# 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:** 4
**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 4, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/61 "2023-08-04T23:02:30Z")
I’ve got you under my skin. Literally ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/62 "2023-08-04T23:07:07Z")
I won the 2020 election. The deep state rigged everything against me. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/63 "2023-08-05T21:55:12Z")
I know the names and addresses of every single one of you. Now, “blackmail” is such an ugly word – I prefer “extortion.” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/64 "2023-08-07T14:14:25Z")
I am entirely caught up on my work and therefore entirely justified to be wasting time on message boards. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/65 "2023-08-07T16:27:24Z")
I never waste the company’s time by dawdling on-line during business hours. That’s just like stealing. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/66 "2023-08-07T16:29:40Z")
I owe my soul to the company store. ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/67 "2023-08-07T17:11:28Z")
I did all of Tom Cruise’s stunts. ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/68 "2023-08-07T17:12:32Z")
I own Bart Simpson’s soul. I think it’s somewhere in the basement, in a banker’s box on one of my home-made shelves. Maybe. I hope I never have to find it quickly, because I’d be screwed. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/69 "2023-08-07T23:22:25Z")
Ed Z. is selling me the Straight Dope franchise for $2 because he’s, “sick of the whole damn operation.” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/70 "2023-08-07T23:38:52Z")
I’m Batman. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/71 "2023-08-08T01:34:21Z")
And here I thought you were Spartacus! Odd – I’m never wrong. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/72 "2023-08-08T14:54:41Z")
Once I thought I was wrong, but it turned out to be a misjudgement on my part. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/73 "2023-08-08T16:18:47Z")
I’ve been wrong before\* and i’m not afraid to admit it. \*4th June 1973 ---
**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 8, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/74 "2023-08-08T19:22:45Z")
I can do this all day. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/75 "2023-08-09T00:59:04Z")
I’m gettin’ better with age. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/76 "2023-08-09T14:03:40Z")
I’m so happy I have to go to work this morning. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/77 "2023-08-09T16:17:31Z")
I’m thrilled to be unemployed. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/78 "2023-08-09T16:21:01Z")
I have fourteen toes. (Only ten of them are mine.) ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/79 "2023-08-09T16:21:57Z")
I can’t write in English or use electronic devices. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/80 "2023-08-09T16:52:36Z")
I have the body of a thirty-five year old. But it’s deeply buried, and so far no one suspects a thing, _ **-“BB”-** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965.md?page=5)