To tell the Truth . . .

[John Galt]

After reading through the celebrity sighting/six degrees of Jason Blair thread, I was inspired to post a game thread here (my first). The game is pretty simple and probably lots of you have played it in getting-to-know-each-other type settings. For me, it was used a couple times at my university on the first day of class. I don't think this game has appeared before on FOFC, but if it has I missed it the first time.

The basic idea is that each person tells 4 outrageous (or at least unusual) truths about themselves and 1 lie. People guess which one is the lie. Whoever guesses the lie starts with their own list of 5 facts/stories. Then again, anyone can jump in with lists of 5 if the game is slowing down. It is usually pretty interesting to hear the stories and the dynamics change over time as people try different tactics to disguise the 1 lie. Anyway, I'll start.

1) A Law & Order episode was taped outside my apartment in New York and they wouldn't let us out for hours. Finally, I decided to just go even though they were filming. They kept the footage in the show and you can see me in the background amongst extras being followed by a couple NBC security people.

2) When I was little my mom was a bartender and I used to harass Darrell Green and other "Redskins" for quarters to play video games at the bar. I always hated Coy Bacon because he never gave me quarters.

3) I dated a woman who won awards for as Ms. Teen (State) and Ms. (City) and is currently a professional model. She was a dancer when I knew her and her come on line to me was, "I can do the splits both ways."

4) I once was in an elevator with Mike Tyson and a lady acquaitance of his for 25 floors in a New York apartment building. He never said a word since the woman was talking the whole time. I didn't even know it was him until someone told me when we got out.

5) I was at a bar with Lucy Liu and Neve Campbell sitting at the two tables beside me and my party. Lucy is much better looking than I had thought and Neve just looks awful in person. I was with a significant other, but I shared coy glances with Lucy and got a "thank you" and a nice smile for buying her a drink.

1 of the 5 is a lie and 4 are true. Any guesses?

[Fritz]

no way you dated a woman

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Fritz
no way you dated a woman

While I appreciate your blanket condemnation of my ability to get women, my current long-term significant other might disagree with you. And if you are guessing number 3 as the lie, then you are incorrect. That story is true. We dated for about 3 months when I was 20. She dumped me because she said I was too smart and she liked dumb guys (I didn't include that detail because then it really would look like a lie ;) ).

[digamma]

My guess is that number 1 is the lie. It probably happened to a friend of yours and is "easier" to make-up than the others. That's what I'm thinking anyway.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by John Galt
While I appreciate your blanket condemnation of my ability to get women, my current long-term significant other might disagree with you. And if you are guessing number 3 as the lie, then you are incorrect. That story is true. We dated for about 3 months when I was 20. She dumped me because she said I was too smart and she liked dumb guys (I didn't include that detail because then it really would look like a lie ;) ).

You don't call a "girlfriend" a significant other unless you're a woman. That is an eternal truth.

So there are 3 explanations:

1.) You're a pole smoker
2.) You're a dyke
3.) You're messin' with the natural order

[John Galt]

Originally posted by digamma
My guess is that number 1 is the lie. It probably happened to a friend of yours and is "easier" to make-up than the others. That's what I'm thinking anyway.

digamma wins. It never happened to anyone I know of. There was a couple Law and Order episodes filmed by my apartment because I live right by the Stock Exchange, but we have side exit when they film in front of the place. The rest of the stories are true.

Now digamma, it is your turn for a list of 5.

[Franklinnoble]

Most of us don't live in NYC and have this much interesting shit to talk about.

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Fritz
You don't call a "girlfriend" a significant other unless you're a woman. That is an eternal truth.

So there are 3 explanations:

1.) You're a pole smoker
2.) You're a dyke
3.) You're messin' with the natural order

or 4) I play for "both teams" and prefer to be gender-ambiguous (but you may think that falls under 1 and 3).

So, does the offer still stand that you made on the Jason Blair thread? ;)

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Most of us don't live in NYC and have this much interesting shit to talk about.

When I played the game at school, it was at a big midwestern state school with most people from farm towns. Everyone managed to come up with 5 unusual things - it just happens that NYC makes them celebrity focused.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by John Galt
or 4) I play for "both teams" and prefer to be gender-ambiguous (but you may think that falls under 1 and 3).

So, does the offer still stand that you made on the Jason Blair thread? ;)

I would have to look at your hands first.


(this might not be needed as I am sure you fairy big city lawyers use a lot of hand lotion)

[Marmel]

How do you know he is a fairy big city lawyer?

[Fritz]

Originally posted by Marmel
How do you know he is a fairy big city lawyer?

the little wings are big clue

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Fritz
the little wings are big clue

This is why we need avatars. Then Marmel wouldn't be confused.

[Marmel]

How do you hide the wings in your three piece lawyer suit?

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Marmel
How do you hide the wings in your three piece lawyer suit?

NYC law firms are all business casual these days. Wings are just a bold fashion statement (and not really that bold by NY standards).

[Marmel]

Sorry I am not up to date on NYC lawyer fashion. I will try to research the topic before I speak next time. :(

[Fritz]

Originally posted by John Galt
NYC law firms are all business casual these days. Wings are just a bold fashion statement (and not really that bold by NY standards).

have they gone so far as to let you pierce them yet?

[Marmel]

Is this thread going where you envisioned it Mr. Galt?

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Marmel
Is this thread going where you envisioned it Mr. Galt?

No. I'm just praying digamma posts a list soon to save my first attempt at a game thread. Oh well - I should know better than to mess with an excitable Fritz. :)

[digamma]

I'll try to get JG back on track:

1. I was the valedictorian of my high school class. Along with the prize medal, I also got a short blurb about me in the local newspaper. The next week the paper ran a follow-up piece to dispel rumors I was related to a prominent KKK family.

2. One night while out with friends in Los Angeles, we noticed Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater from Saved by the Bell) and Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton from The Fresh Prince) sitting nearby. Somehow words were exchanged, culminating with Slater calling my friend a "homosexual" and my friend responding, "Dude, that is so saved by the bell." Next thing we know, one of my buddies is laid out in the decorative creek flowing through the middle of the restaurant, thanks to one of Slater and Carlton's buddies (or bodyguards).

3. In keeping with the Fresh Prince theme, I've had dinner with Tatiyana Ali on a number of occasions. She played Ashley Banks.

4. Going back to Saved by the Bell. I later saw Mario Lopez at a local boxing match in L.A. I bought him a beer and asked him he remembered me. He said he did not and invited me to a cock fight after the boxing match.

5. And one more Fresh Prince story. While attending a taping of the Ricki Lake show, some ladies came over and asked my friends and I for our autographs. We signed and then asked who they thought we were. They pointed to one of my friends, and said, "you are Carlton from the Fresh Prince and we figured the rest of you were famous too."

One of these is not true.

[Marmel]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Most of us don't live in NYC and have this much interesting shit to talk about.

or LA.

[vtbub]

I'd say 5

[Craptacular]

Valedictorian

[digamma]

Both 1 and 5 are true.

[Fritz]

to keep on theme:

No way you had dinner with a woman (number 3)

[Marmel]

I'll say 4. Who cockfights besides Fritz anyway?

[Eaglesfan27]

I'd say 2.. i don't see those guys hanging out together.

[digamma]

Marmel wins.

I haven't run into AC Slater again.

[digamma]

I should follow-up that this is about the extent of my celeb sightings after living in LA for two years. It is bizarre that they all have to do with one or two shows.

I did see Bob Barker walking his dog one day also, actually.

[rexallllsc]

I have some good ones when it's my turn :)

[bbor]

This thread is slowly going the way to classic must read status.

Just cause i wanna see Galt pierce his wing-a-lings:D

[Anrhydeddu]

I think it would be better if anyone would post 4 truths and 1 lie and then have the community guess at them.

[John Galt]

Come on Marmel, it is your turn. Otherwise, I agree someone else should jump in.

[Marmel]

Somebody else can jump in...

[The Afoci]

1. I was once caught stealing 2 lunchables from a local grocery store. I was caught upon reentry to the store while attempting to bag the stolen goods.

2. My senior year in high school, a girl who was 2 lockers down from me was crying in her locker because she got turned down for prom. I said, "Well, if you weren't so fat..." She then kicked me in the crotch, double axehandled me to the ground and kicked me in the ribs until people were able to pull her back.

3. I once drove a car that was french and the company who made it actually denied the existance of it(as most of them went to africa and were extremely defective). This car had a top speed around seventy, at which point it shook so violently that generally one or all of the hubcaps would come off. I later ran into the curb and lost reverse. I also had someone attempt to steal the stereo out of it and feel that after removing it, it wasn't worth taking and left it on the passanger floor.

4. The second time I went out with my current live in girlfriend, I discovered that she and her best friend, Sarah, were much more than friends.

5. I once asked Johnny Cash for his autograph when I was 5. He attempted to sign my shirt and then went and spilled a drink all over me and accused me of spilling it and I asked my dad to buy him another one. When my dad refused, he took the pen, crossed his name out of my shirt and went on his way looking for another drink.

