How gullible was the most gullible person you knew?

[Knighted Vorpal Sword]

I once worked with someone who was pretty gullible. This was back in the days of 5.25" floppy disks. I persuaded her that she always had to carry the disks flat, because if she carried them vertically the bits would fall off and the data would be gone.

She belived me for quite some time, and it was funny to see her carrying the disks so carefully for several weeks.

Tell me about some of the most gullible people you know.

[ShibbOleth]

I once worked with a person from Iowa who was a tad naive. I almost had her convinced that ponds and lakes were formed when clouds froze in the atmosphere and then fell from the sky. Later, at ground temperature they would thaw out and the resulting water would fill the crater left from the falling cloud. That's why there are more lakes in Minnesota than other states, its colder there. Luckily most lakes and ponds land out in farm country where it's less likely that someone would get hurt.

[Gorgon Heap]

I knew someone in High School who was pretty bad, but I don't remember who or how. lol

The most gullible person I know currently is my wife. I've done the same tricks for years and she still falls for'em.
Stupid things like; Walking down a sidewalk side to side, I bang my other hand on the edge of a "Stop" sign and she freaks out ... "Oh! Are you Ok???"

A person can tell her just about anything witha streight face, and you can see her trying to figure out if that person is joking or not.

I love that goofy woman. :)

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

I'm actually just about the most gullible person I know. Really.

[IzzyR]

I know a guy whose ninth grade classmates convinced him that they were going to make a golem (artificial person). THey convinced him that he needed to take a leading part, as he was a cohen (of priestly lineage). They had him marching around the "body" (pile of rags) that they had wrapped in a talis (prayer shawl), and chanting all sorts of nonsensical things.

The cruelty of youth.....(I'm happy to say that I had no connection to this dastardly deed).

[bouv]

Well, I wouldn't say this person is the most gullible person I know, but he was for a small time this past summer.

I was visiting a college buddy in Maine, because he's in a band and had a gig I wanted to see. Anyways, another member of the band (the bass player) was also there, but he was from NH, so I figured I try and have some fun with him.

We were in his (the bass players) car stopped at a red light, and I, jokingly, said,
"You know, you can turn left on red in Maine,"
"Really?"
"Yup."
So he started off. Everyone on the car (myself and another couple band members) were all yelling for him to stop, lest we get into an accident.

We were laughing aobut that for the rest of the night.

[Blackclaw]

I once convinced a friend that the ketchup dispenser in the local Arby's was hooked up directly to the ketchup factory.

[Briminator]

I convinced a girl at a party that the M C Escher shirt that I was wearing was drawn by me and I could send one to her if she wanted. She was upset that she never got the shirt

[nineiron]

Not to hijack too much, but you really *can* turn left on red in Massachusetts. (Well, only if you're going from a one-way street to another one-way street, but it *is* legal.) Even people from here don't know that this is legal--you can watch them freak out when you (legally) turn left on red after stopping.

Back to the original topic, I'm with Gorgon Heap (btw, isn't it "Joplin," not "Joplan"? I'm not sure...). My wife is easy to trick on things like that. When she opens a door and I'm on the other side (or behind her), I hit it loudly with my hand, pretending that she hit me in the head. Man, that's funny. :)

[Cyn]

She moved to a small California town from Brooklyn when she was 15. I had her convinced that marshmallows grew on trees and were a local cash crop. She may still believe this. Countless things like this. She was always forgetting where she parked and I told her in California malls, if you were parked too long, Security would move your car. They had a master key. God, to hear her curse the security guards!!!

[tempest2_2]

When I was in the third grade I convinced my little sister, who is two years younger, that she had a middle name. I think I told her it was Victoria or something. Everything was fine until she came home with a test paper one day. And she had written what she thought was her FULL name across the top! I can't even remember how long I was grounded.

[AwSnappity]

LoverBoy tells me how he had convinced this one girl that fleas built the Panama Canal. I'm not sure if someone would be so stupid to believe that. Now LoverBoy is probably going to come in here and say that I'm the most gullible person for believing his stupid story. The irony of it all...

[UncleBill]

While in missile school for the Marines at Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX, a bunch of friends and I (at a bar in town) had a poor young lass convinced we were a Space Shuttle crew training at White Sands Missile Range, and one guy was the Tailgunner! We said it was purely defensive, and used to fight off those Russian attack satellites that sent laser beams into our equipment to blind it. Gosh the Cold War was fun!

