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I'm still trying to come up with a lie that is anywhere near as bizarre as some of my truths.

Quote: MathExtremist

I'm still trying to come up with a lie that is anywhere near as bizarre as some of my truths.

That is so cool. Love to see your list.

Quote: Mosca

I woke up in the middle of open heart surgery.

Open heart surgery has a higher likelihood of what is called 'intra-operative awareness' than virtually any other surgery. If this happens to be 'true' and not your lie, I am interested in your experience. It varies from 'intersting', to an experience so horrible people suffer from post traumatic stress disorder for the rest of their lives.

Quote: SOOPOO

Open heart surgery has a higher likelihood of what is called 'intra-operative awareness' than virtually any other surgery. If this happens to be 'true' and not your lie, I am interested in your experience. It varies from 'intersting', to an experience so horrible people suffer from post traumatic stress disorder for the rest of their lives.

That's one of the true ones.

1. I went to sea with a job on a freighter when I was 16 years old.
2. I was at Woodstock.
3. I served drinks to Jim Garrison, the D.A. who tried Clay Shaw for the murder of John F. Kennedy.
4. I was the clerk/typist for Lt. William F. Calley who was convicted for the My Lai Massacre.

1. I have been in all 50 U.S. states
2. I have had over 20 different surgeries
3. I won a BBQ cookoff at the Iowa state fair
4. My daughter is a world class shooter
5. I named my cat Pat

Quote: SOOPOO

Open heart surgery has a higher likelihood of what is called 'intra-operative awareness' than virtually any other surgery. If this happens to be 'true' and not your lie, I am interested in your experience. It varies from 'intersting', to an experience so horrible people suffer from post traumatic stress disorder for the rest of their lives.

It wasn't traumatic for me. I opened my eyes and saw the lights, and the doctors standing over me. Someone said something like, "He's coming out of it," and someone else said something like "I'm on it," and I went back under. Later when I mentioned it to my surgeon, he laughed and said that it was certainly possible. It was 1992, so I don't remember specifically what was said any more, but I did for a long time. I've had 5 surgeries in the last 8 years, and a lot of my older specific memories are fog now.

Quote: mickeycrimm

1. I went to sea with a job on a freighter when I was 16 years old.
2. I was at Woodstock.
3. I served drinks to Jim Garrison, the D.A. who tried Clay Shaw for the murder of John F. Kennedy.
4. I was the clerk/typist for Lt. William F. Calley who was convicted for the My Lai Massacre.

I'm going to guess that #2 is the fake.

Quote: Mosca

I'm going to guess that #2 is the fake.

You're right, I wasn't at Woodstock. I was in Seamen's School in New Orleans at the time. I sailed out of New Orleans in Sept. 1969 with a job in the engine room of the freighter John B. Waterman. I was 16 years old.

Quote: mickeycrimm

1. I went to sea with a job on a freighter when I was 16 years old.
2. I was at Woodstock.
3. I served drinks to Jim Garrison, the D.A. who tried Clay Shaw for the murder of John F. Kennedy.
4. I was the clerk/typist for Lt. William F. Calley who was convicted for the My Lai Massacre.

mickey,

I thought you were about my age; how could you have served under Lt.Calley? I guess because you joined up so early, but that still makes you 5 years older than I thought you were. That must've been a wild MOS after the facaca hit the whirligig. Flaming correspondence!

Quote: DRich

1. I have been in all 50 U.S. states
2. I have had over 20 different surgeries
3. I won a BBQ cookoff at the Iowa state fair
4. My daughter is a world class shooter
5. I named my cat Pat

I think you're missing 2 states, so it's #1. Sorry about the surgeries, though; what an ordeal!

Quote: beachbumbabs

I think you're missing 2 states,

Missing 7, actually, according to Obama.. lol

Quote: mickeycrimm

1. I went to sea with a job on a freighter when I was 16 years old.
2. I was at Woodstock.
3. I served drinks to Jim Garrison, the D.A. who tried Clay Shaw for the murder of John F. Kennedy.
4. I was the clerk/typist for Lt. William F. Calley who was convicted for the My Lai Massacre.

Well Goddamn, I"d like to hear the stories behind the other three!

