Two Truths and a Lie, Part 2

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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And here are the answers,

False. I did get hit in the leg once by a student and his bo staff that left me limping for a few days.

True. I was doing a sai kata by candlelight when two guys broke into my dojo. Since the sai were already in hand I attacked them with them and drove them off.

True. I have never been sure how I knew that punch was coming. Maybe something about the eyes on the guy in front of me. Anyway, the one who attacked from behind showed up in my dojo two weeks later because he wanted to learn martial arts! However, he didn’t know that they guy he had attacked was the owner. He came in and spoke to my senior assistant instructor who told him “Oh, if you want to sign up you need to see sensei in the back”. He stepped into my office and turned ashen. He stayed on, and eventually earned his 1st dan. He still trains in another city and we keep in touch.

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True. I used to beat the high scores on video games at the local arcade and then sell the game (and the score) for a couple of bucks (it only cost me a $.25, so that’s a nice profit). I used to make a good $20 or $30 a week, which is pretty good for a youngin’.

I also won a $100 bet that I could beat a persons score with me only using one life, but he got to use all three of his.

False. If I had of been in Japan at the time, maybe I would have been, since Sosai was taking just about every black belt he could find.

True. I was waiting for a bus outside of a warehouse. I didn’t know that the silent alarm had been tripped by a burglar. I saw a guy come out the front door and took off running to the parking lot (I didn’t think anything of it until later). Well, the police showed up, and I had my dojo bag with me which happened to include my sai, tonfa, nunchaku and black dogi! I told them about the guy who had fled, and they didn’t believe me. I was taken into custody and released a few hours later. They told me they had caught the real thief.

“Glitch … download” - Glitch’s final action. sniff

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I still needed to come clean with y’all on my last three lies in the previous thread. So here goes.
Coldfire…

1) Had a couple of beers with Ray Alder, singer of Fates Warning;

True. They performed in a terrible barn in a small redneck town in the south of the Netherlands. The spectators were mostly local kids who never heard of the band before, but just needed something to do. My friend and I were the only two spectators who were genuinely interested, and had a few beers with the band after the show. The rest of the crowd was gone already by then, so we had the bar to ourselves. Nice fellow. A year later, I saw Fates Warning again, as the opening act for Dream Theater on their European tour. The crowd was larger and more interested this time - it is the only concert I attended where the opening act outperformed the main act.
2) Once French-kissed Posh Spice before she was famous;

ALL of the guessers guessed this one. What’s the matter, don’t think I could hit it off with a nice looking girl or something?? Errr… y’all were right though. This was the lie :smiley:
3) Once looked a (living!) Great White in the eye at a distance of less than a meter.

Very true, and very impressive. The shark was not in a tank or anything, as some of you may have thought.
All this happened just off the coast of Mossel Bay, South Africa. Me and a friend were on a shark-watch boat trip. They lure the sharks by trowing dead fish and fish blood into the water, and then when the sharks appear, you lower yourself into a cage hanging off of the back of the boat. The top of the cage is open. You stand on a bar mounted horizontally in the cage, and you grap onto another one at shoulder height. In normal standing position, your head will be just above the water line. Consequently, you won’t see a thing and have to rely on the calls from the boat as to where the sharks are. When the call comes (“Shark at twelve o’clock!”) you grab some air and push yourself down, bending your knees in the process. You’ll end up squating on the lower bar, peering through your goggles into the water. Visibility is poor, so you can’t really see further than, say, 8 meters or so.
All of a sudden, we saw this MASSIVE 5 meter Great White coming at us. It tilted sideways a bit, and in true Jaws style opened its mouth and grabbed the piece of tuna that was just chucked right in front of the cage.
Because of its momentum, it actually bumped against the cage, the entire thing was trembling - I mean, 2000 kilos of fish is quite a bit! At that point, we were looking it straight in the eye - and I’m telling you, we were looking at pure, evil death. There is no lofe whatsoever in the eyes of a Great White.
It was probably some 60 centimeters away from my face. I was never scared, but MAN, was I impressed!

Coldfire

"You know how complex women are"

  • Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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Make that “no life whatsoever”. Although a shark isn’t exactly a cuddly toy either :wink:

Coldfire

"You know how complex women are"

  • Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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1.) SwimmingRiddles was voted Class Extremist in high school. She lobbied for this extensively.
Yep. Me and the valedictorian of the class. That, and class actress. But CLASS EXTREMIST? How cool is that? (in a counter-culture kind of way…)
2.) SwimmingRiddles once passed out due to excessive drinking, and woke up in police lockup.
No, although this did happen to a friend of mine, who swears he doesn’t have an alchohol problem. Um, you black out twice in a night, that’s a problem…

3.) SwimmingRiddles first date was with a drug dealer.
True. He was a FOAF, and he was adorable. Unbelieveably sweet and gorgeous. Unfortunately, I don’t use, and while I have no problem with those around me using, when his beeper went off three times during our date, the magic was gone.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth