Unfortunately, I really don’t know many of y’all well enough to even hazard a guess, but some of those truths are pretty bizzare!
Mine’l have three truths, and one lie, like the cool kids out there:
My grandfather played for the New York Yankees in the 1950’s.
I have a family member who lives just down the street from Jennifer Lopez.
Three days after christmas, while I was on vacation, my house caught on fire.
I have pieces of bone in my eyes which were found in 1st grade.
Because my life cannot be contained by a mere two truths:
I once subverted a public ATM, convincing it to load Windows XP and play Beethoven (but not give me money).
I’ve been hospitalized at least once per summer for the past five years.
Although I hold a black belt in Shaolin kempo karate, I’ve never once had to defend myself.
A program I wrote is now used by several major corporations.
Correct!
True - Hey, what can I say? I was young (14) and dumb.
Lie - But very nearly true. I had seriously considered it but managed to convince them to hire me on sans university degree.
True - And it was a hell of a ride, and I’ll never do it on a public road again unless it’s during a road race like the Isle of Man TT or Cape Breton Festival of Speed.
I don’t think anyone took a stab at detecting the lie, so here goes:
True. I am suprisingly flexible. I was demonstrating this ay my college’s radio station during my friends late night show when the incident occured.
False. I had about nine cavaties as a kid, because of the infrequent flossing and brushing. However, the part about never needing braces is true, as is the part about having a tooth go missing for almost four years. I also haven’t had any winsdom teeth remoevd…but then, I haven’t had any come in yet, either.
3 Also true, though I think the more accurate name is cat scratch disese, if it’s even called that anymore. Basically, we had an outdoor cat that would kill mice and brids, and get nasty bacteria on its claws. It scratched my leg, and the bacteria took a vacation to my lymphnode.
BZZZZTTT!! Sorry, no winnah here. In spoilers, here are my answers.
[spoiler]1. I have killed two people in my lifetime. One I shot, one I killed with my bare hands. Both were ruled self-defense. BOGUS
My ex-brother-in-law is an actor. He had just had a guest appearance on Bewitched the week before we went out to LA to visit my sister and him. He took us on an insider’s tour of the back lot and we visited the Bewitched set. I was awstruck by getting to talk with Elizabeth Montgomery who I thought was hot, and oh, boy, was she ever! And tall, too! And just absolutely a wonderful woman who took the time out of her busy schedule to chat with a tongue-tied teenage idiot and make him feel important. She was a class act and I’m still in love with her. I cried when I heard she had died.
My Taekwondo school does break-a-thons to support various charities. Five years ago, we were doing one to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Channel 13 here in Houston invited us to appear live on the Sunday morning local news. We broke about 25 boards on the air to start our break-a-thon and I got the newsbabe to break one as well. We were on the air for about 10 minutes and I was being interviewed for about half of that.
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Lies. I don’t know where Jennifer Lopez lives, but I doubt it’s somewhere that other people just are down the street from.
Assuming I’m right, how did the pieces of bone find their way into your eye, Tamryne?
[spoiler]#1. TRUE. My wife asked me to dance first at the reception, but we had just got there and I wanted a couple of drinks to loosen up so I wouldn’t care about how crappy I danced. So, she asked another friend of mine (who went solo) to go dance with her. After quaffing 4 potions of “bad dancing invulnerability”, I decided to have some fun and ask this girl of 20-22 who looked killer in a tight miniskirt to go dance with me and I let her in on the joke I wanted to play on my wife (who was still dancing with my friend). Her boyfriend felt a little threatened at first, but I said that I wasn’t gonna steal her or anything of the sort, and he was ok with that. The liquor made me grab her butt though.
#2. TRUE. This was a magical trip. My cousin and her husband, another couple (both friends that I both knew since grade school), my wife (who was my GF at the time) at the time, took a trip to Mammoth, Yosemite, and Tahoe for my 21st birthday. It was in the summer and we only went into the backside of Yosemite near lake Tenaya. My friend mentioned that it would be cool for us to climb up the hill with the wives, but since they were tired they stayed below and watched us go up. Once we got to the top, we mooned them hundreds of feet below us. My friend’s wife had a nice camera with good zoom and a tripod and yelled at us to stay there. She told my GF to go up the hill and tell us to stay there to do it again. She also found the Moon nearby us and moved around enough to get it within the vicinity of ourselves perched up on the crest of the hill. As my GF made her up, she told us that she’s gonna take the picture. I invited her to join in, but she refused. She moved away so she wouldn’t be in the picture. After the picture, she made a comment about our butts, so we mooned her again where she expressed herself by swatting my cousin’s husbands butt, and grabbing my friends butt. She told me that I would “get mine” later.
