Post Five Unbelievable Things About Yourself

[Volty]

This should be fun. Three things you say must be true and two must be false. Then the rest of us can guess which is which.

Here's my submission:

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

[Amy in NY]

1. I love public speaking.
2. I was once in Jerry Garcia's hotel room.
3. I'm fluent in 3 foreign languages.
4. I almost died on my honeymoon.
5. I married my high school crush.


Amy

[Amy in NY]

Here's my submission:

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

I'm going to guess that #5, #1, and #3 are true.

Am I right?

Amy

[Laura Corin]

1) I was a regular rock-climber at university
2) I used to be able to sit on my hair
3) My ancestor was bankrupted by the death of Queen Victoria
4) One of my parents was born in Uganda
5) I used to weigh 300 pounds

Laura

[Laura Corin]

Laura

[Amy in NY]

Amy

[Laura Corin]

1. I love public speaking.
2. I was once in Jerry Garcia's hotel room.
3. I'm fluent in 3 foreign languages.
4. I almost died on my honeymoon.
5. I married my high school crush.


Amy

Laura

[Volty]

1. I love public speaking.
2. I was once in Jerry Garcia's hotel room.
3. I'm fluent in 3 foreign languages.
4. I almost died on my honeymoon.
5. I married my high school crush.


Amy

1) False. HSers tend to be introverted homebodies.
2) Eh... I don't want to but I'll give you this one. There's some twist, like you delivered pizzas when you were 20. True.
3) True
4) False, I'm thinking nearly dying on your honeymoon is very unlikely unless you married Crocodile Dundee. ;) Even less likely than the Jerry Garcia room.
5) I'll go with true. If so how lucky you are to have never loved in vain. I wish we were all so lucky. :)

[WTMindy]

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

[Eliana]

1) I met my husband when I was 14
2) I gave birth to twins in the car on the way to the hospital
3) I was in a car accident in which the car, going 60 mph, rolled 7 times into the median
4) I have seen live productions of all of Shakespeare's plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen), and most of them two or three times
5) I had a cardiac event in Goodwill and waited over half an hour for an ambulance to be called while the employees tried to a) get a coherent response from me b) find a phone and c)determine the address of the store

Eliana

[Amy in NY]

I'll tell you that Laura figured them out.

2. I was once in Jerry Garcia's hotel room.
4. I almost died on my honeymoon.
5. I married my high school crush.


#2 _ Volty was right about this. I didn't deliver pizzas but instead cleaned out his hotel room when I was in college. That man had more vitamin pills than a drugstore on his bureau. And one of the other band members had a tour shirt in their bed that not only was from 1972 - it smelled like it, too.

#4 Sadly, this is true. I had ulcerative colitis and didn't realize you could die from it if your meds didn't work. I came home from our honeymoon - a camping/portage trip in the middle of Algonquin Park, Canada - having lost over 20 pounds and needing multiple blood transfusions- I lost count at 4 units - and surgery. It is by the Grace of God that I survived my honeymoon.

#5 Yup, I had a crush on my dh in high school. Enough of a crush that our senior year, I took a secret picture of him so I could 'remember him forever.' How cheesy is that (and would that make me a stalker by today's standards?)

Thanks for starting this, Volty! It is fun!

Amy

[Volty]

- I was a regular rock-climber at university
- I used to be able to sit on my hair
- My ancestor was bankrupted by the death of Queen Victoria
- One of my parents was born in Uganda
- I used to weigh 300 pounds

Laura
Either one or five is false. Maybe both. Not many women on their way to 300 lbs would have the arm strength to support that much weight.

1) We'll go with true.
2) You had your own safety harness. True
3) False. Your family was never in the House of Lords.
4) True... you're in China because you got the wanderlust bug from your parents.
5) False. 300 is awfully large, it's much more than I ever was at max weight.

[Volty]

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

1) I didn't read Colleen's thread yet, I just logged in. But I'm guessing it was a belly button horror story. True.
2) OK We'll give you this one but it sounds too mundane and real. I'm waivering on this or the Seagals. True
3)Maybe. You may have tried out for it but I suspect this is a very difficult job to get. It's not something I would guess you made up. Still go with False
4) Go with false here. I understand loving math, but doing it for fun pushes the envelope too far.
5) Everybody loves dogs. If this is a false one, my head will explode. True.

[Cricket]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

[Volty]

1) I met my husband when I was 14
2) I gave birth to twins in the car on the way to the hospital
3) I was in a car accident in which the car, going 60 mph, rolled 7 times into the median
4) I have seen live productions of all of Shakespeare's plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen), and most of them two or three times
5) I had a cardiac event in Goodwill and waited over half an hour for an ambulance to be called while the employees tried to a) get a coherent response from me b) find a phone and c)determine the address of the store

Eliana

1) True. Hopefully you're siuation is like Amy's and you never underwent heartache.
2) Unbeleiveable but true. I don't think you'd lie about both car ones, this sounds more realistic.
3) False. I was torn with this and two, but rolling seven times is a bit much.
4) I need something else to be false and this is it. This is more a dream, it's on your "to do" list and hopefully someday it will be true, but as of today it is still false.
5) This doesn't sound like something you would make up. This one is True.

[Jean in Newcastle]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

#1 - false
#2 - true
#3 - true
#4 - true
#5 - false

[Jean in Newcastle]

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

[Volty]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

Oh, you're very good at this, I'm stumped. They all sound very unlikely but still a dash plausable.

1) Pregnant women need somebody to go berzerk on. Especially their first baby. I doubt you would be so strong willed to stay by yourself or that your husband would leave you alone in that condition for so long. False.
2) Not many people do this and even less can do it successfully. False.
3) Go with true, you have published pictures.
4) Very unlikely, but I'm out of falses. I'll keep the rapid marriage as false and go with true here.
5) This is likely true.

[Tutor]

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

I liked that Volty qualified his choices, so I am going to do the same:
1. True. Let's face it, we all did.
2. True. Because I think #3 is true and because I am a popcorn lover too.
3. True. For two reasons: a) I am pretty sure you mentioned in the thread on knowing famous people that you mentioned a member of the Seagulls and b) you wrote "Seagals" and not "Seagulls" so it shows loyalty to the squad over the team
4. False. Okay, this is probably true, but I ran out of options for false.
5. False. As Volty said, everyone loves dogs, but there is an exception to every rule, and this would be a great time to highlight where you are an exception.

[Cricket]

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True

[Tutor]

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

[Cricket]

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. True

[Jean in Newcastle]

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

Ooo! This is a hard one!

1. True, unlikely but it has a ring of truth to it.
2. False, because something has to be false!
3. False, see above!
4. True, because who could make up something like that?!
5. True.

[Tutor]

Here's my submission:

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

1 & 2. True. I just like the irony of them both potentially occurring at the same time.

3 True. I think you are bold enough to have done this.

4 False. I just don't think this is the death-defying activity.

5. False. Because something else has to be false.

[Volty]

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

1) OK, we'll go with True here, I can see it.

2) False. Unlike most European languages, Japanese is too exotic a language to pick up and study to fluency unless you've got a career in international business and are activly using it.

3) This is so ridiculously obviously false, it's like a huge Las Vegas blinking neon light of falses. It's so false that it flips over into something you couldn't possibly have made up. So I'm going to go against all rationality and and say true here and look forward to the story.

4) This sounds plausible. Especially if you've got hippie log cabin blood in your veins.

5) Another impossibilty. Unless you're Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Men go to great lengths to make thier proposal artistic and unique. Only a **** fool would plan to use this technique. I'll give your husband the benefit of the doubt. Unless he knows reverse psychology works well on you in which case he's extremely brave to try. False.

[Tutor]

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

1. True. 'Cause I wanted to do this and chickened out, and I know you are braver than me.
2. False. Because something has to be false.
3. False. Too crazy to be true, so it probably is, but... well, see #2.
4. True. Isn't is a rule that everyone who does a summer missions trip has to do one in Mexico?
5. True. Because it's a great story if it's true.

[JennifersLost]

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

[Jean in Newcastle]

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

Hmmm.

1. I'm going to say false, that would just be creepy!
2. One I might believe but two? I'm going to say false on this one too.
3. True. I hope they weren't four dead husbands!
4. True. Creepy but true.
5. I could see this happening in a Cary Grant movie! True.

[JennifersLost]

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

1. false
2. true
3. false
4. true
5. true

[Tutor]

1) I met my husband when I was 14
2) I gave birth to twins in the car on the way to the hospital
3) I was in a car accident in which the car, going 60 mph, rolled 7 times into the median
4) I have seen live productions of all of Shakespeare's plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen), and most of them two or three times
5) I had a cardiac event in Goodwill and waited over half an hour for an ambulance to be called while the employees tried to a) get a coherent response from me b) find a phone and c)determine the address of the store

Eliana

1. True. I think you met him then but didn't start dating until later... and one of you probably doesn't even remember this meeting.
2. False. I ran out of trues to hand out.
3. True. Too many details of something so scary that it has to be true.
4. True. You probably worked as an usher or theater volunteer somewhere.
5. False. It's too scary to think that something this Laurel and Hardy is true.

