Not a denial, exactly, but suspiciously specific details nonetheless. I was talking to my friend, and she said (paraphrased), "Have you ever had a crush on someone? And know it was hopeless? And that it would never happen? And feel like you were sinking into a giant pit of oblivion that you can never get out of, because their eyes are just so blue?"

This Troper remembers a professor who won a million points when he ended his first lecture with holding up a tiny paper-back saying -> This book is sixty pages long. It is a work of genius. It is required reading. It cost 600 Crowns [about 80 dollars]. After this course you will never read it again. I am now officially telling you to not divide the cost up between you and then photo-copy it.

I think I inverted this trope. I gave hundreds of suspiciously specific denials to one female friend about her surprise birthday party. I said things like "We're definitely not going to throw you a surprise party tomorrow." She got really upset that I was ruining the surprise for her so I told her I felt bad and offered to take her to get ice cream since we were close by a store. She consented and I drove her straight into her surprise party. "That's right, it wasn't tomorrow, it was today!" So I misled her about her surprise party by telling her misleading denials about her surprise party, which caused her to believe she was having a surprise party (which she was) but on a different day than she expected because my specific denial was specific in more ways than one.

You told her the truth, just in a way that made it seem like a blatant lie.

Not really sure if this counts as everybody else has stories about their real life denials, but what the heck. In my religion class, we were supposed to act out a myth. As there was no script, we improvised and twisted and turned the story our way, throwing one of these denials in. " *spoken really fastly* No, we haven't stolen his (Thor's) hammer at night when he was sleeping and we didn't bury it 40 miles beneath the earth's surface!" Of course, Loki figures it out. And no, this was my friend's role, not our rendition of Heimdal that I got to play.

This Troper once prefaced a conversation by saying, "Any stories of me getting drunk and missing the toilet have been greatly exaggerated."

One day, for ''no reason I can think of'', I kept replying to questions with sentences ending with, "I'm exclusively heterosexual." I think the first one was actually some joking around, but the others... Is my subconscious trying to tell me something...?

This Troper ''loves'' to mess around with his friends with these.....

Same here. Half the time it's just to make people paranoid, the other half is to cover up when I actually ''did'' do something.

This troper would like to make it clear that he has never performed ''[=YMCA=]'' in drag, and you can't prove otherwise.

Yeah, And I ''totally'' don't have pictures of it...

This troper did absolutely nothing interesting in the backseat of a van ever and you can't prove her wrong. (She actually has multiple witnesses to vouch for her, but still...)

The phrase: "It never happened, it will never happen, it isn't happening now!" is an inside-joke in one of the IRC channels, I frequent.

This Troper once came upon her Mother talking to her aunt on the phone and... #QUOTE#Me: What'cha doin'? #QUOTE#Mom: *turns around with a jump* I was not talking about possible suitors for you in any way, shape or form!!!!!!!! #QUOTE#Me: Ok, I- wai- Say WHAT?!!?

This probably-never-going-to-write-anything-publication-worthy troper defines Scientology the ChurchOfHappyology as "''absolutely not'' a cheap scam intended to rip off celebrities at all." Probably lucky for me and bad for the lawyers...

This troper was once looking for one of the actors in a musical she was stage managing. The leading man told her said actor was "not tied up and locked in the green room closet". So guess where he was...

This troper has pulled off a fun combination of this with ImplausibleDeniability, RefugeInAudacity, and SarcasticConfession. While leaving a party and bidding good night to his friends he went out of his way to make comments along the lines of "I am not up to anything. Please move along. I am not a crook. You have no evidence of wrongdoing. Pay no attention to me as I quietly sneak out." The almost-universal response was closer to ''Ha ha, he's pretending to be sneaky to attract attention again'' than it was to the more-appropriate ''HEY! He's walking away with a pizza!''

That is just amazing.

This troper has the tendency to respond with these. What makes it even better? They're usually lies, or even the exact opposite. HilarityEnsues.