[Acco40]

"Hey Tim..."
"Yeah, Acco?"
"Watch this."
Acco pushes his thumb against the inside of the windshield and simultaneously turns on the windsheild wiper.
"Tim, I just had motion detectors installed in my windshield wipers. Now, when it rains, my windshield wipers know it, and they automatically come on."
"Wow that's cool!!!! Let me try it.
Over and over again, Tim tries to "outsmart" the "motion detector" and "test" its precision. After 30 minutes, Acco tires of teasing Tim. The fun is only just beginning.
"I beat it that time, Acco! I think it's broke... I think you got ripped off!"
Yeah Tim, that motion detector is really stupid...

Yeah, that was good times.

[Fiver]

Those of you posting to this thread, especially Cranky, may be interested to know the word "gullible" doesn't appear in the dictionary.

I once had a girlfriend who asked me why I'd joined the Navy.

My face lost all expression as I said quietly, "Well...it was that, or go to prison."

There was a long pause, after which she said "If there's something you need to talk about, I'm right here."

Then I burst into laughter. It was worth the multiple beatings about the head and shoulders.

[AwSnappity]

Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs
LoverBoy tells me how he had convinced this one girl that fleas built the Panama Canal. I'm not sure if someone would be so stupid to believe that. Now LoverBoy is probably going to come in here and say that I'm the most gullible person for believing his stupid story. The irony of it all... I've just been informed that it was mosquitos who supposedly built the Panama Canal. LoverBoy also told her that Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon were direct relatives and she believed him on that, too.

[GrizzRich]

In high school, drama club, we convinced a fellow clubmember that she was being shocked periodically from a large number of electrical cables that ran below the stage to power the lighting.

(One of us would stand near her with an uncoiled coat hanger and tap the top of her shoe, hence the "shock" she felt.)

Upon inspection of her shoes, offstage of course, we determined that her shoes had not been fitted with a "broadway cleat". Of course, OUR shoes had the broadway cleat installed (in reality, a short sewing pin pushed into the heel of our shoe) which grounded us against being shocked.

We convinced her that, while walking onstage, she should hold in her hand a short length of chain and always ensure that it made contact with the floor to ground herself, until such time that a proper cleat could be installed into her shoes. The chain was actually a dog's "choke" collar with the large rings at the ends taken off. It was short enough so that she had to walk while bent at the waist to insure that it made contact with the floor.

Our sponsor was quite tickled when she saw the poor girl walking along the stage whilst dragging a short length of chain jingling behind.

[racinchikki]

Convinced a girl named Carrie, who was a freshman in high school when I was a senior, of all sorts of things. I convinced a lot of her friends of the same things, but they all eventually figured it out... she still believes them, unless they've told her otherwise.

Examples:
I'm majoring in Prostitutional Business Management - informally known as Pimpology. It's a hard business, you know. You have to take Economics so you can understand business, and Accounting so you know how to keep track of your money, Interpersonal Communications because really, that's what it is, and all kinds of health classes because it's important to keep your workers healthy. I'm getting all kinds of scholarships because I'm a female working in a traditionally male-dominated field.
New York is actually the only state in which prostitution is illegal. That's why she'd never heard of PBM as a major before.
Texas has always been its own country, except for a brief period in the early 19th century when East Texas was part of Arkansas, and West Texas belonged to Puerto Rico, which was in turn owned by Mexico, which was owned by Spain, which was owned by the Pope.
Ducks' bites are deadly poison.

She is so gullible. I could tell her anything with a straight face and she'd believe it.

[Lodrain]

I told my sister that 'gulliable' was not in the dictionary. She believed me. Mother fell for it, too.

[okielady]

Not to condone this but...

My cousin, playing a trick on a guy in high school, took the hubcaps off his car. They were hanging out in my cousin's garage one day when the gullible guy noticed the hubcaps.

"Hey! Those look exactly like the ones that were stolen off my car!"

My cousin says..."Well, I don't have a use for them, really. If you want them, I'll sell them to you for 50 bucks."

"Deal!"

