Two Truths and a Lie (Community Edition)

@studerc has a copy of Pokemon Blue with all 150 pokemon each at level 100.

@studerc broke the world record for consecutive pogo stick jumps in a row at the age of 13.

C-C-C-C-Combo breaker! (sorry, i'm kind of a dick today)

@studerc broke his high school's varsity baseball single season home run record with 19 as a freshman.

@carl669 Damn it. That's what I get for trying to get this fucker done in between classes!

@carl669 i'm so tempted to change the timestamp on your reply

@katylava

@carl669 Today????

@MrMark yes, today. and yesterday. and possibly tomorrow.

@studerc

I was tempted to say that choice #1 was a lie since technically you could get 151 pkmn in Blue, but i didn't wanna nitpick.

@FroodyFrog stupid glitches ruining my childhood. Back in the day...a full pokedex was 150.

@katylava

@studerc

Same.

Hmmm... So I'm assuming you personally don't count Surfing Pikachu as an extra. (When i played Yellow as a tadpole, i always wanted to try the surfing pikachu minigame)

Barney loves purple.

Barney loves purple.

Barney doesn't love purple.

(Edit: You guys don't know how much it hurt me to write that last one.)

@Barney Really stuck between one and two right now. Both have their pros and cons. Part of me still secretly believes that this WHOLE TIME you've been trolling everyone and your favorite color is actually FUSCHIA.

@studerc Aww, @studerc, you are breaking my little purple heart.

@Barney cough (little fuschia heart) cough :)

@studerc You are awwful!

@PurplePawprints Has played roller derby in the past.

@PurplePawprints Has flown in an airplane.

@PurplePawprints Was hit by a car while walking to a Pro-life rally as a child.

@PurplePawprints I know one of them is true for sure. But the other two... Hmm.

@Barney Or maybe the one you think is true has always been a lie.

@PurplePawprints Are you trying to confuse me? Well, it's working.

I once was pictured on the cover of my city's Parks and Rec summer activity guide doing a roundhouse kick.

I keep a full bottle of vodka on my desk in plain sight at work.

I once delivered a baby.

@carl669 full? no way.

@Lotsofgoats That's why I voted for it to be a lie.

@carl669 You spelled Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarl wrong

@Lotsofgoats

Or maybe it gets replaced once it's not technically "full"

@carl669 I call shenanigans if you pull some bullshit IT'S FULL OF AIR LOL on us ಠ_ಠ

@FroodyFrog He keeps two bottles, drinks out of the first, and immediately refills it from the second.

@carl669 Roundhouse kick?

@carl669 I'm going with the baby delivery thing. Carl is a male and not a female name so I'm assuming you're male and males cannot get pregnant. Unless you were born female and had an adadicktome operation. Just guessin' here.

@Mehrocco_Mole

But then there would be 2 lies, because i really don't see how anybody could keep a FULL bottle of vodka with them by work (any consumption from it ruins its fullness)

@djslack created a viral video once before viral videos were a thing.

@djslack wanted to be an astronaut until he went to Spacecamp as a child.

@djslack once modified a clock tower to play Dueling Banjos instead of the Westminster Chimes.

@djslack If this was a straight westminster chime, 5 hammers no way possible. If this was an electronic keyboard or drum then possible.

@djslack If you didn't do the dueling banjos, my heart will be broken and I'll need more therapy.

#Answer

I've never been to Spacecamp, but I did want to go (and did want to be an astronaut)

was attacked by a bobcat while turkey hunting

gave a graduation speech about fortune cookies

was once tracked by park rangers

ANSWERS INBOUND AT 8PM EST unless I forget which is pretty likely tbh (don't star this because it's the truth)

okay, so all three of these are true... the first is just true of my brother. he was sitting there against a tree when all of a sudden BAP BAP BAP it felt like he was being punched in the back of the head. a few puncture wounds weren't so bad, but the subsequent rabies treatment was. all of the nurses and doctors visited him to hear the ridiculous story, though.

