Strange things that you told others who believed you.

[TequilaBoobs]

So in the middle of introducing myself here I usually mention that I'm from Japan and whatnot.

This one time a girl asked me "Oh, so do you speak Chinese?", and while I usually would say something along the lines of "No, that's China, I'm from Japan.", this time I was in the mood to mess around.

So, I say "Yeah, I do... yeah, and it's so different here in the US, because back there we live in a straw houses... and here they don't even carry around any swords like they do back at home."

To this she replied, "Oh, wow, that must be such a culture shock for you!"

I was all smiles within.



irmongoose

do you know mr. miyagi?

 

[thedude110]

I tell my students and my own children different stories on a daily basis. It's really fun with your own kids. Like, from Calvin and Hobbes, the sun sets in the desert...near New Mexico. That's why it's so hot in the desert.

So very true! It is fun to make stuff up for your students ... especially when they ask really obvious questions.

I think I've convinced a couple of my students that I'm from the future. Keeps 'em just off balance enough ...

 

[Hummer]

I used to go around telling people I'm filipino just to see if they would believe me and they would. The only reason I did it was because my friends wouldn't believe that some old lady on the train said I looked like I was filipino. I'm black though. Oh yea and I'm 6'4"

 

[XnavxeMiyyep]

Just a couple weeks ago, I was flying to France on a school trip. We were flying from Boston, MA. I had jokingly mentioned to my friend that we were going to go around the world and fly over the Pacific Ocean to get there, due to winds in the Atlantic. He just nodded and correctly assumed I was joking, but when the plane took off facing west (as indicated by the electronic minimap thing in the plane), he actually believed me. I kept up the tale and went to sleep, but I was later woken up by his call of, "Hey, it turns out we actually ARE flying over the Atlantic."

 

[erickkoch]

I once convinced a friend that the infrared light emitted from a TV remote control was radioactive. I then proceded to amuse myself by pointing it at him and watched him duck and dodge the "radiation", as he exclaimed,"don't do that!"

 

[ezekielrage_99]

I told a friend that their brand new asian symbol tatoo didn't mean life but it was the equivelant of getting a Swastika and it meant they could NEVER go to any asian country without being beaten to death by the locals.

It took me weeks before they believed I was joking.......

 

[JNB]

I remember telling my wife (about thirty years ago) that the LP Gas storage facility near our apartment was actually a government cocaine processing plant.

To this day, whenever we're describing the location of something in that town, we use the "cocaine plant" as a reference point...

 

[iMacZealot]

Oftentimes, I'll whip out my fake English accent, which is pretty mediocre, except for that I know quite a few British phrases. I did this a few times when I was in Singapore last year, and they often believed me. I sometimes do this here in America, and people will sometimes believe me.

Occasionally, I'll say "I have a cousin that has (the same name as you!)" And they'll say, "Really?!" And I'll reply, "only he's not my cousin.....and he (doesn't have the same name as you), his name is Jeff." Sometimes they get it, sometimes they dont. Substutute the person's name in the parentheses.

A bunch of people started prank calling me, so I made a "voicemail decoy" in GarageBand from podcast sound effects. It starts with the standard error beep, then a man says that the you have dialed is not in service. Then, the error beep, and it plays a telephone hanging up, and a dial tone for about thirty seconds. Haven't heard from them again since, even though if you wait long enough, you'll hear the standard voicemail lady allowing you to leave a message.

 

[BigPrince]

I used to work for a gold resort/family fun center. The cleaning ladies from the resort would come in daily and clean our bathrooms for us.

Well it was a holiday one day and I went over got all the cleaning supplies and told my noob co-worker that she has the honor of cleaning the bathrooms since she has the least seniority. I explained on holidays we are responsible for our own bathrooms and blah blah.

She believed me and cleaned them .

Everyone thought I was a jerk after that one lol.

 

[SkyBell]

I have convinced my brother that you can run out of gas in Mario Kart.

 

[Legolamb]

You guys are so evil
In residence at summer classes in college, I once convinced an exchange student from Argentina that the word "pistachio" was the worst thing you could ever say. Sure enough, you'd hear him trying to work into conversation.