# 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:** 2
**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, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/21 "2007-11-07T14:43:07Z")
[QUOTE=Barrett Bonden] Clearly the third. No one on the planet has a Bacon number exceeding 2. [/QUOTE] Really? According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_number), the average Bacon number (counting not just the acting community is 2.946). I’m not quite ready yet to reveal if that’s truly my Bacon number or just a lie. ---
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/22 "2007-11-07T14:59:57Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] Really? According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_number), the average Bacon number (counting not just the acting community is 2.946). [/QUOTE] Are you trying to tell me that your research is superior to my OMA(1) Statistics? 😛 Incidentally, you got me in one. _sigh_ (1) Outta My Arse ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/23 "2007-11-07T15:56:05Z")
**TDN** I’m guessing #2 is a lie. 1. I enjoy practicing martial arts 2. I enjoy practicing magic 3. I enjoy practicing the cello ---
**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, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/24 "2007-11-07T16:00:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] There’s something fowl about **Hal** ’s duck story. [/QUOTE] Bzzzt. A duck took up residence in the pond that formed in front of our house whenever there was so much as a light drizzle. When I was learning to walk, my mom would put in the yard to let the grass cushion the falls, and I was subsequently “adopted” by the duck. It would follow me around wherever I went. During this learning process, I would fall quite a bit – the duck would run over to me, nudge me with his bill and quack at me to get back on my feet. However, I’ve never been to Florida. ---
**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, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/25 "2007-11-07T16:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] **TDN** I’m guessing #2 is a lie. 1. I enjoy practicing martial arts 2. I enjoy practicing magic 3. I enjoy practicing the cello [/QUOTE] Why would you go with #2? Because it is the least bizarre thing on the list? But yeah, you’re right. Of course, I forgot that I have [this](http://www.dinosaurfarm.com/iprdipobo.html). So yeah, I have dinosaurs. You’re lying about #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, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/26 "2007-11-07T16:44:31Z")
[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] As for me, I have never broken a bone so 1 is out. I did, however, get my hand stuck in a lacrosse stick ,a cheap plastic one with a plastic strip to keep the ball in (similar to [this](http://www.thegrillstoreandmore.com/image/products/big-pics/467854b.jpg) but much cheaper looking.) There was just enough of a gap under the plastic band to get my hand stuck. Curiously, the animal that bit me at Dollywood was a duck. I wonder if Hal was behind it… ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/27 "2007-11-07T16:50:47Z")
I’ve been dumped twice for calling two girls by the wrong name. I saw a stranger get stabbed, and I chased away his 2 assailants. I have memorized the entire “D” section of the dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/28 "2007-11-07T17:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Why would you go with #2? Because it is the least bizarre thing on the list? But yeah, you’re right. Of course, I forgot that I have [this](http://www.dinosaurfarm.com/iprdipobo.html). So yeah, I have dinosaurs. You’re lying about #3. [/QUOTE] And you would be correct. I used to play cello in HS, but since then I haven’t touched one at all, though I probably could still pound out a tune if I had to. ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/29 "2007-11-07T17:24:44Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] I have memorized the entire “D” section of the dictionary. [/QUOTE] No you haven’t. ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/30 "2007-11-07T17:39:06Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > I have (or rather, had) ten grandparents. > My nickname in high school was “Pestilence”, straight from Revelations. OK, you didn’t have ten grandparents. > [@Mosier](#): > > I’ve been dumped twice for calling two girls by the wrong name. > I saw a stranger get stabbed, and I chased away his 2 assailants. > I have memorized the entire “D” section of the dictionary. I’m gonna go with #3. I’ve read some of your ex stories. ---
**Author:** ![Myself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myself)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/31 "2007-11-07T18:12:28Z")
> [@](#): > > As a second grader, I became a published author. Double down on false. I provided a line in a song that became a top 20 hit for the band Traffic. I served as Royal Elevator Operator to Queen Elizabeth II. I set a record at my high school in track that will never be broken. ---