I did give a graduation speech on fortune cookies. it was about appreciating the sweet little things that people do for us, because there's wisdom inside them.

I was indeed tracked by park rangers. I got lost in the woods for a bit while I was younger. I wound up finding them before they found me, though.

oh oh oh PS I'm putting #answer here so answers are findable on this page. smart.

@lichme was set on fire whilst sleeping after accelerant was poured on him

@lichme has had a family member on Maury, who's alleged baby daddy was proven to not be the father

@lichme has been stabbed in the ass

@lichme Sounds like you might have some weird friends or a really crazy ex.

@lichme liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich!

oddly, i'd believe he got stabbed in the ass.

@lichme I feel like if a real accelerant was poured on you you would not have survived.

@lichme The fire story is false. Lichme doesn't know what whilst means. Just too damn fancy a word.

@connorbush had a portion of my tongue bitten off by a wiener dog.

@connorbush was mistakenly diagnoses with hemochromatosis and lived with that for about a week.

@connorbush broke my ankle when a kid kicked me in the ankle with his steel toe boot.

@connorbush I think you and @marklog have some interesting dog stories....

@sohmageek mark is still clearly in the lead unless you swap "tongue" and "wiener" above

@Lotsofgoats shit happens when you party naked.

@capguncowboy was once the lead suspect in an FBI investigation regarding an armed robbery

@capguncowboy has larger hands than Lebron James

@capguncowboy is an ex-champion bullrider from Scottsdale, AZ

Answers :

The FBI visited my home about 10 years ago. A license plate that I used to own was used in an armed robbery in Detroit, Michigan (a 12 hour drive from my house). Fortunately, I was at work at the time of the robbery, so I was quickly dismissed as a suspect. This one is true.

I am a freak. I have freakishly large hands. Of course, I'm also 6'5, so having large hands is part of the job. This one is also true.

I have never ridden a bull, nor have I ever lived in Scottsdale, AZ. This is the lie.

#answer

@DrunkCat Is Drunk

@DrunkCat Is a cat

@DrunkCat 10 and 0 in a competitive game of CS:S

@DrunkCat Add me on Steam. I'd love to get destroyed in a match with you

@capguncowboy Sadly I am no longer a plucky asshole. I've only been skirting nova4 and MG but feel free to ping me anyway.

@DrunkCat You're doing better than me. I played COD4 competitively, and even played CS 1.5 and CS 1.6 competitively a few years back (sponsors and the like). I just don't have time to play much anymore. I did manage to get up to Silver Elite 3, but then they changed the scoring system and everything seems to have reset ? I just got my XP back up so that I can play competitive again, but haven't actually played much of it.

@capguncowboy "COD4 competitively" kappa.

The scoring system didn't really reset as much as it "smoothed" out (it really was wonky before). Nova4 is now the top of the bell curve and therefore your ELO took major hits if you were playing way out of your league (if you were LEM and won you'd get maybe +2 but if you lost you'd get -9000 because technically you shouldn't be losing to anyone but above your rank). So now we get a real bell curve of skill.

@Sabre99 set his college on fire a week after graduating

@Sabre99 broke his skull in a bowling accident

@Sabre99 is a really cool guy

@Sabre99 you know, #3 could really backfire.

@carl669 I was tempted on pulling this joke but I decided to go all in in the campy department.

@carl669 It currently has double the next closest option.

@sohmageek built his first PC before middle school

@sohmageek loves game of thrones

@sohmageek was in AFJROTC.

@sohmageek The TV show, or the book? Makes a difference in what I think the answer might be....

@PurplePawprints books

@Studerc when are we saying which one it is...

@sohmageek so... Apparently I should have looked up dates... The one I meant to be the truth is only partially, it should have read in middle school :(

@marklog was tackled by a secret service agent

@marklog's favorite karaoke song is "Kiss" by Prince

@marklog isn't allowed to adopt pets anymore.