Do you have to put up 3 real and 1 fake, or can you put up 3 fake and 1 real? or can you have a combination of 2 real 2 fake? then people just guess at each one?

for instance

1) When I was 23 I married a girl with 12 kids.
2) I had sex in a glass elevator
3) I actually sleeped all during high school math class, and my teacher suggested it.
4) I have had 3 articles written about me in Card Player Magazine

2 are true 2 are fake.

I thought the same thing about Woodstock.... but then I thought you could have been being tricky and Went to Woodstock 99 or something

I didn't think I would play, but I didnt get it at first

*When I was a gigolo I made more money at it than any job since
*I had a job picking cotton
*I was wanted by the police in Dayton Ohio for walking out on a large bar bill
*I hit "reply all" by mistake in one job and got fired for whining about the boss

Quote: beachbumbabs

mickey,

I thought you were about my age; how could you have served under Lt.Calley? I guess because you joined up so early, but that still makes you 5 years older than I thought you were. That must've been a wild MOS after the facaca hit the whirligig. Flaming correspondence!

I didn't serve under Calley. My Lai happened in 1968 when I was 15. I was assigned to do the clerical work for Calley in 1973 when he was under house arrest at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Quote: AxelWolf

Do you have to put up 3 real and 1 fake, or can you put up 3 fake and 1 real? or can you have a combination of 2 real 2 fake? then people just guess at each one?

for instance

1) When I was 23 I married a girl with 12 kids.
2) I had sex in a glass elevator
3) I actually sleeped all during high school math class, and my teacher suggested it.
4) I have had 3 articles written about me in Card Player Magazine

2 are true 2 are fake.

It would be great if #4 was true. I'd like to read the articles.

Sorry... can't figure this out even while sober and can't see how to advance to the level of sex-slave collar around beach bum bab's neck for a week, so what's the use of my telling the truth about anything.

Quote: mickeycrimm

I didn't serve under Calley. My Lai happened in 1968 when I was 15. I was assigned to do the clerical work for Calley in 1973 when he was under house arrest at Fort Benning, Georgia.

And that's damned interesting as well. Good story there, I bet.

Quote: FleaStiff

Sorry... can't figure this out even while sober and can't see how to advance to the level of sex-slave collar around beach bum bab's neck for a week, so what's the use of my telling the truth about anything.

There are ways, of course. You have but to ask.

Quote: odiousgambit

I didn't think I would play, but I didnt get it at first

*When I was a gigolo I made more money at it than any job since
*I had a job picking cotton
*I was wanted by the police in Dayton Ohio for walking out on a large bar bill
*I hit "reply all" by mistake in one job and got fired for whining about the boss

odious,

I'm going to say the cotton-picking was wrong and would like to hear the other 3 stories.

Quote: mickeycrimm

1. I went to sea with a job on a freighter when I was 16 years old.

In 1969 the United States had, by far, the largest merchant marine fleet in the world. So many entry level jobs couldn't be filled that 16 year olds, with the consent of their parents, were allowed to go to sea. My father and stepmother lived in Gonzales, Louisiana. He worked in a chemical plant just south of the Sunshine Bridge on the Mississippi River. My father wouldn't sign off on me joining the merchant marines. At the time my stepmother and me hated each other. She was all to happy to drive me to New Orleans and sign off.

This was around the 1st of August, 1969. "Seamen's school" was in the Seafarer's International Union Hall, down on Jackson Avenue, about two blocks from the Gretna Ferry across the Mississippi River. It wasn't a school at all. I started out as a janitor then graduated to peeling potatoes and carrots in the galley. 22 of us kids lived upstairs in the Union Hall. They were just using us for cheap labor. We made $7 a week, room and board, plus a carton of cigarettes a week. They put us through the process of getting our Seamen's Papers.

Two things happened about mid-August. Woodstock up in New York, and Hurricane Camille on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New Orleans was on the edge of the hurricane. The Union Hall was in the Irish Channel, about 9 feet below sea level. For awhile we didn't know if we were gonna get hit hard or not. The Port Director told us that if the eye came over New Orleans we were all gonna be neck deep in water. The Union Hall was a 3-story very secure building. It was used as a shelter for seamen and their families who lived on the Mississippi Coast. For awhile some of us kids were out playing in the wind, until things blowing in the wind drove us back inside.

Sometime in late August the Union threw a party for Moon Landrieu who was running for Mayor of New Orleans. They used the banquet hall. And they turned all of us kids into cocktail waitresses for the event. In my section their was this big well-dressed man who was dominating the conversation at his table. He drank brandy and water. The more he drank the louder he got.

