# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/101 "2005-12-17T05:12:09Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > 1. I am on a first-name basis with a porn model/actress. > 2. I once shared a joint with the lead singer of Uriah Heep. > 3. I was in an airplane crash and walked away without a scratch. Hmmm…I say #1 is an un-truth. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/102 "2005-12-17T05:16:58Z")
**blondebear** , I say #2. 1 is easily plausible, and 3 is so out there that by backwards law it has to be true. 2… eh, who’d even admit to knowing who **Uriah Heap** was? 😉 **Amazon Floozy Goddess** , 1 and 2 seem entirely within the realm of your natural and admirable oddness… but something about the absurdity of 3 makes me think it’s true also. Hmm… after struggling to figure out how to flip a coin for three variables, I’m just going to guess #3. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/103 "2005-12-17T05:44:14Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > I had a hard time picking just two true things. So here are four true things and two false ones: > > 1. As a child I set my backyard on fire … three times. > 2. Tom Clancy once told me that Charlton Heston is a fag. > 3. I bought my first computer with money I made as a sperm donor. > 4. I have danced the Time Warp with Ricki Lake. > 5. I live on the same block as Sarah Silverman. Sometimes I see her walking her dog. > 6. I have a tattoo of the [Utah teapot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot). [SPOILER]\*\*Dinaroozie \*\* was right, #1 is a lie. 1. FALSE – I only set the backyard on fire twice. Once with matches, and once with a magnifying glass. I was a major pyro as a kid. 2. TRUE – Years ago I collaborated with Clancy on a video game. A group of us were having dinner together and Clancy told us that he’d been at a Manhattan cocktail party and had seen Charlton Heston show up with a pretty young black man as his date. He also told us that the CIA had mind-reading technology. The consensus in the office afterwards was that Tom was full of shit. 3. TRUE – I was young and broke. It was a Mac Plus. Twice a week for four months. 4. TRUE – A guy I went to high school with brought her as a date to our ten-year-reunion. This was after she was in _Hair Spray_, but before she got her own TV show. She was very sweet. 5. FALSE – Sarah Silverman has an apartment near the Miracle Mile. I live in Westwood, miles away. 6. TRUE – I got it ten years ago, after I completed my first big computer graphics project. It’s wireframe![/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/104 "2005-12-17T06:08:49Z")
> [@soulmurk](#): > > **Amazon Floozy Goddess** , 1 and 2 seem entirely within the realm of your natural and admirable oddness… but something about the absurdity of 3 makes me think it’s true also. Hmm… after struggling to figure out how to flip a coin for three variables, I’m just going to guess #3. [SPOILER] 1: True. I was in a crazy mood one night (wasn’t even drunk!) and went down to the local Timmy’s with a couple friends. I had found a bunny puppet that I’d had as a kid and decided to bring it along for the heck of it. When we got in, the server had her back turned, so I hid behind the counter and ordered my coffee with the puppet. Put my money in its mouth and gave it to her. She hardly even smiled, the biotch. 3: True. It was about 10 years ago. My dad had a buddy who was a copter pilot and taught lessons at (I think it was Air Cadets or something, but I’m not sure). Anyway, they had a copter sim at this place. My dad asked if I wanted to try it out. I said sure. So we went there. Took me a couple tries, but at the end of the day I did pretty well. My dad’s friend said I’d make a good pilot. I’m not really interested, though, so I never pursued. 2: A dirty, filthy lie. Bettina had babies, and I briefly wondered what rat milk was like, but I was never _that_ curious.[/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/105 "2005-12-17T06:35:58Z")
1. Former astronaut Wally Shirra was once a coworker of mine. 2. I can wiggle my ears. 3. I received a letter from comdian Steve Allen. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/106 "2005-12-17T09:19:03Z")
I’m calling **blondebear** on #3. Planes just don’t crash all that often. What’re the odds?! Mine are - 1. I used to own a fully intact skunk. She sprayed in my car the day I got her. It was May and hot, so I had the windows wide open, in rush hour traffic. 2. I once streaked Columbia Street in New Westminster at 9:00 on a Friday night. 3. I was a passenger in a rented '77 Firebird that only had twelve miles on the odometer. My friend got it up to 125MPH on the freeway in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. 4. I have been a passenger in a 1916 Pierce Arrow. We went cruising at 11:00pm and drag raced a Greyhound bus. Then we got pulled over by the police five or six times in a ten block stretch. There ya go. Four, like the cool kids! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/107 "2005-12-17T10:46:13Z")
