YOU SAID IT WASN'T A SALES CALL / THE LIE DETECTOR SAYS OTHERWISE
A Maury Lie Detector post.
Your mate says he's "basically a vegetarian now". Forty minutes later he's at the kebab van asking whether the chilli sauce comes in a bigger tub. Nobody needs to say anything. Everyone has already seen the card. "I'll be there in ten minutes" is sent from the sofa, in socks, with the shower not yet run. Twenty-five minutes on, you're still saying "just parking". The sat-nav says otherwise. Your colleague swears the report was "basically done" on Monday. On Thursday it turns out to be a title, a logo and a heading that says "Introduction". Everyone is very calm about it, in the way people are calm at funerals. A friend announces that this year they will absolutely be going to bed before midnight. At 2.14am they are watching a documentary about bridges and sending you a link to it. **Why it caught on:** the picture shows the host of the long-running American daytime talk show Maury holding a results card, the moment in the programme where a lie detector test settled an argument, usually to a roaring studio. Posters turned the scene into a verdict on any claim the real world had already disproved, so the format needed only a boast on top and a quick, deadpan correction underneath.