# Untruths you believe **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464 "2010-08-16T22:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/61 "2010-08-18T17:48:37Z")
Just one more post… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/62 "2010-08-18T18:11:35Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > People _like_ seeing pictures of my dog and hearing cute stories about him. Similarly, everybody is as enchanted by my cat as I am. ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/63 "2010-08-18T18:20:11Z")
When I was a kid, it always snowed on Christmas… the sky was bluer, the lakes were warmer in the summer, ice cream tasted better… everything was generally safer. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/64 "2010-08-18T21:21:33Z")
My ringneck parrots understand and appreciate every dumb joke I tell them. And by the way, they also have psychic powers and are spies for Al Quaeda. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/65 "2010-08-19T12:59:41Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > That what my wife and I are doing right now will work out perfectly fine, and nobody will get hurt, and we will get what we want and need. I can’t elaborate any further but… And I was right. I guess I really didn’t believe after all. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/66 "2010-08-20T07:12:53Z")
When, in a relatively short span of time, I meet two different people in two different contexts that nonetheless look very much alike, I figure it must be because the studio who is directing my life hired a new actor whom the director owed a favor or something, so he/she gets to play two roles in my life. They just dress the person differently and have him/her appear in different contexts and hope I don’t notice. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/67 "2010-08-20T08:11:29Z")
1. Pushing the button will make the elevator come quicker. 2. Coat hangers multiply by eating exactly one sock per pair that goes into the laundry. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/68 "2010-08-20T15:41:46Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > > [@Taenia\_spp](#): > > > > What little lies do you tell yourself and partially believe? > > That the Republicans will get back to their roots and stop pandering to the way-too-religious in this country. Sadly, I’ve almost stopped believing this one myself. For a long time, I believed in the religion thing. Then I found out that it wasn’t a little lie, it was a big lie. ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/69 "2010-08-20T18:06:20Z")
I believe that some invisible entity follows me around for the sole purpose of entangling any cord or rope-like thing I am using around even the smallest protuberance (vacuum cleaner cord around table corner, garden hose around 2" high stump, and on and on and on) so that I have to stop, backtrack, and lift it off; invisible entity clearly finds this highly amusing. Also that I will be able to continue to resist buying that new gadget or new upgrade or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/70 "2010-08-20T18:21:50Z")
Although I have been an atheist as long as I can remember, I’m certain there is a malevolent trickster god out there who only exists when I get any sort of windfall cash, upon receipt of which he leaps into action to ensure that a car, a cat, or an appliance will need immediate repair costing exactly the amount of the windfall. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/71 "2010-08-20T19:12:38Z")
That my dreams are really other universe me’s that overlap due to some glitch that once I am able to control, I’ll be able to hop between universe me’s at a whim. (I know I haven’t already accomplished this, as my cat threw up on me in bed this morning). ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464/72 "2010-08-20T19:17:11Z")
I believe that dragging a rope, extention cord etc. will cause it to catch on something, ANYTHING, unless I am trying to catch it on that very item. Never seems to fail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untruths-you-believe/550464.md?page=3)