This isn't your normal candid camera event where a TV star waits until they're recognized before giving fans a hug—Maisie Williams (aka Arya Stark) refuses to acknowledge that she is anyone but "Lorraine," a nerd-store* clerk who somehow doesn't know anything about Game of Thrones.

That said, "Lorraine" still knows that HBO has asked customers to act out scenes from the show in order to get free swag. This video, from Nylon, is one of the most genuinely fun celebrity stunts in a while, and besides Maisie's steadfast refusal to break character, the most impressive part is how cool these fans play it. (Check out the guy who doesn't really know Game of Thrones slowly figuring things out at 2:18.)

They're still obviously huge fans—like the kid whom Maisie orders to re-enact Joffrey's death while wearing a tiara—but they also don't freak out and ruin Maisie's fun, either. All in all, it's a delightful way to get five minutes closer to the debut of Season 6 on Sunday.

*Maybe "nerd store" isn't the right term for a store that sells tabletop role playing games, figurines, and presumably comics, but it's certainly not wrong.

Well, promposal season is here, and it's just as annoying as allergy season and wedding season combined. If you don't know what a promposal is, it's an over-the-top way to ask someone to go to prom with you while making all the other people around you who weren't asked to the prom feel bad. Here are some examples of some fancy promposals that are better thought out than many actual marriage proposals:

Apparently this trend is uniquely American, and the rest of the world finds these promposals to be a little much. Thus, Non-Americans took it upon themselves to poke fun at American teenagers because, well, it's just too damn easy.

It's doubtful that the "promposal shaming" will stop American teenagers from trying to pull of elaborate stunts to ask each other to prom, because this is America, and we do things big and stupid no matter what. 

4/20 is a day to smoke up, get high, and probably avoid your parents. In celebration of the day, ganja fans on the Internet have shared their stoner origin stories, those big moments when they lost their weedginity. Here are some of the best tales of taking in the reefer/chronic/grass/Mary Jane/herb/Devil's Lettuce. 

1. ElMojonGrande and the mystery cheddar barf.

My first time smoking weed was about 3 weeks ago. It was Saturday night and we were smoking next to the pool. While high my friend was eating some cheddar popcorn, when he put a clump of that cheese in his mouth, he started coughing from the overwhelming taste. He got a mouthful of water and spit it out on the floor. And I freaked out because some of the water hit my leg (i despise vomit, its horrible), and I asked him if he threw up or not?

He just had this blank expression and said "I don't know", this probably isn't funny, but it is for me. I was laughing incredibly long, then I stopped and kept eating. Every 5-10 mins after the incident I would ask him "But did you throw up?!" and i swear, this question would scare him to death, he would just sound sad and say "I DON'T KNOW MAN" on the verge of tears. I found it funny as hell.

It was his first time too by the way. And what made it worse for me was that every time I looked him in the eyes, it was just like dark holes, no eyes. Scary but funny stuff.

2. Your_bff discovered happy tears.

I laughed until I started crying. Then I realized I was crying, and felt a little sad for a second. Then I realized I was crying because I was happy and was just like WOW! and became even more happy. Changed my life

3. false_name1229 was one with the furniture.

A little on the nervous side, I was pretty sure my head was going to float off like a balloon if I let go of it, so I spent the entire night with either my hand or someone else's pressing down on the top of my head. Luckily I had a 6'4 friend sitting next to me - never been so happily used as an arm rest before.

4. AAjax in the good old days. 

It was 1983 and I was at my friends party. His cousin had just come in from Hawaii with 2oz of real honest to god Maui Wowie. The dude sat down next to me and broke out (trippy guy, had hair past his ass and was wearing a 70's style skydiving jumpsuit including headgear, I don't think he spoke once) I partook and didn't leave the couch for the whole party. Ended up sleeping in a hammock strung up in a tree overlooking Los Angeles. Damn LA was beautiful that night.

5. oldbrownshoe08 took it to a Haiku level.

freshman year, college

mouth dry like sandpaper, ow

burger king so good

6. The Beatles: They're just like us! Except for the part about getting smoked out for the first time by Bob Dylan. 

7. barelycurious had a green plant better than mistletoe on Christmas Eve.

