Greatest lie you've ever fooled someone with

[Tartarga]

Just a few weeks ago I was able to convice my sister that there was such a thing as Swedish Fries and that they were made of corn. She had to google it to see if it was true, i'm never going to let her live that down.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, my friend and I did a 10-minute presentation summarizing a book neither of us had actually read. We pulled a B+. The instructor said in the notes that we "showed a clear understanding of the material."

 

[ScarlettRage]

Well Im sure those good people at the game companies are convinced that I DID read their little legal statement, and yes I accept the conditions. :3

lol that & I'm Fine are the biggest lies everyone tell

hmmm, i did lie about how i spent my gift card from my boyfriends ma.. to her...

i bought condoms with i... *looks around*

 

[baddude1337]

I convinced my ex that I did not like this girl for like a year, even though at the time I did. A LOT.

 

[Super Six One]

I once convinced someone who a freind knew that i was having an identity crisis and couldn't remember who i was. When i told her, she thought i was serious, she still found it funny tho.

 

[Malkavian]

I am not proud to say it, well maybe a little, but I lie all the damn time. Not about trivial stuff, but I craft little lies about things just to see what I can get away with.

I made a friend believe I was playing a beta of TESV: Skyrim, thanks to Wordpad, Steam and a carefully selected victim. I made another friend believe one of our mutual friends had bought a farm, despite being only 20 and having no experience with farmwork. And I have countless times tricked that same friend into thinking I was playing Starcraft II(which he always wants to play with me), though technically I never lied in those situations, just led him on(for an example, finding the main menu theme on youtube, and making sure some of it could be head vaguely through my mic).

I dont lie about cruel things, but I enjoy seeing what I can get away with, just how much I can get people to believe in. Maybe its not very nice, but I just cant help myself.

I also lie to my parents. All the time. I have done so ever since I was a kid, and now its almost just a compulsion. Again, nothing big, but just to make sure I dont have them on my back all the time, or that they worry too much. Sometimes I lie without really needing to. That, I am especially not proud of.

Basicly, I lie whenever it makes my life easier or just brings lulz, but never to hurt someone, or to hide it when I have done something really bad.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Hmm. Actual lies, I don't really have much of a reason to tell, besides the normal "of course you don't look fat," etc. I guess, in the end, the biggest real lie I've still got going is that I like and/or tolerate certain people that I really, really don't.

As for more "joking" lies, I managed to convince most of my elementary school friends that the "Get Gold and Silver Pokemon Early!" cheats in Red and Blue were true. This wasn't intentional; I think I just talked about it enough that they thought it was real. We even tried some of the silly "trade this a bunch of times" recipes to try to get Electrachu, the supposed evolution of Raichu.


Marty, I want to hear the Rubber Chicken story! Why would the school ban it?

 

[KaosuHamoni]

I have Asperger's Syndrome. I've taken medication for it since I was 6.

About a year ago, I went 8 months without taking almost a single pill. Nobody noticed a thing.

Bullshit. I have Asperger's, and I know for a fact that there is no medication directly laundered toward preventing it's symptoms. And anyway, even if there was, why would you want to change a part of who you are?

 

[shwnbob]

I was late once to a meeting thing I go to every Monday. So when I got there, before I went inside, I messed up my hair and burst through the door and screamed: "Call the cops, I just escaped from some madman's basement. He was holding me captive! Which is why I'm a little late today. I can describe the place to police artists. There were walls and doors. I can't relive it, please don't make me I'm begging you!"
They bought it for a minute until I started "crying" then they knew it was fake. (I got the actual speech from Clerks Animated.)

 

[LFC Scouser]

I have no good ones but my friend who got a adopted sister who was black convinced someone after a month she would turn white.

 

[Eternal_Lament]

I (with the help of some friends) convinced my friend that I had anal sex with a girl five days after first meeting her. As far as I know thats the most outlandish lie I convinced someone was true.

