Foo - Lies lies lies!!

So what's the most craziest, outrageous and stoopid lie someone has told you? How did you bust them and how did they handle it if you confronted them with it?

I've caught someone in a lie and I'm just laughing my head off right now. I really feel like bringing it up to them but if I do, that would embarass them.

Someone once told me I was good lookin'. I busted her by looking in a mirror. We still have a good laugh about it every once and a while.

YEAH!

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I had some doofus who I had just met at a local bar here tell me all about this legendary figure who he used to be best friends with back in his home town. Trouble is, the guy he was talking about was me, and while I did so some of the stuff he was telling me I did, I didn't know this feller from Adam (and he obviously didn't know who I was). :eek:

That she was friends w/ JFK and Huey Newton. She, uh...had, uh...issues.

I had some doofus who I had just met at a local bar here tell me all about this legendary figure who he used to be best friends with back in his home town. Trouble is, the guy he was talking about was me, and while I did so some of the stuff he was telling me I did, I didn't know this feller from Adam (and he obviously didn't know who I was). :eek:

I learned all that **** on BF. And thanks for the drinks and the grope.

I learned all that **** on BF. And thanks for the drinks and the grope.

I shoulda recognized the smell of bass on your breath

Its okay...size doesn't matter.

I worked with someone who told me they were terminally ill. The fact that she kept on living was the first sign she might have been lying. Oh and someone else who worked there clued me in that she had a little bitty problem with reality.

I worked with someone who told me they were terminally ill. The fact that she kept on living was the first sign she might have been lying. Oh and someone else who worked there clued me in that she had a little bitty problem with reality.

So you did do the right thing and off her, right?

Actually, she was a lot of fun as long as you didn't take her seriously. So she gets to live. ;)

Y'all know the three most commonly told lies, right?

1. "The check's in the mail."

2. "I'll respect you in the morning."

3. "I've come from Washington to help you people."



The biggest whopper I've ever been told? "If we lower the capital gains tax and the high-earner income tax, the benefits will trickle down to the average middle class tax payer."

Everyone has a soul mate.

"No. I didn't mean small. I meant cute. It's cute." Biggest. Lie. EvAr!

It went something like, "For better or worse, in sickness and in health...".

From Craigslist: "I'm coming to see the bike today."

-Kurt

As having once been one of those who could not open their mouth and not have a lie come out, I find it very easy to recognize a lie and liar.

What will be interesting is how many of the replies to this thread are, themselves, lies.

I'd say it, but the thread would probably get moved to P&R.

That there would be cake and a party for me upon completing the obstacle course...

I saw the signs but didn't believe them...

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So remember...

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My sponsor always told me to say 'Hi, my name's Richard and I'm an alcoholic.' and not a single word more cause anything beyond that was bound to be a lie...;)

Craziest lie Ive ever heard: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
~Clinton

There were WMDs in Iraq.

Let's not make this political, ya'll.

It can still be fun.

let's not make this political, ya'll.

It can still be fun.

+1

The lies that drive me nuts are the ones when I ask "Is your homework done and have you proof read it so it's 100% correct?"
"Yes, Dad"

Uh huh... riiiiiiiight.

as long as the grades are decent....

as long as the grades are decent....

That's not the point. The grades are OK. But they could be better. Especially when you force to sit his butt down and make him do it he is bringing home A's. What a waste of potential.

I guess kids are just... kids.

My former roommate/ex-GF became friends with one of her coworkers, and the three of us used to hang out, go to bars, etc., etc. She claimed to have dated David LaFleur (http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/players.nsf/ID/07830042), Tight End for the 1997-2000 Dallas Cowboys, and that they were "on a break" at the moment. She claimed that her family had season tickets to the Cowboys, and even took me to a couple of games one season, and we sat in the same seats each time. The three of us began going to improv comedy shows to watch a specific local troupe. As we became friends with the troupe, they asked me to be their doorguy, and she offered to be their manager. She claimed to have successfully managed a well-known local band, and was looking for a different challenge. She offered to set up a gig for them at no charge -- they'd get paid, but she wouldn't take a percentage -- to prove her worth.

A couple of weeks later she told them she set up a gig for them at a music festival in Austin that was sponsored by an Austin-area BBQ restaurant. The troupe got all excited and arranged for time off from their day jobs, bought a bunch of new props, and rehearsed a bunch of new bits.