@marklog would the secret service agent be a relative or friend?

@marklog Hey! That's not fair! I was gonna use the "Secret Service tackling."

@Teripie damn, that guy really gets around!

@marklog Damn... This was is tough. Great choices.

@mikibell has a motorcycle license.

@mikibell became the mother of a teenager TODAY!!

@mikibell majored in computer science in university.

@mikibell Have to amend #2 -- it was my baby's 13th b-day yesterday! Where have the years gone? I am not sure if I should kick or kiss @lichme , Et al, for voting for that option -- does he think I am too old or too young to have a babydoll just getting to 13??

@mikibell Lol, my vote wasn't based on your age. It was based on how your statement could be interpreted differently. You became the mother of a teenager 13 years ago. Your child, however, became a teenager yesterday. I suppose you could have legally adopted a teenager yesterday.

@mikibell I'm standing by my vote as being technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

@jqubed :)

@mikibell Congrats! :) Despite what they say, it can be fun sometimes lol! My oldest is almost 25, that makes me gasp every time I think about it! I still have one teenager at home, and we get along most of the time, I got lucky :)

@mikibell #answer
https://meh.com/forum/topics/two-truths-and-a-lie-answers-community-edition#5691c221ace9515402123f77

@Baybay11 Thank you, kindly. I am very fortunate that my monster is growing up to be quite a young lady. I think I will keep her..😀

@Thumperchick Has hung out with a member of the Beach Boys.

@Thumperchick's first job started when she was 13 - as a LAN assistant.

@Thumperchick as a teenager, performed on stage with a member of Steppenwolf at a NAMM show.

I've moved my answer to the answer thread.

#answer

@looseneck Has lived in one state all my life

@looseneck Has been driving for 30 years and owned only 4 vehicles

@looseneck Wants to live and work on a farm

@jml326
I work on Breats and Ovarian cancer immunotherapy

@jml326
I made 2 appearance on extreme makeover home edition

@jml326
I am a collector of remote control helicopters

@jml326 breats?

@jqubed

@cbilyak I put myself through college working as a pole dancer...hey, no judging, good money is in it.

@cbilyak I was asked to hit the road with Huey Lewis and the News...as a girlfriend of a band member, not as a performer.

@cbilyak I really want to adopt Irk.

@cbilyak

For the 3rd choice, you may WANT to, but people want a lot of things (which may not necessarily be good for them).

As such, there's no way that it's true. Just because it may be true in YOUR mind...

@FroodyFrog I know that if something is in print then it must be true, hence, all these statements are true...which essentially ruins the game.

@cbilyak

Everything on the internet is true, if it's in a newspaper then it's a lie (secret agendas and all that).
I'm still undecided about online articles which appeared/appear/will appear in newspapers.

ANSWER
I guess the use of the word "girlfriend" is not completely accurate as that implies some guidelines of a relationship, but I was asked to hit the road with Huey Lewis and the News by one of the back-up horn players back in the late 90's after some time getting to know one another. Not doing that is my only real regret in life, but I was a bit too responsible all my life and did not want to lose my job or my apartment.

I would like to adopt Irk, well, just because.

I have never pole danced but I was once given $1 by a guy who suggested I should. For that $1, I will pass.

@Cerridwyn played a computer game (not a console game) at age 17 in 1972

@Cerridwyn dated William Shatner

@Cerridwyn shared a dinner table with Gene Roddenberry, Majel Barrett Roddenberry (his wife) and D.C. Fontana (also of Star Trek fame)

@Cerridwyn is a geek - oh, well, from what my other choices were this is a given truth, but one of other three is not.

@Cerridwyn

Nothing wrong with being labeled a geek. It's when you're called a nerd that you should take extreme offense.
(I had a week long debate with someone about this)

@Cerridwyn I'm really impressed that at least two of these are true, and feel like they all go together so well, it's hard to find the lie. I think I would have liked to live your life had I been born a bit earlier.