It was Christmas Day when I was 18 and my boyfrent (at the time) and I were staying at his parEnts' house, whom I had just met. He and I sat on the floor in his bathroom and he guided me into taking one VERY sufficient, large hit, while his parents partook in their own bathroom (apparently something of a ritual there). We reconvened shortly after in the living room and watched Harold and Maude. I remember nothing about the movie, but I know that I loved it. :D I was very giggly and squirmy, and while no one said anything out loud about "oh, you're so high" or anything to make me feel uncomfortable or self-conscious, there were a lot of knowing smiles and a wonderful sense of loving camraderie as everyone there knew that it was my first time. It was delightful.

8. djmarder put the *high* in high school musical.

So my brother came home from college. I am chilling in his room (he is 21, I'm 17) and I find this tin. The tin is full of cookies and brownies. Now, my mother is a nutritionist, so it would make sense that he would hide pastries like this.

So me, being the hungry teenager I am, ask my brother if I can have a brownie. Suprise suprise, he tells me they are pot brownies and don't eat one without thinking about it.

So, him being the great older brother he is, gives me a pot brownie to use at my own discretion. So what do I do? I take the brownie during intermission of my last production of our high school's musical.

So by the time we are doing our bows, I'm starting to feel it. Next thing I know, I am outside greeting the "fans" (read: parents) and talking to them. It is about halfway through a conversation with my grandmother that I realize that I am super fucking high.

The remainder of the night follows me through the cast party, which is weird because I am the only person there who is not sober.

tl;dr: I got high during a musical that I was in

9. meiwnicorn doesn't have a regular mom, but a Cool Mom.

I was sitting in the car with my Mum when she pulled out a joint. It was badass.

10. xxjet_lifexx lost words.

I was so high I forgot how to talk. The group of people I was with and they where all cracking up. I thought they where laughing at what I had said in my head when in reality they where laughing at the TV.

11. merlin_'s story is like an onion. It has layers (and tears).

Mine isn't that impressive, but I remember that I went to go to the bathroom and I am pretty sure when I peed, it was green. I was very disturbed because I thought I was turning into shrek. I started to ponder whether or not I was a human. When I came to the conclusion that I was not shrek, I thought it would be funny to turn to my friend and say, "Ogres are like onions..." And before I could finish the quote, I started laughing so hard that I cried and came to the realization that maybe I was just a human onion because I made myself cry.

12. jellomojorisin accidentally ended up in Marijuanaville.

The first time I got high, I didn't smoke. I was with my grandparents who got free tickets to a Jimmy Buffet concert in Tampa. There were so many people smoking that there was a cloud and at one point Jimmy was like "What's that I smell comin from the back?".

13. This cop made too much dessert with confiscated weed.

14. And let's not forget the grandmas.

Buckingham Palace blessed the loyal subjects of the British Commonwealth with a new portrait in honor of corgi mama Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday. Four generations of the British royal family—including the three men in waiting for the throne—sat for an adorable springtime Christmas card.

The monarchy will be featured by another borderline-obsolete institution: postage stamps!

While the picture itself is sufficiently interesting to merit a post, a brave Brit on Twitter raised the stakes and faceswapped the oldest and the youngest people in the picture.

Zooming in:

Perhaps George's face on the Queen's body is what Princess Charlotte is going to look like in 90 years.

A "men's rights" supporter apparently got a rude awakening when he posted a sexist meme on Facebook—only to get smacked down by his mom. It's a warning to all the countless sexist assholes who like to share their ideas on social media: mommy may be watching. The sexist post in question was apparently this (totally befuddling) image shared on the Facebook page "Meninist."

After the man posted this, his mother began commenting, according to now-deleted tweets from Twitter user Ghoulia, who said she saw the posts on her timeline:

"Your proctologist called he found your head" is a CLASSIC Facebook mom insult. Still, the whole exchange is so over-the-top that it's kind of hard to believe it actually happened, right? That's the Internet for you.

Human beings: magnificent beasts who not only sometimes act and smell like wild beasts, but they also look like their adopted beasts. “People look like their pets” is an old adage that is easy to argue against until you realize that Mr. Whiskers has the same charming and silly mug as you. Here are 15 people who realized their furry counterparts look exactly like them.