[Marmel]

i'll go with 3. That one had me laughing pretty good. It cannot possibly be true. If so, details, please.

[Fritz]

dont blaspheme Johnny Cash!

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Marmel
i'll go with 3. That one had me laughing pretty good. It cannot possibly be true. If so, details, please.

I laughed out loud at 1 and 3. If 1 is true, what were you doing stealing "lunchables" of all things and why the hell did you go back to bag them?

[Marmel]

1 is true. If you were a Crawfish follower you would know this.

*attaching crawfish to John Galt's sack*

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Marmel
1 is true. If you were a Crawfish follower you would know this.

*attaching crawfish to John Galt's sack*

The title of the Crawfish dynasty has always confused me because I had no idea what it was about. I've never even opened the thread. No my sack wishes I would have.

[The Afoci]

I will give it to Fritz. Johnny Cash actually did sign my shirt and was very polite. His limo pulled up to the local gas station as I was there and my dad asked for an autograph and had him sign me.

As for number 3. It was a Renault Encore. 1979. Look it up. They don't exist. Try to find parts for them, there aren't any because everyone will tell you the car can't be a 1979. The one mistake they made was that on the hatch, it was stamped, Renault Encore 1979. How this car got to the US is beyond me, but its distribution was to Africa mainly. It did have some in Europe, but it was limited because the thing was a death trap. My only guess is that someone who attended a College in Moorhead that has a huge African exchange program brought it over and traded it in. My dad bought it for $20 from where he worked at.

It was fuel injected sort of, but got about 9 mpg. It had 4 doors, and a hatch. Only three of the doors functioned, though as the things that held them shut locked up. After striking the curb at 5 mph, the thing refused reverse, so my pals would have to push me out of parking spots and jump in. I always left it unlocked with the keys in it praying someone would steal it. Someone thought they would rip the radio out, but gave up realizing it was worthless. Its topspeed wasn't easy to tell as the speedometer went up to 60 kmph and stopped. Thats right, 60 kmph. I once drove it from Fargo to St. Paul floored being passed by everyone and lost every hubcap on it.

Ah, the memories of it all...

[Fritz]

ack I was not ready to win one

[The Afoci]

Originally posted by John Galt
I laughed out loud at 1 and 3. If 1 is true, what were you doing stealing "lunchables" of all things and why the hell did you go back to bag them?

Why I went back to bag them is a question that I will never be able to answer. Apparently, carrying 2 small lunchables was too much for me, so I went back. Sadly, they were on sale that day too, so my crime totaled about $2.50 worth of goods. I was 19 or 20 when it happened too, which was nice...

[Anrhydeddu]

Originally posted by Marmel
Somebody else can jump in...

Somehow having Marmel pass does not surprise me in any way. His only claim to fame was winning big at a local Indian casino. :D

[Fritz]

1.) I have been on MTV as one of the dancing idiots.

2.) I mooned Jerry Fallwell. My claim to fame was getting him to flip me off.

3.) I was an official Observer to the 1990 Costa Rican Elections.

4.) Bruce Springsteen played for my second birthday.

5.) I dated a girl whose father was accused of having a man buried in a cement piling.

[Marmel]

Fritz, i'll go with #4 here.

[scooper]

OK. I'll say it.

No way you dated a girl.

[Anrhydeddu]

2 (maybe 4)

[Fritz]

Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
2

This is what I have never done. I tried to, but the guy was taking to long and I decided to go have a beer.

[Buzzbee]

Originally posted by Fritz
3.) I was an official Observer to the 1990 Costa Rican Erections.


:eek: :eek: :eek:

You been Fritzed!

[Fritz]

Originally posted by Buzzbee

1) I once passed out in Peoria and woke up naked in New Orleans with a condom hanging out of my ass.

2) I have a tattoo of Che Guevara in fishnet stockings on my forearm.

3) I am my sister's father

4) I crapped my pants at my prom

5) I am such a freak that Howard Stern brings me on when his ratings are sagging


I don't think I would admitted any of that.

[Anrhydeddu]

1. I never played basketball with Kellen Winslow

2. I never been overseas in my travels

3. I never told Michael Jordan that he was a slacker

4. I never managed a rock band of surfers

5. I never owned a game development company

[John Galt]

Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
1. I never played basketball with Kellen Winslow

2. I never been overseas in my travels

3. I never told Michael Jordan that he was a slacker

4. I never managed a rock band of surfers

5. I never owned a game development company

You made fun of Marmel's uneventful life and then only list 1 thing you have actually done. Weak. ;)

[Anrhydeddu]

That's what I get for trying to be clever. I'll revise.

1. I played basketball with Kellen Winslow

2. I been overseas in my travels

3. I told Michael Jordan that he was a slacker

4. I managed a rock band of surfers

5. I owned a game development company

[Eaglesfan27]

I'll guess number 5

[Buzzbee]

Originally posted by Fritz
I don't think I would admitted any of that.

Yeah Fritz, but which one isn't true? :p

[korme]

3

[Buzzbee]

Correct Shorty. I am not my Sisters Father. I am actually my Father's Sister. Well, after that surgery.

[dawgfan]

Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
That's what I get for trying to be clever. I'll revise.

1. I played basketball with Kellen Winslow

2. I been overseas in my travels

3. I told Michael Jordan that he was a slacker

4. I managed a rock band of surfers

5. I owned a game development company

Hmmm, I'll guess 4, but suspect it might be 1 instead...

[Daimyo]

Even though I can't imagine its true, I don't remember bucc ever talking about traveling overseas (and he's talked about a lot of domestic travel), so I'm going to pick #2.

(somebody please jump in if I'm right, I might not be back to check this forum until tomorrow)

[revrew]

The only one left is #1, so that's my guess.

[Anrhydeddu]

My (relatively) long time friend Daimyo is quite correct. It is #2, surprisingly.

[CamEdwards]

great. so now we have to wait for Daimyo to return in order for this thread to continue? How DARE he have a life.

[Maple Leafs]

Go for it Cam. You know you want to.

[VPI97]

(Thought I'd keep the thread from slipping)

1 - While in college, I went to see Hole play at the campus ballroom. During the course of the concert, Courtney Love decides to stage dive and in the process, someone rips the front of her dress. Pissed, she makes her way to the front of the stage (a few feet from me), grabs security and tries to find who did it. When the guy asks me if I was the one, I politely reply "I would never disrespect someone like that". Courtney hears this, gives me a kiss and says "You're so sweet".

2 - Once upon a time, I asked my girlfriend of only 6 weeks to marry me...9 years and two kids later, it doesn't seem like a rash decision.

3 - During my sophmore year of high school, our football team advanced to the Virginia state championship game (I was a TE/LB) and faced a top team from the eastern part of the state. In that game, I tied the record for most interceptions in the title game (2) and both came against one of the top QB's in the state...a guy by the name of Allen Iverson.

4 - In high school, I was a National Merit Scholar and scored perfect on my SAT's...a few days after the local newspaper made a big deal about it with a front page story, I received a letter in the mail from Virginia Tech. The envelope contains a clipping of the article along with a personal letter from the President of the university asking me to attend VT, even though I hadn't applied yet.

5 - I have experience in being a engineer. No, not a civil, chemical or computer engineer...the kind that drives trains.

[CamEdwards]

#3. Didn't Iverson play tailback in high school?

[mckerney]

I'll go with the 'no way you dated a woman' theme again and guess #2

[mckerney]

Dola:

Cam, I do believe Iverson was a QB in HS.

[VPI97]

Originally posted by CamEdwards
#3. Didn't Iverson play tailback in high school?
You got it (albeit for a wrong reason).

My older brother is the one who tied the record for INT's...and it was against Southampton's Percy Ellsworth (DB for the Giants/Browns). I don't think I made it off the bench for that game. In regards to Iverson, however, he quarterbacked perennial power Hampton to two state championships right after I graduated high school. In both years, he was named state player of the year over future Pro Bowler Aaron Brooks.

[korme]

A perfect on your SAT's? WOW.

[SirFozzie]

Here's my 5:

#1: I once needed an ambulance ride to the hospital due to a caffeine overdose.

#2: The other member of my morning show team was pulled off the air mid-show for saying McDonald's mixed heroin in with the hamburger

#3: I played one official interscholastic tennis match (for rankings) in my 3 year high school tennis career

#4 :I was in the stands for Carl Yastremski's final game at Fenway Park.

#5: I served as the voice of the Franklin High School Panthers (PA and radio) for 6 years.

[JeeberD]

4

[Eaglesfan27]

1

[korme]

5, unless you failed twice, dummy!

:)

[SirFozzie]

Shorty: Actually, JeeberD is right. I worked for the Highschool after graduation, through college, and beyond for a couple more years.

