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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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…
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.
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!!
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
