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Tell us about a lie you told - and the effect it had on other people.

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I said I'd tell her before I came. She spent fifteen minutes coughing up what looked like dried Gloy.

spank_daley Wed 1 Sep 9:12, (Answer / reply)

told my husband they were not divorce papers he was signing, and he didn't need to read them they were just to do with the house. (I know its unbeleivable that someone DIDN'T want to divorce me). I got my divorce pretty damn quick after that. Thanks Dan x

shagpile_perm Wed 1 Sep 13:05, (Answer / reply)


I told everyone that I wasn't at all involved with a politician I was seeing. If it had got out, no doubt he'd have broken up with his LT girlfriend who subsequently became his wife and bore him children so I think it was all for the best.

simon_cowell Wed 1 Sep 11:34, (Answer / reply)

I told a focus group that The Sex Lives of the Potato Men was fucking ace! (I even did a thumbs up) Never thinking they'd release that shit. They did and I'm not sorry.

thegingerprince Wed 1 Sep 16:41, (Answer / reply)

Of course I want us to have children darling.....

whats_the_beef_chief Wed 1 Sep 19:07, (Answer / reply)

Bit embarrassing; got up the duff before we were married, made up a story about being impregnated by an angel, all got a bit out of hand in the end.

jesusandmaryjane Wed 1 Sep 8:54, (Answer / reply)

"I really love your new album," said repeatedly, got me four years as a music writer. And laid a couple of times, as well.

aristocat Wed 1 Sep 12:32, (Answer / reply)

I tell people I win qotd all the time. Nobody cares.

splut_cunker Wed 1 Sep 8:44, (Answer / reply)

They stopped picking on me.

its_all_gone_mong Wed 1 Sep 11:47, (Answer / reply)


The lie? I told everyone I was his chauffeur. The result? I have a lovely new job. And it's very well paid!

plasticflamingo Wed 1 Sep 9:23, (Answer / reply)
I knew she wasn't 16.

weeble Wed 1 Sep 10:37, (Answer / reply)

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