And yes, I did have to go to the hospital due to a caffine overdose (combined with lack of sleep)

Sadly, I wasn't in Fenway Park the day Yaz hung up the #8

[Fritz]

Originally posted by VPI97
You got it (albeit for a wrong reason).

My older brother is the one who tied the record for INT's...and it was against Southampton's Percy Ellsworth (DB for the Giants/Browns). I don't think I made it off the bench for that game. In regards to Iverson, however, he quarterbacked perennial power Hampton to two state championships right after I graduated high school. In both years, he was named state player of the year over future Pro Bowler Aaron Brooks.

Like another Hampton Player that was honored over a Newport News players....

[stkelly52]

Originally posted by SirFozzie
And yes, I did have to go to the hospital due to a caffine overdose (combined with lack of sleep)

That is the one that I always use for games like this. Same thing happened to me back in I was in the Air Force.

[Poli]

I'll give this a shot. It was great reading.

1. I blocked five kicks playing football my senior year.

2. I joined the Navy after being kicked out of two other services.

3. I was knocked out of two school spelling bees with the word "parallel".

4. I decided I wanted to coach football before I actually even played organized football. I tried out my junior year in high school after making the decision so I could see how they coach it.

5. I was named all conference shortstop my junior year in high school, but quit to concentrate on football.

[cuervo72]

I say 2.

[Marmel]

It has gotta be #3.

Who enters spelling bees anyway? and then loses on the same word, twice? Impossible!

[Poli]

You are both wrong. 2 and 3 both happened.

[John Galt]

Originally posted by ardent enthusiast
You are both wrong. 2 and 3 both happened.

Wow, 3 is pretty damn embarassing.

[Poli]

Originally posted by John Galt
Wow, 3 is pretty damn embarassing.

Tell me about it. Two r's or two l's? DANG IT!!! I studied so much the next year and was very confident. That word comes up again and I sit in front of the microphone dumbfounded. Was there two r's or two l's? Two l's. No, two r's. Needless to say, I went with two r's both times.

[stkelly52]

I'll say 5

[Poli]

Stkelly, you are correct. I quit baseball my freshman year after not playing a lot.

[stkelly52]

Wahoo I'm a winner:)

Here is my list

When I was in the Airforce I was a crew chief for F-16 fighters. My plane (each plane has 2-3 crew chiefs) crashed killing the pilot. To the best of my knowledge, no cause was ever found.

I have had affairs with 3 different married women.

I was in the movie Anna and the King staring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat. I even had lunch one of the days with Jodie.

I knowingly married a woman who had a type of herpes.

I frequently watch Oprah.

[Craptacular]

I hope it's 5.

[stkelly52]

Originally posted by Craptacular
I hope it's 5.

Sorry, 5 is true. It is one of my wife's favorite shows, and I am usually home when it comes on, so I watch it.

[Marmel]

#2

[Poli]

3

[stkelly52]

Marmel is correct.

Do any of you really think that our board's missionary would have had 1 affair, much less 3? And if he had would he admit it?

The others are all true

[Poli]

Originally posted by stkelly52
Marmel is correct.

Do any of you really think that our board's missionary would have had 1 affair, much less 3? And if he had would he admit it?

The others are all true

NO! I didn't believe it, but Marmel beat me to it.

[Marmel]

That one was easy stkelly! :)

again, I pass on posting my own. Maybe I will try to come up with a list for next time....I just like guessing though.

[Poli]

I'll go again. I'm game, this if fun.

1. As part of my contract to join the Navy, I was sworn in on the field at Busch Stadium.

2. My dad played minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals.

3. I attended a World Series game between the Cardinals and Brewers, but can't remember a single thing about it.

4. I was accidentally left behind at the Memphis Zoo during my third grade field trip.

5. I received a letter from Phil Fulmer about attending the University of Tennessee.

[Franklinnoble]

1

[Marmel]

5.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by ardent enthusiast

3. I attended a World Series game between the Cardinals and Brewers, but can't remember a single thing about it.


I do remember being pissed off that my parents and my best friend's parents went to a game of the '82 Series and didn't take us!

[Eaglesfan27]

4

[korme]

2

[tucker342]

I'll also say 2...

[tucker342]

dola-

That was my 2000th post:D

[Fritz]

Originally posted by tucker342
dola-

That was my 2000th post:D

I am going to go delete a thread you posted in just to drag your count down.

[Marmel]

AE is unable to access the internet at this time, but asked me to reveal the correct answer!

#4 never happened, although he said his father once left him at a truckstop accidentally. :)

I guess that means Eaglesfan is up next.

[Marmel]

More correspondance from Ardent-


"Sure thing, those were interesting answers.

I was sworn in on July 16, 1997 just before the Padres-Cardinals game, all
three of the Cardinals I met before the game are now gone (Gaetti, Clayton,
and Plantier).

My dad played minor league ball in 1957-58.

I don't even have a memento of the World Series game, but my uncle does.

Phil Fulmer sent me the letter in the spring of 1994.

This game is pretty fun. Too bad I won't be able to tag along.

Thanks!

AE"

[Eaglesfan27]

Ok here goes:

1. As a Freshman at University of Southern California I was playing volleyball on Campus when Tori Spelling decided to join us, obviously quite drunk. She then proceeded to play volleyball topless.

2. During Gross Anatomy my first year of medical school, one of my lab partners (there were 3 to a cadaver), "accidently" amputated our cadaver's penis instead of dissecting it properly.

3. During my second year of medical school, I attended a party which turned into an orgy with about 8-10 people becoming involved. I left because of my religious beliefs.

4. During my senior year of college at USC, Jeremy Miller moved into the apartment down the hall. Within two weeks, he became sloppy drunk and high (on some illicit drug that was definitely not just weed) and began running down the hall exposing himself to a lot of people.

5. During my sophomore year of college at USC, I took an acting class with Joey Laurence (sp?) and he wasn't very good and didn't get an A.

[Maple Leafs]

#1 all the way.

[cuervo72]

I have to say #1.

[korme]

3

[Marmel]

1

[Eaglesfan27]

1 definitely happened, and I must say it was a pretty nice sight.

Also, 3 happened - it was interesting, but I left before it became really interesting. (It was about equal number of guys and girls)

[Franklinnoble]

5

[The Afoci]

4

[GoldenEagle]

2

[Eaglesfan27]

5 is the correct answer. I did take a class with Joey Laurence but it was a "interperting American Authors" Literature class, not an acting class. Acting classes were open only to those people accepted into the drama school. I was only in the premedical tract and was never accepted nor did I ever apply to the drama school. I don't remember Joey making many interesting contributions to the class, and I have no idea how he did.

All the other answers are true:

2 - my one lab partner was a jerk, and I suspect he did this on purpose for some sadistic reason, but he claims it was an accident.

4. Jeremy Miller (Ben Seaver on growing pains) did move down the hall with me and was almost always messed up on some form of drugs and/or alcohol. He flunked out after a year (but I think he eventually went back to USC a year or two later? )

1. Tori Spelling's night of volleyball is a night I will never forget. I never saw her on campus again.

[Anrhydeddu]

Tori Spelling. She's that really ugly chick on 90210 who thought she was hot stuff but only got the gig because of her dad? Probably looked better from the neck down.

[Eaglesfan27]

Yeah, she played (darn I can't remember the character's name). She was the blond that wasn't Jenny Garth. She definitely looked better from the neck down, IMHO.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by ardent enthusiast

4. I was accidentally left behind at the Memphis Zoo during my third grade field trip.


Sorry for the temporary threadjack, but this reminds me of a news story from last week. A class of 5th graders took a school-sanctioned trip to a waterpark in the Wisconsin Dells last week. One of the boys, who is legally blind, left his glasses on the bus, and was guided around the park by a friend. When it was time to leave, the boy was not on the bus (the chaperones knew this at the time), and no one knew where we was (including his friend). The bus driver mentioned something to the teachers and chaperones about being late for another appointment. So, they left without him, no one stayed behind to look for him, no one notified the park or police, they called the boy's mother AFTER they got home, and the father had to call police. A local woman found the boy crying on a park bench a mile away from the waterpark.

Accidentally leaving a child behind is one thing (still unacceptable), but intentionally leaving a child behind is just plain ridiculous. The parents are trying to get the teachers and bus driver fired (rightfully so IMHO).

edited for clarification

[cuervo72]

Tori does have a nice body...too bad there aren't pictures of this somewhere :)

[Franklinnoble]

Alright... Here's my 5...

1. I was a sports reporter for about two weeks for the University of Arizona Daily Wildcat. To my chagrin, my lack of seniority meant I got to cover crap like women's golf (which is why I quit). During my brief tenure, I interviewed some foreign chick on the golf team named Annika Sorenstam.

