I went into the wrong restroom at the airport. I discovered my error when I heard voices from another stall... and I waited for everyone to leave, but it didn't happen... so I had to leave while there was a line outside! I put my jacket over my face and walked out as quickly as I could. Whew.
I have 7 sofas. 2 are futon-type, but they're sofas. Why doesn't everyone else have 7 sofas?
If I had a cat, I'd name it "Meowzilla"!
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quote:- Every day of my sophomore year of high school, I slept for at least 16 hours.
This is trivially true; I was never a sophomore of high school, so saying I did something every day of that year is using a universal quantifier over an empty set.
quote:- When I returned home from my weeklong honeymoon, I was still a virgin
Also true. My wife and I were using Natural Family Planning (NFP) for birth control and she was fertile during our honeymoon.
quote:- Bill Gates invited me over to his house once and served hot dogs for dinner.
False! Bill Gates did invite me over to his house (along with several other Microsoft interns when I was an intern there), but he served hamburgers. They were pretty good burgers, admittedly.
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I think it's cheating to have the lie be a truth with a minor detail changed. If you are going to lie, lie spectacularly to see if you can get away with it.
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Icarus, I think the front page of the Fort Lauderdale paper is a lie.
Because I'm really feeling it right now, I'm gonna say that your picture has been in the paper, just not front page.
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quote:EAGERLY AWAITING: Joe and Lisa Iriarte sit in the room they have set up for their future child. The Iriartes are trying to adopt a child through adoption Web sites. (Staff photo/Warren Zinn)
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Icky, that means the photo was about 5 years ago, or are you trying again?
Kwea, I doubt you have a relative who signed the declaration of Indipendance, you wouldn't lie about having malaria (though I don't remember reading it)
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The article was a human interest piece on the trend of using the internet to place special needs kids. We were the introduction and the conclusion, and in between they interviewed a lot of adoption people and children's advocates, weighing in pro and con on the use of the internet in this way. I was kind of surprised to see it on the front page, though.
It was an interesting learning experience in how the media works. As soon as the article came out, we were contacted by TV stations wanting to do their own versions of the same article. The newspaper article was balanced and thoughtful. The TV pieces were invariably sensationalistic and got things wrong. It was interesting to see how "legwork," if you work for the TV news, consists of reading the paper.
My dad has brown eyes, yet my 2 little brothers, older sister, and me all have green or blue eyes.
My grandfather was a multi-millionaire in Iran, but lost it all when people found out he was Jewish.
My 9-year old twin brothers were both born premature and dangerously underweight and now they each weigh more than me, and I'm 15.
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Mm. I do. I know other people who had similar things happen there.
I suspect that while Jaime's brothers were indeed underweight preemies, they do not yet outweigh him.
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I have a dog who is in the Guiness Book of World Records for his age.
I dropped out of high school because I was failing which was a direct consequence of reading books all day.
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Treason, your dog isn't in the guineess book of world reccords, well if he is I'm going out and getting a new copy, that's the only section I read.
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The game at work was today. They completely guessed my lie - I'm still not sure how. I did sort of stumble when they questioned me about it.
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Icarus had it right. Teh grandfather one wasn't true. My brothers are both very big for their age and I'm extremely skinny. It's true.
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No I think the guiness record is about 40, I know it was some sort of coonhound named old billie. And I petsat a 17 year old Cairn Terrier this summer Posts: 5362 | Registered: Apr 2004
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and my mom just said she used to work with a 21 year old dauchsand (she used to be a vet tech)
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I never taught biohazard classes, I wasn't a biologist there, just a keypuncher. I kept the records for the bio suites though.
Charles Carroll (sp?) signed the DoI and he was related to my fathers side of the family, and AS was related to me through my grandmas family, although I think it was by marriage.
I'll play. I'm guessing that the second one is the lie. Not that it is implausable that he'd help you, but the other two are offbeat and implausable enough just to be true.
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Hi Tante. Sorry, the lie was helping Tool put their equipment away. I think I would have enjoyed that almost as much as #2.
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