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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This is a board full of lawyers, hon. The only people here who can do this without setting off alarm bells in a four-block radius are you and me. All others are better advised to just go on the attack ASAP, and plausibly maintain the outrage until the audience loses all interest or desire to perpetuate the conversation.
This is brilliant. Also, if someone asks for a detail on which you didn't prepare, say, "Dunno; I didn't notice"* and keep going. At a point of calmer introspection, you can decide whether it will sound more implausible for you to suddenly remember and fill in the gap.
Also, don't smile unless its contextually appropriate to the lie. Liars often smile in a manner that doesn't crease their brow, because it's fake. People who say they can catch a liar's eyes are only partially right --- it has to do with facial muscles. When trying to spot a lie, watch what the liar does immediately after delivering a whopper. Usually their hand will fly up to their neck, ear, or cheek in some primordial defensive reaction, but it doesn't necessarily occur while the lie passes their lips --- it's more in response to what how the other person responds.
*Or, if you're Sebby, "Beats the fuck out of me, dude."
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As I tell every client before a dep, the three greaatest words in the English language, next to "I don't recall" are "I don't know."
No one, and I mean, no one, EVER gets me to commit to anything in writing. People send me "recap" letters all the time and I routinely write back "I diagree with your characterization of the conversation, but I'm not going to play revisionist historian here. Act accordingly." Know nothing until you need to know someonthing - and when that time comes, be very prepared and know it all.
No one can ever accuse you of lying if you never know anything.