[Tutor]

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

Alright, I have to start by saying that I read the first 3 ans thought to myself, "Well, cr*p! All of those weird me out and I want them to be false, but only two can be. Poor Jennifer." LOL!

1. True. You are so open and approachable I can totally see this happening to you.
2. False. Because I picked the three I thought were true first, and this was one of the two left.
3. True. Because I often keep things out guilt, and I can completely sympathize with someone who has inherited urns containing the remains of family members and not having a clue what to do with them and just popping them up on the mantel and forgetting about them.
4. False. See #2
5. True. Because this would be a great story.

[Tutor]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

Alright, I am picking 1, 2, and 4 as true because they all require an adventurous spirit and would likely all be done by the same person. 3 & 5 are false because they are the only two left.

[Tutor]

1) I was a regular rock-climber at university
2) I used to be able to sit on my hair
3) My ancestor was bankrupted by the death of Queen Victoria
4) One of my parents was born in Uganda
5) I used to weigh 300 pounds

Laura

I'm going to say 1, 3 & 4 are true because they all indicate an adventurous spirit (and would just be plain old cool if true). That leaves 2 and 5 as false.

[Rhonda in WA]

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

[Rachel]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

[Cricket]

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
LOL at #5! I was going to say that as my false one, except the cheesecake bit. I was a huge fan and would have loved to party with them. I bet your story is true though.

[Tutor]

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

2, 3 & 5 seem to have a lot of detail, so I'm going to say those are true and 1 and 4 are false.

[RoughCollie]

1. Last year I won $1 million in the state lottery.

2. I like talking in front of crowds of people.

3. My husband proposed to me on a rainy night in a grocery store parking lot and I turned him down because the location was inappropriate.

4. I got a perm and had my hair dyed red and my husband thought I was playing a joke on him because I looked like Ronald McDonald.

5. Barry Pincus, also known as Barry Manilow, is my uncle.

[Rhonda in WA]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

I am going to say:
1-True--this sounds to good to be false.
2-False--why Alaska
3-True--I can see this as true.
4-False--only because I have to have 2 false
5-True--Mine do to!

[lovemyboys]

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #4, and #5 are true.

This should be fun. Three things you say must be true and two must be false. Then the rest of us can guess which is which.

Here's my submission:

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #2, and #4 are true.

1) I was a regular rock-climber at university
2) I used to be able to sit on my hair
3) My ancestor was bankrupted by the death of Queen Victoria
4) One of my parents was born in Uganda
5) I used to weigh 300 pounds

Laura

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #4, and #5 are true.

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #2, and #4 are true.

1) I met my husband when I was 14
2) I gave birth to twins in the car on the way to the hospital
3) I was in a car accident in which the car, going 60 mph, rolled 7 times into the median
4) I have seen live productions of all of Shakespeare's plays (including Two Noble Kinsmen), and most of them two or three times
5) I had a cardiac event in Goodwill and waited over half an hour for an ambulance to be called while the employees tried to a) get a coherent response from me b) find a phone and c)determine the address of the store

Eliana

[RoughCollie]

I think #2, #3, and #4 are true.

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

[Tutor]

1. Last year I won $1 million in the state lottery.

2. I like talking in front of crowds of people.

3. My husband proposed to me on a rainy night in a grocery store parking lot and I turned him down because the location was inappropriate.

4. I got a perm and had my hair dyed red and my husband thought I was playing a joke on him because I looked like Ronald McDonald.

5. Barry Pincus, also known as Barry Manilow, is my uncle.

1. False. Because admitting that here is just begging people to ask you for money, and why would you want that?
2. False. Because I think the last three are true.
3. True. "Because the location was inappropriate" is just great phrasing and sounds like a quote.
4. True. Make me laugh.
5. True. Because you know Barry Manilow's real name.

[Volty]

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

Well, this thread seems to be going over very well.

Tutor is giving me fits. They're all insanely false. #4 looks reasonable.

1) I've never had a manicure and don't know what's involved but I don't know that they're painful. Let alone painful enough to pass out from pain. Women passing out ... you've been reading too many 19th century novels. ;)False.

2) True. This is very strange and couldn't be made up. Or maybe it could but I need three trues somewhere/somehow.

3) I went true on somebody else's "baby born on the way to the hospital" story, but they never stopped on a bridge. That's stretching the story it a bit too far. Against my better judgement, since I have to find something true, I'll let you twisted this one out of me. True.

4) Sure, I can see that. True.

5) False. You wouldn't get out of my class. No school would ever do this. Now if your water broke in the classroom, that's a good reason to be excused.

[Rhonda in WA]

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

1-3-5 are true! Thats my guess.

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #4, and #5 are true.

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

[Tutor]

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

Ugh. This one was hard...

1 & 3 are false. 2, 4 & 5 are true.

[Cricket]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

I moved my answers to the spoilers post.

[RoughCollie]

I think #3, #4, and #5 are true.

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

[Rhonda in WA]

1. While I was pregnant with my first child, I spent two months up in the mountains of Idaho, all alone and 30 miles from the nearest town.

2. I met my dh on a blind date and we got married 5 months later.

3. I illustrated a children's book that was published 4 years ago.

4. Our family of six lived in our motorhome last year for 10 months.

5. In college I fell asleep while driving and totalled my boyfriend's car.

1--Sounds True-scary if something happened, but true.
2--True
3--I say true!
4--False
5--False

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #3, & #4 are true.

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #2, and #5 are true.

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

[Rhonda in WA]

1. Last year I won $1 million in the state lottery.

2. I like talking in front of crowds of people.

3. My husband proposed to me on a rainy night in a grocery store parking lot and I turned him down because the location was inappropriate.

4. I got a perm and had my hair dyed red and my husband thought I was playing a joke on him because I looked like Ronald McDonald.

5. Barry Pincus, also known as Barry Manilow, is my uncle.

1-False
2-True--someone has to like speaking in front of crowds.
3-True-
4-True
5-False

[RoughCollie]

I think #1, #2, and #3 are true.

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

[Volty]

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

1) False. Although Anne Boleyn made it work with fingers.
2) Hmmm.... another woman that knew what she wanted as a young teen. OK. True.
3) Yeah, this sounds plausable. True.
4) That seems a bit much. I mean HSers can travel freely, it's a nice thing about it, this number is a bit beyond the pale. False.
5) Hmmm... your husband's music career perhaps must have taken him well beyond skating rinks. True.

[Tutor]

So, when should we admit which are true and which are false? When someone guesses or when we can't hold it in anymore? LOL

This is fun.

[RoughCollie]

I think #2, #3, and #4 are true.

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

[Volty]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

1) No they don't give that job to teens, do they? False
2) False. You were better off as a teen trying for that job at Disneyland.
3) Now this sounds real. ANnd a good story to be had. True.
4) I can see it. There's some adventure/danger in your first four posts. The skydiving is real, the Alaska thing, like the Alice thing is maybe something you wanted to do but never got the chance. True.
5) And it drives you nuts. True.

[Tutor]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

This one is driving me crazy, too. One minute they all seem real and the next false. Let's see...
1. True. That would be a great summer job. Beats flipping burgers.
2. False. I need something to be false.
3. True. It makes a great story.
4. False. I can't picture a homeschooling mama posting on a K-8 board having such a risky hobby... at least, not until her kids are a little older and can go along for a mid-drop lesson in gravity.
5. True. See #2.

[Audrey]

1. For the first leg of the Brain Drain tour, I was a roadie for The Ramones.

2. I married a virgin.

3. I have a tattoo of Karl Marx on my left shoulder.

4. My grandfather was the lead engineer in the design of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

5. My great-aunt was Emma Goldman.

[Tutor]

1. For the first leg of the Brain Drain tour, I was a roadie for The Ramones.

2. I married a virgin.

3. I have a tattoo of Karl Marx on my left shoulder.

4. My grandfather was the lead engineer in the design of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

5. My great-aunt was Emma Goldman.

Wow! This is tough...

1. False. Something has to be.
2. True. I did, so shy not.
3. True. You're a Marxist and your avatar has tattoos... how's that for logic?
4. False. Just 'cause.
5. True. History of rebellion and anarchy... love it.

[Volty]

This should be fun. Three things you say must be true and two must be false. Then the rest of us can guess which is which.

