Kuzano

And how about boudoir photographers?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-sues-wife-for-deceit-by-makeup-142809851.html#

catalint Loc: oslo

according to our newspaper this is just a joke. :)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Right.

http://m.snopes.com/kiss-no-makeup/

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

I must be the most gullible person in the world, because I fall for a lot of these.
Someone I know would tell me fantastic "facts" about their homeland and sit back and watch with glee as I made a fool out of myself repeating everything to family.

I just don't get the appeal of fake news sites.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

There is so much more of this stuff that it's getting harder to discern it from reality. :evil: satire or not.

Kuzano

I am from Oregon. In 1966, we had a summer camp in West Virginia, where an exercise with 7500 National Guard and US Reserve troops took place. We flew to WV with 85 in our company.

One night at the NCO club we sat at a table with a group from a Guard unit in Boston. We got drunk, it's that simple.

The conversation turned to Indians (native americans), and before we closed the club we had the Bostonians believing that one of the functions of our Reserve unit was to deal with occasional "indian raids and uprising" off the reservation. You know, Circle the Military Vehicles to defend the villages and villagers AKA the white settlers.

I think we blamed Nez Perce and other local tribes. I live 60 miles from one of the largest indian reservations in the PNW, so it was easy to make up convincing stories.

How politically incorrect was that???? Oh well, it was the Sixties after all. Wasn't being Politically Correct a result of the Sixties?

Oh yes, and I never inhaled!!!

Did you happen to be in WV that night? :roll:

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

That story is so wrong. And yet it's funny.

Take a look at the following search link. http://www.google.com/search?q=abon+sapi&biw=1920&bih=945&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI7uykxPiZxwIViXA-Ch0dsAop#imgrc=iEIOhdh7ZI47MM%3A

This is Abon Sapi. One of the things I was introduced to when I married into an Indonesian Family. It doesn't look like much...kind of like pocket lint. But sprinkle some over steamed rice and scrambled eggs and I am happy.

One of the first things the wife told me was that to make it, they take beef and sit it on the front porch until it's hard. Then someone spends the next few hours hitting it with a stone until it turns to dust.
My idea of Indonesia brought mental images of a third world country so I believed her. I would bring some of the wonderful abon to my family and friends to taste and tell them that story.

Years later, the subject came up again and the smart ass grin on her face made me realize that not only had she gotten me, but had let me make an ass out of myself for years--she was often with me when I told the stories.

Like I said....I am quite gullible

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

One of the things I pulled on my wife when we were first married in California is that I told her that after I went to an electronics swapmeet on Saturday, I would go to a strip club near Disneyland where the strippers were all dressed as Disney characters. It wasn't until we lived in Washinton State for a few years that she found out there was no such thing.

Big Bill Loc: Phoenix, AZ

I think the 'appeal' is that it's fun watching people with little world experience get all befuddled.
I'm almost old now, so I take outlandish-sounding stories with a good helping of salt until I can check it out.
Some stories actually are true...
Did you know "gullible" isn't actually a word?

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

....and I fell for that one too.