Friday fun: two truths and a lie: which one is the lie?

[Monique vdB]

For this week's Friday fun thread, I challenge everyone to post three things about themselves -- two that are true, one that is a lie. 

I'll get us started in the answers section and see if you can guess what I'm lying about. :) 

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[Thomas Schlegel]

Here are mine:

1. A literary character has been created after me
2. I went bungee jumping years ago (but only once)
3. I've never seen any ocean in real life until I was 18 years old. 

[Erica Moss]

I say #3!

[Monique vdB]

I think #2 is the lie

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I vote for #2.  Because you've been many times :-)

[Thomas Schlegel]

#1 is the truth. When I was 18 years old, I had a girlfriend. It was the time when I had my coming-out and it was somehow difficult. Years later, she wrote a book about these times and it was released by a big German publisher. Strange feeling to read one's life in a book...

#3 is also true. I grew up in a small village in the German South, far away from every ocean and my parents liked to spend their holidays on mountains.

#2 is the lie, as Monique and Nic guessed. I've never done bungee jumping in my life.

[Jodi LeBlanc]

I conquered my fear of heights bungee jumping - you should try it 😱

[AnnWorley]

Guess which one is B.S:

1. I studied art in London as a youth.
2. I got married in a helicopter in Las Vegas.
3. I used to work at Shell Oil in Martinez, CA

[Monique vdB]

I'm really torn on this. I feel like #3 is too mundane to be a lie and #2 is too weird to be a lie. So I guess I'll go with #1? Tricky!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

3 is something that feels like it could be true, but you've altered a detail to turn it into a lie.  Like you did work for an oil company in CA, but it was BP-Amaco, rather than Shell.

(I admit, I used that trick in one of my three)

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hmm, there is such a thing as a helicopter wedding (btw, do they throw the bridal bouquet out of the helicopter to see, who's next? :-) ), but did you do that? Weird, but true, I think.

I've got a feeling that you are interested more in in art, than in oil, don't know why, so I vote for #3.   

[Erica Moss]

I think #1 is the lie!

[Monique vdB]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- I feel that way about #1. What if she studied art in Prague? What if she studied nuclear physics in London? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

As an ex-oil person, I also was biased by the same thought Thomas had.  Art is far more interesting...

[AnnWorley]

I have never worked at an oil company but I lived in Martinez, CA. 

Love,

Ann

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

A people based one for me

1.  I went to university with one of Atlassian's Leadership Team

2. I used to make tea for Sandi Shaw

3. I got a lift from Richard Hammond (Top Gear) while I was working for the BBC

[Tyler T]

Hoping #3 is not a lie

[AnnWorley]

I am guessing you never made tea for Sandie Shaw because you didn't mention any details.

If #1 is true, I am dying to know who?

[Monique vdB]

I am guessing #1 is the lie

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Oh, excellent, three responses, all three doubting a different one :-)

Is there a rule for when we admit which one is a lie?

[Thomas Schlegel]

I also think, #1 is false. 

The others are so British... they can't be wrong :-)

[Erica Moss]

I like @Thomas Schlegel's logic. I say #1 is the lie, too.

[Monique vdB]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- there's no rule, although I'm going to wait until the end of the day for mine!

[pb]

I'm going with #1.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, so...

1.  I went to university with one of Atlassian's Leadership Team

I wrote the question while sitting in a bar on Bold Street, which is, as Helen Russel can attest to, a road every alumni of Liverpool University is familiar with.

2. I used to make tea for Sandi Shaw

Sandie Shaw worked with my mum when she was training to become a psychotherapist.  She often visited mum at home, so I made tea.

3. I got a lift from Richard Hammond (Top Gear) while I was working for the BBC

I signed him through security when his card didn't work.  It was my colleague who got the lift.

[Monique vdB]

1. I was once an extra on the U.S. version of The Office.

2. I've been cage-diving with great white sharks.

3. I was valedictorian of my high school class. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't think you've been in The Office

[Tyler T]

Sharks?

[Thomas Schlegel]

I am guessing, you've never been cage-diving with sharks.

[Erica Moss]

My vote is for "The Office." 😉

[Monique vdB]

I can't reveal the real answer until @pb guesses. :) 

[Stephanie Grice]

Hmmmm #3

[Bridget]

@Philippe Beaudette (.me) we're dying here!!

[pb]

#3.  :) . --- WAIT!  CHANGING MY VOTE -  #1!  (You've been on set, but not an extra, AFAIK)

(oh, and I added mine.)

[Monique vdB]

@pb and @Stephanie Grice I can't believe you doubted my valedictorian status even for a moment. That one is true.

And here I am heading into the shark cage:

#1 is indeed the lie, but here I am at Pam Beesly's desk:

[pb]

Hah, I got it right in the end!

[Erica Moss]

AMAZING.

[Suvradip Paul]

Thanks @Monique vdB , I think I have played this earlier. Here are my entries for this game.

1. I am allergic to some seafoods.

2. I love reading Sci-Fi books and watching Sci-Fi Series and Movies.

3. I think I am germophobic.

[Jack Brickey]

I missed this the first time around thanks to @Thomas Schlegel advent calendar I found my way here...

1. I am an only child
2. I have survived three vehicle crashes
3. I am an accomplished cook

[Monique vdB]

@Jack Brickey I think #2 is the lie. (Since you are now an undead skeleton, you clearly only survived two of them.) 

[Jack Brickey]

well I love the logic but that one is true enough (two cars, one motorcycle)

[Scott Theus]

One for the 2018 Advent calendar...