2. I also did freelance writing while living in Phoenix for a few years. I interviewed comic book artist and "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane just before the release of the first (and only) Pearl Jam video since the Ten album, which he animated (it was for "Do The Evolution.") I noticed all the Madonna and baseball memorabilia he had in his house - which included Madonna's bullet-bra from one of her videos, her costume from "A League of Their Own," and a pair of cleats worn and autographed by Babe Ruth. We talked about the Sosa-McGwire home run chase that was currently going on. After the season, McFarlane ended up buying McGwire's HR #70 baseball.

3. I'm good friends with one of the Hogettes, and have done charity appearances with them dressed in drag and a pig snout. When I'm in the D.C. area during football season, I can usually get pretty good tickets to Redskins home games, and get invited to a barbecue that some of the players attend after the games.

4. I had a job as a production assistant for CBS Sports when I was in college; basically, I was a gopher during football games broadcast from Sun Devil Stadium. I met Dan Fouts once when he showed up to "work" hungover and with an expensive looking escort on his arm.

5. When I was a freshman at Arizona State, I lived in a dorm room across the hall from Jake Plummer and Keith Poole. I found Plummer's wallet in the parking lot early one Sunday morning - apparently he'd been out late the night before at Tiffany's Cabaret, judging from the receipts I found inside. I returned the wallet to Plummer after about noon or so (figuring he wanted to sleep it off) and from that point on he was nice enough to invite me along whenever there was a party around campus he was going to.

[Eaglesfan27]

1

[The Afoci]

5

[Franklinnoble]

The Afoci is correct.

Everything about #5 is true... except it was Shawn Swayda that lived with Keith Poole across the hall, and it was HIS wallet that I found. He did invite me to several parties during the rest of the year (he was a red-shirt freshman at the time). I DID meet Jake Plummer along the way, but at the time, he wasn't anybody important.

[The Afoci]

Someone else can go if they want.

[Anrhydeddu]

Accidentally leaving a child behind is one thing (still unacceptable), but this is just plain ridiculous. The parents are trying to get the teachers and bus driver fired.

Ridiculous??? Fired?? This is a criminal act not just irresponsibility, imo.

[korme]

Actually Steve I think that he is saying what happened is ridiculous, not that they are trying to get those people fired.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble

1. I was a sports reporter for about two weeks for the University of Arizona Daily Wildcat. To my chagrin, my lack of seniority meant I got to cover crap like women's golf (which is why I quit). During my brief tenure, I interviewed some foreign chick on the golf team named Annika Sorenstam.


Too bad you weren't around for more recent teams with players such as Marisa Baena ( I talked to her at and have her autograph from the '98 U.S. Women's Open), Natalie Gulbis, and Erica Blasberg. Good looking women who love golf. What more do you want?

[Craptacular]

Uhh yeah, sorry for the misunderstanding. What the teachers and driver did was ridiculous. I support the parents who want them canned and prosecuted.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally posted by Craptacular
Too bad you weren't around for more recent teams with players such as Marisa Baena ( I have her autograph from the '98 U.S. Women's Open), Natalie Gulbis, and Erica Blasberg. Good looking women who love golf. What more do you want?

I've never been a fan of golf. I can't stand to watch it. I suck when I try to play it. Basically, at the time, I considered being asked to do stories on women's golf the most demeaning assignment I could possibly imagine. I honestly had no idea who Annika was at the time - I was just doing what I was told.

Of course, now I get to brag about having met someone famous - but truthfully, I can't remember a damned thing about the experience.

[revrew]

Afoci, said anyone can go, so here's my list:

1. In high school, our "gang's" favorite activity was bridge jumping. There were lots of hills and valleys where I grew up, and we jumped off railroad bridges into ponds. If Mom ever pulled the, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" I could just smile and say, "Think about it, Mom."

2. I once played this game with coworkers at a Christian publishing company. One of the women gave us the options "I've been an a. blackjack dealer, b. bartender, or c. stripper." The lie was b.

3. My freshman year of college, I spent better than half my waking time getting a tan on the beach, competing in sand volleyball tournaments, and letting my hair grow down to my waist.

4. I once hit on a British-born girl by asking her to teach me her accent for an Agatha Christie play I was in. She decided to try out for the play, got the leading role, then transferred to Harvard where she got a degree in acting. Today, she's a professional actress.

5. For years, my dad couldn't tell us what he did for a living other than to give us his military code name, "Lightning Fast Turkey Plucker." After it was declassified 10 years later, we learned that he intercepted enemy transmissions and broke the codes.

[JeeberD]

5

[Anrhydeddu]

3. My freshman year of college, I spent better than half my waking time getting a tan on the beach, competing in sand volleyball tournaments, and letting my hair grow down to my waist.

I should have used that one for me (except it was my third-year at SDSU).

[Anrhydeddu]

Have to go with 5 as well.

[Maple Leafs]

Seems like the trend so far is to list five true things, but change a slight detail in one (sort of defeats the purpose of the game, but whatever floats your boat).

If the trend continues, I'll go with #4, and say it wasn't an Agatha Christie play.

[revrew]

Originally posted by Maple Leafs
Seems like the trend so far is to list five true things, but change a slight detail in one (sort of defeats the purpose of the game, but whatever floats your boat).

If the trend continues, I'll go with #4, and say it wasn't an Agatha Christie play.

:o Yeah, I'll admit it. I'm cheating, too. All of the above are true, with one small change. (But c'mon! That's what my college history professor did to us all the time! True or false? Well....I know 85% of it is true...)

So, I blew it. But JeeberD gets the prize. My dad wasn't a "Lightning Fast Turkey Plucker", he was a "Lightning Fast Chicken Plucker."

[JeeberD]

Hurrah, that's twice now for me!!!

Someone else can go if they want. I lead a boring life and will need to think of some interesting things... :(

[SirFozzie]

Ok.. since I confused two folks last time:

1 - In High School, my brother was a freshman and I was a senior. I didn't have a date for the senior prom.. but he did!

2 - I was the scoreboard operator for longest JV basketball game in Mass Interscholastic history. 6 overtimes

3 - My senior class president was removed from office and I replaced him, since we did not have a vice president (transferred to another school), I replaced him, since I was class treasurer.

4 - When I worked in radio, we did a live remote from Logan Airport on Christmas Eve, giving live updates on Logan Radar on santa's trip.

5 - I have a signed football from Bill Parcells from his New England days. Unfortunately, my friends think some guy named "Bayii Payeel" signed it.

[Craptacular]

Uhh, 4?

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by SirFozzie
I didn't have a date for the senior prom..No way I believe that!

Originally posted by SirFozzie
... I was class treasurer.OK, maybe I do.

[Wolfpack]

I'll say #5. Dunno why.

[korme]

3

[The Afoci]

2

[Silver Owl]

4

[tucker342]

since 1 is the only one left, I'll go with that one...

[Draft Dodger]

I'm glad I was able to get past all the Fritz flirting with John Galt stuff and read the rest of the thread. cool stuff.

[Draft Dodger]

dola - except for the story about the blind kid. that was truly horrible, and the chaperones involved should be fired if not jailed.

[Draft Dodger]

going to take a stab...

1) One Christmas Eve, I came home to find that my dog had somehow gotten out of my apartment and had been stuck roaming the halls until a neighbor put her back. I was taking a brief snooze before my sisters came to pick me up when there was a knock on the door - it was a cop just checking to make sure the dog was back safe and sound (apparantly, the neighbor had called them). The good officer then checked and found I had a bench warrant for an unpaid court fine and arrested me. Luckily, my sisters hadn't left yet to pick me up and were able to bring bail money, as, because it was Christmas Eve the bondsmen weren't availalable and I would have been sent that night to the county jail - it would have been 4 days before I would have been out because of the holiday. Meanwhile, while I waited in my cell, the cops were nice enough to give me some of their Christmas cookies.

2) When I was very young, I was riding my tricycle on the sidewalk next to the house. I had to turn around, and went to step off the sidewalk. Luckily, I looked down just in the nick of time, as I was just about to step on a sleeping diamondback rattlesnake.

3) On a whim, our family drove out to Edward's AFB to watch the first landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia. We drove out the night before, slept in our VW bus and watched it land the next day. Afterwards, it took HOURS to get out of the parking lot.

4) I cannot whistle. I've been teased about it quite a bit - people just can't believe I can't do it, but no matter what I try to it doesn't work. I am able to make a bit of a whistling noise breathing in, but not out.

5) During an oceanography trip in the 4th grade, one of the kids in our class caught an angel shark. since we had a van, we drove him and the shark home. although out of the water, the shark would occasionally spasm and rear up and start biting at the air.

[stkelly52]

I'll guess 1 is not true

[Craptacular]

2

[The Afoci]

3

[JeeberD]

5

What kind of a teacher would let kids bring home a semi-live shark? Talk about needing some liability insurance...

[Draft Dodger]

and I figured my whistling lie was pretty lame.

[Anrhydeddu]

Besides, it was an oceanography trip, which catching marine life would be serious frowned upon, I imagine.

[Draft Dodger]

the shark thing was completely true. although, I never found out what happened to it - he wanted to have it stuffed, but I'm guessing it ended up in a dumpster somewhere.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
and I figured my whistling lie was pretty lame.

