A friend at work has just spent half an hour sucessfully convincing me that the government use thousands of pounds worth of tax payers money every year to emply people to walk the length of the motorways changing the batteries in cat's eyes :blush: :blush: Needless to say my geniunely ernest inquiries ('do they have to wait til night time?' :o ) were met with raucous laugher and much pointing ('haha you're an idiot!') :( C'mon guys, make me feel better - has anyone else been wound up recently, or been the victim of an especially funny practical joke?

Comment along the lines of 'I would have believed that too' are also particularly welcome :(

Now if you had been an inquisitive child like me you would know exactly how they work from the times you spent pulling them out of the road, oops :)

Well I don't know about practical jokes but when I was young I was told every 5th child was chinese and I used to look at children in big families but I never found the chinese one.
Hazel

Originally posted by TracieJC
A friend at work has just spent half an hour sucessfully convincing me that the government use thousands of pounds worth of tax payers money every year to emply people to walk the length of the motorways changing the batteries in cat's eyes :blush: :blush: Needless to say my geniunely ernest inquiries ('do they have to wait til night time?' :o ) were met with raucous laugher and much pointing ('haha you're an idiot!') :( C'mon guys, make me feel better - has anyone else been wound up recently, or been the victim of an especially funny practical joke?

Comment along the lines of 'I would have believed that too' are also particularly welcome :(

I know you're looking for support, but I have to say I wish I'd seen it! :clap: Having said that, I've been known to have daft moments :blush: !

K x

Originally posted by hazel
Well I don't know about practical jokes but when I was young I was told every 5th child was chinese and I used to look at children in big families but I never found the chinese one.
Hazel

:hihi: Brilliant! :clap:

Tracie, time to dye the hair a different shade of Blonde :D

Originally posted by Deejay

Tracie, time to dye the hair a different shade of Blonde :D

:o but surely someone has to change the batteries... :o :o :help: :help:

Originally posted by fnkysknky
Now if you had been an inquisitive child like me you would know exactly how they work from the times you spent pulling them out of the road, oops :)


I hear ya brother :thumbsup:

hahaa we once told our very gullable friend that gullable had been taken out of the dictionary. she spent ages examining them to find one without gullable in it.

Franc are you the franc i think you are? Friend of Rebecca Dyson?

I'm sure my advancing age has made me even more suspicious and less gullible than ever. After having been conned about Father Christmas there was a nasty little trick my older brother and sister used to play on me involving two bits of paper stuck to their fingers and a silly little song about two little dickie birds sitting in a tree, one called Peter one called Paul.......... Anybody who knows this will know how infuriating this trick is to a little child and so I know why I'm not gullible!!

Originally posted by TracieJC
A friend at work has just spent half an hour sucessfully convincing me that the government use thousands of pounds worth of tax payers money every year to emply people to walk the length of the motorways changing the batteries in cat's eyes :blush: :blush:


Muhahahahaha! :hihi: :hihi: I like it



Cant believe you think they would walk!! - obviously they have a little scooter. :rolleyes:

I once went on a coach trip to Liverpool to do the Beatles Tour with an American friend.

I pointed out the sheep on the steep hillside along the Pass & told him that they were a special breed that has 2 legs shorter than the other so they don't topple over, that they could only go 'round the hill in one direction.


For a minute, he looked at me . I kept my face as 'honest' as I could:smile: but it was no good :lol: I had to snigger :hihi:

But I think he would have bought it if I hadn't have :hihi: :hihi:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
I pointed out the sheep on the steep hillside along the Pass & told him that they were a special breed that has 2 legs shorter than the other so they don't topple over, that they could only go 'round the hill in one direction.


This is obviously not true. You have mistaken this with another story.

I was told, in Edinburgh so is has to be true, that haggises live in the Highlands of Scotland. Male Haggises (or should that be Haggi?) have their left leg shorter than their right. Female Haggises have the right leg shorter than the left. They spend most of their lives walking round the hills in opposite directions. When it comes to the breeding season, the male haggis has to turn around so his short leg is facing downhill. Whilst mating, the female haggis gets so excited she runs off - leaving the poor male haggis standing on one leg. He topples over, and rolls down the hill where he is caught in nets laid out by the canny haggis catchers, who know when the breeding season is.

