an all-time bit

 one time in college I joined a running club that no one was on but people used to be on it and this older guy Matt told me about this guy George who used to be on the team who was a compulsive liar and he said he was from a school called Oakton Township and they were the Oakton Township Cougars and they had a fight song that went

Oakton Township Cougars

we are a real school

we actually do exist

we are a real school

And Matt sang me that song one day and yesterday in the shower I thought about how I am very likely the singular keeper of the Oakton Township Cougars Fight Song. Passed down to me secondhand as an afterthought. A school that does not exist despite its protests to the contrary.

There is a school in Norther Virginia called Oakton High School and their mascot is the cougars but Virginia doesn't have townships.

Anyway it's an all time great bit.

Right up there with this time we were playing capture the flag at camp and we told this 8 year old, "your luck will run out eventually" and he replied "no it won't! it'll run UP!"