My Ma once worked as a go go dancer.
True or false?
Since I am 6 drams deep into a bottle of Whyte & MacKay I am going to go with true.
Yeah, well YOUR mom was a go-go Dancer!
... wait... no that doesn't work here
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 27, 2022, 03:00:36 PM
My Ma once worked as a go go dancer.
True or false?
True
True.
At one time in the late 60's she worked at a bar called Melville's as a dancer.
Somebody take the stand!
True or false:
My Dad was a juvenile delinquent who almost got sent to jail as a teen and thirty years later became a police officer.
TRUE!! You've told his story on here before.
Quote from: indianasmith on June 27, 2022, 11:09:39 PM
TRUE!! You've told his story on here before.
Very true: Dad never saw the irony in that at all :wink:
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
Quote from: chainsaw midget on June 28, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
True!
True or false: my mom was born in the 1960s...
Quote from: ER on June 28, 2022, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on June 28, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
True!
True or false: my mom was born in the 1960s...
I'll go with true.
Quote from: ER on June 28, 2022, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on June 28, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
True!
True or false: my mom was born in the 1960s...
I'm going to say false. Maybe mid-50's....
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2022, 01:20:32 PM
Quote from: ER on June 28, 2022, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on June 28, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
True!
True or false: my mom was born in the 1960s...
I'm going to say false. Maybe mid-50's....
You are not un-right! 1960.
Quote from: ER on June 28, 2022, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on June 28, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
True or False?
I was there and saw Yellowstone National Park burning down in 1988?
True!
False!
My family was on vacation at Yellowstone in 1988. We left, drove back home and when we turned on the news we saw the place was on fire.
We JUST missed it.
Trev's career true or false:
I have worked with two Oscar winners.
I have worked on a film directed by Clint Eastwood.
I have got myself kicked off two film sets, one in 1977 and the other in 1996.
My picture is in a book on film history.
I rarely speak about the first movie I saw as a child.
:teddyr:
^ I'll say true.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2022, 01:33:47 PM
^ I'll say true.
Yes, all true.
I've worked with the late Malik Bendeljoull (
Searching For Sugarman) and Peter Davis (
Hearts and Minds)
I assisted in pre-production on
Invictus (horribly inaccurate movie)
The Wild Geese and
The Ghost & The Darkness.
The book DAAR DOER IN DIE FLIEK has a pic of me in it.
I hardly ever speak about
Lost Horizon (1973) 😳
I once ate a handful of maggots.
^ Oh, hell no! :bouncegiggle:
False or True? I once saw the man who prosecuted Larry Flynt for obscenity in the 1970s jaywalking while he was sheriff in the 1990s, and called him out on it.
^ Why not? I'll say TRUE.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2022, 06:11:24 PM
^ Why not? I'll say TRUE.
Yep, and he didn't know what to say, just stammered and glared.
True or False: Because of jet lag and traveling, I haven't slept in almost forty-eight hours.
Discuss amongst yourself; I'm going to bed. Or am I....?
I had a chance to meet Princess Diana in March 1997.
True or false?
Quote from: Trevor on June 30, 2022, 11:17:30 AM
I had a chance to meet Princess Diana in March 1997.
True or false?
I'm gonna go with true, even though knowing how much she meant to you, I also think you would have mentioned this, and maybe have, but still, OK, true.
Quote from: ER on June 30, 2022, 01:57:43 PM
Quote from: Trevor on June 30, 2022, 11:17:30 AM
I had a chance to meet Princess Diana in March 1997.
True or false?
I'm gonna go with true, even though knowing how much she meant to you, I also think you would have mentioned this, and maybe have, but still, OK, true.
Yes, true. A journalist friend of mine from the Pretoria News was covering her trip and her planned meeting with Nelson Mandela in Cape Town. He said that if I could pay for a ticket there, he would organize a press pass for me but I didn't have the money.
True or False?
I once organized a student protest against the athletic budget at my university.
Quote from: indianasmith on June 30, 2022, 06:36:22 PM
True or False?
I once organized a student protest against the athletic budget at my university.
True.
Quote from: indianasmith on June 30, 2022, 06:36:22 PM
True or False?
I once organized a student protest against the athletic budget at my university.
I say true.
Very good!
Not that my protest did any good - the stupid football team still got another million dollars and our award-winning photography department got the axe.
One reason I've never liked college sports, to this day.
I knew a farmer who had a cow with 2 heads.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 01, 2022, 10:37:32 PM
I knew a farmer who had a cow with 2 heads.
.............false.
Yeah. I never knew anyone who had a 2 headed cow.
True or false?
Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 03, 2022, 09:20:00 AM
True.
True.
True or False?
Victoria was nicknamed "the middle-class queen"?
Quote from: ER on July 03, 2022, 10:32:15 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 03, 2022, 09:20:00 AM
True.
True.
True or False?
Victoria was nicknamed "the middle-class queen"?
I would guess not as I am not sure middle class was a term back then.
Quote from: Alex on July 03, 2022, 10:42:41 AM
Quote from: ER on July 03, 2022, 10:32:15 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 03, 2022, 09:20:00 AM
True.
True.
True or False?
Victoria was nicknamed "the middle-class queen"?
I would guess not as I am not sure middle class was a term back then.
That one's true. At first it was derisive and later affectionate.
True or False?
When threatened with a lawsuit, Led Zeppelin once played in Germany under the name The Nobs.
True! I know my Zep! But I think it was in Denmark.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 03, 2022, 11:19:33 AM
True! I know my Zep! But I think it was in Denmark.
Ha, you got it!
I came close once to getting suspended from school for losing my temper and beating the living 💩 out of the school bully.
Sure.
Yes.
Both true: Mom was horrified but Dad was proud of me for standing up to a bully and not taking any nonsense.
That day was the last day I ever played rugby - this confrontation happened off the field - and then I was given a choice, either soccer or tennis. I chose soccer. :smile:
Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2022, 01:58:56 AM
Both true: Mom was horrified but Dad was proud of me for standing up to a bully and not taking any nonsense.
That day was the last day I ever played rugby - this confrontation happened off the field - and then I was given a choice, either soccer or tennis. I chose soccer. :smile:
In my experience a much safer sport, lol.
True or False?
I once met Ozzy Osbourne.
Quote from: Alex on July 04, 2022, 12:37:29 PM
True or False?
I once met Ozzy Osbourne.
Thats gotta be true!
It is actually false. I've twice not met him though. The first time was accidental, but the second time I saw him while I was eating a f**king awesome pizza and I refused to make eye contact with him in case he asked for a slice.
^ Are you crazy??? :buggedout:
That must've been some fvcking good pizza!
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 04, 2022, 03:15:51 PM
^ Are you crazy??? :buggedout:
That must've been some fvcking good pizza!
Best pizza I have ever tasted.
I ate a large beetle trying to impress a girl.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 05, 2022, 05:30:46 PM
I ate a large beetle trying to impress a girl.
False: Paul and Ringo are still alive, and there were no bite marks on John or George when they were buried.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 05, 2022, 09:10:35 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 05, 2022, 05:30:46 PM
I ate a large beetle trying to impress a girl.
False: Paul and Ringo are still alive, and there were no bite marks on John or George when they were buried.
I'm going with true, since what man hasn't eaten a beetle or two to impress a girl?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 05, 2022, 09:10:35 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 05, 2022, 05:30:46 PM
I ate a large beetle trying to impress a girl.
False: Paul and Ringo are still alive, and there were no bite marks on John or George when they were buried.
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
ROFLMAO
Quote from: ER on July 05, 2022, 09:46:57 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 05, 2022, 09:10:35 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 05, 2022, 05:30:46 PM
I ate a large beetle trying to impress a girl.
False: Paul and Ringo are still alive, and there were no bite marks on John or George when they were buried.
I'm going with true, since what man hasn't eaten a beetle or two to impress a girl?
It is true.
I guess it worked. I was with her for 10 years.
True of false.
I've lost the tips of more than one finger to broken bottles.
Quote from: Alex on July 06, 2022, 11:25:31 AM
True of false.
I've lost the tips of more than one finger to broken bottles.
I'll go with yes, and BTW, good job making Johnny Depp feel inferior for just losing one.
True or false: I have seen a dog come to the ground in a parachute.
True.
Quote from: ER on July 06, 2022, 11:42:20 AM
True or false: I have seen a dog come to the ground in a parachute.
(https://i.gifer.com/CzH.gif)
If it wasn't true before, it's true now.
True!
OK, one for the road. True or false: Being told "I love you" can slightly lower blood pressure.
True
Quote from: ER on July 06, 2022, 10:03:48 PM
OK, one for the road. True or false: Being told "I love you" can slightly lower blood pressure.
Always worked for me.
Tis true. :-)
True or false: the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 07, 2022, 07:42:05 AM
True or false: the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites.
True, Bob Marley told me so :wink:
True or false
1. I was a Sunday School teacher for a year
2. I have no clue about digital theatre projection
3. I have written a book
4. I was asked to be interviewed on camera but things went wayy wrong before we even started.
^ true.
True.
All true: I trained as a projectionist but only for film, not digital.
Quote from: Trevor on July 08, 2022, 02:55:47 AM
True or false
1. I was a Sunday School teacher for a year
2. I have no clue about digital theatre projection
3. I have written a book
4. I was asked to be interviewed on camera but things went wayy wrong before we even started.
You've lived an interesting life, Trevor. :thumbup:
Quote from: ER on July 08, 2022, 07:55:48 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 08, 2022, 02:55:47 AM
True or false
1. I was a Sunday School teacher for a year
2. I have no clue about digital theatre projection
3. I have written a book
4. I was asked to be interviewed on camera but things went wayy wrong before we even started.
You've lived an interesting life, Trevor. :thumbup:
So far, yes :wink:
I had a very sheltered childhood due to the war in Rhodesia and I am still just a big kid in many ways. I've said it before that most adults who don't know me well look at me and go :buggedout: while kids and young peeps like me and are not scared of me. Indeed, my niece and nephew call me Uncle Zombie, a moniker which I embrace and those two are the only people I allow to call me Uncle. :smile:
True or false:
In the late 80s, I once visited a mosque in Pretoria Central with my church youth group and something I said made all of them plus the Imam burst out laughing.
In 1998, Dad - then in his 70s - saw a man in my apartment block hassling and bothering a group of ladies and asked him politely to stop doing that. Dad was married to a feminist as you all know, and hated people disrespecting ladies. The guy then swore at Dad and continued messing around with the ladies, Dad grabbed him, spun him round and punched him out cold. One punch, hello floor, lights out. :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on July 08, 2022, 09:36:11 AM
True or false:
In the late 80s, I once visited a mosque in Pretoria Central with my church youth group and something I said made all of them plus the Imam burst out laughing.
In 1998, Dad - then in his 70s - saw a man in my apartment block hassling and bothering a group of ladies and asked him politely to stop doing that. Dad was married to a feminist as you all know, and hated people disrespecting ladies. The guy then swore at Dad and continued messing around with the ladies, Dad grabbed him, spun him round and punched him out cold. One punch, hello floor, lights out. :buggedout:
True to both, particularly as Imams are known for their sense of humor.
Both are true.
My church youth group was invited to the Queen Street Mosque in Pretoria - there were about 12 of us and three of the 12 were young ladies. The young men in the group said that if the ladies weren't allowed to enter the mosque, we wouldn't go either but the Imam insisted that the ladies would be allowed - in fact he was expecting them to be with us - so off we went and it was a nice hour there. The thing that made everyone :bouncegiggle: was me asking about the mosque's carpet and saying that it felt like it was 10 inches thick, the Imam said it probably was, I asked why and he said this:
"Our Prophet expects us to spend a lot of time on our knees but he would want us to be comfortable too." :teddyr:
I once screened a print of a film publicly for paying customers, there was a major issue with one of the reels and we had to stop the screening for a minute or so. The problem was that the film's director and writer was in the audience :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on July 08, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
I once screened a print of a film publicly for paying customers, there was a major issue with one of the reels and we had to stop the screening for a minute or so. The problem was that the film's director and writer was in the audience :buggedout: :buggedout:
I am going to go out on a limb and against my instincts saasasy....false.
True/false----- I've been to every continent except Antarctica.
Quote from: ER on July 08, 2022, 12:26:11 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 08, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
I once screened a print of a film publicly for paying customers, there was a major issue with one of the reels and we had to stop the screening for a minute or so. The problem was that the film's director and writer was in the audience :buggedout: :buggedout:
I am going to go out on a limb and against my instincts saasasy....false.
QuoteActually it is true: it happened in 1998 :buggedout:
Then my instincts will get no cake tonight.
Quote from: ER on July 08, 2022, 12:27:43 PM
True/false----- I've been to every continent except Antarctica.
False?
This is a scary one:
I know most of the people behind the epic known as Space Mutiny including the cinematographer who was a mentor of mine :buggedout:
True or false?
The most painful thing I have ever experienced was having a nipple sliced in two.
Quote from: Alex on July 09, 2022, 03:41:21 PM
True or false?
The most painful thing I have ever experienced was having a nipple sliced in two.
I could make a joke here but I'll just say false.
Quote from: Trevor on July 09, 2022, 09:23:40 AM
This is a scary one:
I know most of the people behind the epic known as Space Mutiny including the cinematographer who was a mentor of mine :buggedout:
I'm so dumb. Why is that one scary?
Quote from: Trevor on July 09, 2022, 09:23:40 AM
This is a scary one:
I know most of the people behind the epic known as Space Mutiny including the cinematographer who was a mentor of mine :buggedout:
True.
Quote from: ER on July 09, 2022, 04:11:57 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 09, 2022, 09:23:40 AM
This is a scary one:
I know most of the people behind the epic known as Space Mutiny including the cinematographer who was a mentor of mine :buggedout:
I'm so dumb. Why is that one scary?
The movie isn't scary but the mere fact that I know most of the peeps personally who made that thing is enough to make most people go :buggedout: but I think the people on here are made of stronger stuff :wink:
Quote from: pacman000 on July 09, 2022, 05:27:27 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 09, 2022, 09:23:40 AM
This is a scary one:
I know most of the people behind the epic known as Space Mutiny including the cinematographer who was a mentor of mine :buggedout:
True.
Yes, true: I love the fact that the movie was made in a warehouse in Johannesburg instead of in a studio :teddyr:
True or false:
I'm going to Tasmania in 2024?
Quote from: ER on July 10, 2022, 08:41:33 AM
True or false:
I'm going to Tasmania in 2024?
True.
Quote from: ER on July 09, 2022, 04:08:55 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 09, 2022, 03:41:21 PM
True or false?
The most painful thing I have ever experienced was having a nipple sliced in two.
I could make a joke here but I'll just say false.
False, it is only the second most painful physical experience I've had.
T/F:
I once spent nearly two straight years pregnant.
Quote from: ER on July 10, 2022, 05:25:33 PM
T/F:
I once spent nearly two straight years pregnant.
True. Going to go with Irish twins.
Quote from: Alex on July 11, 2022, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: ER on July 10, 2022, 05:25:33 PM
T/F:
I once spent nearly two straight years pregnant.
True. Going to go with Irish twins.
Ha, that's the term exactly! My son was born in May 2011 and my youngest daughter in April 2012. Two years of pickles and ice cream...
I found a very old friend today: the first 35mm motion picture camera I ever set up and operated.
The person who has it is selling it for the owner.
Quote from: Trevor on July 11, 2022, 07:52:54 AM
I found a very old friend today: the first 35mm motion picture camera I ever set up and operated.
The person who has it is selling it for the owner.
How about I go with a true on that one? (If it's true, would you like to buy it?)
Quote from: ER on July 11, 2022, 09:41:57 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 11, 2022, 07:52:54 AM
I found a very old friend today: the first 35mm motion picture camera I ever set up and operated.
The person who has it is selling it for the owner.
How about I go with a true on that one? (If it's true, would you like to buy it?)
Yes, very true: I delivered films for a client today and the camera was standing there. I asked the manager if that was a camera from a filmmaker I know and he confirmed it. The owner wants 30 000 SA Rand for it (about $1 700) and I said I would love to buy it later in the year.
This is one like it:
http://owyheesound.com/arriflex-120s-blimp.php (http://owyheesound.com/arriflex-120s-blimp.php)
Quote from: Trevor on July 11, 2022, 09:49:15 AM
Quote from: ER on July 11, 2022, 09:41:57 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 11, 2022, 07:52:54 AM
I found a very old friend today: the first 35mm motion picture camera I ever set up and operated.
The person who has it is selling it for the owner.
How about I go with a true on that one? (If it's true, would you like to buy it?)
Yes, very true: I delivered films for a client today and the camera was standing there. I asked the manager if that was a camera from a filmmaker I know and he confirmed it. The owner wants 30 000 SA Rand for it (about $1 700) and I said I would love to buy it later in the year.
This is one like it:
http://owyheesound.com/arriflex-120s-blimp.php (http://owyheesound.com/arriflex-120s-blimp.php)
I hope you get it. You know, I bet if you set up a Go Fund Me, and mentioned how you'd like to see the camera cared for and preserved, other people would think it was a good cause.
Trewe/ Falze:
When we were in New Zealand in 2007, we went up in a hot hair balloon (freebie: that part is true), and above an empty field I tossed a handful of super balls over the side to see how high they'd bounce. I never caught sight of any of them, but a few minutes later some men on the ground mooned us.
I am going to go with false, even though I think true.
Quote from: Alex on July 12, 2022, 02:25:11 PM
I am going to go with false, even though I think true.
Shrewd! The mooning bit never happened.
I saw the Ramones in concert.
True
No. :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 12, 2022, 07:37:43 PM
I saw the Ramones in concert.
Too bad it's not true. I saw them 3 times and they were great. Ya shoulda been there with me!
True or false.
I was once caught having sex on the beach by a bunch of nuns out for a walk.
Quote from: Alex on July 13, 2022, 02:09:02 PM
True or false.
I was once caught having sex on the beach by a bunch of nuns out for a walk.
I sure hope that's not true! :bouncegiggle:
?eslaF ro eurT
I can no longer make my lifelong boast that I have never had a cavity, a car wreck, or a speeding ticket, as one no longer applies.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on July 13, 2022, 11:09:19 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 12, 2022, 07:37:43 PM
I saw the Ramones in concert.
Too bad it's not true. I saw them 3 times and they were great. Ya shoulda been there with me!
Me too. Me too. :bluesad:
Quote from: Alex on July 13, 2022, 02:09:02 PM
True or false.
I was once caught having sex on the beach by a bunch of nuns out for a walk.
Of course it's true.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 15, 2022, 01:49:05 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 13, 2022, 02:09:02 PM
True or false.
I was once caught having sex on the beach by a bunch of nuns out for a walk.
Of course it's true.
False. We did have a jet fly overhead though.
I once had a cat sh!t in my shoe.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 01:41:53 AM
I once had a cat sh!t in my shoe.
I'm going with true.
All of these movies have not so obvious South African connections in one way or another:
First Blood
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Cliffhanger
:teddyr:
True or False?
The first time I ever went to an actual movie theater, it was on a trip with the cub scouts.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on July 16, 2022, 05:44:34 PM
True or False?
The first time I ever went to an actual movie theater, it was on a trip with the cub scouts.
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 06:59:27 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on July 16, 2022, 05:44:34 PM
True or False?
The first time I ever went to an actual movie theater, it was on a trip with the cub scouts.
True.
That is true.
We were actually supposed to be going on a trip somewhere else (I forget where) but the place was closed when we got there.
Quote from: Trevor on July 16, 2022, 03:23:02 PM
All of these movies have not so obvious South African connections in one way or another:
First Blood
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Cliffhanger
:teddyr:
It's true.
Everything you have posted has been true so far.
I was once arrested for beating the s**t out of a garbage can outside a bar.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 08:52:03 PM
I was once arrested for beating the s**t out of a garbage can outside a bar.
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 01:41:53 AM
I once had a cat sh!t in my shoe.
:bouncegiggle:
No, they won't do that. I saw Trevor's response, of course it's not true. But a cat sure will PEE in your shoe... or try to... :teddyr:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2022, 08:48:07 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 16, 2022, 03:23:02 PM
All of these movies have not so obvious South African connections in one way or another:
First Blood
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Cliffhanger
:teddyr:
It's true. Everything you have posted has been true so far.
Yes, indeed.
First Blood's theme tune was written by a South African, Age of Ultron was partly filmed here and Cliffhanger's score was written by Trevor Jones of Mississippi Burning fame.
On the first of every month I get a new burner phone, and let my son destroy the old one.
Quote from: ER on July 19, 2022, 11:59:22 AM
On the first of every month I get a new burner phone, and let my son destroy the old one.
I'm going with true: here in SA, a lot of people use prepaid phones as a everyday phone, I do as well.
Television was banned in South Africa until 1975.
True or False?
Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a porno with A-list actors.
Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2022, 12:53:22 AM
True or False?
Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a porno with A-list actors.
I say true: Eyes Wide Shut was certainly almost that.
Quote from: Trevor on July 19, 2022, 10:45:37 PM
Quote from: ER on July 19, 2022, 11:59:22 AM
On the first of every month I get a new burner phone, and let my son destroy the old one.
I'm going with true: here in SA, a lot of people use prepaid phones as a everyday phone, I do as well.
True! We have burned them with a welding torch, crushed them in a vice, smashed them with a sledge, shot them with various firearms, hurled them into the river with a homemade Medieval siege engine, employed an ax, a sword, a WWI Prussian trench mace, encased some in cement, dissected a few, sealed one in tar, and on one memorable occasion crafted what can only be called an IED to send one into the beyond. I call it extreme science experiments.
Quote from: Trevor on July 20, 2022, 02:33:36 AM
Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2022, 12:53:22 AM
True or False?
Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a porno with A-list actors.
I say true: Eyes Wide Shut was certainly almost that.
He did want to, and yes Eyes Wide Shut was as close as he got.
C'est vrai? The surface of the moon is more reflective than the surface of water.
Quote from: ER on July 31, 2022, 10:54:04 AM
C'est vrai? The surface of the moon is more reflective than the surface of water.
I'll say true?
