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GreenDog
1,724 posts
61 months
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sadako said: lost in espace said: I told my exwife the Blair Witch Project was a documentary and took her to see it. Priceless. While being lame you get the odd person who was freaked out by it. Someone in my dorm at uni was - one of the guys had a mouldy stake in the fridge so we promptly went out, got some twigs from the park, made a cage out of them and left it outside her door with the raw steak inside covered in ketchup  He kept a pointy bit of wood in he fridge ? That's wierder than the film !
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speedychrissie
2,994 posts
108 months
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When "walking with dinosaurs" first came out we managed to convince my sister (who would have been nearly 20 at the time) that the BBC had invented a time machine and gone back in time to get actual footage of real dinosaurs.
She honestly believed it for a couple of episodes before we let her out of her misery!
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hornetrider
Original Poster
40,774 posts
74 months
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speedychrissie said: She honestly believed it for a couple of episodes before we let her out of her misery! Let?  
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Gargamel
5,323 posts
130 months
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I once fairly casually asked my PA what plans she had for the weekend.
She replied, 'we are going to Ireland for a couple of days'
How nice I said, only a short flight.
'Oh no we've decieded to drive there' she said.
'Ahh, and catch the ferry then, nice to arrive by boat.' I said as I was heading toward the door.
She then pipes up, "Boat what boat, you don't need a boat to drive to Ireland...."
(She had an A level in Geography too.)
To say I was worried for her is an understatement.
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isee
3,166 posts
52 months
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I showed a girl a flying trick once (you know the one where you stand on the toes of one foot whilst raising both heels off the ground)
she was mightily impressed and in all seriousness told me how limitless my opportunities are since i can fly...
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MacGee
2,151 posts
99 months
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my wife once had a loan of her chairmans bentley. coming back up the M1 she needed to refuel. She phone me to say she couldnt do it as the car was petrol but the station only sold unleaded !!!!
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threesixty
1,486 posts
72 months
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silverthorn2151 said:  Kinda sweet that they think like that though ain't it. Mine refuses to believe that if she gets on the M25 and just keeps driving she'll be back where she started. And she's a teacher! Unfortunatley for you shes right, the m25 is not a complete loop.
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Streetrod
4,984 posts
75 months
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Driving down the motorway for the first time in our new car so decided to put on the cruise control. I take my feet of the peddles and the other half pipes up, "What are you doing" "Cruise control dear, the car controls the throttle by its self" "Wow" she says, "Will it steer itself as well then?"
I nearly chocked with laughter and it has been a running joke every since....
And this was from a women who at the time was the director of a £50million turnover company. But 20 years on I still love her
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sonic_2k_uk
2,967 posts
76 months
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GF: What's rice made out of? Me: Wheat. 
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AbarthChris
2,188 posts
84 months
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My sister thought that Spain was in the Caribbean. she was in her 20's
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AndyBe
4,382 posts
76 months
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Examples of The Mental, which I've no doubt posted up before when these 'Mental' threads come up.
Leaving a rainy Manchester flying away on holiday - we rise above the clouds.
Ex: Oh good, the sun's come out !
Giving directions to a work colleague, involving a couple of junctions south on the M1.
Me: then take the M1 south to junction 26.
The Mental: Which exit is the M1 on the roundabout.
Me: It's the third exit, right. It's signposted "The South & London".
The Mental: So do I have to go through London ?
Another Mental: If you shine a torch at the moon why can't you see the spot of light ?
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silverthorn2151
3,555 posts
48 months
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threesixty said: silverthorn2151 said: Kinda sweet that they think like that though ain't it. Mine refuses to believe that if she gets on the M25 and just keeps driving she'll be back where she started. And she's a teacher! Unfortunatley for you shes right, the m25 is not a complete loop. Git, lol. You are of course correct but I can say, with complete confidence, that the existence of the A282, as the closing link in the M25 loop, remains a mystery to her. It's not THE MENTAL......her brain is just not wired up right. My fav game at the moment is to emerge from a shop/building/street and say "right then, which way do you think we go". She tries SO HARD to get it right she looks like a potty training toddler....and then points with confidence the wrong way. I used to think it was put on for effect.....nope....sense of direction of a cardboard box!
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AshVX220
1,806 posts
59 months
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Discussing nuts one christmas;
Me: I like Hazlenuts, they're probably my favourite,
OH: Yeah, me too, are they the ones you get on top of a Walnut Whip?
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Roop
5,981 posts
153 months
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Last year SWMBO and I were flying into Athens airport en-route to a friend's wedding in Crete. On looking out of the window during final approach, SWMBO said "Ooh look...! That's the Parthenon...!" I leant over and looked out the window to have a look. "No love, that's a load of gas holders". WTF  We were flying over some sort of industrial estate.
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blinkythefish
424 posts
126 months
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While watching some VH1 show, the village people came on and a discussion about their status as a gay ban ensued. I commented that despite them being a gay icon, I was pretty sure only one member was actually gay and I think it was the indian.........
Her response: Which ones the indian?
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sjc
6,714 posts
139 months
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Wife informed me she'd quite like a tennis racquet for her birthday.
She then reminded me to tell the shop that she was left handed.......................
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southendpier
3,168 posts
98 months
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Watching a boxing match a fwe years ago me and a mate and our partners.
We were discussing how such and such a fighter was famous for having a "glass jaw" mates partner sat quietly for some rounds then said.
"But surely it would smash when he gets punched?"
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Lefty Two Drams
12,280 posts
71 months
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An ex of mine thought that the lady who read the traffic warnings in my companys old Citroen C5 pool car "had a really boring job."
And, not (swmbo-related) I was ordering pies from a baker one day to be delivered to the office on my birthday. We had a secretary who was a veggie so I asked the girl on the phone if they had any vegetarian pies. Response: "We've got Chicken and Mushroom."
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Andy Zarse
8,046 posts
116 months
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speedychrissie said: When "walking with dinosaurs" first came out we managed to convince my sister (who would have been nearly 20 at the time) that the BBC had invented a time machine and gone back in time to get actual footage of real dinosaurs.
She honestly believed it for a couple of episodes before we let her out of her misery! Walking With Dinosaurs has caught a few women out... IIRC in a previous similar thread on PH, somebody's girlfriend was said to have burst into tears watching a baby dinosaur with a broken leg weaken and eventually die. It's carcass was then eaten by a bigger dinosaur. "You'd have thought", she bewailed as the poor little dino took it's last breaths, "the cameraman would have helped it out".
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Pints
14,682 posts
63 months
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Andy Zarse said: speedychrissie said: When "walking with dinosaurs" first came out we managed to convince my sister (who would have been nearly 20 at the time) that the BBC had invented a time machine and gone back in time to get actual footage of real dinosaurs.
She honestly believed it for a couple of episodes before we let her out of her misery! Walking With Dinosaurs has caught a few women out... IIRC in a previous similar thread on PH, somebody's girlfriend was said to have burst into tears watching a baby dinosaur with a broken leg weaken and eventually die. It's carcass was then eaten by a bigger dinosaur. "You'd have thought", she bewailed as the poor little dino took it's last breaths, "the cameraman would have helped it out". 
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