Okay, it's been a day - and no one is ever going to guess the correct three anyway. This list was created a few years back and posed on a different forum to friends who have known me for years, and no one guessed all three. So here are the stories:
1. I have played a christian surfer in a movie
True. I was an extra in a surfer movie caled "Under the Boardwalk". This was right after I graduated from high school, and it was a great job - paid to lay on the beach with pretty girls in bikinis all day. And I got extra money for being part of an "identifiable group" as one of the Christian surfers. Gotta love Hollywood unions.
2. I was once arrested at Disneyland
True, for trespassing. I was about 13 at the time, and my older brother was working at the Blue Bayoo restaurant over the summer. On his last day, he brought me and my nephew (who's a year older than me, actually) along. He didn't realize the park closed early for a private party though, since he had to work into the night for the private party. So instead of calling mom to drive us home early, he hid us - in the jungle of the jungle boat ride - while they cleared the park. Park security made him move along when he came to get us, and LONG story short, caught us when we tried to sneak back into the park proper on our own. The security brought us to a backstage holding area, where we were run through paperwork by a bunch of officers who repeatedly told us they were REAL police officers working for the REAL Anaheim police. They were a bit insecure about it, I'd say.
3. I have had a pet fruitbat
False. I wish.
4. I am considered a saint in at least one religion
True, and as Russell pointed out, it only takes four people to start a religion. The Discordians are somewhat bigger than that though. They sainted me for creating the
Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide. Of course, I'm only a second class Discordian Saint. To be a first class saint, like Bugs Bunny, one is required to be fictional.
5. I have officiated at an illegal lesbian wedding
False. However, none of my friends ever guessed this one to be a lie, probably because I have many lesbian friends, and several of my girlfriends have been lesbian identified at one time or another.
6. I have been a guest of a Worldcon speaking about SETI
True. In college I studied under Frank Drake, the co-founder of SETI along with Carl Sagan. And I participated in something called the Bateson Project SETI simulation at Contact with a bunch of PhDs. But they knew nothing about roleplaying, so I kind of revolutionized the whole thing. For which I was invited with the rest of them to speak at WorldCon San Francisco. I also gave a solo panel on the search for extrasolar planets, which was my thesis topic.
7. I have been published in Analog Science Fiction Magazine
True. I could have made it even more unbelievable by saying that I've been published in an SF magazine yet never in my life received a rejection letter. The editor of Analog emailed me from out of the blue and asked if they could publish the Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide page.
8. I've been quoted during a session of the U.S. congress
True. Once again, it's all the falt of that pesky dihydrogen monoxide. A congresswoman took the floor to read a newspaper article about DHMO which stated that you could probably convince most congressmen to ban it. Which was more or less my point. This was years before Orange County almost passed a law based on it.
9. I've been quoted on the Animal Planet Network
False. Yup, just threw it in there because it sounded plausible.
10. I've been quoted in the OED under "geek"
True, although I have to admit this was a bit sketchy. The quote was in the first online edition of the OED. I had a web page at the time (1994 or so) that gave a history of the term geek, along with it's usage in the Santa Cruz geek scene of the time. The editors emailed me asking permission to use it. They not only quoted my page, but provided a link to it in the entry. It never made the print edition, and the online edition removed it eventually.
