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Sometimes I'll play a little Beyond Belief with people when I come up with a really plausible line of bullshit and wanna see if it works. Like one time I told a pal at work that lentils got their name because back in mideval times when Lent was much stricter the foods one could eat during Lent included lentils and they tended to be a staple during that time and gained the name. I totally made it up and admitted it immediately, I'm not really tricking that person specifically, just about anyone could fall for that. I've made up a massive elaborate backstory for a guy I've been working with on the same schedule for like 3 years cause he's incredibly normal so it's really funny to say he was on an episode of nanny 911 as a kid that was pulled from the air half way through and never seen again. Or that he believed for a bit as a teen that he could escape from any man made prison. Like Chuck Norris jokes but way weirder like him trying to join a cult but the cultists saying he was a bad fit for the group. Pranks are usually dumb but I've got got a couple times in ways I had to respect. This was at another job where there was a juice bar up front and wait staff would sometimes offer us some juices when it's hot and we're too busy to ask and it ruled. Anyway my homie offered me a lemonade and this absolutely genius filled a shot glass with hot sauce, wrapped it in plastic and then poked the straw through so the sauce stayed sealed in and the placed that inside the larger glass of lemonade so it looked totally normal. I got got good and the engineering and thought that went into that is worth a mouthful of hot sauce. That's how to do a prank well and the opportunity and inspiration for that is super rare and can't be forced.

I think it's okay to mess with people if you're trying to make them laugh, but also most people are really bad at it. It's something you should be doing with someone and not to them, if they don't know that from time to time you're gonna feed them a line of bullshit for funsies and are having a good time trying to spot it then it's not for funsies. These are also generally co-workers, so people I'm killing time with and I make sure there's already some comedic relationship established that works that way. When you're in a kitchen making food all day, it's nice to riff.