular at my primary school).
When I was nine I found out I had to wear glasses; I was wracked with Catholic guilt because I'd said 'blimey' so much.
I didn't go to a religious school but had a similar experience as a teenager when a teacher heard me say "bugger it." His exact words were, in a tone that would have made Basil Fawlty proud: "You realise, Penelope, that you're talking about ANAL SEX" and then proceeded to lecture me about choosing my words carefully in case someone takes them literally. (He once did the same when a classmate said "PE is sh*t" and gave us all a little talk about how PE was not, in fact, a literal pile of poo.) I thought it was hilarious and spent the next week doing impressions of him