# Truth or Dare? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432 "2005-11-04T05:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/521 "2005-11-06T16:07:58Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Here you go - a proposed statute section defining the flossing of teeth: > > For purposes of this section, flossing shall be defined as the purposeful and knowing removal by any person, or the purposeful and knowing attempted removal by any person of any particulate or partially digested matter from a single tooth, or lodged between adjacent teeth of any person or animal, or the removal or attempted removal of such particulate matter that may accumulate between such adajacent or colocated teeth and the gum line, or the removal or attempted removal of such particulate or partially digested matter attached to or lodged upon the front of any tooth or adjacent teeth, by the use of a waxed or otherwise treated thread under tension designed for the aforementioned purpose, or by untreated thread used in similar fashion, providing that no instance of flossing shall exist upon the mere intromission or insertion into the mouth of the person or animal in question any untreated thread for any purpose other than that associated with the removal of particulate or partially digested matter as hereunder defined. > > * * * > > I like spanking 3 young girls. _WHOOSH!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/522 "2005-11-06T16:20:14Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > _WHOOSH!_ Then I guess it worked. 🙂 * * * I like spanking 4 young girls. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/523 "2005-11-06T16:21:44Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > Ok then your next five posts have to be in iambic pentameter. I can speak in doggerel verse, but in fives I only get worse. Can I have a truth please, instead of sharp knees, so I can go on with this game? ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/524 "2005-11-06T16:28:56Z")
dare me. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/525 "2005-11-06T16:34:56Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > dare me. You were caught having sex with your SO at your desk or place of employment, after hours, and been asked to resign. Write your resignation letter, believably explaining and apologizing for your conduct. It shouldn’t be sexually explictly - obviously - but it should leave no doubt what coduct you’re admitting to and why you (now) understand it was inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/526 "2005-11-06T16:38:16Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > I can speak in doggerel verse, but in fives I only get worse. Can I have a truth please, instead of sharp knees, so I can go on with this game? Scott, enormous wealth or enormous power? The two may or may not be exclusive in real life but they are for the purposes of this question. Give a one-sentence answer as to why you chose the way you chose. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/527 "2005-11-06T16:40:55Z")
Anaamika: T or D? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/528 "2005-11-06T16:44:21Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Scott, or enormous power? The two may or may not be exclusive in real life but they are for the purposes of this question. Give a one-sentence answer as to why you chose the way you chose. enormous wealth. I do not care to control peoples lives, however, I would enjoy owning each and every piece of memorabilia from each and every fandom I belong, along with an ability to support causes I believe in, without needing to work for a living. P.s. Hey, wait, you aren’t **Ludy**. Eh, close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/529 "2005-11-06T16:46:38Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Anaamika: T or D? I’ll take my chances and do a dare. Scott, I know it was really Ludy’s job to free you from that, but I felt pity. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/530 "2005-11-06T16:47:24Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > **Scott Plaid** , Tell me a selfish thing you’ve done. Not once, but multiple times, I have taken the last item in stock while shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/531 "2005-11-06T16:49:17Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > **NE Texan** , truth or dare?\ > > Truth or dare, Scott Plaid, \ Um… You choose. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/532 "2005-11-06T16:51:25Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’ll take my chances and do a dare. Similar to the MBBB Dare – you’ve been caught by your employer stark naked, in the supplies closet. And been asked to explain yourself credibly. Write your letter of explanation here, without accusing anyone of any crime or wrongdoing (except, if you chose, yourself). ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/533 "2005-11-06T17:05:03Z")
Can I get a dare? I’m feeling daring today … and I don’t feel like doing my work. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/534 "2005-11-06T17:12:55Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Similar to the MBBB Dare – you’ve been caught by your employer stark naked, in the supplies closet. > > And been asked to explain yourself credibly. Write your letter of explanation here, without accusing anyone of any crime or wrongdoing (except, if you chose, yourself). To Ms. Lisa Jonas, I am hereby writing this communique in order to apologize for my most unprofessional behavior as was documented on last Friday, the 16th of March. I realize that the staff caught me in a most uncompromising position. I humbly appreciate the opportunity to state my side and to be able to explain what brought about such a bizarre turn of events. When my coworker, Ms. Smith caught me _in flagrante delicto_ without any apparel on in the supply cabinet, what she saw was the culmination of a series of events. I had taken it upon myself to clean the supply cabinet, as I do periodically. As I was cleaning, with my usual grace and aplomb I managed to stumble into a spider’s web. Now, normally, spiders do not frighten me, but this one must have had an egg sac close to hatching, for it burst upon