# Lie about yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 2, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965 "2023-08-02T16:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/262 "2024-05-02T21:16:42Z")
I have 17 socks in my sock drawer. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/263 "2024-05-02T22:54:17Z")
I have 17 socks on my left foot and three on my right. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/264 "2024-05-03T03:55:09Z")
I have 17 left feet. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/265 "2024-05-03T04:26:13Z")
My age is 17. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/266 "2024-05-03T04:34:32Z")
I am the 17th person using the name “Peter Morris” ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/267 "2024-05-03T04:39:21Z")
I’m Janis Ian, and I wrote the hit song “At 17” ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/268 "2024-05-03T09:07:17Z")
I was born on Leap Year day in 1956, so I have had only 17 birthdays. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/269 "2024-05-03T09:12:43Z")
I am perfectly sane. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/270 "2024-05-03T12:01:25Z")
I wrote the first draft of a song for Alice Cooper that he would release a year later as “I’m Eighteen.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/271 "2024-05-03T13:30:49Z")
This is the 17th post I’ve written in this thread about the number 17. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/272 "2024-05-03T13:31:31Z")
Stevie Nicks wrote “The Edge of Seventeen” about me. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/273 "2024-05-05T14:58:19Z")
I am 17% Mexican on my mother’s side. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/274 "2024-05-05T15:10:26Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Excuse me, I have an appointment at NASA. > Getting prepared to go into space is just so tedious and time consuming. It’s not that great. I tried to go and we bounced of the dome that covers the Flat Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/275 "2024-05-05T15:11:54Z")
Everyone else in the thread might as well fold. I’m holding a royal flush. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/276 "2024-05-05T17:05:25Z")
How can you have? I have five kings! ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/277 "2024-05-05T18:02:45Z")
I only have a pair of deuces but the pot goes to the player with the gun. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/278 "2024-05-05T22:30:24Z")
I once swam the South Branch of the Patapsco River upstream from Baltimore to Frederick, MD. Getting over Liberty Dam (410 ft.) was a real bastard. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/279 "2024-05-06T00:35:53Z")
I singlehandedly built the Liberty Dam. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/280 "2024-05-06T00:37:00Z")
I _am_ the man who shot Liberty Valance. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/281 "2024-05-06T02:10:01Z")
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