# What do you remember as the worst lie someone tried to inflict upon you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510 "2008-05-25T00:27:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/1 "2008-05-25T00:27:03Z")
This thread was inspired by the bond theme ‘license to kill’ turning up on my playlist… An un-chosen (his mum was a friend of my mum, so we were sort of forced to be friends) friend once tried to convince me (and believe me he put his heart and soul into this) that the song ‘licence to kill’ is actually ‘licence to kilt’ It’s so long ago that I can’t remember the details (including his reasoning) but I do remember even then failing to be convinced. The only thing that makes this one stick out in my memory is how sure my ‘friend’ was. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/2 "2008-05-25T01:11:43Z")
If he was “sure about it” but mistaken, isn’t that simply more of an error than a lie? A lie involves intentionality. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/3 "2008-05-25T01:18:00Z")
This is very Stupid, but scorched on my memory because it was the first case of someone being hostile about a simple thing, and wrong, but quite bellignerant about it, which threw my innocent mind fer a loop: I wrote some little story, and named a charachter “Clive”. Talked about it to my best friend, in the presence of her brother. He scoffed, “Clive??? that’s not a name. Nobody is named ‘Clive’, you’re an idiot.” In my explaining that Clive was indeed a name, he then asked his Dad, an accomplished Air Force pilot , who backed him up by saying, no that’s Not a name. High school me floundered. I was right, but, confronted by such upstanding souls, really wondered if I was right. I was so flabbergasted by their aggressive confidence that I doubted truth. Live and learn. It was just so amazing to see someone hold on to their misguided “truth”. Young me didn’t fathom anyone yammering without good knowledge. I’m older and wiser now. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/4 "2008-05-25T01:26:15Z")
All the lies my ex-boyfriend told me to cover up his serial cheating… ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/5 "2008-05-25T01:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] All the lies my ex-boyfriend told me to cover up his serial cheating… [/QUOTE] You beat me to it! My ex-husband had a series of very plausible lies as to where he was and whom he was with into the wee hours… ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/6 "2008-05-25T01:46:10Z")
My childhood friend (son of my godmother) convinced me that he could see Superman flying above us and would tease me mercilessly because I couldn’t. To the point of tears! I was a trusting child. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/7 "2008-05-25T02:10:43Z")
Every promise my ex-wife ever made was a lie. Every. Last. One. She also destroyed personal property and lied about it. Repeatedly. Even after being caught doing it. But the absolute worst was that while physically abusing ME during our relationship, she spent most of our short marriage repeatedly telling everyone who would listen that I was the one doing it to her. And they believed her. There can be no worse lie or greater betrayal than to be made out to be a monster by someone who claims to love you. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/8 "2008-05-25T02:17:25Z")
Wow. I was going to say the girl in kindergarten class who tried to convince me my hair was black, but, uh… I got nothing. _hugs **Chimera** _ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/9 "2008-05-25T02:43:17Z")
There was a girl I was head over heels in love with. She told me she was falling in love with me–over dinner at a romantic Italian place. By candlelight. There was a sparkle in her eyes. A couple of weeks later,she broke up with me. I asked what she meant that night in in the restaurant. “No,” she told me, “I said I _might be_ falling in love. That’s different…” Broke my heart, she did. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/10 "2008-05-25T03:20:59Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] My childhood friend (son of my godmother) convinced me that he could see Superman flying above us and would tease me mercilessly because I couldn’t. To the point of tears! I was a trusting child. [/QUOTE] That’s what we like about you. You can trust me. * * * As for myself, I was tricked by my girlfriend into believing a nun lived in the attic of her dormitory. The attic was only accessible by a trapdoor in the ceiling. I didn’t believe her at first but she SWORE it was the truth, three times. She denied me three times! J/K on that last part. She really did pull a fast one on me though. I routinely told lies to my Japanese friend-girls. About everything! I would explain afterwards though, and I can’t remember any at the moment. Oh wait. We were out drinking in the wooded park before graduation, and I told them a story about how somebody was murdered there and how her ghost haunted the very spot we were sitting on. It was such a hokey story that I didn’t expect even their gullible selves to believe me, but they did. Hilarity ensued. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/11 "2008-05-25T03:28:17Z")
“I swear, she’s YOUR DAUGHTER”. Come to find out a year later, she wasn’t mine. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/12 "2008-05-25T04:08:56Z")
I’m not traumatized by it or anything but…we have a female acquaintance who has led us to believe she’s married to the guy she’s living with. However, we found out through an impeccably constructed chain of information (not “gossip”, you understand) that she is not in fact married to him, and that, quote, “I just told Ducky and Hubby that we were married because otherwise they’d be shocked.” Since she presented herself to us upon first acquaintance as a devout Church Lady, yeah, we’d be shocked. But not horribly so. We’re grownups, we’re conversant with the idea that not everybody gets married, even Church Ladies. But the ongoing lie disturbs us more. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/13 "2008-05-25T04:20:39Z")
I once had a girlfriend tell me she was pregnant, when she knew she wasn’t. She let me sweat for about 40 minutes before telling me she really wasn’t. I think she just wanted to see how I’d handle it. Later, we did have a kid together. I found out that time by making her take an EPT and show me. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/14 "2008-05-25T04:25:01Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] I once had a girlfriend tell me she was pregnant, when she knew she wasn’t. She let me sweat for about 40 minutes before telling me she really wasn’t. I think she just wanted to see how I’d handle it. Later, we did have a kid together. I found out that time by making her take an EPT and show me. [/QUOTE] Wow. Were you pissed? I would have been at ‘Hulk Smash’ ‘power level over 9000’ levels of rage. Love is not a test! ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/15 "2008-05-25T04:30:00Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Wow. Were you pissed? I would have been at ‘Hulk Smash’ ‘power level over 9000’ levels of rage. Love is not a test! [/QUOTE] No, I think it more relief, at the time. In retrospect I realized it was a really shitty thing to have done. But now that we’re tied to each other with mutual offspring, the things she’s pulled make that fake pregnancy scare look like a knock knock joke. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/16 "2008-05-25T04:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] No, I think it more relief, at the time. In retrospect I realized it was a really shitty thing to have done. But now that we’re tied to each other with mutual offspring, the things she’s pulled make that fake pregnancy scare look like a knock knock joke. [/QUOTE] You’re a better man than I. The worst my GF did to me was hide the condoms. Anyway, sorry for hijacking the thread slightly :o ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/17 "2008-05-25T04:43:23Z")
“They have Weapons of Mass Destruction” is about the biggest whopper I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/18 "2008-05-25T04:43:44Z")
Not enough room on “The Internets” for my reply… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/19 "2008-05-25T05:03:12Z")
“I don’t know nothing about those drugs.” “What are you telling me? That somebody else put them in your ass without you noticing?” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-remember-as-the-worst-lie-someone-tried-to-inflict-upon-you/450510/20 "2008-05-25T05:03:35Z")
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