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Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).
And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.
So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.
At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there's little chance they'll be gotten. lol
Thats funny because here in Canada I knew a guy in highschool who had a clearly fake girlfriend who he said lived down south in the US
Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol
To be honest my fake girls friend was just a girl I had a crush on how lived a few cities away. I got busted lmao
awww, well I hope things worked out for you okay in the end. :)
For sure. It was embarrassing at the time but I was young
Ah, there we go - answered it for me, too! Thank you.