To tell the Truth . . .
 

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?

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 ;) ).

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.

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

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.

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

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? ;)

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.

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)

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

the little wings are big clue

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

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).

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

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

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. :)

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.

or LA.

I'd say 5

Valedictorian

Both 1 and 5 are true.

to keep on theme:

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

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

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

Marmel wins.

I haven't run into AC Slater again.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Somebody else can jump in...

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.

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

dont blaspheme Johnny Cash!

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?

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.

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...

ack I was not ready to win one

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...

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

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.

Fritz, i'll go with #4 here.

OK. I'll say it.

No way you dated a girl.

2 (maybe 4)

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.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

You been Fritzed!

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

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. ;)

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

I'll guess number 5

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

3

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Go for it Cam. You know you want to.

(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.

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

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

Dola:

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

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.

A perfect on your SAT's? WOW.

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.

4

1

5, unless you failed twice, dummy!

:)

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

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

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.

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.

I say 2.

It has gotta be #3.

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

You are both wrong. 2 and 3 both happened.

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.

I'll say 5

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

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.

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.

#2

3

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.

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.

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.

1

5.

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!

4

2

I'll also say 2...