 

[The Big Eye]

I've never been one for lying. OH SH!T META

 

[faspxina]

Somehow I managed to convince a friend of mine, that I belonged to this clan where we had this lineage of royal blood, just in case we switch back to Monarchy.

I only said it as a joke but she was really taking it seriously, so I started making up little things about how life was inside the clan, how do we organize, rules, tests we had to go through, and she just kept buying it.

Long story short, she only figured out I was lying when I mentioned these special members of the clan called Lycansthropes (she didn't knew what it meant until she googled it up).

 

[spiffleh]

This wasn't me but two friends of mine convinced a really daft girl from somewhere in the US that in Canada, being a stripper was really prestigious and that they were both strippers. They supposedly supplied electricity for the whole village. There were other lies but I don't recall them.

 

[CplDustov]

When I went to the states I first stayed in a hotel with my friends in DC. For some stupid reason.. on a dare I said I would shave my legs. (I'm male btw) After doing one we really couldn't carry on. So we left just one leg like that. At some point that week we stay with a host family in West Virginia. Really nice family. Anyway, when they asked we told them I'd been struck by lightning as a child and it just never grew back... I'm not sure if they believed that but they never said anything. Either way it was funny.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

There was a guy I knew who was really really hitting onto me. So instead of telling him I wasn't interested, I made up a boyfriend to put him off.

Duncan (who lived in Scotland) was a student too, his local job was cutting down trees for logs for his local pub (I mean, who'd believe that?) and because he lived so remotely he didn't have Internet access, so wasn't on Myspace (which was all the rage in those times). We'd also been going out for three years before-hand, I just, y'know, hadn't mentioned it til now. He was really nice, came to visit me over Valentines, sent me flowers, etc etc.
Meanwhile, I actually did get a boyfriend (a real-life one) so I told my 'stalker' (as he became known to my friends) I was cheating on Duncan.. This went on for some time and eventually I "dumped Duncan" for my current boyfriend, who was finding all this hilarious. Of course, my friends got up-to-the-minute updates over MSN (which was also the rage at the time), some of the conversations we had were hilarious.

I have reason to believe my stalker still doesn't know this was a lie, I haven't spoken to him in a long time ever since I told him to leave me alone (which I should have done in the first place, but then again - this was much more fun!)

And horrible.

Yeah I don't try and get people to believe lies, something to do with not being a dick.

 

[CplDustov]

I was talking to an American friend on the Internet and managed to convince her that a haggis is a small, furry animal whose left legs are shorter than their right which allows them to stand up straight on the hills and mountains of Scotland.

And that they can only run round clockwise otherwise they lose balance and fall no? hahaha Everytime I tell that on ei add something extra. Did you know the bagpipe's bag is made from the stomach and hide of the Alpha of a muckle (collective noun) of Haggii and the tartan is it's natural camouflage. The difference in colour is due to the different flora of each region.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Snip.

Wow. Just wow. Making up a boyfriend to get out of an awkward situation is okay, maybe even a societal norm now. What makes me say wow is that you're one of those bitchy girls who makes the lie a game and talks about it with her friends, mocking the guy in the background while he sits there in the midst of delusions. That's just damn wrong, I hope you feel fucking bad about doing that.

OT: Not really convinced anyone anything spectacularly absurd or extravagant for a while, not as long as I can remember back anyway. The other day though, me and a mate did manage to get his girlfriend to doubt herself in thinking that the place that makes mars bars wasn't on Mars. Funny as fuck sat there snickering as she questions herself. She soon decided she was right, though that took nothing from the joke.

 

[Brandon237]

My mother somehow still believes that I'm Christian.

I'm not quite sure why or how.

Same here, and I'm not going to enlighten her otherwise...

As for me... Mostly many small things that weren't necessary. But there is one lie that I feel really bad for telling, I couldn't be honest, but it was more the fact that I had to lie at all. There is a very fine line between keeping happiness and being entirely honest