FantasistsEddie Spunkbubble says: I used to know a sad case who fancied himself as a bit of a 007 and bragged that he always carried a loaded 9mm pistol in his attache case "just in case". Overheard by an off-duty copper, he was asked to make good on his claim. A packed lunch, red face and a stern warning "not to act the twat" and he never did it again. Tell us of Walter Mitty types.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jun 2014, 11:40)
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Juan Quar reminds me...When I was at school, there was a short fad among a group of my classmates for ouija boards. They'd meet up in the evenings to try to contact the dead, and on at least one occasion spent a lunch hour trying to commune with spirits using a board that they'd drawn on the underside of an upturned desk in one of their form-rooms.
Naturally, all this spiritualism would generate a kind of bragging competition about who managed to contact whom. Sid Vicious was a popular choice, for example.
And then one day, one of the group had a story that could trump the lot. He'd contacted God on the ouija board, and they'd had a chat.
His omniscience presumably failing him for a moment, Yahweh asked my classmate about who was next on his list of contacts.
"Satan."
"Oh, OK," said God. "Just be careful."
Sadly, I we never did learn whether Beelzebub had anything interesting to say.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 8 Jun 2014, 10:04,
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Girls at my school did that too, and I joined in.One day a chair moved a bit across the other side of the room, and we fled screaming.
It's only just occurred to me that some wag might've crawled under the desks and shoved that chair to pull our legs.
If so they've kept that secret for 40 years!
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