:rolleyes:

[1kBR Kid]

It's a group of people. Fellow Privates in US Army Basic Training.

A couple of guys challenged someone to do the "Atomic Sit-Up" It's a partner-resistance exercise. One guy holds the victim's feet, just like a normal sit-up. Two other guys hold a towel over the victim's head, to provide "resistance". If you can overcome the resistance, well, heck, you're just an awesome PT Stud. Of course we didn't mention the fourth guy with his shorts around his knees, who straddled the victim after the towel was in place. While struggling to overcome the resistance, you guessed it, the towel is removed and SMACK! the guy's face slams right into someone's bare ass.

I was amazed that we got like 25 guys to fall for it. One accomplice said "Ewwwww! His nose touched my balls!"

About the funniest shit I've seen in my life.

[g8rguy]

Originally posted by Redukter
I told my sister that 'gulliable' was not in the dictionary. She believed me. Mother fell for it, too.

Well, I'm not entirely sure that this counts, since Kris was pretty tired the second time around, but some friends and I DID manage to convince her that gullible isn't in the dictionary twice in two weeks...

[IzzyR]

Cranky's story is reminiscent of an old Yiddish joke.

Two scoundrels pass by an inn, see a nice horse parked outside, and decide to steal it. But they are worried that the owner might come out and chase after them. So one of them says "put me in the reins and saddle in place of the horse, and when the owner comes out I'll deal with him." So the one guy rides away on the horse, leaving the other saddled up in place of the horse.

Soon the owner comes out, sees the man in place of his horse, and asks what happened. So the thief explains "I am a person who committed a terrible sin. In Heaven it was decreed that I must be a horse for 10 years. But now my 10 years are up, so I've gone back to being a person again."

So the owner immediately unties the man from the reins and saddle, apologizing for the times that he had whipped him etc. And the next day the owner goes to the market to buy himself a new horse. And what should he see, but his very own horse, being offered for sale.

So he goes over to the horse and shouts "You fool! You commit a sin and for 10 years you are a horse and you still don't learn! For one day you're back to a person, and already you committed the very same sin again!!!!"

[Mangetout]

I've fallen for the "Did you know that the word 'gullible' has been removed from the dictionary" gag about three or four times, sorry.

[maryliza]

I used to be the most gullible person I've ever known.

In elementary school, my best friend, who I had known since age three, managed to convince me that she was allergic to meatballs. I was a little suspicious, since I'd had dinner at her house and there had always been meat. But she assured me that meatballs were made of *special* meat and that she would die if she ate some.

The other winner that she told me was that her grandfather was a Native American-- this coming from a girl whose family was half Irish and half Polish. She had blue eyes and freckles and is the only person on the planet who tans as little as I do, but I believed her. Until one day when I mention this tidbit to my mother who started laughing hysterically before telling me the truth.

People had a lot of fun with me until high school when I decided that *everything* people told me was a lie.

Bitter?
Nah.

[Dragwyr]

We've gotten a friend of mine with this one multiple times:

We would be in a car and my friend, Bruce, would be driving. We pull up to a red light and as we are waiting for it to change, one of us would say, "Hey, the light's red."

Bruce, would always start going through the red light, then realize that we weren't telling him the signal changed and that he was going through the red light.

[freckles]

I once convinced my friend that I could see in the dark, and she asked me to prove it so I told her to do something and I could tell her what she did.
I just presumed that she stuck her middle finger up at me and I told her this is what she did. She went really quite and then said 'You really can see in the dark'.
She believed me for a few weeks and eventually I told her I was only joking :)

[Francesca]

Originally posted by Mangetout
I've fallen for the "Did you know that the word 'gullible' has been removed from the dictionary" gag about three or four times, sorry.

Either this is a very clever joke, or I'm completely amazed.

[Deej]

I once told my neighbor that when "Mr. Greenjeans" from the Captain Kangaroo show died, they buried him in Grandfather Clock, with his face sticking out.

For all I know, she still thinks this is true.

Man, I'm old. I know that most of you are saying "Mr. WHO?"...."From the Captain KangaWHAT show?"

[IzzyR]

Originally posted by IzzyR
Cranky's story is reminiscent of an old Yiddish joke.Sorry, that was okielady's story.

