Author Topic: Three truths and a lie (Read 88414 times)

Heradel · **Reply #100 on:** February 17, 2009, 07:14:24 PM

Quote from: Russell Nash on February 16, 2009, 10:18:06 PM

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1) The first time I saw my wife she was in a group of German tourists. I spotted her and ignored the rest of the group. We were married over 12 years later.
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I knew the Germans had a problem with cannibals, but how did you get her out?

Zathras · **Reply #101 on:** February 17, 2009, 07:29:34 PM

Quote from: Listener on February 17, 2009, 07:11:20 PM

I say #2, because I know I'd be scared to go that fast.

#2 would make you #2 in your car?

Listener · **Reply #102 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:22:13 PM

Quote from: Zathras on February 17, 2009, 07:29:34 PM

Quote from: Listener on February 17, 2009, 07:11:20 PM
I say #2, because I know I'd be scared to go that fast.

#2 would make you #2 in your car?

No, I can control mah poopz.

Bdoomed · **Reply #103 on:** February 18, 2009, 05:20:39 AM

i say #3 is the lie, too vague

Russell Nash · **Reply #104 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:58:24 AM

Quote from: Russell Nash on February 16, 2009, 10:18:06 PM

Since I have been requested by the thread originator, here goes:

1) The first time I saw my wife she was in a group of German tourists. I spotted her and ignored the rest of the group. We were married over 12 years later.

2) I love the German Autobahns and almost never drive less than 100 MPH (160 KPH) in the unlimited speed zones. Sadly there seem to be fewer of those every year.

3) I get paid to talk to someone once a week and belittle her.

4) In Prague I stared down a thief, who was trying to steal a piece of my luggage, probably my camera-bag backpack.

1) True – I met my wife when she came to the states on her HS class trip. They were doing the whole East Coast. Until the got to Philly , they'd been doing about a city a day and had stayed in motels. In Philly they stayed with families and yours truly volunteered to host one of them. When I saw the crowd, I quickly locked on her. As luck would have it, her friend was staying with me. We ended up being pen pals (pre-internet) for three years, but that faded and stopped.

Almost ten years after I first met her, my mother called to say I had gotten a letter. Turned out she was in NYC for three months and wanted to see if we were still friends. Two and a half years after that I gave up my apartment, sold my truck, quit my job, packed a bunch of my stuff into a shipping container, got married, and moved to Berlin.

2) True whenever I'm driving a car other than mine, but false for our game here – I love my car. It is cheap to operate, carries the whole family and a ton of crap, and is dependable as hell. Therefore I treat it gently. Under penalty of "wet willies" no one may drive it over 85 (135 KPH) and the preferred cruising speed is 75 (120 KPH). Give me someone else's car and I'm always over 100. I have no problem thrashing the shit out of a rental or a company car.

3) True – A friend is a small business owner. She realized at one point that she had lots of things going, but wasn't following through. Once a week she reports to me and I focus her work. I give her goals for the week, and I get paid to be nasty, if I think she's not working hard enough. Guilt trips are my preferred weapon.

4) True – When we were leaving Prague, we took a tram down to the train station. One stop before we needed to transfer to another line this guy gets on and looks around. He wasn't very subtle. The second he saw our backpacks and suitcase he snapped his head around and pretended he wasn't looking. It wasn't far to the next stop and he followed us off the tram. The stops were so close together, no one would have waited at the first stop just to go one stop and then wait again at the next stop.

I told my wife to put her pack on hold the suitcase very tightly. I tightened the straps on my camera-bag backpack and slid my asp into my hand. I then just stared at him. He looked over every 20-30 seconds and just saw me staring back. I had my "don't f*** with me face on and was turned towards him like I was ready for a bar fight. After about three minutes, he decided he didn't want to wait for the next tram and jogged away.

A lot of you got that right. Although I thought it was funny that one of you thought it was too boring, someone else thought it was too scary, and the third thought the informative blurb was out of character.

