# 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:** 35
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/682 "2026-04-24T22:43:49Z")
I invented asparagus. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/683 "2026-04-24T22:53:45Z")
I wrote a cookbook/spiritual help guide called “Way of the Asparagus.” I’m currently setting up a multilevel marketing scheme to sell it. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/684 "2026-04-24T23:32:23Z")
I was recently reincarnated as an asparagus. I got better. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/685 "2026-04-25T00:15:47Z")
I’m in a creative writing critique group with six stalks of asparagus and two stoats. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/686 "2026-04-25T02:56:04Z")
My grayish hair has a slight green tint to it because of the massive amount of asparagus I’ve been eating. Yum! ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/687 "2026-04-25T12:40:14Z")
I’ve tasted **burpo’s** hair. Yuck. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/688 "2026-04-25T19:33:29Z")
I can taste sweet, sour, salt, bitter, umami, and the rare sixth flavor: plaid. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/689 "2026-04-26T15:31:36Z")
I failed a taste test in Junior High science class because when I answered “umami,” the teacher thought I was dissing his mother. [TIL: “umami”] ---
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/690 "2026-04-26T22:20:05Z")
I recently invented plaid-flavored elevators. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/691 "2026-04-27T20:31:07Z")
I can sing my way out of a paper bag. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/692 "2026-04-28T18:44:04Z")
I have been banned from participating in bar ‘Trivia Night’ games by the Tavern Leagues of eight counties across three different states. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [April 29, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/693 "2026-04-29T01:20:59Z")
I make extra money by smuggling fiber capsules into Turkish prisons for the inmates. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/694 "2026-04-29T02:20:36Z")
Ghod, I _hate_ beer! ---
**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:** [April 30, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/695 "2026-04-30T05:13:32Z")
I have been appointed to lead 5 RANGER - the newest, most top secret UK reconnaissance unit - which is tasked to perform the most dangerous and sexiest missions. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/696 "2026-05-03T22:51:16Z")
I wish Keira Knightley would just stop pestering me, demanding wild, kinky sex at all hours. We’re both married, for chrissakes! Er, to other people, mind you… ---
**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 4, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/697 "2026-05-04T20:12:23Z")
It’s such a dratted nuisance being married to a double dozen women at the same time, not to mention the children! ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/698 "2026-05-04T20:49:36Z")
I just achieved a Charles Atlas figure. ---
**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 4, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/699 "2026-05-04T22:11:37Z")
I was in Witness Protection briefly as a Sea Monkey in a tank of water. ---
**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 5, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/700 "2026-05-05T18:39:36Z")
I was the model for the Charles Atlas Figurine. ---
**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, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/701 "2026-05-05T19:00:39Z")
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