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* Numerous stories on [[Not Always Right]] have a scammer or angry customer impersonate a lawyer or someone with knowledge of law. Only to have a customer behind them step forward and reveal they are a lawyer as well, then disprove the customer. Which leads to the customer fleeing the store in shame. Another common variant is for the customer to angrily claim to be a friend of the owner, only for it to be revealed that they are actually ''speaking'' to the owner -- who has, of course, never seen them before.
** Several examples have had the employee/sane customer ''also'' lying about being the owner/lawyer, but successfully scaring away the troublemaker
* Stanley Johnson, [[Like Father, Like Son|father]] of British politician [[Upperclass Twit|Boris]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Johnson]], used to be a spy. Supposedly, the first time he tried out his cover story -- that he was working in the Foreign Office as the desk officer for the Sudan -- it was at the Foreign Office, to the actual desk officer for the Sudan.
** [[Too Dumb to Live|Runs in the family, then.]] Or...[[Obfuscating Stupidity|does it run in the family, rather, what?]]
*** In complete fairness, constructing the cover story would have been his superiors' responsibility.
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