Quote from: ER on August 13, 2022, 11:27:37 AM
Quote from: ER on July 31, 2022, 10:54:04 AM
C'est vrai? The surface of the moon is more reflective than the surface of water.
I'll say true?
Yes, true! :thumbup:
Despite what you see in the movies, human skulls buried in the ground rarely remain in one piece for very long. The weight of the soil crushes them over time.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 13, 2022, 10:51:00 PM
Despite what you see in the movies, human skulls buried in the ground rarely remain in one piece for very long. The weight of the soil crushes them over time.
I'd say true.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 13, 2022, 10:51:00 PM
Despite what you see in the movies, human skulls buried in the ground rarely remain in one piece for very long. The weight of the soil crushes them over time.
Makes sense.
Going to go with true.
Lugosi only played Dracula in 2 feature length films.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 14, 2022, 07:14:08 AM
Lugosi only played Dracula in 2 feature length films.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it's true: Dracula and Dracula's Daughter?
Quote from: indianasmith on August 13, 2022, 10:51:00 PM
Despite what you see in the movies, human skulls buried in the ground rarely remain in one piece for very long. The weight of the soil crushes them over time.
Very true! Over 45 years of artifact collecting, I've discovered many ancient, native burials but have never seen a skull in one piece.
(And I ALWAYS leave them alone!)
Quote from: indianasmith on August 14, 2022, 09:54:17 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on August 13, 2022, 10:51:00 PM
Despite what you see in the movies, human skulls buried in the ground rarely remain in one piece for very long. The weight of the soil crushes them over time.
Very true! Over 45 years of artifact collecting, I've discovered many ancient, native burials but have never seen a skull in one piece.
(And I ALWAYS leave them alone!)
I would too as I remember what happened in
The XFiles episode
Teso dos Bichos :buggedout:
The plates in the skull and the facial bones never completely fuse. There's even a branch of chiropractic medicine that manipulates the bones of the face. So skulls do eventually divide along "fault lines" after death, yes.
I am feeling good about my impending retirement.
I do hope that's true.
Quote from: ER on August 14, 2022, 12:51:14 PM
I do hope that's true.
I got word on Friday that our Director-General was looking over my early retirement submission and that's when it started to sink in what I actually was doing. I am torn between feeling OK and a bit WTF have I done.
If it helps, in my current job I am earning a bit more than twice the national average (and around three times the average local wage). Despite this, expected price rises in electricity and heating are expected us to put us in fuel poverty (where you are spending 10% or more of your wage on these things). I still feel like leaving is the right thing to do. Do I question if I am doing the right thing or not? Hell yes, constantly. I am still planning on doing it though. When it is the right time you leave your job, you know it inside. You just need to be sure enough of what you are doing to take that step.
Quote from: Alex on August 14, 2022, 01:38:16 PM
If it helps, in my current job I am earning a bit more than twice the national average (and around three times the average local wage). Despite this, expected price rises in electricity and heating are expected us to put us in fuel poverty (where you are spending 10% or more of your wage on these things). I still feel like leaving is the right thing to do. Do I question if I am doing the right thing or not? Hell yes, constantly. I am still planning on doing it though. When it is the right time you leave your job, you know it inside. You just need to be sure enough of what you are doing to take that step.
Have they come at you with big reenlistment bonuses? An enlisted man I knew on-base said no three times til just before he left the USAF finally offered him a bonus of an additional year's salary up front for four more years, and he couldn't turn that down.
Quote from: ER on August 14, 2022, 02:59:59 PM
Quote from: Alex on August 14, 2022, 01:38:16 PM
If it helps, in my current job I am earning a bit more than twice the national average (and around three times the average local wage). Despite this, expected price rises in electricity and heating are expected us to put us in fuel poverty (where you are spending 10% or more of your wage on these things). I still feel like leaving is the right thing to do. Do I question if I am doing the right thing or not? Hell yes, constantly. I am still planning on doing it though. When it is the right time you leave your job, you know it inside. You just need to be sure enough of what you are doing to take that step.
Have they come at you with big reenlistment bonuses? An enlisted man I knew on-base said no three times til just before he left the USAF finally offered him a bonus of an additional year's salary up front for four more years, and he couldn't turn that down.
They don't do offers like that for us. Occasionally a pinch point trade will get offered golden handcuffs to sign on for longer, but you generally have to request them when the offer is open. As we have two applicants for every available job in the RAF, the bean counters are quite happy with the numbers of people joining up. They don't really take any account of the experience they lose or the time it takes to train someone new up (about 14 months of technical training school, followed by 18 months working on aircraft until you really know the system well enough). It isn't within my managements powers to offer me a pay raise by themselves (I am the highest paid cpl in the RAF currently because of a combination of circumstances that arose because of the last time they changed our pay structure combined with my refusal to be promoted), they can't offer me a promotion (not that I want one) and they can't even offer me extra time off. All they can do is offer me a move, and I am happy enough where I am. The only thing that would get me to stay in longer would be a full-scale war breaking out and even then, that is only because they'd just recall me anyway.
Quote from: Trevor on August 14, 2022, 07:37:12 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 14, 2022, 07:14:08 AM
Lugosi only played Dracula in 2 feature length films.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it's true: Dracula and Dracula's Daughter?
Close- DRACULA and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.
I once convinced a man that a bird had crapped on his head, by constantly staring at the top of his head and saying nothing.
Quote from: Alex on August 15, 2022, 08:47:22 AM
I once convinced a man that a bird had crapped on his head, by constantly staring at the top of his head and saying nothing.
I'll be sad if a mind-freak like that isn't true.
Quote from: ER on August 15, 2022, 09:29:02 AM
Quote from: Alex on August 15, 2022, 08:47:22 AM
I once convinced a man that a bird had crapped on his head, by constantly staring at the top of his head and saying nothing.
I'll be sad if a mind-freak like that isn't true.
This is true. It was a very pale-faced guy who had the coincidently unfortunate name of White (or possibly Whyte).
True or false about me
1. I am unashamedly an Uwe Boll fan.
2. My paternal grandfather came from Cornwall.
3. I crashed our family car when I was seven.
4. I almost knocked a former Prime Minister over.
I am sorely tempted to guess true for all four, but I'll say true to the first three and false to the last one (even though I think it is true).
Quote from: Alex on August 25, 2022, 11:21:55 AM
I am sorely tempted to guess true for all four, but I'll say true to the first three and false to the last one (even though I think it is true).
Believe it or not, all 4 are true.
In 1980, I bumped into someone at a store in Gweru, Zimbabwe and he almost went flying. I apologized, he said it was OK and Dad told me that I bumped into the controversial Rhodesian ex Prime Monster Ian Smith. 😳😳
I have unintentionally picked up a handful of fragments from a human skull.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 25, 2022, 05:29:06 PM
I have unintentionally picked up a handful of fragments from a human skull.
false
it was definitely intentional :teddyr:
Quote from: indianasmith on August 25, 2022, 05:29:06 PM
I have unintentionally picked up a handful of fragments from a human skull.
It wasn't my skull so I'm going with true 💀😉😉
Yup. Creeped me the heck out!
My music tastes, true or false.
The song Friday by Rebecca Black always makes me laugh and not because of the badness of the song.
I like jazz and reggae.
I collect soundtracks on vinyl.
The song "Sun City" fills me with pride.
I would like The Raiders March, Mark Knopfler's Going Home and the Star Trek TV theme played at my funeral.
Going to go with true for all of them.
I've actually just informed the undertaker of the songs that have been decided on for the funeral service. Kristi asked me what three songs I'd choose to have played at hers. I said Bodies by Drowning Pool.
All true except for the Sun City song: a piece of virtue signalling anti SA 💩 where almost all of the artists still allowed their music to be sold here under apartheid. 😡
Quote from: Trevor on August 29, 2022, 08:59:08 AM
All true except for the Sun City song: a piece of virtue signalling anti SA 💩 where almost all of the artists still allowed their music to be sold here under apartheid. 😡
It isn't a song I am familiar with if that helps.
Quote from: Alex on August 29, 2022, 09:43:22 AM
Quote from: Trevor on August 29, 2022, 08:59:08 AM
All true except for the Sun City song: a piece of virtue signalling anti SA 💩 where almost all of the artists still allowed their music to be sold here under apartheid. 😡
It isn't a song I am familiar with if that helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIvf-ZlJNc&list=RDEM41qlXpYsrnCFPosS8Wfduw&start_radio=1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIvf-ZlJNc&list=RDEM41qlXpYsrnCFPosS8Wfduw&start_radio=1)
Quote from: Alex on August 29, 2022, 09:43:22 AM
Quote from: Trevor on August 29, 2022, 08:59:08 AM
All true except for the Sun City song: a piece of virtue signalling anti SA 💩 where almost all of the artists still allowed their music to be sold here under apartheid. 😡
It isn't a song I am familiar with if that helps.
"Sun City" was a hit in the USA (not a huge hit) and probably charted around the world in 1985. You're probably too young.
At a film premiere in 2016, I sat watching the film and cursed under my breath whenever the bad guy - a real POS - appeared on screen. Once the movie was over, I got up, turned around to go and saw that the actor who played the villain had been sitting behind me the whole time :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on September 23, 2022, 06:31:32 PM
At a film premiere in 2016, I sat watching the film and cursed under my breath whenever the bad guy - a real POS - appeared on screen. Once the movie was over, I got up, turned around to go and saw that the actor who played the villain had been sitting behind me the whole time :buggedout: :buggedout:
I think your heart is honest because you almost always post truths, so....true again?
Quote from: ER on September 25, 2022, 09:28:25 PM
Quote from: Trevor on September 23, 2022, 06:31:32 PM
At a film premiere in 2016, I sat watching the film and cursed under my breath whenever the bad guy - a real POS - appeared on screen. Once the movie was over, I got up, turned around to go and saw that the actor who played the villain had been sitting behind me the whole time :buggedout: :buggedout:
I think your heart is honest because you almost always post truths, so....true again?
Yes, true.
The premiere of the SA film
Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling [Song For A Lonely Person]: the bad guy appears at 0:41.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5W4ZP6s8o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5W4ZP6s8o)
Quote from: Trevor on September 23, 2022, 06:31:32 PM
At a film premiere in 2016, I sat watching the film and cursed under my breath whenever the bad guy - a real POS - appeared on screen. Once the movie was over, I got up, turned around to go and saw that the actor who played the villain had been sitting behind me the whole time :buggedout: :buggedout:
A compliment to the actor, surely?
Quote from: Newt on September 26, 2022, 07:10:40 AM
Quote from: Trevor on September 23, 2022, 06:31:32 PM
At a film premiere in 2016, I sat watching the film and cursed under my breath whenever the bad guy - a real POS - appeared on screen. Once the movie was over, I got up, turned around to go and saw that the actor who played the villain had been sitting behind me the whole time :buggedout: :buggedout:
A compliment to the actor, surely?
By the :teddyr: on his face when he saw mine fall when I realized who he was and what I had been doing for the last two hours, I think he enjoyed it. The convo went thus:
Actor [big grin]: "Hi, good evening. Did you enjoy the movie?"
Trevor: "Umm, yes, thanks. :buggedout:"
Actor: "My pleasure, thanks."
Trevor: Someone shoot me now. :buggedout: :wink:
There is a species of dwarf anteater in Madagascar which never urinates, owing to the ability of its bladder to continuously reabsorb urine back into the body. (Lotta unique life forms in Madagascar.)
Quote from: ER on October 06, 2022, 05:32:48 PM
There is a species of dwarf anteater in Madagascar which never urinates, owing to the ability of its bladder to continuously reabsorb urine back into the body. (Lotta unique life forms in Madagascar.)
I'll go true...
it's cousin, the dwarf pant-wetter, is not so highly evolved
Quote from: zombie no.one on October 07, 2022, 09:24:04 AM
Quote from: ER on October 06, 2022, 05:32:48 PM
There is a species of dwarf anteater in Madagascar which never urinates, owing to the ability of its bladder to continuously reabsorb urine back into the body. (Lotta unique life forms in Madagascar.)
I'll go true...
it's cousin, the dwarf pant-wetter, is not so highly evolved
Dwarf pant-wetter, ha!
Nah, sorry, made that up.
orly? you had me
An important aspect of the ritual that created a man as High King in ancient Ireland was the High King publicly copulated with a wild mare atop the Hill of Tara.
(C'mon, something like that can't be true, right?)
True.
Quote from: Alex on October 09, 2022, 03:02:07 PM
True.
Really, Alex? Really? You come across something as twisted as that and your mind goes, "Hmmm, I think Irish people are so messed up that must be true....."
Yes, blast you, it's true. Well done, you believer in the worst in others. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on October 09, 2022, 03:22:27 PM
Quote from: Alex on October 09, 2022, 03:02:07 PM
True.
Really, Alex? Really? You come across something as twisted as that and your mind goes, "Hmmm, I think Irish people are so messed up that must be true....."
Yes, blast you, it's true. Well done, you believer in the worst in others. :bouncegiggle:
I know something of mythology and history. Your not the only one who knows a bit about Ireland.
When I was a kid, I got several pieces of a rubber fishing worm stuck in my sinuses after sticking them up my nose to shoot across the room at my sister, then snorting instead of blowing. Mom and Dad freaked and took me to the hospital. In the waiting room, I sneezed and spewed bits of rubber worm all over the ER, so my parents took me home!
Quote from: indianasmith on October 09, 2022, 11:27:48 PM
When I was a kid, I got several pieces of a rubber fishing worm stuck in my sinuses after sticking them up my nose to shoot across the room at my sister, then snorting instead of blowing. Mom and Dad freaked and took me to the hospital. In the waiting room, I sneezed and spewed bits of rubber worm all over the ER, so my parents took me home!
Easy: true. :teddyr:
True.
You guys know me too well!
During an exercise, while administering first aid to a "casualty", I slipped and put him in hospital for real
Quote from: Alex on October 10, 2022, 09:57:13 AM
During an exercise, while administering first aid to a "casualty", I slipped and put him in hospital for real
Well, I once slapped the snot out of a dummy during first aid training so I'm going to say yes :wink:
On the same day in February 1995 I got my first driver's license, my first car, and had almost all my clothing amorously removed, also for the first time.
Quote from: Trevor on October 10, 2022, 10:02:24 AM
Quote from: Alex on October 10, 2022, 09:57:13 AM
During an exercise, while administering first aid to a "casualty", I slipped and put him in hospital for real
Well, I once slapped the snot out of a dummy during first aid training so I'm going to say yes :wink:
Indeed it was true. I wasn't allowed to remove my rifle, and it slipped, smacking him in the forehead.
Quote from: ER on October 10, 2022, 04:51:02 PM
On the same day in February 1995 I got my first driver's license, my first car, and had almost all my clothing amorously removed, also for the first time.
True.
This week I saw a bald eagle dive into the lake and grab a fish about 100 yards away from me!
Quote from: indianasmith on October 12, 2022, 05:50:11 AM
This week I saw a bald eagle dive into the lake and grab a fish about 100 yards away from me!
True 😊🐢
Yup. On Monday, as I was out hunting arrowheads. It was totally cool!
True or false is too easy. You have a 50/50 chance either way.
He's a multiple choice question for you!
I used to run a fansite for what late 80s early 90s cartoon?
a) Jem and the Holograms
b) Kidd Video
c) Captain N: The Game Master
d) The Inhumanoids
I will go with a)
There are only - so far, anyway - four SA born members of the American Society of Cinematographers and two of them were mentors to me.
https://theasc.com/ (https://theasc.com/)
My HS's football team got whipped 53 - 0 today!
Or did they?
Quote from: indianasmith on October 15, 2022, 04:45:31 PM
My HS's football team got whipped 53 - 0 today!
Or did they?
Since I didn't see a facebook post about it, I am going to guess false.
True, they got completely whoomped.
It was a painful game to announce!
Quote from: chainsaw midget on October 15, 2022, 09:39:14 AM
True or false is too easy. You have a 50/50 chance either way.
He's a multiple choice question for you!
I used to run a fansite for what late 80s early 90s cartoon?
a) Jem and the Holograms
b) Kidd Video
c) Captain N: The Game Master
d) The Inhumanoids
D.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on October 15, 2022, 09:39:14 AM
True or false is too easy. You have a 50/50 chance either way.
He's a multiple choice question for you!
I used to run a fansite for what late 80s early 90s cartoon?
a) Jem and the Holograms
b) Kidd Video
c) Captain N: The Game Master
d) The Inhumanoids
The correct answer is "C".
A remake of 'the tingler' is going to be made. This one will be rated NC17.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on October 11, 2022, 10:28:05 PM
Quote from: ER on October 10, 2022, 04:51:02 PM
On the same day in February 1995 I got my first driver's license, my first car, and had almost all my clothing amorously removed, also for the first time.
True.
Oh, sorry, yes, true, give the man a ceegar. That day might've been even more memorable but he asked me a question, something you should never do if you want to keep something passionate going with me, because my mind automatically stops to consider what I'm asked. Still, a lot of firsts that fine day....
Three of my favorite actresses' first names all begin with the letter J: true or false?
Quote from: Trevor on October 22, 2022, 05:57:28 AM
Three of my favorite actresses' first names all begin with the letter J: true or false?
True. One is Joan Collins. Not sure who the other two are.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 22, 2022, 09:43:12 AM
Quote from: Trevor on October 22, 2022, 05:57:28 AM
Three of my favorite actresses' first names all begin with the letter J: true or false?
True. One is Joan Collins. Not sure who the other two are.
Indeed :thumbup:
The other two are Jodie Foster and Judith Hoag :teddyr:
True or false.
I got my drivers license, bought my first truck exactly one month later, and got into an accident exactly one month after that.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on October 22, 2022, 09:25:10 PM
True or false.
I got my drivers license, bought my first truck exactly one month later, and got into an accident exactly one month after that.
True.
True or false:
While my friends and I were running from a crazy guy with a shotgun, I managed to keep my 77 Dodge Aspen airborne for a distance of about 50 feet!
Quote from: indianasmith on October 23, 2022, 09:35:22 AM
True or false:
While my friends and I were running from a crazy guy with a shotgun, I managed to keep my 77 Dodge Aspen airborne for a distance of about 50 feet!
I say true :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on October 23, 2022, 09:57:51 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on October 23, 2022, 09:35:22 AM
True or false:
While my friends and I were running from a crazy guy with a shotgun, I managed to keep my 77 Dodge Aspen airborne for a distance of about 50 feet!
I say true :wink:
Yup! The next day Dad borrowed my car and he said: "Son, your shocks are SHOT! What happened?"
Me: "No idea, Dad!"
Quote from: Alex on October 23, 2022, 03:05:50 AM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on October 22, 2022, 09:25:10 PM
True or false.
I got my drivers license, bought my first truck exactly one month later, and got into an accident exactly one month after that.
True.
False. I got my drivers license one day. The next day I bought my truck and got into an accident the same day.
I am a big soccer fan: I am a thirty year Liverpool fan but I have a great respect and admiration for Manchester United, their big rivals. True or false?
Quote from: Trevor on October 27, 2022, 10:07:10 AM
I am a big soccer fan: I am a thirty year Liverpool fan but I have a great respect and admiration for Manchester United, their big rivals. True or false?
True, since hey, who doesn't support United?
Just because I hate football, I am going with false.
Quote from: Alex on October 27, 2022, 10:45:50 AM
Just because I hate football, I am going with false.
Actually true: after the horrors of Hillsborough in 1989, Sir Alex Ferguson called Kenny Dalgleish and offered help both from his and the club's side and that fact made me go :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
In 1980 - my first year of high school - my IQ was measured at 70: true or false?
Quote from: Trevor on October 30, 2022, 03:09:15 PM
In 1980 - my first year of high school - my IQ was measured at 70: true or false?
False. After fifteen straight truths, figure you are due for a little nose-growth.
Quote from: ER on October 30, 2022, 05:20:57 PM
Quote from: Trevor on October 30, 2022, 03:09:15 PM
In 1980 - my first year of high school - my IQ was measured at 70: true or false?
False. After fifteen straight truths, figure you are due for a little nose-growth.
Very, very sadly true, unfortunately. My attitude towards my teachers changed remarkably after that as I then set out to prove them wrong about me which I did.
Although I'm not a political person at all, there are two SA politicians I admire.
True or false: This true or false thread hints our good-hearted friend Trevor may actually be incapable of lying. :bouncegiggle:
OK, here is one. Is this true?
A co-worker of mine was retired US Army special forces, and one day he told me and some others about when he was stationed in a jungle backwater base in Panama in the late 1970s. All there was to do when not working in this remote spot was to go hang out in a bar run by a local woman, and one night there a Panamanian man from a village farther into the deep jungle came into the bar with two girls, maybe thirteen or so, and he said they were his daughters, and he'd let anyone spend the night with one of them for twenty US dollars, or both for thirty-five.
The offer disgusted my future co-worker and some of those with him so much they got up and chased off the man and told the girls they'd try to help them by taking them into the city and telling the authorities about their situation, but to their surprise the girls screamed and fought against the soldiers and ran back to their father outside.
All this disturbed my future co-worker and his friends so much that he and two others got up and went after the girls' father to put the fear of God in him about the consequences of them catching him trying to pimp out his kids again, but when they caught up with the man on a dirt road heading back to his squalid village, the girls fought the soldiers and told them to leave their father alone, he was all they had in the world. So, shocked and disheartened, the three Americans let the family walk away.
They went back into the bar and the Panamanian woman running it said nice try but they should stay out of things like that. She said if they beat the man up it'd leave the girls worse off, and if they killed their father then there'd be nobody at all to protect the girls, and then someone else who cared even less for them would come pimp them instead.
So the soldiers didn't do anything, and to their disgust saw the man come back into town and even around the bar, and while they wanted to beat up those (even some US soldiers) who accepted the father's offer for the girls, they just became dispirited when they saw how hopeless and awful life was there for so many of the people.
My co-worker said being there to see that forever changed his outlook on life, and he was glad when his time in Panama ended.
So, was I really told this sad tale of survival amid late-20th century Third World poverty?
You've had some odd experiences, to be sure, and the tale rings true enough - in the Philippines in the 1980's I heard of families bringing their 12 year old daughters into the city to become prostitutes . . .