@FroodyFrog I had this debate once in a comic store. I'm sticking with there is nothing wrong with being and being called a nerd.

@Sabre99

If someone wants to be a nerd, I'm willing to accept that.
I just can't accept someone who identifies as a geek AND a nerd.

(Society is just not ready for that)

@Cerridwyn Nothing wrong with being a geek. Every family should have one!

@Teripie lots of different types of geek out there. And I claim more than my fair share ;)

@FroodyFrog No... dork is offensive... nerd and geek is a devoted badge of honor!

@Cerridwyn Guess mine was somewhat obvious. But of ST:TOS, Bill Shatner is the only cast member I never met and interacted with. Services as con security for Nimoy at the same convention where I had dinner with Roddenberry and company.

And I went to college my Freshman (and a bit of my Sophomore before I transferred) year at a campus of a private university. It had a computer, this was 1972, and after 5 it had a TA who monitored it and allowed us to play a star trek game on it. The first year it did not even have a CRT (monitor to the younglings out there) so we typed in commands, it churned out a response and printed out. We in turn, typed them in again. You signed up and the lines were long. You might have one or two chance a semester.

The next year it had a CRT and the game it played was called STRTRK. Windows store has a version of it you can play for free. I tried it on my tablet a few years ago and laughed myself silly as it still had the issues I could remember from 40 years before.

Good times.

One of the Doobie Brothers came to a barbecue at my house.

I appear in a Huey Lewis and the News video just for a second.

I went to Janis Joplin’s Christmas party.

@KDemo I want all of these to be true

@sammydog01 I was a pre-med but changed majors because I don't like sick people

@sammydog01 I have a black belt in karate

@sammydog01 I once performed at Carnegie Hall

@Lotsofgoats

What kind of story would you like?

@FroodyFrog a story about truth and falsehood

@Lotsofgoats

If you hear someone start a sentence "if elected to office", then it's the beginning of a truth/falsehood tale (possibly a fable). (Sadly though, the outcome would probably be disappointing.)

@Lotsofgoats That should be the next phase of this. "The stories behind 2T&1L"

@StunGod I once spent an evening drinking with the (then-current) prime minister of the Netherlands.

@StunGod When I was 9, I won the Ramblin' Rod smile contest. (http://bfy.tw/3bnL)

@StunGod When I as 20, I was offered a job as an international arms smuggler.

@thejackalope I have a signed limited edition replica 1996 Memorial Day paint scheme car hood for Dale Earnhardt.

@thejackalope I have seen the Mona Lisa in person.

@thejackalope I have gone swimming with, and touched, a wild dolphin (i.e., not at Sea World or something similar).

@bul209 stomped on Al Gore's Foot after shaking his hand

@bul209 ran a mile with two broken feet

@bul209 almost froze to death in the mountainous regions of Peru

@bul209 OMG, I hope the Al Gore one is true! (add in any politician ..)

@bul209 - "Great to meet you Mr. Vice President, I love your work. One question for you though, how come you never answered my letter?"

@AlGore - "Letter? I don't recall ever receiving a letter from you @bul209"

@bul209 - "I'm sorry Mr. Vice President. I must have forgotten to STAMP IT"

This is how I think it went down

@mikibell nothing like a good foot stomping to let a politician know, "I really respect the work your doing!"

@bul209 - Did you break your feet stomping on Al Gore?

@joelmw had dinner with Barry and Michelle Obama.

@joelmw gave a political speech in college which resulted in a stern lecture from the Dean of Students.

@joelmw marched with Jesse Jackson.

#answer

@medz met Glenn Close

@medz met David Spade

@medz met Christopher Walken

@medz One word -- "Cowtown"

@thejackalope ew contests

@thejackalope Ha! If I told you, I'd have to be fully accountable for stuff. Even I don't know what the categories are...or if I'll even do prizes.

@Bogie I had the fastest residential Internet in the State of Idaho in my house for 6 years.

