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These are definitely not examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]].
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{{quote|'''Sergeant Colon''': Lance-Constable Coalface! Lance-Constable Bauxite! Apprehend Acting-Constable Detritus!▼
'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': ''*salutes*'' Permission for leave to attend grandmother's funeral, sir?▼
'''Sergeant Colon''': Why?▼
'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': It her or me, sarge. }}▼
== Other works ==
* In ''[[Duumvirate]]'', Sarah raids and kills a pervert, then "found" a will on his hard drive that everything he owned was to go to her son. More a [[Take That]] than a lie meant to be believed.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, the Dursleys claim Harry has gone to "St Brutus' Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys" to their fellow Muggle neighbors to explain his long absences at Hogwarts. Aunt Marge approves, and asks whether they still use the cane.
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* In the classic novel ''[[Gladiator (novel)|Gladiator]]'', when his Army superiors ask for an explanation of his superhuman powers, Hugo Danner does ''NOT'' speak of his father's medical experiments. Instead, he simply says, "I'm from Montana."
* Because most of the people in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' are [[Sunnydale Syndrome|deeply in denial]], large amounts of crap can be made up without anyone noticing. For example, a magical diagram to redirect a curse onto its originator is "Feng Shui", and Murphy once suggested calling in Homeland Security on the Denarians' demon-possessed asses by saying they're "terrorists with advanced biotechnology suits." However, this also gets [[Double Subverted]] in "Turn Coat" when a security guard insists on taking Harry's staff, which he says is "traditional Ozark folk art": not because he knows that the staff covered in mystic runes has, in the past, been used to blast a rampaging hell-werewolf all the way through two buildings, but because he thinks Harry could smack someone with it. Of course, Harry has been known to do just that at times.
▲* [[Discworld]]:
▲** In ''[[Making Money]]'', Moist asks why Mrs. Lavish keeps two loaded crossbows on her desk. The answer is "family heirlooms". He notes that a lie so blatant is clearly meant to make a statement rather than be believed.
▲*** Considering the rest of her family, it's more of a [[Jedi Truth]]. If any of her family tries anything funny, the crossbow bolts will be heirlooms, after they've been...''forcibly gifted'' upon the family member in question.
▲** In ''[[Thud!]]'', a fight nearly breaks out between a troll and a dwarf officer. Commander Vimes enters the room to find a table overturned, and the potential combatants being restrained by their fellow officers. He asks who's going to be the first to "tell me a huge whopper". Nobby Nobbs obliges by offering up an utterly preposterous explanation about how the dwarf almost drank some (dangerously chemical) troll coffee, and the others rushed to stop him. Vimes pretends to buy it, and the others pretend to believe that he buys it. Much of what Nobby Nobbs does involves this trope. He has been seen using the excuse that his "granny died" in order to get out of work. When directly asked by Colon, he says that this is about the twentieth one it happened to. Watchmen seem to be expected to have that particular excuse, having been given three afternoons off for grandmother's funerals a year.
▲*** The "grandmother's funeral" excuse comes up again when two troll constables are given an order to apprehend another troll, Acting-Constable Detritus. This exchange promptly occurs (which showcases genius-level thinking, for a troll):
▲{{quote|'''Sergeant Colon''': Lance-Constable Coalface! Lance-Constable Bauxite! Apprehend Acting-Constable Detritus!
▲'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': ''*salutes*'' Permission for leave to attend grandmother's funeral, sir?
▲'''Sergeant Colon''': Why?
▲'''Lance-Constable Bauxite''': It her or me, sarge. }}
▲** ''Feet of Clay'' also be Terry Pratchett has Vimes and Detritus discussing who possibly could have threatened Coalface's drug smuggler while a new applicant looks on in disbelief as Detritus's assurances that none of HIS trolls would ever do such a thing (and yet he knew who was threatened and why) are accepted.
▲*** This is also a case of [[Jedi Truth]] since none of Detritus' trolls actually did the deed. It was Detritus himself.
▲** ''Monstrous Regiment''. Roughly every other spoken line.
* ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'' shows that it's possible to appear out of thin air, claim you're looking for the pottery club, and let everyone's [[Weirdness Censor]] do the rest.
** Earlier, Johnny notes that the phrase "We're doing a school paper" seems to grant you all sorts of access, and that Hitler could probably have conquered all of Europe by claiming it was school research.
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