Must be someting about science...
...that attracts pathological liars.

I used to work in a lab. Among the people working there was Liar#1. Amongst his many, many jumbo-sized porkies:

1- His mate in Uni was the hall monitor, or whatever the fuck they're called, in charge of booking live acts for the Hall End-Of-year party. A band sent a demo tape in which was almost unlistenable, and they got turned down. The band turned out to be the Police. You know them, fronted by some Geordie called Sting. The guy is now 30, which would make him a foetus when the Police were hawking their demo tape around.

2- A workmate's birthday was a few days after September 11th. Liar#1 claimed he couldn't drink at the do as he was "the TA's 2nd best sniper and was waiting for the call to ship out to Afganistan make the shot to take Bin Laden out". Needless to say, his mobile didn't ring and he was in work the next day as normal.

3- He'd invented a game called "Brockian Ultra Cricket". Funny, I thought it was Douglas Adams.

4- He was a fireman in his free time.

5- He was a qualified racecar driver.

6- He was a British Korfball champion (he was in fact mates with the guy who drove the Uni team's coach).

7- He invented the Carlsberg-ripoff car sticker "XXXXX: Probably The Best University In The World".

8- He invented the comedy underpants slogan "Warning: may contain nuts".

9- He's since moved to NY where, if emails are to be believed, he's appeared in Spiderman2 and has married a model. Indeed.

After Liar#1, there was Liar#2. Amongst his porkies were:

1- a mate who ate his own body weight in roast chicken every day. How did he cook them, you cry? Simple. He had a catering oven in his house. A necessity if your daily diet is 12 stone of poultry.

2- He was a vampire

3- He couldn't hand his dissertation in because, during this year's flooding, his computer got wet and the folder the dissertation was in was erased. Must've been very localised flooding - no-one else in that county was affected. Fortunately, the rest of the files on the computer weren't affected. Phew! What luck.
(Chuffdog, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 21:13, 1 reply)

Car Sticker
The one about...

"7- He invented the Carlsberg-ripoff car sticker "XXXXX: Probably The Best University In The World"."

Was actually designed by two Exeter Uni students about 8/9 years ago. They asked the company if they could modify the logo to help pay back their student debts. Since then the modified logo has been on everything and they've made quite a nice tidy penny on it, and with myself being at Exeter uni, you see it goddamn everywhere...
( Grinned2Death knows what Willis was talking about, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 23:33, closed)