1. They like to take long walks and comb their long locks.

2. Yo dog, you look just like me, dude.

3. In Soviet Russia, you look like dog.

4. The bob hairdo is not only for humans.

5. It's all in their different colored eyes.

6. They have the same shock-white hair and suave demeanor.

7. If you ever need a reason to leave your frizzy hair untamed.

8. The pigtails and sunglasses make this woman look a lot like her pup.

9. These gingers have a lot of soul.

10. You can't have a pet chicken and not have its hairdo.

11. He totally looks like his weiner (the dog, not the other one).

12.  Which came first, this man's mustache, or his mustache cat?

13. Believe it or not, those are their resting faces.

14. Oh mai gahh, you kinda look like me. 

15. This evil cat lady and her evil tabby have the same sinister smile.

The crew of the TV nature show River Monsters had their own real-life adventure when they saved a man stranded on an island during a shoot off the coast of Australia. The potentially life-saving discovery was captured on camera as the crew, including host Jeremy Wade, filmed off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory in November. They were searching for a rare fish near the largely uninhabited island when they caught sight of the man on shore.

Wade described what they saw when approaching the island:

We saw this blue and white plastic cooler box sitting on some rocks. Somebody made the joke that maybe we're going to see Tom Hanks suddenly appear. And the next thing we knew there was a guy looking rather sort of wild and ragged staggering down the beach towards us.

Once they were able to get to shore and get him on the boat, he immediately began asking for water. The man, identified as a local fisherman named Termini, said he got lost after leaving his boat to look for oysters. He had been stuck on the island for nearly 60 hours, and was suffering from heat stroke and dehydration. He told the crew that he thought he might not make it, and was "ready to die."

Despite the brush with death, there were no reports of him encountering a giant smoke monster from LOST. And, unlike LOST, this had a good ending. The crew quickly got him medical attention, and he made a full recovery.

The first picture of Scarlett Johansson ​as Motoko Kusanagi in the new Ghost in the Shell movie was put online Thursday, and it might be the only time people were not happy to see a picture of Scarlett Johansson. 

Many are speaking out against the "whitewashing" of the role by casting Johansson as the main character in a Japanese narrative. The character Motoko Kusanagi is actually a cyborg, meaning that she is using a robotic body made to look like a human, and it is technically not noted in the original manga that the body she is in is actually Japanese. Many argue, however, that having a Japanese person would make the most sense and service the story best. Things were only made more tense when news surfaced that the film's producers considered using CGI to make ScarJo appear "more Asian." 

At a panel for Committee of 100, an organization of Chinese Americans, actresses Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) and Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) discussed their feelings on the controversy. According to BuzzFeed, Wu slammed those who suggested using CGI to alter Johansson's appearance, calling it "heinous," and going on to say that it "reduces our race and our ethnicity down to mere physical appearance. And as well all know, our ethnicity, our races, and our culture are so much deeper than how we friggin’ look."

She elaborated on Twitter.

Wen also commented on her Twitter page. 

Jon Tsuei, creator of the comic book RUNLOVEKILL, also commented. He argued that casting a Caucasian woman results in "a removal of the story from its core themes."

The film's screenwriter, Max Landis, made a video explaining the logic of casting Scarlett Johansson and uploaded it to YouTube. The video is called "If You're Mad About Ghost In The Shell You Don't Know How The Movie Industry Works." 

Most recently, Kodansha, the original publisher of the Ghost in the Shell manga, says that they support the studio's decision to put Johansson in the role. Sam Yoshiba, director of the international business division at Kodansha's Tokyo headquarters told The Hollywood Reporter  that "we never imagined it would be a Japanese actress in the first place."

If you thought the assistant manager at your job was intense, you've never met Sylvia in Electronics. YouTuber CanadianChestHair is in the running for "worst fake employee of the month" after he called Sylvia to request a sick day for a job he didn't have. His reason? So he could go fishing with the boys. Sylvia, who obviously doesn't learn her employee's names (or voices), grew furious at her fictional worker drone and threatened him with first-level written disciplines if he didn't show up for a shift he didn't have the next day.

You can practically hear Sylvia's veins popping as she puts up with this slacker of a fake employee who drops lines like, "I don't want to give up the job because it's good bread for me, right?"

If Sylvia knew the names of her own employees as well as she knew the company's policy on sick days, she'd probably have become regional manager by now.

Some celebrities are famous for smoking weed. Miley Cyrus, Seth Rogen, Woody Harrelson… you can basically smell the smoke coming from your TV every time they appear on screen. But some other famous faces from the world stage are more subtle about their love for the herb. Here are celebrities from today and yesteryear you never realized are frequently baked out of their minds:

1. Jennifer Aniston

PEOPLE's Most Beautiful Woman for 2016 maintains her youthful grace and charm with the occasional use of cannabis. She told Rolling Stone, "I enjoy it once in a while. There's nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation." She even sounds like Rachel when she talks about weed.

