Highly Unlikely Stories

[Deano!]

A woman on the radio was pushing her new book which claimed one could make buckets of loot by borrowing money to buy houses and using the rental income to pay the mortgage etc etc.

Nothing too unbelievable there, except that she told the interviewer that she brought her first house as a 16 year old unemployed girl. The interviewer asked "How did you ever convince a bank to lend the value of of a house to a 16 year old with no income?" There was silence and then she came out with " Yeah... and after I'd paid that off I brought my second property..." The interviewer seemed to have been pulled into line during the silent break and asked no more sticky questions after she just brushed away a perfectly reasonable question.

This was a classic example of the sort of bullshit I hear more frequently that usually goes unchallenged.

People claiming to be ex CIA agents spill the beans about how the CIA ( or MI5 or whoever ) doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who upsets them - and yet here they are doing exactly that without being assasinated on the spot. Another favourite of mine involves claims that someone was able to talk there way into being allowed to fly an F-15 jet fighter despite " having no previous flying experience" etc etc.

We all know there's a bullshitter in every pub, but its just when they start going on the mainstream media without anyone telling them to plug it that worries me.

Cheers,
Oh, and I fingered Anna Kournokova at Wilbledon once while she was playing but nobody noticed.

[ATS]

You're right nobody saw you there, but I saw you do it at Wimbledon
I guarantee your secret is safe with me - my lips are sealed

[Deano!]

ATS wrote:

> I guarantee your secret is safe with me - my lips are sealed.

Hers weren't!

[crofter]

What if the answer to the sticky question (ooh err) was I fucked the Bank Manager!! Was she nice looking ... or could you not tell from the radio??

[The Last Word]

Deano! wrote:

> The interviewer asked "How did you ever convince a bank to lend the value of of a house to a 16 year old with no income?" There was silence and then she came out with...

A strong whiff of family money/string pulling methinks. Often a major factor in some individual's "self-made" fortunes.

> Oh, and I fingered Anna Kournokova at Wilbledon once while she was playing but nobody noticed.

If she didn't notice you really need to brush up your technique, Deano.

[Deano!]

The Last Word wrote:

> Deano! wrote:
>
> > The interviewer asked "How did you ever convince a bank to
> lend the value of of a house to a 16 year old with no income?"
> There was silence and then she came out with...
>
> A strong whiff of family money/string pulling methinks. Often a
> major factor in some individual's "self-made" fortunes.

Ahhhh yes, good point. There is also the principle ( based very very loosely on a Bob Dylan lyric ) that if you "steal a little they put you in gaol, while if you steal a lot they make you a king."