Ooh, just remembered another oneI once convinced a mate that in Olden Times, hamsters travelled in packs and could devour a cow in two minutes.
The same friend was also convinced that if you sent fruit or vegetables through the post then you had to pay Carrot Tax.
I really wish I was making this up, but he was *very* gullible...
(The same friend was also convinced that if you sent fruit or vegetables through the post then you had to pay Carrot Tax.
I really wish I was making this up, but he was *very* gullible...
jonnybear Jonnybear,
Thu 27 Nov 2003, 11:20,
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I wanted to buy a torch......when I was about 7 to read under the sheets when I went to bed, but my pocket money wasnt enough to cover it. I had found a torch that I really wanted but it was a bit dear. Handily enough, I had also found my granny's penny jar, except she only collected 20p pieces for some reason. I started small, taking the odd one here and there to buy a packet of Fives or a Frozen, nothing noticable, but after a while I decided to take the plunge and grab enough cash to cover the torch, seeing as the money was there and I hadnt got caught. So I got my granny to take me out for a bit then asked her to take me to the shop where the torches were sold. I took the torch to the counter and paid for it in 20p's, while she watched. Except it was about £1.40 or something and I produced a handful of coins. When questioned where all this money came from, I tried to convince her that there was an alley round near my house that had loads of 20p's lying around all over the ground and that I had simply been collecting enough of them until I had enough for the torch. We got home, my granny checked her jar, half of it was missing, she called my dad and I got a good hard slapping for my trouble. Worst thing is, they took the torch back as well.
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Thu 27 Nov 2003, 11:50,
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I had these two Irish flatmates. Nice guys ..... but they hadn't seen that much tech stuff growing up in Cork.
I convinced them an old ZX81 was TV remote control.
(I convinced them an old ZX81 was TV remote control.
rob,
Thu 27 Nov 2003, 12:10,
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Had a pair of guys turn up once......at my flat, one a punk on speed, the other was basically catweelze.
The had a big bag with them, and were celebrating. They'd recently broken into offices down the road and stolen all of the computers, without monitors.
Their joy was cruelly cut short by yours truly once they had emptied their booty over my living room floor.
They had stolen VDU keyboards - as my Amiga (the only computer they'd ever seen) was all built into the keyboard, weren't all computers like that?
They dumped them in my garden, shortly before returning to the offie to see if they could get the money back on half a bottle of wine.
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Mon 1 Dec 2003, 3:15,
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The had a big bag with them, and were celebrating. They'd recently broken into offices down the road and stolen all of the computers, without monitors.
Their joy was cruelly cut short by yours truly once they had emptied their booty over my living room floor.
They had stolen VDU keyboards - as my Amiga (the only computer they'd ever seen) was all built into the keyboard, weren't all computers like that?
They dumped them in my garden, shortly before returning to the offie to see if they could get the money back on half a bottle of wine.