# Have you ever posted a deliberate lie on a SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176 "2009-11-27T22:36:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/41 "2009-12-01T19:47:17Z")
Possibly in game or joke threads, or threads specifically stating some odd number of truths and a lie, but not in general back and forth discussion or opinion threads. What would be the point? I don’t recall participating in a game or joke thread where lying would be necessary, but it’s possible that I have. Bad memory, don’tcha know. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/42 "2009-12-01T19:54:25Z")
I can think of anecdotes that I’ve exaggerated for effect (I’m a writer at heart, and I won’t settle for reality when a tweak of the ending will improve my story), but never on a pole, or in a thread where my lie would effect the outcome of the thread. I chose ‘yes’ because of that, and because it’s very possible I \*have \*lied point blank on here. I’m not always sober when I post, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/43 "2009-12-01T19:59:15Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I seem to recall Bricker saying he was supporting Obama in a thread last fall. Turned out he was jerking our chain. Did you post this just so you could answer Yes to the poll? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/44 "2009-12-01T20:08:58Z")
I’m not really a bike riding dude from the midwest now living in Canada. I’m a woman who’s 6’10" and living in the mountains of Peru and I can’t ride a bicycle. I have an Olympic gold medal in ski jumping despite the fact that I only have one foot (the other is a prosthetic I made myself from a sneaker and copper that I melted down from old discarded computer parts). I was born with a tail. Doctors removed it shortly after my birth, but I have phantom pains as a result, so my butt hurts (which is why I can’t ride a bicycle). :: sigh :: It feels so good to finally come clean. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/45 "2009-12-01T20:13:27Z")
Yup. Mafia games. I particularly liked my web of lies in Evil Dead, where I was town. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/46 "2009-12-01T20:13:49Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > In one of my very first posts back in 2001, I claimed to own a Honda Accord station wagon, even though I really didn’t. Oddly enough, I do own one now. What makes a person lie about having a Honda Accord station wagon? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/47 "2009-12-01T20:34:37Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What makes a person lie about having a Honda Accord station wagon? Chicks dig Hondas? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/48 "2009-12-01T21:02:04Z")
On the boards, yes, for the same reason **Bricker** gives. Off the boards, in private emails with some Dopers back around 2001, I was not completely honest, primarily in lying about my real name. I regret that. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/49 "2009-12-01T22:40:07Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > …but never on a pole… Words to live by. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/50 "2009-12-06T01:28:19Z")
Not only did I lie, but someone believed the lie and repeated it on another board. Not everyone who read it believed it, but some did, and it took quite a journey around the net before it lost steam. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/51 "2009-12-06T01:43:52Z")
Sometimes when I post something relating to my own life, I will obfuscate some minor details in order to help protect my anonymity. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/52 "2009-12-09T23:30:11Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Wouldn’t anyone who has ever participated in a “Two Truths and a Lie” thread have to answer yes? Similarly, I have lied many times during the many Mafia games I’ve played here, especially the two games in which I was scum. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/53 "2009-12-10T06:41:32Z")
No need. The subject of my height has never come up. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176/54 "2009-12-10T16:22:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Have you ever posted a deliberate lie on a SBMD? Just this one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-posted-a-deliberate-lie-on-a-sdmb/519176.md?page=2)