Post 2 true and 1 false thing about yourself

[Dead_Cat]

@TriPolar

That is it. Hard to tell if those are extraordinary events, or maybe every third person in the British Empire has done that.

Ah, fair enough. FTR, they are all pretty unusual - very unusual, in fact, I would say. The point was not to try to fool Americans by putting two “obviously” true items and one “obviously” false one, obscured by lack of knowledge of the sports concerned. Perhaps Malacandra will return and take a stab.

[Sternvogel]

[Quote=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.
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@Dead_Cat

Haven’t seen any guesses for this one yet - too many English sports involved, perhaps?

@Dead_Cat

Ah, fair enough. FTR, they are all pretty unusual - very unusual, in fact, I would say. The point was not to try to fool Americans by putting two “obviously” true items and one “obviously” false one, obscured by lack of knowledge of the sports concerned. Perhaps Malacandra will return and take a stab.

Well, I’m obviously not Malacandra, and I’m in Indiana, but I’ll guess that #2 is the lie. #1 sounds reasonable (I’m guessing Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia, although Antarctica would be the only real shock). #3 could even be a boast if you typically played goalie, but scored twice on freak plays.

[Infovore]

Okay, I’ll play:

1. I once paid $150.00 for a CD.
2. I watched Princess Diana’s funeral procession while on vacation in London.
3. I own a grand champion show cat.

[oreally]

@Esox_Lucius

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.

You’re good. Never met the guy. Guess I overdid it. I started out saying “I know Meg Ryan” but I knew it would never fly. I thought maybe if I take a guy who isn’t really popular right now…oh well

1 and 3 are true. Appeared in Kiplingers and did indeed meet Leno and sit in his chair when no one was around. It was very strange; I was waiting backstage to meet him (due to knowing someone) and after the show they all sorta dispersed, so what the heck…

[Ambivalid]

@Infovore

Okay, I’ll play:

1. I once paid $150.00 for a CD.
2. I watched Princess Diana’s funeral procession while on vacation in London.
3. I own a grand champion show cat.

#3 is the lie. Just feels like it.

[Infovore]

@Ambivalid

#3 is the lie. Just feels like it.

Very good! Yeah, we have purebred cats, but we took them to a show once, they both hated it and so did we (we love cat shows but sitting in one place all day is dead boring when we could be looking at the other cats) so we never did it again.

[Esox_Lucius]

@oreally

You’re good. Never met the guy. Guess I overdid it. I started out saying “I know Meg Ryan” but I knew it would never fly. I thought maybe if I take a guy who isn’t really popular right now…oh well

1 and 3 are true. Appeared in Kiplingers and did indeed meet Leno and sit in his chair when no one was around. It was very strange; I was waiting backstage to meet him (due to knowing someone) and after the show they all sorta dispersed, so what the heck…

Well, I’m one-for-two. I’ll accept that I’m half good. BTW, good idea for a game thread.

[clairobscur]

1)I once was terrorized hearing ghost-like moanings in an isolated house at night

2)I once was terrorized seeing two suns setting on opposite sides of the sky

3)I once was terrorized feeling a large tentacle grasping me while swimming

[clairobscur]

@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.

If 3) was false, you wouldn’t have said “almost”. 1) is too weird to be the made up fact
So, I say you never burnt your draft card.

[clairobscur]

@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.

1. sounds believable 3)Sounds like a real bit of trivia about yourself.

2. Is way too precise and detailled. Even though I don’t even know what you’re talking about there, I say it’s false (and that you didn’t mess up this shot).

[Gyrate]

UK edition:

Despite being an American who moved to the UK in my late 20s, I’ve:

1. Had a three-minute personal conversation with the Queen;

2. Performed onstage at the Royal Albert Hall on multiple occasions, several of which were broadcast live on the BBC; and/or

3. Earned three Blue Peter badges.

[terentii]

Try these on for size. I’ll start with a repeat:

1. I lost my virginity late one Saturday evening in the Chess Booth at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival (and it was a freakin’ cold night in September of '75, too).

2. I once worked at a Russian radio station set up specifically to jam transmissions like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

3. I have met and shaken hands with ST creator Gene Roddenberry, Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy, and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.

[terentii]

@Gyrate

3. Earned three Blue Peter badges.

Aren’t you just a bit … too OLD for, uhm, Blue Peter (and I assume you’re referring to the children’s TV show here)? :rolleyes: :dubious:

[oreally]

@Esox_Lucius

BTW, good idea for a game thread.