@Bogie I worked for SeaWorld for almost 2 years

@Bogie I am color blind

@Bogie Hope you treat yourself to some EnChroma glasses, if true. 😄

@yahsah15 Those bad boys are $350 min. Jeesh!

#answer

I am color blind. I have looked into the glasses. But I know the world as it is. What if, after I try the glasses, I can't go back and must live with those glasses for the rest of my life? It'd be like an addiction, right?

I did work for SeaWorld, Orlando for just shy of two years in the Education department. Also gave behind the scenes tours and was a resident "expert" of the park. I ran beluga whale meet and greets for 1 month before I quit.

I have had 100Mbps Internet in my house since 2006 back when you were all giddy about 5Mbps being available. 100Mbps residential Internet became publicly available in select areas of Idaho in early 2014 (Very limited availability), making it 8 years, not 6.

@Teripie Set a swimming pool on fire.

@Teripie Loves Star Wars

@Teripie Hung a jury.

@FroodyFrog xD! Me too...

@thejackalope Yeah, I might be so damn tired that I forgot my 3rd comment as I was going to type them out, haha. I'll be back after errands to try again. And coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

@thejackalope @jaremelz

Phew, thought i was seeing things. I'm too young to be going crazy.
Then again, I made a short stop whole driving, because i thought a saw a purple polka dotted elephant on the side of the road.

Turns out, it was just a regular purple elephant.

@DaveInSoCal survived carbon monoxide poisoning

@DaveInSoCal has never surfed, although he's lived in southern California for nearly 18 years.

@DaveInSoCal once ate a 13 lb Maine lobster

@DaveInSoCal I have actually NEVER surfed. The water's too cold and I'm too lazy. The largest lobster I've ever eaten was 12 lbs. I'll get to lucky 13 someday!

@Humper I once pissed in and took a Gatorade from Styx's tour bus.

@Humper I onced shared my bedroom with a cow named Tyrone.

@Humper I attended seminary school.

@Humper I wonder how many people are hoping I'll mess up and star the lie...

@Humper I hope you took a different Gatorade than the one you pissed in. Just sayin'...

@Humper

I don't believe the cow was named Tyrone.

@djslack I was thinking that.

Answers in the answer thread

@MrsBeckett I was adopted

@MrsBeckett I used to drive a pickup truck

@MrsBeckett I'm colorblind.

Has a lot of shirts.

Has a cat.

Has a lot of Powerpuff Girls stuff.

@hems79 Ummm, click here.

@narfcake Daaaaaaaaamn.

@hems79 I think you can unclick the first one now. :)

@narfcake I love that it's bothering you this much that someone would think you don't have a lot of shirts.

@Thumperchick Hah! Although I do admit to having days in which I couldn't decide which catshirt to wear ...

School Champion Nationel Spelling Bee

3rd Place California Wine Tasting Championships.

2012 Best Foster Home Award xxx County SPCA

@ceagee I really wish you had misspelled the spelling bee line

@capguncowboy better?

@ceagee - There's an award for tasting wine?? How did I miss this?

@ceagee I don't think anyone who went through the spelling bee gauntlet would say they're the "school champion" of the "national" bee. Either you won just your school's bee or you won the national bee, in which case we can assume you won your school's.

(For reference, I won my school and district, and choked in the first round of the city wide over a tense difference.)

@hems79 Was a judge at a previous Cannabis Cup.

@hems79 Sang on stage with Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray.

@hems79 Once told a girl that I wanted to defecate on her chest and urinate on her face...and meant it.

@hems79 I think we're just all hoping that last one is false.

has a 1962 Hofner bass

sang backup for Kenny Loggins

was inducted into the Sacramento Music Hall of Fame

@SSteve I think it wasn't for Kenny Loggins, but for another musician.

