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Rakky writes, "We've all done it. From qualifications to orgasms, everyone likes to play 'let's pretend' once in a while."

So when have you faked it? Did you get away with it? Or were your mendacious ways exposed?

(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 15:16)
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This is a QotW answer Here's how to fake a CV and get away with it.
Type your name into google.
You will get lots of information about other people with the same name.
Copy their outlandish deeds into your CV and if a prosepective employer claims you couldn't have achieved so much in one short life you tell him to look you up on google.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 16:45, closed)
This is a QotW comment I was the London CID chief, in charge during the Jack the Ripper murders

(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 16:47, closed)
This is a QotW comment Just hope
that the same person hasn't committed rape since you wrote your CV.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 16:47, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am...
A middle aged man responsible for undertaking final checks in the RFA engines

Which I don't think my employers would believe as I am actually a woman in my early 20's...

If I droped a letter of my surname I could be a hip male muscian who graduated top of my class at Oxford..
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 16:56, closed)
This is a QotW comment Apparantly I'm
A PhD candidate and have many philanthropic projects throughout the world. Awesome. I think I'll leave out the bastard chav on Bebo that stole my name though *shudders at the thought*
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 16:58, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am
my sister.

Which is weird.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:04, closed)
This is a QotW comment all well and good
But there's only one of me on google.

Well, technically there's another but he seems to have died in the 1750s and I can't put "Basket Maker" on my CV.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:05, closed)
This is a QotW comment There's only one of me, too.
Of course, I knew I was special.


As CHCB put it, that's "yellow bus special"
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:07, closed)
This is a QotW comment There's four or five of me
but weirdly, I'm the best qualified.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:11, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am
A notorious gangster and murderer, who was hanged.

Yay me.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:14, closed)
This is a QotW comment OH YES!!!
I am the only one IN THE WORLD!!!


Thank you.

EDIT: Arse. There's more than me with this claim.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:14, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am the top result for me.
So I am either me, or fictional.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:35, closed)
This is a QotW comment I can choose from a famous acrobat, an Economics and finance lecturer,
Or the co-author on a paper exploring 'The Environmental Image of Companies in the Modern World.'

And that was only the front page.

It makes me feel slightly inadequate...
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 17:46, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am an extremely successful and relatively famous horse racing trainer
Impressive as this is, I feel it is unlikely to get me far in my chosen 'profession' (if you can call it that) of... music. Hmm.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 18:05, closed)
This is a QotW comment I'm... me
Dear God, I appear to be a dull collection of usenet posts.

*depresses*
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 18:09, closed)
This is a QotW comment Damn my common name
there's loads of me...

But I can be either an African photographer (with a Welsh surname!), a footballer for the Wolverhampton Wanderers 'special' youth reserves team or something, or, well, pretty much anything, to be honest.

*aces*
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 18:16, closed)
This is a QotW comment dammit!
... I appear to be myself. Still, at least I'm in the right line of work...
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 22:07, closed)
This is a QotW comment Woo!
None of them are me.

/used a variety of pseudonyms online during her teens and they have served her well.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 23:29, closed)
This is a QotW comment I'm me
Rather dull really.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 23:35, closed)
This is a QotW comment I appear to be a small village in the South West of England.
Which is nice.
(, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 23:48, closed)
This is a QotW comment Oooh, ooh, I've got one!
I was the first american soldier to die in Afghanistan in the "War On Terror"

I'm also a poet, a singer and a cunt

Oh sorry, that last one IS me!
(, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 0:59, closed)
This is a QotW comment Variously
A Lord,
A tooled up survivalist from Michigan or
A Victorian Grazier from Ballarat.

Nice.
(, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 11:48, closed)
This is a QotW comment Pffft.
I don't even have to use Google to know what mine should say- I was the Prime Minister of a major western country. Anyone who searches for my real name will find him instead.

And searching for my full name- middle name and all- still turns up nothing on me. Not even if I include any of the cities I've lived in.

I'm a ghost...
(, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 14:08, closed)
This is a QotW comment I am
a Senior Lecturer, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in some New Zeland or Australian Uni

Interestingly despite him being fairly famous and recognised within his chosen field and having published books and papers on the subject my year old Bebo page comes top when searching for my/his name :)
(, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 12:32, closed)
This is a QotW comment i am
an actor who sometimes appears in "CASUALTY"

quality!
(, Sun 13 Jul 2008, 10:30, closed)

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