My wife can't whistle.

*waiting for dumb jokes*

[Craptacular]

I'll give this a try now (my life has been pretty boring):

1) I've worn an actual World Series championship ring.

2) I've won over $1000 in one sitting at a casino.

3) I've had a hole-in-one and another eagle in golf in one round.

4) I had more papers published in national journals during my 4 years of undergraduate school than in my 4 years of graduate school.

5) I've learned to take off in a plane, but not land (no, I'm not a terrorist).

[JeeberD]

3

[Silver Owl]

5

[Draft Dodger]

I think I remember you telling us about 5.
2 doesn't seem far-fetched.

I say 3 also.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by JeeberD
3

Nope. Years ago, I played a round with my dad. On the way there, I told him I had missed two makeable eagle putts on the 10th hole of the course we were going to the previous two rounds (I had never had an eagle before). We started on the 10th hole ... and I made double-bogey. The 11th was about a 195-yard, slightly uphill par 3 with a level green (so you couldn't see the putting surface). I hit a nice 3-iron, saw it bounce once, then heard the group in front of us on the next tee start yelling. :)

On the back (well, front) nine, I chipped in my second shot on a short par-4 for an eagle.

I had another eagle two weeks later, but haven't had one since!

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by Silver Owl
5

Sorry. My parents were private pilots and let me take control for a take-off once.

[stkelly52]

1

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by stkelly52
1

Nope. I met Johnny Logan (SS on '57 Milwaukee Braves team) at a small baseball card / memorabilia show when I was younger, and he let me wear his WS ring for a minute. His is one of the few autographs I have.

[tucker342]

I guess I'll say 4...

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by tucker342
I guess I'll say 4...

Wrong! Two as an undergrad, nothing as a grad.

I guess that leaves #2. I've won around $750 in one night playing various slots and blackjack, and have won jackpots of 1000 quarters or 4000 nickels, but never made more than $1000 on one machine or in one night overall.

[IMetTrentGreen]

fun idea

1. my dad and his friend got into an (friendly) insult match with former smu mustang jerry ball when the raiders came to austin a few years back for training camp with the cowboys

2. i met trent green, back when he was a ram, at training camp in mccomb, illinois

3. i got autographs from steven weber and micheal boatman (black gay guy from spin city) in a concession stand at a lakers game. they were there together, as friends. i also stood a few feet from bill russell outside staples

4. i lost the love of my early life (waste of 8 months, set my life back at least 4 years), the rebound girl, and my best friend (to each other :mad: ) in a span of a month

5. an old friend of my mom's was the voice of one of the ninja turtles on the old cartoons

[Solecismic]

I'll guess 2... it just seems too improbable.

[Poli]

Solecismic!!! I miss my TCY! :)

[korme]

5

[Silver Owl]

I'll say 4.

[Marc Vaughan]

1. I have been threatened by American Military Police for measuring a Stealth Bomber

2. I had a mare while during my trial with semi-pro soccer club Stevenage Town at the age of 16

3. I fell in love with my wife before I saw her face

4. I'm considered legally blind by the English goverment

5. I have cooked food for several members of the cast from British soap opera's (Eastenders to be exact).

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
3. I fell in love with my wife before I saw her face
Pig.

I'll say #4.

[Draft Dodger]

had a mare?

since I don't know what this means, I'll choose it.

[Marc Vaughan]

Sorry Mr. Leaf, I'm extremely but extremely short sighted without correction - so much so that when it comes to discounts for corrective items I'm considered blind by the English goverment (and so get 80% or so off).

Luckily my eyesight problem is a birth defect and nearly 100% correctable using lenses.

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
had a mare?
since I don't know what this means, I'll choose it.

Darn - should have used a less descriptive term (it means 'played badly') .... you're right, I've never been anywhere good enough to get a trial (was barely good enough to make school/college teams let alone try to turn semi pro).

The rest is true I'm afraid ...

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
Sorry Mr. Leaf, I'm extremely but extremely short sighted without correction - so much so that when it comes to discounts for corrective items I'm considered blind by the English goverment (and so get 80% or so off).
Hm. Are you by chance a National Hockey League referee?

[Silver Owl]

O.K. I'll give this a try.

1) I once took my 70 year old fairly religious grandmother to a Cheech & Chong movie.

2) I used to steal books from the local bookstore, but returned them when i was done reading them.

3) I had the opportunity to go on a date with a playboy playmate before she was a playmate, but asked her sister out instead.

4) A friend found former Cleveland Browns coach Bill Belichick's draft book with draft plans and notes when cleaning out a rental car 3 weeks before the draft.

5) When I was 10 or 11 years old living in Kentucky, my mom caught me uh, playing with myself in an outhouse.

[IMetTrentGreen]

mine was 2, btw. i've actually never met trent green

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by IMetTrentGreen
mine was 2, btw. i've actually never met trent green OK, I have to ask. Why the screen name?

[Solecismic]

I remembered something about the Trent Green story from a couple of years ago. I'll have to throw one of these together when there's a break. I've really led a boring life compared to many of you guys. No orgies, no impressive star sightings...

[IMetIMetTrentGreen]

Originally posted by Maple Leafs
OK, I have to ask. Why the screen name?

It's understandable. For instance, I've never met IMetTrentGreen.

[stkelly52]

I'll guess #4

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally posted by Solecismic
I remembered something about the Trent Green story from a couple of years ago. I'll have to throw one of these together when there's a break. I've really led a boring life compared to many of you guys. No orgies, no impressive star sightings...

Heh - I reckon you've dozens of odd facts in your life that no one would imagine Jim ... I thought the same as you when I saw this thread and managed to dredge up a few 'oddities' ... I think everyone has a few strange happenings in their life.

[Silver Owl]

Originally posted by stkelly52
I'll guess #4

Nope, this one is true.

Belichick forgot the notebook in a car and a friend of mine who cleaned cars after they were returned found it. He called the cleveland brown offices to tell them what he found but they didn't believe him. After a couple of days someone called and asked him to return the notebook and gave him 2 browns tickets when he did. I got to see who the browns were planning for their #1 pick (Tommy Vardell) and what notes they had about him and a lot of other college players.

[IMetTrentGreen]

i wanted to say i met someone that noboby would brag about. i was in mccomb when the rams came for training camp, so trent green it was

[tucker342]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
Heh - I reckon you've dozens of odd facts in your life that no one would imagine Jim ... I thought the same as you when I saw this thread and managed to dredge up a few 'oddities' ... I think everyone has a few strange happenings in their life.

I would be hard pressed to come up with five really really strange happenings in my life....

[korme]

5

outhouses have locks

:)

[Solecismic]

I'll go with #3 on that one.


All right, here's my attempt...


1) Batting second in a sixth-grade baseball game, our leadoff hitter was drilled in the ribs by a local pitching sensation named Jim Harbaugh. Now this was the toughest guy in our school, and he was bent over on the sideline, crying, clearly out of the game. Fighting off tears of fear myself, I closed my eyes and stood practically at third base while he fired three strikes past me. Fortunately, some sort of innings limit had him out of the game by the fourth inning, so I didn't have to get back in there.

2) When I was a reporter for The Ann Arbor News, before a Michigan football game, I was up in the press box watching a CBS monitor showing another game. Brent Musberger came back from the food table, pushed me and swore at me for getting in the way of his view of the monitor.

3) My entire freshman year of college, I had a crush on the prettiest girl in our dorm. I finally became friends with her right before the summer break (being both cocky and funny, of course) and we wrote to each other all summer. When we returned to school, we spent a lot of time together, and one night, she kissed me. I completely froze, thinking there were a thousand reasons she could have done that, only a few meaning she was actually interested. I never had another opportunity with her.

4) Senior year, my housemates held a huge party. We had at least 100 people in various states of stupor wandering about. One of my housemates brought Barry Larkin to the party. Another housemate brought a stoner, and he fell down the stairs, spilling his entire beer over a railing onto Larkin. The next day, my housemate and Larkin came up to me and demanded to know who had dissed him. I just said I saw it, it was an accident, and they should drop it. Fortunately, they did, saving both my life and Larkin's career.

5) At E3 in 2000, I was hanging out near the Tecmo booth, where of all things, Gary Coleman was playing Dead or Alive on the PS2. Now Coleman had been reviewing sports games for UGO, so I thought there might be an opportunity there. There was a long line of people waiting to play him, and he was winning every time. So I waited in line, but instead of taking my turn, I pulled a copy of FOF out of my bag and asked if he would be interested in reviewing a real game rather than some stupid arcade fighter (see, both cocky and funny, though it works better with girls than with small has-been actors). I never got an answer. His bodyguard grabbed me and told me to stay away from the Tecmo booth.

[mckerney]

I'll go with #3 on that, guessing that she was actually the second prettiest girl in your dorm, though quite hot nonetheless.