I was running for some more drinks when the Port Director asked me "Kid, do you know who that big guy on the dance floor is that you've been serving drinks to?" I turned around and seen the brandy and water guy out on the dance floor, dancing like a chicken with his head cut off. "No, sir" I replied. "That's Jim Garrison, the D.A. that tried Clay Shaw for the murder of John Kennedy." I thought for a second then asked "Sir, do you think Clay Shaw had John Kennedy killed?" The Port Director's response was "Garrison is a goofball idiot!"

By early September I had my Seamen's Papers. On September 17th, the Port Director called me into his office. "Kid, the John B. Waterman is down on the docks. You've got a job as a wiper in the engine room. Pack your gear and git on down there. They'll be sailing in a couple of hours."

The John B. sailed the Gulf, New Orleans and Mobile, the Atlantic Seaboard, Charleston and Baltimore, and the ports of LaHarve, France; Bremerhaven, Germany; Rotterdam, Holland; and a port in England I can't remember the name of. We hauled American servicemen's cars to Europe. My income went from $7 a week to $300 a week.

Quote: beachbumbabs

odious,

I'm going to say the cotton-picking was wrong and would like to hear the other 3 stories.

Is everybody just revealing now, or do we wait?

Quote: odiousgambit

Is everybody just revealing now, or do we wait?

odious,

If you want to reserve your stories for if/when we do play, I would suggest waiting. However, there are only 15 people who have said yes (though it appears at least a few of those who said "no" earlier might have changed their minds and there would be enough players) with only 2 hours to go.

I'm going to post a reset thread, since you can't change your vote in this one. I think people are more interested/willing now that everyone's clarified how the game works, so I'll ask again; I think we'll end up playing as a contest. I'm headed to Vegas tonight, and I will place the items in escrow with the Wizard anyway; worst case, he mails them back to me. The game, if we play, will start Oct. 28. If the reset does not bring enough players, then share your stories when you want to.

EVERYONE: Please look for the thread "Reset: 3TAAL vote." Vote between now and Thursday, Oct. 23rd, midnight Vegas time.

new vote thread

I can not post until I am sure the statute of limitations has expired on certain felonies.

Quote: Buzzard

I can not post until I am sure the statute of limitations has expired on certain felonies.

Buzz....you are one of the people I MOST want to hear about, so don't chicken out now....I didn't believe ANYTHING the PI I hired said about you, anyway....LMAO.

Quote: Buzzard

I can not post until I am sure the statute of limitations has expired on certain felonies.

Be very careful. Some states such as Virginia abolished ALL statutes of limitations for ANY felony whatsoever. Other states have weird omissions such as twelve years for rape but no statute at all for consensual incest which can be punished and proven by dna at any time.

It seems this particular game is finished, but I did discover something interesting. New thread to follow.

Quote: MathExtremist

It seems this particular game is finished, but I did discover something interesting. New thread to follow.

I agree, ME, this one is finished for now, at least as far as the contest part. The prizes are in escrow with the Wizard, though, so I might re-introduce it in a few weeks and see if there's more interest. What was your new thread?

Quote: odiousgambit

I didn't think I would play, but I didnt get it at first

*When I was a gigolo I made more money at it than any job since
*I had a job picking cotton
*I was wanted by the police in Dayton Ohio for walking out on a large bar bill
*I hit "reply all" by mistake in one job and got fired for whining about the boss

Well, I screwed up and told 3 lies and only one truth. My life is probably not interesting enough.

Skipping out on a bar bill, a wanted man in Dayton, was untrue. However, I did skip out on a bar bill at least twice in my days, once by accident [was blotto then just forgetting to pay] and once on purpose. These things did not happen in Dayton though, and I doubt if the police were after me.

*by accident: caused by certain unusual circumstances too. I realized it later and went back the next day and paid.

*on purpose: I was designated by my friends to pay a pretty stiff bill; I think it was just my turn to pay. They all had left. I realized all of a sudden I had sat waiting for the bill for about 20 minutes. The bartenders/waitresses had gone from being unattentive to just being all vanished. I started checking my watch now. If memory serves me, I waited another half hour at least and just left. Later I was told the staff were all in a back room blowing cocaine up their noses.

I should have gone back and paid, but I don't really regret not doing it. I've always said I would pay the bill if someone would present one to me.