How gullible was the most gullible person you knew?

In My Humble Opinion
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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.

22

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…

23

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!!!”

24

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.

25

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.

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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.

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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 :slight_smile:

28

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

29

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?”

30

Sorry, that was okielady’s story.

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Francesca:

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.

32

What, really? So you mean it’s a double-triple-slap-my-thigh-and-call-me-betty bluff? :wink:

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I heard they’re thinking of putting it back in. There’s a big committee studying it, lobbyists on both sides etc. Stay tuned.

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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. **
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<checks dictionary>

Hey!, yes it is!

Oh damn, make that five times.

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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.

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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.

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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.

[sub]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[/sub]

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.

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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.

39

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.

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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