# 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:** 29
**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 28, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/562 "2025-07-28T04:29:26Z")
Every poem in my book of original poetry begins with the line “Roses are red.” ---
**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 28, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/563 "2025-07-28T11:41:53Z")
My fingerprints spell out the text of the book _The Grapes of Wrath_. ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/564 "2025-07-28T13:36:32Z")
Well, who _hasn’t_? ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/565 "2025-07-28T22:52:17Z")
I live in a cavity underneath some loose floorboards in the cereal aisle of an old Kroger supermarket ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/566 "2025-07-29T06:19:59Z")
I have a single tear tattoo under my eye, to signify the one peron I killed - the tattooist. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/567 "2025-07-29T06:24:42Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > the one peron I killed - the tattooist. I am the ghost of Peron, the tattoo artist that Hatchie killed. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/568 "2025-07-29T06:25:58Z")
I once received a tattoo, but my mutant healing factor caused my skin to eject the ink back out. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/569 "2025-07-29T12:12:41Z")
I have a tattoo that says, “The plane! The plane!” ---
**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 29, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/570 "2025-07-29T12:26:59Z")
I have Hervé Villechaize’s corpse in the vault freezer I bought just for that purpose ---
**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 29, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/571 "2025-07-29T19:48:05Z")
About six months ago, I commissioned an ice cream sculpture of Mr. Roarke and Tattoo gazing into the sky awaiting the plane. I keep it in a purpose-built cold room, and every day I eat a little bit of it. I expect it to last until mid-2028. ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/572 "2025-07-31T01:17:26Z")
I eat chocolate and only chocolate. ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/573 "2025-07-31T01:40:22Z")
I have a tattoo of an icecream cone made with chocolate-flavored ink. I need to have it touched-up again, I keep licking it off. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/574 "2025-07-31T23:27:09Z")
I have never lost a game of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots despite my lack of thumbs. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/575 "2025-07-31T23:58:41Z")
My typing speed is 30 words per minute with my fingers, but 75 words per minute with my toes. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/576 "2025-08-01T16:57:15Z")
I have triple-cheeked buttocks. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/577 "2025-08-01T17:02:08Z")
I have all 10 of my fingers - 4 on the left hand and 6 on the right. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/578 "2025-08-02T01:30:40Z")
I was raised by a family of flying squirrels. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/579 "2025-08-02T05:09:38Z")
I am happy and feeling well. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/580 "2025-08-02T05:33:11Z")
I have put all my affairs in order…which displeased seven out of ten of them and _really_ displeased My Beloved. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/581 "2025-08-02T05:42:46Z")
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