# Post 2 true and 1 false thing about yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536 "2012-06-28T02:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/101 "2012-06-30T16:58:15Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > I’m guessing #2, although this is a tough one. Nope, that one’s true. It also cost her the hearing in one ear. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/102 "2012-06-30T17:17:05Z")
> [@oreally](#): > > 😕 What part? I don’t recall her ever being on Happy Days. The rest of the world should be so lucky. It was the final season and is best forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/103 "2012-06-30T22:39:08Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > I think this is the last one no one guessed on… > > Number 1 is the lie. Nope. That is absolutely true. I was first tested in second grade because my teacher thought I was “different.” ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/104 "2012-06-30T23:50:28Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > The rest of the world should be so lucky. It was the final season and is best forgotten. Filming before a live audience was the beginning of the end for that show. The writing got worse and worse (even when you didn’t think it could) - when Ron Howard left the show was effectively dead; they just kept milking the cash cow for whatever they could. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/105 "2012-07-01T03:04:15Z")
Two rock ‘n’ roll truths, one rock ‘n’ roll lie: [ol] [li]My name is on the poster (along with 9,999 other fans) that came with Rundgren’s “Todd” album[/li][li]I have conducted two interviews with Pete Townshend[/li][li]I bought some weed from Napoleon Brock, ex-sax player for Frank Zappa[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/106 "2012-07-01T04:18:15Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Two rock ‘n’ roll truths, one rock ‘n’ roll lie: > > [ol] > [li]My name is on the poster (along with 9,999 other fans) that came with Rundgren’s “Todd” album[/li][li]I have conducted two interviews with Pete Townshend[/li][li]I bought some weed from Napoleon Brock, ex-sax player for Frank Zappa[/li][/ol] I’m gonna say number two is the lie. Number one is just SO vague and generic (10,000 fans’ names and you _aren’t_ one of them?) that it seems like you put it in there for that very purpose. Number three sounds very random and specific to me and rings of truth. So that leaves number two. My guess is you actually had one interview IRL, and just tacked on an extra one here for your lie. Those are my answers. But I haven’t been right yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/107 "2012-07-01T07:02:38Z")
1. I painted my penis green at Burning Man and later found a postcard applicable to the circumstances 2. I once ate a taco made of a leaf as the shell and dirt as the meat 3. I was named after the EMT who helped my Mom after a car accident she was involved in while pregnant with me ---
**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:** [July 1, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/108 "2012-07-01T14:16:20Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > …So that leaves number two. My guess is you actually had one interview IRL, and just tacked on an extra one here for your lie. > > Those are my answers. But I haven’t been right yet. 🙂 Your record remains intact! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/109 "2012-07-01T15:50:40Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Your record remains intact! 😛 I go with #1 being false. It’s an easy lie to tell. I haven’t seen the poster, so I don’t know if the names are even readable, but even if they are, most people wouldn’t have the patience to read through all of them to check up on it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/110 "2012-07-01T17:52:41Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > 1. I painted my penis green at Burning Man and later found a postcard applicable to the circumstances > 2. I once ate a taco made of a leaf as the shell and dirt as the meat > 3. I was named after the EMT who helped my Mom after a car accident she was involved in while pregnant with me whoops. wrong post. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/111 "2012-07-01T17:54:26Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Your record remains intact! 😛 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/112 "2012-07-01T20:54:43Z")
> [@oreally](#): > > OK might as well jump in with my “claims to fame” > > 1 - I had a full-page photo and was the opening “featured” person in a major financial magazine (Kiplingers) a few years back, despite having no financial expertise or any career experience in that area. > > 2 - I know Michael Keaton personally - we met before he was big, both from Pittsburgh area. Not super close friends, but enough that I can say hi just about any time I want and occasionally get together when his schedule allows (granted not often and I’m the one traveling). Very nice guy and very intelligent, but kinda “hyper” ie very driven. I guess you have to be in that biz. > > 3 - I not only saw the Tonight Show in person (Jay Leno years) but we talked backstage, and - WITHOUT permission - I sat in the Tonight Show chair behind the desk beforehand. No guesses? Oh I forgot to mention on #3 that I also walked out with Jay as he was leaving and he showed me the sports car he drove to work in. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/113 "2012-07-01T23:04:28Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > whoops. wrong post. What’s wrong with my post? 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 1, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/114 "2012-07-01T23:10:07Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I go with #1 being false. It’s an easy lie to tell. I haven’t seen the poster, so I don’t know if the names are even readable, but even if they are, most people wouldn’t have the patience to read through all of them to check up on it. Yep, you got it–I hardly knew who Todd Rundgren was until one of my coworkers brought in the poster – and a magnifying glass – to brag about _HIS_ name (Mike DeAngelis, if you’re curious) being on it. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/115 "2012-07-02T05:40:06Z")
