not so much lying, as exposing gullibility butmy mate actually his mum believing that in Third World countries where electricity is a scarce commodity, to prevent road traffic accidents, they pay children a basic subsistence wage to stand at junctions with red, yellow, and green peppers and signal traffic through.
daft or what?
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 13:12,
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daft or what?
I told my husbandthat washing-up bowls, brushes etc. are called 'Addis' because they're made in Addis Ababa, and form Ethiopia's main export.
Another time, he was going into hospital for an op to make him stop snoring. I got a friend to ring him pretending to be a nurse, saying they needed a sample and could he please blow his nose into some cling film and send it in.
(Another time, he was going into hospital for an op to make him stop snoring. I got a friend to ring him pretending to be a nurse, saying they needed a sample and could he please blow his nose into some cling film and send it in.
Safetyfox,
Tue 25 Nov 2003, 13:41,
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why thank youAnd here's my final tale of spousal abuse: I was happily reading in bed. He came in all frisky. I said: 'let's play a little game. You go and hide. I'll come and find you.'
I should point out here that we live in a very small house with no garden, shed or garage.
Off he went. Ten minutes later I (still reading of course) heard a muffled voice from the airing cupboard saying, 'I've hidden...'
(I should point out here that we live in a very small house with no garden, shed or garage.
Off he went. Ten minutes later I (still reading of course) heard a muffled voice from the airing cupboard saying, 'I've hidden...'
Safetyfox,
Tue 25 Nov 2003, 13:58,
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GullibilityI told my wife ages ago that dolphins have legs, so that they can climb onto rocks when they need to sleep, breathing air as they do they would drown sleeping underwater. They could retract these legs into little pouches under their flippers, which is why you never saw it on pictures.
What makes it worse is she is a primary school teacher, and she had to make this big display about sea-mammals like dolphins and whales for the class, and she put up that as one of the "facts".
Amazingly she still thinks its true, noone has challenged her on this fact and the kids have learnt it as truth.
I also told her that kittens can climb glass windows just like lizards, because they have tiny little suckers on their padded feet. When they get older they can't support their own weight though, so that explains why you don't always see it.
hook line and sinker.
Theres loads of these, she just believes pretty much any crazy thing I say. I dread the day she finds out.
Scary that she is passing on this knowledge to the youngsters.
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Thu 27 Nov 2003, 13:39,
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What makes it worse is she is a primary school teacher, and she had to make this big display about sea-mammals like dolphins and whales for the class, and she put up that as one of the "facts".
Amazingly she still thinks its true, noone has challenged her on this fact and the kids have learnt it as truth.
I also told her that kittens can climb glass windows just like lizards, because they have tiny little suckers on their padded feet. When they get older they can't support their own weight though, so that explains why you don't always see it.
hook line and sinker.
Theres loads of these, she just believes pretty much any crazy thing I say. I dread the day she finds out.
Scary that she is passing on this knowledge to the youngsters.
That......is brilliant.
I will now make it my personal crusade to pass on the kitten window-climbing 'fact' to all and sundry. And everyone else, too.
(I will now make it my personal crusade to pass on the kitten window-climbing 'fact' to all and sundry. And everyone else, too.
jonnybear Jonnybear,
Thu 27 Nov 2003, 16:47,
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"Spider-Kittens"I'm waiting for the photoshopped image with lil' no-hands against a window.
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Fri 28 Nov 2003, 11:02,
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cows...on the way to Durdle Door in Dorset, you have to pass thru army land, tank ranges etc. i took my french girlfriend there,and explained that the area was empty because the miltary would occasionally bombard it (true enough). I then told her that the herds of cows on it were there for target practice, as they moved unpredictably and it was good practice for the gunners to try to blow them up.
she went back to La France and told all her friends abou the barbarism of the english.... still my girfreind though, and no, i havent told her.
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Sun 30 Nov 2003, 9:33,
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she went back to La France and told all her friends abou the barbarism of the english.... still my girfreind though, and no, i havent told her.
great liemy friend has just told me when she was a kid she told her mum that it was bad luck to speak when passing a monkey puzzle tree. her mum believed her and passed this gem on to friends thus creating an entire group of people who would remain silent on passing said tree.
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Fri 28 Nov 2003, 16:26,
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