[Silver Owl]

Originally posted by Shorty3281
5

outhouses have locks

:)

Nope,
This is true also. This one didn't lock.

[JeeberD]

For Jim I gotta say #2. I can't see Brent being that big of an ass. Of course, people are usually different than their on screen persona's may indicate...

[QuikSand]

I'll guess #1 from Solecismic, for no good reason.

[Marc Vaughan]

Solecismic - I'll take #5 .... can't imagine him still having bodyguards ..

[Eaglesfan27]

I'll guess 4 for Solecismic's list

[Silver Owl]

Originally posted by Solecismic
I'll go with #3 on that one.


You Are Correct !

1) I once took my 70 year old fairly religious grandmother to a Cheech & Chong movie.

My grandmother came to visit us for 2 weeks one summer and my sister thought that we should take her to see a movie. Somehow we choose a Cheech and Chong movie. She asked to go home the next day.

2) I used to steal books from the local bookstore, but returned them when i was done reading them.

I had 3 study halls one year in high school so I read alot. I would steal books from the bookstore and return them back to the shelf when I was done reading them. In my mind I didn't really think of it as stealing because I was returning them. My life of crime 25 years ago.

3) I had the opportunity to go on a date with a playboy playmate before she was a playmate, but asked her sister out instead.

In my dreams. There was a playmate from akron a couple years ago but I didn't know her. :(
Heather Kozar was her name.


4) A friend found former Cleveland Browns coach Bill Belichick's draft book with draft plans and notes when cleaning out a rental car 3 weeks before the draft.

Was interesting watching the draft knowing how Belichick had certain players rated.

5) When I was 10 or 11 years old living in Kentucky, my mom caught me uh, playing with myself in an outhouse.

Self explanatory.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by Silver Owl

In my dreams. There was a playmate from akron a couple years ago but I didn't know her. :(
Heather Kozar was her name.


Obligitory Heather Kozar pic:

http://www.studio24.com/tpirswim/galleries/hkozar/hkozar008.jpg

and: http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/145/3684.jpg (safe)

edit: apparently she's on The Price is Right now.

[Coffee Warlord]

1) I'm the reason alcohol was banned on the Metra (chicago rail transit system)
on weekends.

2) I am distantly related to Richard Nixon.

3) My aunt lived next door to the Bush family, and to this day thinks Dubya's
wife hates her because my aunt slept with GW once upon a time.

4) One of my ex girlfriends when I was at Colorado wound up dating none
other than Adam Bledsoe, Drew's brother.

5) I cut a deal with an NSA agent once, acquring an NSA Pin, NSA notepads, NSA coloring books, and a few other things, in exchange for a t-shirt.

[QuikSand]

#3 - the order of presentation doesn't jibe in my mind...

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by QuikSand
#3 - the order of presentation doesn't jibe in my mind... No kidding. Talk about burying the lead.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally posted by QuikSand
#3 - the order of presentation doesn't jibe in my mind...

Nope, very much true. They grew up as neighbors, and did have at it once upon a time.

She rants and raves about how what's-her-name hates her every time the subject comes up. (Yeah, she's odd.)

[QuikSand]

Well, you got me good. I was sure that this was a case of the made-up story getting better as you wrote it. "Yeah, she lived right next door, yeah... and they slept together, yeah, that's the ticket..."

[QuikSand]

...plus, I don't even know what "NSA" means in this context. Around here, it's the acronym for "No Such Agency" (a.k.a. the National Security Agency, HQ'd in Columbia, Maryland).

[Coffee Warlord]

*laughs*

Put it this way. My relatives are just bizarre, on both sides. I coulda made a list of 20 outrageous claims regarding them, and they woulda all be 100% true.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally posted by QuikSand
...plus, I don't even know what "NSA" means in this context. Around here, it's the acronym for "No Such Agency" (a.k.a. the National Security Agency, HQ'd in Columbia, Maryland).

That's what I was referring to there.

[cuervo72]

I say #5. NSA agents don't deal :)

[Coffee Warlord]

WRONG! :)

Defcon (computer hacker convention, Las Vegas) a few years ago.
Considering the crowd it draws, naturally the feds follow. One
of the contests is 'Spot the Fed'. If you are proven to be a fed,
you get a "I Am the Fed" t-shirt, and the spotter gets an "I Spotted
The Fed T-Shirt".

Well, I got to shooting the breeze with an NSA agent, who had not
been 'spotted'. I happened to be working one of the Defcon swag
booths, and we had the t-shirts. So, in exchange for a bunch of
goofy NSA swag (I'm serious, they have NSA coloring books), he
got his 'I am the Fed' t-shirt.

[Solecismic]

Marc is right. While Gary Coleman did have a bodyguard, and was playing Dead or Alive against E3 visitors, I just watched for a couple of minutes and moved on. The line was easily four hours long, and I figured any review from a guy who was that good at a Japanese fighting game couldn't be all that positive.

Instead, I got an aging Catherine Bach's autograph on a Dukes of Hazzard poster. She seemed very nice, and quite thankful they didn't make her wear the Daisy Dukes again.

McKerney, yeah, she was that pretty. I still have the scars from kicking myself. As a B-list celebrity, I'm asked from time to time to participate in events like judging the Miss Universe contest. She could easily have won Miss Universe.
JeeberD, I was quite surprised myself. Especially since I was standing behind the CBS booth in the walkway, but apparently blocking his view of the monitor. Maybe he was having a bad day. I'm pretty sure it was the 1989 Michigan/Notre Dame game - Elvis Grbac's debut and the game when Rocket Ismail tortured the Wolverines with those kickoff returns.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally posted by Solecismic

JeeberD, I was quite surprised myself. Especially since I was standing behind the CBS booth in the walkway, but apparently blocking his view of the monitor. Maybe he was having a bad day. I'm pretty sure it was the 1989 Michigan/Notre Dame game - Elvis Grbac's debut and the game when Rocket Ismail tortured the Wolverines with those kickoff returns.

Maybe it's a CBS thing. Randy Cross was a real prick when I worked the NFL games he was doing. Nicest guy I ever met was probably Vern Lundquist.

[JAG]

CW,

I'm gonna go with 1 for you, and if it is true, I hope you'll give the story. I used to drink on Metra all the time after work and hadn't heard it was banned on the weekends.

JAG

[Marc Vaughan]

Just realised I hadn't explained my 'true' ones ... here goes:

1. I have been threatened by American Military Police for measuring a Stealth Bomber
While working for the US Military writing Flight Simulators I needed the measurements for a Stealth Bomber (this was 10+ years ago before such things were common knowledge).

One was being 'shown off' at a local airshow so myself and a chinese friend turned up with tape measures .... possibly not the brightest move I've ever made, in my defense I was very young at the time :D

3. I fell in love with my wife before I saw her face
Corny but true, I met Rebecca on the internet. We've been married for yonks now and have 3 kids ...

4. I'm considered legally blind by the English goverment
As explained previously I'm very very short-sighted due to a birth defect. Without correction I can only see approximately 4 inches clearly (after that its basically like looking through frosted glass) - because of this I'm considered 'blind' by the goverment when it comes to purchasing spectacles in England (and hence get a decent discount :D).

Luckily the defect is nearly 100% reversible via. correction for which I'm very greatful.

5. I have cooked food for several members of the cast from British soap opera's (Eastenders to be exact). [/B]
Prior to retraining as a software engineer I worked as a chef in a small restaurant in Norfolk, UK.
One of the Eastenders cast lives in the area (Grant Mitchell if you're familliar with the show) and sometimes ate there with friends from the cast.

[QuikSand]

I'm having trouble telling whether this is still a "win and go" thing, or whether everyone is just allowed to post a series of things about themselves...

[scooper]

Originally posted by Solecismic
I'm pretty sure it was the 1989 Michigan/Notre Dame game - Elvis Grbac's debut and the game when Rocket Ismail tortured the Wolverines with those kickoff returns.

I loved that game.

[QuikSand]

Okay, here's another set to consider...

- - - - -

(1) I am a direct descendent of two U.S. Presidents – John Adams and John Quincy Adams. I’m not very interested in genealogy, so I don’t know the exact links in the family tree, but there are only three name changes involved along the way – mostly male-to-male descent. I still haven’t read the recent biography, though I have heard it’s fairly flattering.

(2) There is a lab station at the Ohio State University’s biochemistry facility at Gibraltar Island (a small university-owned station adjacent to Put-In-Bay/South Bass Island in Lake Erie) that is named in my honor, due to work I did there as part of a science fair project almost 20 years ago.

(3) My eyes change color day by day, ranging pretty dramatically from either blue or blue-gray to completely green, to occasionally something closer to hazel or light brown. They often will have a different color near the pupil than on the outside – at the moment they are sort of hazel inside, and blue-green outside.

(4) My real talent lies in that greatest human endeavor, Whack-a-Mole. I lost once three years ago at the Maryland State Fair, but other than that have never lost a game in my life. Line up as many competitors as you like, I’m the undeniable king of whack-a-mole. I have found this to be a completely non-transferable skill.