[Fiver]

Francesca:Originally posted by Mangetout
I've fallen for the "Did you know that the word 'gullible' has been removed from the dictionary" gag about three or four times, sorry.

Either this is a very clever joke, or I'm completely amazed.The amazing thing, Francesca, is that "gullible" really isn't in the dictionary. People tell it as a joke, not realizing that it's actually true.

[Francesca]

What, really? So you mean it's a double-triple-slap-my-thigh-and-call-me-betty bluff? ;)

[IzzyR]

Originally posted by Fiver
The amazing thing, Francesca, is that "gullible" really isn't in the dictionary. People tell it as a joke, not realizing that it's actually true.I heard they're thinking of putting it back in. There's a big committee studying it, lobbyists on both sides etc. Stay tuned.

[Mangetout]

Originally posted by Fiver
Either this is a very clever joke, or I'm completely amazed.The amazing thing, Francesca, is that "gullible" really isn't in the dictionary. People tell it as a joke, not realizing that it's actually true. [/QUOTE]

<checks dictionary>

Hey!, yes it is!

Oh damn, make that five times.

[Hokienautic]

I knew someone in high school that a group of us convinced that stop signs were optional if they had a white trim all around them. She believed us until she almost got a ticket. LOL. Good thing the cop just gave her a warning.

I once also had my entire group of friends convinced that when another friend left her husband suddenly, she left him naked and tied to the bed to be found by his brother, under pretense of "makeup sex" while she packed up and hopped on a plane from Spokane to DC.

[pestie]

Originally posted by Fiver
Those of you posting to this thread, especially Cranky, may be interested to know the word "gullible" doesn't appear in the dictionary.

My sister was witness to this gag being pulled successfully in high school. It started when someone stated that "fact" to Amy, a rather air-headed cheerleader type. She wasn't about to believe it, though - oh, no! She apparently started in with the "Nuh-uh, it is so in there!" A few other people joined in, insisting that "gullible" was absolutely not in the dictionary. So what does this girl do? She pulls a dictionary off a shelf, finds it, and says, "See? It is in there! You're all burnt!" Yup, that's it. You showed them, Amy. They're all burnt.

As a kid, I once convinced my mother that a McDonalds soda would explode if you didn't push down all the little nubs on the plastic cover on the cup (you know, the ones that say "diet" or "cola," etc.) At first she doubted me, but then I gave her a look like she was such an idiot for not knowing this. She then says, "Really?" in a very serious tone. My father, sister and I just burst out laughing. I still bring that up to her to this day.

That reminds me, I once told my mother about "cow magnets" (magnets farmers put in cows' stomachs to trap bits of metal they might eat while grazing) and she thought I was trying to pull one over on her. I had to show her a catalog that sold actual cow magnets before she believed me.

[Rilchiam]

I have to say, my leg is pretty hard to pull, because I'm so analytical. I don't remember ever falling for anything as a kid, when adults tried to snow me.

well, there was that time when Jack Ponz promised to take me fishing and then said, no, I'm kidding...and we talked some more and he said, no, really, there's a bait store right across there...see, that one...yeah, we can go fishing tomorrow morning...no I'm pulling your leg again ha ha ha ha ha...and my dad was sitting right the fuck there and said nothing. He also (Jack Ponz I mean) gave me two candy bars and stole them back when I wasn't looking I hope he's suffering in hell

Anyway, apart from that, which was an emotional manipulation, not a logical one, I didn't believe my mom when she said there were fish in the trunk. I didn't believe the babysitter when she told me the politicians in Washington still wore knee breeches and powdered wigs like they had in colonial times. When my mom told me there were little men in our car who worked the windshield wipers, I said, "But today's Sunday. I thought people didn't work on Sunday." (This was the early '70s, when almost everything was closed on Sunday.)

When I was older, it was the same thing. Although as a teenager, I went along with many things I didn't believe, because I was too intimidated to challenge anyone. I didn't believe my friend's boyfriend had given her a fur coat for Christmas, as she claimed. But I also suspected she wasn't a virgin, as she further claimed. So I thought, either she's really a virgin and the coat is her mom's, or she's not a virgin, and that explains the coat. In either case, I wasn't going to drop a dime on her.