#3. FALSE - but not entirely. The women didn’t wear panties under their skirts when they went to the restroom to take them off at the dinner, just before the show. When they came back, each guy got his girl’s panties discreetly put into the pockets of our pants. Groping did ensue during the show. Ahhhh, Vegas![/spoiler]
I do miss the spontenaety of those early days.
Well, let me hope that #2 isn’t true since that seems to be the worse of the 3… 
I’ve always thought she was very pretty, and heard she liked nature/hiking/camping and (duh) sex. My kinda woman! Tell her Duke thinks she’s hot 
[spoiler]1. False. The event did happen, but I was not present at the time. The friend who was struck needed more than 20 stitches, and the friend whose motorcycle was stolen used the insurance money to buy an even faster one.
True. They’d fallen into some bad habits and went through over $40k in just a few months binging on cocaine and heroin. Just when they seemed within reach and willing to turn their lives around, they both committed that bizarre suicide pact. They left no note and told no one about it… it came as quite a shock to everyone.
True. A friend and I were accosted by two police officers who caught us red handed with less than what one might call a prosecutable amount. One of the cops was still green and the other an old vet. The vet knocked us around a little bit and the rookie kept making these really obviously over-the-line threats that were so extreme as to be hilarious (though maybe it was just the acid). It was all I could do to keep from laughing, even with a knee in my back and my face pushed into the cruiser’s hood. The older one seemed intent on trying to put a scare into us and had us as much as handcuffed when I convinced him we’d learned our lesson and that we’d never return to his city. Never did either, but there’s not much reason anyone would actually want to go to Paterson, NJ.[/spoiler]
Yeesh. This certainly forces me to confront how many stories I’ve already told here and there on The Dope, or that I can’t remember if I’ve told them or not…
1 - I once interrupted a gang rape when I was in college, by pulling into my parking spot at a house I was sharing with some other students just off campus. In my headlights, I saw a guy just before he jumped back into the bushes and down a trail. When I yelled out that it was private property and let my housemate’s German shepherd out onto the porch to bark a bit, I heard a commotion as a group of people ran off down a nearby road.
2 - The first time I consumed pot was around the age of 8, blended into a carob and mint soy milkshake, made for me and my friend by her mother.
3 - I once spent a day lurking along on a police investigation of a murder where the investigators were attempting to use the skills of a psychic who was a friend of mine. It was in a small town a few hours outside of Columbus, Ohio.
Four true, two false:
At age 15, I worked the light board for a band at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
I have been a passenger in four major car accidents (the cars were totalled) but have never received more than a scratch on the shin.
I played pool with Dennis Weaver. He won.
When I was 16, I drove a Mazda pickup 125 mph on the 405 freeway in broad daylight.
I’ve had sex outdoors/in public about 40 times.
Noam Chomsky once sent me an email.
[spoiler] 1. Half-truth. I was the assistant to the light board operator, but I was there, backstage at the Troubadour, at the ripe-old age of 15.
False. I have only been in three major car accidents (yes, the cars were totalled, and yes, I only received a scratch on the shin.)
True. He was a very good sport about it, too. Bought me a beer afterward and everything.
True. It wasn’t my truck, but the owner was in the passenger seat and said it would be ok.
True.
True. He was responding to an email I sent him telling him that his likeness was being used on a pro-Bush website. His response: “Thanks. I pay no attention to what appears on the internet.” [/spoiler]
My grandfather played for the New York Yankees in the 1950’s.
I have a family member who lives just down the street from Jennifer Lopez.
Three days after christmas, while I was on vacation, my house caught on fire.
I have pieces of bone in my eyes which were found in 1st grade.
Answer:
[spoiler] 1) false. He tried out, but missed the cut by one person. He played in the minor leagues for many years, until cancer finally got him.
