FantasistsEddie Spunkbubble says: I used to know a sad case who fancied himself as a bit of a 007 and bragged that he always carried a loaded 9mm pistol in his attache case "just in case". Overheard by an off-duty copper, he was asked to make good on his claim. A packed lunch, red face and a stern warning "not to act the twat" and he never did it again. Tell us of Walter Mitty types.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jun 2014, 11:40)
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Uncle DenisNot actually an uncle, just a family friend, but you know how it is. He just could not resist making stuff up to 'beat' people. So I was telling him how I'd sung in a concert in a big church. He told me he'd been a choirboy in Westminster Abbey (despite being brought up in Chorley, Lancs). Someone else told him they'd one first prize in the village fete for a cake: he'd been awarded a special prize by Fanny Craddock for his recipe. I had been on a survival course with an ex-SAS guy: he had been with David Stirling in WW2 when he'd invented the SAS... Nothing anyone said could top his experiences.
Everyone knew what he said was complete crap but no one ever challenged it, just because it was so obviously made up. A few years ago he died of lung cancer. I'm sure that when he was in hospital he was telling everyone he'd been irradiated with polonium by Russian spies.
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