But I think you're pulling our leg with this one!
No, I truly was told this dreadful story.
Quote from: ER on November 10, 2022, 07:28:24 AM
No, I truly was told this dreadful story.
How depressing.
True or false: On game days, the football stadium of the University of Nebraska temporarily becomes the third largest population center in the state.
Quote from: ER on November 14, 2022, 06:54:10 PM
True or false: On game days, the football stadium of the University of Nebraska temporarily becomes the third largest population center in the state.
Going with yes.
Yes.
I once ate 13 bowls of porridge for a bet.
Quote from: Alex on November 15, 2022, 10:50:30 AM
I once ate 13 bowls of porridge for a bet.
Me say yes. :teddyr:
Quote from: ER on November 14, 2022, 06:54:10 PM
True or false: On game days, the football stadium of the University of Nebraska temporarily becomes the third largest population center in the state.
Yes!
True or a big chubby lie: Cilantro and coriander are the same thing.
My first personal introduction to big USA cars came when I was seven.
True or False: William Shakespeare's middle name was Bartholomew?
Quote from: ER on November 20, 2022, 12:41:24 AM
True or False: William Shakespeare's middle name was Bartholomew?
I guess this was too hard for everyone. Sorrrrrry.... Actually it's true, and I know this because Philomena Cunk said so on her special about Shakespeare, whom she reminds us was the author of
Game of Thrones. For a bonus fact, going to school was easier when Shakespeare was a child, because in school in those days kids didn't have to study Shakespeare. Philomena knows many facts.
The Louisville Men's basketball team are on a four game losing streak; all of the losses in the streak have been by one point.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 20, 2022, 05:41:39 PM
The Louisville Men's basketball team are on a four game losing streak; all of the losses in the streak have been by one point.
That was, of course, true.
True or false: a female neighbor of mine has been arrested twice for scrawling racist graffiti on the house of the only black family in the neighborhood.
I am going to go with true, although I hope for false.
Quote from: Alex on November 25, 2022, 09:56:32 AM
I am going to go with true, although I hope for false.
It's false on technicalities: it happened in my brother's neighborhood, the second incident was sending threatening letters rather than more graffiti, and the family was half-Filipino, half-black (and there are more than one black family in the neighborhood).
Sorry to hear that. I doubt the families deserved it.
Trueorfalse: I've seen every New Yorker cartoon published between 1925 and 2004. (This is true. Wednesday Addams has nothing on me.)
I've had the same personal email address since 1999.
Going with true for the first and false for the second.
Quote from: Alex on December 31, 2022, 10:41:30 AM
Going with true for the first and false for the second.
Both are true. Same personal email for over half my life.
Quote from: ER on December 31, 2022, 10:57:05 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 31, 2022, 10:41:30 AM
Going with true for the first and false for the second.
Both are true. Same personal email for over half my life.
I've had the same email address (trevormoses@hotmail.com) since 1999.
There is a certain filmmaker (also an actor) who I detest but I have most of this person's films. :question:
Quote from: Trevor on January 11, 2023, 12:14:58 AM
There is a certain filmmaker (also an actor) who I detest but I have most of this person's films. :question:
True.
I gave a romantic partner herpes.
Quote from: ER on January 11, 2023, 08:01:36 AM
Quote from: Trevor on January 11, 2023, 12:14:58 AM
There is a certain filmmaker (also an actor) who I detest but I have most of this person's films. :question:
True.
Yes: Richard Attenborough. I even have a DVD of
Magic.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 11, 2023, 08:52:56 AM
I gave a romantic partner herpes.
False Rev: the only thing you would give a partner is love :smile:
Yes to the Rev, but I'll say it was the oral variety.
Quote from: ER on January 11, 2023, 10:36:42 AM
Yes to the Rev, but I'll say it was the oral variety.
It is true and it was the oral variety (simplex I).
While tossing darts I once threw six bullseye's in a row.
Quote from: ER on January 12, 2023, 10:49:17 AM
While tossing darts I once threw six bullseye's in a row.
Unless you were using more than three darts, I say false.
Quote from: Trevor on January 12, 2023, 12:21:13 PM
Quote from: ER on January 12, 2023, 10:49:17 AM
While tossing darts I once threw six bullseye's in a row.
Unless you were using more than three darts, I say false.
False 'tis.
^ I was thinking, if you could, you could make money at bars betting on that sh!t !
I once messed up a public 35mm film screening and I didn't know that the film's director was in the audience 😳
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 12, 2023, 02:04:11 PM
True.
Yes, true: the director was nice about it and later became a career mentor so all good 😊
This morning at a restaurant I saw a woman with an eye patch.
Quote from: Trevor on January 12, 2023, 01:17:11 PM
I once messed up a public 35mm film screening and I didn't know that the film's director was in the audience 😳
True.
Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 10:33:00 AM
This morning at a restaurant I saw a woman with an eye patch.
False. It was really the control panel for an armageddon type weapon, controlled by a James Bond super villain.
Quote from: Alex on January 15, 2023, 05:11:03 PM
Quote from: Trevor on January 12, 2023, 01:17:11 PM
I once messed up a public 35mm film screening and I didn't know that the film's director was in the audience 😳
True.
Yes, I was screening South Africa's first horror / avant garde film
Jannie Totsiens: its' first public screening in almost 3 decades 😳
Quote from: Alex on January 15, 2023, 05:11:55 PM
Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 10:33:00 AM
This morning at a restaurant I saw a woman with an eye patch.
False. It was really the control panel for an armageddon type weapon, controlled by a James Bond super villain.
Ha, I saw no woman, 'tis true, I lied through my pearly whites.
Every once in a while I like to take a freezing cold shower in winter. Why? For the same reason I sometimes go without liquids, or food, or sleep, or work out to the brink of falling over, or refuse local anesthetic in surgery, or have done the Crucible multiple times: to show my central nervous system this little ash-blonde princess people think of as a soccer mom is the motherf**king boss, that's why. Booyaah!
Ahem, where was I? Oh, yes: true or false?
False! If not-
(https://i.imgur.com/DVjKzgh.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Well of course it's false: I haven't been a soccer mom in several years.
The name of my English Public school in Zimbabwe has the same name as a very famous British actor. :smile:
I just posted this as the last three numbers in my post count were 666 :buggedout:
Michael Caine School? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 17, 2023, 01:28:15 PM
Michael Caine School? :question:
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
If I could give you karma for that, I would :smile:
No, not Sir Michael but the actor I was thinking of was also a Sir.
The Sir Dudley More School!
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2023, 02:35:05 PM
The Sir Dudley More School!
😊😊 No, more famous than either of those two. 😂
Quote from: Trevor on January 17, 2023, 01:26:27 PM
The name of my English Public school in Zimbabwe has the same name as a very famous British actor. :smile:
I just posted this as the last three numbers in my post count were 666 :buggedout:
The Benny Hill Institute!
Or maybe Sean Connery?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 17, 2023, 03:28:54 PM
Quote from: Trevor on January 17, 2023, 01:26:27 PM
The name of my English Public school in Zimbabwe has the same name as a very famous British actor. :smile:
I just posted this as the last three numbers in my post count were 666 :buggedout:
The Benny Hill Institute!
Or maybe Sean Connery?
😂😂😂
No, I'll fess up 😁
From 1980 to 1984, I went to
Chaplin High School in Gweru.
Our opponents in sports used to call us The Charlies but not to our faces 😳
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin_High_School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin_High_School)
Priests among the Aztecs kept a book called Tlictlipos, no copies of which are known to be extant, that reportedly listed and described some 247 methods by which a human being might be killed.
False. The Aztecs had no books.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 26, 2023, 09:22:50 AM
False. The Aztecs had no books.
You're half right. The Aztecs had great libraries of books til the Spanish burned them, but I did make that book up
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 09:36:13 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 26, 2023, 09:22:50 AM
False. The Aztecs had no books.
You're half right. The Aztecs had great libraries of books til the Spanish burned them, but I did make that book up
I'm not sure the Aztecs had books; but I know the Maya did produce them in Codex form. Nearly all are now lost.
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 09:36:13 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 26, 2023, 09:22:50 AM
False. The Aztecs had no books.
You're half right. The Aztecs had great libraries of books til the Spanish burned them, but I did make that book up
Dear- no. The Aztecs did not have paper.
They did not have libraries on paper. Ever.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 26, 2023, 06:28:42 PM
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 09:36:13 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 26, 2023, 09:22:50 AM
False. The Aztecs had no books.
You're half right. The Aztecs had great libraries of books til the Spanish burned them, but I did make that book up
Dear- no. The Aztecs did not have paper.
They did not have libraries on paper. Ever.
I don't think they had a fully evolved way of writing down language and relied on phonetic symbology.
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 06:55:18 PM
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.
I did not know this! Now I am going to have to look it up.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 26, 2023, 08:14:01 PM
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 06:55:18 PM
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language that relied on symbols rather than letters, and apparently had tens or hundreds of thousands of bound books in the libraries of their schools and elsewhere. Ever want to read something to tear your soul, find the account by a Spanish Franciscan of the Aztecs' reactions when the Inquisition gathered generations of books into heaps and set them on fire. Apparently some who looked on at this erasing of their cultural knowledge died of cardiac-related shock at witnessing this, and the Franciscan described the wails of grief as carrying for miles. I would rate that among the gravest atrocities in history, and a loss on a level with the Alexandrian library, yet it tends to fall into the category of the little known, as it was the conquering Spaniards who wrote the history of those times.
I did not know this! Now I am going to have to look it up.
Please do!
Anyone read the novel
AZTEC (1980) BY Gary Jennings?
Yes! Aztec was one of the best historical novels I have ever read. :thumbup:
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 06:55:18 PM
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language ...
Without knowledge of the spoken language it would have been difficult to understand the Aztec "written" language which relied on phonetics.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
True or false?
True! He constantly ridiculed the "meat eaters" in the Nazi high command.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 26, 2023, 10:47:29 PM
Quote from: ER on January 26, 2023, 06:55:18 PM
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians and others, had a complex and expressive written language ...
Without knowledge of the spoken language it would have been difficult to understand the Aztec "written" language which relied on phonetics.
I used to wonder how linguists reconstructed the sound of dead languages but I finally looked into it a few years ago, and the answer was worth seeking out.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 27, 2023, 12:11:58 AM
True! He constantly ridiculed the "meat eaters" in the Nazi high command.
Your the man! :thumbup:
The Appalachian Trail might soon be expanding into Alabama.
Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?
Quote from: Alex on January 27, 2023, 10:00:36 AM
Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?
George Harrison.
http://youtu.be/LYW9cjcO_SY (http://youtu.be/LYW9cjcO_SY)
Quote from: Alex on January 27, 2023, 10:00:36 AM
Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?
It seems to me a matter of opinion.
JOHN LENNON was the superior songwriter in my opinion.
Speaking of THE BEATLES, who wrote the song "Helter Skelter" credited to LENNON / McCARTNEY?
Quote from: Alex on January 27, 2023, 10:00:36 AM
Out of all of The Beatles, who made the best solo music following their split?
False.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 27, 2023, 01:34:51 PM
Speaking of THE BEATLES, who wrote the song "Helter Skelter" credited to LENNON / McCARTNEY?
True. (I believe it was Paul, trying to prove he could rock).
^ Man! I never thought about it! :question:
Neil Young?
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 27, 2023, 02:18:16 PM
^ Man! I never thought about it! :question:
Neil Young?
Cheez and crackers, we were talking about this last night and I told you that
PAUL wrote
"Helter Skelter". That's why I asked here! :lookingup:
My Aunt Christie saw The Beatles twice, once at old Crosley Field, where she was close enough to see the whites of their teeth, as she put it. Hear he tell it her fandom was 99-percent Paul, 1-percent everybody else, but she said she'd cheerfully have even married Ringo if it meant she'd get to hang out with Paul that way.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 27, 2023, 05:16:53 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 27, 2023, 02:18:16 PM
^ Man! I never thought about it! :question:
Neil Young?
Cheez and crackers, we were talking about this last night and I told you that PAUL wrote "Helter Skelter". That's why I asked here! :lookingup:
There ya go!
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2023, 05:45:38 PM
My Aunt Christie saw The Beatles twice, once at old Crosley Field, where she was close enough to see the whites of their teeth, as she put it. Hear he tell it her fandom was 99-percent Paul, 1-percent everybody else, but she said she'd cheerfully have even married Ringo if it meant she'd get to hang out with Paul that way.
True.
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2023, 05:45:38 PM
My Aunt Christie saw The Beatles twice, once at old Crosley Field, where she was close enough to see the whites of their teeth, as she put it. Hear he tell it her fandom was 99-percent Paul, 1-percent everybody else, but she said she'd cheerfully have even married Ringo if it meant she'd get to hang out with Paul that way.
True, I reckon. :question:
Once when I was in the Pocono Mountains I saw a flying saucer.
True!
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2023, 05:45:38 PM
My Aunt Christie saw The Beatles twice, once at old Crosley Field, where she was close enough to see the whites of their teeth, as she put it. Hear he tell it her fandom was 99-percent Paul, 1-percent everybody else, but she said she'd cheerfully have even married Ringo if it meant she'd get to hang out with Paul that way.
True!
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 27, 2023, 10:54:09 PM
Once when I was in the Pocono Mountains I saw a flying saucer.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 27, 2023, 10:55:33 PM
True!
I took a picture!
(https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/03/05/83/25/1000_F_305832532_GRGMcqBeZxexzPh9h7mmVYRROLxAq08x.jpg)
I collect vinyl underpants.... ermm, soundtracks 😳😉
Quote from: Trevor on January 28, 2023, 04:32:15 PM
I collect vinyl underpants.... ermm, soundtracks 😳😉
True.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 28, 2023, 06:09:37 PM
Quote from: Trevor on January 28, 2023, 04:32:15 PM
I collect vinyl underpants.... ermm, soundtracks 😳😉
True.
Yes indeed: I last bought Star Trek 3 The Search For Spock and Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home 😎
Robert E. Lee had a beloved pet rabbit that he took on campaigns with him during the Civil War; however, its name has been lost to history.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 10:06:15 AM
Robert E. Lee had a beloved pet rabbit that he took on campaigns with him during the Civil War; however, its name has been lost to history.
I'm going with true.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was banned in South Africa after one person complained to the censor board.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 10:06:15 AM
Robert E. Lee had a beloved pet rabbit that he took on campaigns with him during the Civil War; however, its name has been lost to history.
How you going to look down at your burning pants with your nose so long, indy? :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Trevor on January 29, 2023, 01:36:28 PM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was banned in South Africa after one person complained to the censor board.
I'll go for true. I believe Richard O'Brian was quite proud of being banned for being morally corrupting to the youth.
Quote from: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:04:11 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 10:06:15 AM
Robert E. Lee had a beloved pet rabbit that he took on campaigns with him during the Civil War; however, its name has been lost to history.
How you going to look down at your burning pants with your nose so long, indy? :bouncegiggle:
Acoording to my Civil War and Reconstruction professor, this one was true - and he had a standing offer of 10 bonus points on the final for any student who could document the rabbit's name - which no one ever collected!
Duchie was his name and he haunts Gettysburg cemetary...
(https://images.snapwi.re/df68/56d7f3125fe4dabb2cc06892.w800.jpg)
There's even a grave!
(https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2807141/792x524/scale;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=60.jpg)
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 29, 2023, 09:03:36 PM
Duchie was his name and he haunts Gettysburg cemetary...
(https://images.snapwi.re/df68/56d7f3125fe4dabb2cc06892.w800.jpg)
There's even a grave!
(https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2807141/792x524/scale;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=60.jpg)
But Duchie lived and died after the Civil War, so he must be Lee's rabbit's grandson or something . . .
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 10:48:09 PM
...But Duchie lived and died after the Civil War, so he must be Lee's rabbit's grandson or something . . .
:bouncegiggle:
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 08:17:33 PM
Quote from: ER on January 29, 2023, 04:04:11 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on January 29, 2023, 10:06:15 AM
Robert E. Lee had a beloved pet rabbit that he took on campaigns with him during the Civil War; however, its name has been lost to history.
How you going to look down at your burning pants with your nose so long, indy? :bouncegiggle:
Acoording to my Civil War and Reconstruction professor, this one was true - and he had a standing offer of 10 bonus points on the final for any student who could document the rabbit's name - which no one ever collected!
That's bizarre. I have literally never read about that in my life. Once again you have taught me something. Namaste!
True or False?
I chewed a live beetle in public twice.
Not this kinda beetle-!
(https://i.imgur.com/jbfvadc.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Hmmm, before I answer, was the beetle alive when you got done chewing it? Vital information before I make up my mind....
No. Unless there's life after death for bugs.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 30, 2023, 09:36:17 AM
No. Unless there's life after death for bugs.
I'll say true, and also speculate a British guy named Bear secretly saw you do it, and you inspired him to take up the career that made him famous.
I know someone whose father grew up on the same street as Buddy Holly, and remembers him from before he got famous.
Quote from: ER on January 30, 2023, 09:56:03 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 30, 2023, 09:36:17 AM
No. Unless there's life after death for bugs.
I'll say true, and also speculate a British guy named Bear secretly saw you do it, and you inspired him to take up the career that made him famous.
It is true. Once when I was sitting on a bench in Poe Park with my brother, and once sitting on my porch with my stepson Jim.
A man bearing my family name executed CHARLES I of England.
Of course! I think!
A. I have the ashes of a man who spent most of his life sentence in prison wanting me dead.
B. If I do have them, it isn't so I can gloat over them like some trophy.
C. I've never in my life been called on to betray another human being like I was called on to betray this man.
D. Even dead he remains a threat.
E. I sometimes say I sold my soul to the people I used to work for.
F. I am in a gloomy mood this morning amid domestic strife.
G. If you've guessed this far, I'm amazed.
I'll say true- seems like a trick question.
Yep, true.
Ok- so who is this guy??? :question:
Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.
Quote from: ER on February 03, 2023, 11:59:19 AM
Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.
That's quite the skeleton of a story.
This "crazy guy" went to prison in a crime against you? He died there? How did you obtain remains? Why are you rattled at your family?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 03, 2023, 03:58:01 PM
Quote from: ER on February 03, 2023, 11:59:19 AM
Crazy guy I knew about twenty years ago. I'm just rattled over my husband and oldest daughter undertaking what they thought was a good deed to spare me hurt and which has upset me. Got me thinking about that man and other stuff. It'll pass.
That's quite the skeleton of a story.
This "crazy guy" went to prison in a crime against you? He died there? How did you obtain remains? Why are you rattled at your family?
He went to prison for numerous crimes that weren't connected to me, I testified against him. He was murdered there. I got his ashes by asking for them. I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.
Quote from: ER on February 03, 2023, 05:27:28 PM
... I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.
I am sorry to read that. How old was your dog?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 03, 2023, 06:51:37 PM
Quote from: ER on February 03, 2023, 05:27:28 PM
... I'm rattled because my dog got put to sleep without me being told it was going to happen.
I am sorry to read that. How old was your dog?
Only four. He had an aggressive cancer that was only diagnosed last week. We got him and his brother at the same time, and his brother won't stop trying to find him. It's sad.
And thank you.
Why did family keep it from you? Purebred or shelter baby? I am sorry. I know that hurt.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 01, 2023, 03:46:55 PM
A man bearing my family name executed CHARLES I of England.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 01, 2023, 09:45:26 PM
Of course! I think!
Did not see your response. By the way, it is true.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 03, 2023, 07:53:18 PM
Why did family keep it from you? Purebred or shelter baby? I am sorry. I know that hurt.
He was a black lab, and his name was Bojack.
They were trying to make it easier on me, and spare me something horrible. Since he was diagnosed we'd disagreed, my husband and my oldest went with what the vet said, that his cancer was terminal and he was in pain and there was no hope of recovery, but I said no, not yet. I have never been completely at peace with putting down a dog, with a killing a friend in other words, with just taking ownership of an animal's life like that, even if I know the reasoning for it. I said he still had at least a little more time. But without telling me, when I was not home, they took him to the vet and I only found out later, which was not only a painful shock and I thought just horrible to do, not even let me be with him then....it was just so....
Anyway. It was hard. And his brother missing him and looking at us asking with his eyes where he is, it just breaks my heart. But mad and hurt as I am, all I can do now is get over it. There's nothing else.
Quote from: ER on February 04, 2023, 12:06:17 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 03, 2023, 07:53:18 PM
Why did family keep it from you? Purebred or shelter baby? I am sorry. I know that hurt.
He was a black lab, and his name was Bojack.
They were trying to make it easier on me, and spare me something horrible. Since he was diagnosed we'd disagreed, my husband and my oldest went with what the vet said, that his cancer was terminal and he was in pain and there was no hope of recovery, but I said no, not yet. I have never been completely at peace with putting down a dog, with a killing a friend in other words, with just taking ownership of an animal's life like that, even if I know the reasoning for it. I said he still had at least a little more time. But without telling me, when I was not home, they took him to the vet and I only found out later, which was not only a painful shock and I thought just horrible to do, not even let me be with him then....it was just so....
Anyway. It was hard. And his brother missing him and looking at us asking with his eyes where he is, it just breaks my heart. But mad and hurt as I am, all I can do now is get over it. There's nothing else.
All truth. Take Bojack;s brother close to your heart. Make it him and you in the most intimate understanding. If you are lucky your family may learn the depths of devotion. I chose plural for depths because I know there are devotion and love in your family. Comforting the brother may comfort you. All our pain is personal.
I am one of Uwe Boll's few defenders, so much so in fact that I always refer to him as Uncle Uwe :smile:
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2023, 11:05:46 AM
True.
Yes: he made two movies here and they both made me go "WTF? Uwe Boll made these?"
Darfur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tmYOSCKI4&t=229s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tmYOSCKI4&t=229s)
Tunnel Rats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KCyYpAcXM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KCyYpAcXM)
Bela Lugosi fought in WWI.
True or false? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2023, 09:48:24 PM
Bela Lugosi fought in WWI.
True or false? :question:
True.
Yupper!
My Dad once gave directions to a lost army colonel by the name of Dwight Eisenhower.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 04, 2023, 11:05:04 PM
My Dad once gave directions to a lost army colonel by the name of Dwight Eisenhower.
