The Cake Is a Lie: Difference between revisions

* Jack Thompson promised 10,000 dollars to a charity of [[Take Two Interactive]] chairman Paul Eibeler's choice if anyone would make a certain video game, then failed to deliver when the game wasn't made once, but multiple times even. Read more on the page about him. [[Penny Arcade]] made the donation when he revealed he wouldn't, with the check note saying "Because Jack Thompson wouldn't." Jack Thompson tried to force them to rescind the check, making him try to keep the cake a lie, even if he wasn't the one baking it. That's right, not only did Jack Thompson lie about donating to charity, he ''tried to stop other people from donating to charity to make up for his dumb ass.'' You can read all about that story [[wikipedia:A Modest Video Game Proposal|here]].

* In a 1996 ad campaign to promote ''Pepsi Stuff'', commercials for the film ''True Lies'' claimed that if anyone collected 7,000,000 points, Pepsi would give that person a Harrier jet (featured in the movie). A man by the name of John Leonard redeemed a check equivalent to the amount of the 7,000,000 points, but Pepsi refused on the grounds that the jet was not really being offered. After a lawsuit was filed, a federal judge sided with Pepsi.

* Burrell Smith (who designed the hardware for the original [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]]) would often promise to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140711084803/http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I'll_Be_Your_Best_Friend.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium be your best friend] in order to get you to do something. This relationship, however, only lasts a few milliseconds.

* Happens all too often when you're a toddler. Your parent will promise you a reward if you do something or go through something, and once that's over with they take back their word. This even happens to kids, teenagers, and even adults, and it encourages kids to engage in rebellious behavior—and they wonder why there's so many rebellious teenagers around.