Here's my submission:

1) I've shaken hands with Bill Gates.
2) I was once destitute on the streets of LA with with no money, home, or even a change of clothes.
3) I've participated in and activity where people died.
4) The closest I ever came to death was while swimming towards a waterfall.
5) While in High School I was ranked in the United States Top 20 at chess in the under 18 category.

OK reveal time. I've written my answer in white. You can read it by Higlighting below. Do that by holding down your left mouse key and scrolling.

1) I've never met Bill Gates. False
2) This is true, but not because I was a drug addict or pursuing my dream in acting or anything. I didn't want to be in LA. It was the Thursday before Memorial Day, 2003 and I was returning to my job in China for the next semester. I had a connecting flight to Shanghai but I was pulled off of it because paperwork regarding my visa was screwed up. You can travel with 2 suitcases and up to 100 lbs, which to me always means I can come back with 95 lbs of books.

So I left my suitcases at the airport, took a taxi to the Chinese consulate, but they were closing, I was already late, missed it by about 10-15 minutes. Then it all popped on my. I would be stuck in LA until So all I had was a carry-on bag, about $30 and some Chinese money. All my money is in Chinese accounts. I had to stay in LA, I didn't know anyone, have any money, or have anything or anywhere to go. And this was in a not very nice area, Little El Salvadore. I paniced, I tried to call my mom, no answer. I stumbled across a Western Union office by chance and kept calling my mom.

She never answers the phone from numbers she doesn't recognise because of telemarketers but because she had a son in transit to China and because the phone was ringing like New Hampshire the day before the primary election, she put two and two together, answered the phone and wired me money. But I was stranded like this for five hours. I rented a cheap motel with her money.

There's more to this nightmare story, but that's the short version.

3) I went into the Army out of High School to get money for college. Wouldn't you know, the 1991 Gulf War happened while I was in and off I went to fight in it. I didn't kill anybody, I was the parts clerk ordering stuff for the mechanics in a front line unit, so there were always others buffering me from th bad guys.

4) This is true, it happened in China. I like hiking but back to nature stuff for urban folks has only recently gotten popular here and it is much more dangerous. I'm a mediocre swimmer as is but the distance wasn't very long and I can ususually go that far. Long story short, I never tried to swim in my clothes and shoes before...

5) I like chess and I'm pretty good, but not this good. False.

[Tutor]

great stories!

[RoughCollie]

Rhonda in WA was correct.

1. False
2 - 4 are true.
5. False
1. Last year I won $1 million in the state lottery.

2. I like talking in front of crowds of people.

3. My husband proposed to me on a rainy night in a grocery store parking lot and I turned him down because the location was inappropriate.

4. I got a perm and had my hair dyed red and my husband thought I was playing a joke on him because I looked like Ronald McDonald.

5. Barry Pincus, also known as Barry Manilow, is my uncle.

[Volty]

1. Last year I won $1 million in the state lottery.

2. I like talking in front of crowds of people.

3. My husband proposed to me on a rainy night in a grocery store parking lot and I turned him down because the location was inappropriate.

4. I got a perm and had my hair dyed red and my husband thought I was playing a joke on him because I looked like Ronald McDonald.

5. Barry Pincus, also known as Barry Manilow, is my uncle.

1) False. You don't meet the lottery playing demographic.
2) True. If I recall correctly, you're a lawyer by training. That likely means you're one of the few that doesn't mind public speaking. You also don't mind going busto on Science Fair judges. ;)
3) False, men know better than to screw up their wedding proposals with a most mundane ordinary "oh-by-the-way" parking lot setting. Even I know better and I'm about as sentimental as a caveman.
4)True. And upon further insection, even you had to admit he was right. :D
5) OK, we'll give you that. True.

[Volty]

So, when should we admit which are true and which are false? When someone guesses or when we can't hold it in anymore? LOL

This is fun.

When you can't hold it in anymore.

[Tutor]

1. During my first, and subsequently last, manicure, I passed out from pain.
2. I turned down an offer to take over half-interest in a medical practice.
3. My fourth child was born on a bridge on the way to the hospital.
4. My behind appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
5. I was excused from a grad school class because I walked in very pregnant and carrying a dozen roses.

1. True. My mom treated me to a manicure for my Junior Prom. The person doing my nails trimmed all the cuticles on my right hand, and then they all started to bleed. She didn't want to me to get an infection, so she poured rubbing alcohol over all five fingers. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor looking into the face of a friend who was a volunteer with the fire department (dressed half in a tux and half in his firefighting gear) and he was asking me if I was alright.
2. True. I worked as a receptionist for a dermatologist when I was in grad school. The doctor promoted me and trained me to be a nursing and surgical assistant, and I did some basic pathology lab work for him. When I told him that I was pregnant and would be resigning a month before my due date, he offered me half of the practice if I would go to medical school and study dermatology. Some days I wish I had done it, but most days I am happy I didn't.
3. False. This happened to a friend of mine, but not me.
4. False. It is true for my dh however. We were chaperoning a trip for his journalism students to NYC, and L&O:CI was filming down the street from our hotel. He and some of his students were asked to be passersby on a street shot, and my dh's bottom ended up being the only part of the group you could see. That same day, I had our two girls at the Central Park zoo, and L&O:CI was filming another scene there and our girls were asked to be part of another scene, but they said they didn't want to, they'd rather see the polar bear. :rolleyes:
5. True. It was my wedding anniversary, and I had met my dh for dinner at a restaurant near the university before class. I was pregnant, but not that pregnant. However, it was the first time I wore maternity clothes to class, so I suddenly looked very pregnant to my professor. As soon as I sat down, he said, "This is just wrong. You're pregnant and have flowers. Who thinks we should send ________ home to be with her husband?" The entire class raised their hands, so I went home.

[RoughCollie]

Nope. #3 is true. Something about going to the A & P made my DH feel romantic. I think it had something to do with the fact that he couldn't cook and I could and the prospect of not having dinner at Burger King made him feel all mushy inside. He got down on bended knee in the rain. I thought he was joking at first. When I realized he was serious, I was appalled.

I said, "Get up before somebody sees you and try to act normal in the grocery store!"

#4 -- Sadly, he was correct. I'm just glad he wasn't there for the time I permed and dyed my hair red on my own, and turned it grass green. I was in high school and it was not my finest moment.


1)

3) False, men know better than to screw up their wedding proposals with a most mundane ordinary "oh-by-the-way" parking lot setting. Even I know better and I'm about as sentimental as a caveman.
4)True. And upon further insection, even you had to admit he was right. :D

[RoughCollie]

I've never had a professional manicure. I was thinking about it tonight as I was manicuring my nails -- should I see if a pro can do a better job than I can?

Now that I've read this, the answer is no.

1. True. My mom treated me to a manicure for my Junior Prom. The person doing my nails trimmed all the cuticles on my right hand, and then they all started to bleed. She didn't want to me to get an infection, so she poured rubbing alcohol over all five fingers. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor looking into the face of a friend who was a volunteer with the fire department (dressed half in a tux and half in his firefighting gear) and he was asking me if I was alright.

[Rhonda in WA]

Heres mine:

1) I have six toes on my right foot.
2) I met my husband at age 15 while he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3) On our honeymoon my luggage was lost, so I looked like a hooker for the first day.
4) I have been to 36 countries.
5) I partied with New Kids on the Block and ate cheese cake with one of the guys.

1-I don't have six toes!
2-I did meet my husband at 15 and he was a DJ at a skating rink.
3-From our wedding we got on a plane 6 hours later and I had on a nice outfit and high heels. Our flight was 9 hour and 4 hours of layovers. My luggage was lost along the way. But my wonderful husband had put a pair of shorts of mine in his suitcase. It was 98' in Aruba (where we went) and I had left WA and it was colder here. I had to wear shorts and my husbands t-shirt and heels. So I looked like a street walker for 24 hours.
4-I have only been to 4.
5-I went to a New Kids concert as a kid and my friend and I found out where they were staying and went down to their hotel. We were asked to join them in there hotel after party. Yes-I have cheese cake with Jordyn Knight and was sang to by Jon. Ok-silly but I loved it at the time.

[Volty]

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

OK here goes...

1) This is true. Poor, conflicted Jen didn't want to hurt his feelings and say no so she somehow managed to get the point across by peeling rubber on her way out of the lot. ;)
2) Don't you work in some sort of counselling. Maybe I'm confused. This may well be true too.
3)People do this. True
4) No, where'd he get the car. Granted he was teasing you, probably, but this seems too much. False
5) This is one of those that sounds so false it must be true. But it's not. It's still false.

[Laura Corin]

Either one or five is false. Maybe both. Not many women on their way to 300 lbs would have the arm strength to support that much weight.

You forget - I'm 45. Lots of time to gain and lose weight since college.

