When i was at school
I know this isn't quite what the questioner had in mind. However, when i was in Lower Sixth Form, a friend of mine, Seb, once tried to convince a bunch of us that, Gullible had in deed been taking out of the dictionary. He backed this claim up with something about american spelling or some such crap, i wasn't listening. See as a dyslexic (my gf tells me i can't write proper english so this may or may not be apparent from my post) I spent the entire "lie" trying to work out how to spell gullible, in my head. I do believe i spelt it with an A and not an I. He seemed to think i had fallen for his "joke".

Another time. Bare with me, this gets a little weird and complicated. First the back story. A friend of mine, Dave, during sixth form, had proposed to his then girlfriend, Catherine (they didn't get married, thankfully). News broke and it all got a little weird. However they had decided to tell everyone that they had called it off, while actually staying engaged. The reason for this escapes me. So Dave told me and asked i not tell anyone, i didn't however, during a few drinks with Dave and Euan, Dave disclosed that the engagement was still on. So back story over. Engagement secret, Euan and I knew etc etc. A week or so later an old friends of ours was in town for a couple of weeks (was the summer hols). And there had been arrange a large gathering to a) greet and see Woggle (the friend) and b) get drunk.

So i was sat with Euan discussing the "secret" when Diane over heard us and asked what the secret was. I, thinking fast, well as fast as i can, made up a story that one of our friends was in fact a transvestite, and that only 3 people knew about it, Euan, myself and their mother. She believed me and understood that i could not possible disclose this person's name. fats forward at least six month, possible a whole year and another friend of mine, Zoe, asked who this trannie was. I confessed to her, the "engagement" was old news by then.
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 0:21, Reply)