# Two Thruths and a Lie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475 "2004-04-28T13:34:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/121 "2004-04-30T04:41:37Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Here’s mine: > > [ol] > [li]Arnold Schwarzenegger gave me a ride in his Humvee.[/li][li]I am an Extra Class amateur radio operator.[/li][li]I’m a past president of a “tall person’s club.”[/li][/ol] OK - my answers: [ol] [li]TRUE! I worked for a books-on-tape company that used celebrities to read books. One night, Arnold was in reading a short fairy tale for a children’s tape. I was producing the book. He took me out to dinner and we rode in his Humvee. Great guy![/li][li]FALSE! I am only a General Class amateur operator. I’m studying for my Extra Class, though.[/li][li]TRUE! The [San Fernando Valley Tip Toppers](http://www.tall.org/clubs/cal/sfvtt/). I was president of the club in 1996.[/ol][/li] Now you know more about me than you ever wanted to, right? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/122 "2004-04-30T05:03:41Z")
1 I intend to vote for John Kerry in the election. 2 I am the oldest of seven siblings, soon to be eight. 3 I have left the eastern time zone once in my life, otherwise I have stayed within it. [slight hijack]It’s great to see :wally :smack: :dubious: and ;j have returned.[/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/123 "2004-04-30T05:31:52Z")
**Sternvogel** : 3. I sat next to comedian Dennis Miller on an airplane. False. There is nothing funny about Dennis Miller. **Hal** : 2. …walked through a crowd of about a quarter-million people wearing nothing but sneakers and a strategically placed fanny-pack. False. It ceased being a _fanny_-pack when you placed it strategically. **MamaHen** : 3- My ex-boyfriend broke up with me because I ran over his foot. False. He broke up with you and _then_ you ran over his foot. Sometime within the last month I have… 1. …used the facilities in a busy men’s room. 2. …drunk a glass of absinthe. 3. …met a former acquaintance of Anais Ninn. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/124 "2004-04-30T05:57:25Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 1. I once urinated on the Eiffel Tower > > 2. I’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek > > 3. I am a signed rap artist #1: Was that _on_ or _from_? #2: If that means the original, I’ll bet you aren’t alone. My guess would be # 3 Anyone with such good taste coulsn’t possibly be. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/125 "2004-04-30T06:10:13Z")
1. I have never been outside my home state of CA. 2. I once drank concentrated hydrochloric acid. 3. In my youth, I was baptized as a 7th Day Adventist. And a Mormon. And a Southern Baptist. And a Methodist. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/126 "2004-04-30T06:30:34Z")
> [@fizzestothetop](#): > > I’m a little late in the game but here are mine… > > 1.) When I was a little girl I fell out of a moving vehicle. > 2.) Also when I was young I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my wrist. > 3.) I have never broken a bone in my life. Numbers 2 and 3 are contradictory, so one of them must be the lie. Therefore #1 is true. A person who has fallen once is likely to fall more than once. So logic dictates #3 must be the lie. However, you probably anticipated that line of reasoning so I am going to go out on a limb and say #1 is the lie. Either the wrist you broke was not made of flesh and bone, or else it was not you who broke it. > [@Darwin's Finch](#): > > 1. I once drank concentrated hydrochloric acid. What did it taste like? ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/127 "2004-04-30T17:45:48Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > What did it taste like? Burning. (Yes, that one is true.) ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/128 "2004-04-30T20:26:53Z")
> [@Darwin's Finch](#): > > Burning. (Yes, that one is true.) Okay I’ll say #2 is the lie. That question was the acid test. 😉 😃 If you had said sour I would have believed it. Though I’ve never drank HCl I have tried caustic citrus fruits (not knowing they were corrosive) and they didn’t taste burning. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/129 "2004-04-30T21:57:02Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > Okay I’ll say #2 is the lie. That question was the acid test. 😉 😃 If you had said sour I would have believed it. Though I’ve never drank HCl I have tried caustic citrus fruits (not knowing they were corrosive) and they didn’t taste burning. Nope. Like I said, that one is actually true :eek: It happened when I was 4 years old. Some older kids offered me a drink of what they said was water. I accepted (being a stupid little kid who had not been warned about strangers yet). It wasn’t water. I took a big swig, so it actually missed most of my mouth and went to the back of my throat - where it did, in fact, burn like hell. Dissolved most of my esophagus, actually (my current version is not “factory original”). Also burned both lips. In reaction to the pain, I dropped the bottle, and splashed a goodly amount on both legs as well, and got some on my shirt (whereupon it promptly ate a hole through the shirt and left a nice burn on my chest). I spent the next six months in Oakland (CA) Children’s Hospital, and have been in and out of the hospital several times since for various associated reasons. I don’t know how strong the acid actually was, but from what my parents told me afterward, the bottle that the stuff had been in (it was plastic) had likewise been largely dissolved by the time anyone got around to looking for it. No one knows where the other kids got ahold of the stuff to begin with. Weaker acid may well taste sour, but when the stuff is as strong as what I drank, one’s sense of taste tends to be overwhelmed by other sensations… ---
