# A hustler told me a bald face lie! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971 "2015-07-23T17:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/21 "2015-07-24T14:10:39Z")
Next time dude, bet on the shell game. It’s a _sure_ win. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/22 "2015-07-24T14:25:46Z")
If you hold your head still long enough, I’ll give you the ability to tell a balled-face lie. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/23 "2015-07-24T14:45:20Z")
And if you sing the lie, it might be a ballad-faced lie. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/24 "2015-07-24T14:54:58Z")
Wally? I knew he never died. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/25 "2015-07-24T15:36:40Z")
> [@Arrogant\_B\_st\_rd](#): > > It was owned by a lady who looked exactly like the woman who’s on the tub of Land O’ Lakes butter. Did you check out her knees? ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/26 "2015-07-24T16:55:43Z")
While he is no Wang-Ka, I’m by and large entertained by his OPs, kinda like Skinny Pete and Badger entertained me on BB. His posts show a blitheness I find refreshing, and his writings assume a shared experience and implied agreement with his worldview, assumptions which are themselves very funny. I haven’t quite figured out if he’s for real or trying his hand at creative writing from a certain perspective as some sort of exercise (I’m leaning towards the latter, but there’s enough in his non-OP posts which create real doubt). It doesn’t matter. Dismissing him out of hand as many of you do is a sad rejection of something new and different on this board. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/27 "2015-07-24T17:37:03Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This is the part where the OP leaves and then we notice the envelope in the trash with an Oklahoma return address, and the bingo card on the desk, and the Land O’Lakes butter tub on the kitchen table next to the can of Beanie Weenee, and suddenly it hits us _OH MY GOD HE MADE THE WHOLE THING UP ON THE SPOT_ and we all chase after him but it’s too late, he’s gone _FOREVER_! Wow. Someone should make a movie out of that. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/28 "2015-07-24T17:53:28Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > I haven’t quite figured out if he’s for real or trying his hand at creative writing from a certain perspective as some sort of exercise (I’m leaning towards the latter, but there’s enough in his non-OP posts which create real doubt). “Trying one’s hand at creative writing” is definitely the most genteel euphemism for it that _I’ve_ heard… ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/29 "2015-07-24T18:09:23Z")
> [@Arrogant\_B\_st\_rd](#): > > … A real southwestern-designed hat made by real Native Americans, and not some faux-southwestern designed hat made by Chinese and sold by white men in Urban Outfitters. > > …! Turn the label over. Look at the small print. Bangladesh. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/30 "2015-07-24T19:04:40Z")
Whenever I’m in Oklahoma, I always stop at the Two Diamonds casino. The owner will come out and talk to you sometimes, which is a lot of fun, especially when he adopts one of his trademark wacky personas. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/31 "2015-07-24T19:42:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This is the part where the OP leaves and then we notice the envelope in the trash with an Oklahoma return address, and the bingo card on the desk, and the Land O’Lakes butter tub on the kitchen table next to the can of Beanie Weenee, and suddenly it hits us _OH MY GOD HE MADE THE WHOLE THING UP ON THE SPOT_ and we all chase after him but it’s too late, he’s gone _FOREVER_! Hey, we don’t know for sure why he’s gone. For all we know, the wind came sweepin’ down the plain… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/32 "2015-07-24T20:52:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Wow. Someone should make a movie out of that. We provide … _Leverage_ :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/33 "2015-07-24T20:57:57Z")
> [@Arrogant\_B\_st\_rd](#): > > What sucks about being a professional gambler is that you can’t trust anyone. I can definitely see how it would suck to be you. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971/34 "2015-07-24T21:05:16Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I can definitely see how it would suck to be you. I get my **A B** posters mixed up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hustler-told-me-a-bald-face-lie/725971.md?page=1)