(5) Once, while in high school, I drove my car directly into a moving train. It wasn’t moving very quickly, but I totaled the car and only avoided my own demise by a series of coincidences. There was a rumor around my school and area towns that I had been killed, but gladly the rumors proved to be exaggerated.

[Maple Leafs]

I'll say option three.

[Anrhydeddu]

Those are good ones, QS. If you want to know more about #1 - assuming it is true - I can certainly help.

My guess is #4.

[cuervo72]

Ok, I'll say #1.

[Craptacular]

2

[Butter]

#5

[Anrhydeddu]

Like Marc, I hadn't explained my truths either

1. I played basketball with Kellen Winslow

It was in the early 1980s while I was going to school at SDSU. Kellen would occassionally stop at Petersen Gym to shoot around or to play in a pickup game. A friend and I was going to the gym and happened to run into him in the parking lot (one of a billion that SDSU has) and started up a conversation. We eventually got to the floor and shot around together for a little while.

3. I told Michael Jordan that he was a slacker

Old story. In the summer of 1985, MJ had to finish his degree in geography at UNC (remember he left early the year before). Since I was poor, I was TAing (teacher's assistant) that summer for Dr. Gestler's class (I believe it was Cultural Geography) as well as teaching my usual cartography class. MJ had to "complete" Cultural Geography so he showed up the first day, played golf for the next 2 weeks, showed up to take a test privately, played more golf and then showed up the final day to do something. I was supposed to "assist" him before the midterm test and he did come in a little earlier to meet with me. Jokingly I told him he was slacking off again and he just laughed. Of course I wasn't allowed to grade his "test" but he did pass the course.

4. I managed a rock band of surfers

It was my glorious year between undergrad and grad school living and working in San Diego and I did so many things (1983-1984). That was the year that I learned how to ski, first started photography, went surfing in Baja, snorkeling in Catalina and on and on. One of the fun things was a rock band started by some of my beach friends called "Gideon". I organized stuff when they were first starting, ran the sound, coordinated a couple of gigs at church and got them through practices for a little while before I had leave for UNC.

5. I owned a game development company

From 1992-1994, in addition to my photography company, a partner and I started a company called Seven Thunders Productions. The main purpose was to design and develop an adventure game (we also did some small utilities and applications on the side). We got the general design nearly done as well as the details of each of the "places" in the first half of the game. But it never went much beyond that because of the lack of tools to do the graphics (which was one of my responsibilities) and then coming up against the Windows revolution. We had planned on completing the game in 1996 but it would have been a DOS-based game in a new Windows world, thus the best we could have hoped for was shareware. One of the things that came out of that was that I got learn a lot about file formats and conversion since I was on a PowerMac using PhotoShop and the development was done on a PC using VB for DOS with Genus GX Development tools.

The reason why I had not been overseas was not that I don't want to but there have been so many places I wanted to see and photograph here in North America. Someday I hope to go to Europe as well as Australia/NZ.

[QuikSand]

I guess that covers the options for the players... so here's the skinny...

- - - - -


(1) I am a direct descendent of two U.S. Presidents – John Adams and John Quincy Adams. I’m not very interested in genealogy, so I don’t know the exact links in the family tree, but there are only three name changes involved along the way – mostly male-to-male descent. I still haven’t read the recent biography, though I have heard it’s fairly flattering.


TRUE. And that about wraps up the story. My wife is reading the Adams bio right now, and I only recently casually mentioned the link - she was appalled that I had not done so before. I'm not a real believer in bowing to distant generations, so I don't consider this a really big deal.

But A, if you have interesting observations about John Adams or his son, I'd welcome anything you'd like to share. I certainly don't
mean any offense - I just have a general indifference toward history, and my relation doesn't change that.


(2) There is a lab station at the Ohio State University’s biochemistry facility at Gibraltar Island (a small university-owned station adjacent to Put-In-Bay/South Bass Island in Lake Erie) that is named in my honor, due to work I did there as part of a science fair project almost 20 years ago.


FALSE. Gibraltar Island is indeed a biochemistry facility owned by OSU, and while I have visited there, I certainly didn't do any work worthy of recognition (other than semi-successfully steal the bikini top of an 8th grade girl, which was much higher on my priority list than biochemistry).


(3) My eyes change color day by day, ranging pretty dramatically from either blue or blue-gray to completely green, to occasionally something closer to hazel or light brown. They often will have a different color near the pupil than on the outside – at the moment they are sort of hazel inside, and blue-green outside.


TRUE. It's weird, but another thing that I hardly pay any attention to. Back in my dating days, I used to get a lot of comments from women who thought my eyes were something mysterious and wonderful. To me, it's just a pin in the neck when I fill out my driver's license form. I put "blue."


(4) My real talent lies in that greatest human endeavor, Whack-a-Mole. I lost once three years ago at the Maryland State Fair, but other than that have never lost a game in my life. Line up as many competitors as you like, I’m the undeniable king of whack-a-mole. I have found this to be a completely non-transferable skill.


TRUE. Tough to say why this is - but I am practically unbeatable. When the guy beat me a few years ago, he was trying to get up to the giant prize - so I stayed and cruched him twice after that, just to reassert my sense of what's right in the world. I have friends who try again and again to beat me... no luck.

I guess it's some sort of eye-hand coordination... but there has got to me a more productive use for world class skill than whack-a-mole, hasn't there?


(5) Once, while in high school, I drove my car directly into a moving train. It wasn’t moving very quickly, but I totaled the car and only avoided my own demise by a series of coincidences. There was a rumor around my school and area towns that I had been killed, but gladly the rumors proved to be exaggerated. [/B]

True. They still talk about the fog that night - it was so thick that you literally couldn't see a damned thing. In fact, when someone called my mother, she didn't take the call because she had driven her own car off the driveway and into our giant muddy garden due to the fog, and was getting help pulling it out.

In the wreck, I just rive right up to a train crossing, didn't see the lights (there was no gate, and there is some uncertainty whether the lights were flashing at all) and only saw the train about five feet away - I made only a few feet of skid marks on the road.

I was undeniably saved by wearing a safety belt. I also was saved by the weird fact that my car struck the train at the wheel base of two adjacent train cars - so there was a solid "wall" to hit, rather than an open space (which would have allowed my car to continue right underneath, with its top sheared off - and presumably mine, too). The damage to the car was so severe that the cassette in the tape deck was irretreivably bent - I kept it as a memento.

I had an interscholastic academic team competition a few days later, and when I showed up players from another team told me that they had all heard I had been killed. Weird feeling, that. When I removed my sportcoat (over my arm-in-sling) to take my seat at the competition table, there was a huge roar from the assembled school (who were all herded into the gym to watch the match)-- that moment was probably the highlight of my high school career.



So, it seems the winner is.. Craptacular! Nicely done.

[Anrhydeddu]

My wife is reading the Adams bio right now

Excellent book, imo. John Adams has been my favorite of the Founding Fathers but his wife, Abigail Adams has always been one of my most favorite American historical figure. I'll see what I can dig up.

[Anrhydeddu]

To keep this going, I'll submit another, if that's ok.

1. My father-in-law in connected to the Kansas City mob.

2. I am a descendant of at least five Mayflower pilgrims.

3. When we were kids, my brother and I were on a local kids game show.

4. I am not directly descended from any Civil War veterans.

5. I have lost most of my hearing but my sense of smell is extraordinary.

[Maple Leafs]

I'll continue my string of wrong answers with #5.

[WSUCougar]

I'll say #2.

[Coffee Warlord]

Well, I'll give my answers now, as there were 3 different
guesses, and all 3 were wrong.

1) I'm the reason alcohol was banned on the Metra (chicago rail transit system)
on weekends.

<b>TRUE - Very simple story. Bachelor party. Lots of drunks. Us heading home, bringing
a full case of beer. Couple people with us were rather belligerent drunks. To make
a long story short, the conductor kicked us off the train...ironically at our stop.
2 weeks later, alcohol was no longer allowed on the Metra.</b>

2) I am distantly related to Richard Nixon.

<b>TRUE - 4th or 5th cousin, as memory serves.</b>

3) My aunt lived next door to the Bush family, and to this day thinks Dubya's
wife hates her because my aunt slept with GW once upon a time.

<b>TRUE - Already explained.</b>

4) One of my ex girlfriends when I was at Colorado wound up dating none
other than Adam Bledsoe, Drew's brother.

<b>FALSE - I drank with Bledsoe and current NFL WR Darrin Chiaverini at a party
once, but as far as I know, no ex of mine ever dated Adam.</b>

5) I cut a deal with an NSA agent once, acquring an NSA Pin, NSA notepads, NSA coloring books, and a few other
things, in exchange for a t-shirt.

<b>TRUE - Already explained.</b>

[korme]

Originally posted by QuikSand
Okay, here's another set to consider...

