What's the most ridiculous lie you have told that someone has actually believed?

StormWarrior · 02-04-2014 02:20PM #1

As a teenager there was a girl in my class with terrible acne. She asked me if I knew any good remedies for getting rid of spots. I told her that I knew a cure that worked every time. I said the next time your family eats a chicken, peel off the chicken's skin and lay it over your face. Rub it into your face so that the grease gets into your pores. It's the best cure there is and it's how my skin got so clear. She totally believed me and phoned her mum from school asking if they could have a chicken for dinner that night. But before we went home I felt bad and told her that I'd made it up.

When I was a child we lived in a house that backed onto loads of huger fields. My mother always warned me never to play in the fields as there were bad people out there. I ignored her and often went playing out there anyway. One day my cousins came over for a few hours. Eventually their mum shouted that it was time for them to go home. I hadn't finished playing with them and didn't want them to go home, so I hatched a cunning plan. I told my youngest cousin to go and hide in an old wardrobe in the garage. Then I went into our parents, looking suitably tragic and said, "Mum, I know you told us not to play in the fields but we did anyway. We lost Erin and we looked everywhere for her but couldn't find her. Then we saw a man walking along carrying a big sack. Something inside the sack was squirming and it sounded like Erin's voice was coming from the sack, calling, "Help me!"
Our parents totally believed this story and became frantic. The rushed out into the field looking for the man with the sack but he was nowhere to be found. The came back in to the garage and said, "OK we'll have to call the police." Erin heard this and finally came out and admitted she was there.

Anyone else ever made someone believe something silly?

Menas · 02-04-2014 02:25PM

You are great OP.

(See what I did there?)

Ficheall · 02-04-2014 02:26PM

"I love you."

Nah, that'd be mean. I'm lovely.

dmc17 · 02-04-2014 02:26PM

I believe you

danniemcq · 02-04-2014 02:28PM

I only drank a pint

Explosive_Cornflake · 02-04-2014 02:28PM

I'm on the pill

PizzamanIRL · 02-04-2014 02:31PM

I convinced my silly peers that a bag of crushed up silvermints was cocaine. Age: 15

mathie · 02-04-2014 02:33PM

"I only got that letter on the 24 March"

Sir Arthur Daley · 02-04-2014 02:33PM

She is my sister for God sakes that's why we text so much.

Whillikers · 02-04-2014 02:35PM

It's in the post garda

orangesoda · 02-04-2014 02:35PM

that i had an 8 inch shlong

Boom_Bap · 02-04-2014 02:38PM

I'll just put the tip in

pundy · 02-04-2014 02:39PM

i didnt want to do my homework when i was about 7, and my mam was asking "why arent you doing your homework - will the teacher not be asking where it is tomorrow?" i said "no the teacher isnt in" - and without having thought out the rest, she asked "why not"? i said "eh... er.. she got hit by a bus last week and wont be in for another while".... Jaysis she says...

anyway, a few days passed and then it was sunday. my mam had obviously believed me, and i kept up the lie anytime i was asked again by mam or dad. Little did i know that i'd be pulled out of the classroom by the ear on monday morning, because my dad had put into the paper (he was writing a weekly article for the sunday tribune or one of those at the time) that this teacher had been hit by a bus and he wished her a speedy recovery.

i never lied again. i lie, i did lie again.

02-04-2014 02:43PM

I opened the refrigerator door while I was yawning and the last slice of chocolate cheesecake slid off the shelf and just fell in my open mouth.

Actually no, no one believed that.

AlmightyCushion · 02-04-2014 02:52PM

Years ago I was talking to an American girl in a pub in Dublin. She said she was doing a trip around the UK and Ireland and how it's so much fun and all the people are great etc etc The one thing she couldn't understand though is that pretty much every English person she spoke to said that the Irish are great and loads of fun but a lot of Irish people said the English were bastards or whatever and she couldn't understand why. I gave her a very brief synopsis of the whole 800 years thing but added in that the English killed all our leprechauns and stole all their gold as a joke. She thought I was being serious so I just played along.

orangesoda · 02-04-2014 03:02PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Years ago I was talking to an American girl in a pub in Dublin. She said she was doing a trip around the UK and Ireland and how it's so much fun and all the people are great etc etc The one thing she couldn't understand though is that pretty much every English person she spoke to said that the Irish are great and loads of fun but a lot of Irish people said the English were bastards or whatever and she couldn't understand why. I gave her a very brief synopsis of the whole 800 years thing but added in that the English killed all our leprechauns and stole all their gold as a joke. She thought I was being serious so I just played along.