> [@oreally](#): > > OK might as well jump in with my “claims to fame” > > 1 - I had a full-page photo and was the opening “featured” person in a major financial magazine (Kiplingers) a few years back, despite having no financial expertise or any career experience in that area. > > 2 - I know Michael Keaton personally - we met before he was big, both from Pittsburgh area. Not super close friends, but enough that I can say hi just about any time I want and occasionally get together when his schedule allows (granted not often and I’m the one traveling). Very nice guy and very intelligent, but kinda “hyper” ie very driven. I guess you have to be in that biz. > > 3 - I not only saw the Tonight Show in person (Jay Leno years) but we talked backstage, and - WITHOUT permission - I sat in the Tonight Show chair behind the desk beforehand. > [@oreally](#): > > No guesses? Oh I forgot to mention on #3 that I also walked out with Jay as he was leaving and he showed me the sports car he drove to work in. They all sound like lies to me.🙂 I’ll say #2, only because it’s the most detailed, as if you were using that to throw us off. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/116 "2012-07-02T12:50:50Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Three for me: > > 1. I have played croquet on four continents; > > 2. I messed up on a maximum break (147) in a club snooker match by going in-off on the final black; > > 3. I played football (soccer) every year for 16 years and only ever scored 2 goals in competition. Haven’t seen any guesses for this one yet - too many English sports involved, perhaps? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/117 "2012-07-02T14:14:46Z")
A trio from the beginning of the 1970s: 1. My closest friend in high school used to get calls from Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt, or someone in his employ. 2. I burned my draft card. 3. I was almost part of the mass round-ups of protesters at the D.C. May Day 1971 protests. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/118 "2012-07-02T15:57:44Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > 1. For an art internship I drew a football comic which has since been published, despite me knowing next to nothing about football. > 2. I’m currently writing a superhero comic (which may or may not ever get published). > 3. I’ve been bitten by an opossum, a semi-feral kitten, and attacked by deer. Don’t think anyone has done this one yet. I’m gonna guess #3 for the lie, just because if either 1 or 2 is true (and one of them has to be), there’s no good reason to think the other one isn’t. There’s no reason you \*couldn’t \*be lying about one of those, but there’s no way for someone who doesn’t know you to say, “hey, that just seems unlikely because of \_\_\_.” And even if 1 or 2 is the lie, I’d have to know you pretty well to make the choice between 1 and 2 any more than a coin toss. So I’m going with 3. Besides, 3 is the sort of statement where two out of three things said there could be true, but not the third. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/119 "2012-07-02T16:03:31Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Haven’t seen any guesses for this one yet - too many English sports involved, perhaps? 🙂 That is it. Hard to tell if those are extraordinary events, or maybe every third person in the British Empire has done that. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > A trio from the beginning of the 1970s: > > 1. My closest friend in high school used to get calls from Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt, or someone in his employ. > 2. I burned my draft card. > 3. I was almost part of the mass round-ups of protesters at the D.C. May Day 1971 protests. Hmm, could have been me. The first one is vague, easily could have happened, easy lie to tell also, could have just been your friend lying, but that wouldn’t count if you believed it to be true. The second one is vague too. Draft card burning wasn’t that big in the 70s, but you could have done it at any time just for fun. The third one is also vague. ‘Almost’ part of a mass round-up? The only way it’s totally false is if you were part of the round up, and then you’d use that as a true thing, so this one has to be true. So it’s a toss up between 1 and 2. I’m going with 2. I’ll bet you didn’t burn it at the time, and maybe even have it put away somewhere like I do. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536/120 "2012-07-02T16:16:58Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Don’t think anyone has done this one yet. > > I’m gonna guess #3 for the lie, just because if either 1 or 2 is true (and one of them has to be), there’s no good reason to think the other one isn’t. There’s no reason you \*couldn’t \*be lying about one of those, but there’s no way for someone who doesn’t know you to say, “hey, that just seems unlikely because of \_\_\_.” > > And even if 1 or 2 is the lie, I’d have to know you pretty well to make the choice between 1 and 2 any more than a coin toss. So I’m going with 3. > > Besides, 3 is the sort of statement where two out of three things said there could be true, but not the third. Sorry, wrong. Everything in #3 is true (The opossum and the deer were when I was volunteering at a wild animal rescue place when I was 16. The cat we were trying to get used to people. It didn’t work. The cat injured me more than the other critters, but he was small enough that I didn’t need stitches.) #1 - I did draw artwork for the comic, but it was replaced with art by a professional before publication. I’m in the credits though. (it’s called Gridiron and it’s about the Packers. I think it had a very short run and I don’t know if he got the rest of it published) I really did want #3 to be related to the other two, but I couldn’t think of something. I don’t think I’m very good at this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-2-true-and-1-false-thing-about-yourself/626536.md?page=7)