IT’S A LOVELY day outside which means it’s a crime that lots of us are stuck inside working or doing exams. Naturally we need something to cheer ourselves up and Seamus O’Reilly (@shockproofbeats) was on hand to do so by asking people a simple question.
In my 20s I told dozens of people that Michael Schumacher's fave song was Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, cos he thought it was about fast cars. Literally every single person I told belived me.
— Seamas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) June 6, 2018
I hereby declare a LIE AMNESTY- gimme the best lie you've heard/told/been telling for yrs.
And people were VERY happy to respond.
Football was naturally a big theme.
The best lie I ever heard is that the Brazilian footballer Socrates, who was also a medical doctor, played for UCD back in the day.
— Ronan McGreevy (@RMcGreevy1301) June 6, 2018
My then gf asked why Sheffield Wednesday were called that. Impulsively, I said Sheffield was such a football town it boasted a team for each day of the week. Over time, the other six merged into Sheffield United, leaving only this one. She believed me. & rightly never forgave me.
— (((David Bennun))) (@DavidBennun) June 6, 2018
When I was about 11/12 my dad told me tv commentators had to call Arsenal 'Bumnal' before a 9pm watershed
— Carole (@Cartruckandbus) June 6, 2018
As was attempting to impress people.
I have a large round scar on my shin which I often tell people is from the compound fracture I suffered back when I used to do Thai kickboxing. It was actually caused by a burn from a hot water bottle.
— Fintan O'Toolbox (@FintanOToolbox) June 6, 2018
My brother @stephencavanagh told me he as a 9 year old once three his judo instructor through a window. Had me believing it for years.
— Dave In Japan (@DavidJPBrown) June 6, 2018
1) that I was attacked by a shark, 2) Michael Jackson gave me a sequinned hat on a family holiday to California in 1995 and 3) that I was named after LuLu.
— Louise Bruton (@luberachi) June 6, 2018
You really had to admire the sheer effort people went to to get out of things.
On Saturday 28/10/2017 I met some friends for a few pints but I didn't want to make it a mad one, so I told them I was doing the Dublin Marathon the next day. The next morning I went down to watch it and Whatsapped them this picture with the caption "This is tough going!" pic.twitter.com/tpzvyyzHfP
— James Gaffney (@jamesgaffney) June 6, 2018
Some you could scarcely believe that people had believed them.
A female friend told me years ago that a smear test was done by getting a lady to sit on a pane of glass and the doctor then pulls her along it by the ankles. I'm ashamed to say it was only in recent times that my wife, through fits of laughter, told me this wasn't true.
— Gimme a milk! (@artbaz101) June 6, 2018
Me and my friend Neil told two Greek girls we met at a party in about 1991 that we were Amish on our year off and claimed not to have ever seen TV etc so they explained a lot of modernity patiently to us. Once we’d started there was no way out. It was very stressful.
— Alan Hay (@alanhay68) June 6, 2018
Rumour took hold of our whole school (for a few years) that the stern young English teacher who refused to give any details about her life to annoying students spent her summers in Argentina helping international authorities locate former WWII Nazis.
— TÁifric (@aifreckle) June 6, 2018
Some were just really, really wholesome and harmless.
My brother was born on our national holiday. For the first 5 years of his life he was told all the fireworks and celebrations were just because he was born. Blew his mind when he found out the truth
— Nick Wells (@nickwellsy) June 6, 2018
On a trip to Edinburgh with the wife, I pointed to the castle and told her that Sean Connery lives there. Forgot to tell her otherwise until she brought it up at the end of trip dinner with some actual Edinburgians.
— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@chiefcrewboss) June 6, 2018
And some were not.
I once convinced my 8yo brother that he didn't exist. Not only that, but that I was an only child and in fact all 4 of my younger siblings were figments of my lonely imagination. Never seen multiple existential crisises in real time like that.
— Amy Colgan (@AmyTao297) June 6, 2018
I once told my entire primary 5 classmates during a swimming lesson that the yellow power ranger had been murdered and they all used this for their news diary story that day in 1995
— kevin grant (@kevvy_g) June 6, 2018
I told my brother when he was 8 that there are monkeys who live on an island near Portugal and they can speak English. He saved it for an assembly talk and everyone laughed at him.
— Jon (@giftedrascal) June 6, 2018
It seems people like to mess with Americans a lot..
I tell Americans that Lady Gaga can't use the title "Lady" in the UK because it has a specific legal status. She has to call herself "Mrs Gaga".
— vints vorn (@headbandmike) June 6, 2018
Friend of mine convinced some American girls that there are no Tuesdays in Ireland.
— Dec (@Decohy) June 6, 2018
But there could be only one winner.
when my sister was on her J1 in California she told everyone who worked with her in ta beachside sandwich shop that leprechauns were always the presidents of Ireland as they came from the oldest families and used pictures of Michael D for illustrative purposes.
— Kate McEvoy (@ImKateMc) June 6, 2018
