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SeoulFinn · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul

I'm positively surprised that no one has posted the magic words, "I do." Since I'm not married, I cannot claim that short sentence to be my biggest lie. Thankfully I cannot even claim that saying "Nothing happened!" is my biggest lie, either. But I know quite a few people who might say either one, though.

robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

i convinced my japanese students in vancouver that moose live in lodges they build in lakes, that their antlers pose a threat to swimmers.

"you swam there?? that lake has moose!"

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

Not including my SAT score...

Atavistic · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

I convinced several fifth graders in the States that I was 43 when I was, in fact, 22 years old. The rest of the class got it as a joke...these ones were somewhat stupid though.

When I was younger, I convinced my brother he was adopted, which is pretty funny since he's a spitting image of my dad.

yodanole · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: La Florida

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Bondgirl · Joined: 26 May 2007 Location: in my Aston Martin

I had a very good looking colleague in Japan - half African American, half Filipino- and the first time I met met him, like every body else I said ' holy moly, you look like Tiger Woods'.
3 times when I was out with him girls came squealing up to him for photos. Me: "what the heck are you doing?'
"it's win- win, they think they have a photo with Tiger Woods, I feel like a celebritiy most times I leave the house". He even signed their diaries. The second two times I pretended to be his PA.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

LUCRETIA · Joined: 20 Jun 2007

I told my baby sister if she took a McDonalds chicken nugget and put it in a small box, and gave it a little bit of seed and water, it would grow into a real chicken.

She kept this mouldy thing next to her bed for weeks...

OneWayTraffic · Joined: 14 Mar 2005

My brother and I were blowing bubbles with a straw into cups full of detergent water. I told him that you'd get bigger bubbles if you suck.
He never was too good at physics.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I once convinced a number of my peers that I am cool and confident, but that didn't last long.

Optimus Prime · Joined: 05 Jul 2007

I taught airline stewardesses for my first job here. We were discussing time zone/travel, etc. I mentioned that yes, if you fly around the world, crossing time zones, you could end up in "yesterday" in a matter of hours crossing the date line. They all nodded. Then I said "If you go fast enough, in a supersonic jet, and cross the line twice in a matter of hours, you will end up in the day before yesterday." I told them to follow that logically, and they were absolutely convinced they could travel back in time to next week if they crossed the date line seven times. I mean the whole class of 25 gals. I still run into some of them when I fly out.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Ok, I'm coming clean. You know 'fan death'? That was me. I didn't know the lie would spread. Wink

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

I told some kindergarten students that I had a kangaroo called Jamie who lived in my apartment with me. I would ride him to the supermarket on Saturday mornings to get my weekly shopping.

They got their parents to take them to the local supermarket on a saturday morning to see me. They nearly stopped believing me but I saved the lie by bringing in a photo of me with a kangaroo.

I also told the smartest 14 year old female student in my science classes in Thailand that she shouldn't walk across the football field at night time due to carnivorous rabbits living there. They lived in harmony with the schools dogs but were know to have bitten a few students that walked across there late at night.

She ended up winning a scholarship to America. Hopefully she never told people about the rabbits.