I had the "gullible" thing pulled on me once, and I didn't fall for it. I was concentrating on doing some mending, so I wasn't going to jump up and grab the dictionary. My mind went, "gullible--word--dictionary...But dictionaries have all words...word--gullible...Argh!"

I am a sucker for physical challenges, though. I'm always the one to say, "I can open the mystery egg! I'll stand on the magnetic spot!" I was once on a film crew where the key and best boy grips had a field day with me. I forget what the first thing was that I fell for, but the second one was, they had a bottle of water and were muttering to each other about the label. This was when the "find the contest piece in the specially-marked package" contests were just gearing up. Eager to settle the question of whether the logo was silver, which netted nothing, or gold, which could be redeemed for $$, I leaned over the bottle and got a squirt of water from a pinhole.

[SPOOFE]

I must say that I have you all beat. In High School, there was a guy named Amin (named changed to protect his identity). He was hardly the brightest gem in the jewelry case, and he thought himself to be quite the ladies man... he would constantly buy expensive gifts for girls who had made it perfectly clear to him that they weren't interested.

Anyway... one day, the football field was getting resodded. A giant pile of manure was situated at one end of the field. A few guys on the football team told Amin, "Hey, girls will like you if you stick your head in that manure." Amin said, "Okay!" and, excited as a kid at Christmas, bounded over to the pile, and stuck his head in that giant pile of dung. He then went around to several nearby young ladies and presented to his poop-covered head for their enjoyment.

He left that school after his Freshman year (bad grades). Since then, he's had several restraining orders brought against him, and has had other legal troubles due to his pursuit of the women. Go figure.

[flodnak]

Sometimes, you don't have to use bait. The fish just leap right into your boat.

Case in point: The flodsister's boyfriend was driving her and me back from somewhere, shortly before I was going to make My First Trip To Europe. Had a brand-new passport and everything. The flodsister asked me how I was going to get there, by plane? Thinking that this was maybe not the brightest question she'd ever asked me, I said, uh, yeah, the bridge to Europe isn't quite finished yet.

And the flodsister said, "Oh."

The car got reeeeeeal quiet as her boyfriend and I tried not to laugh. Finally Boyfriend couldn't steer the car straight any more and decided to laugh before he crashed.

"What?" the flodsister asked.

"Bridge to Europe!" he choked out in a falsetto. She was pissed at both of us for the rest of the evening.

As gawd is my witness, I thought that one was too obvious to fall for.

[pukey]

Well I know someone who, aged 15/16, actually got up to ask the english teacher 'so why has gullible been taken out of the dictionary?'

Also, I once told him the old

'how do you keep a fool in suspense?'
'I don't know'
'I'll phone you tonight to tell you'

joke, expecting him to get it right away. Oh no.

In another class (which I didn't take) he started moaning 'luke still hasn't phoned me'. Mutual friends told me that most of the class (including the teacher) spent the hour on and off trying to explain the joke to him.

I kid you not.

pukey

[T Bill]

My brother-in-law goes for everything that comes around.
When we had Pyramid Power, he built several 3-foot pyramids to try to sharpen razors and keep apples fresh. Claimed it worked, too!

One time I put a joke floppy in his computer, called "Hot-Boot". When he booted up it had a graph saying his computer was melting down and would never work again. Then made the screen black. He was so dumb he just assumed the computer was broken, and a week later told me about it. I was stunned that he hadn't even tried to boot it again!

[YthDecay]

My class managed to convince a girl, "J", that one could become pregant from French-kissing. Her initial reaction was stunned belief when one of my classmates passed along that little tidbit of "information," but soon the rest of the class (including myself) jumped to back it up.

Unfortunately, it didn't last long. The teacher let J out of class to go ask another teacher, who ruined our joke.

[Kyla]

My freshman year of college, I was friends with a senior who absolutely broke records for gullibility and naivete. I immediately thought of him when I saw this thread, but it took a while to remember a really good example. Please keep in mind that he was twenty-three, everyone else in this anecdote is eighteen or nineteen.

A group of people from my dorm had gone to the dining hall for the midnight snack. Afterwards, we wandered to a lounge to eat our burgers and fries. A couple of the girls started talking about their periods, and Winston (naive guy) totally freaked out, pleading, "Not while we're eating, please!" I mean, he was really upset. So one of the other guys, joking, said, "What's the matter? Don't you get a period?" Winston looked taken aback and said, "Of course not. Guys don't get periods!" And completely deadpanning, two other guys managed to convince him that they did have monthly periods, and that he should go to the doctor if he didn't. Even the fact that one other guy was shaking his head, obviously not okay with the joke being played, did not click with Winston. They finally gave in and told the truth; the game was just too easy.

