Author Topic: Three truths and a lie (Read 88305 times)

Zathras · **Reply #125 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:21:03 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on February 26, 2009, 11:53:51 AM

As I've been missing in the depths of Australia for a while, I'll let you all get to know me again with my list

1. I broke both my arms in an embarrassing snowboarding accident where I was standing directly in front of the instructor and not actually moving.

2. I used to ride sheep.

3. I can perfectly imitate the English voice of the inbuilt navigation system of a Mercedes Benz.

4. My real first name means running water in an Aboriginal language.

I"m torn between 3 and 4. I can believe the snowboarding incident, and it is a perfect submission for this game. The sheep riding? I can see kids riding kids.

I'll pick 4 as the lie.

MacArthurBug · **Reply #126 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:49:28 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on February 26, 2009, 11:53:51 AM

As I've been missing in the depths of Australia for a while, I'll let you all get to know me again with my list

1. I broke both my arms in an embarrassing snowboarding accident where I was standing directly in front of the instructor and not actually moving.

2. I used to ride sheep.

3. I can perfectly imitate the English voice of the inbuilt navigation system of a Mercedes Benz.

4. My real first name means running water in an Aboriginal language.

this is a fun grouping of things! 1- I'm clumsy so I can believe this. 2. And, had I access to them I would have too. 3. ..*eyebrows lift* heehee.. really..? 4. suure My folks were hippies so this is plausable.

Since I was right guessing it last time I'm going with my lucky number 1. Not 'cause it's not possible but because they're all plausable.

Zathras · **Reply #127 on:** February 27, 2009, 12:55:40 PM

I'm betting the twist is that wherethewild's name means something else. Maybe nectar of the gods. Wait... Does your name translate to Beer?

wherethewild · **Reply #128 on:** February 27, 2009, 09:54:01 PM

and MacArthurBug got it right!

1. Lie. Although this actually did happen to a friend of mine, I've never broken a bone.

2. True. I grew up on a farm and whenever Dad penned the sheep for tailing or drenching or whatever he'd throw us on the back of them before releasing them one at a time. The best fun I've ever had and I'm surprised #1 was still the case afterwards.

3. True, and I ended up with a very... graphic... proposal in a bar in Tokyo when I demonstrated it. There's a niche market screaming for someone with my talent, that's for sure.

4. True. In the Wiradjuri language Jacinta (hmmm, have I told you all my name before

) means running water. Although I really was named after a woman my Dad worked with (he just liked the name. seriously. nothing untoward about it AT ALL).

Russell Nash · **Reply #129 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:03:55 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on February 27, 2009, 09:54:01 PM

and MacArthurBug got it right!

1. Lie. Although this actually did happen to a friend of mine, I've never broken a bone.

2. True. I grew up on a farm and whenever Dad penned the sheep for tailing or drenching or whatever he'd throw us on the back of them before releasing them one at a time. The best fun I've ever had and I'm surprised #1 was still the case afterwards.

3. True, and I ended up with a very... graphic... proposal in a bar in Tokyo when I demonstrated it. There's a niche market screaming for someone with my talent, that's for sure.

4. True. In the Wiradjuri language Jacinta (hmmm, have I told you all my name before ) means running water. Although I really was named after a woman my Dad worked with (he just liked the name. seriously. nothing untoward about it AT ALL).

3. The way you do it, it's the most pornographic GPS unit ever created. "Turn right now, you bad boy."

4. That's the first time you've ever told these weirdos. Now you're in for it.

MacArthurBug · **Reply #130 on:** February 27, 2009, 11:06:34 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on February 27, 2009, 09:54:01 PM

and MacArthurBug got it right!

OMG right twice in a row. I can't think of the last time I've been right that often.

Zathras · **Reply #131 on:** February 27, 2009, 11:09:01 PM

Quote from: Russell Nash on February 27, 2009, 10:03:55 PM

4. That's the first time you've ever told these weirdos. Now you're in for it.

Hey! I resemble that remark! I know he's not active in a silly manner on the boards, but wouldn't everybody like to hear Ben's 4 statements?

Zathras · **Reply #132 on:** February 28, 2009, 07:32:58 PM

I'll go again, what the heck!

I've owned or been co-owner of the following:

1. A firearms store.
2. A truck repair shop.
3. A recording studio.
4. A trucking company.

Ocicat · **Reply #133 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:52:19 AM

Quote from: Zathras on February 28, 2009, 07:32:58 PM

I'll go again, what the heck!

I've owned or been co-owner of the following:

1. A firearms store.
2. A truck repair shop.
3. A recording studio.
4. A trucking company.

#3 sticks out like a sore thumb. Two are involved with trucking, which makes sense as you're a trucker. Firearms seem somewhat complementary since at least stereotypically truckers like themselves some guns.

So you clearly mean the recording studio to stand out and seem unlikely. Therefore I'd say it's probably true. However, we've been playing this game for awhile now, and you're a clever man, so you probably put in an obvious lie, figuring no one would pick it. However what you failed to comprehend is that I am also a clever man, therefore I should choose the glass in front of me!

er, that is, I say #3 is the lie.

Bdoomed · **Reply #134 on:** March 01, 2009, 05:17:21 AM

since 3 is a sore thumb, its good for this game, im goin with 1

wherethewild · **Reply #135 on:** March 01, 2009, 03:31:53 PM

I'm going to go for 4. No great reason except that I'd expect it to be the least expected when you're putting up the list.