- - - - -

(1) I am a direct descendent of two U.S. Presidents – John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

Holy crap, my mom is related to them too.

ARE WE RELATED!

[TredWel]

I'll guess #3.

[korme]

fourski

[Anrhydeddu]

Any more guesses?

[Craptacular]

I'll go for #1.

[albionmoonlight]

4. For the irony.

[Anrhydeddu]

Fwiw...

1. My father-in-law in connected to the Kansas City mob.

True. He knew Nick Civella personally and did work (he was in the concrete business) for him and his friends. Not cement shoes but underground tunnels and concrete safes. His best boyhood friend now runs the KC mob. I really expected my father-in-law to be mentioned in Nicholas Pileggi's book, Casino.

2. I am a descendant of at least five Mayflower pilgrims.

True. Direct descendants so far include John Alden, William, his wife and Priscilla Mullens, and Samuel and Thomas Fuller.

3. When we were kids, my brother and I were on a local kids game show.

False. I did know of a neighbor family who was. It was a shock to turn on the TV (yes, we had TVs back in those days) one morning before school to see them on some stupid kids show.

4. I am not directly descended from any Civil War veterans.

True. Yes, this is a great irony. The Civil War generation would include my great-great-grandparents on my mother's side and my great-great-great-grandparents on my father's side (Mom's parents were well into their 40s when she was born). Of the 20 or so individuals identified in that generation, all of them were either too old or too young to have fought in the War. I did have a brother of one of them who died in the Andersonville prison but that's not a direct descendant. Alternatively, since I am descended on both sides from many colonial New England families, I did have quite a few ancestors who were Revolutionary War veterans.

5. I have lost most of my hearing but my sense of smell is extraordinary.

True. I was born with 50% hearing in my left ear and 80% in my right. About 7 years ago, a virus attacked my right ear and it is now completely dead. I have been managing as best as I can with only partial hearing in my left. But I sure can pick up faint smells and odors from quite a ways.

Good guess, TredWel (sorry Maple Leafs).

[TredWel]

Here's my attempt:

1. Former Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly is my second cousin.

2. In the course of my relatively short life, I have paid over $300 in library fines.

3. I have done freelance writing for a now-defunct online gaming magazine.

4. I proposed to my fiancee during a card game.

5. I have over 300 hours of game shows on tape in my media archives.

[scooper]

#5

[Anrhydeddu]

#1

[scooper]

No? Ok, #4.

[TredWel]

1. Former Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly is my second cousin.

<b>False</b>. Despite sharing the same surname, and always being asked by Yankee fans who meet me "Are you related to Don?", we share no known relatives.

2. In the course of my relatively short life, I have paid over $300 in library fines.

<b>True</b>. The worst case happened when I checked out a book on number theory during my Freshman year of college. I had forgotten about the book, and come <i>Junior</i> Year, the math department offered a course on number theory using that book as the textbook. Instead of returning the book and buying it new, I just let the fines accrue for another semester.

3. I have done freelance writing for a now-defunct online gaming magazine.

<b>True</b>. When they were first starting out, they published two or three articles. They later went on a different direction than my area of expertise, and I broke away from them.

4. I proposed to my fiancee during a card game.

<b>True</b>. The game was "Apples To Apples". For those of you who know the game, I had stacked the green apple deck so that "Wonderful" would come up on her first turn to judge. I had met with the other players earlier, and given them appropriate red apple cards, like "Marriage", "Diamonds", and "Weddings".

5. I have over 300 hours of game shows on tape in my media archives.

<b>True</b>. There's a niche of game show afficianados on the internet who tape and trade shows with each other. My 300 hours is actually a fairly small collection when compared to some other people's collection, which have reached over 2000 hours.

Nice job, Anrh.

[scooper]

I've finally thought of 4 interesting stories and one lie to post, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow as it's time to go home. Good luck sleeping with the eager anticipation you all must now feel.

[WSUCougar]

Since Anrhydeddu has gone already, I'll jump in with mine:

1. During a Braves game at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta around 1993, Ted Turner and Jane Fonda (who had a live snow leopard draped over her shoulder) said hi to me, looked at my sample of sand, and then Ted shook my hand and said “Keep up the great work!”

2. I was an acquaintance and occasionally loaned my history class notes to a consensus All-American, NCAA record-holder, and future Pro Bowl player and NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

3. I once said to Tom Cruise, “I’m sorry, but the lighthouse is closed.”

4. I once slapped the junior high school French teacher’s ass not once, but twice.

5. I attended junior high school with 49’ers defensive coordinator Jim Mora, and Ann & Nancy Wilson of the band Heart went to my high school (several years before I did).

[Maple Leafs]

#1?

What's a sample of sand?

[Anrhydeddu]

Thanks, Coug, I knew I would guess right on TredWel beforehand so I went ahead. :)

#1 (sample of sand?)

[JeeberD]

#3 Who could ever turn away the ever-cute Tom Cruise... :D

[WSUCougar]

Sample of sand...tee hee. You guys are both WRONG. ;)

Edit: Sorry, Jeebs, that one is TRUE as well. (I'll explain these later).

[korme]

5

or else you are very very old. (i'm talking steve/a/bucc OLD)

[WSUCougar]

Originally posted by Shorty3281
5

or else you are very very old. (i'm talking steve/a/bucc OLD)
#5 is TRUE. I'm also very very old (38).

[Maple Leafs]

OK, #4. She would have knocked you out after the first one.

[SplitPersonality1]

#2

[WSUCougar]

Maple Leafs nails it.


1. During a Braves game at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta around 1993, Ted Turner and Jane Fonda (who had a live snow leopard draped over her shoulder) said hi to me, looked at my sample of sand, and then Ted shook my hand and said “Keep up the great work!”

TRUE. The event was Earth Day, I believe in 1993. I was representing Cape Hatteras National Seashore (where I was a ranger/historian) in a National Park Service booth that was demonstrating the rather remarkable differences in sand at the various seashore parks (including Cape Cod, Assateague, Cape Hatteras, Everglades, Padre Island, Port Reyes, and some park in Hawaii). Ted Turner – a big fan of the Department of the Interior and land preservation, came by with wife Jane Fonda, who got the snow leopard from the National Fish & Wildlife booth that was set up across from ours. Pretty cool.

2. I was an acquaintance and occasionally loaned my history class notes to a consensus All-American, NCAA record-holder, and future Pro Bowl player and NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.
TRUE. This was at Washington State around 1985, and the player in question was RB Reuben Mayes, who set an NCAA record for rushing yards in a game (357 vs. Oregon), and then went on to meteoric fame with the New Orleans Saints before blowing a knee. He was a very nice, quiet guy.

3. I once said to Tom Cruise, “I’m sorry, but the lighthouse is closed.”
TRUE. Again, as a ranger/historian at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, I encountered Tom & Nicole at the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Tom asked me if they could go up in the tower.

4. I once slapped the junior high school French teacher’s ass not once, but twice.
FALSE. Actually, this was my brother. If you knew anything about my brother, this would be all the more unbelievable. The teacher in question was about 4’10” and was quite cute, as I remember. He smacked her ass in the hallway, got a royal lecture out of that, and then did it again the next day.

5. I attended junior high school with 49’ers defensive coordinator Jim Mora, and Ann & Nancy Wilson of the band Heart went to my high school (several years before I did).
TRUE. Yep, Hyak Junior High (no longer there) and Sammamish High School in Bellevue, WA.

[dawgfan]

OK, I've finally identified enough interesting events in my life to put one of these lists together:

1. While working at a dried cherry stand in Seattle's Pike Place Market, I met Tom Brokaw who introduced himself as "Guy Auld's brother-in-law" (Guy Auld being the owner of the cherry orchard).

2. Another time while working at the Pike Place Market P.J. Harvey stopped by the booth and sampled some of our wares. I had a ticket for her show that night but had forgotten to bring it with me to work. I had school that night, and wouldn't have been able to get back home to retrievet the ticket before her show started. I told her my story and she left a ticket for me at will call.

3. I was introduced to Rick Neuheisel a couple of seasons ago. When he was told my company was considering creating a college football video game, he jokingly requested that we edit his likeness in the game to "fill in the fairways" (referring to his thinning hair).

4. I spent a day hanging around Peyton Manning while he was wearing a skin-tight lycra outfit - and he enjoyed it.

5. Back in college, my buddies and I travelled up to Vancouver B.C. for one of the guys' 19th birthday (19 being the drinking age in B.C. at the time). We ended up at a dance club where me and another guy met some girls up from Oregon. When the rest of the gang wanted to go home, me and my buddy told them to go ahead and leave without us even though we had no car of our own since we thought we were getting somewhere with these girls. The girls of course ditched us after we walked them back to their hotel.

[MIJB#19]

Of Dawgfan's stories, #4 is a lie.
Manning did not enjoy it at all...

[scooper]

#5 sounds true so I will guess it's false.