WE ALL have the ability to cast our minds back now and again to recall some of the completely fabricated stories we told our classmates in our primary school days in order to impress them.
Nowhere are those stories more perfectly suited than a good long Twitter thread, and that's exactly what manifested when Donegal native Shannon Dolan took to Twitter this week to share her exceptional primary school lie.
She got quite the reaction, but she could never expect half the country would jump on board with stories of their own. Well. they do say the Irish are fantastic storytellers and it clearly starts at an early age.
My auntie was in Lillehammer & brought me a little doll back. I brought it into class, stood up & told everyone a long story all about my weekend in Lillehammer. All went well until I got carried away and said my luggage fell out of the plane on the flight home.
— Catherine O'Mahony (@CatherineMatz) April 4, 2018
My brother told everyone when the pope died, his PlayStation stopped the game and flashed up that he was dead - this was in 2005 when the PlayStation wasn’t even connected to the internet or anything djdksks
— #BringBackPassportExpress (@NaSraideanna) April 3, 2018
I once made up a book about spies to this guy and he told me he'd read the series and started arguing with me about it even though I'd made the whole thing up. There's no school for spies book series based in Egypt.
— ricky spanish (@bex_themonkey) April 4, 2018
Which he did. 'When I said I'd been selected to go to Hungary with the Scottish Karate team, what I meant was it was the kid next to me...'
— Dr Helen Murray Taylor (@TaylorHelen_M) April 4, 2018
When the Berlin Wall fell I told my mates I had an uncle who lived near by and would bring it random bits of stone and bricks and tell my mates it was part of the wall
— Mark Toleman (@marktoleman) April 4, 2018
Guy in primary school claimed his uncle had a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear which he somehow obtained because he was at the Tyson Holyfield fight when Tyson bit his ear..9 year old me believed every word😒
— Darragh Lynch (@Darzypan) April 4, 2018
@konstancja123 when my dad was bodyguarding for Madonna one night in the oddessey and I told everyone my dad was dating her, and that he was in the red hot chilli peppers
— Georgia (@georgianicaodha) April 5, 2018
