# Two truths and a lie **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 25, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166 "2008-06-25T04:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/41 "2008-06-26T02:30:24Z")
**Cisco** , You are correct and most astute. 1:The snail race was in 1966–my prize was a bag of candy corn, and I set the snail free in my father’s garden. 2: Broke down outside of Moab and met a woman traveling the Southwest for “inspiration” She gave me a ride (in more ways than one) to the dealership in Grand Junction. 3:Never did the death ride. Never wanted to! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/42 "2008-06-26T02:41:57Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] **Cisco** , You are correct and most astute. 1:The snail race was in 1966–my prize was a bag of candy corn, and I set the snail free in my father’s garden. 2: Broke down outside of Moab and met a woman traveling the Southwest for “inspiration” She gave me a ride (in more ways than one) to the dealership in Grand Junction. 3:Never did the death ride. Never wanted to! [/QUOTE] Looks like I was wrong, actually. Thanks for the compliment, though. I’ll take what I can get :D. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/43 "2008-06-26T03:15:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] I’ll try again: 1.) I grew about 7 inches the summer I turned 16. So fast that it gave me stretch marks that look like scars from a whipping. 2.) A good friend of mine is in that “I’m voting Republican” video that’s going around 3.) I have a 2-0 amateur MMA record [/QUOTE] 1. Sounds reasonable-I’ve heard of such growth spurts, but not the stretch marks thing. 2. Gamble on this one being the fake. 3. No idea what MMA is, but I’ll take your word for it. Here’s mine: 1. I shook the hand of the lead guitarist/longtime group leader of the Ozric Tentacles, Ed Wynne, as he was heading to the bar after his gig (c. 1998). 2. At one of my dad’s physician conventions I got to meet Alan King, who was that night’s stand-up act (1979 or thereabouts). 3. I got the autograph of an NBA star, Maurice Lucas, on a plane flight sometime around 1981. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/44 "2008-06-26T12:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] 1. True. That can happen. 2. It’s happened to other Dopers. True. 3. Who the hell is Andy Murray? So obscure it’s got to be false. [/QUOTE] Well done! Looks like I got unlucky with my respondent - [Andy Murray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_murray) is the UK’s number one tennis player. Knowing that may not have changed your answer, though - must try harder! Picking from **John DiFool** ’s is very hard to justify as they are all quite similar, so I’m going to guess #3 as the most suspicious. Three more: 1. I have jumped at the (claimed) site of the first ever bungee jump in New Zealand. 2. I got drunk at an office party and danced like an idiot in front of 300 people, including the CEO. 3. I once cut through the power cable with an electric mower, but didn’t get a shock. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/45 "2008-06-26T13:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] Picking from **John DiFool** ’s is very hard to justify as they are all quite similar, so I’m going to guess #3 as the most suspicious. [/QUOTE] Nope-that really happened. I noticed a tall African American guy sitting in the gate area who looked very familiar to me, when suddenly it clicked who it was. It was only on the plane when I got up enough nerve to approach him. Mo joked that he might be an undercover cop, then signed the piece of airline stationery that I gave him with “Maurice Lucas-Peace.” My dad alas lost the autograph during a move 10 years later. Funny thing is I was a Sixers fan and well remembered the fight he had with Darryl Dawkins (who in retrospect was an underachieving buffoon). The convention one is true-except for the name of the comic, who was Nipsy Russell. I didn’t exactly meet him tho, just passed him in the hallway afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/46 "2008-06-26T13:46:18Z")
1. My dad had a summer fling with Judi Dench in his youth. 2. I once said something dumb to Al Gore, and he raised his eyebrow at me. 3. I have broken both of my arms (but not at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/47 "2008-06-26T14:40:53Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] 1.) I grew about 7 inches the summer I turned 16. So fast that it gave me stretch marks that look like scars from a whipping. 2.) A good friend of mine is in that “I’m voting Republican” video that’s going around 3.) I have a 2-0 amateur MMA record [/QUOTE] 1. **True**. My wife didn’t want to mention them when we first met because she thought they were scars :D. 2. **True**. He emailed me to say it was on Keith Olbermann right before I saw the thread on the dope. Funny thing is that he’s a Republican. 3. Hah, I wish! Completely fabricated. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/48 "2008-06-27T00:23:08Z")
