# "Lies, lies, lies!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979 "2008-12-19T21:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/1 "2008-12-19T21:36:45Z")
Loosely based on [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=497819): Each player names three people (or characters, not necessarily human), real or fictional, dead or alive. The next player has to say what all three people have in common: \*But it has to be a total outrageous lie! It can’t be even remotely true of any of the three. \*Then that player give the next three names. Example: Mary, Queen of Scotts Hannibal Lecter Peewee Herman A possible answer would be: They’ve all appeared on boxes of Wheaties. Ok, the first three: Florence Nightingale Barney Frank Eeyore ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/2 "2008-12-19T21:48:05Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Florence Nightingale > Barney Frank > Eeyore They’ve all scored an AA grade on DDR Supernova’s Expert level. Karl Marx Perry Como Charles III of England ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/3 "2008-12-19T21:52:18Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Karl Marx > Perry Como > Charles III of England All were Olympic-level fencing champions. Socrates The Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Christian Bale ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/4 "2008-12-19T22:14:32Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Socrates > The Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) > Christian Bale Finished first, second and third, respectively, in the 32nd annual “Asses You Can Bounce a Quarter Off Of” competition Hulk Hogan Darth Vader’s second cousin’s brother-in-law Martha Stewart ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/5 "2008-12-19T22:28:40Z")
> [@Dosipede](#): > > Hulk Hogan > Darth Vader’s second cousin’s brother-in-law > Martha Stewart Were all with Hugh Grant and Divine Brown in the car that day. Only the LAPD’s clear anglophobic attitude saved them from sharing the scandal. Keira Knightly Tintin Frodo ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/6 "2008-12-19T22:33:25Z")
> [@Claptree](#): > > Keira Knightly > Tintin > Frodo Are all former NWA World Heavyweight Champions. Kosh Pappa Smurf F. Lee Bailey ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/7 "2008-12-19T22:36:52Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Kosh > Pappa Smurf > F. Lee Bailey All have spent at least 5 seconds cooking in Gargamel’s stew pot. Spock Snuffleufagus Urkel ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/8 "2008-12-19T23:06:06Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > All have spent at least 5 seconds cooking in Gargamel’s stew pot. > > Spock > Snuffleufagus > Urkel All served as highly trained snipers during WWII. Hermione Granger Lance Bass Snidely Whiplash ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/9 "2008-12-19T23:41:12Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Hermione Granger > Lance Bass > Snidely Whiplash Appeared as stunt doubles in the movie _My Dinner With Andre_ Richard Petty Edmund Hillary Rudyard Kipling ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/10 "2008-12-19T23:42:38Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Hermione Granger > Lance Bass > Snidely Whiplash Are all attracted to women. Yoda Barack Obama William F. Buckley ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/11 "2008-12-20T00:16:22Z")
> [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](#): > > Yoda > Barack Obama > William F. Buckley They are all fueled by Kenyan Muslim Voodoo worship Colonel Sanders X the Owl Dr. Phil ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/12 "2008-12-20T01:03:46Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > Colonel Sanders > X the Owl > Dr. Phil will all go down in history for perfecting the art of nuclear warfare. James Bond Alf Your best friend from high school ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/13 "2008-12-20T01:27:42Z")
> [@AllWalker](#): > > will all go down in history for perfecting the art of nuclear warfare. > > James Bond > Alf > Your best friend from high school They’re all gay. Hillary Clinton Mark McGwire Jane Meadows ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/14 "2008-12-20T01:57:26Z")
That one’s easy. They were all born with a partially-formed conjoined twin at the top of their head. It was removed from two of them. Millard Fillmore Howdy Doody Charo ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/15 "2008-12-20T02:32:43Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > That one’s easy. They were all born with a partially-formed conjoined twin at the top of their head. It was removed from two of them. > > Millard Fillmore > Howdy Doody > Charo Were all accused of murder. Janet Reno Steve Irwin Marco Polo ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/16 "2008-12-20T09:04:33Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Were all accused of murder. > Janet Reno > Steve Irwin > Marco Polo All play wicked mean jazz trumpet. Charles Dickens John Wesley Hardin Marie Curie ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/17 "2008-12-20T10:00:42Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Charles Dickens > John Wesley Hardin > Marie Curie The famous double-play combination for the 1898 Cleveland Spiders. Ricardo Montalban Wally Schirra Ruth Bader Ginsburg ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/18 "2008-12-20T20:42:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Ricardo Montalban > Wally Schirra > Ruth Bader Ginsburg All were in consideration for playing Jack Sparrow’s father in the last Pirates of the Carribean movie. Muhammad Ali George Bush Charlie Brown ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/19 "2008-12-20T20:58:25Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > All were in consideration for playing Jack Sparrow’s father in the last Pirates of the Carribean movie. > > Muhammad Ali > George Bush > Charlie Brown Although better-known in other fields, all three were major contributors to the science of analytical chemistry. Theda Bara John Julius Norwich St Teresa of Avila ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979/20 "2008-12-21T03:01:16Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Although better-known in other fields, all three were major contributors to the science of analytical chemistry. > > Theda Bara > John Julius Norwich > St Teresa of Avila Famed love triangle. Joseph Stalin Thomas Edison Reginald Bretnor [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lies-lies-lies/477979.md?page=2)