Thx. I wish I could take credit, but saw it elsewhere.

@clairobscur

1)I once was terrorized hearing ghost-like moanings in an isolated house at night

2)I once was terrorized seeing two suns setting on opposite sides of the sky

3)I once was terrorized feeling a large tentacle grasping me while swimming

Don’t know but I’d say time to change the meds.

You don’t say if any of these were “real” or just your imagination and turned out to be nothing, so could easily be any of the 3. On a pure guess I’ll say #2 since offhand I can’t even think of something that would resemble that and pretty sure you aren’t a space traveler.

[Ambivalid]

1. I am currently dieting for a bodybuilding competition.

2. I have used steroids.

3. I lifted weights before my injury but I never really got into until I was in a wheelchair.

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

@Ambivalid

1. I am currently dieting for a bodybuilding competition.

2. I have used steroids.

3. I lifted weights before my injury but I never really got into until I was in a wheelchair.

1 is false.

[Ambivalid]

@Maggie_the_Ocelot

1 is false.

Try again.

[oreally]

@Ambivalid

1. I am currently dieting for a bodybuilding competition.

2. I have used steroids.

3. I lifted weights before my injury but I never really got into until I was in a wheelchair.

2 is the obvious answer.

[Ambivalid]

@oreally

2 is the obvious answer.

Wrong. Number three is the lie. I never touched a weight until I became paralyzed; I avoided them like the plague. I have always been an athlete but I was always the small, fast kid who could run like a cheetah; I always (ignorantly and incorrectly) thought lifting weights would “bulk me up” and slow me down.

I actually have used steroids, for a very brief period, eight years ago. But this needs some explanation lol. Ever since my accident, I have struggled with torn rotator cuffs. Well after about four years into being in a wheelchair (which was about eight years ago), my shoulders had progressively deteriorated to the point where I was meeting with an orthopedic surgeon to discuss surgery on the torn rotator cuffs.

Well being an athlete, and using a wheelchair as I do, I really wanted to avoid surgery. The idea terrified me. One of the guys who worked out at the same gym as I did also was a drug/steroid dealer (although he was very low-key as this was a hospital based, family-oriented fitness center) who was familiar with my rotator-cuff issues-as I did my fair share of ‘bitching’ about when working out. Well he offered me some Deca Durabolin, which is an anabolic steroid. This steroid is often used in conjunction with other steroids (stacked) in order to ‘cushion’ the joints and ligaments from the heavy lifting and anabolic effects (muscle growth) of the other steroids in the ‘stack’.

He told me how he used it and his shoulder issues (he had bad tendonitis) totally disappeared while on it. I was very scared and hesitant, however and I asked about side effects. He told me there were basically none (in hindsight I realize this guy knew nothing really). I initially declined. And my shoulders kept hurting. Bad.

This was happening as I was preparing for my first (and only) 10 mile-road race and I REALLY wanted to be able to train; and train without this nagging shoulder keeping me from doing my best. So, in the end, I relented and bought the Deca.

But I had NO idea what I was doing. It’s an injectable drug, and I had never used a needle before so I had him come over to my apartment and inject me. Well he did for that first time but in order to EFFECTIVELY do a cycle, you need to continue with a regular regimen of injections. He was only there for the first. After that, I was on my own.

And I didn’t do it anywhere NEAR right. I only did maybe a total of four injections, instead of I don’t even know how many I was supposed to do; dozens. And I didn’t “stack” it with anything else; I was only interested in helping my shoulder. And it ultimately didn’t help that WHATSOEVER. I did see a bit of increase in appetite and I gained a bit of weight but it was miniscule and not what I was looking for.

This was when I was a young, naive guy. I was just beginning my serious quest into the world of wheelchair sports and I can’t overemphasize just how bad my shoulders were (and still are, to a degree). I have learned so much in the eight years since that time and I look back at it now with a bit of regret. Well, not really “regret”, since nothing really bad happened as a result, but there is no way that knowing what I know now that I would ever do that to myself again.

[Gyrate]

@terentii

Aren’t you just a bit … too OLD for, uhm, Blue Peter (and I assume you’re referring to the children’s TV show here)? :rolleyes: :dubious:

Yes and yes. Nevertheless, this one is true.

And to throw one more thing into the mix, the false item in the list is true for my wife.