True.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 04, 2023, 11:52:47 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on February 04, 2023, 11:05:04 PM
My Dad once gave directions to a lost army colonel by the name of Dwight Eisenhower.
True.
You got it! It was January 1942 and Ike was in commanding troops in Louisiana in a massive training exercise. His jeep driver got lost and they wound up across the border in Texas, and my Dad gave the directions to the highway that would take them back to Sabine Parish. Dad was about 15 at the time. The next time he saw Ike, he was a 19 year old buck sergeant and Eisenhower was a five star general.
Yesterday I bit the bullet, held out my hand, and let a horse eat a sugar cube from it.
True, I guess. I've done it with apples.
Heck no, Ron, I wouldn't get that close to one of those long-faced devils! :buggedout: (Though I did take my daughter to her western riding class yesterday.)
I used to be a Sunday School teacher.
Quote from: Trevor on February 11, 2023, 10:51:04 AM
I used to be a Sunday School teacher.
Yes, yes you did. And generous with playtime on the Noah's Ark you were too.
Most of the skin inside my mouth is scar tissue.
Sure! Mine is too. I'm missing 9 teeth! (Only 1 in the front-like Alfred E. Neuman.)
True, although I have all my teeth.
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2023, 11:19:40 AM
Quote from: Trevor on February 11, 2023, 10:51:04 AM
I used to be a Sunday School teacher.
Yes, yes you did. And generous with playtime on the Noah's Ark you were too.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
Yes: in 1986. :smile:
My Grandpa Merchant left my Gramma with an Indian lady and moved up to Northern Michigan.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 11, 2023, 12:47:58 PM
My Grandpa Merchant left my Gramma with an Indian lady and moved up to Northern Michigan.
Oh, why not? True.
Yes, it is.
Me sweetie Tara Sue was an Indian. So was 2 of my aunts, I'm Norway blood for the most part.
I reckon Norwegians had a hard on for Indian women.
True or false? The answer to the next question Trevor posts will be "true."
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 11, 2023, 05:32:12 PM
True or false? The answer to the next question Trevor posts will be "true."
I predict... neither! The answer will be...
underwear! (https://media.tenor.com/M2Bw5qEL_toAAAAC/criswell-predicts.gif)
I once owned a real human skull.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 13, 2023, 12:01:12 AM
I once owned a real human skull.
As opposed to the skull owning you?
False.
^ Yeah. :bouncegiggle:
There is no way in hell. I gave away an antique Ouija board once. Oh, hell no! I don't f**k around with that sh!t! :buggedout:
True or false:
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded by one swift stroke of a sword.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 13, 2023, 11:46:42 PM
True or false:
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded by one swift stroke of a sword.
Nooooooooooooooooetc!!!!!!
One good Mary question inspires another.
True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.
True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True.
Tell me about the weapon and the execution.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:10:45 AM
Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.
True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True.
Tell me about the weapon and the execution.
I know the headsman was drunk and utterly botched the job.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:10:45 AM
Quote from: ER on February 13, 2023, 11:59:40 PM
One good Mary question inspires another.
True or false: Mary Queen of Scots died with a small dog concealed under her skirts.
True.
Tell me about the weapon and the execution.
True.
Well, it was an ax, the first blow hit her head, the next may have killed her, but it was only the third that removed her head. Monty Python or Fire Sign Theater or somebody did a skit on it. It's also pitiful that such a vain woman was further humiliated when her head was picked up and her wig came off, making her head get dropped and revealing she was almost bald. According to some sources anyhow.
The first stroke was certainly fatal, and the second failed to finish the job, hence the third stroke was a sawing motion...
You got all that dreadful story right.
True or false:
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down.
True.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:29:20 AM
True or false:
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down.
False. She was beheaded by an expert swordsman, and no axe was involved.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 14, 2023, 06:29:36 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 12:29:20 AM
True or false:
ANNE BOLEYN's head came right off when the axe came down.
False. She was beheaded by an expert swordsman, and no axe was involved.
True.
As a sign of deference, a sword was traditionally used executing royalty.
ELIZABETH I showed no such deference for her cousin
MARY of Scots some years later.
True or false :
JOHN LENNON predicted the manner in which he would die.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 14, 2023, 02:41:55 PM
True or false :
JOHN LENNON predicted the manner in which he would die.
False, John Lennon predicted he'd be crucified ("the way things are going...").
There's a clip in the bio-doc Imagine of Lennon opening fan mail back in the day, maybe circa 1970, in which someone claimed Brian Epstein told him or her on a Ouija board that Lennon would be murdered in 1980. As I recall. I saw that when I was about nine or ten.
Ok, just found the clip on YouTube and it's less dramatic than I remembered and only speaks of an attempt to assassinate him. So I got a lot wrong.
Lennon did say he'd never make it to forty, and was almost right.
Actually, in a 1960s interview with many cameras present LENNON was asked how he thought he'd die.
LENNON responded: "Some crazy with a gun..."
True or False- I have eaten human flesh.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 14, 2023, 09:23:31 PM
True or False- I have eaten human flesh.
:bouncegiggle: TRUE!
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Call me, John! - :thumbup:
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/37ce5ecc18134b51ca5bcd8c57c6d49a/tumblr_oq9l05OE2d1tr6ni8o7_500.gif) nope...
My wedding ring is silver with an emerald, representing the moon and a forest.
Until I started wearing it, for years, when I wore any ring at all, I wore a band of polished ebony.
True.
Yup
(When you answer this, whatever you were about to give, you should probably reverse it.)
One summer in the early 1980s I was sitting beside a big pool with my cousin and her family, and while I watched, a teenage girl jumped off the fifteen-foot diving board, and right as she jumped, a bird flew past her face, making her gasp, and when she hit the water she gulped in a breath and had to be brought out by two lifeguards, almost drowning because of the bird.
Farue.
(Partly true with one incorrect detail to make it false!)
:bouncegiggle:
I once knew someone with the first name Hitler.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 16, 2023, 05:30:15 PM
Farue.
(Partly true with one incorrect detail to make it false!)
All false.
Landslides are a problem around where I live.
False. Not many in the midwest.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 17, 2023, 07:31:54 AM
False. Not many in the midwest.
Weirdly enough it's a big problem here because it's so hilly, and by hilly I mean almost small mountains. This area is literally where glaciers ended in the Ice Age and pushed up the ground and made the river. Ironically it is affecting rich neighborhoods built up in the hills moreso than middle class houses built lower down in the valleys. There are retaining walls at the foot of a lot of hills here, and every spring when we get big rains landslides close roads and cause problems. In 2000 a McMansion broke in two and partly fell down a 500-foot hillside.
Crazy stuff.
Quote from: Trevor on February 17, 2023, 12:44:29 AM
I once knew someone with the first name Hitler.
My prediction was your next post would be "true" so I'll stick with it no matter how unlikely that sounds.
I'll say false, Trevor, though Craig Ferguson used to do a standup character called Bing Hitler, lol.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 17, 2023, 09:01:34 AM
Quote from: Trevor on February 17, 2023, 12:44:29 AM
I once knew someone with the first name Hitler.
My prediction was your next post would be "true" so I'll stick with it no matter how unlikely that sounds.
True in fact: an ex colleague of mine had that as a first name. Nice guy, really. :smile:
Quote from: ER on February 17, 2023, 01:38:30 PM
I'll say false, Trevor, though Craig Ferguson used to do a standup character called Bing Hitler, lol.
True actually: I also once had a client with Churchill as a first name. :teddyr:
I was born with a tail.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 17, 2023, 02:28:01 PM
I was born with a tail.
False. A tale perhaps, but not a tail.
Of course it's BS! :bouncegiggle:
In eighth grade, I fell up a flight of stairs.
I fall upstairs all the time! But I'll say false.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 17, 2023, 03:20:45 PM
I fall upstairs all the time! But I'll say false.
No, I was showing off by taking three stairs at a time, and fell headfirst the rest of the way up, in front of my class too. Lol
CASS ELLIOT died in the same London apartment where KEITH MOON died.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 17, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
CASS ELLIOT died in the same London apartment where KEITH MOON died.
Yes! Isn't that something?
Quote from: ER on February 17, 2023, 06:36:18 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 17, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
CASS ELLIOT died in the same London apartment where KEITH MOON died.
Yes! Isn't that something?
Who owned the apartment?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 17, 2023, 08:03:45 PM
Quote from: ER on February 17, 2023, 06:36:18 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 17, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
CASS ELLIOT died in the same London apartment where KEITH MOON died.
Yes! Isn't that something?
Who owned the apartment?
When Kristi asks me questions like that I get a disapproving look when I reply something like "The landlord". :buggedout:
PETE TOWNSEND advised the owner that the apartment was not "cursed" because CASS ELLIOT had died there. The apartment belonged to NILSSON.
http://youtu.be/CfjNpgZ4C5Q (http://youtu.be/CfjNpgZ4C5Q)
True or False :
HENRY VIII of England had one illegitimate child.
False. I bet he had more!
False - he had one by Mary Boleyn and another one by Bessie Blount - and those are the two we know about!
Quote from: indianasmith on February 18, 2023, 06:06:31 PM
False - he had one by Mary Boleyn and another one by Bessie Blount - and those are the two we know about!
True and false... Henry only acknowledged one child, but likely fathered up to 7 illegitimately.
Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes are siblings who are married to each other.
Quote from: ER on February 18, 2023, 08:45:14 PM
Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes are siblings who are married to each other.
I hope not!
False.
False but almost as weird. They were married but pretended to be siblings.
The word 'boycott' is named after Captain Charles Boycott.
Sure.
Yep, how about that? I found that out in BBC History magazine, June 2022.
I once met a Satanist who was, funnily enough, a very nice person and good to chat to.
^ Trevor, you've chatted with Ozzy????
Years ago when we were alone on a retreat in the proverbial middle of nowhere, a co-worker told me he or she had once been invited to an event at another equally off the map sort of place, wherein this person witnessed a number of powerful and highly-placed individuals from various walks of life take part in a ritual associated with a club that had an exclusive membership, and part of this ritual was the simulation of human sacrifice in front of a large idol, the burning of money and clothing in a fire, and the drinking of a red liquid that symbolized human blood. These things were presented by those there as joking traditions, but this person told me the entire event had a disturbing verisimilitude.
Going to say true. I've seen worse.
95% true, and I'll let you take a stab at the 5%. I'm sure you'll get it.
I'll bet it was Masons.
OK! True or false!
Like Lugosi, Peter Lorre, also born in Hungary, was a drug addict.
Hmm, well if I recall correctly he was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I am not sure if that makes it true or false though. He did have a bit of a problem with the morphine used as pain relief so that part is true.
Your right. Both are true.
True or False.
Mel Gibson is from the USA.
Hell No! He's an Aussie! Mad Max!
Incorrect. He was born in the US (Peekskill, New York), then his family moved to Australia.
Dang! That's why he's such an a***ole!
Michael Jordan once cut through my back yard.
True.
Quote from: Alex on February 21, 2023, 10:21:15 AM
True.
Close, but false. I actually lived on a golf course for a short while and Jordan shot a round there. I could see him clearly from my back yard, but he did not enter it.
Damn, I was betting that it was just a random person called Michael Jordan had lived next door or something.
Oh well. Let's see.... True or False: I once has an ex who offered to pimp me out to her female friends for a 10% cut.
Quote from: Alex on February 21, 2023, 10:30:51 AM
Damn, I was betting that it was just a random person called Michael Jordan had lived next door or something.
Oh well. Let's see.... True or False: I once has an ex who offered to pimp me out to her female friends for a 10% cut.
I'll say true.
True. It didn't work out though. The reason we split up was because she was moving to the south of England while I was moving to the north of Scotland.
I got a "Happy New Years" text from one of the stars of "House of 1000 Corpses."
Sure! Why not?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 21, 2023, 12:02:35 PM
I got a "Happy New Years" text from one of the stars of "House of 1000 Corpses."
True.
Yes, it's true. Robert Mukes (Rufus Firefly) sent me New Years' greetings.
Quote from: Alex on February 21, 2023, 10:30:51 AM
Damn, I was betting that it was just a random person called Michael Jordan had lived next door or something.
Oh well. Let's see.... True or False: I once has an ex who offered to pimp me out to her female friends for a 10% cut.
When I was little there was a local business that would do that, they'd get "ordinary" people with famous names to do commercials for them. They found an Eddie Murphy, a Huey Lewis, a John Wayne, Heather Locklear, and others. (Um, that's not a true or false, I mean they actually did.)
True or false: I am still so hurt by my husband putting our dog to sleep at the start of this month that I don't think things have ever been this bad between us, although maybe that's a catalyst for exposing other things, I don't know. I lived one life for so long---since I was in my teens---and retired from it and now what do I have? This emptiness to be filled. Maybe it's all my fault. Maybe I'm not me anymore and not sure who I'll wind up being.
Or is this false?
False (but partly true).
^ Some hyperbole, I reckon but more true than not.
Quote from: ER on February 23, 2023, 01:47:21 PM
^ Some hyperbole, I reckon but more true than not.
Have you talked with your husband about this?
True or False :
BRIAN JONES, prolific songwriter, was a founding member of both the ROLLING STONES and the 27 Club.
^Indeed.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 23, 2023, 10:36:18 PM
True or False :
BRIAN JONES, prolific songwriter, was a founding member of both the ROLLING STONES and the 27 Club.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 23, 2023, 10:49:48 PM
^Indeed.
Not quite...yes, it's a trick question...
True or False- Alan Alda's father starred in a movie with Peter Lorre.
(https://i.imgur.com/vmHIvbB.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 24, 2023, 04:46:47 PM
True or False- Alan Alda's father starred in a movie with Peter Lorre.
(https://i.imgur.com/vmHIvbB.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
True.
Yep! With Robert Alda in the BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946).
(https://i.imgur.com/cVjoUyn.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 24, 2023, 08:26:56 PM
Yep! With Robert Alda in the BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946).
(https://i.imgur.com/cVjoUyn.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
BTW,
BRIAN JONES was not a prolific songwriter, and in fact, wrote no songs really.
Two true or false things about me:
1. I have always been a nerd but a strange one as I love playing sports (soccer and cricket for preference)
2. In my 50 odd (very odd) years on this earth, I have never been drunk or high.
Like the Rev says- true.
True or False?
There is no real lemon in Hostess Fruit pies- or any brand.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 25, 2023, 02:24:47 PM
True or False?
There is no real lemon in Hostess Fruit pies- or any brand.
Dunno about
any brand, but I say it's true there's no lemon in Hostess Fruit Pie. Lemon is one of the easiest flavors to recreate, it's basically just citric acid and sugar.
...also egg yolk, but mostly lotsa flavored lard.
T or F: Kale, cabbage, and mustard all come from the same plant.
Oh, crud, I should know this. False.
It is false. Cabbage and kale come from the same plant, mustard is from a closely related species.
Oh, thank goodness! I was about to write a stern email to those liars at the Kale Council.
I once messed up on a public film screening and the film's director was in the audience 😳
I'll say true, because I think you are too honest to lie.
I embarrassed myself today after church by saying, "Want a reality check? Almost as much time has passed between the 1998 Psycho remake and now, as went by between it and the original 1960 movie, twenty-five years versus twenty-eight years."
Quote from: ER on February 26, 2023, 01:06:28 PM
I'll say true, because I think you are too honest to lie.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
True: March 1998 at a film fest in the Western Cape. I screened the film
Jannie Totsiens [Johnny Goodbye], we had a reel fault (not serious) and the director was in the audience :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on February 26, 2023, 01:51:39 PM
Quote from: ER on February 26, 2023, 01:06:28 PM
I'll say true, because I think you are too honest to lie.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
True: March 1998 at a film fest in the Western Cape. I screened the film Jannie Totsiens [Johnny Goodbye], we had a reel fault (not serious) and the director was in the audience :buggedout: :buggedout:
If ever I need somebody impeccably honest to vouch for me, I am going to call on you. :cheers:
I got into an argument at the food pantry with a volunteer of five years standing, who had somehow gotten the idea she was entitled to take items for herself here and there, and when she announced to her friends, "I'm taking this bag of beef jerky home to Chip." I told her no she wasn't, it didn't belong to us. She threw a hissy fit and what was weirder, several of her old bitty friends took her side and said impolite things about my views of the situation.
(This is not a trick "half-true" thing, it's either all true or all a lie.)
True.
^ Darn tootin'.
T or F: I had to drop out of a M,A, program in my late 20s when I was diagnosed as bipolar.
True
In Travis County, Texas, I knew someone who had a band around his cowboy hat made of the skin of a copperhead that bit him.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 28, 2023, 06:44:26 PM
T or F: I had to drop out of a M,A, program in my late 20s when I was diagnosed as bipolar.
I don't think so. Bi-polar folks are nuts. Tara Sue was one. I loved her, but she was nuttier than a fruitcake. You seem level-headed.
Quote from: ER on February 28, 2023, 08:39:50 PM
In Travis County, Texas, I knew someone who had a band around his cowboy hat made of the skin of a copperhead that bit him.
Copperheads in Texas? I don't think so.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 28, 2023, 08:41:06 PM
Quote from: ER on February 28, 2023, 08:39:50 PM
In Travis County, Texas, I knew someone who had a band around his cowboy hat made of the skin of a copperhead that bit him.
Copperheads in Texas? I don't think so.
Oh yes, we have plenty of them in the northern and eastern sections of the state. I've killed them in my yard before.
^ After I posted I looked it up. I reckon the guy could have a skin as a hat band. I have a rolled up skin of a very large rattlesnake a friend of mine gave me.
We had copperheads all over the place when I lived in upstate NY near the mountains. I didn't know they had such a large range!
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 28, 2023, 08:40:19 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 28, 2023, 06:44:26 PM
T or F: I had to drop out of a M,A, program in my late 20s when I was diagnosed as bipolar.
I don't think so. Bi-polar folks are nuts. Tara Sue was one. I loved her, but she was nuttier than a fruitcake. You seem level-headed.
You're right, it's false.
True or False- I got picked up by the cops for p**sing in public.
False, RC, like my tale of the snake hatband.
No, I did. I was 16 in upstate NY in Liberty. It was past midnight- I was drunk and p**sed in the doorway of some f**king place of business. I saw a reflection of red and whites. I stuck my pecker in my pants and turned around.
They took me to the cop shop, and let my drunk ass walk home.
I was hammered too! I just left the J+B Bar!
I spent $2,162.01 grocery shopping in the last week of February.
Based on your charity work I am going to say yes, or at least a figure close to that.
True or False?
When a cannibalistic serial killer was caught, it caused a bit of a panic in the royal household as he'd been an army chef and may have cooked for the Queen?
Quote from: Alex on March 01, 2023, 12:50:25 PM
Based on your charity work I am going to say yes, or at least a figure close to that.
Aye, tis so.
Quote from: Alex on March 01, 2023, 01:01:13 PM
True or False?
When a cannibalistic serial killer was caught, it caused a bit of a panic in the royal household as he'd been an army chef and may have cooked for the Queen?
I'll say yes, and considering the royal family are lizard people, I'll bet they smacked their scaly lips in delight.
I know someone who believes Walt Disney's brain was not only frozen but recently "thawed" and successfully implanted in a host body, yet when he demanded control of his company, the board of Disney had him killed rather than turn over power.
Quote from: ER on March 01, 2023, 04:17:36 PM
Quote from: Alex on March 01, 2023, 01:01:13 PM
True or False?
When a cannibalistic serial killer was caught, it caused a bit of a panic in the royal household as he'd been an army chef and may have cooked for the Queen?
I'll say yes, and considering the royal family are lizard people, I'll bet they smacked their scaly lips in delight.
True.
Close. He wasn't a cannibal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen
I am right-handed.
False. Your a lefty. I'll bet your a Sagittarius.
Right-handed Capri pants. Er, Capricorn.
(Why, what're Sagittarius like?)
I don't know!
My brother Glenn is left handed. And he's a Sagittarius.
And I thought you were left handed!
All my life people have told me I seem like someone who should be left handed, but, nope, I'm a plain old rightie. (Not a true or false, just sayin'.)
I've been hit in the face by a burning cigarette.
True.
Quote from: ER on March 02, 2023, 08:51:38 AM
I've been hit in the face by a burning cigarette.
I know I have!
Yeah, this ungrateful lowlife girl back in 2000 accepted a ride from me after this event and once I dropped my friend off she stayed in my car and basically demanded I taxi her several places, and when I said no, she got out, called me an impolite name, and tossed her cigarette at me, which darted dead-on into my face. I swear, I have let people get away with so much in my life.
Never had anyone throw on at me, but just from sitting in the back seat of a car and someone flicks their butt out the window, and it blows back in and smacks me in the yap.
Flicking the cig at anyone is not a friendly gesture.
Quote from: ER on March 02, 2023, 03:09:45 PM
Yeah, this ungrateful lowlife girl back in 2000 accepted a ride from me after this event and once I dropped my friend off she stayed in my car and basically demanded I taxi her several places, and when I said no, she got out, called me an impolite name, and tossed her cigarette at me, which darted dead-on into my face. I swear, I have let people get away with so much in my life.
http://youtu.be/-7ZGtyys3p0 (http://youtu.be/-7ZGtyys3p0)
I used to know a pharmaceutical industry billionaire, and all his money didn't save him from dying of cancer.
Ash said his first swear word today. True or false?
Quote from: ER on March 03, 2023, 10:01:02 AM
I used to know a pharmaceutical industry billionaire, and all his money didn't save him from dying of cancer.
True
Quote from: Alex on March 03, 2023, 10:37:51 AM
Ash said his first swear word today. True or false?
Sure!
True. A major conglomerate bought his company in the '90s and in time he became a billionaire, but he eventually developed lung cancer and died of it same as anyone, despite traveling the world trying to cure it.
True. The cat decided to jump on Kristi's leg with her claws out this morning and got swore at (well, Kristi's version of a swear word anyway), which was duly repeated by Ash.
T or F: I've spoken on the phone to an actor or actress from THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 03, 2023, 02:48:58 PM
T or F: I've spoken on the phone to an actor or actress from THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Going with true :smile:
Going with Trevor, true.