@SkyyPunk Hung out with Andy Dick for a few hours

@SkyyPunk Was on a billboard in a onesie

@SkyyPunk Accidentally almost interviewed Alex Trebek on the Jeopardy Stage

@SkyyPunk ANSWERS:

1) Truth: hung out with him at CES several years ago. Our group of a few people met him at (I think) a Monster sponsored party, then we went out afterwards to some concert with him
2) False: I was never on a billboard. I did model a onesie as a kid for a sales ad
3) Truth: Jeopardy filmed a Championship show at CES one year. I worked for a tech news site and was there with some people covering the show. To get around some of the areas you would often walk behind booths (there was usually a path to walk around). We had come to an intersection and a group of people were walking by, once they passed we followed them to get around what seemed like a large booth. As we turn a corner with them we see what looks like security, but don't really think much of it. We turn another corner...and we are standing on the stage of Jeopardy! I looked over to the side and there are press way far back behind a rope - and here we are just standing on the stage. Of course having my cameras (I did video/photos for interviews), I handed one camera to my friend with me and we started taking photos/video. Alex Trebek came out and they were taking promo shots with the champions (the group we followed in). The producer walked over to us - I thought we were about to be thrown out. She asked if we were ready to interview Alex! I immediately said yes...then began to panic because what do you ask Alex Trebek? The producer came back after a few minutes and asked where our talent was - we used that as an excuse to head out of there to "go find her".

@jaremelz Once broke a man's jaw

@jaremelz Has been skydiving a grand total of 10 times, once with my math teacher, who I was dating

@jaremelz Has been in the middle of a full scale gang attack

@jaremelz I have a feeling 1 & 3 might be related incidents...

@Thumperchick You'll just have to wait until I finally answer!

@jaremelz Doubt you dated your math teacher. /Professor/, maybe...

@Kawa Ahh, you don't know @jaremelz. She probably dated/tried to date all of her teachers.

@Barney You B! Haha, I've never chased.

@jaremelz So, when my friends call me "B", they DON'T mean "Barney"?

@Barney They would undoubtedly be amusing and disturbing

@Barney I had a similar thought. Though @MrsPavlov has some awesome stories to tell, too...

@Thumperchick That's a good thought. @MrsPavlov, why don't you come here and tell us some stories!

@Kawa I speak three languages - English, Tagalog, and German.

@Kawa I went to high school with a Kennedy. She was a mediocre math student.

@Kawa I had really excellent tacos for lunch today.

I like your very first statement. @Kawa really should start participating here. Welcome!

@Kawa i thought participation was mandatory. isn't is 50% of our grade or something?

@carl669 I think most of us around here are content with shitty grades.

@joelmw i don't know about that. i'd think we'd be content with mediocre grades. like a solid C. not too dumb and not too smart. though, it always seems like we have a lot of smart people on the forums.

hey! smart people! dumb it down a bit for us average folks.

@carl669 So, there may be some originally unintended irony in my flippancy. Yeah, I was speaking from our mediocrity and you're right with the correction. My unintended irony is that I see a C or D as shitty.

@carl669 @joelmw

Mediocre and Proud!

@Kawa HA! Gotcha! There is no such thing as excellent tacos. For excellent food eat Mexican, not Texmex.

1.) Once had the Secret Service aim their rifle at me and threaten to shoot me.

2.) Detonated mines from a helicopter for a living.

3.) Was directing newscasts at a local TV station at the age of 14.

Answers:

1.) True. I was running a TV camera from the top of a building to air a parade Gerald Ford was in. No one bothered to clear it with the SS. They were aiming from the taller building across the street.

2.) True. Helmineron-12, 14, 16, 15. Navy minesweeping squadrons I was in during my naval career.

3.) False. I was pushing around a studio camera at the age of 14 but it would be another two years before I started calling the shows. (WPBN-TV Traverse City, MI)

Careful of the audio in the video. Now you know why I'm so hard of hearing. BTW: I was the one in back running the show. Once we started the stream and until recovery was complete I was telling the pilots and crew what to do.