[zoid]

When my wife and I were dating I took her to a Greek restaurant where we ordered Saganaki (flaming cheese).
Well as I'm sure you know when the waiter lights the dish he yells "Opah"! I told my (then) girlfriend that this was Greek for "Holy Shit - my cheese is on fire"!
She actually bought it after some convincing.

[heresiarch]

Back in the early 80's I mentioned to a girlfriend that I was going to buy a car stereo and that I was considering buying a Blaupunkt.

GF: Bleh-what?!
Me: Blaupunkt. It's a German brand name. They make good stuff.
GF: You're making that up.
Me: No, honest.

It probably took me fifteen minutes, but I finally convinced her that I wasn't making up the name "Blaupunkt." Then I yielded to a devious impulse...

Me: OK, I admit it. I made up "Blaupunkt."
GF: I KNEW IT!

[Theobroma]

In eighth grade, I once convinced my friend's little sister that my belly button went all the way through my body, getting smaller and smaller, until it emerged from my back as a pore.

"No, really? Wow! Really? Can I see your back??"

[roadrunner70]

Years ago, a good friend of mine managed to procure some luxury suite passes to Pole Night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. They required us to wear those damn stick on "My Name Is..." placards, so as a goof, I filled mine out with the name Dr. Lance Manion. During the course of the evening, I met this quite attractive young lady, and after noticing my nametag, she asked me what kind of Dr. I was. I had actually forgotten about it at that point, (it was the Miller suite...free beer) but thinking she would realize I was kidding, I told her I was a gynecologist. She proceeded to ask me where I went to school, where my office was, etc...and I just kept making shit up as I went along. (years of marriage will teach you how to do that effectively) Anyhoo, she bought the whole bit, but the funniest part, was the next day, she called my friend to get my number, so she could make an appointment to see me for a check-up. Wait a minute...hmmmm...maybe I'M the idiot here...shit!

[ThreeLeggedBob]

So I'm eating this sandwich from "Subway". I have a Subway plastic bag, Subway napkins, Subway paper around the sandwich. Guy from work says "Hey, did you go to Subway?"

I say "No, I went to Blimpie's" (across the street). "They ran out of wrapping stuff and had to borrow it from Subway." (I said this just to be annoying; I didn't think he'd believe it.)

"Really?" he says. "Wow, that's funny."

I still thought he was playing along with the joke, until I heard him repeating it later to someone else. We were shaking our heads all afternoon...

[furt]

I once convinced the secretary at my school in Korea that African-americans had their own language (She had never met one). She "realized" that this is why they all had accents.

[Yumanite]

I was listening to a Louis Armstrong cd once and my cousin came in.

"Whatcha listening to?" She asks.
"Louis Armstrong," says I.

"Wasn't he the guy who went to the moon?"

I have no choice but to respond, "Yes."

She still thinks (7 years later) that Louis Armstrong and Neil Armstrong are the same guy.

[DAVEW0071]

Boy, wait till she finds out he also won the Tour de France three years in a row!

He's quite a guy, that Satchmo.

[Chanteuse]

I knew some teens who absolutely convinced this one girl that the point in bowling was to MISS the pins. They told me how they wasted an entire game doing this--I don't know when they let her know it was all bogus! They also told me that it was harder than you'd think to deliberately gutter a bowling ball--they were surprised because it was never a problem when it was unintentional!! :D

My brother told me once how he would send the new guys on his constuction jobs to "go and get the papers from the BFI office." (All the porta-pots were placed by BFI) He'd have them running around for half a day on this fool's errand. I don't think he ever failed to pull this one off! :)

[BigGiantHead]

Ah, yes, the joys of sending the new guy off to do the impossible, just because they don't know any better. Some favorites from the submarine service:

- Leaving food out for the "shaft seals" (mechanical device in the aft of the ship for keeping seawater from entering where the shaft penetrates the hull).
- Going to supply and requisitioning a length of Fallopian tube.
- Borrowing from Auxiliary Division an "A-gang punch" (ordinarily a punch is a hand tool, in this case just an excuse to whack the crap out of new guy).