3) False. Your family was never in the House of Lords.

Whence comes your assumption of my plebeian origins? :D I know of at least one person in this town whose father is in the house of Lords. And why would a lord be ruined by the death of Queen Victoria?

I'm not saying yeah or nay yet though.

Laura

[Eliana]

moved to answers thread....

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

[Volty]

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

1) Volcanos are too rare, you have to be in the right place at the right time ... false

2) Nah... although if you're the child of HSers, you have lots of strange opportunities nobodyele does. This could be true. But I'll go false.

3) True

4) From the Carol Burnett Show... hmmm... we'll go with it. True.

5) Old LMB had a farm EIEIO True.

[JennifersLost]

Everyone should be asleep by now. Here's my answers:

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

1. True - I was 16, the guy was about 35. He was in a hurry, couldn't find his checkbook or his glasses. I correctly guessed where they were and in a rush of gratitude he proposed. Volty's right. I was too polite to refuse. I told him to ask again when I was older.

2. True - I'm not a counsellor. Both confessions happened in college. One I'm sure was a blatant lie told to me by a guy who was trying to get a rise out of me. The other was a drunken sobbing confession by a guy who lived down the hall shortly before he passed out. I think it might have been true. He seemed to not remember he'd said anything the next day. To this day I can't tell you why I didn't do anything about it.

3. False - My grandmother kept her parents' ashes in urns in a box upstairs, though.

4. True - I was 16 working at an all girls' camp on Cape Cod, bored out of my mind. Took a walk one night and met up with that prince.

5. False - I've never been off the continent of North America.

Man, we all live strange lives, don't we?

[Tutor]

Oh goodness!

[Volty]

1. For the first leg of the Brain Drain tour, I was a roadie for The Ramones.

2. I married a virgin.

3. I have a tattoo of Karl Marx on my left shoulder.

4. My grandfather was the lead engineer in the design of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

5. My great-aunt was Emma Goldman.

1) True.

2) Lots of others around here could have pulled that one off and I'd bite, but not you. This is false.

3) No one would make that up. It's real. True

4/5 is really rough. I *know* there's one true relative and one false relative here. You wouldn't double them up.

Ah, it's 5-Emma Goldman that's true. The rocket scientist -4- is false.

[Laura Corin]

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

1)... I'll go with true, because I don't think it would have occurred to you to say it otherwise.
3) Not that unusual - true.
5) Not sure how old you are - that would alter how likely you were to have been wearing a seat belt or sitting in the front seat. I'm thinking you are at least my age, so I'll say true.

Laura

[buddhabelly]

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook.
2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica.
3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school.
4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics.
5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife.

[Laura Corin]

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

1: Haven't read the thread but it sounds plausible
2. Really???? I say no
3. Who are the Seagals? In my ignorance I'll say yes
4. Can't remember - I'll say no
5. I say yes.

Laura

[Volty]

You forget - I'm 45. Lots of time to gain and lose weight since college.



Whence comes your assumption of my plebeian origins? :D I know of at least one person in this town whose father is in the house of Lords. And why would a lord be ruined by the death of Queen Victoria?

I'm not saying yeah or nay yet though.

Laura

As you know Laura, I'm trying hard to coerce you into being my HS mentor, but actually I really don't know very much about you.

From my experience reading Rudyard Kipling, the Brits travelling all over the globe in order to bring civilization to the heathen nations in the name of God, King, and Country generally weren't the blue bloods. And just how many families are in Lords anyways? If I had to guess ... 1/200 or less. The odds are great it isn't you.

Further, I'm hoping you're a plebe; then we'd have someting in common.

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

HSers tend to be introverted homebodies.


Ok, now how many homeschoolers have you actually met? :)

[Volty]

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

People that do #1 don't do #4.

2 is true. I can see this.
3) I've done this before on a few occasions... true.
5) False. Like most parents, yours were seatbelt buckling nazis who made you sit in the backseat.

I'll go with one as true imagining you growing up in a little house deep in the middle of nowhere. That makes four false.

[Volty]

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook.
2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica.
3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school.
4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics.
5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife.

I'm going to take you up on both your Antarctica adventure stories. I'd have a hard time taking only one and I think you wouldn't use two falses on the same thing.

4) seems most unlikely. False
3) with a handle like Buddabelly, being president of an Episcopal alther guild seems ar fetched.

That would make your ex a father four times over. 5-true.

[Volty]

Ok, now how many homeschoolers have you actually met? :)

Let's just say it's a small sample size and the margin of error is +/-100%.

[Laura Corin]

As you know Laura, I'm trying hard to coerce you into being my HS mentor, but actually I really don't know very much about you.

From my experience reading Rudyard Kipling, the Brits travelling all over the globe in order to bring civilization to the heathen nations in the name of God, King, and Country generally weren't the blue bloods. And just how many families are in Lords anyways? If I had to guess ... 1/200 or less. The odds are great it isn't you.

Further, I'm hoping you're a plebe; then we'd have someting in common.

Fairly good guessing actually. In white, as follows:

My mother was born in Uganda because her father was a surveyor - disastrously 'helping' the local people to divide up their lands in order to conform to the UK idea of land use. Good fences make good neighbours, you know.... Previously, the grazing had been nomadic; now suddenly, there were borders to defend. My grandfather didn't go to university - surveying was definitely not a high-class activity.

The ancestor who was ruined by the death of Queen Victoria was a dressmaker who sold to the court. She had just bought all the new season's fabrics when the queen died and everyone went into deep mourning.

Yes, I once had long hair, no I never weighed 300 pounds.

As for rock climbing: did it once, never again. I don't know if you can discern the lack of rock-climbing terrain on this map, but this is where I went to university:

Dead-flat estuary (http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=53.66437,-0.24172|11|8)

Laura

[GreenKitty]

1. Talked with John Acorn (the nature nut)
2. Conversed with Jack Hanna
3. Almost died of choking
4. Had 4 marriage proposals
5. Seen ghosts

(though these prob aren't considerd truely unbelieveable;))

[Volty]

1. Talked with John Acorn (the nature nut)
2. Conversed with Jack Hanna
3. Almost died of choking
4. Had 4 marriage proposals
5. Seen ghosts

(though these prob aren't considerd truely unbelieveable;))

Well you're not going to lie about two conversations. One or both must be true. Honestly, I think they both are. 1) True 2) True
4) The marriage proposals ring true.
5) I don't know what you saw but I think you think you saw ghosts. Since I don't know which of these four is false is, I'm going to guess this is it. false
3) False: Almost choking to death is made up.

1,2,4 are true.

[JFS in IL]

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

[mcconnellboys]

Okay, I'm cheating, but knowing where you grew up, #1 and #5 could be way too true, LOL....and the other three are anyone's guess (and people who do #1 absolutely might still do #4 and would probably find it more rewarding, too....)

Regena

[CalicoKat]

1. I drive off-road enduro motorcycles. I loved my red, Honda 175 with an electric start.

2. Once while driving my motorcycle I tried to take a short cut around a sand trap by driving over a medium sized mound next to it. Halfway up the mound I saw the other side was a huge hole! I had to jump my motorcycle over the hold to avoid an accident. This was the first time I jumped my bike.

3. When I was 29 yrs old when I had to have artificial heart valve surgery.

4. My parents let me have a couple pet monkeys while I was growing up.

5. When I was 18 I once spent the night alone in an African village because I dumped my bike and couldn't get it started again. My mom was who was driving the truck ahead of me had to wait until it was morning to radio my dad in the next country to come rescue me. I was there alone for 24 hours.

















These are all true! I couldn't resist. :)

[PrairieAir]

1. I mummified a cat when I was in high school.
2. I've hiked the complete Appalachian Trail in segments.
3. I once belonged to what some would consider a cult.
4. I have slaughtered and processed chickens--and I thought it was pretty cool.
5. I was one of the top athletes in my high school.

Ha ha! This list makes me sound like a total nut job if you put several of the things together. Maybe I am. I'm not sure any of these is unbelievable enough though.

[GreenKitty]

Well you're not going to lie about two conversations. One or both must be true. Honestly, I think they both are. 1) True 2) True
4) The marriage proposals ring true.
5) I don't know what you saw but I think you think you saw ghosts. Since I don't know which of these four is false is, I'm going to guess this is it. false
3) False: Almost choking to death is made up.

1,2,4 are true.

Ok...obviously I do not know how to play. :rolleyes: Just the choking one is false. I'm not a great liar....(not to self, must work on that)

[Mrs. Readsalot]

1. I have met and spoken with Barbara Bush
2. I was born in England
3. I played the flute with a major symphony orchestra
4. I can type 60 wpm
5. I first husband was Tony Orlando

[Jenny in Atl]

1. As a kid my uncle took me drag racing down the I-5 through LA at speeds of 100 miles-per-hour

2. I shared a subway ride home from the 76 World Series pinned in-between a lady of the evening and her manager (both dressed in that 70's classic Shaft style).

