whats the silliest thing someone has believed

[4getmenot]

Last night txt my mate saying 'Isnt it weird how Mikey from Big Brother still has his accent even though he's blind' She put back. 'Not sure because he can hear cant he' to which I replied 'but babies get there accents by watching the mothers mouth so you'd have thought he'd have lost his by now' she replied with 'I did not know that, well he has not been completely blind for long so maybe in years to come he might lose it' By this point I was in stitches and ended it off saying 'yer have looked it up on google and he should lose his accent in 5 years' :-)

[aka pixi]

pity the lottery wasnt out then 4get, I could have asked him for the numbers lol I think it was about 3 or 4 years before cd players hit the market so I guess he had just read something about them, if he hadnt laughed at a crucial point I would've believed him doh!

[dustypuss]

my gran could never under stand how the birds us to know how to get up a hour early or later when we change the clocks

so i told her that they looked at the church clocks as they flew past !

[sophie_1003]

me and my mum very nearly managed to convince my brother that rabbits laid eggs, hence the easter bunny, he looked rabbits up in an animal encyclopaedia we had and they just happened to be after the egg laying mammals section, the look on his face was priceless!!

also, i convinced my brothers that clay pigeon shooting was invented when the RSPB got annoyed at film makers for shooting real birds in the films so they had to start using clay shaped into birds and sent them up on a wire to look like they were flying

[dustypuss]

NK

it true

all so we had hear convinced that there was a little man running in a tunnel under the road turning the cats eys on .

similar to the early-er Post about the man in the fridge

[MiniN]

My grandad told me that the cockles in the jar (pickled ones) were still alive and you could hear them screaming when you chewed one.

I was so gullable! lol

[dustypuss]

Nk I dont think it matters she been in heaven for the last 35 years

[mandimoo]

ive never drunk tea, but have had to make the odd cup for someone else. in my late teens i was making one such cup for someone and they watched me stir it, then they said... if you stir it in the other direction the flavour comes out quicker... ho hum, i believed it.

[dave2297]

When she was very young, I convinced my daughter that the kebab meat rotating on chip shop thing-ies were really humps from dead camels ..... she is now 21 and a graduate and only recently realised that I was kidding!!

[squarebear]

A lad I used to know was on holiday and believed it was a different sun shining down in Spain as it was a lot hotter than England.

[mandimoo]

oh yeah, i just remembered my dad told me our old dog went to the farm to play with the animals (i was only 3 and my sister was about to be born). he kept this up for probably 25 years until one day round the dinner table he said "when we had tosca put down" and me and my sisters mouths just dropped and said "but you told us....." still dont know why sister was bothered, she never even knew the dog!

[mattie]

There's also the tricks played on young, gullible employees -

Long weights
Skirting board ladders
Striped paint
Sky hooks
Left handed hammers
Spare bubbles for spirit levels (my particular favourite)

My wife used to work in a chicken processing plant and used to send people to get "chicken lips".

[sophie_1003]

my dads told me many of those mattie, but he says the last one stopped working at his old place of work because they had these spirit levels where you could actually replace the glass/plastic? bubble bit if it broke.

my grandad used to calibrate bits for machinery and he once asked an apprentice if he'd had his boots calibrated, the lad said no and my grandad looked shocked and told him that he better have them done there and then so lad took boots off and my grandad measured, weighed and checked angles of the boots befoe handing them back saying they were ok

[mattie]

I've no idea, but as far as I know, it was one big plant, with a small office where the boss was.

[Jillius]

A woman I know had a baby that looked exactly like her husband and I joked to her that as it looked nothing like her, her hubby must have been unfaithful !
She went off fuming that she was going to have it out with him and if she found out that the baby was someone elses he was dead !
Dozy woman just didn't get the joke.

[andy-hughes]

A gorgeous but somewhat gullible girl I worked with was chatted up by a sailor in a pub. She recounted the next day who he had just returned from the Falklands, where he was part of the Penguin Patrol - a crack set of sailors who went ashore on the Islands to stand up all the penguins who had fallen onto their backs watching the aircraft, which they had never seen before, flying overhead. As the bird watched and craned its neck, it lost its balance and fell onto its back, there to remain until the kind british sailors o The Penguin Patrol came ashore and helped them all to their feet.

She beileved this until she visited London Zoo one day and advised the keeper at the Penguin House about the Falkland Island penguins, ant hte Penguin Patrol. The keeper wordlessley scuffed the nearest pnguin under the beak so it fell backwards, wherupon it quickly scrambled upright and wandered off.

I would have paid big money for a photo of her expression when she saw that - or to read the keeper's mind when he heard the tale.