2. Carl Sagan

Millennials may not remember the late astronomer Carl Sagan, but he was basically Neil deGrasse Tyson back when Dr. Tyson was in diapers (they both hosted versions of Cosmos, for example). Unlike Tyson, who just tweets stuff that makes it sound like he's stoned, Sagan actually walked the walk as a lifelong pot enthusiast.

In 1969, he published an essay praising the drug and how it enhanced his appreciation for art, music, and even sex (TMI, Carl). He looked forward to a future where marijuana was legalized, and could be used by chemotherapy patients to control their nausea, as well as other medicinal and recreational applications.

Also, this is the guy who wrote Contact, so obviously he was a huge stoner. Even the title is a huge giveaway.

3. Stephen Colbert

In an interview, the Late Show host said that he "smoked a lot of pot" in high school as a way to make friends. It's an interesting revelation for Colbert, whose image (beyond the blustery conservative character he played on Comedy Central) is pretty wholesome. He's a devout Catholic and a Sunday school teacher.

Although he didn't indicate whether he still smokes (which would be surprising, considering how much energy he has on screen), he clearly supports legalizing marijuana—based on the grilling he gave John Kasich about the issue on his show. He harshed Kasich's narc buzz real fast.

4. Maya Angelou

A biography of the beloved American poet claimed that she spent her early days as a waitress "smoking pot with abandon." Which explains lines like these:

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
​so he opens his throat to sing.

Trippy shit, Maya. Does anyone know what strain she was smoking?

5. Rodney Dangerfield

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield is best remembered for his self-deprecating one-liners about how he got no respect. But there's one group of people who always respected him: weed dealers. Because he gave them a lot of business.

In 2006, Dangerfield's widow Joan gave a talk in which she explained that Rodney used marijuana to treat his anxiety, which stemmed from a childhood of neglect and trauma. (It wasn't just an act!) He smoked regularly from the age of 21 till his death at 82. Originally, he wanted to title his autobiography My Lifelong Romance with Marijuana. Unfortunately, his publisher dissuaded him, because they didn't respect him either.

6. Steve Jobs

Today, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is seen as a god by the tech industry, business students, and anyone else who wants to make money. But that out-of-the-box thinking that everyone loves him for was made possible by plenty of psychoactive drugs. When his Pentagon files were released after his death, longstanding rumors of his drug use were confirmed.

Apparently, Jobs admitted to smoking marijuana and hashish during the 1970s, and also consumed LSD ten to fifteen times (he even reportedly distrusted people who hadn't done LSD). He credited both with helping his creativity, and even once said that, "doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." And this is the guy responsible for the iPhone.

7. Martha Stewart

When she was asked in an interview if she knew how to roll a joint, America's domestic queen responded, "Of course I know how to roll a joint." She also told a story about passing an ice cream truck in her car, seeing two people smoking joints, and saying, "Boy, those are sloppy joints." Because even when it comes to reefer, Martha Stewart's craftsmanship standards are ridiculously high.

Honestly, nobody should be surprised that she has this edgy side. The woman is an ex-con.

8. Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman, a man with more gravitas in one freckle than most actors have in their whole being, feels no need to pretend. He's been open for years about his love of weed, which he calls "God's own herb." And he would know, because he's played God twice. In a 2003 interview, after he had announced he had given up hard drugs, he was asked if he still smokes ganja. "Never give up the ganja," he replied.

9. Oliver Stone

The legendary director of JFK, Platoon, and Born of the Fourth of July is known for tackling controversial subjects head-on. So it's no surprise that he'd smoke a little herb to take the edge off (and live up to his name). In 1999, he was arrested in a traffic stop for drunk driving, during which police found hashish in his car. It was a troubled time for Stone, culminating in the release of Alexander in 2004.

10. Barack Obama

This may be less surprising than the other names on this list—President Obama's past marijuana use was used against him in the 2008 election. But it didn't work, because back then, he made everything look cool. (Also, his predecessor George W. Bush was known to have smoked and done cocaine.)

In high school, a young Barry O was part of a circle of friends called the "Choom Gang" who had one thing in common: getting blazed. And although he's much less hip these days, and has never come out in favor of legalization (that's coming on day 1 of his retirement), he doesn't hide his past. In 2006, when he was asked if he had, like Bill Clinton, smoked but "not inhaled," he responded:

When I was a kid, I inhaled… frequently. That was the point.

How do you out-cool Bill Clinton? By (correctly) smoking pot, obviously.

