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Guess The Lie
29 December 2014
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I’ve waited for three days for someone to say “You have read Edgar Allan Poe’s biography” but nobody posts anymore (not here, not in other threads: Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day, then the weekend…) I’ll go again, then; number three was the lie, I did read Poe’s biography a few months ago (he was a jerk). I’ll try to make it less strange so that more people play. I hope to lose this time:

1) I did Zen meditation in a monastery at a certain point in my life

2) I believe in reincarnation

3) I’ve read different translations of the Book of Tao

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)

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You have to have a little patience, Oudis. It is the holidays, and people are otherwise engaged, bloated with food and drink, or (as in my case) feeling ill!

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29 December 2014
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Oudis said

I’ve waited for three days for someone to say “You have read Edgar Allan Poe’s biography” but nobody posts anymore (not here, not in other threads: Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day, then the weekend…) I’ll go again, then; number three was the lie, I did read Poe’s biography a few months ago (he was a jerk). I’ll try to make it less strange so that more people play. I hope to lose this time:

1) I did Zen meditation in a monastery at a certain point in my life

2) I believe in reincarnation

3) I’ve read different translations of the Book of Tao

Number 3 is the lie.

"If you're ever in the shit, grab my tit.” —Paul McCartney 

30 December 2014
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@Oudis, out of the last 10 days i have had one day (27th) of not running around doing things. Its a very very busy time for most people and in the small amount of breathing space they have coming on the forum and posting might not be their priority. Its always the same on the forum at this time of year. 

I would go for 2 but the rule is two folk guess and if both are wrong the lie setter goes again.

"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)

30 December 2014
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The lie was number 2, indeed. I believe that there is no “soul”, just synapses in the brain; when we die we cease to exist, we don’t reincarnate, we don’t go to Heaven or Hell. I did do Zen meditation at a monastery and the Book of Tao is one of my favorite books (one of these days I’ll buy and read the I Ching)

I don’t know, @meanmistermustard, it’s up to you. If you want to play this by the book I’ll go again, but if you have three interesting options feel free to post them. Just let me know. Oudis.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)

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Just go again.

30 December 2014
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@Oudis, the rules are that you go again so you’re up.

"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)

30 December 2014
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Thank you @C.R.A., thank you @meanmistermustard. These are my statements:

1) When I was thirteen I saw an episode of Night Gallery based on a story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft –Pickman’s Model. That night I couldn’t sleep.

2) Last summer I read a book of memoirs of people who actually knew Howard Phillips Lovecraft (title: Lovecraft Remembered.)

3) I own a copy of the classic biography of Lovecraft by L. Sprague de Camp.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)

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YOU did not see an episode of Night Gallary

I Think that Rolling Stone should do a cover story of The Rolling Stones covering "Like a Rolling Stone" or if a Type of Beetle was named after The Beatles.

31 December 2014
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Pretty much anything written by deCamp is a lie, so I’ll go with #3.

31 December 2014
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C.R.A. said
Pretty much anything written by deCamp is a lie, so I’ll go with #3.

You’re right @C.R.A., number three was the lie. I did read the biography when I was in my teens, but I borrowed it from a library. Is it that bad? I was thinking about buying it. Please recommend a good alternative if you know one.  

The other two options were true: I saw an episode of Night Gallery based on a story by Lovecraft that didn’t let me sleep and I read Lovecraft Remembered.

Your turn.

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1.  I have a tattoo of a bald eagle on my left shoulder.

2.  I was a disc jockey in 1984.

3.  I was in the first Gulf War.

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#2. It was in 1986.

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1. It is on your right shoulder.

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Ahhh Girl said
1. It is on your right shoulder.

Isnt that the movement you need?

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Hummmm, Paul doesn’t tell us which shoulder. I guess we are free to pick either one while listening to the song.

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It must be the right shoulder as the other one would be the wrong shoulder.

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Ahhh Girl said
1. It is on your right shoulder.

Well, it’s #1.  I don’t have any tattoos at all.

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Well, I’ll take the win.

1. I was asleep at the stroke of midnight as 2015 arrived in the time zone I am in.

2. I am going to eat at McAlister’s Deli for lunch today.

3. I can raise one eyebrow at a time (independent of the other).

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Number 3, perhaps?

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