3. Had to walk six miles to a gas station in the southern New Mexican wilderness after running out of gas, thankfully it was at night.

4. I won a state level ice skating competition but broke my ankle so I could not go onto the Nationals.

5. Spent a few nights sleeping on the floor of a mall bookstore. It was cold and hard.

[Pencil Pusher]

1. I placed in a beauty contest.

2. I modeled for a leather catalog.

3. I graduated from public highschool when I was 15.

4. I spent a summer in Venezuela on a short-term mission trip.

5. I have a collection of Cupie dolls that my great-grandmother started back in the 30s.

[HSMom2One]

I was up in the night reading this thread and nearly fell off my chair laughing. No wonder the thread is much longer this morning!

Okay, here are my five:

1. I can see a volcano from my balcony.

2. My husband and I wrote our wedding vows in a laundry mat.

3. I survived a rare form of cancer.

4. My second cousin's name is Sherlock Holmes.

5. I live down the road from the Roloff family (Disc. Channel, "Little People Big World).

[Doran]

1. As a young mother, I fell completely out the door of a moving car as it came around a sharp curve.
2. I won first place in national writing contest in high school.

3. I almost choked to death in a childhood tap dancing class.

4. I once had to leave a scouting trip early because my braces were so stuck to my sleeping bag.

5. I lived for years in NY on an old, leaky sailboat.



Doran ;)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

I vote #2, #4, #5.

1. As a young mother, I fell completely out the door of a moving car as it came around a sharp curve.
2. I won first place in national writing contest in high school.

3. I almost choked to death in a childhood tap dancing class.

4. I once had to leave a scouting trip early because my braces were so stuck to my sleeping bag.

5. I lived for years in NY on an old, leaky sailboat.



Doran ;)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. After reading Colleen's thread I cleaned out my belly button today.
2. Popcorn is my favorite food.
3. I was a cheerleader for the Seagals.
4. I love math and I sometimes do it just for fun.
5. I love dogs.

#1, #2, #3

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

I'm guessing #1, #2, #4

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

#1, #4, #5

It took me five colleges and some CLEP tests for my first and second bachelors, and two more for my third. So I totally believe the second one, but I want to preserve that picture of you juggling kittens, so I'm sticking to number 1!

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

#1, #2, #4

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. For the first leg of the Brain Drain tour, I was a roadie for The Ramones.

2. I married a virgin.

3. I have a tattoo of Karl Marx on my left shoulder.

4. My grandfather was the lead engineer in the design of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

5. My great-aunt was Emma Goldman.

#1, #2, #4

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook.
2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica.
3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school.
4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics.
5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife.

#1, #3, #4

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. I placed in a beauty contest.

2. I modeled for a leather catalog.

3. I graduated from public highschool when I was 15.

4. I spent a summer in Venezuela on a short-term mission trip.

5. I have a collection of Cupie dolls that my great-grandmother started back in the 30s.

#2 (but you could have totally done #1), #3, #4

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

I was up in the night reading this thread and nearly fell off my chair laughing. No wonder the thread is much longer this morning!

Okay, here are my five:

1. I can see a volcano from my balcony.

2. My husband and I wrote our wedding vows in a laundry mat.

3. I survived a rare form of cancer.

4. My second cousin's name is Sherlock Holmes.

5. I live down the road from the Roloff family (Disc. Channel, "Little People Big World).

#1, #2, #5

[Crissy]

Oh, my goodness. My life is so boring! ;)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

Oh, my goodness. My life is so boring! ;)

And forty percent of our lives are a lie. :D

[Rachel]

My answers are now in the Spoilers thread!

[PiCO]

I'll play!


I met my husband in a bar and moved in with him 6 months after we met.

I have performed CPR on both of my children.

I have an ancestor that was Karelian royalty. She arrived in the US penniless.

I was the youngest person to compete in the national gymnastics championships in the 1970s.

I have vacationed on 6 continents.

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

I'll play!


I met my husband in a bar and moved in with him 6 months after we met.

I have performed CPR on both of my children.

I have an ancestor that was Karelian royalty. She arrived in the US penniless.

I was the youngest person to compete in the national gymnastics championships in the 1970s.

I have vacationed on 6 continents.

Ok, I think #1, #3, #4.

[Rebel]

These are great! Here are mine.

1. I nearly died from blood loss when I was 27.

2. I find it very relaxing to take exotic animals for walks.

3. I have visited with Dr. Phil and Robin at their home.

4. While on a hike with my 2 year old son, I got lost and had to carry him for hours through rugged bear-infested country.

5. I met my husband when his motorcycle broke down near my apartment complex.

[Tracey in TX]

I gave a speech in front of 10,000 people.
I was poster child for Mensa in high school.
I knew DH would be my husband w/in minutes of meeting.
My dad was Governor of IL.
I won a Collegiate Journalism Award.

[Doran]

I pick 2, 3, and 4 (if the answers are posted already I haven't peeked)

Doran

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

[Tracey in TX]

These are great! Here are mine.

1. I nearly died from blood loss when I was 27.

2. I find it very relaxing to take exotic animals for walks.

3. I have visited with Dr. Phil and Robin at their home.

4. While on a hike with my 2 year old son, I got lost and had to carry him for hours through rugged bear-infested country.

5. I met my husband when his motorcycle broke down near my apartment complex.

I will guess that #1, #4 and #5 are true.

[Doran]

My picks for true: 2, 3, and 5 ~Doran

I was up in the night reading this thread and nearly fell off my chair laughing. No wonder the thread is much longer this morning!

Okay, here are my five:
1. I can see a volcano from my balcony.2. My husband and I wrote our wedding vows in a laundry mat.3. I survived a rare form of cancer.4. My second cousin's name is Sherlock Holmes.5. I live down the road from the Roloff family (Disc. Channel, "Little People Big World).

[Tracey in TX]

[quote=PiCO;67868]I'll play!


I met my husband in a bar and moved in with him 6 months after we met.

I have performed CPR on both of my children.

I have an ancestor that was Karelian royalty. She arrived in the US penniless.

I was the youngest person to compete in the national gymnastics championships in the 1970s.

I have vacationed on 6 continents.I'll guess #1,3 and 5...

[Doran]

Oooh -- good ones. I think I may have led a dull life! :D

I vote for 1, 2, and 4 ~Doran

1. For the first leg of the Brain Drain tour, I was a roadie for The Ramones.

2. I married a virgin.

3. I have a tattoo of Karl Marx on my left shoulder.

4. My grandfather was the lead engineer in the design of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

5. My great-aunt was Emma Goldman.

[Doran]

Let's see, Pam -- I'd pick 1, 3, and 4

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

[Doran]

i'm going with 1, 2, and 4

If you've answered elsewhere, I didn't take time to look for it (obviously?).

~Doran

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook.
2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica.
3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school.
4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics.
5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife.

[Doran]

Hmmmm. I'm in for 1, 2, and 5 (how could I resist that one?) ~Doran

1. I have met and spoken with Barbara Bush
2. I was born in England
3. I played the flute with a major symphony orchestra
4. I can type 60 wpm
5. I first husband was Tony Orlando

[Rebel]

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook.
2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica.
3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school.
4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics.
5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife.

I vote for #1, #2, and #4

1 and 2 go together and 4 seems sooo unlikely that it just might be true.

[Rebel]

1. Talked with John Acorn (the nature nut)
2. Conversed with Jack Hanna
3. Almost died of choking
4. Had 4 marriage proposals
5. Seen ghosts

(though these prob aren't considerd truely unbelieveable;))

I vote for #2, #4, and #5.

[Rebel]

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

#1 would be AWESOME, but highly doubtful
I choose #2, #4, and #5

[Rebel]

1. As a kid my uncle took me drag racing down the I-5 through LA at speeds of 100 miles-per-hour

2. I shared a subway ride home from the 76 World Series pinned in-between a lady of the evening and her manager (both dressed in that 70's classic Shaft style).

3. Had to walk six miles to a gas station in the southern New Mexican wilderness after running out of gas, thankfully it was at night.

4. I won a state level ice skating competition but broke my ankle so I could not go onto the Nationals.

5. Spent a few nights sleeping on the floor of a mall bookstore. It was cold and hard.

Wow, these are hard!
I think #1, #2, and #3 are true.

[Rebel]

1. I placed in a beauty contest.

2. I modeled for a leather catalog.

3. I graduated from public highschool when I was 15.

4. I spent a summer in Venezuela on a short-term mission trip.

5. I have a collection of Cupie dolls that my great-grandmother started back in the 30s.

I guess that #1, #2, and #5 are true.

[Rebel]

I gave a speech in front of 10,000 people.
I was poster child for Mensa in high school.
I knew DH would be my husband w/in minutes of meeting.
My dad was Governor of IL.
I won a Collegiate Journalism Award.

I think #2, #4, and #5 are true.

[JenneinAZ]

1. I was the only blond haired kid in my class for several years in elementary school.

2. I met my husband on the first day of Student Orientation at college.

3. I swam butterfly for the swim team in high school.

4. I got married the day after I graduated from college.

5. I learned to make Danish kringla cookies from my great-grandmother.

[8FillTheHeart]

I have had a blast reading these.....I'll play.

1- My very first car was a RX7.
2-I dated to my dh's brother before I dated dh.
3-I am the youngest of 8 siblings.
4-I lived in 2 different countries before I was a yr old.
5-My father used to eat breakfast with someone who is beatified.

[Doran]

I'm going with 1, 2, and 5. Five is just...well...who'd make that up? :rolleyes:

Doran



I have had a blast reading these.....I'll play.

1- My very first car was a RX7.
2-I dated to my dh's brother before I dated dh.
3-I am the youngest of 8 siblings.
4-I lived in 2 different countries before I was a yr old.
5-My father used to eat breakfast with someone who is beatified.

[8FillTheHeart]

1. I was the only blond haired kid in my class for several years in elementary school.

2. I met my husband on the first day of Student Orientation at college.

3. I swam butterfly for the swim team in high school.

4. I got married the day after I graduated from college.

5. I learned to make Danish kringla cookies from my great-grandmother.

Unless you were living in some very strange place, I can't believe number one is true. Dh and I are both brunettes, but all of our kids but one have been blond until about age 12.

I going with 2, 3, and 4......and yours made me laugh. I could have posted I got married the day after I was no longer a teenager and it would have been true!!

Hope I haven't offended great-grandma by not choosing her. ;)

[8FillTheHeart]

1. As a young mother, I fell completely out the door of a moving car as it came around a sharp curve.
2. I won first place in national writing contest in high school.

3. I almost choked to death in a childhood tap dancing class.

4. I once had to leave a scouting trip early because my braces were so stuck to my sleeping bag.

5. I lived for years in NY on an old, leaky sailboat.



Doran ;)

I love number 4, so I am definitely choosing it!! HMMM, the others are harder, 2, and 5 (b/c the other choices are scary!)

[Doran]

The first one for sure (not too far from my own story!). The other two...I'll take 3 and 4. :) ~Doran

I'll play!

I met my husband in a bar and moved in with him 6 months after we met.
I have performed CPR on both of my children.
I have an ancestor that was Karelian royalty. She arrived in the US penniless.
I was the youngest person to compete in the national gymnastics championships in the 1970s.
I have vacationed on 6 continents.

[Doran]

Gosh, Jenne, these are tough.

Number one is so far fetched that it just might be true. So, I'll pick

1, 2, and 4

1. I was the only blond haired kid in my class for several years in elementary school.

2. I met my husband on the first day of Student Orientation at college.

3. I swam butterfly for the swim team in high school.

4. I got married the day after I graduated from college.

5. I learned to make Danish kringla cookies from my great-grandmother.

[PrairieAir]

Originally Posted by Aubrey
1. I placed in a beauty contest.

2. I modeled for a leather catalog.

3. I graduated from public highschool when I was 15.

4. I spent a summer in Venezuela on a short-term mission trip.

5. I have a collection of Cupie dolls that my great-grandmother started back in the 30s.

This is so hard to follow in this format! I have to say I think all of Aubrey's must be true. Who would say the Cupie thing unless they collected them. Then again, wouldn't a collector know that they are Kewpie dolls? (I'm pretty sure that's right.) I guess I'll go with #5 and #2. And now I've got to quit looking at this thread or I won't get anything else done today!

[lynn]

1. I survived spinal menginitis when i was 2 and I have two holes in my skull where they had to drill to relieve the pressure.
2. I spent 5 years working at McDonalds age 14-19:confused:
3. I went to Pensacola Christian College and only survived 1 semester.:rolleyes:
4. My parents moved our family to S Fl when i was 13 and I hated every minute of it. I am so not a beach person and life was pretty much perfect in Mass. My dh rescued me and got me out of there. :p
5. My first car was '76 chevy Nova:eek:

[PiCO]

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

I want all of these to be true!

[PiCO]

1. I mummified a cat when I was in high school.
2. I've hiked the complete Appalachian Trail in segments.
3. I once belonged to what some would consider a cult.
4. I have slaughtered and processed chickens--and I thought it was pretty cool.
5. I was one of the top athletes in my high school.

Ha ha! This list makes me sound like a total nut job if you put several of the things together. Maybe I am. I'm not sure any of these is unbelievable enough though.

Not that I think #5 is unbelievable, though. I can't wrap my brain around #1.

[PiCO]

Here's my list

1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.
5. I can milk a cow.

:)

I'll go with 1,2, and 4. #4 doesn't seem like something you would make up. #5 doesn't seem like something one would think was that unusual if one milked cows on a regular basis. 3 could be true (and I would be jealous,) but I had to leave out something!

[HSMom2One]

1. I mummified a cat when I was in high school.
2. I've hiked the complete Appalachian Trail in segments.
3. I once belonged to what some would consider a cult.
4. I have slaughtered and processed chickens--and I thought it was pretty cool.
5. I was one of the top athletes in my high school.

Ha ha! This list makes me sound like a total nut job if you put several of the things together. Maybe I am. I'm not sure any of these is unbelievable enough though.

Let's see here - I'll guess #2,#3 and #4.

#1 - False. This is way too creepy to be true.
#2 - True. Who'd bring that up if it wasn't true, anyway?
#3 - True, but you finally saw the light and came back home where you belong.
#4 - This is creepy too, but I bet there is a lot of chicken slaughtering in rural the midwest and you live in Kansas.
#5 - False. Too tame, so it's got to be false.

[PiCO]

1. I worked as Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland as a teen
2. I moved to Alaska for a year all alone when I was 19
3. My husband and I hated each other for the first year we knew each other
4. I sky-dive as a hobby
5. My kids all look like clones of my husband

Those are all good.

I think either one or two could be true, but it's unlikely that both are true. I can't picture Alice in Wonderland in Alaska, I guess.

I'll go with 2,3,and 4 as true.

[PiCO]

1. My first marriage proposal came from a complete stranger in a grocery store.
2. Two people have confessed murders to me.
3. My great aunt kept four of her dead relatives in urns on her mantelpiece.
4. I once thumbed a ride from a guy who said, "Pardon my haircut; I just got out of jail."
5. While traveling in France, my car broke down and nuns repaired it.

I say 3,4,5 are true. I just don't want those first two to be true!

[HSMom2One]

1. I have met and spoken with Barbara Bush
2. I was born in England
3. I played the flute with a major symphony orchestra
4. I can type 60 wpm
5. I first husband was Tony Orlando


Hmmmmm....

1. Sure, why not. I say true.

2. True. I bet your dad was in the Air Force and you were a military brat.

3. I could believe that, I bet it's true.

4. and 5. are both lies.

Blessings,
Lucinda

[PiCO]

1. As a young mother, I fell completely out the door of a moving car as it came around a sharp curve.
2. I won first place in national writing contest in high school.

3. I almost choked to death in a childhood tap dancing class.

4. I once had to leave a scouting trip early because my braces were so stuck to my sleeping bag.

5. I lived for years in NY on an old, leaky sailboat.



Doran ;)

My guesses for true are 1,3, and 4- no logic, just a wild guess.

[Jill, OK]

1) I have a defect that causes the roof of my mouth to curve downwards, instead of upwards.
2) I was on the cheerleading squad, in high school.
3) I've been in two bank robberies.
4) My parents were teenagers when I was born.
5) I'm a distant relative of Woody Guthrie.

[HSMom2One]

1. As a young mother, I fell completely out the door of a moving car as it came around a sharp curve.
2. I won first place in national writing contest in high school.

3. I almost choked to death in a childhood tap dancing class.

4. I once had to leave a scouting trip early because my braces were so stuck to my sleeping bag.

5. I lived for years in NY on an old, leaky sailboat.


Doran ;)

1. You are too young to not have had a seatbelt on. Don't know about your state, but we've had laws in place for a long time about this. I say False. (BTW, my sister did this once when we were kids. It scared me to death! She had on her marching band uniform and I can still see that picture in my mind after all these years.)

2. True. That's why you are such a great HS mom!

3. True.

4. True. Gosh, you were accident prone, weren't you?

5. False. Anyone with sense would not live in a leaky boat for years!

How close am I? ;)

Blessings,
Lucinda

[buddhabelly]

1) I have a defect that causes the roof of my mouth to curve downwards, instead of upwards.
2) I was on the cheerleading squad, in high school.
3) I've been in two bank robberies.
4) My parents were teenagers when I was born.
5) I'm a distant relative of Woody Guthrie.
Hmmm....I'll say 1, 4 and 5 are true. These are hard!

[buddhabelly]

Here's my reveal. Some of you were really close, but I fooled almost everyone by making two posts about Antarctica:

1. I once worked a summer (our winter) in Antarctica as a cook. False!

2. My husband served aboard an icebreaker (ship) in Antarctica. True!

3. I was the President of the Altar Guild in (Espiscopal) high school. True!

4. My father won a gold medal in the 1968 summer Olympics. True! It was Mexico City that year. His sport was sailing... Star boats that year. He won a bronze in 1964 for sailing Dragons.

5. My ex-husband remarried and has four children with his wife. Nope -- none of it true.

Good on ya, those who were close!

[PrairieAir]

1) I have a defect that causes the roof of my mouth to curve downwards, instead of upwards.
2) I was on the cheerleading squad, in high school.
3) I've been in two bank robberies.
4) My parents were teenagers when I was born.
5) I'm a distant relative of Woody Guthrie.

I'm guessing either #3 is true or you're a horrible liar:) It doesn't say that you were the one robbing the bank!

[buddhabelly]

1. I survived spinal menginitis when i was 2 and I have two holes in my skull where they had to drill to relieve the pressure.
2. I spent 5 years working at McDonalds age 14-19:confused:
3. I went to Pensacola Christian College and only survived 1 semester.:rolleyes:
4. My parents moved our family to S Fl when i was 13 and I hated every minute of it. I am so not a beach person and life was pretty much perfect in Mass. My dh rescued me and got me out of there. :p
5. My first car was '76 chevy Nova:eek:
Lordy, Lynn you are good at this. I'd say #1, 3 and 4 are true because you can't be old enough for #5. Can you? Although if my first car was a 1976 Chevy Nova, it would have been brand new.....

[Tutor]

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

1. True. And I want to see a video of you juggling kittens... or iguanas, whatever.
2. True.
3. False. I want it to be true, but something has to be false.
4. True. You can include this on the juggling video.
5. False, but I really want to hear this story when it turns out I'm wrong and it's true.

[Tutor]

1. I mummified a cat when I was in high school.
2. I've hiked the complete Appalachian Trail in segments.
3. I once belonged to what some would consider a cult.
4. I have slaughtered and processed chickens--and I thought it was pretty cool.
5. I was one of the top athletes in my high school.


1. True, and you enjoyed it.
2. True. Just because we're hoping to do this with the kids, and I need someone to get advice from.
3. False. I wanted to put true, but something has to be false.
4. True.
5. False. Because I ran out of options.

[Jean in Newcastle]

My five:

1. After high school I lived in a log cabin living the Hippie back-to-nature lifestyle.

2. I speak fluent Japanese.

3. I taught wrestling with a parapelegic coach.

4. I spent a summer mission trip in Mexico.

5. My dh and I got engaged during a fight.

#1: False. I am not quite old enough for this! My older brothers were both hippies living in log cabins up in the woods, growing nothing legal. I did visit them both before they wandered back into an Establishment lifestyle.

#2: True. I was born and raised in Japan. I am truly bilingual - learning Japanese (and English) as an infant. I was always 6 mo. behind my Japanese friends in lang. development, though.

#3: True. I was asked to teach wrestling as part of a P.E. program. I had a parapelegic aide who used to wrestle (pre-injury). He would describe the moves to me and I would then teach the kids.

#4: False. I know many people who have done this. I am not one of them.

#5. True. Volty, my dh says you give him too much credit for romance! We actually did get engaged during a fight. The clincher was when I told him "I'm not leaving this restaurant until you propose!" His response, "Ok, fine. Will you marry me?!" (Picture glaring eyes and clenched teeth.) No one clapped for us when I hissed back, "Ok, fine! I accept!" We almost got in a fight again the next day when I asked him if he'd really meant it! We had a rough first year but now at 15 years into marriage, we hardly ever fight.

[Tutor]

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

Well, goodness! The only one that I thought right off was true was #3 because I could totally see this happening... especially if it was an 8am class or some psych class where you were asked to wear the dress inside out to test your classmates' perception of their environment.

I guess I'll say #1 and 4 are also true leaving 2 and 5 as false.

[StacyWithFourRugrats]

1. I started a forest fire while in university.
2. I am related to George Clooney.
3. I married a man I met online.
4. I ran a marathon at 15.
5. I am a major Law and Order: SVU addict.

[Lady Katherine]

1. I made a name for myself on the WTM boards with my story of "My Honeymoon Disaster", which tells of my nightmare wedding trip to Puerta Vallarta.

2. I nearly died of heatstroke on a trip to an orchestra contest during high school.

3. When my car broke down, I once drove my 4yo ds to preschool on our lawn tractor.

4. I learned how to build concrete block walls in a little farming village in Switzerland called Burtigny.

5. My paternal grandfather appeared in "Plan 9 from Outer Space" -- a B-grade sci-fi movie widely regarded as the worst film ever made.

[OnTheBrink]

1) I was the only white baby in the hospital when I was born.

2) I was in the Tournament of Roses Parade.

3) I was in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

4) I descend from the Hatfields. Yes, THOSE Hatfields.

5) My major in college was forensic science.

[Lady Katherine]

1. I was once dragged by my ankle by a retired thoroughbred and lived to tell about it.

2.. I live across the road from Southfork Ranch.

3. My short story "Too Much Cello", which told the story of an insane college orchestra director who murdered his entire cello section, won an award in a state competition.

4. I once sang a duet with Michael W. Smith in front of several hundred people.

5. My father, who had only to complete his final dissertation, never received his Ph.D. in math because his Japanese professor committed hari-kiri - a ritual suicide during which one disboweles onesself with a samuri sword.

[8FillTheHeart]

Golly, my life is so incredibly boring (either that or I am just really bad at lying!!) that I had a hard time coming up with 2 lies the first time......especially ones that didn't just yell out.....man, she has a dull life those have to be the false ones!!

[Pencil Pusher]

1) My family didn't have indoor plumbing until I was ten years old.
2) Paul McCartney once kissed me on the cheek.
3) I once wore a dress inside out to a college class.
4) I went riding around Pittsburgh in the middle of the night in a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce.
5) I went through the windshield of a car when I was six years old.

#3's true. I know, because I've done the same thing.

I'm also going w/ #4 & #5. Although I'd buy #2, & I can't imagine making #1 up.

[PiCO]

1. I made a name for myself on the WTM boards with my story of "My Honeymoon Disaster", which tells of my nightmare wedding trip to Puerta Vallarta.

2. I nearly died of heatstroke on a trip to an orchestra contest during high school.

3. When my car broke down, I once drove my 4yo ds to preschool on our lawn tractor.

4. I learned how to build concrete block walls in a little farming village in Switzerland called Burtigny.

5. My paternal grandfather appeared in "Plan 9 from Outer Space" -- a B-grade sci-fi movie widely regarded as the worst film ever made.

I know #1 is true, unless the location is wrong. I remember that story! I'll vote for 4 and 5 being true also. I hope 1 is false. 3 actually rings true, but I'm out of yes votes.

[Michelle in MO]

1. I once fell off of a 20-foot cliff and landed just inches from a huge rock.


2. I accidentally picked up Ron Howard's luggage (star of "Happy Days" and famous movie director) at the airport, thinking it was my bag, and had to return it right away. It was humiliating!

3. I once had a strong inclination to pray for my brother's safety one evening; the very next day he survived a traumatic auto accident, even though he spent a full night pinned under a truck in the snow.


4. Our family owns an extremely rare male calico cat. Almost all calico cats are female.


5. One of my favorite snacks to eat while sledding as a kid was sardines in a can, washed down with mugs of hot chocolate! I can't imagine doing that now!

Not very exciting, as you can tell! I'll post the spoilers on the other thread. :D

[RoughCollie]

I believe #1, #3, and #5.

1. I once fell off of a 20-foot cliff and landed just inches from a huge rock.


2. I accidentally picked up Ron Howard's luggage (star of "Happy Days" and famous movie director) at the airport, thinking it was my bag, and had to return it right away. It was humiliating!

3. I once had a strong inclination to pray for my brother's safety one evening; the very next day he survived a traumatic auto accident, even though he spent a full night pinned under a truck in the snow.


4. Our family owns an extremely rare male calico cat. Almost all calico cats are female.


5. One of my favorite snacks to eat while sledding as a kid was sardines in a can, washed down with mugs of hot chocolate! I can't imagine doing that now!

