Let's play a game (and at the same time learn interesting things about each other)

The Sausage Creature, I’m going to guess number 2 for you.

RickJay, number 2 also (the other two things seems just crazy and factual enough to be true).

  1. True, although I fudged the wording a little. We had the incredible fortune to meet the elusive Mr Grey during a summer program in Scotland, and a bunch of my friends and I wanted to take a picture with him. He agreed to do so graciously, then alarmed the entire room by stretching himself out on the floor at our feet. We thought he was having a heart attack. Turns out he was arranging himself for the picture. So yes, he was prostrated at my feet, and I have the picture to prove it.

  2. True. I was the most anti-social third grader, and preferred reading to … everything else, actually. My teachers and parents banned me from reading for a month in order to force me to become more social. Apparently it worked.

  3. False - a friend of mine was. He recited some beat poetry that poked fun at poststructuralism and some guy walked up to him and said “You’re a fucker” before walking off. “Dude,” said the guy next to him in awe, “Jacques Derrida just called you a fucker.”

  1. To make my wife jealous during my friend’s wedding reception, I went up to the sluttiest dressed girl (unknown to me), asked her to dance (in front of her boyfriend), and then during the slowdance, ran my hand down her back and grabbed her butt, with my wife watching only 10 feet away.

  2. While roadtripping with friends, we climbed onto a granite hilltop at Yosemite NP, dropped our drawers, bent over to make a create a photograph called “Four Moons Over Yosemite”; our three butts on the skyline with the Moon lined up as the fourth. My wife (observing) then grabbed one of my friend’s butt and swatted the other.

  3. In Vegas, my wife and her friends made a deal with the guys that they would go to a dinner & show in short skirts without panties on, if us guys wore their panties instead. We then took turns guessing who’s panties we were wearing since we didn’t know (they were handed over to us in a bag). Three panties were clean, one was slightly musky. Groping ensued during the show.

Yep, I’m just married to one.

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.

Okay, I shall now reveal the truth… or the lie, I guess.

1)This is true, in fact. Who say’s I’m unadventurous? The smell of coffee has always kept me from wanting to get close enough to drink it. In the case of tea, I was made to taste it by a teacher when I was younger, and it was so foul (to me) that I had to spit it out.
2)This is a bit of a lie, I must admit. My feet are pretty big, but not that big.
3)Yep indeed. My father made a recorder (the musical intrument) for me to learn on when I was a kid, and he’s apparently a pretty good recorder builder, so it ended up in the museum for a little while.

So, now you know.

As for Pochacco, I reckon… number 1 is a lie. I’m not sure if you’ve set it on fire more or fewer than three times, but I’m pretty certain it wasn’t exactly three. I know there’s another lie in there, but I’ll leave that up to someone else.

~ Isaac

To make mine trickier, I’m gonna have 3 real ones and 1 fake.

  1. While on a Knowledge Bowl high school trip to El Salvador, my teammates and I went across the street from the hotel we were staying in to a strip club.

  2. While skydiving, I collided with a bird, fracturing 3 of my ribs.

  3. A friend of mine hot-wired a moped in S. Korea we which rode together until it ran out of gas.

  4. I have been caught by the Guatemalan police smoking marijuana on 3 different occasions, each time getting off scott free by the means of bribery.

  1. Yep. We moved a lot when I was a kid.
  2. Yep. Such a boring life I lead.
  3. This would be the lie then. My mother has 32/20 vision but I do not. In fact, during a game of “let’s try on everyone’s glasses!” my glasses once made a friend so nauseous she had to sit down for a while.

I’m going to guess #3 on r4nd0mNumb3rs’ post. And shall continue with the four-question format.

  1. At the age of 14, I was employed for two months to mop up blood every day.
  2. I once beat up three other perfectly healthy males with nary a scratch.
  3. I was offered (but did not accept) a peace pipe by Leonard Peltier.
  4. I was personally allowed into the KGB museum, so as to witness their technology.

I’m guessing #3 as the lie here. :cool:

And just to be one of the cool people, I’ll make a four-question entry.

  1. My legs have been continually itchy ever since about two years ago. It mostly goes away when I’m wearing pants or sleeping.
  2. I once took a dump so large that it was, as near as anyone can figure, partially or even mostly responsible for the death of the plumbing in the entire building.
  3. I leave clumps of hair stuck to the bathroom wall and get unaccountably angry whenever anyone asks me to get rid of them.
  4. I wash my hands in hot water - as hot as I can manage it. Always have.

Since marque elf took a guess, here’s the big reveal:

[spoiler]

  1. False. I did find and keep a femur, and I did jokingly tell people it was the mortal remains of assorted famous folk, but it definitely belonged to some sort of large animal.

  2. True. When I was 19, I dated two guys who supplemented their incomes by selling drugs. I didn’t know about it when I started dating either of them, and the relationships only lasted a few months.