After reading this page, this troper is seriously considering answering the next time someone asks me "what are you doing?" with "I'm not painting my room green, if that's what you're asking" even if it's completely clear that I am not, in fact, in my room, much less painting it green. RefugeInAudacity, perhaps?

When asked what he is up to this troper will usually respond with, "I'm not plotting world dominatioin" or "I'm not planning to murder you in your sleep." When someone laughs and says that this troper couldn't possibly pull either off this troper will agree politely and a little too easily that they are correct. This troper would never murder you in your sleep. Ever. This troper has no weapons stashed in the closet. At all.

This Troper's universal response for the question "What are you doing?" is usually one of these. Such as "I am MOST CERTAINLY NOT thinking about killing the world." and "I am NOT attempting to murder your dog."

This Troper's has the habit of, every time his parents call for him, tell them variants of "It wasn't me; it was already broken when I got there; You can't prove nothing.".

Somewhat subverted by this troper; it might seem like I'm doing that (to a hitchhiker: "Don't worry, I'm not going to lock the doors and drive off to some remote place where I'll vivisect you and leave your dead body out to be discovered months later"), but I actually have no intention of doing said things; I simply have an overactive imagination, and I read too much.

This exchange occured when This Troper was still in elementary school - Father: "Hello, is anybody home?" Me: "I'M NOT EATING CHOCOLATE!"

Me describing a Dali painting: "And it was like the craziest acid trip ever...not that I've ever dropped acid or anything..."I have.

This troper has a great personal story to this effect. My mother had left my little brother, about 1 at the time on a bed for a little bit while she went to do something. Suddenly she hears a shriek from said child. She runs into the room, notices my little brother crying hyesterically, and my twin brother, earnestly saying "I DIDN"T DO IT! I DIDNT PINCH HIS BELLY WITH MY SUSPENDERS!". Upon closer inspection, it was revealed my little brother had little suspenders-shaped marks on his abdomen, a fact my mother never would have noticed if my brother had not specifically denied it. (Definitely not moved from the main page by an absolutely unrelated troper.)

This troper (Soundstorm), on one occasion, randomly said when her sister entered the room "I didn't do it! You can't prove anything! ...Oh, it's just you. Hi." This troper hadn't done anything wrong but it was hard to convince her sister of that.

This trope was talking to her friend about her other friend. The friend that's the subject of the conversation comes over to us and goes 'What are you doing?'. This trope goes 'NOTHIG! I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU! I seriously wasn't!'

This troper's friend on the homework she didn't do: "I have music to study. I've been practicing for this thing on Friday, I just don't have time for the homework... and watching three seasons of ''Torchwood'' in a week has nothing to do with that!"

This troper and her friend once overheard an apparently onesided conversation where the person speaking kept saying variants of "STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE I KILLED THAT DOG! I did NOT kill that dog!"

This troper did his current roleplay character's bio and public profile up like this, mentioning several times he was perfectly normal, if maybe a bit of an overachiever, and that nothing especially traumatizing or interesting happened to him. It didn't even mention his sister, in fact, taking pains to only mention his brother, and would even claim that he was attempting to 'play a perfectly normal character this time around'. Until he actually started showing some of this character's background that is, and why his personality write-up seemed, on the surface, to clash with his background... (Why is he okay with brutal torture and a CombatPragmatist if he comes from a perfectly normal civilian family? What made him so distrustful and stoic? Why is he such an overachiever?) The funny part is that ''no one'', in or out of character, asked why exactly that was. Which was a shame, because then this troper could have explained he always plays fundamentally screwed up characters, so it's perfectly normal indeed.

This troper's personal CatchPhrase is "I'm not Kira." whenever he does something suspicious.

"Hey, (this troper)! How'd that hole get on the knee of your pants?" "Most certainly not a desperate knife fight against two opponents in the dark alleyway behind the Chinese restaurant. No way."

....One day, someone's going to buy that lie.

