Martial or Marital?
I'm not generally much of a prankster, but there is one situation I'm proud of - my first internet troll, which turned into a prank.

On an IRC channel, discussing various martial arts, I was still doing karate at that point (never got beyond red belt)... and for no reason at all, I decided to try to convince a friend that I was a novice of the japanese arts of hentai and bukkake.

Cue several people surpressing their laughter (plus quite a few amused pms sent my way) as this discussion was so delicately strung out, with such great lines as

"Bukkake's great - lots of fluid movements"
"Nah, you've got to be very flexible for hentai."

Several other people chipped in with helpful questions and comments, to make it more convincing too. The game was finally up when he googled the terms. Sadly, he didn't do an image search, but I think he learned his lesson about not blindly trusting.

I just wish I'd thought of trying to convince him that "Hentai" meant "The way of the striking octopus".
(calamarain just invented dehydrated water, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 23:45, Reply)