Are we sure that our parents don't know things?

You know how a lot of times you suspect your parents won't know something because they're not too "cool or hip" or just not into the scene or something. Like your parents won't know that you stashed your pot in the sock drawer or have condoms in your bedside table?

um...is it wrong that I just caught my dad looking through my Shop Etc. magazine that has Paris Hilton on the cover?

( EDIT as of 11:13PM: Also, my dad wasn't just looking at the cover and moved on. He stood there, flipped through the mag and probably proceed to find Ms. Paris for like a good 5 minutes, if it wasn't 5, it was probably at least 4)

Why oh why is my dad obsessed with the girl. My dad is old, as in, he's been retired for the last 8 years. This is not normal I think...and he does his walks around the neighborhood and sometimes at the mall when it's raining, during the Paris Hilton for Guess campaign, he kept commenting about that. Then, he asked one random day, "why is she so popular?" He failed to realize that she is a HILTON, yea even though we like stay at the hotels all the time and he even says, "Paris Hilton" not just "Paris." Oh lord, but yea, it kind of makes me wonder...just like how my dad knows that Nicole Cage is married to that Asian young girl-where does my dad find this info, he only watches Chinese tv, the 10 news channels we have and I don't think they talk about gossip issues here. He also has a perchant for Judge Judy among loving Madonna, as in "Like A Virgin Years." Yes, he too has an issue just like Guy Richie about listening to her "crap music" because he once tried the new techno whatever, I don't think he like Madonna no more. For him, it was when she got married and did that weird dessert i'm a goth indian lady then to the I love to be a geisha phase, I think that kind of lost some sort of translation for my dad...he moved on to Vanessa Mae, the violinist, and he's also accepted the fact that you really can't buy tapes anymore at Target and has to get the cd.