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Compulsive Liars
I knew a guy in law school who claimed to have been one of the guys who parachuted into Grenada at 2 am to begin the invasion. He also may or may not have been CIA. No one could figure out if he was telling the truth about anything.
All we knew for sure was that he never attended class, but always did really well on exams. He ended up having to stay an extra year because he hadn't spent enough time in class to qualify under ABA regs. Or so he said. At least, he went to class a whole lot more often during that fourth year (my third year). He summered and started at pretty prestigious firms, but I think never managed to take the bar or something like that. I have no idea what happened to him; Martindale doesn't have him listed, and his name (assuming it is, actually, his name) is common enough that Google isn't much help.
He also had hair plugs, which may be indicative of something in the honesty department.
There was also a guy one of my first-year roommates was dating, a holdover from college. He claimed to be really wealthy, but turned out not to be anything of the sort, and also not to have been a student at her university after all. For me the gig was up when he brought over a batch of tiramisu supposedly made by his family's cook, but very obviously purchased from a deli--I mean, what rich family with servants keeps disposable aluminum pans around to send treats to their son's girlfriend?
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