Inconceivable. but true.
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Quote from: Alex on March 03, 2023, 02:56:37 PM
Going with Trevor, true.
Where would you like to go? 😉😉🐢
A friend of Jackie's in college got a good deal buying a vintage van in which someone had died of a drug overdose in the back.
Quote from: Trevor on March 03, 2023, 03:38:40 PM
Quote from: Alex on March 03, 2023, 02:56:37 PM
Going with Trevor, true.
Where would you like to go? 😉😉🐢
We shall skip hand in hand to the land of rainbows and lollypops.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 03, 2023, 03:05:51 PM
Inconceivable. but true....
That sounds just the way Professor John Sturges would say it.
I am a big fan of
WALLACE SHAWN because I watch
Young Sheldon...!
Quote from: ER on March 03, 2023, 05:13:08 PM
A friend of Jackie's in college got a good deal buying a vintage van in which someone had died of a drug overdose in the back.
Guess this was too hard. It was also false.
Let's see, what another question to daze and dazzle?
I've seen a plane crash.
True!!!
Unfortunately so. I saw a plane stall and crash at an airshow, killing the lovely wing walker and her pilot.
I have a large skin tag on my ass. True or False.
How about true?
No. I don't. :bouncegiggle:
I smoked crack.... once and only once. I didn't notice any effect because I was on LSD at the time.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 06, 2023, 11:59:34 AM
I smoked crack.... once and only once. I didn't notice any effect because I was on LSD at the time.
False.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 06, 2023, 11:59:34 AM
I smoked crack.... once and only once. I didn't notice any effect because I was on LSD at the time.
Nooooooo.
I once found a praying mantis in my bed.
It was true (cut me a break, I was 18 and depressed).
Quote from: ER on March 06, 2023, 01:56:26 PM
I once found a praying mantis in my bed.
Gosh, I keep dazzling you guys into timid silence. It was false again. Never found a praying mantis in my bed. (Of course now I probably will.)
Try this one:
I rarely tip in restaurants, because I think if enough people stop tipping it will force restaurateurs to pay servers better wages.
False.
I always tip. Wait staff get paid sh!t, and owners don't care.
"Put in, Mr. Pink!"
Quote from: ER on March 07, 2023, 01:25:23 PM
Quote from: ER on March 06, 2023, 01:56:26 PM
I once found a praying mantis in my bed.
Gosh, I keep dazzling you guys into timid silence. It was false again. Never found a praying mantis in my bed. (Of course now I probably will.)
Try this one:
I rarely tip in restaurants, because I think if enough people stop tipping it will force restaurateurs to pay servers better wages.
True.
True or False?
Trevor watched GOJIRA (1954).
True- I read the post.
At least I think I did?
I always tip servers as generously as I can unless the service was downright horrible, and even then I almost always give the server the benefit of the doubt about having a bad day and tip fairly. Servers work hard as a rule and deal with a lot of guff, so I think tipping as nicely as you can is a fine way to help someone out directly.
True or false?
Vincent Price was my 13th cousin.
If that's true you must have a good genealogist.
It is indeed true. Kristi has a hobby of genealogy and judging from what other people also into the hobby tell me, she does seem to be rather good at it. Just don't go near Irish ancestry, because that place it seems is a nightmare when it comes to old records.
I figure that on a long enough timeline, everyone will be related in some way.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 07, 2023, 04:53:39 PM
True- I read the post.
At least I think I did?
What post might that be? I suggested he watch it and he replied he'd try; do not know if he had the chance.
^ That post. I guess he didn't.
I got stung by a scorpion hiding in my sister's blankets.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 07, 2023, 11:07:48 PM
I got stung by a scorpion hiding in my sister's blankets.
True.
Though my Aunt Christie told the story as her meeting an ecentric man, I always felt she may have encountered a time traveler, because when she was about twenty she was volunteering at her church's kitchen setting up refreshments after an event, and a man she'd never seen at church before took a sip of coffee she'd set out and said to her, "You guys had good coffee in the '70s."
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 07, 2023, 11:47:16 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 07, 2023, 11:07:48 PM
I got stung by a scorpion hiding in my sister's blankets.
True.
True indeed! We were staying at her house shortly after my nephew was born, and she got some blankets out of the closet for me. The little sucker stung me twice - the scorpion, that is, not my nephew.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 08, 2023, 07:08:51 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 07, 2023, 11:47:16 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 07, 2023, 11:07:48 PM
I got stung by a scorpion hiding in my sister's blankets.
True.
True indeed! We were staying at her house shortly after my nephew was born, and she got some blankets out of the closet for me. The little sucker stung me twice - the scorpion, that is, not my nephew.
If only it had been a radioactive scorpion... Imagine the super powers you could have.
There are more trees growing in NYC than there are people living there.
No f**king way. That place is a concrete jungle.
If there is, I didn't see them.
I don't get it either but according to National Geographic, trees significantly out number people there.
Really? I guess I don't go to Central Park. In fact, ever. And trees don't s**t on the subway or stand on the street screaming at the sky.
Only one person need answer:
True or False?
Trevor watched GOJIRA (1954).
^ Yeah. I ain't that person.
Bela Lugosi had black hair and green eyes.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 08, 2023, 03:54:13 PM
Only one person need answer:
True or False?
Trevor watched GOJIRA (1954).
Not yet unfortunately.
I once mowed over an underground bumblebees' nest and they chased me all the way back to the house.
^ True! I've done it myself!
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 09, 2023, 10:11:24 AM
^ True! I've done it myself!
Yup! Nasty buggers popped me twice.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ran for President of the United States 3 times but was elected only twice.
Incorrect. He ran for Vice President in 1900, succeeded to the Presidency when McKinley was shot, and ran for a term of his own in 1904.
Then he stepped down in 1908, was disappointed in the way his Republican successor, William Howard Taft, ran the country, and came back and ran again in 1912 - and lost.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2023, 11:50:46 PM
^ Yeah. I ain't that person.
Bela Lugosi had black hair and green eyes.
This one is still open...
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 10, 2023, 08:45:01 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 08, 2023, 11:50:46 PM
^ Yeah. I ain't that person.
Bela Lugosi had black hair and green eyes.
This one is still open...
Without looking it up, I'm going to say false. I believe his natural hair color was much lighter than it appeared onscreen.
^ Your right. His hair was brown and his eyes were blue.
I have seen evidence of a UFO landing and a ghost car riding behind me.
Sure. I have SEEN ufos a few times!
Never seen a " ghost car". :question:
My friend Edie said she had a great uncle who was a lawyer, and even though he'd personally had relatives in Germany who were murdered by the Nazis, he told people at his temple that he'd defend Adolf Hitler for one dollar if he were ever brought to trial, because justice was the highest good in human life.
True, I reckon.
Personally, I'd shoot Hitler right between his f**king eyes- no trial.
The only good thing Hitler did was kill Hitler.
True.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2023, 05:22:21 PM
...The only good thing Hitler did was kill Hitler.
:bouncegiggle: :thumbup:
True or False?
JOHN LENNON had one #1 record.
Yes.
Starting Over
^ I would think IMAGINE.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2023, 02:43:26 PM
Sure. I have SEEN ufos a few times!
Never seen a " ghost car". :question:
Both true: I saw the UFO evidence when I was in primary school and I saw the ghost car in 2019.
What did you see, Trevor?
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" with ELTON JOHN was JOHN LENNON's only #1 record.
In his lifetime, but Starting Over went to number one after his death. He also wrote Fame that went to number one but is usually credited to David Bowie. He had all kinds of number one songs with that one band he was in. The one with the fake Paul McCartney and the dude from Caveman?
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 11:40:06 AM
What did you see, Trevor?
Fron the UFO, five circular burnt areas on our soccer field at my school in Gweru and the ghost car appeared behind me in 2019 en route from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. It was in my rear view mirror for about a minute then it vanished 😳😳😳
I sold a copy of PRESIDENT HAMILTON to a charming lady named Tatiana from Ukraine yesterday.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 12, 2023, 10:41:41 PM
I sold a copy of PRESIDENT HAMILTON to a charming lady named Tatiana from Ukraine yesterday.
True.
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 01:37:02 PM
In his lifetime, but Starting Over went to number one after his death. He also wrote Fame that went to number one but is usually credited to David Bowie. He had all kinds of number one songs with that one band he was in. The one with the fake Paul McCartney and the dude from Caveman?
I stand corrected; except
"Fame" was a co-write with BOWIE LENNON and some 3rd party...
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 12, 2023, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 12, 2023, 10:41:41 PM
I sold a copy of PRESIDENT HAMILTON to a charming lady named Tatiana from Ukraine yesterday.
True.
False, but it's a bit of a trick question: She bought a copy of THE REDEMPTION OF PONTIUS PILATE, one of my other novels.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 06:02:29 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 12, 2023, 10:59:45 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 12, 2023, 10:41:41 PM
I sold a copy of PRESIDENT HAMILTON to a charming lady named Tatiana from Ukraine yesterday.
True.
False, but it's a bit of a trick question: She bought a copy of THE REDEMPTION OF PONTIUS PILATE, one of my other novels.
I was thinking true myself.
A few springs ago I was planting my Don Juan roses (that part's true) when I accidentally sliced my left palm open (still true) and bled all over the soil the roses were growing in (still on the true side) and (this is the part to guess at) within weeks those roses were dead when others around them were thriving, making my mother say our fey blood did not agree with them.
^ Huh?!?! :buggedout:
True! Why not!
Actually the opposite happened, those roses grew like crazy. Reminded me they were going to start demanding to be fed by Seymour.
^ Reminds me of an old vampire movie- BLOOD AND ROSES (1960)
(https://i.imgur.com/pwEihxF.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Very little of what is sold in stores as cinnamon, vanilla, or scallops is the real thing.
Quote from: ER on March 13, 2023, 11:00:56 PM
Very little of what is sold in stores as cinnamon, vanilla, or scallops is the real thing.
I'll say "false" but there's significant ambiguity in both "very little" and "the real thing."
Yes, ambiguous terms, though Cassia is often sold as cinnamon, artificial vanilla can legally be listed on ingredients as simply "vanilla" (look for the term "natural" or "natural bean " or buy the pods if you can), and seafood companies have been caught a number of times cutting scallop-shaped dollops out of fish fillets and marketing them in grocery stores as scallops, arguing that "bay scallop" was an old term for serving fish cut in that shape, as well as being a type of small scallop. (According to The Food Network, the bigger or cheaper the scallop the more likely the chances it's a cut of fish.)
The man teaching Tyler guitar used to be in a punk band that had a black member and two white guys in it, and was called Two-Tone Turds.
Tyler who? Steven Tyler? He doesn't play guitar.
Sorry about that. I meant Tyler, my cousin's son, the boy I spent so much time with when he was growing up.
This morning I was meeting a family that I was supposed to guide on a river trip, when I realized I had double booked a home school group to take out on the same day! I had to cancel one group in order to take the other.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 14, 2023, 02:31:57 PM
This morning I was meeting a family that I was supposed to guide on a river trip, when I realized I had double booked a home school group to take out on the same day! I had to cancel one group in order to take the other.
You've shared that you're a river guide and I know you are the artifact king of your state, but I also think that as a teacher you're used to making schedules and being organized and responsible, so I doubt you'd have made a mistake like that, so false. I hope!
Sadly true. I felt awful!
My brother Glenn is a Nazi.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 14, 2023, 05:13:14 PM
My brother Glenn is a Nazi.
I think that's true, isn't it?
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 09:35:32 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 14, 2023, 05:13:14 PM
My brother Glenn is a Nazi.
I think that's true, isn't it?
Depends. Actual member of the American Nazi Party? Probably false. Sympathizes with Nazi ideas? Probably true.
^ Yes. Is he a card member- I don't think so.
Two of these are true, and one is false:
On the night I heard Lou Reed died, I played Perfect Day, and slow danced to it with my husband.
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as "a PMS-ing Dorothy Parker with half a bottle of gin in her."
I've held a leash with a cheetah on the other end.
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2023, 10:49:06 PM
Two of these are true, and one is false:
On the night I heard Lou Reed died, I played Perfect Day, and slow danced to it with my husband.
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as "a PMS-ing Dorothy Parker with half a bottle of gin in her."
I've held a leash with a cheetah on the other end.
Cheetah's never prosper!
The last choice is false.
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 11:57:58 AM
Yes, ambiguous terms, though Cassia is often sold as cinnamon, artificial vanilla can legally be listed on ingredients as simply "vanilla" (look for the term "natural" or "natural bean " or buy the pods if you can), and seafood companies have been caught a number of times cutting scallop-shaped dollops out of fish fillets and marketing them in grocery stores as scallops, arguing that "bay scallop" was an old term for serving fish cut in that shape, as well as being a type of small scallop. (According to The Food Network, the bigger or cheaper the scallop the more likely the chances it's a cut of fish.)
Look for the term "vanilla flavor".
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2023, 10:49:06 PM
Two of these are true, and one is false:
On the night I heard Lou Reed died, I played Perfect Day, and slow danced to it with my husband.
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as "a PMS-ing Dorothy Parker with half a bottle of gin in her."
I've held a leash with a cheetah on the other end.
I go with Indy. The second one I totally believe. You seem like the drunk Dorothy Parker type. :wink:
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2023, 10:49:06 PM
Two of these are true, and one is false:
On the night I heard Lou Reed died, I played Perfect Day, and slow danced to it with my husband.
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as "a PMS-ing Dorothy Parker with half a bottle of gin in her."
I've held a leash with a cheetah on the other end.
I really wanna push your buttons and say the first is false...
On the night I heard Lou Reed died, I played Perfect Day, and slow danced to it with my husband. (True.)
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as "a PMS-ing Dorothy Parker with half a bottle of gin in her." (True.)
I've held a leash with a cheetah on the other end. (False.)
I got it!!! LOL
OK, I'll follow suit - two truths and a lie, pick which one is false:
1. I climbed Mt. Fuji in 1985, but got altitude sick at the hostel near the summit and didn't make it all the way to the top.
2. I once met Wynona Judd at a hotel in Austin.
3. I got to hold a lion cub once at a traveling wildlife show.
I say the first is false.
I have no idea who Wynona Judd is, so I'll go with that one being false.
First of all, I made a typo in #1 - it was 1985, not 1995. But the statement is true, as is #2.
At the wildlife show, I held a tiger cub, not a lion. So #3 was the false one.
And she stoppeth one of three....cause it's true and two are false.
I once saw a mouse run up the outside of a skyscraper.
I once saw Carol Burnett in an airport.
I once saw a letter of thanks from The Queen.
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:34:01 PM
And she stoppeth one of three....cause it's true and two are false.
...
I once saw Carol Burnett in an airport.
I once saw a letter of thanks from The Queen.
I once saw a mouse run up the outside of a skyscraper. TRUE
Reminds me of the time a few of us decided to eat a brand new restaurant, opened the front door, and a mouse ran out...! :buggedout: :bluesad: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 18, 2023, 04:46:44 PM
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:34:01 PM
And she stoppeth one of three....cause it's true and two are false.
...
I once saw Carol Burnett in an airport.
I once saw a letter of thanks from The Queen.
I once saw a mouse run up the outside of a skyscraper. TRUE
Reminds me of the time a few of us decided to eat a brand new restaurant, opened the front door, and a mouse ran out...! :buggedout: :bluesad: :bouncegiggle:
No, that one is not the true one.
Jim Reeves made one film as an actor.
Quote from: Trevor on March 19, 2023, 07:34:11 AM
Jim Reeves made one film as an actor.
I'm sorry, I have no idea. I'm so dumb I don't even known who that is.
^ He's a country singer.
I'll say true.
Either all true or all false, no interior trickery.
My father knew a criminal profiler who worked at "the" Ohio State University, and was paid a retainer beyond her work at the university to aid police departments around the state on an as-needed basis. She was part Jordanian, part American, and while raised with a strong Islamic influence on her life, considered herself an atheist until in her early thirties she was given a grant to go around the country interviewing serial killers, then she came to detect an evil so strongly in some of these people she felt there was something in the equation that descended below human nature alone, so she came to accept that if there was a conscious darkness around us then there was likely a higher good as well: the devil and God. She also told me there was one man in particular she interviewed who would speak hypothetically about his deeds but come just short of admitting he was talking about himself, and one time as he vividly recounted these killings, she said the man started to give off a smell she had never encountered anywhere else, and it seemed to rise off him, a smell so bad it was nauseating. She told her Jordanian aunt, who was very religious, about the smell, and her aunt grew frightened for her, because she said it is a well-established belief in Middle Eastern culture than when in the presence of evil djinn (basically a demon) they would give off a sickening odor.
Either this is all bovine scatology, or it's true as it was told to me in the early '00s.
Quote from: ER on March 23, 2023, 08:19:18 AM
Quote from: Trevor on March 19, 2023, 07:34:11 AM
Jim Reeves made one film as an actor.
I'm sorry, I have no idea. I'm so dumb I don't even known who that is.
American country and western singer and yes, he did make a film in South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMgAjYYlaok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMgAjYYlaok)
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 23, 2023, 08:32:45 AM
^ He's a country singer.
I'll say true.
Yes, it was called Kimberley Jim (1963)
My uncle was a judge who claimed he never signed any search warrant submitted to him by the vice squad because he believed the department was completely corrupt.
^ I'll say it's true.
I'll say that's false, so either me or RC will be right!
I once got up close and personal with a lionfish while snorkeling in the Philippines.
RC was right: I don't know if he always refused to sign warrants for vice (and exclusively for vice, other officers were fine). But he said he always refused.
I'll say Indy's is true, because I bet he went out there in the Navy.
You would be correct, sir! Bit of a shock seeing one of those guys just swimming around.
Followup T/F about my uncle the judge:
When he tried to get out of a speeding ticket by dropping names, a cop arrested him for "attempted coercion of a public official."
I got drunk with Billy Idol.
Which is true:
A. I have more than once spent an entire day so utterly fascinated by the gorgeous dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History that I failed to make it anywhere else in the entire place.
B. It makes me so sad to think of animals being killed for taxidermy that I refuse to look at the dioramas when I go to the AMNH.
C. I have more than once spent an entire day so utterly fascinated by the gorgeous dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History that I failed to make it anywhere else in the entire place, but also always felt guilty to find such delight in displays built around slain animals.
I say 'A'. I know I would enjoy it.
Since nobody guessed on it last time: When my unclce the judge tried to get out of a speeding ticket by dropping names, a cop arrested him for "attempted coercion of a public official."
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2023, 05:38:32 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 23, 2023, 08:18:18 PM
I got drunk with Billy Idol.
TRUE!
Yes. It is. I was on Long Island working on the docks in the Hamptons, waiting for a train in a bar. Billy walks in ( I was already half way crocked) and orders drinks for the whole f**king bar! He was hammered! I didn't talk to him. He wouldn't understood anyway. He was smashed.
Good times.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 31, 2023, 06:45:51 PM
Since nobody guessed on it last time: When my unclce the judge tried to get out of a speeding ticket by dropping names, a cop arrested him for "attempted coercion of a public official."
That's the same guy who was kinda shady, right?
I say its true.
It's false. I remember him showing his judicial ID to a cop when he was pulled over for speeding, but the cop ignored it and issued a ticket. My uncle just shrugged. But it's true a certain segment of the department (vice) hated him.
When I was a child (about 4, I think), I was rushed to the ER because I'd stuffed bits of rubber worms (a fishing lure) into my nose to shoot at my sister, but got them stuck up there. In the waiting room I sneezed and blew bits of rubber everywhere, so Mom and Dad just took me home.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 31, 2023, 10:01:05 PM
When I was a child (about 4, I think), I was rushed to the ER because I'd stuffed bits of rubber worms (a fishing lure) into my nose to shoot at my sister, but got them stuck up there. In the waiting room I sneezed and blew bits of rubber everywhere, so Mom and Dad just took me home.
FALSE
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2023, 11:31:58 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 31, 2023, 10:01:05 PM
When I was a child (about 4, I think), I was rushed to the ER because I'd stuffed bits of rubber worms (a fishing lure) into my nose to shoot at my sister, but got them stuck up there. In the waiting room I sneezed and blew bits of rubber everywhere, so Mom and Dad just took me home.
FALSE
Actually, that's 100% true! (Yes, I was a weird kid!)
I've seen piranhas in the wild.
^ I'll say false.
Nah, on our honeymoon in 2010 we went to Brazil and took a day-cruise up the Amazon and saw some. Unimpressive all in all.
True or False:
I had a copper whale lawn ornament on a narrow copper pole, about 30 inches across, 4 feet tall. It was stolen out of the yard, and almost a year later it was thrown on the side yard wrapped like a corpse in plastic garbage bags. It went back up in the yard, and was promptly stolen again.
^I believe it. Rotton kids. :hatred:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 01, 2023, 02:53:41 PM
True or False:
I had a copper whale lawn ornament on a narrow copper pole, about 30 inches across, 4 feet tall. It was stolen out of the yard, and almost a year later it was thrown on the side yard wrapped like a corpse in plastic garbage bags. It went back up in the yard, and was promptly stolen again.
Considering all the copper thefts, I'd say true too.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 01, 2023, 08:32:17 PM
^I believe it. Rotton kids. :hatred:
Quote from: ER on April 02, 2023, 08:20:02 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 01, 2023, 02:53:41 PM
True or False:
I had a copper whale lawn ornament on a narrow copper pole, about 30 inches across, 4 feet tall. It was stolen out of the yard, and almost a year later it was thrown on the side yard wrapped like a corpse in plastic garbage bags. It went back up in the yard, and was promptly stolen again.
Considering all the copper thefts, I'd say true too.
It is true... except the whale wasn't copper! It just looked like it, which might explain the odd choice to return the stolen item!
I still have my first toy: a rather elderly and grubby teddy bear.
^ Of course you do.
I just realised it's way past 230 am here: why am I still awake? 😳😳
One time I went on an arrowhead hunt after staying up all night with my church kids at a lock-in, and I was so punch-drunk from sleep deprivation that I spent five minutes laughing at a rock.
It wasn't even that funny of a rock.
