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Stupid Family Tricks
My brother has a tendency to embellish stories, and even to just make shit up. And he gets very defensive and nasty if you call him on it. It can be pretty funny, in a I'm-so-glad-I'm-not-him way.
This tendency reaches its worst when he retells an old joke as if it's a story that actually happened to him. He's told me stories supposedly based on personal experience that appear on UrbanLegends dot com. He's told me old jokes -- I mean, jokes that were old when I heard them in college -- as if they were true stories that happened to him (with him delivering the clever punchline).
This happened the other day on a phone call. It is really bizarre, and I don't know why he does this, or why he thinks anyone would believe him, or how to respond. I'm considering responding with an equally ridiculous story -- something like "The other day I was in a bar and a piece of string walked in." Maybe that one is too obvious.
Advice? Jokes to suggest? Something involving a doctor, a lawyer, and a rabbi perhaps?
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