# Two truths and a lie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511 "2007-11-07T04:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/1 "2007-11-07T04:40:19Z")
I’ve been on the news in the Middle East. I’ve been on the news in the United States. I’ve been on the news in Latin America. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/2 "2007-11-07T04:45:51Z")
The second one. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/3 "2007-11-07T05:05:54Z")
Nope, sorry. Care to guess again and/or put out your own truths-and-lie? ETA: I was on the local news in Tucson, Arizona, although I may not have been particularly distinguishable; the news van pulled up at a parking lot where I, among other volunteers, was helping to take and pack up food donations. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/4 "2007-11-07T05:12:46Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I’ve been on the news in the Middle East. > I’ve been on the news in the United States. > I’ve been on the news in Latin America. I’m guessing you’ve not been on the news in Latin America. My own: I’ve been bitten by a tiger. I have (or rather, had) ten grandparents. My nickname in high school was “Pestilence”, straight from Revelations. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/5 "2007-11-07T05:20:46Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I’m guessing you’ve not been on the news in Latin America. [/quote] Yup. I was in Israel a couple of years ago as one of hundreds (thousands?) of college students from around the world seeing the country for free through a government program, which was apparently newsworthy in Tel-Aviv. It wasn’t so much an _interview_ as it was a YouTube-style recording of my drunken dancing at a local club. IIRC, I had a Heinekin in each hand. Tastes way better over there, BTW. > [@ultrafilter](#): > > My own: > > I’ve been bitten by a tiger. > I have (or rather, had) ten grandparents. > My nickname in high school was “Pestilence”, straight from Revelations. I’m gonna go with #1. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/6 "2007-11-07T06:13:40Z")
My friend had to do this for a class once, though it was two lies and a truth. No one in the class guessed that her truth was that this 20 year old unassuming girl had opened for both Chicago and Three Dog Night. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/7 "2007-11-07T10:00:53Z")
I am scared of moths. I am scared of umbrellas. I am scared of staplers. One lie. (No help from Fathomites) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/8 "2007-11-07T11:40:27Z")
- I once shot the president of Bulgaria. - I have a regular column in one of the English-language newspapers here writing about ‘life as a foreigner in Japan’. - Despite being an atheist, I’ve performed nearly a thousand wedding ceremonies ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/9 "2007-11-07T11:51:08Z")
I’ve been trodden on by an elephant. I’ve been used as a UK TV trailer. I’ve travelled with royalty in torn T-shirt and jeans. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/10 "2007-11-07T12:22:16Z")
**Sublight** has never shot the President of any country. And **glee** has not gotten trampled by an elephant. At least I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/11 "2007-11-07T12:56:02Z")
- I have done voice over for a mobile phone company’s television ad. - I once worked at a job importing pencils into Turkey. - I have piloted a water taxi. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/12 "2007-11-07T14:07:37Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] **Sublight** has never shot the President of any country. And **glee** has not gotten trampled by an elephant. At least I hope not. [/QUOTE] Shooting doesn’t have to be done with a gun. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/13 "2007-11-07T14:17:33Z")
I… …have been to all 48 continental states. …have walked through a very large crowd wearing nothing but sneakers and a strategically placed fanny pack. …was taught to walk with major assistance from a duck. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/14 "2007-11-07T14:19:30Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I’m gonna go with #1. [/QUOTE] That one’s actually true. It was a tiger cub, and it was a play bite, but those are all details. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/15 "2007-11-07T14:21:35Z")
As a first-grader, I made my NYC stage debut. As a second grader, I became a published author. As a third grader, I spoke on National television. No, I haven’t done anything lately. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/16 "2007-11-07T14:21:45Z")
I was seriously on the verge of starting one of these threads when I noticed this one. Curses, foiled again and all that. In high school, I broke my leg in gym class by tripping on a lacrosse stick. I was once bitten by a wild animal while visiting Dollywood. My Bacon number is 3. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/17 "2007-11-07T14:27:30Z")
The idea that **Sublight** has a newspaper column is just bad journalism. **Desert Nomad** ’s sunk if he thinks I’ll believe he’s a driven a water taxi. There’s something fowl about **Hal** ’s duck story. I feel that **Barrett Bonden** ’s first statement was staged. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/18 "2007-11-07T14:30:22Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] I was seriously on the verge of starting one of these threads when I noticed this one. Curses, foiled again and all that. In high school, I broke my leg in gym class by tripping on a lacrosse stick. I was once bitten by a wild animal while visiting Dollywood. My Bacon number is 3. [/QUOTE] Clearly the third. No one on the planet has a Bacon number exceeding 2. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/19 "2007-11-07T14:34:11Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/20 "2007-11-07T14:42:22Z")
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