Let's make totally outrageous claims!

[Copadope]

I once made a totally outrageous claim and everyone believed it! :blink:

Those are my favorite kind of totally outrageous claims! The best believable totally outrageous claims are followed by a short pause, and then "Wait!... Really??" To which it is best to reply with a fabricated statistic to support the believablility.

Some of my favorite memories:

(After watching a person die from getting the top of her skull sliced off with a samurai sword)
"You know, it's a little known fact that the brain is actually allergic to oxygen. That's why she died: the oxygen in the air got to her brain and it swelled up and killed her." -- I momentarily fooled a sophomore biology major with that one :lol:

(While walking through a subway station in DC after a late night concert)
"You know, it's a federal offense to up the down-escalator..."


The key to fooling your friends with outrageous claims? It's all in the delivery. ;)