He shoots, he scores!

I was lying to a Primary 6 class the other night, telling them that I had been educated in Singapore. They were utterly disbelieving at first. I needed something. If I was going to sell the lie then I would have to dig deeper. I made up a primary school name based on the suburb we were in at the time. One of the boys became very excited, a note of awe in his voice as he shouted "That's my school!". Sweeeeeeeeeeet. I had just added some credibility to my lie. However they were still telling me that I was full of lies as I scrambled for something, anything that would act as the glue this lie needed. And there it was - legitimacy in the form of outright fiction. Pick a name, something that is common enough to have a hope of actually being true. "Yes, my teacher was Mr Goh. Is he still there?".
Awe-boy looked at at the other students, his mouth wide open as he confirmed what I knew to be a lie. "Yes, there is a Mr Goh!". And with that a Singaporean primary school education backstory was successfully created.