Truth? Or LIES?

20:51 / 31.05.07

Once, while skiing quite fast, in the fog, I accidentally skied off the edge of a cliff. True.

Once, in a drunken stupor, I threw a block of concrete through the window of a high street bank, for fun. I ended up in the cells. True.

But actually, only one of them is true.

Cliff? Or Bank?

Guess. GUESS!

20:58 / 31.05.07

bank

20:59 / 31.05.07

do i win?

what do i win?

Mordant Carnival
(prev. DRR... DRR... DRR...)

21:03 / 31.05.07

You will all rue the day you crossed my path. Ohyes.

I'M NORMALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

21:32 / 31.05.07

[+] [-] And the answer is...

21:33 / 31.05.07

do i win?

what do i win?

So consumption focussed. What do you WANT to win?

Quantum

21:42 / 31.05.07

My Aunt is 30 and I am 32.

My cousin won Junior Mastermind by a single point.

21:51 / 31.05.07

So consumption focussed.

Of course. What is there but get?

What do you WANT to win?

Stop playing with me! Tell me what i win! Something silver?

21:53 / 31.05.07

My Aunt is 30 and I am 32.

My cousin won Junior Mastermind by a single point.

Did your cousin win mastermind by answering this question correctly?

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

21:54 / 31.05.07

I am not playing this game, but I want to.

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

21:55 / 31.05.07

I am not playing this game, but I want to.

It has to be the second one.

22:10 / 31.05.07

I think (with all due respect to Quantum) that the winner should get to pose the next true/lie pair for somebody else to win, and so on down the line...

22:23 / 31.05.07

Maybe you are right Matt, but in this case i didn't win in the traditional sense, so i figure nexties is up for grabs.

And Sibleian - you'd better stop avoiding my questions!

Mist van der Rohe
(prev. Cletus Van Mist)

22:34 / 31.05.07

I agree with trampetunia. Usually, if only one person (here for example the one with the correct answer) is allowed to be next, the thread often dies on the vine real fast. Having multiple questions and answers going on at the same time isn´t too distracting most of the time.

22:58 / 31.05.07

FACT: I was bitten by a flying snake (Chrysopelea ornata) while clumsily attempting to seduce Arthur C. Clarke's housekeeper on the grounds of a temple devoted to the tooth of Gautama Buddha. It wasn't life-threatening, but it put a painful damper on my romantic ambitions. Instead, that night, she taught me how to walk on burning coals.

FACT: Ernest Hemingway's niece once taught me the proper way to urinate on the wound caused by a sea urchin spine. We were on a small boat between the Fountain of Youth and one of the last remnants of the civilization of Atlantis... some say.

00:22 / 01.06.07

I didn't think this one through terribly hard.

Stop playing with me! Tell me what i win! Something silver?

You win my silvery undying devotion.

QC - Your cousin.

That's not a "yer ma" thing.

Oh, incidentally, in acknowledging the answer you could post "Yes and no". And it would still, technically, work. If that helps.

It has to be the second one. What has to to be the second one? The truth or the falsehood? And, either way, it doesn't!

Grant - Ernest Hemingway.

I didn't think about the winning.

Quantum

00:30 / 01.06.07

Sib is right, my cousin Robin did indeed win Junior Mastermind by a point. True fact.
My aunt is in fact 28, half Samoan, lives in Oman and I met her and her husband (a pilot) for the first time last weekend.
She's not thirty at all.

00:32 / 01.06.07

I win! I win silvery undying devotion!

00:45 / 01.06.07

You win my silvery undying devotion.

Really? Thanks!

What has to to be the second one? The truth or the falsehood? And, either way, it doesn't!

Oh. By 'it', i mean the Truth. It's not really an 'it' if it's a LIE is it? Cos it's not real...

And yeah, if you take as valid my overeager assumption that pants' statements are actually a Truth/LIE scenario, it has to be the second statement because I am not playing this game is blatantly a LIE.

Pants was being very clever. I spotted it. You probably owe me some more silvery devotion for that.

Unless, by silvery devotion, you mean something rude. In which case i'll have no part in your mist-esque perversities!

00:46 / 01.06.07

And you did think about the winning.

I can tell.

03:07 / 01.06.07

Grant - Ernest Hemingway.

I didn't think about the winning.

Is the truth, or the falsehood?

Proinsias

03:19 / 01.06.07

I remember playing this as the new team ice-breaker in a call centre. A collegue silenced the whole team , it was two truths and one lie, by scrawling 'I punched my girlfriend' on the whiteboard. It turned out to be true, apparently.

They are now happily married with a kid on the way, some things are better left unsaid but I suppose it did break the ice and we all felt we knew him a little better which I presume was the object of the game.

Deculture Decedent

03:54 / 01.06.07

I'm shooting for the Hemingway story with grant and still a bit disappointed I got the initial true/false wrong.

Now...

I was shot at, credited in a porn film, and offered a grant by René Auberjonois (with the provision I pronounce his name correctly), all in less than thirty-six hours.

Theres a plaque in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico at the base of a statue, where the word 'savages' has been excised. I used to scratch it back into place with a pocketknife when I was a kid.

FINKLESTEIN!

05:43 / 01.06.07

Uuuummmmmmmm. Gunplay/Credit/Odo? That's it. Gotta be it.

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I am working on a screenplay.

I had blood in my hair today.

10:20 / 01.06.07

Ernest Hemingway is THE TRUTH.

10:22 / 01.06.07

Tramp - you win! I DID think about the winning! The not terribly hard thing was the true statement.

19:04 / 01.06.07

I win again?!

Go team me!

23:55 / 01.06.07

Decadent - Savages. (is true)

Which is also a quite a good name for a band. In my universe.

Which, admittedly, may be an acquired taste.

03:43 / 02.06.07

Hemingway is indeed the truth.

While I was once in the town Arthur C. Clarke now calls home, it's on the other side of Sri Lanka from Kandy, where the temple to the Buddha's tooth lies. There was walking on burning coals there during the full moon festival, but I never met any housekeepers.

Ernest Hemingway's brother lived on the next island over when I was growing up; his daughters used to babysit me and my sister, and he introduced my dad to the island of Bimini, where Ernest went to go marlin fishing. He (the brother) was once on the show "In Search Of..." talking about the whole Atlantis/Fountain of Youth thing. Great snorkeling there. And lots of sea urchins.

06:31 / 02.06.07

TRUTHS:

Monk = blood. For with toddler, all things are possible.

Decadent= bullet/porn/Rene. Because that is the world I want to live in.

+] [-] Spoiler

DN - WHOO-HOO! I knew it.

grant - You are correct, but don't blame the littlest monk! He din' have nuttin' to do wid it.