# Confession time : **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660 "2004-04-29T13:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/41 "2004-04-29T19:59:24Z")
1. I’m a girl. 2. I once hitchhiked across the country by myself. 3. My dog’s name is Casper. #3 is the lie. My dog’s name is Blaze. When I was 19 I hitchhiked to Colorado from Texas with my (male) friend and another couple. The other couple left for New York while we stayed. At some point, he decided to go back to Houston, and I decided to go on to Corning, New York by myself. I met a lot of great people, and only had a couple of little scares. I’d never do it again, though! > [@Munch](#): > > 2 is a lie. You went with someone else. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/42 "2004-04-29T20:04:40Z")
**Martha** : Of the several possibilities, I’ll guess your parents live in Istanbul, which straddles the European (Thrace) and Asian (Anatolia) parts of Turkey. As for my statements: > [@](#): > > 1. I was turned back at the border when attempting to enter Canada > 2. I locked myself out of my apartment last week > 3. I sat next to comedian Dennis Miller on an airplane 1. True. When I was a freshman in college (1978), I got the opportunity to take a “January Term” two-week trip to Cuba. Washington’s relations with Havana were relaxed enough to make the jaunt legal, but not relaxed enough to allow the flight to depart from the USA, so the members of the group had to individually make their way to Montreal after Christmas vacation. The faculty adviser had obtained some of our traveling papers, so I carried a passport but had no visa nor Cubana Airlines ticket on my person. When I truthfully revealed the purpose of my trip to Canadian customs officers, I was greeted with suspicion, and put in a taxi (generously paid for by Greyhound) back to the Buffalo bus station. I called my parents in Ohio, they called the hotel where the group was meeting, a student called the Peace Bridge and explained the situation to the authorities’ satisfaction. Several hours later, I made the crossing again, and the customs officer who had rebuffed me earlier remembered me and told me to have a good trip. Vindication was sweet! 1. True. I had spent the afternoon in Indianapolis. At either the restaurant where I ate lunch or the library where I spent a couple of hours, my apartment key slipped out of my pocket. I knew my sweetie (who also has a key) was due to arrive in about 90 minutes, so I just stayed outside (I live in the back rooms of a house that’s been divided into three rental units) until she showed up and let me in. It was raining, but I sat on my covered porch and read the TV Guidethat had come in that day’s mail. 2. False. I’ve never met Miller, but I have talked to Jay Leno a couple of times when attending his stand-up performances. On the second such occasion (a couple of years after the initial encounter), he remembered th original meeting and said “I never forget a face!” I have no reason to doubt him. By the way, of the 27 Dopers who’d “fessed up” as of the time I began typing this post, I’ve correctly ferreted out 13 liars. Not a great track record, but at least better than what I’d have scored by random chance… ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/43 "2004-04-29T20:21:31Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > OK **Honey** , the lie is #3. Having never done one myself as a reference, but having lots of engineering experience, I’d say 10 minutes is a fast stringing operation. You’re right. I actually used to string racquetball racquets. I could do it in a little under 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/44 "2004-04-29T20:35:18Z")
> [@Hey you!](#): > > 1. I went onstage at Saturday Night Live. > 2. I have several patents. > 3. I slept with someone else’s bride a week before they got married. > > Guess the lie. Im hoping that the lie is #3- unless of course #3 has a amazing love story that goes along with it. Mine… 1)I hate soda 2)I love grilled cheese and tomatoe sandwiches 3)I am Jewish ;j 1. Soda is nasty- I cant stand it… 2. If there is a Grilled Cheese and Tomatoe Sandwich Eaters Anonymous- I should join. I have an addiction. 3. Im not Jewish. Honestly I just REALLY wanted to use the ;j Smilie ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/45 "2004-04-29T20:46:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Either they live in Egypt, where they can see Asia and Africa, or they live near the Colombia-Panama border, so they can see North and South America. [hijack] > What is the divide between Asia and Europe? > [/hijack] **vunderbob** - **Sternvogel** got the one you hinted at > [@](#): > > I’ll guess your parents live in Istanbul, which straddles the European (Thrace) and Asian (Anatolia) parts of Turkey. But there are more possibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/46 "2004-04-29T20:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=MarthaBut there are more possibilities.[/QUOTE] Can you see Africa from Gibraltar? ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/47 "2004-04-29T21:01:31Z")
Mine were: 1. My senior year of high school I caught one of my teachers gathering information about another teacher at my school in an attempt to get him fired. I made notes on what I read and the day I graduated, I went to the teacher that was about to be nailed and told them everything. 2. I was briefly married during my senior year of high school. It was annulled about a month after graduation. My closest friends at the time didn’t even know about it and only a handful of my family members (including DH) know about it now. 3. One of my parents is a convicted felon, has a rap sheet a mile long and has been in and out of prison a gazillion times. #2 is the lie. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/48 "2004-04-29T21:14:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you see Africa from Gibraltar? Unless it’s very misty or hazy, you can indeed, **Mausmagill**. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/49 "2004-04-29T21:35:55Z")