Russell Nash · **Reply #136 on:** March 01, 2009, 05:14:56 PM

#4 depends on how you have your truck currently set up for tax purposes. You could very easily be a trucking company of one truck and one driver. The Princess Bride refuses to let me pick the Studio. Therefore I'm going to go with the firearms store.

eytanz · **Reply #137 on:** March 01, 2009, 06:01:01 PM

I'll say #2, because I think you mentioned currently being a self-employed trucker (and hence, a trucking company), and #1 and #3 are random enough to be true.

Zathras · **Reply #138 on:** March 01, 2009, 08:01:27 PM

Quote from: Zathras on February 28, 2009, 07:32:58 PM

I'll go again, what the heck!

I've owned or been co-owner of the following:

1. A firearms store.
2. A truck repair shop.
3. A recording studio.
4. A trucking company.

1. True. It was called First Defense, and it was located in Augusta, GA.
2. FALSE!!! My brother does, however.
3. True. Loudhouse, also in Augusta, GA.
4. True, Nash nailed this one. I am a one truck outfit, and am leased on to another company.

Next.

Listener · **Reply #139 on:** March 03, 2009, 04:34:25 PM

I'd like to go again, if no one minds.

1. When I played college football, I once took an (inadvertent) helmet-to-helmet hit that left me bleeding from my jaw. I got right up, trotted off the field, was sent to the locker-room, saw the blood, and promptly passed out. I still have a scar.

2. In high school guitar class, my teacher once brought in a professional musician (drummer) for the sole purpose of her, the drummer, and myself performing together during the lunch period as part of the weekly guitar class lunchtime concert. I was the only person who the teacher and the drummer performed with, ever, at the school.

3. In order to disguise myself when sending an anonymous Valentine's Day card-and-rose in middle school, I wrote the card using absolutely perfect cursive, instead of my ridiculously-bad script. The girl still doesn't know I sent her the card, though we've been friends since sixth grade.

4. My fifth-grade teacher got all the fifth-grade classes together and basically played a live-action, year-long version of Sim City with us. I was City Manager (not the mayor, but basically the mayor's third-in-command), and often got so into it that I would get terrible headaches from skipping lunch to work on the project.

Zathras · **Reply #140 on:** March 03, 2009, 04:45:04 PM

Quote from: Listener on March 03, 2009, 04:34:25 PM

I'd like to go again, if no one minds.

1. When I played college football, I once took an (inadvertent) helmet-to-helmet hit that left me bleeding from my jaw. I got right up, trotted off the field, was sent to the locker-room, saw the blood, and promptly passed out. I still have a scar.

2. In high school guitar class, my teacher once brought in a professional musician (drummer) for the sole purpose of her, the drummer, and myself performing together during the lunch period as part of the weekly guitar class lunchtime concert. I was the only person who the teacher and the drummer performed with, ever, at the school.

3. In order to disguise myself when sending an anonymous Valentine's Day card-and-rose in middle school, I wrote the card using absolutely perfect cursive, instead of my ridiculously-bad script. The girl still doesn't know I sent her the card, though we've been friends since sixth grade.

4. My fifth-grade teacher got all the fifth-grade classes together and basically played a live-action, year-long version of Sim City with us. I was City Manager (not the mayor, but basically the mayor's third-in-command), and often got so into it that I would get terrible headaches from skipping lunch to work on the project.

This one is actually quite simple. Number 4 is the lie.

Listener · **Reply #141 on:** March 04, 2009, 05:08:53 PM

Any more guesses before I reveal the answers?

eytanz · **Reply #142 on:** March 04, 2009, 05:56:26 PM

I'd go with #3, as it's the only one that doesn't involve missing lunch (well, ok, #1 isn't explicitly about missing lunch, but it's at least possible you were still passed out in lunchtime).

Listener · **Reply #143 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:16:33 PM

Wow, I didn't even realize they were 50% about lunch. That was totally unintentional.

Heradel · **Reply #144 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:19:46 PM

Quote from: Listener on March 04, 2009, 06:16:33 PM

Wow, I didn't even realize they were 50% about lunch. That was totally unintentional.

Lunch is rarely intentional.

Russell Nash · **Reply #145 on:** March 04, 2009, 08:08:12 PM

Don't really have a feel for this one. Of course I don't think I've gotten one right this whole time except for Wherethewild. I'll go with #2.

Bdoomed · **Reply #146 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:42:52 PM

Quote from: Heradel on March 04, 2009, 06:19:46 PM

Quote from: Listener on March 04, 2009, 06:16:33 PM
Wow, I didn't even realize they were 50% about lunch. That was totally unintentional.

Lunch is rarely intentional.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -Ford Prefect

Listener · **Reply #147 on:** March 04, 2009, 10:46:08 PM

The lie is #1.

1 -- this actually happened, but to my High School government/econ teacher, not to me. I never played college sports.

2 -- we played "Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls. The teacher and I played guitar, my friend Orit played bass, and the professional -- a friend of hers -- played drums.

3 -- that's the whole story.

4 -- absolutely true, and one of my favorite school projects ever.

Clutron · **Reply #148 on:** March 13, 2009, 10:05:58 PM

I'm gonna go...cuz I'm back from vacation and no one has gone for a while.

1) I am 30 years old and live with my mom (in her house).

2) I have owned 5 different exotic animals from 3 different continents.

3) I have thrown a Pie at a stranger, who later tried to file assault charges, which taught me to only throw pies at friends.

4) I sold ice-cream at Mt. Rushmore for a college job.

Zathras · **Reply #149 on:** March 13, 2009, 10:37:27 PM

Number 1 is soooo true!

I'm going to go with number 2, too much info.