# Let's play a game (and at the same time learn interesting things about each other) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702 "2005-12-15T06:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/21 "2005-12-15T14:28:37Z")
And seconding the question of when do we get **The Truth Revealed?** Also, what kind of dogs? Big ones? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/22 "2005-12-15T14:33:42Z")
> [@Dinaroozie](#): > > > [@Regallag\_the\_Axe](#): > > > > I once lit a friend’s lawnmower on fire > > I reckon that’s a filthy filthy lie. And correct you are. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/23 "2005-12-15T14:36:36Z")
I’m saying numero dos is false for our good friend **Anastasaeon**. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/24 "2005-12-15T14:41:33Z")
Ah, you guys have got me pegged. Number two is indeed the treacherous deceit. Odd that it’s so easily singled out, since it came pretty damn close to happening: I was there, the protest was there, I got to chatting with the “leaders”, and they did ask me to speak, but my friend who was attending the conference with me spoiled my fun by pointing out – quite correctly, I must admit – that if one of our chaperones saw me up there wearing my NYLF badge, they’d go apoplectic (these folks were all government representatives of some sort, be it diplomatic corps, NSA, military, UN, FBI…wouldn’t want to annoy them without cause). Still, I wish I had done it. It’d have been a memory, that’s for sure. **bouv** , 1, unless you’re using a very odd definition of “attacked”. **Anastasaeon** , 2. I hesitated to say it since it’s a mighty complicated story to make up for a message board lie, but you’re tricky like that. 😉 **Bus Guy** , 3, simply because if I think it’s a lie, I don’t have to picture it. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/25 "2005-12-15T14:47:22Z")
**Mr Bus Guy** , I’m going to guess #3 for you. 1. I’ve appeared naked in a published book 2. I’ve appeared naked on a broadcast television show. 3. I’ve appeared naked in an independent film. Man, I was naked a lot in my youth. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/26 "2005-12-15T14:52:43Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I wanna know what it says about us or our perception of \*\*Malacandra \*\* that everyone thinks he has masturbated dogs of both sexes (but not at the same time!) Nobody thinks I’m bragging hopelessly about that trumpet thing? Nobody thinks it possible I could have learned Malay as a small child? ☹ :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/27 "2005-12-15T14:53:47Z")
1. I completely submered a car upside down under water–and escaped (obviously). 2. I fell through ice while fishing and was trapped under–and escaped (obviously). 3. I flipped over a kayak and was under water for over 3 minutes–and escaped (obviously). ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/28 "2005-12-15T14:54:30Z")
Good guess on #3. But it is a fudged version of a truth. I didn’t witness it, or even see the aftermath but had to wait for the train to clear a crossing, while walking back from the bars one night in college because it had happened. The next week, in my Human Bio class, we had to visit an autopsy at the ME’s office. Guess who? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/29 "2005-12-15T15:02:43Z")
1. In my youth, I climbed to the top of the very tall flagpole at a local school several times. 2. I have a sister who was born with a primitive, underdeveloped tail. 3. In college, I once got a blow job while sitting in a crowded lecture hall. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/30 "2005-12-15T15:08:18Z")
Heh. Looking at the sig in my post, I realized that there is a guy out there somewhere with a truth that nobody would ever believe. But he’s probabbly not a Doper… ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/31 "2005-12-15T15:11:42Z")
The truth about **Anastasaeon** : [SPOILER]1. True. Thanks to the Dope, more pieces of the family tree have fallen into place. The notorious pirate is Grace O’Malley - my mother’s maiden name is O’Malley. Several pieces of that puzzle were there, but with some key pieces missing, so we couldn’t connect them. My mother had been hoping for an archbishop or something. I, on the other hand, am thrilled. It explains so much. 1. False. bouv and Roland are correct - and Roland has me pegged; it _is_ a detailed lie for a message board! I figured because my first truth was so detailed, my lie would have to be detailed and my next truth be deceptively simple. The trick was an element of truth; as some of you may know, I was indeed a vegetarian for ten years. However, it had nothing to do with eating 40oz of steak, I was just a picky eater. I discovered the joys of a great steak a couple of years ago, and I’ll never go back. Steak is friggin’ delicious. Most of the story, by the way, I got by Googling “40oz steak” and finding out there was such a thing as a Beefeater’s club. My lie is pretty much the guidelines for getting into the club. I could never eat that much in one sitting! :eek: (even the thought makes me nauseous - see how I worked that into the lie? I’d say it was clever, but you guys have me all figured out!) 