Two truths and a lie.

[Lord_Il_Palazzo]

@Barrett Bonden

Clearly the third. No one on the planet has a Bacon number exceeding 2.

Really? According to Wikipedia, 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.

[Barrett_Bonden]

@Lord Il Palazzo

Really? According to Wikipedia, the average Bacon number (counting not just the acting community is 2.946).

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

[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

[Hal_Briston]

@Lord Il Palazzo

There’s something fowl about Hal’s duck story.

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.

[tdn]

@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

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. So yeah, I have dinosaurs.

You’re lying about #3.

[Lord_Il_Palazzo]

@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.

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 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…

[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.

[Dragwyr]

@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. So yeah, I have dinosaurs.

You’re lying about #3.

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.

[tdn]

@Mosier

I have memorized the entire “D” section of the dictionary.

No you haven’t.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@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.

[Myself]

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.

[Barrett_Bonden]

@Barrett Bonden

As a second grader, I became a published author.

@Myself

Double down on false.

That actually is true.

@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.

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. . .

[Desert_Nomad]

@Lord Il Palazzo

Desert Nomad’s sunk if he thinks I’ll believe he’s a driven a water taxi.

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.

[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.

[ultrafilter]

@fetus

OK, you didn’t have ten grandparents.

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.

[wevets]

@Barrett Bonden

That actually is true.

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.

[Chefguy]

@wevets

My money’s on this one as the lie.

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.

[Asimovian]

@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.

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.

[Giles]

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.

[Sternvogel]

@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.

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.