Why did I click on that link? I knew exactly what it was going to be.
Well if we’re counting tweenage imaginings, a good friend in summer camp claimed she was actually an alien (adopted by earthlings, of course). Her proof was that she could cross her toes.
Nope, the story of the $1,000 bills would have happened in the early 80’s.
I’m not sure why this is so unbelievable. Have you never seen wheat pennies? Granted there were more of them, and they aren’t so valuable, but they were taken out of circulation in 1958.
From your own wiki link, they say that there are over 165,000 one thousand dollar bills still in circulation. I just checked, and there’s one on Ebay.
As to the legitimacy of the bills, I’d have to say- more than likely. The guy who carried them around was part owner of a racetrack, and like flashy cars, women, nice house, etc. My parents thought they were real, hence my dad’s disdain for what he considered irresponsibility.
And even I would not lie in a thread about lying.
My sister once wound up sitting next to a guy on the bus (in the US) who told her an elaborate story about how he’d been in the Irish Secret Service but had to leave because he’d decided that he just couldn’t kill anyone, not even to protect the President.
My sister asked him who the President of Ireland was, and he said he couldn’t understand her question because he didn’t speak English.
Yeah, that ethanol poisoning must have come from “some psycho.” I’m sure she didn’t just drink too much tequila or anything.
I play a tabletop miniature wargame called Warhammer 40k. A game can take 2-3 hours.
Years ago, I was a gaming store when a new guy came in and I ended up playing him. He started talking about different things, but always came back to politics. He was very right wing, and started spewing all kinds of really weird crap. Things like:
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Hillary Clinton gave a speech to his military unit, part of which said that she favored abortions for ‘troubled’ girls up to three months after birth. I had him repeat this last bit.
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During his tenure as president, Bill Clinton gave large arms shipments to Islamic terrorist groups in Malaysia, including at least part of Osama Bin Ladan’s organization. Bill Clinton allowed Osama Bin Laden to escape 3 times that he knew about.
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Almost 1 million votes from military personel overseas were talied for Kerry in the last presidential election, including his own, when they should have gone to Bush. The number he gave was 980,000.
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Six of seven women who attend the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks will be raped, and this number is not reported by the university. The majority of them are not officially reported, and they are mainly perpetrated by native Alaskans.
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Native Alaskans leave their dead out for Ravens and/or crows to eat, on tall wooden platforms, because they believe the ravens carry the spirit of the deceased to heaven. The guy said he was fined $8,000 for hitting a raven with his car, because of thier spiritual beliefs.
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He spent 12 hours a day in Iraq wearing a rad suit guarding a large building containing weapons grade uranium. He said that this uranium had been bonded with carbon so that its radiation signature could not be detected by satellite while it was being moved to Syria where it would be made into nuclear weapons. When UN forces showed up the building was emptied in secret.
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He has photographs of Iraqi trucks carrying chemical weapons, and chemical weapons refining equipment. He claimed that Iraq had huge amounts of chemical weapons availabe in the second gulf war, in moving trucks. A group of trucks would each do part of the process necessary in creating the chemical, VX and Sarin, and then meet up with a transport truck that would take the now completely refined chemical to a weapons facility.
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Older version Russian Migs were found that had modified droptanks, designed to hold alcohol and a powder.
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He took second in the Warhammer 40k Alaska Grand Tournament, for which he won $40,000. He used an Imperial Guard army, and lost 1st place to a Tau army that had lots of Forgeworld models. He needed the money to pay for his kid’s cancer treatment, which the gubmint had denied him.
It was a very long 3 hours.
The rest of that was pretty believable compared to Guard losing to Tau on the winner’s table.
Sounds like a pretty standard IG player.
I was a corporal in the reserves and I was driving a 5 ton with a Sergeant First Class riding shotgun. He spent the whole time talking about all kinds of crazy stories including:
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When he was stationed in Germany, his unit made go carts and raced them on tarmac of the air base. Eh, OK, that doesn’t sound too unreasonable, it could have happened. I think he mentioned they used helicopter fuel for the go carts as well – that would be pushing it.
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He was also on guard duty when Germans were protesting the US sending nuclear missiles to Europe. He dispersed the crowd by firing his .50 call machine gun over their heads. I have to tell you, I would find it hard for someone to remain in the Army/ Army Reserves for 20 or so years after something like that.
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He was in a gun shop with some buddies and a guy tried to rob the place but peed in his pants and ran away when everyone in the store, including a cop, pulled out their weapons and aimed them at him.
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Something about hunting deer with his M16.
He was so into telling these stories though and they were so entertaining. The more he talked, the less I believed him, but the better the stories got. Because of that, I just chalked it up to letting the crazy guy talk for a few hours and enjoy the stories.
Sorry, I can’t go. I have super cancer.
I know I’m a horrible person and all that. I was 22, if that somehow helps.
My BIL’s ex wife was quite a piece of work. I used to say that if she told me the sun would rise in the east the next morning, I’d set my alarm to check.
My favorite of her big lies was the poor twin fetus. Being a large family, several of us women were pregnant at the same time. Except she was having twins! The dr. heard two heartbeats at 9 weeks. At 12 weeks they were declared to be a boy and a girl, as seen by ultrasound. I didn’t point out to her that external genitalia are impossible to distinguish at 12 weeks by ultrasound because boys and girls look pretty much the same until 16 weeks or so. Then one of the babies, the boy, was declared to have Downs Syndrome. Also decided by ultrasound, no amniocentesis or any further testing was done. At this point I wasn’t buying anything that came out of her mouth. I just figured she was setting the poor phantom fetus up. And she was. While most of the family was gone to visit one of the new babies born that year, she had a miscarriage. But just the Down Syndrome boy was lost. Her healthy baby was born a couple of months later and by this time everyone in the family was shocked it turned out to actually be a girl.
Then there was the other SIL who told my husband she was a part owner in a local health club and wanted him to be the manager. She offered him a $7/hr raise. I suppose I should mention that she and BIL were dating at the time and she was a (about to flunk out) Senior in high school.
And the other SIL (this time my husband’s sister) who swears she’s heard my husband’s music played on local radio stations. Never mind that my husband has never sent them a CD or been paid any kind of royalties for air play. She’s also got the connections for him to be the opening act for Kevin Bacon’s band next time he’s in the area. (Woohoo! My Bacon number is 2!) I should mention that my husband is an extremely small time musician who place a couple times a year in public. Usually comes home with all of $50 in his pocket. He’s talented, but not in any way well known enough for radio play or opening acts for well known stars.
How did this work out, picnurse?