me. I suddenly had what seemed like hundreds of tiny spiders racing across my skin, into my clothes, and all over my body. Frightened, I at first tried to brush them off, but there were simply too many, and as I saw many rush inside my skirt and my blouse I became more and more terrified. In my panic it seemed to me the best thing to do would be to remove my apparel, which I quickly began doing so. I flung down item after item, without really thinking through the repercussions of my actions. I finally felt I was clear and was methodically stomping the spiders with the heel of my shoe when to my great consternation, the supply room door was flung open and there stood Ms. Smith. Her shock was no greater than mine, I assure you. I was not able to explain to her the situation as she understandably shut the door again to give me time to get dressed. In summation, I do not list these series of events as an excuse, but merely an explanation. I once again thank you for the chance to explain, and would like to take this opportunity also to point to my years of exemplary service with Acme Incorporated. I have always been professional and upstanding, and I hope sincerely that you may be able to forgive my momentary lapse. I will be awaiting your correspondence. Thank you for your time. Sincerely yours, Anaamika ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/535 "2005-11-06T17:18:47Z")
> [@liberty3701](#): > > Can I get a dare? I’m feeling daring today … and I don’t feel like doing my work. 😛 Turnabout is fair play. For the next five post, you must speak in doggerel (half-assed) verse. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/536 "2005-11-06T17:28:12Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Turnabout is fair play. > > For the next five post, you must speak in doggerel (half-assed) verse. Well, Sir, I must say This is a good way To waste my day I have no idear If I have this clear somethingsomething fluff Is this half-assed enough? ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/537 "2005-11-06T17:59:40Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > You were caught having sex with your SO at your desk or place of employment, after hours, and been asked to resign. Write your resignation letter, believably explaining and apologizing for your conduct. It shouldn’t be sexually explictly - obviously - but it should leave no doubt what coduct you’re admitting to and why you (now) understand it was inappropriate. **To Whom It May Concern:** ``` I would like to formally apologize for my behavior on Saturday, November 5, 2005. I stopped by the office to pick up my briefcase, which I'd forgotten. My girlfriend had always wanted to see where I worked. Not being one to disappoint a lady, I gave her the grand tour. We ended the tour at my desk, where I told her to wait while I visited the men's room. After I'd finished my business, I was washing my hands, when I saw her behind me in the mirror. I turned around just as she was stepping out of her underwear. I felt lightheaded, like the blood immediately left my brain and settled into a lower region. One thing led to another, and I lost all track of time. We were taking a breather before we went on to round three when the police busted in and caught us. Seems that the bowling alley next door called 911 when they heard her screaming. ``` I know my behavior was inappropriate, I just got caught up in the moment. Please accept my resignation **Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy** ---
**Author:** ![Exploding\_Kitchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Exploding\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exploding_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/538 "2005-11-06T19:12:10Z")
Truth. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/539 "2005-11-06T19:16:17Z")
> [@Soullessness](#): > > Sofis: in 30 words tell us how much you admire Bricker’s sig line with the word inflation included after every 2nd word (not included in word count) Every second word? Okay: Bricker’s sigline salami strikes a salami blow for salami-sexual freedom salami everywhere, not salami only by salami championing alternate salami-forms of salami expressing love, salami, but also salami by questioning salami the societal salami-strictures against salami the mutual salami-exchange of salami pleasure across salami generational lines (salami). > [@PapSett](#): > > **Sofis** - what is the nicest surprise you have ever gotten? Hmm. The surprise that pleased me the most at the time may have been the Christmas lo these many years ago when I and my brother got a Nintendo. I was better able to appreciate the little things when I was little myself :). Nicest in a larger sense would probably be on the lines of finding friends where I expected none, but no good examples come to mind. > [@flamingbananas](#): > > Ohh, this is true. If I put salami between every word I’d have like 10,000 words by now! > > And, gimme a dare, someone! Write a villanelle on the joys of going potty. A villanelle is poem with a structure of rhymes and repeated lines, that goes like this: 1A B 2A A B 1A A B 2A A B 1A A B 2A A B 1A 2A where the letters signify rhymes (so the first, third, fourth etc. rhyme, and so do the second, fifth etc.) with the numbered lines being repeated (so the first line is identical to the sixth, twelth and eigteenth). A famous example is Dylan Thomas’s [Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night](http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm). > [@Exploding Kitchen](#): > > Truth. What’s the most money you’ve unexpectedly recieved, how did it come into your hands, and what did you do with it? ---
**Author:** ![Exploding\_Kitchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Exploding\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exploding_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432/540 "2005-11-06T19:27:37Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > What’s the most money you’ve unexpectedly recieved, how did it come into your hands, and what did you do with it? Can’t answer that one. Guess I have to take a dare. \>\< [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truth-or-dare/329432.md?page=28)