# Four facts and one lie about yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398 "2015-06-24T21:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/81 "2015-07-05T05:04:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’ll guess B. We have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/82 "2015-07-05T11:43:09Z")
Somebody else post. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/83 "2015-07-05T11:44:20Z")
Oh, for EH, I’ll guess 1. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/84 "2015-07-05T19:30:48Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > We have a winner. Woohoo! > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Oh, for EH, I’ll guess 1. Nope. That leaves 3, 4 and 5. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/85 "2015-07-05T23:12:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Woohoo! > Nope. That leaves 3, 4 and 5. Wait, I thought 4 was eliminated. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/86 "2015-07-06T01:19:24Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Wait, I thought 4 was eliminated. That’s not how I interpreted **Gatopescado** ’s post 70. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/87 "2015-07-06T02:41:21Z")
#1 I have been in the top 100 or so players of the contrabass bugle at one point in my life. #2 I have had sex with over 50 women #3 as an EMT I patched up a nationally known public figure who was involved in a car accident #4 I was once part of a fairly elaborate theft that involved several friends and flavors of deception to get back something stolen from me. #5 I have Been hit twice by shotgun pellets at “sub injurious” velocities. Once was not an accident. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/88 "2015-07-06T06:16:44Z")
#2 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/89 "2015-07-06T12:54:07Z")
Here are mine 1. I received a rave review for my performance as Lady Jane in Patience 2. I won over $10,000 in the Lottery 3. I have performed at Carnegie Hall _AND_ the Kennedy Center 4. I survived the Disco Era 5. But I was too young for Woodstock ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/90 "2015-07-06T20:25:23Z")
I’m sorry. I didn’t follow the rules, did I? Okay. re: **drachillix** , # 1 is the lie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/91 "2015-07-06T20:38:09Z")
Hmm. #3 if **drachillix** ’s lie. #2 is **anyrose** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/92 "2015-07-06T21:14:08Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > #2 I have had sex with over 50 women Wait, does that mean sex with a couple of women over _age_ 50? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/93 "2015-07-06T21:23:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. > #3 if **drachillix** ’s lie. Correct #1 I said “around 100” as I cannot say for 100% I was, but statistically speaking as a DCI finalist in 1989 (10th place) there were around 100 players “in” finals. I am sure a few groups we beat had some better individual players than me but I know for a fact I was better than some individuals in other groups that beat us. I was 4th chair in my section of 10. Its a very very rare instrument to see outside of DCI. #2 To clarify, yes 50 different women ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/94 "2015-07-06T22:47:53Z")
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a contrabass bugle, nor that enough people played it for there to be a top 100. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/95 "2015-07-06T22:48:54Z")
any other guesses on mine? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/96 "2015-07-07T04:37:03Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I didn’t know there was such a thing as a contrabass bugle, nor that enough people played it for there to be a top 100. > **[Contrabass bugle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_bugle)** > > The contrabass bugle (usually shortened to contra or simply called the marching tuba) is the lowest-pitched brass instrument in the drum and bugle corps and marching band hornline. It is the drum corps' counterpart to the marching band's sousaphone: the lowest-pitched member of the hornline, and a replacement for the concert tuba on the marching field. > The contrabass bugle is different from the other members of the marching band and drum corps hornlines in that it rests on the shoulder of the ... ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/97 "2015-07-07T05:23:36Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > [Contrabass bugle - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_bugle) Oh! A _contra_! I called them baby tubas when I was in a marching band. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/98 "2015-07-08T05:36:11Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Oh! A _contra_! I called them baby tubas when I was in a marching band. Isn’t that what a euphonium is? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398/99 "2015-07-08T08:07:36Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Isn’t that what a euphonium is? Sort of yeah, they are very similar in appearance and probably sound. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-facts-and-one-lie-about-yourself/723398.md?page=4)