Deadpan
My girlfriend isn't gullible, but I have learnt that when she asks me a question, if i don't know the answer, I simply answer it in a deapan manner.

For example - we were up at Normanby Park a while back and we saw a Pheasant on a branch:

GF: "Oh look, a pheasant on a branch - I wonder what it's doing up there"
Me: "Oh, well, that's where they nest - they find a branch that's about 2 foot off the ground and that's where they make their nest"
GF: "Bollocks"
Me: "No, no, it's true - I mean, think about it - it's safe and foxes can't get them and all that. It's logical, think about it"
GF: "Uhhh, yeh, I can see what you mean"
Me: "I mean, foxes can't jump that high can they? And cats certainly wouldn't bother either would they?"
GF: "Um, yeh, I suppose"

This went on a while and I, maintained my composure.

A couple of weeks later, we're talking about Pheasants again when I tried to convince her of something else - it was at this that she twigged that I was, in fact, a bullshitter :)

I mean, I'm in IT - stretching the truth is a daily occurrence. Server from eBay anyone?
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 9:49, 2 replies)

What I want to know is
why did your g/f find it so unusual for a pheasant to be on a branch?
If it was an emu, ostrich or penguin I could understand.
Just in case you're asked again, pheasants nest in shallow depressions in the ground.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:30, closed)

No idea
No idea, but it was fun yanking her chain :)
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:40, closed)