**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, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/32 "2007-11-07T18:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=Barrett Bonden] As a second grader, I became a published author. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Myself] Double down on false. [/QUOTE] That actually is true. [QUOTE=Myself] I provided a line in a song that became a top 20 hit for the band Traffic. I served as Royal Elevator Operator to Queen Elizabeth II. I set a record at my high school in track that will never be broken. [/QUOTE] I’m going to guess that the third item is true. (Defunct event maybe?) So which of the first two are false? Hmmm. I have a suspicion of elevators, so I’ll say two is false. . . ---
**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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/33 "2007-11-07T18:56:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] **Desert Nomad** ’s sunk if he thinks I’ll believe he’s a driven a water taxi. [/QUOTE] Actually I have. A couple of years ago I was in Deira and had to cross the Creek to Bur Dubai (for those not familiar with Dubai, the “Creek” divides the city in two and is perhaps a few hundred meters wide and a couple miles long). Small, 20 passenger taxis called abra’s make the 7 minute crossing for about 30 US cents. It was about 2am and with nobody around and no traffic on the Creek, the only way to cross was to hire a whole boat and pay for all 20 seats. Once out on the water, I asked the 60ish captain if I could take the wheel. He amusingly obliged… I figured with the fare I had paid, I had earned it. So for a brief period in the middle of the night I was Abra Captain Desert Nomad. It was a blast. 🆒 I brought us close in to the dock, but turned it over to the more experienced fellow for actual docking… we both thought it best that way. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/34 "2007-11-07T20:24:38Z")
I’ve climbed to the top chamber of Cheops. I’ve capsized a sailboat on Lake Victoria. I’ve rafted the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/35 "2007-11-07T20:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] OK, you didn’t have ten grandparents. [/QUOTE] That one’s actually true as well. There were a lot of divorces and remarriages in the last couple generations of my family. So #3 is the lie. My nickname was actually Famine. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/36 "2007-11-07T20:43:09Z")
[QUOTE=Barrett Bonden] That actually is true. [/quote] Well you’ve got to provide more detail than that! Elaborate, please! 😕 > [@Myself](#): > > I served as Royal Elevator Operator to Queen Elizabeth II. I’m going to guess that this one is the lie. > [@Chefguy](#): > > I’ve climbed to the top chamber of Cheops. My money’s on this one as the lie. 1. The animal that has come closest to killing me was a deer. 2. I have worked on the set of a movie with Nicholas Cage. 3. I have watered plants using a fire hose. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/37 "2007-11-07T21:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=wevets] My money’s on this one as the lie. [/QUOTE] Wrong (I lived in Cairo for several months and visited the site several times). Miserable, cramped hot climb to an empty room. Very anti-climactic. > [@](#): > > 1. The animal that has come closest to killing me was a deer. > 2. I have worked on the set of a movie with Nicholas Cage. > 3. I have watered plants using a fire hose. I’m guessing #2. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/38 "2007-11-07T21:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] I’ve climbed to the top chamber of Cheops. I’ve capsized a sailboat on Lake Victoria. I’ve rafted the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls. [/QUOTE] My money is on #3. 1. I’ve had my picture on the inside of a major national magazine. 2. I’ve been interviewed on television multiple times. 3. I’ve spoken with G.W. Bush by telephone on a radio call-in program. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/39 "2007-11-07T21:30:40Z")
1. One or two statements in this post are true. 2. Two or three statements in this post are true. 3. Three or four statements in this post are true. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511/40 "2007-11-07T22:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] My money is on #3. 1. I’ve had my picture on the inside of a major national magazine. 2. I’ve been interviewed on television multiple times. 3. I’ve spoken with G.W. Bush by telephone on a radio call-in program. [/QUOTE] I’ll guess #3. 1. While Jay Leno was doing a stand-up show I attended, he recognized me as someone who had previously seen him perform and spoken briefly with him. 2. I have never flown on an airplane. 3. I have walked along the shore of the Bay of Pigs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/425511.md?page=3)