When it comes to our celebrity overlords—those famous people who control our lives by setting trends and making both news and "news"—John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are some of our most benevolent dictators. Unlike stingy Justin Timberlake and Jessica Alba, Legend and Teigen started posting photos of their new baby Luna almost immediately after her birth on Sunday. On Tuesday, Teigen posted her first photo of the little moon-named baby, and on Wednesday, proud dad Legend got in on the action:

Now you can comfortably call this baby cute. For comparison, here's Teigen's photo from the day before. Many people were calling Teigen and Legend's baby cute after seeing this first image, but can you really call a baby "cute" when all you can see is a leg, an arm, some torso, and the back of its head? No. For all the Internet knew after seeing this first photo, the baby's face could have been a literal pile of potato chips.

Praise be to our celebri-deities Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. May they continue to bless us with adorable baby photos and their almost-sickeningly-sweet love for each other.

The Treasury Department announced that abolitionist, suffragette, humanitarian and all-around badass Harriet Tubman will be replacing the genocidal (but remarkably coiffed) Andrew Jackson on the twenty dollar bill. The runaway success of the Alexander Hamilton musical Hamilton saved the first Treasury Secretary's status as the ten dollar founding father, showing that Broadway can influence money, and not just the other way around. Here's how Twitter is reacting to this big news:

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People tell little lies all the time, because human beings get embarrassed and confused easily. Most of the time, these largely white lies fall into the abyss and are never recalled. However, in this case of these 23 tales of deceit culled from a fewdifferentRedditthreads, these lies sometimes spiral out of control and last for much longer than initially planned—as in years. 

1. Every once in a while there comes along a cupcake you must eat. Robotnixon encountered a cupcake like this at a young age.

In the second grade a kid brought in cupcakes for his birthday. For 30 kids he had 25 chocolate and 5 vanilla, in case someone didn't like chocolate. I REALLY wanted a vanilla cupcake, so for some reason raised my hand and let the class know that I was allergic to chocolate.

This was apparently a really big deal to the kids in the class, and by recess it had spread through the school. For the next few days I was repeatedly asked if I was really allergic to chocolate, and I kept the lie going.

I never relented. I was the kid who was allergic to chocolate. Everyone knew that. Subsequent birthdays included chocolate free desserts for me. The school nurse had me on an allergy list. A note was sent home for the next few years alerting parents of the issue. I obviously never took mine home, and somehow this never got back to my parents.

I kept the lie going until I was 22. At that point I'd pretty much lost contact with everyone I'd gone to school with.

Tl;dr Wanted a vanilla cupcake so I gave up chocolate for 15 years.

2. Andersonenvy did not have a knack for singing.

My parents wanted me to be in "an activity" in high school.

I pretended to be in choir from 9th grade - 12th grade. I even had a choir robe (given to me) that I would dress up in, and actually leave the house whenever there was a choir performance - just finding someplace to hide, usually in an alleyway near my school.

One day, my mom came to see the choir perform. After the show, she said she didn't see me up there singing, but, I swore I was up there, she probably just didn't look hard enough. I also told her my name wasn't in the program because of a misprint. I still can't believe she bought that.

I did end up getting busted though, just before I graduated during a parent-teacher conference. My parents were not happy. They were so angry, that they said they wouldn't even punish me - as this behavior went beyond punishment - and I'd just have to live my life knowing how much I'd let them down. It worked, because, obviously I've never forgotten it.

3. Not all lies are bad: suitology's lie resulted in a useful skill.

friend of mine pretended to be left handed to switch his seat in class so he could sit next to this "cute thin blonde girl that smells like strawberries" that was actually left handed. He learned to write left handed and even switched hands for sports. he did this from 9th grade until we graduated. They are still going and he is ambidextrous now.

4. Erkinse is technically honest when he tells his girlfriend this now.

When I met my girlfriend I told her I smoked, because I thought it'd make me look cooler, (Yes I know it's a fucking dumb thing to say) and that I would stop if she didn't like it. Three and a half years later and she still thinks I quit for her. I feel like such shit whenever the topic comes up and she tells me how proud she is of me but it's gone on for so long I just gotta smile and say "It was nothing".

5. Qwertysac is a loving father.

I got married 4 years ago. There's this guy at work who's one of THOSE people. The type that keep asking you when you are planning on having a baby once you're married.

Since we didn't really have much in common and he heard i got married, that's the only thing he could come up with to start a conversation. It was just water cooler banter.

I kept telling him "when the time is right"... but he still kept asking me every time i ran into him.