Mine… 1. I have gotten in four auto accidents in the last two years. 2. I was homeschooled until high school. 3. I’ll soon be moving from Mississippi to Malibu. #1 is false. Actually, although I’m 18, I haven’t even been driving for two years…and I haven’t had time to get in any wrecks yet. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/50 "2004-04-29T21:44:52Z")
> [@gum](#): > > **ultrafilter** You’ve been bitten by a tiger? How? [heh, at the midgets. 🙂] For some reason, no one found the midgets believable. I don’t know why a tiger bite is more believable than a midget fetish, but there you go. Anyway, it was a cub, play-biting. Cutest little thing… ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/51 "2004-04-29T21:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=RainGrowsBrite] Im hoping that the lie is #3- unless of course #3 has a amazing love story that goes along with it. Sadly, #3 is true. It was a closure kind of thing (it had been going on for a while). On a happier note, the wedded couple is doing well. They had a kid not too long ago. #2 is false; I don’t have a single patent. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/52 "2004-04-29T23:58:05Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > **MissTee** , of course you’re a youngin’. I simply had the idea that you were 28 or 29. And, since you hate fishing, it looks like that romantic wilderness getaway I had planned for us is off. 😉😃 NO, NO, NO – the weekend wilderness getaway can go forth as planned. I like the outdoors - I love to camp- don’t mind tents ( cabins & campers are better ) but I don’t mind the ground. I like the roar of the campfire- snuggling up on a chilly evening, I just hate to fish. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/53 "2004-04-30T00:02:59Z")
All right, all right, they were all lies. I cheated. Shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/54 "2004-04-30T00:17:03Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > 1. My father is a carpenter, a Capricorn, and son of Joseph. > 2. I was born on the 123rd day of the year, which was 2 weeks late. > 3. My girlfriend was born on the 321st day five years earlier. #3 is the lie. It was the 324th day, not the 321st. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/55 "2004-04-30T00:25:06Z")
1. I once had a close encouter with a bear while hiking. 2. I once had to chase giraffes off the runway in order for my plane to land. 3. I once had a close encouter with a penguin in its native habitat, complete with snow and ice. 4. is true. I was in Shenandoah National Park going for a hike with my mother, and we saw a brown bear about 100 feet from us. It was ahead of us on the trail. We kept walking, cautiously and it ignored us. 5. is true. I was in Botswana and the day that we were scheduled to fly between the Savute Elephant Camp and the Kwai River Camp, our guide drove the safari vehicle up close to three giraffes who were on the nice grassy airstrip. The planes (which held 6 people, including the pilot) had to wait until the giraffes had left before they could land. 6. is false. I did see penguins in their native habitat, but there was no snow or ice. This is because it was in southern South Africa and they were African (formerly called jackass) penguins. They were very hot in the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/56 "2004-04-30T03:06:01Z")
> [@gum](#): > > **Baraqiyal** Where are you waiting for? : How does Cecil look? [I’m so glad # 1 is false] 40 something, not fat exactly but definitely heavy set, messy brown hair turning gray, wire rimmed glasses. Hopefully I’m not completely off base and thinking of a different answer man – it _was_ twenty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/57 "2004-04-30T05:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. I made $42,000 in a commercial. > 2. I was once an Delivery room nurse. > 3. I have 3 cats and one husband. 1. I true. I did a survey for one of those “clipboard people” in the mall. He told me I fit the demographic & would I like to do a second interview fro $50? Being broke at the time, I accepted. At that interview, I was given a $50 bill, and told I could be chosen for one more interview, for $100. That one was filmed on a street in Austin Texas. When we were finished they told me it was an AT&T commercial, and I’d be paid at Screen Actors’ Guild scale. It aired for 1.5 years. I doubt I ever convinced anyone to switch to AT&T, but all my friends talk to the “clipboard people” now. 🙂 2. Is FALSE! Give me a good trauma any day. 3. True. The cats run the house, but the husband thinks he does. I’m just the “MOM.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/58 "2004-04-30T05:20:36Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > For some reason, no one found the midgets believable. I don’t know why a tiger bite is more believable than a midget fetish, but there you go. > > Anyway, it was a cub, play-biting. Cutest little thing… I believed the midget fetish. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/59 "2004-04-30T05:29:13Z")
Are we also guessing here or is all the guessing in the other thread? [innocent blushing schoolgirl voice] I kind of wanted someone to guess mine… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660/60 "2004-04-30T05:39:12Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 1. I once urinated on the Eiffel Tower > > 2. I’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek > > 3. I am a signed rap artist Number 3 is a total and complete magnitude ten **LIE**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confession-time/242660.md?page=4)