True. Well, he does for the time being, until her new house is finished. Then he’l live across the corner from her. Private gated community, beverly hills 90210. Yea, when I went to visit every time we passed her house we slowed down to see if we recognized anyone! Unfortunately, while there were cars everywhere, no one really famous showed up, let alone the lady herself. Poohey.
True. Third grade, December 28th, 1997. We were in florida when we got the call. At least it waited until after christmas to happen! It burned down the kitchen/breakfast areas, almost blew a hole in the roof, and got soot everywhere. Not much fun.
True. Its a condition known as drusen (sp?). I dont know how rare/common it is, but Ive got it. Technically its calcium deposits, but they are the same as bone sans the marrow part. They formed while I was being formed, and are floating around in there as far as I know. The only reason they became an issue is because they make my optic nerve swell, a classic sign for a brain tumor. So! One MRI scan, spinal tap, and ultrasound later, they find that its something that really doesnt amount to much. Might make my eyesight a little worse, but other than that, they really dont affect me much. [/spoiler]
Good guess though Taran!
I say #2 is the lie. You would’ve let the slime bleed.
:smack: Somehow I scrolled blindly through Idle’s guess and it’s confirmation.
Oh, what the hell.
I dont post much, so noone knows me that well on here - but that also means no one has an unfair advantage
Looking at some of these previous posts, I’m rather boring, but here it goes (its tough to think of a boring lie!):
I am almost 30 years old and never saw Alice in Wonderland and I didn’t see Star Wars until I was in college.
Ever since I started cross country in high school (16), I have jogged my age in miles on my birthday (not without stopping though - just within the 24 hours of the day).
I have been in an accident where the driver was killed (crushed) and I walked away without a scratch.
And the spoilers:
True. Not much else to say about that, except that it would surprise people I know that I didn’t see Star Wars until I was in college because I’m traditionally quite a geek/dork/whateveryoucallit.
False. That was my dad when he turned 50. Yes, he ran 50 miles in a 24 hr time period when he turned 50. An he did 60 km when he turned 60. But thats not me.
True. Bus accident when I was 6. Bus crossing a major intersection, hit on the driver side up front by a tanker truck. Bus flipped through the air, driver was flung out, bus landed on top of her on the other side of the highway. I walked out without a scratch. For some dumb reason, they decided it would be a good idea to get all the kids, who had been through this horrific experience, to board another bus to be taken to the hospital. Taken to the hospital I can understand, but the first question I asked was: “is this bus going to get into an accident too?” For some reason, them saying ‘nope! it’s a brand new bus!’ was enough to convince me that I’d be safe.
Nope, that one happened. It was a big celebrity golf tournament for charity in Montgomery, AL, the villain was an actor named Andrew Masset who, as memory serves, had recently raped the character Hope, and a c-o-u-n-t-r-y (we’re talking hillbilly what am) waitress and Days fanatic that I pointed him out to really did have a moment of temporary insanity, pulled a steak knife and started towards him. I had to pull her back and thought I was going to have to slap her, but she said “Well… if I’d cut him he should take it as a compliment on his acting”. (I understand this type of thing happens all the time to soap opera and wrestling villains- Louise Sorel, who was also a Days villain, said in an interview that she’s been spit at and slapped by fans of the show.)
I think all of this weirdness has come up on the Board before, so probably no surprises to anyone familiar with me:
I worked on Laser Propulsion with the founder of the L-5 Society
I was featured on the full-color glossy cover of a major national catalog wearing only a loincloth
The writer of Love Letters once put on one of my plays
I worked in the laboratory of Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor of the Strobe, and had a key to his darkroom
I co-authored papers with one of the Challenger astronauts.
honeydewgrrl, I’m going to guess that #2, the pot milkshake, is the lie.
Me:
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[li]I nearly lost my left leg at the knee while working as a deckhand on an Alaska salmon boat.[/li][li]I had a summer fling with a French girl when I was overseas in high school.[/li][li]I’ve gone scuba diving in an underwater cave at night, at a depth of about 60 feet.[/li][/ol]
I’ve been on national radio twice and national television once.
Svend Robinson cruised me once.
I once fell over a waterfall.