Meanwhile, she told my roommate that the local radio station that she worked part time at had given her two all-access passes to Superbowl XXXIII, they just had to pay their own airfare to Miami. While my roommate was trying to determine if she could afford the airfare, her friend then said that the station had offered her two tickets to the Espy awards in NYC, but that they could only do one or the other, not both. She also told another friend of ours that she had two tickets to a local sports awards banquet, and that she'd go with him if he wanted to go, since he was a sports massage therapist and could use the networking.

At one point, she arranged to go to a Cowboys Playoff game with me. The day of the game, I started calling her to arrange to pick her up and go to the game, but she wouldn't answer the phone. I kept calling and leaving voicemails, but she wouldn't call back. So I finally gave up and watched the game on TV. Later in the week, she called to apologize, claiming that David LaFleur had been arrested in Austin on drug possession charges based on a call to the police from an ex-GF that was stalking him, and that she had to drive down there to bail him out, and she had no signal in Austin. We thought it sounded kind of fishy, as an arrest of a current Cowboy player on drug charges the weekend of a playoff game would surely have made the local news. It hadn't.

As the date of the music festival approached, she became scarce to the troupe, and she stopped answering her phone when they called. At one point, she'd stayed over at our place after a late night at the bars, and when she went home, she left her organizer at our place. Since we'd begun to suspect that she wasn't entirely truthful at all times, we looked through it. We discovered court documents detailing the requirements of her probation for theft by check and check & credit card forgery. There were requirements that she couldn't associate with known drug users. We even found documents from when she'd been in jail in Austin the weekend she was supposed to take me to the Cowboys game.

Needless to say, with this new-found information, and her avoidance of people as the dates of promised activities approached, everyone decided to verify if what she said was true. The day they were to leave for Austin, the troupe called the BBQ place, only to learn there wasn't a music festival. The sports massage therapist called me to see if I'd heard from her lately, and I recommended that if he really wanted to go to the banquet, that he should get tickets himself, and I explained why. The Espy tickets and Superbowl tickets were a fantasy.

After she dropped off of the face of the earth, the people who knew her started to compare notes. As it turns out, she was telling lies about all of us to everyone. The thing is, everything she'd say sounded plausible. She told one friend of ours that my roommate's mother had breast cancer and was dying (she didn't and wasn't), and that I'd done time in jail for check forgery and credit card fraud (I haven't). We were amazed that she was able to keep up with all of the lies.

For a while, my roommate and I knew she was telling tall tales, but at the time they were fairly harmless. No one had gotten hurt by her lies at the time. But when the troupe lost work because of it, and other lost out on opportunities, it was time to call it quits, so we simply stopped having any contact with her.

No one ever confronted her, because she pretty much disappeared.

I need some cliffs notes...

Only because i'm heading home in 4 minutes... :lol: :(

"If I won the lottery I wouldn't quit my job"

The worst one that comes to mind lately is probably Obama saying he'd respect the second amendment.

Or if you want to go back to Bush, it's hard to say where to start. But to me, the most memorable lie from him was probably when he said "this will be the generation that saves social security"

Or if you want to go back to Bush

"Read. My. Lips."

Let's not make this political, ya'll.

It can still be fun.

fair enough.

how about this:

those numbnuts that actually believe that the POTUS is a muslim? ;)

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Is that cake made of vertical twinkies?????

YUMMMMMM

Is that cake made of vertical twinkies?????

YUMMMMMM

It's LIE. It's twinkies on the edge but inside it's just white bread.

Let's not make this political, ya'll.

It can still be fun.

pffftt...all the best lies come from the mouths of politicians and political hacks.

pffftt...all the best lies come from the mouths of politicians and political hacks.

So true. But it tends to get into a bashing session.

It's LIE. It's twinkies on the edge but inside it's just cheezits.

ehidled it for you

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"My god... It's full of Cheez-Its!"

"If I leave you and marry a rich guy with a Mercedes, you can be my cabana boy until he kicks the bucket."

Ouch.


pffftt...all the best lies come from the mouths of politicians and political hacks.

...and dishonest businessmen. For example, I went and ran some quick numbers on T. Boone Pickens plan to run the country almost entirely on wind and domestic natural gas...it would use up all the known natural gas reserves in the country in 22 years (actually, 7.5 years if you make the more realistic assumption that natural gas will be needed for more than just moving trains and semi's), and we'd end up worse off than when we started. The guy's a swindler.