Just 21 outrageously tall-tales people were told by the ‘school liar’
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A lad I went to school with in South Bristol was from an Italian family and claimed that his Dad was the King of Naples. He wasn’t.
— Cruisers Creek (@Cruisers_creek) April 21, 2023
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When we were about 10 (mid 90s) my cousin who was "good with computers" claimed he could hack into the FBI's servers, and "proved" it to me by…visiting the FBI's website.
— Marc Nikiperowicz (@MNiki_P) April 21, 2023
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In a similar vein a lad at school told us that he “caught the ferry” to Jamaica from Newcastle and swam back.
— Mike (@MikeD2049) April 22, 2023
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One lad apparently went to Australia for the weekend. From Wolverhampton
— Julie Baugh (@Stressbaker) April 22, 2023
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Back in the day, Joy Division were known to have rehearsed locally to my school – one day one lad boasted how he’d bunked off and spent the day hanging with them he was asked how Ian was and he said was in good form,remarkable since he’d committed suicide a few weeks previously
— Joe Simpson (@JoeSimpson66) April 22, 2023
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I boldly told my teacher I could speak French. She asked me to say something in French in front of the whole class. I started talking… In-A-French-Accent. It was at this very moment that it occurred to me that I couldn't speak French at all; but was just doing a French accent.
— NigeB (@nigbuc) April 22, 2023
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Near sleepy Cottingham village was rough Orchard Park estate, with high rise flats. This lad “Iron Fist” claimed he stood on the roof of his tower block and caught a helicopter.
— Rob Stannard (@shutupmoveon) April 21, 2023
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Nicholas Harman told me his dad did a wheelie in the family car when they were on the motorway
— Clive Andrews (@cliveandrews20) April 21, 2023
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We were only six but classmate said the night before, in July 1969, he got his dad’s binoculars & watched Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin climb out of the module & step onto the moon but because it was so far “couldn’t tell which was which”
— Brian Dooley (@dooley_dooley) April 22, 2023
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My classmate reckoned his brother kidnapped Noddy Holder's cat to get Slade tickets
— Andrew Wilshire (@AndrewWilshire) April 21, 2023
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Kid at our school reckoned his dad had bought him a jet pack like the one James Bond had in Thunderball. Further embellished by the quote: “if you look up around 4:30 Nige, I should be going over your house”.
— Mr Malcontent (@mr_malcontent75) April 22, 2023
BONUS
When i was at primary school, a kid convinced me that if I didn’t do what he told me he would “set his elephants on me”. For some reason I believed this and still remember a nightmare i had involving implausibly large elephants trumpeting as they advanced through my street
— liner bronson 🇪🇺 (@MeatyPigeon) April 21, 2023
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