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

I told my 4-year-old that the Rocket I planted in the back garden would eventually grow and blast off to the moon - I think she believed me.
Does that count?

Back in school, I told a few friends that I was sitting on the front of the bus, and when I was opening a tube of smarties the pop made the bus driver jump and he crashed the school bus..and they believed me. To be fair, he was a notoriously bad driver and had nearly taken us off the road a few times!

I once convinced a woman on the train that Weird Al is my Dad.

when I was around 6 or 7 my brother convinced me that he was adopted and like a fool I believed him for a few weeks,my parents were in stitches listening to us talking about it and would not confirm or deny his story but only laugh even more, around a couple of weeks I finally remembered the unbeatable proof that the little ba stard was telling me a pack of lies--we are identical twins

When I was in primary school, I convinced a friend that he had "the gift". A supernatural power to see into the future, somehow. He was skeptical of course, until I said: "Have you ever gone to answer the door, but you knew who it was before you did?". He looked at me without response. "Have you ever heard the phone ring and knew who it was, before you answered it?". He started to look worried. The next day he came running to me and dragged me into private, "It happened, I answered the door and it was Gary, I knew it was him, I don't know why". And for the next two years, he believed all the little coincidences that happened him were of his own doing. Until he grew old enough to realise it was bull, now he doesn't even believe things that are true. I do feel bad for that, scarred for life.

I got a couple of stories about some friends:

Lets call this guy Barry, he worked doing security for gigs and was put standing in an isle at some sports event, I'll presume it was in the Aviva. Some Americans had come for the day and were sitting quite close to where he was standing. They made it very obvious they were tourists. At some point, one of the men got up to head to the toilets and as he passed, asked "Are leprechauns real?". Barry, not sure if this was a joke, laughed and "Yeah" with a big grin. The guy walked on, but on his way back from the toilet asked "And have you ever seen one?". Still slightly confused, Barry says "Yeah" again but still unsure if his leg is being pulled. This exchange continued in a similar manner over the course of a few toilet breaks until the American man says "Where can I go to find them?", at this stage Barry is convinced the man is for real, so he gives him directions to a forest about an hours drive up the M1. The final question was, "a-and what do they look like?", to which Barry replied "Squirrels, you cant tell them apart".

No harm to Americans, but I have another related story. My friend "Des" went on a holiday to the states. He told me about these group of guys he met, nice people but apparently no common sense. After hearing he's from Ireland and watching too many Titanic-like films, he asks "Do they have the internet in Ireland?" and Des responds with "The Internet? What's that?". The conversation later turned to the economic crisis we were going through, and Des says "Ah sure that's not really as big of a deal as it's made out to be, when were low on money we can just use potatoes as currency".

I was discussing the director James Cameron with a few friends once, and mentioned that he was regarded as notoriously difficult to work with. That part is actually true- or rumoured to be true, anyway. I regaled them with an anecdote,though, that was pure Hollywood hogwash.

I’d claimed that when Cameron was shooting ‘The Abyss’ in the ‘80s, he had specifically asked his lighting guy to use a 62 watt bulb to light a scene with. The technician had spent the afternoon trying in vain to find a 62 watt bulb, but every store only stocked the standard 60w. In the end, he bought a 60w, and figured Cameron would never notice.

When the time came to shoot the scene, Cameron called action, but calmly called ‘cut’ again within 10-20 seconds of rolling. He took off his headset, and got up from behind the monitor, walked over to the lighting guy, and asked him not to return the next day. The guy didn’t protest, and quietly left the set in disgrace.

This story,amazingly, was believed initially- I did own up to it eventually, though.

Convinced an elderly great-aunt when I was ten that not only could she see the people on the television, but they could see her too. It was said completely as an offhand comment, not meant to be taken seriously. But, for the next 12 years before she died, the TV was covered with a cloth when she wasn't watching it, for fear that someone might take a sneak peak out at her...

When we were about 18 a friend of mine cut a little square off a pink folder and gave it to a guy and told him it was a trip.

Later in the club that night the guy came up to us shouting
"I'M HAVING THE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE,I'M OFF MY F*CKIN TITS"


And he only paid a fiver for it too:pac:

I once got my ex to believe that they're was a shop on Camden street solely devoted to selling John Travolta costumes and memorabilia.

Katgurl wrote: »

that's too funny.

Actually WHY do guys love telling pointless ridiculous stories to their girlfriends? I have definitley fallen for quite a few over the years.

I'm a girl, he's a boy!

And he was so upset when he found out it wasn't true! He really thought it was the best idea ever for a shop!