"So, any kids on the way?"

"Hey, expecting any time soon?"

"Any plans on having a baby?"

I got sick of it. One day i just told him "yes, she's pregnant, we're having a boy.".. I figured it would shut him up.

I was so wrong. Jacob is 2 years old now, he started teething, he's said his first word, he keeps us up at night and... he doesn't fucking exist.

I've told my wife about this and she's thinks i'm an idiot. At this point, there's no looking back.

6. CockMeatSandwich got drunk with co-workers, which was a mistake.

I am red green colorblind. One Friday night, a bunch of co-workers and I went out to happy hour at a bar nearby. Everyone was pretty buzzed/drunk at the time and I mentioned that I am colorblind. Most people think there is only one kind of colorblindness, when You mention that you are colorblind, they automatically assume that you only see in gray-scale. This was the case this time around as well. Being a little drunk at the time, I didn't correct them because they were having such a happy time making jokes and stuff, I didn't want to burst their bubble and ruin the mood.

Its been a few months now and people here around work still believe that I am totally colorblind. I'm in way too deep now and I have to keep this charade going. There's been times when I almost said something like "That blue taco truck is outside our office again" before catching myself, in order not to expose myself.

7. Heightening the truth for co-workers is one thing. Appropriating a famous origin story, like Thatrandomguy007 did, is on a whole other level.

Ever since 7th grade, all of my closest friends have believed that I'm color blind. None of them know to this day, which is surprising, since my story detailing why I was suddenly became color blind was pretty much Daredevil's origin story.

8. ​This dude got his appendix out. He wasn't in it for the ice cream. 

When I was about 14, I was on a beach with my Grandmother, brother and 2 sisters. A woman nearby us took her bikini top off, and my teenage mind exploded with hormonal lust. As a result I had to lie face down on the sand to hide my obvious excitement from my family.

Usually I would go swimming (love the sea) and my Grandmother asked why I wasn't going in the water. I lied and said that I had a pain in my side and this was the only way I could stay comfortable. This went on for long enough that she took me to the doctor the next day. I maintained the lie and as he poked and prodded my abdomen I went 'ow' and 'ouch' at random intervals to reinforce my story (hardly wanting to admit that my first sight of a topless woman had given me a hardon the likes of which I'd never experienced before.)

The doctor pronounced that I might have appendicitis, and to cut a long story short I ended up having an operation to remove it. 3 days in hospital and a long scar (this was in the early 80s, no keyhole surgery was available for the appendix at that time).

At least I know I'll never get appendicitis, but hell, that was a long and painful experience just for getting aroused at the sight of an adult woman's tits :-)

TL;DR: Got horny on the beach, lied to my Grandmother, got my appendix taken out. Would do again.

9. ​This person falsely avoided danger, all for the glory of seeing a cute dog.

When I was about 8, my little brother saw a husky dog and was talking about it non-stop all dinner time. I was so pissed that he saw this awesome dog that I piped up with "I saw one too! A man stopped his car when I was walking home with Jordi and he had a husky in the back of his car and he asked if we wanted to pat it. We didn't pat it, but we saw it, so I saw a cool dog too!"

My mom was immediately on the phone with Jordi's mom (who obviously knew nothing about this) but since there was an incidence of a guy a few towns over abducting a child, the parents went into momma-bear mode. The cops came to my house and asked me for a description of the guy and the car, and I was so terrified they were going to take me to prison that I stuck with this story to the bitter end. I described the car, the guy, and the dog in absolutely (entirely made up) vivid detail. The neighborhood had signs up on all the telephone poles, the elementary school organized car pools and attendance lists so no child was unaccounted for. This went on for weeks.

The panic slowly petered out, but the story stuck and every time my family would get together for years to come, the story about how glad my parents were that I had such a great memory for detail and how it was so good that Jordi and I never got into a car with strangers. I still haven't come clean.

tl;dr: I just wanted my brother to stop bragging about that fucking husky dog.

10. PSA: Ian is OK. He's living with the liar of this tale, Phallics. 

I guess this counts as out of control.

After 5th grade, my friend Ian (who was in 4th grade) moved away to a different city. The next year when school started again, the kids in his grade realized that he wasn't around.

One day I ran into someone in his grade and they asked what happened to Ian. For some reason, my automatic resopnse was just, "He died i a horrible car crash." The kid was in awe. I assumed he was just mad that I gave him a douchey answer, so I didn't think anything of it when he just walked away.

