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== Real Life ==

{{quote|With Ali G, the interview requests come from a fake British production company (United World Productions). And until just before the cameras roll, the interviewee is under the impression that the clean-cut, well-dressed director is going to do the interview and the baggy-clothed, wraparound-shades-wearing character carrying equipment is just part of the crew.}}

* According to Arrianus, this happened to [[Alexander the Great]], as he met with Darius's daughter Strateira, who began to address Alexander's companion Hephaistion as Alexander. One of her subordinates corrected her. It seems they were [[Expecting Someone Taller]]. (Don't feel too bad, though; [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|he too is Alexander]].)

* When future Boise State University starting quarterback Kellen Moore first visited the school, BSU's Coach Peterson initially thought his younger but larger brother Kirby was the quarterback. Now Kirby is a wide receiver for BSU.

* Around 500BC, the Etruscan King Porsena besieged Rome. Gaius Mucius snuck out of the city to assassinate Porsena while he was paying his soldiers. There was one problem: he had no idea what the king looked like and there were ''two'' men in fancy clothes handing out the money. Asking which one was the king would have exposed him as a foreigner, so Mucius took a guess and stabbed one at random. It turned out to be Porsena's secretary. The king sentenced him to be [[Kill It with Fire|burned to death]], but Mucius made a [[Badass Boast]] and stuck his right hand into the fire, earning himself the name Scaevola ("Lefty") and inspiring the king to let him go.

* When a new accountant entered Standard Oil he told one of the lowly workers to move an exercise machine from his office. He was talking to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026061313/http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2008-summer/standard-oil-company.asp John Davison Rockefeller].

* Sir James Murray, compiler of the first edition of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], made use of volunteer contributors. His most prolific contributor was one Doctor W.C. Minor. After several years of correspondence Murray finally finagled an in-person meeting with Minor, coming out to the hospital that Minor listed as his residence. It turned out that Minor was not a doctor at this establishment, but a ''patient'': he'd been institutionalized for years after killing a man. Murray's first meeting with Minor played out almost exactly like this trope: he was greeted by a doctor and a patient in the lobby of the asylum, and introduced himself to the doctor, thinking it was Minor.

 

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