# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/101 "2023-09-04T03:06:26Z")
You gave me your word you would take this secret to your grave! ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/102 "2023-09-04T03:07:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _was_ Elvis Presley’s secret lover. > How’s it going, sweetie? You gave me your word you would take this secret to your grave! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/103 "2023-09-04T03:10:07Z")
What I actually said was, “I can keep this a secret as long as you do.” You blew it. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/104 "2023-09-24T17:23:05Z")
At birth, I weighed 29 lbs., 4 oz. One third of that was my ears. I finally “grew into” them two months ago. Next: feet. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/105 "2023-09-24T17:25:48Z")
A moose once bit my sister… No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge—her brother-in-law— an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink”… ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/106 "2023-09-25T03:04:40Z")
I don’t know who my real parents are. The people who raised me later told me they found me in a basket on their doorstep, and the only reason they took me in was that they needed the basket. _ **-“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:** [September 25, 2023, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/107 "2023-09-25T06:18:57Z")
I was the one who wrote the copy for the “Do not remove under penalty of law” tags on mattresses. They paid me with a gift certificate to Baskin-Robbins. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/108 "2023-09-25T14:04:06Z")
I invented the laundromat. Before that, people would take their wash to the river and beat the clothes against the rocks. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/109 "2023-09-25T16:12:24Z")
I’m 67; I’m still a virgin. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/110 "2023-09-25T17:04:54Z")
My life was the inspiration for the movie “What’s New Pussycat”. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/111 "2023-09-25T17:15:29Z")
I thought up a hilarious lie to post here, but I think I’ll keep it to myself. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/112 "2023-09-25T17:17:36Z")
That is absolutely brilliant! I thought about making the same post. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/113 "2023-09-26T10:23:42Z")
This is me [![](https://i.ibb.co/gvkPkzr/39219505-6.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/gvkPkzr/39219505-6.jpg) This is the lie thread, and the above is a lie. It’s actually my uncle, and that is true. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/114 "2023-09-26T13:10:44Z")
That. Is. Boss! (No lie) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/115 "2023-09-26T14:21:38Z")
I invented the phrase “that is boss.” ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/117 "2023-09-27T04:12:38Z")
Sofia Vergara is stalking me. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/118 "2023-09-27T04:14:00Z")
I’m stalking Sofia Vergara, while she stalks @boson . ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/119 "2023-09-27T14:32:44Z")
I stalk dead people. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/120 "2023-09-27T14:33:54Z")
I stalk celery farmers. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-about-yourself/987965/121 "2023-09-27T16:10:19Z")
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