Nothing really came of the situation immediately, but a couple years later I had someone else in that grade ask me about my friend. I told them that I just talked to him the other night and he was doing great. The guy just stood there dumbfounded. "I'm talking about Ian. The one that died in a car accident." he said as if I was a monster for forgetting about my best friend. I had no idea what he was talking about. He explained that I told someone that and now everyone in his grade thinks hes dead. Suddenly I realized what happened and explained that I was lying. He realized that even if he told everyone that Ian is alive, no one would believe him, so we kept it a secret.

Flash forward to late High School when Ian came to visit. He wasn't the kind of person who aged unrecognizably. We were at the park or something like that and we ran into someone he knew back in the day. After talking to the guy for a while, he told my friend he looked really familliar. Ian introduced himself and explained that he went to grade school with him. You could see the gears turning in the guys head, when suddenly it clicked. Instead of the excitement that Ian was expecting, he was met with the blankest of stares. At that point I had to explain to both of them what happened. Both agreed that the situation was amazing, and the guy invited us to a party that night.

The party was about the same. Conversation, confrontation about his familliarity, hilarious reaction. Laughter, anger, and a few tears were pretty common among the few people there that knew him.

Now, in our 20's, we're roommates. We live in a city near our old town so occasionally he gets these reactions from people he knew back when he was 10.

11. Orangesunshine has a very proud mother.

When I was in high school ... I smoked a lot of weed.

I figured out that since it was a plant, I might be able to save some money by growing it myself.

... so when I understood my parents to be away for a couple days. I skipped school with another delinquent friend of mine to build a grow box.

We go to home depot, get about half-way done .. and my dad pulls into the drive-way with our very large wooden box with aluminum foil on the sides in plain view.

We explain it's a science project "to maximize the amount of light" or something ... and he proceeds to help us finish it.

Fast forward 2 days, and my mom comes home ... and my dad proceeds to tell her about the science project.

Fast forward 1-week later ... and my mom has bragged to pretty much everyone she knows about how her genius son took the day off from school to work on a science project.

Fast forward to now -- and she still tells the story every so often.

12. Smellyjobbies brought back the dead with his creative story.

This was a few years ago when I was working on newly built LNG (Gas) Carriers. During the morning 12-4 Bridge watch I somehow ended up chatting about ghosts and things with the Filipino watch keeper. In the course of this conversation he mentioned that some of the guys onboard had noticed some strange happenings suggesting the vessel we are on was in some way haunted.

I don't know why I did this but I decided there was a chance for some lolz so totally deadpan I told him that during the construction of the accommodation (I was in the shipyard during the latter stages of construction which gave me more credibility here) a section of the accommodation block collapsed killing 3 Korean shipyard workers, and that this happened around C-Deck which is of course the deck all the crew stay on.

Welp the fuse was lit. The Watch keeper passed on this information to the rest of the crew - all Filipino and superstitious. Within the week ghost sightings were happening daily and most of the crew had opted to buddy up and sleep in each others cabins to avoid being alone at night. 1 particular cabin had been earmarked as the most haunted so the crew stopped staying in the adjacent cabins.

I was starting to get concerned by this situation. Fuck, even I was getting scared of the bloody ghosts and I was the one that made them up.

Things rapidly got out of hand. I couldn't backtrack from the lie or the crew would kill me, yet some crew members had started grumbling about wanting to sign off to avoid the ghosts which would have serious ramifications for their careers. I was stuck in a tough spot.

Luckily the Chief Cook fancied himself as a pastor. He carried out a full exorcism of the vessel and overnight the problem vanished. This was a week before we were due in Port. Massive buggering relief. I've since left that particular company but it is my understanding that some choice pages from the Bible have been stashed in the deck head plating of one particular cabin to continuously ward off the restless spirits of the those none existent dead Koreans.

TL:DR lied about a ship being haunted and things escalated. Luckily Jesus saved me when a Chief Cook moonlighted as a pastor and carried out an exorcism of the ship.

13. PenguinioPascala's friend is really the one who's been tricked—he doesn't realize other hairdressers exist. 

15. When will this person win their bet?

I once convinced an acquaintance I'm from Glasgow for a bet, and now everytime I see her I have to affect the accent, even around my friends/family although they already know the situation. I'm not from Glasgow. 

16. Lalalala11 has a diploma, so there's a little bit of truth here.

I failed my MSc (Master of Science) - I really shouldn't have done that particular subject and ended up getting a postgraduate diploma.

