# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/542 "2025-07-17T19:30:49Z")
I’ve made millions of dollars selling counterfeit copies of the recipe for Reese’s Peanut Butter Big Cups. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/543 "2025-07-18T11:49:50Z")
I developed a recipe for Reece’s Cups That Are So Big It’ll Boggle Your Damn Mind, but the Hershey company send a team of elite assassins after me to suppress it. I’ve been living on the run and off the grid for the last four years. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/544 "2025-07-18T16:14:04Z")
I’m part of that team of elite assassins, and once we geolocate **dirtball** ’s IP address, my work of four years will be done. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/545 "2025-07-18T16:20:36Z")
I can talk to goats. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/546 "2025-07-18T16:45:05Z")
I _am_ a goat. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/547 "2025-07-18T16:47:27Z")
I travel disguised as a goat so as to throw the elite assassins off my trail. … D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/548 "2025-07-18T18:06:00Z")
I taught a goat to play the ukulele. She’s since become quite famous (not for her ukulele playing). You’d recognize her name if I were at liberty to reveal it. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/549 "2025-07-21T01:55:05Z")
I am famous for teaching animals to costume as goats while playing an electric guitar (57 Gibson). ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/550 "2025-07-21T07:52:41Z")
This is the first time I have posted in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/551 "2025-07-21T13:35:20Z")
I am the far and away funniest poster to the thread. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/552 "2025-07-21T13:56:35Z")
I have strong religious objections to posting in this thread. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/553 "2025-07-21T15:02:57Z")
I have thirty-seven half-siblings, all of whom are members of the SDMB. None of them but me know that we all have the same father. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/554 "2025-07-21T21:37:01Z")
MOMA New York is currently exhibiting two of my bronze sculptures: “Pigeon Roadkill” and “Odin Picking His Nose”. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/555 "2025-07-23T02:07:21Z")
I killed Charles Schulz because I was sick of Peanuts. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/556 "2025-07-23T08:58:06Z")
I stole the _t_ out of Charles Schultz’s name in a fit of pique. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/557 "2025-07-23T23:45:04Z")
I beat Donald Trump Jr. thumb wrestling when we were both 6 years old. (Best 2 out of 3) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/558 "2025-07-24T00:01:16Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > can talk to goats. I never met anyone who _couldn’t._ On the other hand, **Goats** talk to **me.**. And I can understand them. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/559 "2025-07-24T00:07:04Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > On the other hand, **Goats** talk to **me** Only if I tell them to! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/560 "2025-07-25T00:57:45Z")
I am the winner of this season of Food Network’s _Worst Cooks in America._ My secret is I’m really a Michelin 3-star chef. 🤫 ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/561 "2025-07-25T23:46:30Z")
I’ve been secretly married to Madonna for the past 3 days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965.md?page=29)