Yesterday I saw a few shiny pokemon while talking on skype when my friend came and said #QUOTE#Friend: "Hey whats everyone doing?" #QUOTE# Me: "Nothing and you cant prove I just got 3 shiny male eevee I don't have that kind of luck and I'm not gonna evolve them into Gen I eeveeloutions

Two from this troper's days at state college:

Regarding the last full day before a long break, usually a Wednesday or Thursday, professors were quick to stress: #QUOTE# "I'm not canceling class ''officially''. I'm not allowed to do that. But I'll say this- if NOBODY SHOWS UP THAT DAY, we can't have class. Let me repeat myself, ''because every year some of you nerds come around'', if NOBODY SHOWS UP, I can't give a lecture."

And when taking a Japanese film class by a self-described Otaku: #QUOTE#"Now, while I will provide media for all our in-class screenings, there are many recommended films or films that you will want for papers, that are not available in the U.S. Let me remind you, FILE-SHARING AND TORRENTING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS ILLEGAL AND WRONG; it is ''VERY CONVENIENT AND EASY'' but it's WRONG. Many of you could easily download clients such as Vuze or [=MuTorrent=], and visit the websites listed at the bottom of the syllabus. BUT I KNOW YOU WON'T BECAUSE NONE OF YOU ARE TORRENTING ILLEGALLY AT YOUR DORMS. As you'll recall, the school's internet system student use policy strictly forbids this. So I can't advocate file-sharing and torrenting, great technology though it is, as a way to view the best of Japanese cinema that we don't have time to show."

This troper likes to use this a lot. One time at work (this troper is a checker at a grocery store), he had to check on checkstand #1, which this troper hates because the way its designed, no slave box person can help you bag up customer's orders, you have to do it yourself. Then this troper noticed that another checker was going home, so he conspired to add an arrow on the (typed) checkstand assignment sheet, moving him from checkstand #1 to #4, which does have a place for a box person to bag. This troper then informed his manager of his switching registers due to arrow saying, "the schedule says that I move to #4 because of this arrow, which absolutely does ''not'' look like it was added on by someone who didn't want to spend his whole shift checking on #1." To their credit, they allowed him to change.

This troper once asked his then-upper-floor neighbor the reason of some noises coming from his apartment. His answer: "No, I don't beat my wife.". I see.

This troper likes to combine SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with NoodleIncident. For example he mentioned a purely hypothetical situation (definitely not in any way related to anything that ever happened) involving a broken computer scanner and a Russian satellite. And even if it did happen, it was not in the state of Oregon, and the FBI never got involved.

This troper would like to take time to remind her friends that she does not read yaoi. Especially not Junjou Romantica. And she most certainly does not usually just skip through to the Junjou Egoist chapters to gush about how cute Nowaki and Hiroki are.

This tropette does not watch Scrubs daily, at about five o clock, with a boy who is definitely-not-her-boyfriend

A friend of mine did this with hilarious results. When we were fifteen, he finally hooked up with a girl he'd been in love with for almost three years (everyone in our circle of friends knew that he was in love with her). After she had gone home that day, he was IM:ing with another friend and told him that she had been there earlier. The friend asked him if they'd had fun. He replied that it had been okay, but it wasn't like they had made out on the couch or anything. The friend wrote the comment off as wishful thinking, having no idea that that had actually happened.

(Was re: {{Discworld}} examples) This troper used to have a freind who had a certificate to prove her sanity. Consider the circumstances in which a Doctor feels the need to issue such.

This troper was writing a story. He put it through Bonsai (a site on the Internet that jumbles up your story and then reassembles it) and found out that one of the main characters "did not see a heavyset man standing in an open field."

This troper would just like to let it be known for the record that he is neither bisexual nor has a Monster Energy addiction. That stash of yaoi was planted by my enemies and I have no idea where the ten empty cans of Monster came from.

