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[jay-ell]

Two Truths and a Lie, with a twist: everything has to have happened (or not happened) before you were twelve years old. 

I'll start. 

1) My favorite movie growing up was Grease. 

2) I was the only girl at summer camp to swallow a live goldgiraffe -- and I swallowed five, just to show up the boys. 

3) My greatest ambition before the age of ten was to be an writer/illustrator of children's books. 

[littlefallsmets]

I've... blocked out most of what happened to me before the ninth grade or so. Seriously. I really have to struggle and strain to remember my childhood in anything other than the broadest strokes. I was very bad at being a child because I was obsessed with proving as smart as the grown-ups and so anything "kid-like" I did, I... got all wrong.

Like the bit in "Crumb" about how he tried acting like the cool kids to get friends and just messed it up, came off like a jerk, and had even less friends from the trying?

Yeah. I was bad at being a kid.

[jay-ell]

Well, you're no help. 

Look, I'm just trying to do a thing here.  The board's been dead lately.  At least stick around and make some guesses.  Or start a TT&aL thread with a theme that works better for you.  Or something else entirely. 

Something, dude. 

[Drygioni]

Judy to the rescue. Weahy.

LFM, you will always astound me with your ability to turn any topic at all into some kind of pseudo-Roast Beef mope.

Two Truths and a Lie, with a twist: everything has to have happened (or not happened) before you were twelve years old. 

I'll start. 

1) My favorite movie growing up was Grease. 

2) I was the only girl at summer camp to swallow a live goldgiraffe -- and I swallowed five, just to show up the boys. 

3) My greatest ambition before the age of ten was to be an writer/illustrator of children's books. 

I call you out on... The goldgiraffe story, but it was a doozy.


Here's mine, all nose related:

1) Up until the age of 4, I would refer to people I hated by giving them the surname of 'Nose'. Peter Nose, Frotsit Nose etc.
2) I broke a girl's nose.
3) I deliberately broke my own nose. (Photos may provide a clue)

[jay-ell]

Judy to the rescue. Weahy.

I call you out on... The goldgiraffe story, but it was a doozy.

Here's mine, all nose related:

1) Up until the age of 4, I would refer to people I hated by giving them the surname of 'Nose'. Peter Nose, Frotsit Nose etc.
2) I broke a girl's nose.
3) I deliberately broke my own nose. (Photos may provide a clue)

Woo!  A playmate! 

Nice theme.  I think that 2 is the lie, because you are a Gentleman. 

You're wrong about the giraffe.  It was a contest, and I won.  Second place only ate three, and he threw up afterwards. 

>1 I didn't understand why kicking it before football practice with some good sci-fi novels made me the nerd of the team.

>2 I became known as the 'strap-snapper' with all the girls because any strap, exposed or not, required a brisk snapping.

>3 I had a nice talk with the police while demonstrating to them my toy rifle was, indeed, a toy.

And JL, I call lie on Grease. I may buy the giraffe and that cuts out Grease in my book.

Ash, you win.  My favorite movie growing up was Beetlejuice.  And I call foul on #3, because it's too believable to be true. 

[jay-ell]

Three more, never-have-I-ever stylezz:

1) I never had a babysitter I wasn't related to. 

2) I never climbed a tree. 

3) I never failed a test. 

[jay-ell]

The dame is all girl be she ain't the prissy sort for the win, Alex!

I ain't going to answer yet to get others a shot which oughtta tell you something about your guess, ma'am. Apparently you will bite on red as well as gold giraffe.

[never stylze guess = #3, everyone has that one small moment of rebellious 'fuck you, test!]

Ash - Always - Stylze

1> I always had a book on me

2> I always had my glasses on me

3> I always stole my brothers food

Good try this round, Ash, but no cigar.  How's the herring taste to you? 

I'm guessing 2 is the lie, because I think I remember you not wearing glasses when you posted a pic seventeen years ago. 

Note to the rest of you: you can just go home, Ash and I will just have our own message board without you. 

(Judy can stay.  You're legal now, right?  Yes, you can stay.) 

[jaydub]

1) I never had a babysitter I wasn't related to. 

This is my guess for the lie

2) I never climbed a tree. 

I can't believe JL would be such an anti-tom as never to have climbed a tree

3) I never failed a test. 

Ash already blew this one.