I lied and got a job saying I have the masters degree. After we changed which group we belonged to at work my new manager brought me into his office and asked me if I have a masters degree (I assumed I was going to be fired) after he said that I was on the wrong pay grade and then proceeded to tell HR to give me more money. I got a 17% pay rise. For the months between him speaking to me and getting my pay rise my heart sank every time he looked mad at his computer (which he regularly does).

I felt bad because he was a really good manager.

17. Is this still a lie or is Want_Bourbon simply a jerk?

I told a girl I was dating that I was getting deployed because I was too big of a wuss to tell her that she was fucking weird and possessive. Two months later I actually did get deployed :/. 

18. D1g1talB0y is religious, when it suits him.

I hate pork, so much so when ordering things like ribs, I would ask the wait person if they were beef or pork ribs. This usually resulted in a long delay as they went & checked, much to the dismay of the individuals I happen to be eating with. I got tired of explaining it, so I would just say: "I'm Muslim." Nobody ever pressed the issue, and friend still refer to me as their Muslim friend, and censor themselves in regard to racially or religiously indelicate humor. I am a white Atheist. Edit: Spelling

19. Poor Penny-lane21 got the hopes of his whole school up for nothing.

My sarcasm ended up disappointing my entire school when I was in the 12th grade.

There was an assembly that day and it was around the time that Wavin' Flag by K'naan was released and a pretty big song. There was supposed to be an assembly surrounding it, so I was talking in one of my classes and as a joke said "K'naan is apparently making an appearance", which wasn't exactly far fetched because my school is in Toronto, where he lived. By the end of lunch, everyone was talking about how they were actually pumped for this assembly cause K'naan would be there. Kids were running all over the place telling their friends and there was even some kids from another high school that found out and came over and tried to get into the assembly.

NO assembly in my 4 years there was ever this packed. Every seat was taken, the walls were lined and people all had their phones and cameras ready. By the end of the assembly, Wavin' Flag started to play and everyone was erupting with excitement...only to have the student council take the stage, hold hands and sing it while swaying in a camp circle game formation.

Needless to say everyone left confused and disappointed, wondering how this rumour started. I refuse to take responsibility for it publicly, but it's fucking hilarious every time it comes up.

20. JustAnOod bonded with a "brother" through his lie.

My best friend in elementary school had my same birthday, so he and I told everyone we were twins adopted to different families after our parents died in a car crash when we were babies. I was about ten when we started this idiotic (and hurtful, really) rumor, and even my parents went along with it (probably out of apathy). It was freshman year of high school when we finally told everyone it was a lie. People were pissed, and it was probably in bad taste, but I'm sort of proud of its longevity.

21. Ans933 is proof that your college major doesn't matter—so long as you're willing to lie about what it was.

I graduated with an English degree and was trying to find a job out where my (now) husband planned on going to graduate school. I promised him I wouldn't follow after him unless I had a job. I applied to anything and everything with no luck, and was running out of time before he moved. So I thought fuck it! I changed my résumé up and said I was a business major instead of an English major. Got a job a couple weeks later, which enabled me to move with him.

I then combined my fake business degree with my job experience for an even better job several months later. I did this a couple times more until applying for my current job. By that point, my experience mattered more than my degree and nobody cared.

TLDR: Use the skills of your crappy English degree to create a more hireable you. Apparently nobody checks that shit.

22. This person is probably related to Ferris Bueller. 

First day of High School we had a tour of the building, and went thru the hallway near the gymnasium. I noticed there was a pay phone on the wall, and I took down the number. I listed the pay phone number as my home telephone number.

I would go to the nurse's office, pretend to be sick, and they would call my Mom, who was in fact my best friend who would answer the pay phone and tell them to release me and she would pick me up in the car outside in the parking lot. Then I was gone for the day!

It took someone 3 years to notice it was not my home number.

23. thehucklebuckster might win for the most difficult lie to uphold.

Met cute girl at a party, who told me she was vegetarian. I said "me too!". 12 years later we've been married for years, and I still sneak forbidden animal snacks several times a week. 

How does one conceal a dire craving for hamburger over and over again?

It's Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday on Thursday (aren't you bummed she missed out on having a 4/20 birthday?), and to celebrate, Mashable made this puzzle that asks you to find the monarch within a crowd of corgis, her favorite dog. It's reminiscent of that panda puzzle that went viral last year, only newsier!

On her birthday, the queen will become the only British monarch to reach 90. And she's still sharp enough that she can probably solve this puzzle.