FYI, MMA = Mixed Martial Arts. Kind of hard to evaluate that one without knowing that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/49 "2008-06-27T04:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper] FYI, MMA = Mixed Martial Arts. Kind of hard to evaluate that one without knowing that. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yeah, that one’s at a catch-22 level of popularity right now. If you try to explain it you get a “Pa-shah, _I KNOW!_ You think I live in a cave?” and if you don’t explain it you get a blank stare. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/50 "2008-07-01T15:03:18Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. My dad had a summer fling with Judi Dench in his youth. 2. I once said something dumb to Al Gore, and he raised his eyebrow at me. 3. I have broken both of my arms (but not at the same time). [/QUOTE] :: crickets chirping :: What, no guesses? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/51 "2008-07-01T16:54:41Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. My dad had a summer fling with Judi Dench in his youth. 2. I once said something dumb to Al Gore, and he raised his eyebrow at me. 3. I have broken both of my arms (but not at the same time). [/QUOTE] 4. True. I can see Algore doing exactly that. 5. True. Not hard if you played sports or were an active youth. 6. LIE! Judi Dench was raised Quaker. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/52 "2008-07-01T17:05:28Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] Three more: 1. I have jumped at the (claimed) site of the first ever bungee jump in New Zealand. 2. I got drunk at an office party and danced like an idiot in front of 300 people, including the CEO. 3. I once cut through the power cable with an electric mower, but didn’t get a shock. [/QUOTE] Bump. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/53 "2008-07-01T18:09:20Z")
1. I am an extra in the crowd in the new Batman movie. 2. I sang on the soundtrack for the lion king. 3. I was once instructed for a brief time by Paul Sills, the (now-deceased) founder of Second City. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/54 "2008-07-01T18:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] 2. True. I can see Algore doing exactly that. 3. True. Not hard if you played sports or were an active youth. 1. LIE! Judi Dench was raised Quaker. [/QUOTE] You’re wrong. Anyone else care to guess? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/55 "2008-07-01T18:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] You’re wrong. Anyone else care to guess? [/QUOTE] I’ll say the broken arms one is the lie. The Al Gore one is too weird not to be true. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/56 "2008-07-01T19:02:14Z")
> [@Dead Cat](#): > > 1. I have jumped at the (claimed) site of the first ever bungee jump in New Zealand. > 2. I got drunk at an office party and danced like an idiot in front of 300 people, including the CEO. > 3. I once cut through the power cable with an electric mower, but didn’t get a shock. I’ll say number two is the lie. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/57 "2008-07-01T19:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=Hoopy Frood] 1. I am an extra in the crowd in the new Batman movie. 2. I sang on the soundtrack for the lion king. 3. I was once instructed for a brief time by Paul Sills, the (now-deceased) founder of Second City. [/QUOTE] I’ll say two is the lie. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/58 "2008-07-01T19:13:52Z")
Mine: 1. I have never in my life tasted chocolate. 2. I have been shot at. 3. Chuck Liddell punched me in the stomach last Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/59 "2008-07-01T19:55:34Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] I’ll say two is the lie. [/QUOTE] Correct. It was actually my girlfriend who sang on the Lion King soundtrack as part of the Chicago Childrens Choir. (She also was with me as an extra on the set of the Batman movie. It was on behalf of a charity that we did it.) I grew up in Door County, Wisconsin, so it never would have happened to me. And Paul Sills had basically retired up there. (I spent three years in high school with his daughter, who was a year younger than me.) Once or twice he came to school during play rehearsal to do improv warmups with us. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166/60 "2008-07-01T22:06:36Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] Mine: 1. I have never in my life tasted chocolate. 2. I have been shot at. 3. Chuck Liddell punched me in the stomach last Sunday. [/QUOTE] I’ll say #1 is the lie – even if you don’t like chocolate, you must have at least tasted it once before spitting it out and resolving “never again!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-truths-and-a-lie/454166.md?page=4)