Quote from: Trevor on April 02, 2023, 07:29:42 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 02, 2023, 03:19:34 PM
^ Of course you do.
Yes, had it 55 years so far😊🐻
I still have the infamous "Don't take Teddy..." bear which I've owned all of my cognizant life, and it shows. :thumbup: :smile:
True or False?
Hitler had notorious gas.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 02, 2023, 10:38:13 PM
One time I went on an arrowhead hunt after staying up all night with my church kids at a lock-in, and I was so punch-drunk from sleep deprivation that I spent five minutes laughing at a rock.
It wasn't even that funny of a rock.
Yeah- I believe that!
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 03, 2023, 12:44:32 AM
True or False?
Hitler had notorious gas.
I can believe that.
(https://i.imgur.com/RLJpbLa.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
True.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 03, 2023, 12:44:32 AM
True or False?
Hitler had notorious gas.
Very true. Sitting by him at dinner was an ordeal, apparently.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 02, 2023, 10:38:13 PM
One time I went on an arrowhead hunt after staying up all night with my church kids at a lock-in, and I was so punch-drunk from sleep deprivation that I spent five minutes laughing at a rock.
It wasn't even that funny of a rock.
Oy :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: indianasmith on April 02, 2023, 10:38:13 PM
One time I went on an arrowhead hunt after staying up all night with my church kids at a lock-in, and I was so punch-drunk from sleep deprivation that I spent five minutes laughing at a rock.
It wasn't even that funny of a rock.
Yes.
I once seen a kid get his head crushed by a car.
True or false?
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 03, 2023, 07:53:43 AM
I once seen a kid get his head crushed by a car.
True or false?
I wouldn't want that to be true :buggedout:
Quote from: indianasmith on April 03, 2023, 05:45:36 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 03, 2023, 12:44:32 AM
True or False?
Hitler had notorious gas.
Very true. Sitting by him at dinner was an ordeal, apparently.
A vegetarian, his farting around was explained as caused by a high fiber diet. :lookingup: In any case, full of hot air.
Quote from: Trevor on April 03, 2023, 11:36:12 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 03, 2023, 07:53:43 AM
I once seen a kid get his head crushed by a car.
True or false?
I wouldn't want that to be true :buggedout:
It is true. Me, my brother Mike, and my Ma were walking done the side walk in Poughkeepsi, NY about 1967 and we saw some dumb f**k hit a kid who was riding his bike, and after he hit him, backed his car over his head. f**ked up. The kid was dead.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 03, 2023, 02:55:06 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on April 02, 2023, 10:38:13 PM
One time I went on an arrowhead hunt after staying up all night with my church kids at a lock-in, and I was so punch-drunk from sleep deprivation that I spent five minutes laughing at a rock.
It wasn't even that funny of a rock.
Yeah- I believe that!
Absolutely true. I think that's the closest I've ever felt to what being drunk must be like.
^ I've done both. It's not.
Sleep deprivation is giddy. Drunk is crazy.
King George V of Great Britain had a dragon tattooed on his arm.
^ Why not? I say true.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 04, 2023, 03:50:21 AM
^ Why not? I say true.
True! I found that out last night in a biography I was reading.
I have dubbed Home Depot "the most boring store in the universe."
Quote from: ER on April 04, 2023, 08:16:09 AM
I have dubbed Home Depot "the most boring store in the universe."
The one in The Equalizer movie wasn't :wink:
I was nearly twenty before I learned Landslide wasn't originally a Smashing Pumpkins song.
Quote from: ER on April 04, 2023, 06:40:28 PM
I was nearly twenty before I learned Landslide wasn't originally a Smashing Pumpkins song.
Or
STEVIE NICKS ...
Nah, sounds real but even though I adored the Pumpkins version I knew it was a cover.
You can make Magic Shell at home with two cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips and a quarter cup of coconut oil.
True or False?
AMBROSE BIERCE at the age of 71, went to Mexico and decided to stay there, abandoning his former life.
^ True- unless, like some theorize, murdered.
There is a large, black coffin standing in the front corner of my classroom.
Of course there is! :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: indianasmith on April 06, 2023, 07:30:21 PM
There is a large, black coffin standing in the front corner of my classroom.
True.
And Ambrose Bierce above was for you. He entered Mexico through Texas. And...?
Well, actually, the coffin is in the BACK corner of my classroom! LOL So . . . technically false.
But yes, Ambrose Bierce did retired down to Mexico early in the 20th century and pretty well disappeared, from what I recall.
I've been inside CBGB.
^ I'll say false.
I lived in NYC, and I never been there. Of course, I lived in the Bronx, and I was broke.
False it was, though I have been past the site of where it was located.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 06, 2023, 09:48:51 PM
...
But yes, Ambrose Bierce did retired down to Mexico early in the 20th century and pretty well disappeared, from what I recall.
No, Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico. No one knows what happened to him.
^ Yeah! :thumbup: I got it right then!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 01:38:12 PM
^ Yeah! :thumbup: I got it right then!
No. Reread what I had written.
I once put an aspirin under my tongue, not a chewable baby aspirin, a regular one, and it caused a sore spot, almost an ulceration, and hurt for days.
^I chew them like candy whenever I have a toothache.
But I believe ya.
^ Nope.
:bouncegiggle: Why is that funny? :bouncegiggle:
In college we were in Quebec and this man at a hotdog stand called mustard "mouse-turd" and we kept finding reasons to get him to repeat the word that way.
Why not?
I knew an old guy when a man who as a child was in the Hitler Youth in Germany.
Yes.
Yes.
While she was walking with some man, Laurie Anderson once passed right by me on a sidewalk a few blocks from Central Park, in the West Village, and I wanted so badly to follow her, but didn't because I had somewhere to be, didn't want to become a stalker, and also it was when Lou Reed was very sick.
Hint: Lies are often unnecessarily elaborate.
Hint: So are re-tellings of true events.
Hint: The odds of this being true/false are not fifty-fifty, despite what apparent logic might tell you.
Hint: In middle school I was freaking obsessed with Laurie Anderson.
Hint: In high school I was really into Lou Reed.
Hint: Central Park is a real place.
Conclusion: Your socks are probably white.
Bonus: Karma if you get this right, unless your name ends in three vowels.
PS: Did I make you think of who here has a name like that?
PPS: Why, yes I am sitting in a school parking lot killing time, how'd you guess?
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:17:50 AM
Yes.
Yes.
Yes I did.
^Central Park is a real place? :question:
That part is true.
Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 02:26:20 PM
Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
Dude, seriously? We been living in the information age for a generation now. Rather than blurt out that you don't know who a famous person is, look her up.
And then prepare to be amazed.
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 10:39:08 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 02:26:20 PM
Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
Dude, seriously? We been living in the information age for a generation now. Rather than blurt out that you don't know who a famous person is, look her up.
And then prepare to be amazed.
Uhm, I was working in such "age" before you finished High School. It's an immediate, short, honest response.
Sure, I could look her up, pretend I knew who she is, but it's much funnier to have you call me Dude. :lookingup:
True or False:
An ancestor of mine beheaded King Charles I of England.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 10:44:18 PM
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Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
Dude, seriously? We been living in the information age for a generation now. Rather than blurt out that you don't know who a famous person is, look her up.
And then prepare to be amazed.
Uhm, I was working in such "age" before you finished High School. It's an immediate, short, honest response.
Sure, I could look her up, pretend I knew who she is, but it's much funnier to have you call me Dude. :lookingup:
You wait all these years to tell me that's what makes you laugh? Well look forward to an inundation of "dude-ing!" :wink:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 10:45:28 PM
True or False:
An ancestor of mine beheaded King Charles I of England.
I'll go with true.
^ I'll say true as well.
Quote from: Alex on April 14, 2023, 03:01:29 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 10:45:28 PM
True or False:
An ancestor of mine beheaded King Charles I of England.
I'll go with true.
I've posted that before with different language. The answer is... maybe! I know the headsman came from Ireland and had my family name. I'm so proud.
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 10:39:08 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 13, 2023, 02:26:20 PM
Who the hell is Laurie Anderson?
Dude, seriously? We been living in the information age for a generation now. Rather than blurt out that you don't know who a famous person is, look her up.
And then prepare to be amazed.
Oh yes, the Yoko Ohyes married to
LOU REED. I would not have known her name. I'm a dilettante; I couldn't care less about the cognoscenti.
Gasp, scoff, cough, Laurie Anderson had an amazing career a long time before she married Lou Reed, and kept her career going after Reed's glory days fizzled. Lou Reed was great, no bones there, he did some songs I love, but he married an even more imaginative artist than himself. (If you want to read something interesting, by the way, read Anderson 's account of how Lou Reed approached the moment of his death.)
And, hey, while I'm kvetching, it also doesn't make sense to say you were living in the information age when I was in high school, because if it was happening when I was in high school, I was also alive for it. But at forty-four I'll take all the "you young whippersnapper" observations you want to make. :wink:
Quote from: ER on April 14, 2023, 01:00:51 PM
Gasp, scoff, cough, Laurie Anderson had an amazing career a long time before she married Lou Reed, and kept her career going after Reed's glory days fizzled. Lou Reed was great, no bones there, he did some songs I love, but he married an even more imaginative artist than himself. (If you want to read something interesting, by the way, read Anderson 's account of how Lou Reed approached the moment of his death.)
And, hey, while I'm kvetching, it also doesn't make sense to say you were living in the information age when I was in high school, because if it was happening when I was in high school, I was also alive for it. But at forty-four I'll take all the "you young whippersnapper" observations you want to make. :wink:
So- did you meet her or not? I said False.
Oh yeah- I never heard of her either!
Quote from: ER on April 14, 2023, 01:00:51 PM
Gasp, scoff, cough, Laurie Anderson had an amazing career a long time before she married Lou Reed, and kept her career going after Reed's glory days fizzled. Lou Reed was great, no bones there, he did some songs I love, but he married an even more imaginative artist than himself. (If you want to read something interesting, by the way, read Anderson 's account of how Lou Reed approached the moment of his death.)
And, hey, while I'm kvetching, it also doesn't make sense to say you were living in the information age when I was in high school, because if it was happening when I was in high school, I was also alive for it. But at forty-four I'll take all the "you young whippersnapper" observations you want to make. :wink:
Though I define myself as a dilettante, you define its connotation of snobbery.
LOU REED's glory days were over before Laurie Anderson. He made a lot of money only compared to an artist like Laurie Anderson. Financial success is only one measure, but it advises: Give the People what they want!
I worked in the computer industry since the 1980s, more than 40 years ago when I was a whippersnapper. The dawn of the Information Age would have been before you were born.
Gosh, RC, the original question kinda got lost, didn't it? :bouncegiggle:
Nah, mate, I made the whole thing up.
I knew someone in Austin who had intimate relations with both Colin Farrell and Colby Donaldson, and was very gabby about both of them, but who got shot down cold by Billy Bob Thornton.
^ False?
No googling this one!
Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre were both from Hungary, and both were addicted to heroin.
No, that's true about the girl in Austin. She was my friend's wife's friend, and she was deliberately building a collection. Last I heard, which was years ago, she was going after Andy Roddick down there, and really had a thing for Lance Armstrong too. She kissed and told to a TMI level at the drop of a hat.
As for yours, I'm going to say true.
^ No, it's not. Both were Hungarian, both were addicts, but to morophine, not heroin.
True or False- I learned how to read before I was old enough to go to school.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 06:26:57 PM
True or False- I learned how to read before I was old enough to go to school.
I'll say true.
^ Your right.
My Dad loved Dick Tracy in the Sunday paper, and would read to me, and I would follow the word ballons when he read them.
Days don't begin at midnight, they end at midnight and begin at 12:01 AM.
Quote from: ER on April 18, 2023, 12:53:00 PM
Days don't begin at midnight, they end at midnight and begin at 12:01 AM.
False.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 06:26:57 PM
True or False- I learned how to read before I was old enough to go to school.
True: I could read before I was three. :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 06:26:57 PM
True or False- I learned how to read before I was old enough to go to school.
Of course, for me, it was the World Book Encyclopedia... there were lots of pictures! :smile:
I was born in a country which doesn't exist anymore.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 18, 2023, 02:17:38 PM
Quote from: ER on April 18, 2023, 12:53:00 PM
Days don't begin at midnight, they end at midnight and begin at 12:01 AM.
False.
Technically true in one of those "centuries begin in '01" kinds of ways.
Quote from: Trevor on April 18, 2023, 04:30:31 PM
I was born in a country which doesn't exist anymore.
True. Rhodesia is gone. I think it's Zimbabwa now...I spelt that wrong.
Quote from: ER on April 18, 2023, 04:38:46 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 18, 2023, 02:17:38 PM
Quote from: ER on April 18, 2023, 12:53:00 PM
Days don't begin at midnight, they end at midnight and begin at 12:01 AM.
False.
Technically true in one of those "centuries begin in '01" kinds of ways.
Dude. :lookingup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 18, 2023, 04:40:42 PM
Quote from: Trevor on April 18, 2023, 04:30:31 PM
I was born in a country which doesn't exist anymore.
True. Rhodesia is gone. I think it's Zimbabwa now...I spelt that wrong.
True: you made the new name read better 😊
I lived down the road from 'satanic' killer Ricky Kasso on Long Island in 1984- the year of the murder.
(https://i.imgur.com/qvRgwOV.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
^ How about a yes to that?
It's all true except Kasso lived in Northport, and I lived in Mastic-Shirley- more than 30 miles away.
Still in Suffolk County. Ma said-"See! That's what that crazy music makes you do!"
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 20, 2023, 08:22:08 AM
It's all true except Kasso lived in Northport, and I lived in Mastic-Shirley- more than 30 miles away.
Still in Suffolk County. Ma said-"See! That's what that crazy music makes you do!"
I just googled Ricky Kasso: yikes :buggedout:
I saw David Bowie in concert.
^ Sure!
I'll go with true.
The long running TV series What's My Line had a South African connection.
True.
False for ER, true for Trevor.
I saw Bowie (with NIN) in Columbus in 1995. :thumbup:
Quote from: ER on April 21, 2023, 02:09:35 PM
I saw Bowie (with NIN) in Columbus in 1995. :thumbup:
I saw him on The Glass Spider Tour, maybe 1988, with
SQUEEZE... which without tricks had a better show.
When my friends and I were traveling in Budapest, we rented an apartment from a local. When we picked up the key, a young woman who looked to be a teenager who he never introduced was standing behind him in a see-through negligee. It was hard not to stare!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 02:44:38 PM
When my friends and I were traveling in Budapest, we rented an apartment from a local. When we picked up the key, a young woman who looked to be a teenager who he never introduced was standing behind him in a see-through negligee. It was hard not to stare!
True.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2023, 06:10:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 02:44:38 PM
When my friends and I were traveling in Budapest, we rented an apartment from a local. When we picked up the key, a young woman who looked to be a teenager who he never introduced was standing behind him in a see-through negligee. It was hard not to stare!
True.
Indeed. The image is burned in my mind forever.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 06:35:42 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2023, 06:10:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 02:44:38 PM
When my friends and I were traveling in Budapest, we rented an apartment from a local. When we picked up the key, a young woman who looked to be a teenager who he never introduced was standing behind him in a see-through negligee. It was hard not to stare!
True.
Indeed. The image is burned in my mind forever.
Was she lovely?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2023, 09:24:36 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 06:35:42 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2023, 06:10:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 21, 2023, 02:44:38 PM
When my friends and I were traveling in Budapest, we rented an apartment from a local. When we picked up the key, a young woman who looked to be a teenager who he never introduced was standing behind him in a see-through negligee. It was hard not to stare!
True.
Indeed. The image is burned in my mind forever.
Was she lovely?
Yes, like something out of a dream or a movie. But for some reason I think she was about 15 or 16, so it was something I shouldn't look at, but couldn't help taking a peek at. We were all looking at each other in disbelief when we left saying "did you SEE that?"
What's your favorite Kool-Aid flavor.
Mine is grape. Maybe because I live in grape country.
Remember Goofy Grape, you old folks?
(https://i.imgur.com/rJ4jwe1.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
^I remember Goofy Grape but I haven't tasted kool aid in 50 years or more.
^Oops! That was supposed to be in the personal questions thread- not 'True or False.'
As far as Kool-Aid goes- you can't go wrong. It's cheap, and ice cold in the summer, it's great!
Quote from: Alex on April 21, 2023, 01:35:16 PM
True.
Yes, John Charles Daly was born in Johannesburg of all places: he sounded like he was born in England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fScPVKndI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fScPVKndI)
OK-
True or False?
When I drink grape soda pop my s**t turns bright green. Grape Kool-Aid too.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 22, 2023, 10:11:06 AM
OK-
True or False?
When I drink grape soda pop my s**t turns bright green. Grape Kool-Aid too.
(Ever read
Cujo? lol)
I am floored, just.....boom, on the tiles, that you didn't get that Cujo reference, RC. It pains me but I must now take back your Stephen King-Literate merit badge.
I never read Cujo. :bluesad: Kings books are hit and miss for me. I much prefer, of modern writers, Clive Barker.
Oops, thought you said you had. There was a side story in Cujo about a breakfast cereal the ad agency of one of the main characters represented and how an ingredient in it had a similar effect to the one you mentioned with Kool Aid. Reminded me of that.
Quote from: ER on April 23, 2023, 12:53:27 PM
Oops, thought you said you had. There was a side story in Cujo about a breakfast cereal the ad agency of one of the main characters represented and how an ingredient in it had a similar effect to the one you mentioned with Kool Aid. Reminded me of that.
Except I think it was a blood red...
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 24, 2023, 12:10:22 AM
Quote from: ER on April 23, 2023, 12:53:27 PM
Oops, thought you said you had. There was a side story in Cujo about a breakfast cereal the ad agency of one of the main characters represented and how an ingredient in it had a similar effect to the one you mentioned with Kool Aid. Reminded me of that.
Except I think it was a blood red...
Twas
I once called out the county's dictatorial sheriff for jaywalking.
^ False.
At least I wouldn't. I try to avoid cops like the plague.
^ That's because you're wiser than I was at the time, young and idealistic and brave. That happened, actually, and everyone I've ever told that to locally has cringed, but I was downtown many years ago and saw him walking against the light, and without thinking about it I spontaneously said, "Way to jaywalk, Sheriff!" He glared at me and I kept walking and he didn't call me back or anything. That man was practically a "boss" in the city for decades, as in the old machine bosses.
Two more for the evening:
I am a member of the mile-high club.
I knew a girl named Angel Brite.
I'll say both are BS.
Ha, yes.
I was once arrested for trespassing. Handcuffed, thrown in the back of the sqad car, and put in a cell.
WHILE I was the pastor of a local church!
Quote from: indianasmith on April 24, 2023, 10:28:29 PM
I was once arrested for trespassing. Handcuffed, thrown in the back of the sqad car, and put in a cell.
WHILE I was the pastor of a local church!
I'll go with yes. I could see you wandering onto some government land or something in pursuit of arrowheads (accidentally).
Quote from: Alex on April 25, 2023, 02:40:43 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on April 24, 2023, 10:28:29 PM
I was once arrested for trespassing. Handcuffed, thrown in the back of the sqad car, and put in a cell.
WHILE I was the pastor of a local church!
I'll go with yes. I could see you wandering onto some government land or something in pursuit of arrowheads (accidentally).
True! It was private land actually, where I once had permission to go - but ownership had changed. A phone call to the new landowner got all charges dropped. (And yes, I was hunting arrowheads, so good guess all around!)
I've had a meal on board a three-masted sailing ship.
^ I believe it. :thumbup:
True, it was earlier on today.
As WC Fields lay dying, his friends sprayed a hose on the roof to simulate his favorite sound of rainfall.
^ Yeah, sure. :thumbup:
True.
True or False: NOSFERATU (1922) was the first Dracula film.
TRUE. They just couldn't call it "Dracula" because Bran Stoker's widow would not release the rights to film the story.
^ Sorry Indy. It's false. DRAKULA HALALA (1921) was made in Hungary a year earlier.
It's a lost film.
(https://i.imgur.com/vrcUtQM.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2023, 07:02:14 AM
^ Sorry Indy. It's false. DRAKULA HALALA (1921) was made in Hungary a year earlier.
It's a lost film.
(https://i.imgur.com/vrcUtQM.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
That's cool to know!! I guess NOSFERATU is the earliest SURVIVING adaptation of Dracula, then.
Makes me sad to know that all the SA film industry has contributed to the Dracula series of films is Dracula 3000 😳😳😳
The name of the MCU character Groot means 'big' in Afrikaans.
I'll go with true, because its Trevor.
Quote from: Alex on April 29, 2023, 09:14:16 AM
I'll go with true, because its Trevor.
Yes, true.
The word is pronounced GGREW ERT in Afrikaans. :smile:
Hitler had only 1 testicle.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
Hitler had only 1 testicle.
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :teddyr:
I needed that smile, thanks. :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
Hitler had only 1 testicle.
I think that's false, if I recall it was a rumor started by Allied soldiers.
^ :bouncegiggle:
Yeah- only Eva knows for sure!
At the end of Moonraker, the metal-toothed villain Jaws meets a young woman who smiles at him, revealing braces.
True. I seen it at the theater in Liberty, NY. Up in the Catskills.
I remember the scene too but apparently in the universe where we live now, she didn't have braces. Crazy, huh?
^ Well, s**t! This was back in what- 1979? :question:
It's something lots and lots of people remember about that movie, in fact it's almost universally remembered, yet the film (now) shows she didn't have braces. Clearly we've slid into another dimension, right?
England's King Richard the Lionheart was French.
Quote from: ER on April 30, 2023, 11:19:24 AM
England's King Richard the Lionheart was French.
False if I remember my history lessons 🐢
Nope, he was French, and spent only six months of his ten year reign in England.
Well, the entire Plantagenet dynasty was French, if you want to be a stickler! From William the Conqueror on down to John Lackland.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series was targeted by SA religious groups in 1987 as being a bad influence on kids.
Of course it's true.
The people with whom I was going to hike some sections of the Arizona Trail saw two rattlesnakes on the first day of their trek and no more for the remainder of their hike.