  3. True. When I was in art school, I modeled for my roommate when she needed a couple of extra life drawings for her final portfolio.[/spoiler]

Because moonstarsun took a whirl:

Number 2, not 3, is the lie. Yes, alas, the cute boy did get a splendid look at my bum (he was very nice about it, though, and helped me to my feet and dusted me off… shame, he’s probably some other lucky girl’s guy by now sigh.)

Got it in one. :frowning:

I did climb that flagpole, a very tall one at that (2, maybe 3 stories) several times. Og, I can’t tell you how ballistic I’d go if my 13-year-old son would do something as stupid as that today. I’m lucky to be alive.

My sister did have a primitive tail at birth, basically a few extra skin-covered vertebrae in the coccyx that poked out of her rump. It fell off shortly after birth and I still have memories of viewing the shriveled thing as it sat on a table in our house for a few weeks before my mom (I assume … I hope) threw it away.

This remains an occasional source of amusement for my brother and me – and a source of embarrassment for our little sister, of course.

Well, since moonstarssun (who apparently shares my ability to be nude in front of unorthodox audiences) took a stab at mine, I’ll do my reveal like others in this thread have.

[spoiler]1. True. I onced posed for a Spencer Tunick photograph which was a large group nude. The subjects were gathered at a huge Phish festival in 1997, and I was one of them. I don’t know if his photograph was published in a book anywhere, but I do know that the festival was documented in a book (aptly titled “The Phish Book”) which contained a shot of me, clear as day, sitting there naked. Fortunatley, I was seated in such a way that my privates remained private.

  1. True. In my college days I was part of a sketch comedy group with our own television program. It was a university production, that was never broadcast on any channel greater than the university channel (or local public access) but it was on the tube. I appeared nude (again, privates remaining private…it wasn’t porn) in a few sketches.

  2. False. Although my one role in an as-of-yet-unreleased indy film consisted of me playing a hick auto mechanic who’s lines consisted of mainly “yup” and “nope,” I was fully dressed in this particular role.[/spoiler]

BTW…I’ve played this 2 truths & a lie game before. It’s always fun in mixed company & a few drinks.

I’m guessing #2 for Pythian is a lie.

  1. With no prior experience, I was once a stand in director for a single half hour segment on television, when the director failed to show.

  2. I was 1992 state Middle School Math Bowl champion in Michigan as one of only two entrants from my school into the local tier of the competition. The other entrant scored only 19 points of 100.

  3. I was once all-but pronounced dead, but when my mother entered the hospital, I made a recovery. The doctors were in the process of declaring me dead when this happened.

  4. I was forced to wear a patch on my left eye, for a couple hours a day, lasting six months, until an optometrist finally identified that I was totally blind in my right eye. No one else has ever had the slightest clue that I am blind in one eye, without me telling them.

Incorrect, if you were talking about my second set… The lie is #4. I wash my hands in cold water.

And my super-secret answers are…1. It’s true. When I was a kid, one of my mom’s friends was a freelance photographer for the local paper, so I was always the kid at the fair, or buying new school supplies or whatever. She also got me on tv a couple times doing the same sort of stuff. Sadly, that was the end of my tv career, which leads us to…
2. False. If the Kevin Bacon number thing allowed designers, I’d have a number (3), but it doesn’t, so I don’t.
3. It’s true (sorry moonstarssun). I was in a single person lift about 23 feet up, (sort of like this one) getting pushed around without the outriggers in, which is one of the stupidest things you can do. We hit a small bump in the floor, and one of the back wheels cracked in half. The whole thing tipped over, and I went with it. I somehow jumped out of the basket about half way down, rolled when I hit the floor, and ended up without even a bruise. I did hit my head pretty hard, but that just left me with a headache - no marks. Amazingly, even though there were about 15 other people on stage, no one else got hurt either. Yes, I am the luckiest person I know. This happened about 5 years ago, and I still dream about it occasionally. Usually the night after I spent any time up in one of those lifts.

  1. The Cruise Director on TV’s “Love Boat,” Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes), once tried to kick me in the balls.

  2. I once French-kissed my sister while blindfolded.

  3. I was stopped by police for driving around a car that had a sign reading: “Attention car thieves: this car is already stolen.”

1.) I once ran in front of a freight train going full speed on a dare, and crossed it’s path a mere second before it passed.

2.) I got my first “real” job by completely lying about my degree (complete with a fake photoshopped copy of a diploma and transcripts) and qualifications on my resume, and learned the job well enough in a couple of weeks that it was never suspected.

3.) I once rode my motorcycle at a sustained speed of 150 mph for nearly a full minute on a public road in northern Ontario, Canada.

I’ll say #2. Kissed I could see. French kissed? No way.

Got to be #2. Not that it couldn’t be done, I just don’t think you did.

And Mine:

  1. I share an ex-lover with Olympic Gymanst Bart Connor
  2. Until 1992, I held the High School Sectional record in the 400m Intermediate Hurdles.
  3. A song about me appears in several gay porn films.