The Berkshire UFO conspiracy
I had a pal who was utterly convinced that not only were UFOs real, but they were attempting to contact him through his dreams with news of a great universal brotherhood, or other such rubbish.

That, my friends, is what you get if you read too much.

I was also a geek and a nerd and had no truck with this UFO nonsense and decided to prove to him that he was talking rubbish.

I cut out a saucer-shape from a cereal packet, stuck it onto a window with blu-tac and photographed it through the net curtains.

Uber-geek that I was, I scuttled off to the school dark-room and deliberately over-exposed the prints. Result: Convincing-looking UFO pics that I knew to be fake.

The next day, I presented them to Gaz, and to say he was mightily impressed was an understatement. He questioned me at length over how I came to take these pics, and I held on to my lie quite convincingly, even going as far as allowing him to take them home "for further investigation".

This is how, I presume, they ended up in the following day's edition of the Evening Post, with a shrieking headline about UFOs over Berkshire, and how Gaz came to be fifty quid better off as a result.

It's a bloody conspiracy, I tell you.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 19:37, 2 replies)

hahaha got a chuckle here :)

( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 19:39, closed)

The blighter!
He should've gone halfers with you, at the very least ;o)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 23:35, closed)