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 11:49:48 PM
The people with whom I was going to hike some sections of the Arizona Trail saw two rattlesnakes on the first day of their trek and no more for the remainder of their hike.
I'm going to say true, because they didn't go any farther?
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 01, 2023, 05:48:28 AM
Of course it's true.
One church minister said that several members of his church caught their kids sleepwalking and when they came round from it. they said they were on their way to the sewers as "the turtles were calling us". I call BS on that.
Quote from: chefzombie on May 03, 2023, 01:34:15 AM
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 11:49:48 PM
The people with whom I was going to hike some sections of the Arizona Trail saw two rattlesnakes on the first day of their trek and no more for the remainder of their hike.
I'm going to say true, because they didn't go any farther?
Pretty much. They saw two on the first day and because of the big trail closings they only went a week and then decided to camp in a lovely area instead of hike.
King James I of England approved of the bible that bears his name.
^ Make sense, I reckon.
Quote from: ER on May 03, 2023, 07:37:16 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on May 03, 2023, 01:34:15 AM
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 11:49:48 PM
The people with whom I was going to hike some sections of the Arizona Trail saw two rattlesnakes on the first day of their trek and no more for the remainder of their hike.
I'm going to say true, because they didn't go any farther?
Pretty much. They saw two on the first day and because of the big trail closings they only went a week and then decided to camp in a lovely area instead of hike.
really? i never get this stuff right, this is kinda cool!
I sat in Poe Park, the birthplace of Edgar Allen Poe, in the Bronx, drinking whiskey, smoking pot, and listening to Black Sabbath on a boom box, with my friend Jose, who was from Peru.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 04, 2023, 04:11:18 AM
I sat in Poe Park, the birthplace of Edgar Allen Poe, in the Bronx, drinking whiskey, smoking pot, and listening to Black Sabbath on a boom box, with my friend Jose, who was from Peru.
I know you lived in New York for a time so yes on this one.
No. It's all true except we were jamming on to Led Zeppilin!
Sneaky little basterd, ain't I?
I once wrote a story called Our Lady of Prozac?
^ Nah. I dunno know why, but-nah.
True or False?
When I was a kid I would chew up katy-did shells.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 06:37:40 PM
^ Nah. I dunno know why, but-nah.
No, I wrote it. I read it today for the first time in years and I'm fond of that little tale.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 06:55:52 PM
True or False?
When I was a kid I would chew up katy-did shells.
I'll say true. Disgusting, but true.
^ Oh, hell no! :bouncegiggle:
In the silent movie era, a producer once shot a director because the director hired an actual Native American to play an Indian in a Western.
^ No- if he did, what a dick!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 10, 2023, 11:32:17 AM
In the silent movie era, a producer once shot a director because the director hired an actual Native American to play an Indian in a Western.
I hope not!
Yes, I made it up.
True of False?
I once tounge kissed a guy.
With the amount you've drunk in your life, I'm pretty sure you have! If you say you didn't you probably did and just don't remember. :wink:
I did. I was drunk. Here's how it came down-
Me and my brother in law Leroy were hanging out with some guys, and someone said- why I don't recall- "If I seen two guys kiss I would puke!" so Leroy grabbed me and we tounge kissed! The guy didn't puke, but me and Leroy almost did! :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 10, 2023, 07:37:32 PM
I did. I was drunk. Here's how it came down-
Me and my brother in law Leroy were hanging out with some guys, and someone said- why I don't recall- "If I seen two guys kiss I would puke!" so Leroy grabbed me and we tounge kissed! The guy didn't puke, but me and Leroy almost did! :bouncegiggle:
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
I'm trying to keep from laughing when I proof read my manuscript and said that Lethal Weapon 2 and Cry Freedom were great movies :buggedout:
nup, that's true.
Quote from: chefzombie on May 12, 2023, 02:36:41 AM
nup, that's true.
Yes: both were huge box office hits here, believe it or not.
In college, I signed a pledge to fight for Ukraine if they ever fought a war seeking independence from the Soviet Union.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 12, 2023, 08:03:54 AM
In college, I signed a pledge to fight for Ukraine if they ever fought a war seeking independence from the Soviet Union.
I am going with true ☺️
Quote from: Trevor on May 12, 2023, 08:38:54 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 12, 2023, 08:03:54 AM
In college, I signed a pledge to fight for Ukraine if they ever fought a war seeking independence from the Soviet Union.
I am going with true ☺️
Yes, it's true. The pledge specified "Soviet Union" so the current conflict doesn't count, thank God.
Frank Sinatra helped pay for Bela Lugosi's funeral costs.
True or false?
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 12, 2023, 01:33:42 PM
Frank Sinatra helped pay for Bela Lugosi's funeral costs.
True or false?
I think that's true.
^ Yeah it is.
^ Yeah, I'd have guessed true. With little fanfare Sinatra was one of the most generous celebrities of his era.
When I was in high school a perspective employer made it appear someone was stalking me, in order to see how I would respond.
Even though I'm a nerd and proud of it, I love my sports, soccer and cricket for preference. I also play a mean game of darts 😳
I'll say true.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 11:58:52 AM
When I was in high school a perspective employer made it appear someone was stalking me, in order to see how I would respond.
I'd say false. And if true- I would have had the shmuck arrested.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 11:58:52 AM
When I was in high school a perspective employer made it appear someone was stalking me, in order to see how I would respond.
True.
True. Should've been my first clue of what I was dealing with, eh?
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 11:58:52 AM
When I was in high school a perspective employer made it appear someone was stalking me, in order to see how I would respond.
What job could that possibly have been for a high school student? FBI agent?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 13, 2023, 03:14:22 PM
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 11:58:52 AM
When I was in high school a perspective employer made it appear someone was stalking me, in order to see how I would respond.
What job could that possibly have been for a high school student? FBI agent?
The FBI's a bunch of frat boys. Never trust 'em. Wouldn't work for them for six figures. A huge portion of the blame for 9-11 rests on the cocky, rival mentality of the FBI sitting on intelligence. Heads should have rolled but the Bush administration didn't want to dampen the wave of nationalism and patriotism that resulted from 9-11 so it never went after the people it should have. 9-11 was preventable.
^ :lookingup:
So it was the FBI's fault a bunch of religious nuts went crazy. Gimme a break.
So what was the job? And why did you not call the cops?
Quote from: Alex on May 13, 2023, 01:40:21 PM
I'll say true.
Very true: people found it odd but my folks encouraged me to play. I wasn't all that bad in tennis either 🎾😊
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 13, 2023, 03:27:06 PM
^ :lookingup:
So it was the FBI's fault a bunch of religious nuts went crazy. Gimme a break.
So what was the job? And why did you not call the cops?
The FBI sat on intelligence it was required to share. Take that blame however far you will.
The job was about being emotionally and psychologically tested, so it kinda precluded calling the cops.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 13, 2023, 03:27:06 PM
^ :lookingup:
So it was the FBI's fault a bunch of religious nuts went crazy. Gimme a break.
So what was the job? And why did you not call the cops?
The FBI sat on intelligence it was required to share. Take that blame however far you will.
The job was about being emotionally and psychologically tested, so it kinda precluded calling the cops.
What was the job title? I was kidding about the FBI, and not at all sure what you've asserted isn't true. It seems extreme to frighten a teenager.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 13, 2023, 04:11:27 PM
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 13, 2023, 03:27:06 PM
^ :lookingup:
So it was the FBI's fault a bunch of religious nuts went crazy. Gimme a break.
So what was the job? And why did you not call the cops?
The FBI sat on intelligence it was required to share. Take that blame however far you will.
The job was about being emotionally and psychologically tested, so it kinda precluded calling the cops.
What was the job title? I was kidding about the FBI, and not at all sure what you've asserted isn't true. It seems extreme to frighten a teenager.
There are a lot of jobs where they pull tricks like this one.
^ To a kid? And what kind of job does a kid have that requires that kinda s**t?
If I was ER's Dad I woulda stomped a mudhole in that guy's ass.
John, for years I've come here to the far rural edge of the internet, out in the sticks, this beloved bumblef**k country, and I sometimes write about things I keep bottled up in daily life, today remembering a psychological experiment, other times writing introspectively about other things, often getting incidents off my chest only a handful of people close to me know about, kind of like digging a hole and whispering in it. Let's face it, in the best sense, this place is in the middle of nowhere. As for the matter in the question, I was over eighteen, I'd agreed to be tested, but didn't know at the time that was one of the tests, so I'd signed away my right to be too outraged that it happened. Mainly the situation consisted of it appearing someone was leaving vaguely unsettling notes on my car containing comments that strongly indicated I was being watched in my daily life . It didn't go on long but it wasn't pleasant either. I've actually alluded to this before when I wrote about my grandpa giving me the Desert Eagle I still carry. The job had no title at that point because I had no position.
^ So what was the job, already???
I had to go to college under a fake name and befriend someone. I had to be very visible and wait for her to notice me. But that was when I was nineteen. It's been a strange life, RC.
^ That's a job? What was the title? To be a sneaky liar and spy on someone? What kind of job is that??? Sounds kinda under-handed.
Yeah, but it was for a good reason. I can't say I'm proud of everything I've done, but I am proud of that. Shrug.
Evening awaits. You guys have a good night.
There are a lot of jobs out there that require you to go through things like that. I've seen some roles in the military (some of which went a lot further), but there are others in law enforcement, security and so on. I've seen a woman not taking one of these assessments seriously get her clothes ripped off of her in front of all the other students and get the crap beaten out of her (that was a conduct after capture course where you were treated exactly as you would be if you were captured by a terrorist group).
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 04:41:10 PM
Yeah, but it was for a good reason. I can't say I'm proud of everything I've done, but I am proud of that. Shrug.
Evening awaits. You guys have a good night.
May we know the job or employer? You're proud of the experience, so it must've been a good one.
My Ma had her eyebrows plucked when young. She would draw them on with a grease pencil.
of course. you're only a but younger than me, and my momma did that, so did my aunts.
There is a SA film whose title translates loosely as S*** Bucket :buggedout:
Quote from: chefzombie on May 15, 2023, 03:28:26 AM
of course. you're only a but younger than me, and my momma did that, so did my aunts.
Yes, she did.
True or False?
My brother Mike went to prison for murder.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 15, 2023, 02:48:24 PM
True or False?
My brother Mike went to prison for murder.
I'll say false. Bonus guess: it was manslaughter.
No- He was in prison for attempted murder.
My Brother-In-Law Leroy went to prison for murder.
I've been peed on, pooped on, vomited on and bitten by toads.
^ Haven't we all? :question:
:thumbup:
Tura Satana- from FASTER p***yCAT KILL! KILL! is Japanese.
No google!
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 26, 2023, 04:53:22 PM
Tura Satana- from FASTER p***yCAT KILL! KILL! is Japanese.
No google!
Does half-Japanese count? (I think she is half-Japanese).
I don't know! I was asking you!
I found this ad- that's why I asked!
(https://i.imgur.com/Bril1Z4.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 26, 2023, 04:53:22 PM
Tura Satana- from FASTER p***yCAT KILL! KILL! is Japanese.
No google!
From Wiki:
Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background.
WOW! A force of nature. No actor.
True or false: In New York City in the '70s my dad went out a couple times with this Portuguese-American girl who one day told him that she'd been demonically possessed as a teenager and received an exorcism, which my dad decided was too weird, even factoring in taking a shot at a hot virgin, and basically dumped her cold?
^ Sure. NYC is full of nuts.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 27, 2023, 10:59:48 AM
^ Sure. NYC is full of nuts.
Yessireebob! My cousin used to tell me all kinds of stories about my dad that her mom knew about him, plus at one point he himself told me things I never wanted to know about his own conduct in his younger days as cautionary tales about what turds boys were. It didn't quite make me think all men were dangerous so much as to look at him and think, "Oh, sure, all that and you think you are entitled to judge me?" lol
I once found a dead earthworm on top of a 340-foot high building.
^ False.
Scoff, I seldom trick you, RC. Yes, I made it up.
I... just got about six or eight feet from what I am about 90-percent sure was a copperhead before I saw it, and I only saw it because it fled in front of me. :buggedout:
I'll say true. We don't have cooperheads here in Michigan. We did in upstate NY, though.
I'll guess true.
My Dad dropped a depth charge on one of the first atomic subs by accident when he was in the navy in 1958.
I think I startled a copperhead, yes. It was quick but I believe it was one.
I just found out there are four The Gods Must Be Crazy films: the original 1980 film and three Chinese knock off films.
I think RC and Trevor are both lyin'....
^I dunno about Trev, but no- I am not. The crew had no idea the sub was under them. Thankfully, the sub was unharmed.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 29, 2023, 11:23:51 AM
^I dunno about Trev, but no- I am not. The crew had no idea the sub was under them. Thankfully, the sub was unharmed.
Dang! :buggedout:
Trevor may be telling a fib for the first time. There were two Chinese knockoffs, but the first sequel was South African.
Quote from: ER on May 29, 2023, 11:09:38 AM
I think RC and Trevor are both lyin'....
I'm not unfortunately: three knock off films were made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. One was called Crazy Safari and the other two I dunno.
Quote from: Trevor on May 29, 2023, 01:32:48 PM
Quote from: ER on May 29, 2023, 11:09:38 AM
I think RC and Trevor are both lyin'....
I'm not unfortunately: three knock off films were made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. One was called Crazy Safari and the other two I dunno.
Did you forget about this one?: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097443/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097443/)
So it looks like there are actually four sequels, one South African and three Chinese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy_(film_series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy_(film_series))
Andy Warhol was once given the job of interviewing Truman Capote for Rolling Stone, though neither was willing to sit still for a formal interview, so they conversed at random as they walked, and the result was printed with time stamps showing how far apart statements in the meandering conversation were.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 29, 2023, 12:54:00 PM
Trevor may be telling a fib for the first time. There were two Chinese knockoffs, but the first sequel was South African.
I forgot about The Gods Must Be Crazy 2, believe it or not :buggedout:
Boredom and innate, well-cultivated, weirdness are a potent combination?
I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
Once a dubious-looking man walked up to me on Bicentennial Commons and asked if I wanted to know something shocking, and I said sure, and he told me the world was only eight minutes old.
Quote from: ER on June 01, 2023, 10:48:50 PM
Boredom and innate, well-cultivated, weirdness are a potent combination?
Yeah- I'm living proof.
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I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
Of course.
Quote from: ER on June 03, 2023, 03:45:33 PM
Once a dubious-looking man walked up to me on Bicentennial Commons and asked if I wanted to know something shocking, and I said sure, and he told me the world was only eight minutes old.
Of course.
Quote from: Trevor on June 03, 2023, 02:02:45 PM
I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
ABBA: THE MOVIE (1978) was on TCM this afternoon! I watched the last half; it was weird and same director as
MY LIFE AS A DOG !!! Listening to
ABBA now. A great Pop band!
Quote from: Trevor on June 03, 2023, 02:02:45 PM
I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
My first fib I've told 😊🐢
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I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
My first fib I've told 😊🐢
Good for you! Glad you weren't ever an ABBA fan.
Quote from: ER on June 01, 2023, 10:48:50 PM
Boredom and innate, well-cultivated, weirdness are a potent combination?
Yep, RC.
Quote from: ER on June 03, 2023, 03:45:33 PM
Once a dubious-looking man walked up to me on Bicentennial Commons and asked if I wanted to know something shocking, and I said sure, and he told me the world was only eight minutes old.
Nah, RC, I once began a story with that concept but I never got back to finishing it.
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I was a huge ABBA fan when I was a kid.
My first fib I've told 😊🐢
Good for you! Glad you weren't ever an ABBA fan.
Well I am. :lookingup:
I like some of their songs like Super Trouper and Lay All Your Love On Me but there was an unfounded rumor about them which was doing the rounds in Rhodesia in 1976 that they were linked to funding liberation movements in Africa through a church group: I hope that wasn't true. :bluesad:
I have an unopened can of Planters cheese balls that was on a closet shelf here when I moved in, that based on matching it with label pictures off the internet, may be from about 1980.
Going to go with false. I think it was there when you moved in, but you've since got rid of it so that your children won't eat it.
I made it up, but my grandma used to buy those cans of cheese balls all the time, and back in the trans-fat days, they were really good.
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 09:55:23 AM
I have an unopened can of Planters cheese balls that was on a closet shelf here when I moved in, that based on matching it with label pictures off the internet, may be from about 1980.
false. you'd just check the barcode and best by date.
I once dreamed Jim Morrison was buried alive.
There is a South African movie that involves a leprosy patient in love with her doctor :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2023, 05:16:29 AM
There is a South African movie that involves a leprosy patient in love with her doctor :buggedout:
PLEASE let this be true....
Quote from: ER on June 09, 2023, 08:07:53 AM
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2023, 05:16:29 AM
There is a South African movie that involves a leprosy patient in love with her doctor :buggedout:
PLEASE let this be true....
It is true: the movie is called PLEKKIE IN DIE SON [A Place In The Sun] about a high society lady who is diagnosed with leprosy and is sent to the Westfort Leprosy Hospital in Pretoria (now closed) to be assisted and hopefully cured. She falls in love with a doctor there who cures her after many weeks and she leaves, only to return later to be with him and to give care to others as she herself received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg)
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2023, 09:49:39 AM
Quote from: ER on June 09, 2023, 08:07:53 AM
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2023, 05:16:29 AM
There is a South African movie that involves a leprosy patient in love with her doctor :buggedout:
PLEASE let this be true....
It is true: the movie is called PLEKKIE IN DIE SON [A Place In The Sun] about a high society lady who is diagnosed with leprosy and is sent to the Westfort Leprosy Hospital in Pretoria (now closed) to be assisted and hopefully cured. She falls in love with a doctor there who cures her after many weeks and she leaves, only to return later to be with him and to give care to others as she herself received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg)
I would be very disappointed if somewhere out there, there isn't a poster for the movie with the tagline "She gave him her hand and any other bits that dropped off."
Quote from: Alex on June 09, 2023, 10:11:17 AM
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Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2023, 05:16:29 AM
There is a South African movie that involves a leprosy patient in love with her doctor :buggedout:
PLEASE let this be true....
It is true: the movie is called PLEKKIE IN DIE SON [A Place In The Sun] about a high society lady who is diagnosed with leprosy and is sent to the Westfort Leprosy Hospital in Pretoria (now closed) to be assisted and hopefully cured. She falls in love with a doctor there who cures her after many weeks and she leaves, only to return later to be with him and to give care to others as she herself received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD52f7EOBPg)
I would be very disappointed if somewhere out there, there isn't a poster for the movie with the tagline "She gave him her hand and any other bits that dropped off."
Oy 😳😆😆😆😆😆😆
It's believed Elvis' death was instantaneous, because he was found with his palms facing up, indicating he was not conscious enough to try to raise himself up.
^ I'll say false. He was on the toilet.
^ From what I read the other day the hand position thing is true. Elvis fell forward onto the bathroom floor, and if someone is alive at all, the instinct is to try to rise, so you put your hands palms down and push up. His hands were palms up, indicating instant unconsciousness or death. Shrug. So it said.
Me, I've figure he was another victim of that nameless malevolent entity that serial kills celebrities in bathrooms and bath tubs. It's also gotten Jim Morrison, Dolores O'Riordan, Whitney Houston, Lenny Bruce, and Judy Garland, just to name a few.
I can believe that. He was f**ked up. The reason he was on the toilet was because he was severely constipated at his death. He tried to sh!t so hard he had a heart attack.
Feminist Gloria Steinman once worked for the guy who published Famous Monsters magazine, and also for the creator of MAD.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 10, 2023, 09:06:27 PM
Feminist Gloria Steinman once worked for the guy who published Famous Monsters magazine, and also for the creator of MAD.
I'll say true.
^It is. She worked for Harvey Kurtzman's HELP! magazine, which was a Jim Warren title.
I didn't know , but I bought this book-
(https://i.imgur.com/bjrlQxK.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
2 days ago. I read it all already!
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in a film together.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 12, 2023, 08:31:55 AM
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in a film together.
That seems possible, but I can't think of one so I'll guess false.
Yup. Boris was with Chaney in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944), and that's it. Bela wasn't in it.
I went to jail, and stole some county jail paints and a shirt. They were army green. VBSD was stamped on the back.
True or False?
^ I'm going to ignore my instincts and say false.
^No, I did.
I put my street clothes over them in the changing room.
i was offered $150 for a book today and said no.
^ I'll say yes.
I agree that chefzombie's statement is probably true.
Elvis used to travel with two suitcases full of legally-prescribed pills.
I'll say true to Elvis.
Quote from: ER on June 20, 2023, 08:45:37 AM
I'll say true to Elvis.
It's a trick question. It was actually three suitcases full of pharmaceuticals!
Bonus Elvis question: The Simpson's character "Dr. Nick" was partly based on Elvis' private prescribing physician.
^ I'll say True.
I have over 100 books (not including magazines) on film history.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2023, 02:41:34 PM
^ I'll say True.
I have over 100 books (not including magazines) on film history.
Mine is true, and yours is true.
Mine is not. I have 73.
Most on horror films.
Moonless nights were called "Fool's Moons" in the west of Ireland, because the darkness tempted smugglers to try to sneak past Royal Navy patrol boats, who were good at catching smugglers amid their capital crimes.
I'll say true, because you got a hard on for Irish stuff.
I had the clap once.
According to Chasidim, forty days before a baby is conceived, G-d informs a soul it is to leave the place of spirit and enter a body. Forty days before that body dies, G-d informs the soul with a whisper that the body will die and the soul may re-enter the place of spirit. That is said to be the reason people have premonitions of death.
Hint: I have spent a good deal of time studying Judaism of late.
In my hometown there was once a business called Smilin Sam's Used Furniture, and its motto was "We's Hates Fleas."
I had the clap once.
mine is true. the book is an old giveaway from grocery stores with campbell's soup recipes. my momma gave it to my" sister" kath, at the time momma thought she would be stupid enough to marry my brother, BUT that would mean she'd be my sister forever.
she was NOT stupid enough to marry my brother, she's still my sister, and she sent me the book for my 60th birthday. it will go to my youngest niece when i step back on the karmic wheel. :cheers:
I once attended a lecture given by a retired Navy pilot named Bill Lowe, who claimed his squadron was less than two minutes off targets in Cuba when they were recalled during the Missile Crisis.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 22, 2023, 10:13:12 PM
I had the clap once.
