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!
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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!
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Looks like I was wrong, actually. Thanks for the compliment, though. I’ll take what I can get :D.
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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
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Sounds reasonable-I’ve heard of such growth spurts, but not the stretch marks thing.
Gamble on this one being the fake.
No idea what MMA is, but I’ll take your word for it.
Here’s mine:
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).
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).
I got the autograph of an NBA star, Maurice Lucas, on a plane flight sometime around 1981.
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Well done! Looks like I got unlucky with my respondent - 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:
[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.
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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.
[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
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FYI, MMA = Mixed Martial Arts. Kind of hard to evaluate that one without knowing that. 
[QUOTE=Leaper]
FYI, MMA = Mixed Martial Arts. Kind of hard to evaluate that one without knowing that. 
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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.
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:: crickets chirping ::
What, no guesses?
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
My dad had a summer fling with Judi Dench in his youth.
I once said something dumb to Al Gore, and he raised his eyebrow at me.
I have broken both of my arms (but not at the same time).
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True. I can see Algore doing exactly that.
True. Not hard if you played sports or were an active youth.
LIE! Judi Dench was raised Quaker.
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Three more:
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2. True. I can see Algore doing exactly that.
3. True. Not hard if you played sports or were an active youth.
You’re wrong. Anyone else care to guess?
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
You’re wrong. Anyone else care to guess?
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I’ll say the broken arms one is the lie. The Al Gore one is too weird not to be true.
I’ll say number two is the lie.
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Mine:
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I’ll say two is the lie.
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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.
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Mine:
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!”