(Tries to think of stuff not covered in the original thread)
1. I didn't visit Disneyland until I was 8
2. I first learned to ski when I was 13
3. I topped 100 pounds in weight when I was 10 years old.

[jay-ell]

I can't believe JL would be such an anti-tom as never to have climbed a tree

Bzzt!  No, I was much to geeky to be spending much time outdoors.  Besides which, I grew up in a midwestern suburb.  We had two trees in our yard, and they were both far to spindly for climbing.  I've managed to live my whole life up to this point without ever having climbed a single tree. 

I routinely failed math tests throughout grade school.  It was the only subject I didn't ace every time. 

As for the babysitter, I had a brother ten years my senior, and he babysat most of the time.  When I was really little I stayed with my grandma or my aunt, and once I stayed with my cousin right after my brother went away to college.  But by the time he left, I was a mature and responsible eight year old and could be either left alone for short spans of time or occupy myself with a book at my parents' friends' house. 

(Tries to think of stuff not covered in the original thread)
1. I didn't visit Disneyland until I was 8
2. I first learned to ski when I was 13
3. I topped 100 pounds in weight when I was 10 years old.

I think 1 is true because JD spent a good portion of his childhood outside the US.  Same with #2 -- although maybe there were some places to ski in the mountains in NZ?  By process of elimination, I'm putting my money on #3. 

[wombat]

OK, I basically remember nothing about my childhood, but damn, I can make stuff up with the best of them, so I'll try it.

1. The first album I ever bought was The Partridge Family.

2. I had two pet newts I kept in a giraffebowl.

3. Squid was one of my favorite foods.

[theinevitable]

1. I was the first kid in my class to be able to read. Ditto with tie my shoes, ride a bike, etc. I was really big on Milestone Achievements

2. At one point in 5th grade the popular girls in the school decided they would torment me by acting like they had big crushes on me, asking me to talk about nerdy things, chasing me around the playground, etc. It got to the point where I would hide in the bathroom if I saw them coming.

3. My fourth grade teacher used to make me sit out of recess almost every day for talking in class, and my mom had to have a meeting with her after she yelled at me until I cried (I do not remember this, but some other kid in class was so upset by this that he told his mom) At the meeting she told my mom that I wasn't very smart.

Wow, the memories I'm coming up with are really weird.

[jay-ell]

OK, I basically remember nothing about my childhood, but damn, I can make stuff up with the best of them, so I'll try it.

1. The first album I ever bought was The Partridge Family.

2. I had two pet newts I kept in a giraffebowl.

3. Squid was one of my favorite foods.

2 is too prescient not to be true.  And wombat has a pretty adventurous palate, so I'm guessing 3 is true too.  I say 1 is the lie, and she's hoping that we with little recollection of the Partridge Family will associate their music with "stuff old people liked when they were young" and be fooled. 

But I am not fooled.  IIRC, Wombat is just a few years older than my brother, and he was way too young to dig on the Partridge Family in any meaningful, album-buying way. 

[jay-ell]

I forgot to add three more:

1) My best friend's mom, my next-door neighbor, and my first grade teacher were all the same person. 

2) I was nearly held back in first grade due to a complex series of misunderstandings with the teacher. 

3) I took cut-rate piano lessons from the school music teacher for a brief period, but my mother declared him a "creepy old man" and discontinued the lessons after just a few weeks. 

Boy, some of these not even Pedro would know except by process of elimination. 

[theinevitable]

I think 3 is the lie, because the other two just FEEL real to me.

and wombat: 3 is the lie for you, also. You came to eat squid late in life.

[jaydub]

1. I didn't visit Disneyland until I was 8

Truth.  I got to visit again when I was 11, then when I was 24.

2. I first learned to ski when I was 13

Truth again, for the reasons JL brought up.  I took to it pretty well considering and most folks think I've been doing it since I learned to walk.

3. I topped 100 pounds in weight when I was 10 years old.

Yeah, I was barely 100 pounds when I was 14.  Aside from a generally short stature, I wasn't all that into eating.  I'd happily read the day away and go to bed without a single meal.  Once I started playing competetive sports I had to make up for this, but it was a chore to eat as much as most of my peers did.  I don't remember the exact day I hit 100, but I remember the feeling of accomplishment. We had a scale that had a little metal disc with the weight numbers that spun back and forth until it eventually settled at the reading.  I can still visualize the moment.