I think it was about 750 years if you were talking specifically about Dublin, certainly not the case in other areas and that's if you're counting the Anglo-Normans as 'English'

Alf. A. Male · 02-04-2014 03:04PM

I can't be the only one who sold Oxo to gullible schoolfriends.

blastman · 02-04-2014 03:06PM

Years ago, when my friend and I were about 16, we told his then-girlfriend that we had written a song on the album Breakfast In America. There's a song on it called Lord Is It Mine, which is a simple enough song with pretty much just piano accompaniment. He played piano to a fairly high standard, so the story was that he had written the music and I'd written the words. She was sceptical but we ended up convincing her....never admitted we were lying, either!

snaphook · 02-04-2014 03:08PM

"Penneys are selling 3 shirts for a pound. 33 pence each!"

"Are they?!?!? :eek:"

:rolleyes:

Duggy747 · 02-04-2014 03:09PM

I used to convince people not to go near computers if they were sick because "That's how they get viruses." :pac:

jonnyfingers · 02-04-2014 03:10PM

I convinced my girlfriend that small Helicopters are called Helichoppers and that's where the nickname choppers comes from. If it has two doors or less it's a Helichopper, more than two doors it's a Helicopter.

I forgot all about it until I overheard hear teaching that same lesson to one of her friends a few month's later as a "helichopper" fly by.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 02-04-2014 03:23PM

I picked up a sun tan over Easter holidays in 4th year as I'd been working outside with my dad every day. I told one rather girl that I'd picked it working in Africa building houses for poor people over the holidays. She repeated this to everyone and many believed it.

poundapunnet · 02-04-2014 03:26PM

A couple of weeks ago my sister, my brother and my brother's new girlfriend were on the way up for Limerick (first time the new GF was meeting the folks). Just for a bit of background on this, my parents get on very well but there'd been a bit of tension recently over my dad failing to quit smoking.

So a couple of hours before everyone got back, my dad was putting a saucepan away and it landed back down on top of him, he split the bridge of his nose and had a black-eye coming up. I texted my sister saying 'mam's after giving dad a belt in the face over smoking', kind of thought she'd text back pretty quick with 'what' or 'yeah right' or something. No word from her, I forgot about it, was wrecked so went to get some kip because we were all heading out later.

Wake up about an hour and a half later, I've 5 texts from her '****, seriously' 'is he ok' 'we're nearly back are we walking into a war zone' 'what should I say to the others??' 'oh my god seriously text me back'

Go up to the kitchen and they're all there, my dad's been telling them how 'I'm so clumsy and a saucepan fell on my face', my sister keeps throwing my mam really dark looks, my brother's poor new girlfriend standing there nodding at my dad's explanation with a frozen grin of terror on her face....

In my defence I didn't think she'd just believe me straight away!

sausages79 · 02-04-2014 03:34PM

I told my girlfriend that Sébastien Chabal (hairy French rugby player) was found in the mountains and couldn't speak but they realised he was great at rugby...

She proudly told our group of friends while in the pub watching a French match that Chabal was a mute mountain man :-)

josip · 02-04-2014 03:43PM

My granny died

02-04-2014 04:29PM

Not technically a lie, as it was just a joke that I didn't expect anyone to believe. I used to babysit and the kids were watching a TV show one day which joked about the dinosaur extinction being 60 million years ago last Tuesday.

So I was in secondary school, in science class, and we're talking about dinosaurs, and I say to my friend "Well did you know, next Tuesday is the 60 million year anniversary of the dinosaur extinction

" and we have a little laugh. About 2 minutes later, a girl sitting behind us puts her hand up:
"Sir, did you know next Tuesday is the 60 million year anniversary of the dinosaurs dying out?". Even after the teacher laughed, she still didn't realise it was a joke and we had to explain it to her.

mathie · 02-04-2014 04:36PM

josip wrote: »

My granny died

Stephen Ireland is that you?

kiffer · 02-04-2014 04:37PM

Most ridiculous?
"Hitler invented pillows"

Un Croissant · 02-04-2014 04:40PM

Told a friend in college that my GF has to pre-chew all my food for me and then spit it into my mouth. She knows I'm ill but wasn't sure with what so I told her I had a digestive disease. She believed us.

Just last week I convinced my GFs brother that I was a Swedish orphan brought to Ireland to escape a drug ring that consumed my Swedish mother. I stood up and sang 99 red balloons (in German) which he bought as the Swedish national anthem.

Manzoor14 · 02-04-2014 04:46PM

My sister was using the pink vaseline on her lips one day. I told her they use flamingo skin to create the pink colour.

Thought no more about it for about 2 years until I overheard her telling the same thing to someone else. Turns out she'd believed me and told all her friends in school (who subsequently all stopped using it!) and anyone else she'd seen using the stuff!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 02-04-2014 04:52PM

In my teens this girl gave me a hickey, horrible things. I don't bruise easily so it was not that bad, my mother detests them and asked me what the hell was on my neck. I don't know why, but I said I was hoovering the house and got the end of the hoover stuck to my neck. She said I was a gobshíte and not be be messing around with the hoover.

I couldn't believe it worked, I felt like a bloody genius

What's the most ridiculous lie you have told that someone has actually believed?

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