Not very exciting, as you can tell! I'll post the spoilers on the other thread. :D

[Lisa in Jax]

1. An ancestor of my father's was a convicted felon, changed his name, and emigrated to the US pretending to be a priest.

2. I once made a breast-shaped cake for a friend who was a lactation consultant.

3. My husband is 14 years older than I am.

4. Someone in my family was a bigamist.

5. I have lived in 15 states.

Lisa

[Michelle in MO]

1. An ancestor of my father's was a convicted felon, changed his name, and emigrated to the US pretending to be a priest.

2. I once made a breast-shaped cake for a friend who was a lactation consultant.

3. My husband is 14 years older than I am.

4. Someone in my family was a bigamist in the 1960s.

5. I have lived in 15 states.

Lisa

I pick #1, especially #2 (because it sounds so outrageous!), and #4. Are you going to post your answers?

[Rebel]

These are great! Here are mine.

1. I nearly died from blood loss when I was 27.

2. I find it very relaxing to take exotic animals for walks.

3. I have visited with Dr. Phil and Robin at their home.

4. While on a hike with my 2 year old son, I got lost and had to carry him for hours through rugged bear-infested country.

5. I met my husband when his motorcycle broke down near my apartment complex.

#1 is false....I was 23 at the time, not 27.
#2 is true - I'm a docent at the zoo.
#3 is true - Before he was famous and when they lived in Wichita Falls, my family was invited to a few parties at the McGraw house.
#4 is true - We lived in Pennsylvania at the time.
#5 is false - Hubby hasn't had a motorcycle in years.

[Plaid Dad]

1. I once won a drinking contest by consuming 17 upside-down margaritas.

2. At one time in my life I had 14 piercings.

3. I speak fluent Schwiizertüütsch (Swiss German).

4. I lived for a year in Berlin.

5. I have a tattoo of my dissertation topic on my left shoulder.

[Virginia Dawn]

1. I threw up in a c-5 cargo plane in front of a group of paratroopers.
2. I rode to a hospital in labor on the back of a motorcycle.
3. I was baptised in a bathtub in a Sicilian apartment.
4. I was found drunk under the thanksgiving table at the age of 5.
5. I stepped on a sea urchin in the Philippine Islands and a native woman suggested I urinate on the wound.

[Jill, OK]

1) I have a defect that causes the roof of my mouth to curve downwards, instead of upwards.
2) I was on the cheerleading squad, in high school.
3) I've been in two bank robberies.
4) My parents were teenagers when I was born.
5) I'm a distant relative of Woody Guthrie.

nft

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

1. I threw up in a c-5 cargo plane in front of a group of paratroopers.
2. I rode to a hospital in labor on the back of a motorcycle.
3. I was baptised in a bathtub in a Sicilian apartment.
4. I was found drunk under the thanksgiving table at the age of 5.
5. I stepped on a sea urchin in the Philippine Islands and a native woman suggested I urinate on the wound.

#1, #4, #5?

LOL

[*anj*]

I'm really late, but I want to play!!!

1. I was once a member of the Felician Sisters, an order of Polish nuns.
2. I spent a summer working as a counselor at a Jewish sleepaway camp.
3. I spent a couple of summers working in tobacco fields.
4. I spent a summer biking through New England.
5. I've climbed to the top of a hay silo.

[Pencil Pusher]

1. I once won a drinking contest by consuming 17 upside-down margaritas.

2. At one time in my life I had 14 piercings.

3. I speak fluent Schwiizertüütsch (Swiss German).

4. I lived for a year in Berlin.

5. I have a tattoo of my dissertation topic on my left shoulder.

Well, since you said you've got a PhD in German, I'm thinking #3 is probably true. Plus, you seem to be able to spell it. Not that we'd know.

Which means it's likely that #4 is true, too.

Now, if #5 is true, I'd think it would have happened at the same time as #1, whereas #1 could easily have happened on its own in Germany, from what I've heard. So I'm going to say that #2 & #5 are false.

[Doran]

I'd vote for #'s 3, 4, and 5

1. I threw up in a c-5 cargo plane in front of a group of paratroopers.
2. I rode to a hospital in labor on the back of a motorcycle.
3. I was baptised in a bathtub in a Sicilian apartment.
4. I was found drunk under the thanksgiving table at the age of 5.
5. I stepped on a sea urchin in the Philippine Islands and a native woman suggested I urinate on the wound.

[Volty]

1. I can juggle any three items you hand me....balls, peanuts, records, kittens.
2. It took five colleges for me to get my B.A., and two more to get my PhD ABD.
3. My college roommate and I (UCLA) married two other former college roommates (University of Dallas)
4. I can peel a banana with my toes.
5. I once spent the night hiding at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library.

2) False. Unless you were military. Most people don't bounce around this much.
4) True. I think I could do that if I tried.
5) False. I have extended experience in being a patron of closing libraries and I think they are pretty good about giving out warnings and shooing out patrons.

That would make 1) juggling and 2) roommate marriage true.

[Volty]

1. I mummified a cat when I was in high school.
2. I've hiked the complete Appalachian Trail in segments.
3. I once belonged to what some would consider a cult.
4. I have slaughtered and processed chickens--and I thought it was pretty cool.
5. I was one of the top athletes in my high school.

Ha ha! This list makes me sound like a total nut job if you put several of the things together. Maybe I am. I'm not sure any of these is unbelievable enough though.

2) I don't know how long you lived in Kansas and that's a lot of hiking. False.

I'll assume you have a morbid interest in dead animals... True to 1 and especially true to 4.

3) I wouldn't wish this on anybody. I hope you don't live too near Westboro Baptist in Topeka or any other loonies. Hopefully #1 had to do with a science experiment in Biology. False.

5) Somebody has to be a top athlete, why not you? True.

[Karin]

This should be fun. Three things you say must be true and two must be false. Then the rest of us can guess which is which.


1. I'm descended both from Norwegian royalty and one of the two most famous historians of the middle ages.

2. I have spent parts of summer vacations at empty logging camps.

3. I once entered a beauty pageant and won the Miss Congeniality Award.

4. I slept in a cabin at the base of Mt. McKinley where the toilet was built over a creek.

5. I once entered the annual bathtub race from Nanaimo to Vancouver and came in third.

[Karin]

Doggone it, I've remembered far more fun true and false things. Too bad we can't play twice!

[Pajama Mama]

I posted questions and answers on the spoiler thread last night. I didn't realize that I was supposed to post just the questions here first--oops

1. I've never travelled on an airplane

2. When I was a child, I saw someone running down the street with a machine gun

3. I met Pope John Paul II

4. My husband and I married 3 months after we met

5. I learned to drive when I was 25 years old

[Pajama Mama]

1. I'm afraid of the ocean because as a child: I almost drowned, was in a boating accident and saw Jaws at a early age

2. I was a cheerleader in high school

3. I gave up trying to go to college because I kept getting pregnant

4. I had the Farrah hairstyle when I was a kid

5. Changing the radio station in my car saved me from a terrible car accident

[shell in SC]

Better late than never I always say (I don't get to read the boards on the weekends).

1. My DD has been on TV and several DVD's.

2. DH has a character named after him in a video game.

3. My mom left me at Sears when I was 5 years old and didn't know I was there till she got home and I wasn't in the car.

4. I once sang karaoke and Toby Keith was in the audience. Afterwards he told me that I did a great job!

5. I met and shook hands with John McCain (the presidential candidate).

I'm curious to see if you guys can figure them out.

[KidsHappen]

1) I got married when I was 14.

2) I've never gotten a ticket.

3) I have had two near death experiences.

4) I can put both of my feet behind my head at the same time.

3) My first set of children and my second set of children are related in more than one way.

[lovemyboys]

Here's my list
true
1. Once I drove up the side of a mountain to see the volcano erupting.
3. I've backpacked through Europe.
4. Harvey Korman owns a piece of my work.

false
2. I was a page on Capitol Hill in high school.
5. I can milk a cow.
:)

Rhonda, Volty, Rough Collie, Pam and PiCO each had 2 out of 3, sorry if I missed other guesses that I'd seen when it was fresh.

The volcano was an amazing adventure, but the sad part about #1 is that I had an infant in the car with me.:tongue_smilie: And, PiCO, it would be pretty amazing if I could milk a cow!

This was fun to see and guess, Volty.

[lovemyboys]

1) I got married when I was 14.

2) I've never gotten a ticket.

3) I have had two near death experiences.

4) I can put both of my feet behind my head at the same time.

3) My first set of children and my second set of children are related in more than one way.

You look pretty young, I'll go with 1, 2, and 5 as true.

[KidsHappen]

:001_smile: Answers in other post.