There are bunches more, but I'm way too tired to think up the ones that would be funny to people outside the sub community.

- Dave

[KidCharlemagne]

I once convinced a girl that my lingham was a thermometer

[junkyardangel]

I have had so many things pulled on me, that my picture is in the dictonary next to "gullible"
Once, about a year ago, my nephew took my daughter to a concert. They were handing out sample condoms.
So the nephew brings me a couple and told me to be sure and put them in the refigarator. So they would still be good if I needed them.
I sez to myself "I don't remember keeping them in the refrigarator." So I go and ask my niece. She told my entire family!!
I will never live that down. My whole family looks in my refrigarator and yells "Where do you keep the condoms?"
Worse yet, my niece works at the same office as I do. One day I look in the refrigarator, and inside is a large box of comdoms, with my name on it. She had told the whole staff.
:o

[Xixox]

The first day of work pranks can be rough. On my first day of working at a pizza shop located inside K-Mart, my boss told me to fetch some straw wrappers from the basement storage room (testing the gullibility factor pretty harshly). He didn't know, though, that I previously did construction when they built the store, so I knew there was no basement. I stepped outside for a 15 minute smoke break. :p

When I came back, he asked if I had any trouble. I told him that I looked all over the basement before realizing what he sent me to find. His face sunk a bit, then he walked off to find the basement. :wally

[Harvey The Heavy]

When I was in the second grade our family moved to a new town in northern Illinois. This girl who lived up the street and was the same age as me told me that she had an identical twin sister, when really she didn't. So sometimes when I saw her she was herself, and other times she was the imaginary twin. I took me several months to figure it out.

Around the same time, my dad pulled this timeless classic:

Dad: "Pick a card, any card."

Me: "OK"

Dad: "Now, what was the card?"

Me: "The eight of diamonds."

Dad: "That's right!"

I fell for it at least five times in a row before my dad finally got tired of it and had to tell me how he knew what card I had drawn.

[Elvis]

Originally posted by junkyardangel
I have had so many things pulled on me, that my picture is in the dictonary next to "gullible"
Now how can that be, when everyone knows "gullible" isn't even in the dictionary?

[shelbo]

Originally posted by Harvey The Heavy
When I was in the second grade our family moved to a new town in northern Illinois. This girl who lived up the street and was the same age as me told me that she had an identical twin sister, when really she didn't. So sometimes when I saw her she was herself, and other times she was the imaginary twin. I took me several months to figure it out.


I love that! I wish I was 10 again so I could try it on someone.

And by the way Elvis, gullible is in the dictionary. I just looked it up -- it's on page 582.

[Elvis]

Originally posted by shelbo
And by the way Elvis, gullible is in the dictionary. I just looked it up -- it's on page 582.
OK, you win.

[Mr. Miskatonic]

Originally posted by Elvis
Originally posted by shelbo
And by the way Elvis, gullible is in the dictionary. I just looked it up -- it's on page 582.
OK, you win.

You are soooo burnt!

:D

[Chronolicht]

I have worked in restaurants for years and they provide an endless supply of dishwashers, bus people and waitrons ready to have the wool pulled over their eyes. We have sent wide eyed neophytes all over town for left handed smokeshifters, bacon stretchers, cans of blue steam, pure baking cocaine, and binary shrimpherders. At the height of the rush, a waitunit could be relied upon to bring us shots, without even knowing what they were doing. "I need four shots of Stoly citron! Pick this duece up! It has sitting here for five minutes! Ask Monica if she wants to fire table twelve. The apps went out 45 minutes ago! Don't forget the shots! Go! Go! Go!" But my favorite of all time was when I sent a waitress to the pub for a bottle of fellatio. Michelle was a tall, pretty, sweet, goofy, spastic kid with a high-pitched, loud voice. She loped downstairs to the bar while we cranked up the intercom and she asked George for the bottle. The band was between numbers so the whole pub could hear her. There must have been 80 people in the pub and about 12 in the kitchen. The place literally exploded. Tips were killer that night. The chef took me into the office at the end of the night and tried really hard to chastise me without laughing.