Who says liars never prosper?
My girlfriend (the uber-lovely Jessie) has a pathological need to tell me lies about what's behind me.

This usually occurs when there's food in front of me.

This can take the form of telling me something outright bizarre, or just a quizzical narrowing of the eyes, accompanied by a refocussing just over my shoulder.

The funny thing is I genuinely fall for it every time.

The latest (and possibly the greatest) example of this was yesterday, in a Chinese restaurant where she suddenly exclaimed "I've just realised. That fish is stuck to the side of the aquarium 'coz it's a sucker fish."

I looked over my shoulder at the fish tank, scooched round on my chair for a better look without cracking my neck, and saw no sucker fish. I just turned round to tell her this in time to see her dropping a scalding hot Szechuan prawn which she couldn't keep in her mouth any longer =D
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 14:33, 10 replies)

If it's any help
I suspect she isn't lying, just completely wrong

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 14:59, closed)

tinypod
I suspect she was just trying to steal his food.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 15:04, closed)

Haha, thanks tinypod, but chenobble's right =)

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 15:07, closed)

Indeedy she was
but it's nice to have the option of being a smartarse when you've been made to look a tit.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 15:08, closed)

It was so worth it
It was a particularly delicious prawn* :D


*once cooled. Ow.
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 15:19, closed)

Ooh, yer little minx
Look at the (albeit quite educational) trub you've caused.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 15:25, closed)

Pope!
It works a treat on my missus, "Oh look! It's the pope" (nod to Family Guy). Although I did end up with a black eye for that one
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 16:18, closed)

Sucker
I do like that she managed to work the word "sucker" into the lie.
( wangmaster2000, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 16:38, closed)

I think she was just tr . . .
LOOK OUT!

Yoink!!


( Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Mon 3 Dec 2007, 17:40, closed)

Pulled a good one on my daughter.
She came to get me, all freaked out, because there was a cricket in her room. (To be fair, it was one of these.) So I followed her upstairs to kill and dispose of it- only to find no evidence of it anywhere.

We looked all through the room and didn't find it, and she began to relax- so I pointed to a spot a foot behind her and yelled "There it is!"

She's still annoyed with me for that one.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 3 Dec 2007, 17:54, closed)