# 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:** 22
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/422 "2024-12-05T22:54:07Z")
Hi! Uh, this is the president of Romania; about those permits for your castle renovation? The cheque bounced. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/423 "2024-12-05T23:22:24Z")
My best friend was from Prague. He died when he fell off the side of a castle in Romania. I wrote his obituary, which was entitled “Bounced Czech.” ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/424 "2024-12-05T23:36:19Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Solme people call me the space cowboy. > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Some call ME the “Gangster of Love”! Some call me “Morris” ---
**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:** [December 6, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/425 "2024-12-06T02:12:16Z")
Morris, that was a true statement about yourself. You are banned from this thread for 60 days, which I have exclusive power to enforce. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/426 "2024-12-06T03:26:41Z")
My two orange tabby cats are great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandsons of the original Morris the Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/427 "2024-12-06T14:29:45Z")
We routinely eat dogs and cats for dinner at my house. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/428 "2024-12-06T18:01:39Z")
I live in Springfield, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/429 "2024-12-06T18:18:21Z")
Me too ! (It was me that ate the dogs and cats.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/430 "2024-12-12T13:47:40Z")
I once drank an entire bottle of Coppertone suntan oil on a dare. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/431 "2024-12-12T15:14:06Z")
One time, when my local gas station was closed because the owner had to stay home and wash his hair, I put five gallons of Coppertone suntan oil in my car’s gas tank and drove back and forth to work for a week on it. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/432 "2024-12-12T15:22:50Z")
After first hearing about dirtball’s apocryphal Coppertone story, I coined the CB term ‘motion lotion’ when referring to fuel. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/433 "2024-12-12T16:42:28Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I once drank an entire bottle of Coppertone suntan oil on a dare. I once drank an entire bottle of Coppertone suntan oil on a date. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/434 "2024-12-12T23:11:15Z")
I don’t eat nothin’ but bearcat soup. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/435 "2024-12-12T23:14:44Z")
Me - I’m all over the meerkat soup stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cee/32/18345_2.png) [@Cee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cee)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/436 "2024-12-12T23:21:00Z")
I’m the main character in a horror movie. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/437 "2024-12-12T23:57:57Z")
I used to be a stoat, but I got better. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/438 "2024-12-12T23:59:56Z")
I’m not worried. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/439 "2024-12-13T00:01:54Z")
When I was a child, an up-and-coming movie director met me, and was so impressed with my precocious wit that he named a character after me in the space-opera film he was developing. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/440 "2024-12-18T13:23:24Z")
I’m a dancin’ prancin’ fool! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/441 "2024-12-19T18:34:39Z")
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