You posted that twice so false, you had it twice :wink:
My least favorite film director made a great horror movie once.
Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 06:18:17 AM
My least favorite film director made a great horror movie once.
Aw, Trevor, I've concluded you're genetically incapable of lying. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on July 04, 2023, 08:16:36 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 06:18:17 AM
My least favorite film director made a great horror movie once.
Aw, Trevor, I've concluded you're genetically incapable of lying. :bouncegiggle:
Ah, correct but who was the director and what was the film? :wink:
A clue: the director was also an actor and Sir Anthony Hopkins was the star of the movie.
Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 10:00:23 AM
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Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 06:18:17 AM
My least favorite film director made a great horror movie once.
Aw, Trevor, I've concluded you're genetically incapable of lying. :bouncegiggle:
Ah, correct but who was the director and what was the film? :wink:
A clue: the director was also an actor and Sir Anthony Hopkins was the star of the movie.
Magic, Richard Attenborough? If I am right I am going to be shocked!
The SHINING, by Kubrick? :wink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 04, 2023, 11:43:47 AM
The SHINING, by Kubrick? :wink:
Almost: you won't believe this but there are to me a few real nasty shocks in that movie and I was 12 when I saw it. :buggedout:
Quote from: ER on July 04, 2023, 11:25:09 AM
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Quote from: Trevor on July 04, 2023, 06:18:17 AM
My least favorite film director made a great horror movie once.
Aw, Trevor, I've concluded you're genetically incapable of lying. :bouncegiggle:
Ah, correct but who was the director and what was the film? :wink:
A clue: the director was also an actor and Sir Anthony Hopkins was the star of the movie.
Magic, Richard Attenborough? If I am right I am going to be shocked!
Both right. :cheers:
A South African movie had its' sound man eaten by a lion while the star and score composer died before the film was released. :buggedout:
The Great Fire of London and my present karma total share something in common. :wink:
They were both started by a cow?
No, that was Chigago.
EDIT: No! I was being surreal! I smoke pot like a chimeny!
True, 1666 is my karma and 1666 was the year of the Great Fire's outbreak.
^ :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on July 08, 2023, 11:25:45 AM
True, 1666 is my karma and 1666 was the year of the Great Fire's outbreak.
No longer true, LOL!!
I drank a whole bottle of rubbing alchohol years ago.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 08, 2023, 06:21:04 PM
I drank a whole bottle of rubbing alchohol years ago.
I'll say false. I believe you drank rubbing alcohol, but not a whole bottle.
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True, 1666 is my karma and 1666 was the year of the Great Fire's outbreak.
No longer true, LOL!!
What? Darn those Mandela Effects!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 08, 2023, 06:48:40 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 08, 2023, 06:21:04 PM
I drank a whole bottle of rubbing alchohol years ago.
I'll say false. I believe you drank rubbing alcohol, but not a whole bottle.
It is false. I never drank any rubbing alchohol. That s**t would blind folks. I seen it happen. I may be crazy, but I aint dumb.
This isn't a true or false, but what you asked reminds me of a man who came to talk to us in school for DARE and he said when he was a "homeless wino" his words, it was tough to shoplift booze but easy to shoplift shoe polish, and he told us at his lowest he used to spread shoe polish on bread and let it dry in the sun, then scrape it off and eat the bread, which got alcohol in it from the shoe polish, and that's how he'd get drunk in a pinch.
^ That aint a drunk. That's a moron. DARE. Dare to be stupid.
Someone told me Martha Stewart commented at a party that she once ate "puppy" in Thailand, and it was delicious.
^ You sure it wasn't "p***y"?
Aw, I dunno, she never reminded me of a muff diver, and I made it up anyway, though Mel Gibson is on record as saying he ate dog.
When the Beatles met Elvis in 1965, they recorded two songs on a reel-to-reel; Col. Parker was supposed to own the tapes, but he never released anything, and they were not found among his possessions when he died. If they are ever located these recordings would potentially be worth millions.
^ False.
Correct. Although Elvis and the Beatles jammed together, Parker specified that no recording be allowed.
i just found out that the first person i helped( with money and research and ground support, as well as an offer for housing in my home) to transition never actually did. and they are now bragging about " taking" me and my friends who helped. :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
^ I'll say true because you're to angry for it to be false.
The National Geographic Society is owned by Disney.
I'll guess true? Because Disney owns most everything it seems.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 20, 2023, 12:59:18 PM
I'll guess true? Because Disney owns most everything it seems.
Yes. :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 18, 2023, 03:20:23 AM
^ I'll say true because you're to angry for it to be false.
got that right. i'm trying to get past it.
Bela Lugosi played the first Wolfman. And I aint talking about the WOLF MAN (1941).
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2023, 11:31:08 AM
Bela Lugosi played the first Wolfman. And I aint talking about the WOLF MAN (1941).
True. :smile: :smile:
Yes! In ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
(https://i.imgur.com/YAKlo3E.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I haven't had a drivers license since 1985.
Sounds true.
T/F: Plato argued that in an ideal society there would be no poets, as poets were forces of social corruption.
I would say false. If he did- f**k him.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 09, 2023, 02:38:48 PM
Sounds true.
Oh, that's true. After my 2nd drunk driving charge- the second I wrecked a truck and hurt my girlfriend and my pals Bud's girl- almost killed all of us. After that I decided either to drink or drive, I did the first.
No, that's what he wrote in The Republic.
^ well, then f**k him.
Without art in your life- poetry, litature, art, films, even comic books- why live as a drone? Maybe it was a threat to him, because he was famous. But, just like Jimi Hendrix, or the Dead Kennedys- they touched the "peasants",and considered a threat. It challenged his status quo. The almighty "philosipher". I got a philosphy for him- FVCK YOU! Old dead man. For 1000's of years. f**k him. He may have been considered a genius and deep thinker way back when- but this is 2023.
^ Ha, ditto.
Bela Lugosi and Petter Lorre- both Hungarian by birth, were heroin addicts.
True or False?
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 15, 2023, 05:32:36 PM
Bela Lugosi and Petter Lorre- both Hungarian by birth, were heroin addicts.
True or False?
I'll say false. (Wasn't Lugosi a morphine user?)
You're correct. Both Bela and Peter used Morphine.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 15, 2023, 05:59:31 PM
You're correct. Both Bela and Peter used Morphine.
Opium is refined into morphine and morphine into heroin, or was originally, correct? I remember something about morphine being seven times more potent than opium, and heroin being ten times more potent than morphine. Scary thought.
^ I dunno- I have done many drugs- I never f**ked with opiates.
Maybe I will live longer! I don't think so- I reckon I'll be dead in 5 years or so. I'm 61 come August 20, I don't see too may birthdays left. I don't give a flying f**k. If I quit posting and if this forum is still here, you know I'm dead. Because as much of an a***ole and moron I am, and as much as I argue with my fellow Bad Movie friends- I do love you all and apperciate you putting up with my ranting bullsh!t.
OK! That self sobbing s**t is over- What is your favorite beverage?
Mine- uh- whiskey. Water after. Then tea.
Truthfully? Water. It's almost all I ever drink. I am hopelessly square.
wait . . . people drink water?
Surely that's just a fad. I can't see it catching on.
Anyway - Diet Dr. Pepper and iced tea probably account for about 80% of my fluid intake.
Gatorade and Diet Coke the rest.
I think soft drinks are detrimental. Of course except for a quasi-eating disorder I've done everything supposedly right with exercise and mostly with nutrition/vegetarianism yet am told I am unlikely to make old bones, so what do I know? Maybe I make a good reverse barometer, lol.
I NEVER drink soda pop. Rot gut sugar s**t. Just makes your mouth sticky.
Well, we all wind up in the ground eventually anyway.
All the vegan health food/fitness nuts are going to feel pretty darned silly in 50 years, lying there dying of absolutely nothing!
^ This is true- which is why I myself plan to be pickled with whiskey in my veins when I go.
We've got the "true and false" and "personal questions" threads mixed up.
The Lugosi/Lorre question was kind of ambiguous, since morphine and heroin are pretty much interchangeable. Both actors were Hungarian-born opiate addicts.
Chemically, morphine is a component of opium that can be extracted and concentrated from raw opium. Heroin is synthesized from morphine and is more potent. Fentanyl is even more potent than heroin. But they all do basically the same thing, it's mainly just the dosage that's different.
True or false: Johnny Depp paid for Hunter S. Thompson's funeral (his ashes were shot out of a cannon).
Darn we did get the threads mixed up.
And I will say true to the Depp question.
It is true.
^ That was a cool way to be disposed of.
The guy from I Dream of Jeannie wanted to be run thorugh a wood chipper and spread across a wheat field, and then have his friends eat the bread made from the wheat that grew there so he could "live on within them."
Putting people in the ground is so uncreative. I need to think on what I want done with me. Wonder if I could be made into a book? Do they have towers of silence in this country? Neither burning nor burial much appeals to me.
Without looking it up on Google: Babe Ruth, Elvis Presley, and Bela Lugosi all died on the same date (different years, obviously).
No. Elvis died earlier, I believe. I know it was in August- because Grouch Marx died on the same day too, I think.
Nope, they all died on 8/16.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/columnists/bill-ervolino/2018/08/16/aretha-franklin-elvis-babe-ruth-among-icons-who-died-august-16/1008346002/ (https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/columnists/bill-ervolino/2018/08/16/aretha-franklin-elvis-babe-ruth-among-icons-who-died-august-16/1008346002/)
Also Aretha Franklin.
Groucho died three days after Elvis--a much bigger loss, IMO, although Elvis did die too young.
Quote from: ER on August 16, 2023, 09:30:26 AM
^ That was a cool way to be disposed of.
The guy from I Dream of Jeannie wanted to be run thorugh a wood chipper and spread across a wheat field, and then have his friends eat the bread made from the wheat that grew there so he could "live on within them."
Putting people in the ground is so uncreative. I need to think on what I want done with me. Wonder if I could be made into a book? Do they have towers of silence in this country? Neither burning nor burial much appeals to me.
I want my ashes scattered on the lawn at the National Film Archives in Pretoria: that way, I will always be there.
I will ensure to haunt the place too :buggedout: :wink:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 17, 2023, 12:49:31 PM
Nope, they all died on 8/16.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/columnists/bill-ervolino/2018/08/16/aretha-franklin-elvis-babe-ruth-among-icons-who-died-august-16/1008346002/ (https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/columnists/bill-ervolino/2018/08/16/aretha-franklin-elvis-babe-ruth-among-icons-who-died-august-16/1008346002/)
Also Aretha Franklin.
Groucho died three days after Elvis--a much bigger loss, IMO, although Elvis did die too young.
^ Yeah, I looked it up after I answered.
The movie Jaws was a huge hit here but the book was banned.
^ True.
Robert Downey Jr made a movie in South Africa in 1994.
Quote from: Trevor on August 18, 2023, 08:07:26 AM
Robert Downey Jr made a movie in South Africa in 1994.
True. (Though one of these days Trev is going to throw a "false" in there after 100 "trues" in a row to trip us up.)
Lugosi never appeared in a film with Peter Lorre- true or false?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 18, 2023, 08:13:00 AM
Quote from: Trevor on August 18, 2023, 08:07:26 AM
Robert Downey Jr made a movie in South Africa in 1994.
True. (Though one of these days Trev is going to throw a "false" in there after 100 "trues" in a row to trip us up.)
:wink: :wink:
True: the movie was called
Danger Zone. Not bad. The one thing that made me laugh is that it is set in an un-named African country and when several people go into a bar, the wall has lots of posters of Orlando Pirates, the SA soccer team :teddyr:
I have the word "HOWDY!" tattoed on my leg.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 18, 2023, 08:28:56 AM
Lugosi never appeared in a film with Peter Lorre- true or false?
false. the movie is called " you'll find out!", 1940.
I bought Bitcoin at less then $1000 and sold it at over $60,000.
hhhmmm.... i'd have to have dates to know for sure, but if it was between 2009 and 2016, i'd say true.
Quote from: chefzombie on August 20, 2023, 02:27:35 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 18, 2023, 08:28:56 AM
Lugosi never appeared in a film with Peter Lorre- true or false?
false. the movie is called " you'll find out!", 1940.
A kewpie doll for the little lady!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 20, 2023, 02:42:01 PM
I bought Bitcoin at less then $1000 and sold it at over $60,000.
I'll say BS.
It is true. Wish I'd bought a lot more, but I lucked out incredibly so it's hard to complain. Closest I've ever come to winning the lottery.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 20, 2023, 07:34:35 PM
Quote from: chefzombie on August 20, 2023, 02:27:35 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 18, 2023, 08:28:56 AM
Lugosi never appeared in a film with Peter Lorre- true or false?
false. the movie is called " you'll find out!", 1940.
A kewpie doll for the little lady!
COOL! i neve managed to win one of those at the carnival!
^ Here ya go!
(https://i.imgur.com/MvkubcM.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
The Kroger grocery store chain was founded by Kroger Babb, who previously was an exploitation filmmaker responsible for movies like "Mom and Dad," "Shoulda Said No," and "Monica" Story of a Bad Girl."
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 28, 2023, 07:44:09 AM
The Kroger grocery store chain was founded by Kroger Babb, who previously was an exploitation filmmaker responsible for movies like "Mom and Dad," "Shoulda Said No," and "Monica" Story of a Bad Girl."
Going to go with false on that one.
False: Barney Kroger. The historic cemetery and arboretum where he's buried is one of the most interesting places I know. For a rich man his grave is humble.
True, it's false, though I read someone falsely attribute the Kroger chain's origin to Kroger Babb.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 28, 2023, 05:56:16 AM
^ Here ya go!
(https://i.imgur.com/MvkubcM.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
thank you! i'll show it to my little giantess, she's into sculpture right now, and pretty good for a 14 year old!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 28, 2023, 07:44:09 AM
The Kroger grocery store chain was founded by Kroger Babb, who previously was an exploitation filmmaker responsible for movies like "Mom and Dad," "Shoulda Said No," and "Monica" Story of a Bad Girl."
nope, his name was bernard, i think, known as barney.
True or crazy: Elvis was inspired by Johnny Bravo.
True, of course.
^ Right! Elvis was indeed inspired by Johnny Bravo! :smile:
NOSFERATU (1922) was the first Dracula movie? True or false?
False - there was an earlier, now-lost screen adaptation in 1915.
^1921. the Hungarian DRAKULA HALALA came out in 1921- now a lost film.
(https://i.imgur.com/8Uyklx7.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Ah, thank you! I knew there was one before NOSFERATU but I forgot the year. Be cool to find a long-lost print of it.
My father testified in a murder trial this week.
True?
Yep! He was a minor witness who could identify the accused's car and place it at the scene at about the proper time.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 31, 2023, 03:25:32 PM
Yep! He was a minor witness who could identify the accused's car and place it at the scene at about the proper time.
If he testified against any well-dressed thick-necked sorts whose last name ends a vowel, he may need you to recommend some good Hitchcock films about faking his death and taking up under a new identity.
Charles Manson once auditioned for the MONKEES TV show. T or F?
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 01, 2023, 07:11:15 AM
Charles Manson once auditioned for the MONKEES TV show. T or F?
True (I think)
O J Simpson made a movie in South Africa.
O.J. made a film in S.A. = True (of course).
The girl I am currently dating told me Hunter Biden hit on her at a party when she was in college.
^ Yes?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 12, 2023, 07:59:10 AM
O.J. made a film in S.A. = True (of course).
The girl I am currently dating told me Hunter Biden hit on her at a party when she was in college.
i'd have to know her age before i hazard a guess.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 12, 2023, 07:59:10 AM
O.J. made a film in S.A. = True (of course).
The girl I am currently dating told me Hunter Biden hit on her at a party when she was in college.
First one: yes, Killer Force.
Second one about you dating: yes.
The Hunter Biden one: dunno.
The Hunter Biden one is false.
(If you already know the answer to this, no fair replying, lol.)
In the early 2000s I got a tiny tattoo of a koi on my ankle, because I was trying to keep a volatile, yandere-ish person happy and he wanted me to go get one with him. When I got home weeks later I immediately had it removed (which hurt worse than the tattoo had because I always felt so much adrenaline around this person) and have always told everyone I've never had a tattoo, because in a way I never chose to get one and never again will.
Since I am not allowed to answer the question above here's one.
An escort once asked me to go on a (non-paying) date with her.
true.
on a national average, gas hasn't been 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, despite claims otherwise.
Quote from: chefzombie on October 08, 2023, 03:03:12 AM
true.
on a national average, gas hasn't been 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, despite claims otherwise.
I originally read that as gas has never averaged 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, which would clearly be false. But it must mean the average price of gas has not constantly remained at $2 or more since 2004, that is true.
It is possible to score 1 point in an American football game without scoring a touchdown.
Quote from: chefzombie on October 08, 2023, 03:03:12 AM
true.
It is true. She'd heard about my massages from a friend and wanted to go out on a date with me and get a massage afterwards. I asked how much I should charge for it, which in retrospect was rather cruel and I hadn't meant it to sound that way. She was a very attractive and kind young lady and I could easily see how she'd have made a lot of money in her chosen profession, but I didn't feel that I would be comfortable in a relationship where my partner was having sex with other people, paid or not. I occasionally wonder what she is doing now and hope she had (and is having) a good life.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 20, 2023, 11:47:51 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on October 08, 2023, 03:03:12 AM
true.
on a national average, gas hasn't been 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, despite claims otherwise.
I originally read that as gas has never averaged 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, which would clearly be false. But it must mean the average price of gas has not constantly remained at $2 or more since 2004, that is true.
It is possible to score 1 point in an American football game without scoring a touchdown.
yes, i think it's called a conversion safety. i know how football works, but i suck at the lingo, lol!
the cougar sightings on the east coast in recent years are all western animals that migrated.
Quote from: chefzombie on October 23, 2023, 03:27:02 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 20, 2023, 11:47:51 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on October 08, 2023, 03:03:12 AM
true.
on a national average, gas hasn't been 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, despite claims otherwise.
I originally read that as gas has never averaged 2 bucks a gallon since 2004, which would clearly be false. But it must mean the average price of gas has not constantly remained at $2 or more since 2004, that is true.
It is possible to score 1 point in an American football game without scoring a touchdown.
yes, i think it's called a conversion safety. i know how football works, but i suck at the lingo, lol!
the cougar sightings on the east coast in recent years are all western animals that migrated.
Yes, a conversion safety is what I was thinking of. But, the question is kind of ambiguous because you can only score a conversion safety off a blocked extra point or two-point conversion that goes wrong. So a little ambiguous.
I'll say the cougar one is false. Most are, but I think this cougar was born in NY:
(https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr06/9/9/enhanced-buzz-orig-10804-1389279201-8.jpg?downsize=600:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)
lol, i meant the cats! :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: chefzombie on October 24, 2023, 11:32:10 PM
lol, i meant the cats! :bouncegiggle:
I still go with false for the hell of it.
according to the wild life service folks along the coast, it's true, and horrendously disappointing. they believe the native cats have been killed off by farmers and ranchers, or the coyotes that have started invading the whole country at this point.
True or false:
While preparing to hike in Loch Lomand National Park in Scotland, we were cautioned by a guide there that the warm weather had brought out adders, which were ill-tempered in mating season, and were surprisingly common there.
Quote from: ER on November 03, 2023, 01:56:28 PM
True or false:
While preparing to hike in Loch Lomand National Park in Scotland, we were cautioned by a guide there that the warm weather had brought out adders, which were ill-tempered in mating season, and were surprisingly common there.
I'll say false. It was Vipers. :bouncegiggle:
My Ma was a gogo dancer.
Quote from: ER on November 03, 2023, 01:56:28 PM
True or false:
While preparing to hike in Loch Lomand National Park in Scotland, we were cautioned by a guide there that the warm weather had brought out adders, which were ill-tempered in mating season, and were surprisingly common there.
I saw nah, cuz Saint Patty drove all the snakes out of that area. (I'm Michigan white trash- Irish- Scottish- I dunno!)
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 03, 2023, 02:42:08 PM
My Ma was a gogo dancer.
Like Carmen Electra? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xI-UgK70s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xI-UgK70s)
I'd say false.
^She was.
Not like Carmen Electra. My Ma danced in dives. In Milton, NY. She went to Woodstock that year. I was a kid watching Channel 9 Chiller theater, and Aunt Mimi (an old black woman) watched us. And cooked some good food!
Quote from: Alex on November 03, 2023, 02:06:55 PM
Quote from: ER on November 03, 2023, 01:56:28 PM
True or false:
While preparing to hike in Loch Lomand National Park in Scotland, we were cautioned by a guide there that the warm weather had brought out adders, which were ill-tempered in mating season, and were surprisingly common there.
I'll say false. It was Vipers. :bouncegiggle:
Ha! The man called them adders but the story is true, and it blew my mind to be cautioned about venomous snakes so far north. I mean who thinks "Scotland" and then thinks "venomous reptiles" in the same brainwave? I hiked in Florida once and multiple species of venomous snakes were there, including America's only native cobra, the coral snake (it's true, they are cobras, look it up!) yet no one said one word regarding being careful about them. We didn't see any snakes at all around the loch in any case.
And, RC., forward to 2:30. :wink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCkVJk4_ddk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCkVJk4_ddk)
Adders and Vipers are the same creature. It just depends on which way round you see them if it looks like an 'A' or a 'V' on their head.
Quote from: Alex on November 04, 2023, 04:50:14 PM
Adders and Vipers are the same creature. It just depends on which way round you see them if it looks like an 'A' or a 'V' on their head.
Ever run into them?
Quote from: ER on November 04, 2023, 04:51:39 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 04, 2023, 04:50:14 PM
Adders and Vipers are the same creature. It just depends on which way round you see them if it looks like an 'A' or a 'V' on their head.
Ever run into them?
No, never saw one even when I used to do a lot of hillwalking (well not in the wild. I've seen them as pets). To be honest they are pretty good at detecting us from quite a distance off and avoiding us.
I know of a road called West East Street.