Who's next?

Bdoomed · **Reply #105 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:17:51 PM

i'll go!

1. I've hooked up with someone 4 years older than me.

2. I spoke my first word and took my first step at the same time.

3. When I was 7 I led a large group of kids through a blizzard after being separated from our ski camp counselor.

4. I was almost charged with a federal felony once.

Listener · **Reply #106 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:48:38 PM

Quote from: Bdoomed on February 18, 2009, 08:17:51 PM

i'll go!

1. I've hooked up with someone 4 years older than me.

2. I spoke my first word and took my first step at the same time.

3. When I was 7 I led a large group of kids through a blizzard after being separated from our ski camp counselor.

4. I was almost charged with a federal felony once.

I'll go with Item Three as being the lie. I don't think it didn't happen, but I don't think it happened when you were seven.

Zathras · **Reply #107 on:** February 18, 2009, 11:01:53 PM

Quote from: Bdoomed on February 18, 2009, 08:17:51 PM

i'll go!

1. I've hooked up with someone 4 years older than me.

2. I spoke my first word and took my first step at the same time.

3. When I was 7 I led a large group of kids through a blizzard after being separated from our ski camp counselor.

4. I was almost charged with a federal felony once.

Ah, a young'un. I'm going to believe 4 and 1, as they are true for me. Now that leaves 2 and 3. Eenie meenie miney moe, I pick 3.

Swamp · **Reply #108 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:37:56 AM

I vote for #2. It seems unlikely unless you took a step, fell down, and then cursed like you heard one of your parents do when they fell down.

Zathras · **Reply #109 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:44:25 AM

I figured 2 for "BEER" as he lunged after his pop's six-pack.

Oooooh. Post number 1000 is coming up. I think I'll do something special.

MacArthurBug · **Reply #110 on:** February 20, 2009, 01:50:44 PM

I'm also voting for 2 as the fib- though it's possible It just seems less likely.

Raving_Lunatic · **Reply #111 on:** February 20, 2009, 09:53:29 PM

Quote from: Zathras on February 19, 2009, 12:44:25 AM

I figured 2 for "BEER" as he lunged after his pop's six-pack.

Oooooh. Post number 1000 is coming up. I think I'll do something special.

hmph. all you did with it was make me feel inadequate and frankly considering I'm a manically-depressed identity-confused and lonely teenager with big ideas and no plans it's really not that much of an achievement.

Bdoomed · **Reply #112 on:** February 23, 2009, 09:58:01 PM

alriiight sorry i took so long, ive been sick (still am) but anyway...

1. I've hooked up with someone 4 years older than me.
TRUE! But im not to happy about it, im not really attracted to the girl... ehh whatev i was drunk hahaha

!

2. I spoke my first word and took my first step at the same time.
TRUE! My mom was watching T.V. and I was playing on the floor when my Dad came home from work. I stood up, said "Dad!" as I took a step. However that one step was the one step away from the edge of the floor i was on, so i fell down the one step to the other floor right after

(sorry if that is INCREDIBLY VAGUE). anyway my dad and my mom were baffled, and my dad asked my mom how long i had been doing that and she was just as surprised as he was

3. When I was 7 I led a large group of kids through a blizzard after being separated from our ski camp counselor.
TRUE! I was in Vail, Colorado at a ski camp and we had gone to the top of a mountain just as a blizzard was beginning. When all of us got off the ski lift, we were waiting in a small group for our counselor, and she wasn't showing up. I made sure everyone stayed together, and after a few minutes one kid decided he wanted to go look for her, but i was able to stop him. I led the whole group to an open area and made everyone just stick together. A few minutes later our counselor found us and took us to a lodge for hot chocolate

!

