People shared the outrageous lies they somehow got away with and it’s a very funny read – 19 properly hilarious whoppers

10.

We once told my mate that Starbucks was owned by Jimmy Tarbuck

— Harry Myers (@PeasOneDay) April 23, 2017

11.

Convinced my Mum that an entire A-Z of musical notes existed but they had only been able to invent instruments that could play A-G

— Alex Jamieson (@Alex_Jamieson) April 22, 2017

12.

My father was terrible for making up German words when I started German at school: einen Flippenfloppenleibenschloppen (windscreen wipers)

— Nel Norris (@NelNorris) April 22, 2017

13.

I told my kids that cooling towers are cloud factories. The idiots fell for it.

— Dave Lee (@davelee1968) April 22, 2017

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convinced a friend that my real name was Joe Kerr and my bro’s was Wayne Kerr, but we were allowed to use aliases at school to stop bullying

— Alex Jamieson (@Alex_Jamieson) April 22, 2017

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as a teenager, i convinced a girl my mother had invented the concept of the filled baked potato.

— euan mccolm (@euanmccolm) April 23, 2017

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My dad could turn the cats’ eyes in the middle of the road on and off with a special control in the car.

— Copenhagen Steve (@xpatindk) August 7, 2018

17.

I convinced my flatmate at uni that the lead singer of Led Zepplin was called Ted Zepplin

— Cookie (@Cookiejacked) April 22, 2017

18.

A group of us once convinced our poor, trusting friend that wasps make chutney.

— Katie Young (@Pinkwood) August 5, 2018

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Granddad convinced us if you broke a biscuit in half, all the calories fell out. He was a nutritional chemist, so of course we believed him

— Chris Riley (@criley2008) April 22, 2017

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