😉 2. True. My first program consisted of random tones and coloured blocks forming interesting patterns on the computer screen. Eventually I could program actual songs and better pictures. I haven’t really progressed much further than that - but I’ve been doing it since I was four. 😉 [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/32 "2005-12-15T15:19:02Z")
See, I have no problem believing that **Malacandra** had an amah or even an ayah, come to that. I call the lie the one about the dogs–and if it’s true–ew! I’m very boring, so lemme see here… 1. Princess Diana once stepped on my foot by accident; she was very gracious; the security man not so much. 2. I was a child model. 3. I was offered the keys to a doctor’s Ferrari if I would sleep with him. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/33 "2005-12-15T15:20:20Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > 1. Princess Diana once stepped on my foot by accident; she was very gracious; the security man not so much. > > 2. I was a child model. > > 3. I was offered the keys to a doctor’s Ferrari if I would sleep with him. I’m saying #1 is a flat-out lie. ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/34 "2005-12-15T15:43:36Z")
Such a boring life I lead. 1. When I was ten, my father knocked me out cold with an ax. 2. I’ve gone skydiving in the nude. 3. I ran (on foot) the full length of the Las Vegas strip in the street without getting arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/35 "2005-12-15T15:51:01Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > 1. Princess Diana once stepped on my foot by accident; she was very gracious; the security man not so much. > > 2. I was a child model. > > 3. I was offered the keys to a doctor’s Ferrari if I would sleep with him. I think the big fib is behind door number…3. For me, my three entries are: 1. I have killed two people in my lifetime. One I shot, one I killed with my bare hands. Both were ruled self-defense. 2. I met Elizabeth Montgomery on the set of Bewitched when I was 15 and she spent an hour talking to me. 3. I’ve been interviewed on live TV. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/36 "2005-12-15T16:01:08Z")
We have a winnah! **bouv** called it–the closest I ever got to Diana was watching her walk around dowtown Chicago on my TV. #3 is quite true–and he was a runty lil Philippino bald guy who had bad teeth and worse breathe. I turned him down. **sishoch** --I call #2–sounds cold and dangerous…think of the abrasions, if you don’t land on your feet! Somehow, I can see **Clothahump** killing people (were they liberals? I kid, I kid)…so I call #2. She’s been dead awhile ( I really liked her, btw). ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/37 "2005-12-15T16:04:40Z")
> [@sishoch](#): > > Such a boring life I lead. > > 1. I’ve gone skydiving in the nude. This one, I reckon. It’s really freaking cold up there. And if you actually had gone skydiving in the nude your life wouldn’t be “boring”. 😃 1. I have been to 10 different schools, not counting university. 2. I have never had a cavity, broken a bone, been stung by a bee/wasp/hornet, needed stitches, had any disease worse than a cold, a black eye, growing pains, hives or braces. 3. I have 32/20 vision in one eye and 28/20 vision in the other. ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/38 "2005-12-15T16:14:41Z")
OK, #2 was a lie. But my instructor did train the guy who did it. BTW, he landed in a cactus! #1 was an accident and #3 was the Las Vegas marathon. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/39 "2005-12-15T16:17:36Z")
1. I once burst into tears in front of my entire class and locked myself up in one of the cubbies… because a teacher complimented me and gave me a gold star sticker. 2. I once peed on myself in a movie theatre, at a birthday party. 3. I once mooned the entire playground while on the swingset–and in front of a really cute boy. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/40 "2005-12-15T16:24:00Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > 1. I have 32/20 vision in one eye and 28/20 vision in the other. 1. I threw a jolly rancher at Bronson Pinchot’s head. 2. I threw a wad of paper into a male cheerleader’s giant megaphone while he was cheering with it. 3. I set of a string of black cat firecrackers during an English test when I was in 9th grade. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702.md?page=3)