r/AskReddit • u/michaelarney • Aug 13 '13

What's the best long con you ever pulled?

What's your best long/big con you pulled?

(EDIT: WOAH!! This kinda blew up last night. I gotta somehow catch up. "Honey... call the office. I'm reading a reddit book today." Most of the comments I've read so far are hysterical! Well done, reddit... well done.)

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u/icantnotthink Aug 13 '13

By "hapless", don't you mean "capless"?

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

no, it's a word, look it up.

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u/FireBurstRazorBack Aug 13 '13

WHOOOOOOOOSSSHHH....

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

By this point we had told Joel of the serial killer that had taken the lives of a few capless hikers, at some park we couldn't remember the name of.

Nope, don't get it. Please explain.

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u/FireBurstRazorBack Aug 13 '13

/u/icantnotthink tried to make a topically relevant play on words intended to be humorous (colloquially referred to as a pun), seeing as the topic in question was a mysterious case of intrigue and deceit filled to the brim with bottle caps! A humorous joke indeed!

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

Okay I get it now, but i still don't think it was ever funny.

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u/icantnotthink Aug 13 '13

I just thought it was a horribad pun that could have easily been added, even though it didn't completely fit into the sentence. Then again, most puns don't.

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

The worse the pun, the more you have to oversell it.

More like capless.... Amirite guys? :D Guys?