This troper played with this trope in the NaNoWriMo forums, in a game of Mafia. Try figuring out whether he's the Doctor, a town member, or part of the Mafia. #QUOTE# I vote XXX, because she voted for me last round, and I'm obviously, totally, 100%, a townie, because Mafia members would no doubt be at the sidelines silently analyzing the situation and trying to figure out who's the doc and who's on the other Mafia. They would never bother to type out something so lengthy as proof that they aren't Mafia, and they would never point how suspiciously specific this denial is in the same post.\\ \\ Besides, I voted for YYY, and we ended up killing a townie.\\ \\ No wait, that's a bad example.\\ \\ Hey, look! I'm a townie vehemently pointing out that he is nothing more than a townie! I can't be a Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, because people would obviously think that I'm either I'm a townie pretending to be a Mafia for the lulz, not an extremely idiotic Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia! Or maybe I'm an extremely cunning Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, who's banking on the fact that people are gonna think I'm an extremely idiotic Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, and not an extremely cunning Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia.\\

This troper includes with his fanfichon disclamer, that he dos not own a Saparten. I don't know way I do that.

Today, I was a little evil. I feel kind of bad about it, but at one point, a friend of mine asked if something was wrong. As a joke, I immediately wrote (we were talking on Facebook) "No, nothing! Everything's FINE! I'm NOT grieving over the loss of a relative!!" Immediately said friend became very concerned and asked what had happened. After my friend became concerned, I reassured them that I was just making a joke and that really, there wasn't anything wrong.

This troper's university requires that every class have a final exam at the end of the semester (as many, many universities do). Despite that, most professors in our English department seem adverse to actually giving a final exam. To avoid it, they generally say something along the lines of, "We will have class on the final day, and I will be here, but I won't be taking attendance. Any of you are free to show up to discuss your grade, final paper or the class in general, but I probably won't stay in the classroom the whole time and ''I will not be taking attendance.''" Some kids still didn't get it.

My brother and I got my mom a new pan for Christmas (it might seem like a bad gift, but her non-stick pans never really worked so we got her a really nice one and she loved it). In the days before Christmas, as she was cooking, we'd say things like "Man, your current pan is terrible, too bad no one bought you a new pan" or "It's a shame that you're gonna be stuck with that terrible pan forever". Needless to say, she wasn't too surprised when she opened her present.

At a friend's birthday it was this troper's turn to play "I Never": #QUOTE# '''Troper''': I never urinated in a plastic bottle in such a way that the mouth of the bottle was completely, er, plugged, forgetting that there was a mass of trapped air inside and that when I went to urinate the air would have nowhere to go but ... up.

This troper's friend's Facebook status was "is NOT fucking a dude". I linked the tvtropes page on SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. Hilarity ensued.

This troper was feeling a little down, and her best friend was practicing her solo for an upcoming concert, Not Alone. So she decided it would be a good idea to serenade troper. Mid-song she simply says "Even though I don't like you that way" and continues. Which, by the way, was completely obvious and unnecessary.

My 9 year old brother bought a bucket of Nickelodeon slime from the toy store...a week later, it mysteriously disappeared. I asked my four-year-old brother if he knew where it went, and he said "No, I didn't flush his slime down the toilet!"

Little kids seem to love this trope. When I was a kid, my cousin and I would get ourselves into all sorts of shenanigans in his neighborhood, including climbing up into the hills behind people's houses, where we weren't supposed to be. One day the two of us saw a swimming pool, and decided that it would be fun to throw rocks into it. This continued for a few minutes until the house's owner angrily emerged and threatened us. We quickly ran back to my cousin's house, and when his parents asked what we were in such a rush over, my cousin explained that a man had come out of his house and threatened us. I hastily added, "And we weren't even throwing rocks in his pool!"

In one of my old stories (Which I probably lost when my hard drive crashed) my protagonist was a male who ended up in a dorm with a bunch of females. At one point the girls were explaining some of the dorm policies or something, and noted that there was "Nothing wrong that we could really do that would be worth doing. Well, okay, technically there is now that you're here, but we won't." Actually, a similar line appeared in another scene in there in which I think the same girl specifically said, "Don't worry, we're not going to rape you."

This troper and a slightly-down friend over MSN. #QUOTE# "Hey, it could always be worse. You could be covered in bees." #QUOTE# "Yes, that's true. I could be covered in bees." #QUOTE# "Wait, why BEES?" #QUOTE# "No reason! Definitely don't think about that any more."