**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:** [May 1, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/130 "2004-05-01T01:18:04Z")
> [@Darwin's Finch](#): > > Nope. Like I said, that one is actually true :eek: It happened when I was 4 years old. Some older kids offered me a drink of what they said was water. I accepted (being a stupid little kid who had not been warned about strangers yet). It wasn’t water. I took a big swig, so it actually missed most of my mouth and went to the back of my throat - where it did, in fact, burn like hell. Dissolved most of my esophagus, actually (my current version is not “factory original”). Also burned both lips. In reaction to the pain, I dropped the bottle, and splashed a goodly amount on both legs as well, and got some on my shirt (whereupon it promptly ate a hole through the shirt and left a nice burn on my chest). I spent the next six months in Oakland (CA) Children’s Hospital, and have been in and out of the hospital several times since for various associated reasons. I don’t know how strong the acid actually was, but from what my parents told me afterward, the bottle that the stuff had been in (it was plastic) had likewise been largely dissolved by the time anyone got around to looking for it. No one knows where the other kids got ahold of the stuff to begin with. > > Weaker acid may well taste sour, but when the stuff is as strong as what I drank, one’s sense of taste tends to be overwhelmed by other sensations… Did they get the little delinquents? ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/131 "2004-05-01T03:27:07Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > Numbers 2 and 3 are contradictory, so one of them must be the lie. Therefore #1 is true. A person who has fallen once is likely to fall more than once. So logic dictates #3 must be the lie. > > However, you probably anticipated that line of reasoning so I am going to go out on a limb and say #1 is the lie. Either the wrist you broke was not made of flesh and bone, or else it was not you who broke it. Are you by chance Scilian? 😉 Anywho, actually #2 is the lie. You were right about the falling. I did fall but I landed square on my jaw (it’s a miricle I didn’t break that!) but no broken wrist. It still hurt like a sonofabitch. No broken bones for 20 years and counting. _knocks on wood_ ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/132 "2004-05-01T04:24:00Z")
> [@fizzestothetop](#): > > Are you by chance Scilian? 😉 Hope not, not 'cuz I have no idea what that is. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/133 "2004-05-01T04:30:15Z")
**cityboy916** , I believe she meant Sicilian. Think of Vizzini in _The Princess Bride._ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/134 "2004-05-01T06:59:25Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > Think of Vizzini in _The Princess Bride._ 😉 Never seen it. :smack: Not Sicilian. Half French Canadian and half _cough_ Pennsylvania Dutch_cough_ guess which side my sense of humor came from? Yup, the side that’s linguistically closer to Sicilian. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/135 "2004-05-04T21:18:41Z")
Okay, I just looked at this thread for the first time. I read the pop-up OP, but didn’t join in. But the idea got stuck in my mind. So, I was thinking about it last night and decided I had to contribute. (I had to get to this thread through the link in the “confession” thread.) 1. I once hit my sister in the mouth with a golf club. 2. I missed half a school-year with double pneumonia. 3. I am a 28 year old virgin. I must confess, though. I’m being tricky with the lie. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475/136 "2004-05-05T12:53:09Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > Okay, I just looked at this thread for the first time. I read the pop-up OP, but didn’t join in. But the idea got stuck in my mind. So, I was thinking about it last night and decided I had to contribute. (I had to get to this thread through the link in the “confession” thread.) > > 1. I once hit my sister in the mouth with a golf club. > 2. I missed half a school-year with double pneumonia. > 3. I am a 28 year old virgin. > > I must confess, though. I’m being tricky with the lie. > > Anyhoo… Sooooo… Did you hit your brother with a golf club instead? Or maybe you missed half a school year because you had the plague? Maybe you are a virgin but you’re actually 18? Hmmmmmmm… I think number 2 is the lie simply because you were away for either a shorter or longer amount of time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-thruths-and-a-lie/242475.md?page=6)