If I were a rich man...
I spent the entirity of friends wedding reception drunkenly pretending to a colleague of his that I was the son of The Earl Of Essex, "Britain's 17th Richest Man". They loved how 'down to earth' I was and how I didn't "act like a flash git". I even let them buy me a couple of drinks after the free bar ran out, after doing that reluctant 'No, no, it's OK...well, if you insist...' thing. It was fun, being rich for a day, but I didn't think much else of it until a few weeks later when my friend and I met up and he told me about coming back to work after his honeymoon and being accosted by his colleague thanking him for a lovely wedding and waxing lyrical about how nice that 'really rich friend' of his was. Apparently it took him all day to piece together from the stories who this rich friend may have been. In the end he didn't have the heart to risk making the guy feel stupid by telling the truth so, 6 years later, still has to pretend to be best friends with the heir of the Earl Of Essex.

God knows how he will explain it away if his colleague actually ever Googles this and discovers a) The actual Earl of Essex is not a fabulously wealthy man and more importantly b) is unmarried with no legitimate heir.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 16:33, 11 replies)

I once told a girl
I was the drummer from Simple Minds.
(username failed moderation, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 16:39, closed)

Ha. Just about the right balance of fame and obscurity,

I went on a trip to Cardiff with my works football team and we all pretended to be Brighton & Hove Albion. I don't really know why we bothered lying to Cardiff girls mind you, there's not really any need.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 16:45, closed)

Same here
a Malibu and Pineapple did the trick anyway.

Wonder if she ever checked, and found out the drummer from simple minds is rather a lot darker than I am.
(username failed moderation, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 16:47, closed)

Why have you two waited until Wednesday
before telling these stories?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 19:34, closed)

I like to watch you all suffer.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 9:27, closed)

Obscurity vs fame - reminds me
A friend once blagged his way into one of Elton John's LA parties by phoning the publicist as the trumpet player from Simply Red. Didn't believe him until I saw the pics.
( custardthehedgehog, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 22:06, closed)

I once told a girl
I was the drummer from the Wankers.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 23:13, closed)

You were half right
you just needed to learn to play the drums.





Er . . . I didn't bring a coat, I'll just leave.
(username failed moderation, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 8:43, closed)

I have enough trouble remembering who I really am to successfully lie about it

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 8:58, closed)

years of Improv training. Pretending to be other people comes easy to me.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 9:25, closed)

A group of us pretended to be The Human League to gatecrash a party.

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 14:20, closed)