Three truths and a lie

[MacArthurBug]

Z- I totally should have Wiki'd it.  I forget sometimes the amazing power of the intertubes. Thanks for the info! This is a neat li'l game you've got going on here. I've played it before (read: at baby showers. *groan* ) but this verision is waaaaaay better.

[Zathras]

Z- I totally should have Wiki'd it.  I forget sometimes the amazing power of the intertubes. Thanks for the info!

Alasdair pointed me to WIKI for Exquisite Corpse, so I figured I'd help someone else.   

This is a neat li'l game you've got going on here. I've played it before (read: at baby showers. *groan* ) but this verision is waaaaaay better.

What can I say?  Steve's catch phrase is part of my outlook on life.   

[gelee]

1.  I once worked as a roadie for legendary prog rock musician Rick Wakeman.

2.  I represented the Isle of Man at a national level in Rugby.

3.  I once used total ignorance to thwart a robbery and didn't realise I had until it was finished.

4.  I've been a first responder to a major Manx Rally car accident.

1.  If this had actually happened, Alisdair would have totaly mentioned it before.  That's my official best guess, anyway.

[Russell Nash]

1.  I once worked as a roadie for legendary prog rock musician Rick Wakeman.

2.  I represented the Isle of Man at a national level in Rugby.

3.  I once used total ignorance to thwart a robbery and didn't realise I had until it was finished.

4.  I've been a first responder to a major Manx Rally car accident.

1.  I think Al would have more music references if this was true.

2.  I thought, "no way.  Al's no that big."  Then I remembered that he's mentioned being a kind of big guy.  He just looks small in his avatar next to Sully.

3.  I'm with the others that say this isn't all that hard, especially since in England chances were really good the guy didn't have a gun.  Not to mention the size thing again.

4.  Given the nature of Rally racing, I think this one is very believable.

Therefore I vote for number 1.

[Clutron]

1.  I once worked as a roadie for legendary prog rock musician Rick Wakeman.

2.  I represented the Isle of Man at a national level in Rugby.

3.  I once used total ignorance to thwart a robbery and didn't realise I had until it was finished.

4.  I've been a first responder to a major Manx Rally car accident.

1)  I'm gonna say this is true...
2)  If 1 is true, I'm guessing 2 is false since you'd be too busy rocking out to play Rugby.
3)  This sounds like a funny story that I want to hear, so even if this is the lie, just make up something up.
4)  No comment on this one, I just believe it. 

[Raving_Lunatic]

1.  I once worked as a roadie for legendary prog rock musician Rick Wakeman.

2.  I represented the Isle of Man at a national level in Rugby.

3.  I once used total ignorance to thwart a robbery and didn't realise I had until it was finished.

4.  I've been a first responder to a major Manx Rally car accident.

1. Yes.
2. Probably not.
3. Sounds like something you might do
4. Yeap.

2 is lie.

[Listener]

My guess is #2 for Alasdair.

And, R_L, I would NEVER have guessed your age as being quite that young. But after the big-ass post I just threw up on my LJ, I guess it shouldn't surprise me. I was also ahead of my time at that age, and was often mistaken for being 3-10 years older than I really was (helps to be tall and have a relatively-early change-of-voice).

[Poppydragon]

I'll go with #2 on the basis I'm not convinced that IoM has a National Rugby Team, or it would only count in something like the Commonwealth Games, and I'm fairly certain they don't play Rugby in the Commonwealth Games (it'd just be another thing for England to lose at).

As far as being Rick (I really did do King Arthur on Ice) Wakeman's roadie, I really hope he was because that would have been a brilliant gig to have.

[Raving_Lunatic]

My guess is #2 for Alasdair.

And, R_L, I would NEVER have guessed your age as being quite that young. But after the big-ass post I just threw up on my LJ, I guess it shouldn't surprise me. I was also ahead of my time at that age, and was often mistaken for being 3-10 years older than I really was (helps to be tall and have a relatively-early change-of-voice).

Flattered.

It's one of the reasons I've always liked the internet so much; in real life, people would instantly see me, clock my age and then ignore virtually everything I have to say. It's no fault of theirs though, because frankly I don't listen enough to people who are barely two years younger than me, even when they have important things to say. That's the wonderful thing about the internet for some people. A level playing field, ect.

[Alasdair5000]

1.  I once worked as a roadie for legendary prog rock musician Rick Wakeman.

2.  I represented the Isle of Man at a national level in Rugby.

3.  I once used total ignorance to thwart a robbery and didn't realise I had until it was finished.

4.  I've been a first responder to a major Manx Rally car accident.

Those answers in full...

1.  This is true.  Rick Wakeman lives on the island, used to do local performances fairly regularly and I, being on the school backstage crew at the time, got to move the man's piano around:)

2.  This is true.  Being a chunky boy, I was essentially drafted onto my school's rugby team and, having survived without many injuruies was sent to the tryout for the National team.

Where exactly the amount of people needed for a team showed up:)

   So I played, I got headbutted, I got my nose, apparently, slightly broken.  Was kind of fun though:)

3.  This is true.  When I ran the comic shop, for a long time, the only thing we had stopping people getting into the window displays was a big metal poster rack which could be shifted out of the way pretty easily.  Now, I was at this stage, very much hands on manager, I'd go round the shop, chatting to customers, keeping things in shape all that guff.
   So I see a couple of guys over by the windows, reaching down into the display which, at this stage was all kinds of Star Wars stuff.  My hand to God, the only thing I thought was 'Oh!  They want something from the display, I'll go help!'  So I walk over go, 'Hello chaps, can I help you with anything?'
   They jump, turn, the blood rushes from their faces and they mutter something about just browsing and leave.  Quickly.  My staff member comes up to me and we have the following conversation:

'Al, do you think they were trying to steal something?'
'...Well, I didn't until now....'

