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Crossword Scam!
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midnitegremlin
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Hope that you don't get caught out by this one!!
It goes like this, you are sitting in a pub or or a train, and a nice young man comes up to you, saying he is a bit stuck on a crossword. He has a notable stammer, so he is quite slow to form words. Anyway, you help him with his clues, and he steers the topic towards the longest word in the English language. So you might eg suggest " antidisestablishmentarianism " . Anyway, he then will say "we..ll.. thats a l.l. long word, but I bet you a Fiver I can spell it in under 5 seconds. "
If you take him up on this, he then slaps down his fiver and says " I T ! " Totally within his rights to claim his prize. That guy earned my fiver!
It goes like this, you are sitting in a pub or or a train, and a nice young man comes up to you, saying he is a bit stuck on a crossword. He has a notable stammer, so he is quite slow to form words. Anyway, you help him with his clues, and he steers the topic towards the longest word in the English language. So you might eg suggest " antidisestablishmentarianism " . Anyway, he then will say "we..ll.. thats a l.l. long word, but I bet you a Fiver I can spell it in under 5 seconds. "
If you take him up on this, he then slaps down his fiver and says " I T ! " Totally within his rights to claim his prize. That guy earned my fiver!
If my post doesn't appear to be serious, then it is not serious. So what? Kick back, relax enjoy life and have a little fun. Life is far far too short to be grumpy!!!!
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Moved on then from the school playground .0
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Moved on then from the school playground .
It actually featured in an early episode of grange hill! Sheer class. :rotfl:If my post doesn't appear to be serious, then it is not serious. So what? Kick back, relax enjoy life and have a little fun. Life is far far too short to be grumpy!!!!0 -
In my school days it was "Constantinople".0
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Money well spent.0
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beware of men sellng magic beans on the way to market"If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane"0
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Unlikely to be true, but a great story.
There's a variant of this a friend of a friend (yeah, that reliable) had happen that's pretty much a mugging. Walking in NY a couple of young guys started saying 'hey nice shoes! Them are real nice, great color' etc. Quite disarming behaviour. That's followed up by 'I'll bet you $20 I know where you got them'. In the 1980's, $20 was proper money, too.
FOAF clearly being a total mug thought it unlikely the two youths had ever heard of Duckers let alone every been to Oxford, and took the bet. The sucker line was 'you got 'em on your feet, that's where you got 'em'. The mood then sours quickly until the debt was paid.
A polite mugging, really.0 -
That was definitely a popular scam in New Orleans when I was there many years ago. It was common enough that I read about it in the Lonely Planet guidebook before I went, but didn't expect to actually encounter it.
While I was there, I did have a couple of strangers approach me with the line "Hey, man! I know where you got them shoes!" I must have really looked like a tourist...0
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