4. I was almost charged with a federal felony once.
FALSE! Tho i guess it could be almost true... I based this one off of this one time i went digging around in my school's computer files, places i REALLY shouldnt have been goin to (i had good intentions, ones id rather not say tho cuz they are SO dumb in retrospect). So anyway i got caught, and was subsequently fired from my job at the school helping out the tech people. This was freshman year.
i guess technically i could have been charged with a felony there, cuz u cant dig around on other peoples computers, or sumtin like that.... but i was never charged or even almost charged, it was never brought up.

so who is next?

Zathras · **Reply #113 on:** February 23, 2009, 10:08:51 PM

So did your dad have a beer in his hand?

Zathras · **Reply #114 on:** February 24, 2009, 05:07:19 AM

Poppydragon, now's your chance!

Bdoomed · **Reply #115 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:05:34 AM

cant believe no one guessed 4 as the lie...
you people obviously have a low opinion of me haha

Poppydragon · **Reply #116 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:55:00 AM

OK then, here goes

1) I once lived in a castle for two years.
2) When I was 10 I got knocked down by a car and thought I had died and gone to heaven because a female passer by covered me with her fur coat.
3) I have climbed all of the Munroes (peaks over 3000 feet in Scotland)
4) I was chosen to play Jesus in the Easter story when I was 8 but turned it down to play the Roman Centurian instead.

eytanz · **Reply #117 on:** February 24, 2009, 09:21:59 AM

Quote from: Poppydragon on February 24, 2009, 06:55:00 AM

OK then, here goes

1) I once lived in a castle for two years.
2) When I was 10 I got knocked down by a car and thought I had died and gone to heaven because a female passer by covered me with her fur coat.
3) I have climbed all of the Munroes (peaks over 3000 feet in Scotland)
4) I was chosen to play Jesus in the Easter story when I was 8 but turned it down to play the Roman Centurian instead.

Hmmm, tough one. They're all plausible. I'll go for 3 simply because it'd be false if you just climbed most of the Munroes or something.

Russell Nash · **Reply #118 on:** February 24, 2009, 05:01:55 PM

I think I'm with Eytanz. I think you probably want to climb all of them and have climbed most of them.

Zathras · **Reply #119 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:36:18 PM

I'm going to have to go with eytanz and russel_nash. I don't think you've climbed them all.

MacArthurBug · **Reply #120 on:** February 25, 2009, 12:43:52 PM

Quote from: Poppydragon on February 24, 2009, 06:55:00 AM

OK then, here goes

1) I once lived in a castle for two years.
2) When I was 10 I got knocked down by a car and thought I had died and gone to heaven because a female passer by covered me with her fur coat.
3) I have climbed all of the Munroes (peaks over 3000 feet in Scotland)
4) I was chosen to play Jesus in the Easter story when I was 8 but turned it down to play the Roman Centurian instead.

I also think it's number three- but JUSt to go against the grain I'll say number 1!

Poppydragon · **Reply #121 on:** February 25, 2009, 04:59:08 PM

I'm off out this evening but I'll put the answer up tomorrow if there are no more guesses. $:-\$

Poppydragon · **Reply #122 on:** February 26, 2009, 06:40:55 AM

1) This is the lie. I was lucky enough to go to college at the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales, the college itself is based around a castle however I lived in a dorm on the grounds, not actually in the castle.

2) True - I kicked a can into the road and ran after it and came out second best to a Morris Marina, the tale of my brush with "Heaven" is trotted out regularly by my parents when they wish to embarass me.

3) True - I completed my last two (Sgurr Dearg & Sgurr Dubh Mor on the Black Cuillin Ridge on Skye) last year, it took me thirty years to climb all 284.

4) True - For the very simple reason, I looked at the thick pile of paper that represented the Jesus role and the two lines that represented the Centurian and decided that I preferred brevity.

Who's next?

wherethewild · **Reply #123 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.

Russell Nash · **Reply #124 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:24:03 PM

I have inside information on this one, so I'm out. I like the stories behind a couple of these, so I hope we'll get the full stories later.