4.This!Is!The!Lie!  I did marshal for the Rally once, and was equipped with a high tech piece of warning technology in the event of a crash.

It was a piece of curtain rod, with a duster tied around the top as a flag.

Seriously.

In the event of an accident, I was supposed to run down the road and wave this in front of high speed, two ton death machines on a narrow road BY A HARBOUR and get them to stop.

But, thankfully, that didn't happen:)

[Raving_Lunatic]

Al, you have led an awesome life

[Zathras]

I think I'm the only one who got it right.  I didn't pick rugby because Alasdair had mentioned that "sport" in one of his outros.  Either Alasdair can pick someone to go next, or if someone gets motivated, they can step in and go.  I'd rather not go a second time just yet, even though I do have more material.

BTW, I love high tech devices!   

[MacArthurBug]

If no one else steps up- I'll take next. But mine are weird so I don't really mind waiting either.

[Poppydragon]

I'll go after MacArthurBug then   

[MacArthurBug]

Ok- but you were warned these are weird, and not the weirdest things that there is to know.

1: I was named after my aunts cat.
2: I am my sisters mother.
3. I have drunk so much coffee in one sitting that I hallucinated.
4. I have such severe attention deficit disorder that I've been distracted by butterflies, and fallen on my face, more then once, in public.

[Zathras]

I'm going to have to go with 2...

[Listener]

Ok- but you were warned these are weird, and not the weirdest things that there is to know.

1: I was named after my aunts cat.
2: I am my sisters mother.
3. I have drunk so much coffee in one sitting that I hallucinated.
4. I have such severe attention deficit disorder that I've been distracted by butterflies, and fallen on my face, more then once, in public.

I'll say #1.

I suppose it's POSSIBLE, given fertility technology, that you could be a surrogate, which rules out #2. Or maybe your parents passed on and you raised your sister. #3 I've done myself, albeit with chocolate-covered espresso beans. #4 has happened to me; I've fallen up the stairs and onto my pizza in high school.

If I get it right, I'll throw up my 3/1.

[Poppydragon]

I'm going to go for #4 as it could simply be an excuse for general clumsiness, excess alcohol or simply bad co-ordination just as easily as ADHD 

I'm hoping #2 is true so I can here how 

[izzardfan]

1: I was named after my aunts cat.
2: I am my sisters mother.
3. I have drunk so much coffee in one sitting that I hallucinated.
4. I have such severe attention deficit disorder that I've been distracted by butterflies, and fallen on my face, more then once, in public.

Wow, in my opinion all four are believable events, though since I don't know MAB, trying to decide if they apply is difficult.  I think #2 is possible if she had a baby but due to circumstances (teen pregnancy comes to mind), the baby was raised as her sister rather than her daughter.  I don't drink coffee myself, so I can't speak to this#3, but Listener seems to think it's true.  #4 is possible from personal experience.  I'll say #1 from process of elimination but I bet I'm wrong.

Edit:  clarification

[Russell Nash]

Princess Bride time:

#2 is so weird that everyone thinks it's too obvious and has to be true and therefore they are not picking it.  I, understanding this, will pick #2.

[Poppydragon]

Princess Bride time:

#2 is so weird that everyone thinks it's too obvious and has to be true and therefore they are not picking it.  I, understanding this, will pick #2.

But it could be that MacArthurBug, realising that someone might pick it simply because everybody else had decided that it was too obviously a lie and therefore not pick it, deliberately told the truuth about it. As everybody knows the truth is often stranger than fiction. (That and I REALLY hope its true just to hear the explanation  )

[eytanz]

I'm going with #3, for two reasons:

- No one else has, yet.
- There was a recent media discussion of a study that said coffee caused hallucinations, which may have given you the idea for this item.

[Russell Nash]

I have come up with information that has given me the answer.  I'll sit out the rest and watch everyone else.

[MacArthurBug]

eytanz has gotten it.  3 is the lie so the answers are as following:

1: I was named after my aunts cat: My Aunt had a gorgous marmalade colored cat named Amber. It was the first time my mother had heard the name and liked it so..
2: I am my sisters mother: No birth control is 100% effective 100% of the time. I was too young to keep the child, and though I believed in a womans right to choose- I choose to continue the pregnancy. My parents decided they were the only ones fit to adopt. We rarely all acted mature about the proceedings, however in the end it worked out. They are legally the parents of my biological daughter. It's really wonderful knowing she's being raised by the only two people who I know love her unconditionally. 
3. I have drunk so much coffee in one sitting that I hallucinated. - NOT for a lack of trying but this is indeed a fib. And also based on some random media tidbit I heard/read.
4. I have such severe attention deficit disorder that I've been distracted by butterflies, and fallen on my face, more then once, in public.This is true   Butterflies are actually evil, and control the forces of gravity, weather, space and time.   Either that or.. "oooh pretty!"

[Ocicat]

Okay, I'm going to step up with mine - but as previously mentioned, they are in a different format.

Ten things.  THREE are lies.  Seven are true.

1. I have played a christian surfer in a movie
2. I was once arrested at Disneyland
3. I have had a pet fruitbat
4. I am considered a saint in at least one religion
5. I have officiated at an illegal lesbian wedding
6. I have been a guest of a Worldcon speaking about SETI
7. I have been published in Analog Science Fiction Magazine
8. I've been quoted during a session of the U.S. congress
9. I've been quoted on the Animal Planet Network
10. I've been quoted in the OED under "geek"