**David Simmons** your #2. seems too mundane to be true, and **zoogirl** your #4. seems too outlandish. Mine- 1.) My friends and I threw a very large piece of sodium (Na) into the river in San Antonio, almost swamping a riverboat/restaurant and soaking many of the diners. 2.) My mom was killed in a bank robbery. 3.) Thirty-five years after hearing myself played on the radio, I recorded a CD, playing everything (instruments and voices) myself. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/108 "2005-12-17T14:55:37Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > **David Simmons** your #2. seems too mundane to be true, > > Mine- > > 1.) My friends and I threw a very large piece of sodium (Na) into the river in San Antonio, almost swamping a riverboat/restaurant and soaking many of the diners. Correct. I don’t believe you, on the grounds of the logistics of getting such a thing to the river. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/109 "2005-12-17T15:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] **David Simmons** your #2. seems too mundane to be true, and **zoogirl** your #4. seems too outlandish. Ha! Gotchya! 1. Yes, I did have the skunk. Her name was Reekie. 2. Nope, can’t run fast enough to streak! 😉 3. 125MPH remains the fastest I’ve ever been. Think about that next time you rent a car! 😃 4. The Pierce Arrow belonged to my boyfriend’s father. He also had a 1924 Rolls Royce. We took the opportunity to do a little cruising when the parents were in Mexico. As to the cops, well the word went out that we had the car on the road. We knew all the cops anyway and they all wanted a look. No sooner would we get going than another guy would catch up to us and pull us over. We finally said to heck with it and went home. The Greyhound driver was having a little fun with us at a stoplight. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/110 "2005-12-17T16:13:04Z")
Caught me, **zoogirl**!: 1: “Cheyenne Silver”, (she has an entry in IMDB) is a FOAF, and I see her every couple of months. 2: Winterland Ballroom, 1975. Heep opened for Blue Oyster Cult. I was in the front row, and we passed our spliff up to David Bryon. He took a hit, and passed it back. 3: Never been in an airplane crash. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/111 "2005-12-17T16:31:10Z")
1. I was bitten by a tiger in 2004. 2. Once when showing my horse in Western Pleasure, he shied at a kid with a balloon and dumped me, breaking my wrist. 3. I once flashed the pro wrestler Jake the Snake Roberts 4. I don’t know how to do spoilers here and would love for someone to teach me. No, really. Please tell me how to do spoilers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/112 "2005-12-17T17:02:02Z")
**DfrntBreign** , I hope your #2 is the false one. **PapSett** , use {spoiler} Whatever the spoiler is {/spoiler} Only use the square brackets intead of the curvy ones {} Mine: 1). I have had a letter published by Dear Abby. I didn’t have a question for her, my letter was in response to somebody else’s letter. 2). I was a bridesmaid in a nudist wedding. It was at a nudist camp near San Diego – the wedding party and about half the guests were naked. Only the ceremony was nude – the couple had compromised with their non-nudist family members to have the reception at a nearby hotel. So we did the ceremony nude, then got dressed and went into town for the reception. End result, I was a nude bridesmaid, but I still had to buy an ugly butt-bow bridesmaid dress anyway. 3). I married my first husband on the exact same day, at the exact same time that my second (and current) husband married his first wife. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/113 "2005-12-17T18:45:17Z")
> [@Jess](#): > > **DfrntBreign** , I hope your #2 is the false one. > > **PapSett** , use {spoiler} Whatever the spoiler is {/spoiler} Only use the square brackets intead of the curvy ones {} > > Mine: > > 1). I have had a letter published by Dear Abby. I didn’t have a question for her, my letter was in response to somebody else’s letter. > > 2). I was a bridesmaid in a nudist wedding. It was at a nudist camp near San Diego – the wedding party and about half the guests were naked. Only the ceremony was nude – the couple had compromised with their non-nudist family members to have the reception at a nearby hotel. So we did the ceremony nude, then got dressed and went into town for the reception. End result, I was a nude bridesmaid, but I still had to buy an ugly butt-bow bridesmaid dress anyway. > > 3). I married my first husband on the exact same day, at the exact same time that my second (and current) husband married his first wife. Thanks Jess ! I think #3 is your lie , because that is just bizarre. 1. This is true. I was at Amazing Exotics in Florida, playing with an 8 month old white Bengal tiger, and he chomped down on my belly fat! 2. This is the lie, I show DOGS, and have never ridden in a horse show. 3. This is true. It was an accident I swear ! I was at a WWF wrestling show, and was standing at ringside taking pictures. I had a button blouse on and when I went to raise the camear , I must have popped the buttons almost all the way down. I couldn’t figureout why Jake Roberts was standing right in front of me , smiling down at me… then I felt the breeze. I was mortified ! ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/114 "2005-12-18T00:21:30Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > 1.) My friends and I threw a very large piece of sodium (Na) into the river in San Antonio, almost swamping a riverboat/restaurant and soaking many of the diners. > > 2.) My mom was killed in a bank robbery. > > 3.) Thirty-five years after hearing myself played on the radio, I recorded a CD, playing everything (instruments and voices) myself. I thank you, too **Jess**. I didn’t know how to do this either. [spoiler] 1) This is the lie, but not for the reason you gave **David** (if that even is your real name). The story is true, I just wasn’t there when it happened. An unnamed high school club to which we all belonged held a convention in San Antonio. The night before we left, _someone_ stole a glass jar with sodium stored in kerosene from the chemistry lab. The perps threw the open jar into the river from a bridge. (Since the statute of limitations has expired I can tell you that the smaller piece my friend and I threw in earlier only splashed a few people waiting in line on the street above.) (And sounded like a friggin’ cannon.) 1. I’m sorry to say this one is true. She worked in the bank as a teller. The two scu… shi… er _people_ responsible were caught within the day. One was killed in prison and the other is still there, probably for the rest of his life. This happened thirty years ago and the death penalty was not legal (for which, maybe strangely, I have mixed emotions). 2. Technically true. At the age of 10 I played the drums for an old guy (high school age) on a gospel song he had written. He sent it to a local A.M. station to be played Sunday morning. The first and only time I ever heard it (or that station). The CD is just me fooling around with home recording equipment. I made some copies for friends and family. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/115 "2005-12-18T01:45:18Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Like others, I’m having trouble coming up with two truths so I’m going to do three. > > 1. When I was in junior high, one of my brothers dangled me head first in the stairwell in our house. > > 2. When I was in high school, I sent a fellow student off a stairwell landing because he bumped into me. > > 3. I initially failed my entrance physical for the military because my ears were clogged with wax. > > 4. I once took the entrance exam for the Metropolitan Police in Washington, DC–even though I knew there was no way I could pass their physical. [spoiler]1. True, though I meant to say that he dangled me _over_ the stairwell, not _in_. He’s also responsible for my breaking a leg in a grocery store and I suspsect he’s responsible for my falling into a river in Kentucky long before I knew how to swim. 1. False. I did try to push the guy off the landing but in my blind rage I didn’t realize there was a railing between him and the drop. 2. True. I was given a hearing test and failed that because I didn’t understand the instructions–I thought I had to push the button every time I heard a _beep_, not that I had to hold the button until I didn’t hear the beeps anymore. I didn’t fail the physical because of that, though. They let me take the hearing test again, that time I did it right but I couldn’t hear a middle frequency and had trouble with high frequency. I went home, got my ears cleaned out, and tried the hearing test again a week later. That time I passed with flying colors. I still had some trouble with high frequency but that’s normal. 3. True. I got up very early that day, about 5am I think, to get to the testing site. When I got there, I discovered that my eyesight is too poor to pass the MPD physical but I took the test anyway since I went through the trouble of getting there. This was in either '89 or '91, when there was a big push for police recruits in DC and they ended up with a bunch of bad apples.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/116 "2005-12-18T03:14:08Z")
I turned down a date with Johnny Depp, but I didn’t know who he was back then. My daughter and I attended a childbirth-preparation class where Kenny Loggins and his family were the only other attendees. I walked out on a performance by Joe Cocker in a local biker bar, because I thought he was an imitator and he kept doing things that creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/117 "2005-12-18T09:48:59Z")
I wanna play! 1. I once got a job driving a forklift that ended when my manager learned I didn’t have a license to drive one at the same time I learned you needed a license to drive one. 2. I once had to physically restrain a waitress from stabbing a _Days of Our Lives_ villain with a steak knife. 3. When I was much younger I was hit on by a married male _Hee-Haw_ star. 4. I have a phobia of my mailbox. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/118 "2005-12-18T19:30:19Z")
**brightpenny** I’m going to guess 2? **Sampiro** , 3. Nobody REALLY watches or knows anyone from Hee Haw. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/119 "2005-12-18T19:53:05Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > **brightpenny** I’m going to guess 2? Here you go: 1. Johnny Depp: False. Who in their right mind would turn him down? 2. Kenny Loggins: True 3. Joe Cocker: True ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-a-game-and-at-the-same-time-learn-interesting-things-about-each-other/335702/120 "2005-12-18T20:38:11Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > **Sampiro** , 3. Nobody REALLY watches or knows anyone from Hee Haw. 😉 Correctamundo (though it does give interesting images of Grandpa Jones in a muscle shirt, you must admit). [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=5) [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=7)