my mother and Rick Astley
Mother dear is an actual pathological liar - she tells lies and then they become truth in her mind. The more ridiculous they are, the more she is convinced of their veracity.

The famous example is the time when she bought a Rick Astley cassette from a street market [note to Americans: Astley was an epileptic singer who was later proved to be Kylie Minogue played at half speed]. Well, she brought the tape home and found that she only knew one song. So she tried to return it. Cue:

Mother: I want to return this.
Trader: Why?
Mother: Is isn't Rick Astley.
Trader: [Puts cassette in player and plays Rick Astley]. Yes it is.
Mother: No - it sounds like him, but it isn't him.
Trader: It's him.
Mother: It's not, because... because I'm his aunt and I know his voice.
Trader: Are you serious?
Mother: In fact, when I heard this tape I called him and played it to him and HE said it wasn't him.
Trader: Are you on some kind of medication?
Mother: That's not his picture on the box either...
Trader: Go away, you nutter.
Mother: He's my nephew!

She didn't get her money back.
(frankspencer, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 13:23, 2 replies)

pedantic
I don't mean to nitpick, but kylie at 45 rpm becomes rick astley at 33rpm. and vice versa.

If you have a really old radiogram that plays 16rpm, Astley turns into Barry White.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 13:56, closed)

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There's one on YouTube of Matt Bellamy (Muse) speeded up to sound like Gwen Stefani - it sounds a million times closer than the old Astly/Minogue bollocks...

PS: Anyone slowed down that much sounds like Barry White :)
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 14:06, closed)