Two truths and a lie...

1. I've been a line chef in a Chinese restaurant
2. I only have 8 fingers, having sacrificed the last two on my left hand to my table saw. 
3. I went ice-kayaking in Lake Erie in January

Think you know?

[Monique vdB]

I'm going to guess 1 is the lie because it was really an all-night diner. 

(Also my grandfather was a carpenter and was missing about a finger and a half himself.) 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Well, you told us already in another thread that you‘re building wooden kayaks, so I think #3 is right. On that thread, you posted a photo of a left hand holding a wooden pencil - if this is your hand, #2 is wrong, the hand is complete.

So I think, 2 is the lie.

[Monique vdB]

We have a detective over here!

[Scott Theus]

@Thomas Schlegel you did your homework!

@Monique vdB I really did cook in a Chinese restaurant for a couple of years in my 20's. I left because the boss kept trying to get me to marry her "cousin" so she could get her green card and it became rather uncomfortable.

Oh...And I almost had a really bad accident this weekend when a board pinched the blade and jerked on my saw, so it would have been true even with previous photographic evidence. I let go in time, so I saved my fingers but ruined the work piece...a fair trade.

[Thomas Schlegel]

@Scott Theus - In preparation to the Advent Calender, I looked at every single friday fun thread - maybe you'll find your kayak behind another door this month ;-)

[Ana Retamal]

Monique said late is fine, so here I go! Which one is the lie?:

1. I built my own robot during my years in University.
2. I first moved abroad when I turned 22.
3. I suffer from Aichmophobia (fear of needles or pointed objects).

[miikhy]

Late comment is also fine I guess!

I'd go with #2, even if #3 seems pretty "liable" as well haha

[Ana Retamal]

Hi @miikhy! Number 1 and 2 are true! The lie is the number 3, I'm not afraid of needles or pointed objects :) I learned a new word that day!!

What are your two truths and one lie? 

[Erica Moss]

Late to the game, but here we go:

1. I won a beautiful baby contest when I was six months old.

2. I had perfect attendance in high school.

3. In 2001, I met Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez from *NSYNC.

[Monique vdB]

Late is fine, these threads are evergreen! (Hmm, maybe I should consider not naming them after a specific day of the week...)

Guessing the lie is #2. 

[pb]

The lie is totally #3.  Of course she'd have perfect attendance.  And beautiful baby?  I mean, c'mon.   (i'm not dumb... i'm not debating that one.)

[Erica Moss]

@pb wins. 😄

[pb]

I'll play.

#1.  (Sticking with @Stephanie Grice's stephen king theme....) My grandmother lives down the road from Stephen King's home in Maine.

#2.  I am an absolute adrenaline junkie - sky diving, roller coasters, swimming with sharks, you name it, I'm there.

#3.  I play the pipe organ.  yeah, like this.  Yeah, for FUN.  

[Monique vdB]

I will be shocked if #2 is true!

[Thomas Schlegel]

I also think #2

if not, you should enter the shark cage together with Monique or come to South Germany where you can find Europe's biggest theme park with great roller coasters. I'll take a ride with you 😀

[pb]

you're both wrong.  

I do indeed play the organ... and it put me through college. 

And.... I freakin' love roller coasters. Zip lines.  Shark swimming.  Bungee jumping.  Meetings with @Monique vdB. Anything that gets adrenaline going.  

(and my grandmother doesn't live near Stephen King... but my ex's does!)

[Erica Moss]

Actually lol'd at the comment about meetings with Monique.

[Stephanie Grice]

1. My mom's cousin is Stephen King's executive assistant

2. My mom's cousin is Dan Brown's executive assistant

3. My first "real" job after college was selling lumber

[pb]

#3 seems just real enough to be... real.

It's clearly either 1 or 2, because they're both 'writer/celeb' related.... unless your mom's cousin is a slacker who moves from writer/celeb to writer/celeb.  

I'm going with #2.

[Thomas Schlegel]

But maybe she's working for the publisher that is publishing books of both, King and Brown. 

I vote for #3.

[Stephanie Grice]

@Thomas Schlegel I was hoping someone would fall for that!! Mwahaha!

The lie is #2... no Dan Brown contacts that I know of!

[Bridget]

Hi, y'all! I'm brand-new to the Atlassian team (Day #5 woop woop!). So hopefully, my truths are still shrouded in at least a little bit of mystery. Here goes:

1. I've authored three, 200+ paged Harry Potter FanFiction novels

2. My grandparents are professional Bridge players which is why my parents named me Bridget

3. I don't have a spleen

[Monique vdB]

omg #2 is hilarious and I hope it's true. But I'm going to guess it's the lie. 

[Monique vdB]

Wait no, I'm guessing the lie is #1. NEW GUESS.

[Thomas Schlegel]

I think, it is #2, just a feeling

btw, welcome @Bridget and a big hello from Germany 😀

[Bridget]

Thanks, Thomas! I've heard so many good things about you already, A big hallo from San Francisco :) 

#1 is the lie! (Although it's more of a fib...I wrote a TON of FF but never any novels!) @Monique vdB I'll bring ya a prize on Monday.

[Monique vdB]

@Bridget I thought it was a lie because you spelled it "FanFiction" and all the other fic writers I know don't use capitalization. I thought that was the tell! 

[Stephanie Grice]

^^ Classic Valedictorian 

[pb]

Good point, Grice.

[Monique vdB]

@Bridget don't forget my prize. I hope it's more information about what kind of fic you wrote. :)