That would be the story we spent weeks going over in lessons in college that were meant to be electronics theory. We had lots of drawings on the board etc....

I have a friend who thought they invented colour in the sixties :clap:

And who didn't used to think that 'a man helping police with their enquiries' meant a public spirited individual?????

Mr Strix

You know they're removing the word Gullible from the Oxford dictionary this year!? . . to put newer trendier words in for the youth of today to understand.

It is common in the NHS to send new student nurses the length of the hospital for 'a long stand' or a set of 'fallopian tubes', the left handed stethascopes , etc...

Then there's the old trick of getting some herbal tea (camomile is the best) in a clean sterile urine container.
Give a little preamble on diabetic urine having glucose in it then having a little swig & confirming 'yes it definately tastes very sweet' :gag: :gag: :gag: :gag: :heyhey: :hihi: :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
It is common in the NHS to send new student nurses the length of the hospital for 'a long stand' or a set of 'fallopian tubes', the left handed stethascopes , etc...

Then there's the old trick of getting some herbal tea (camomile is the best) in a clean sterile urine container.
Give a little preamble on diabetic urine having glucose in it then having a little swig & confirming 'yes it definately tastes very sweet' :gag: :gag: :gag: :gag: :heyhey: :hihi: :thumbsup:

In my first job I was sent to the warehouse manager to ask for a bucket of steam. B****rds!

K x

As an apprentice bricklayer i got asked to get various things such as rainbow coloured paint, skirting ladder, sky hooks amongst other things :roll: erm i never fell for any of them though :blush: *cough*

I was confused by the thread when I first saw it, I thought it said quillible Doh!

Can someone fetch me a bucket of sparks please?

I must confess to being one of the rotters who sent apprentices to other depts to fetch left handed screw drivers and the like. By God it was fun!

Working in a warehouse I would wait to see what the shop floor would send the poor little apprentice down for, the best had to be the knife attachment for the fork lift

When I was little I asked my dad who Bill Posters was, and why he was going to be prosecuted... :huh:

I been told that another common thing for sending apprentices for is a bubble for the spirit level.

Any of the ladies heard this one before...


"of course I love you; and I'll still respect you..."


:D :o :suspect:

I was with a VW camper owning friend in one of 'those' VW accesories shops.

He had me asking the painfully hip sales guy for a radiator cap....

One of the best "gullible " stories I heard was from Turkey , where they have National Service.
Two teachers told me that as 18 year-olds they'd had to do National Service with a friend of theirs. This third bloke was a particularly poor soldier but was also very vain and thought he was the bees-knees.
Some time after their service was finished [probably round about the invasion of Cyprus time] , they sent him a fake letter , posted from a faraway city , presumably on some sort of military notepaper [you can get hold of most things in Turkey !].
This letter said that owing to his outstanding conduct as a Nat. Serviceman they wanted him to report to this camp for "special services " and told him what to bring....etc....This bloke then showed the letter to all and sundry and on the day set off for the camp. By now everyone was probably in on the joke .
Of course they were absolutely baffled at the camp and simply told him to get lost. When the penny dropped , the victim was looking for his two friends for ages , till the heat went out of it.

That reminds me of a story about someone I know. He was working on a building site and had managed to get hold of some call up papers during the falklands war. He penned a fake callup letter and sent it to all his workmates on the site. Many of them were much younger than him (16ish) and were actually in tears when they got their letters.

In fact the mastermind behind that one was also the victim of an equally dastardly scheme. My uncle got some bbc headed notepaper and wrote a letter pretending to be the antiques roadshow and they wanted to come and film a 1 hour special in his friend's house. He also asked if they could meet up in the pub to discuss the format of the show. He went mad when my uncle turned up at the meeting place.
He'd even put on his sunday best and scrubbed up really well for the meeting!

I once went on a coach trip to Liverpool to do the Beatles Tour with an American friend.

I pointed out the sheep on the steep hillside along the Pass & told him that they were a special breed that has 2 legs shorter than the other so they don't topple over, that they could only go 'round the hill in one direction.
lol. I was gonna tell this one too. Cos I remember it from a school trip once. :hihi:

The other gullible thing is being asked out on a date, but when asked the guy, he denied it, and I believed him. Bah. Git.