Four Truths And A Lie

[pacman000]

"Murder holes"...?   "Murder holes"...?  

1. I was jumped and beaten by four guys walking home from school.  
2. I once farted so loud it interrupted the class instructor.  
3. My name was published in Time magazine about 40 years ago.
4. I have been buying and selling Halloween for 45 years.  
5. I attended a meeting near the top of the World Trade Center shortly before September 11, 2001.

5. You tend to talk about things which bother you, & that would bother anyone.

What's this?  Who are you?  Thanks for the insult.  I don't understand your remark but #5 is true.  

I apologize, & retreat from this game. The last think I'd want to do is insult anyone.

[Rev. Powell]

"Murder holes"...?   "Murder holes"...?  

1. I was jumped and beaten by four guys walking home from school.  
2. I once farted so loud it interrupted the class instructor.  
3. My name was published in Time magazine about 40 years ago.
4. I have been buying and selling Halloween for 45 years.  
5. I attended a meeting near the top of the World Trade Center shortly before September 11, 2001.

5. You tend to talk about things which bother you, & that would bother anyone.

What's this?  Who are you?  Thanks for the insult.  I don't understand your remark but #5 is true.  

I apologize, & retreat from this game. The last think I'd want to do is insult anyone.

pacman's comment didn't sound insulting to me.

[ER]

1. I once explained to a nun that Bored of the Rings had a character named Dildo Buggers.
2. A friend of mine rode the Concorde and saw the curvature of the planet.
3. I can honestly say I wish ill-fortune on no one here.
4. I innocently huffed paint thinner one time as a kid because I liked how it smelled.
5. I think in general denim jackets aren't a bad look on many people.

#4 is the lie

No, shockingly that's true, my grandpa and I were in his shed and I was six and he turned around and there I was with this tin of paint thinner, smelling it real deeply, lol. Really happened.

[ER]

"Murder holes"...?   "Murder holes"...?  

1. I was jumped and beaten by four guys walking home from school.  
2. I once farted so loud it interrupted the class instructor.  
3. My name was published in Time magazine about 40 years ago.
4. I have been buying and selling Halloween for 45 years.  
5. I attended a meeting near the top of the World Trade Center shortly before September 11, 2001.

5. You tend to talk about things which bother you, & that would bother anyone.

What's this?  Who are you?  Thanks for the insult.  I don't understand your remark but #5 is true.  

I apologize, & retreat from this game. The last think I'd want to do is insult anyone.

I think AHD took what you said the wrong way, pacman. I get what you meant.

[Allhallowsday]

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pacman's comment didn't sound insulting to me.

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I think AHD took what you said the wrong way, pacman. I get what you meant.

Now I'm really annoyed.  Please enlighten me about the part I failed to understand.  Think about it a little more.  "You tend to talk about things which bother you" is NOT an appropriate remark after suggesting that what I'd written was not true.  There's a lot of analysis in such remark.   

[ER]

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pacman's comment didn't sound insulting to me.

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I think AHD took what you said the wrong way, pacman. I get what you meant.

Now I'm really annoyed.  Please enlighten me about the part I failed to understand.  Think about it a little more.  "You tend to talk about things which bother you" is NOT an appropriate remark after suggesting that what I'd written was not true.  There's a lot of analysis in such remark.   

I took the remark to be a use of the second person and a generality, like "you gain weight around Christmas."

[Rev. Powell]

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pacman's comment didn't sound insulting to me.

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I think AHD took what you said the wrong way, pacman. I get what you meant.

Now I'm really annoyed.  Please enlighten me about the part I failed to understand.  Think about it a little more.  "You tend to talk about things which bother you" is NOT an appropriate remark after suggesting that what I'd written was not true.  There's a lot of analysis in such remark.   

I read it as "People tend to talk about things that bother them. You've never brought this incident up before, so I think it's the one of those five statements that's made up." I don't see the insult. I always assume people are not insulting me unless they make it clear that they are. 

[ER]

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pacman's comment didn't sound insulting to me.

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I think AHD took what you said the wrong way, pacman. I get what you meant.

Now I'm really annoyed.  Please enlighten me about the part I failed to understand.  Think about it a little more.  "You tend to talk about things which bother you" is NOT an appropriate remark after suggesting that what I'd written was not true.  There's a lot of analysis in such remark.   

I read it as "People tend to talk about things that bother them. You've never brought this incident up before, so I think it's the one of those five statements that's made up." I don't see the insult. I always assume people are not insulting me unless they make it clear that they are. 

Hey, Rev, your mother sews socks that smell! (Anyone?)

[Allhallowsday]

There are lots of ways to be insulted, even unintentionally.  Ah, the anybody "you".  I don't use nor do I care for that convention and the member who offended me did not clarify his remark as such.  I regret sharing that one truth, and if I'd not been quoted so often, I'd remove my original post.  YOU YOU YOU.  When a person responds to me and states YOU, I take it as ME ME ME.     And the subject was September 11.  WTF?  People are apparently trapped in their own heads.  I have a "tendency"?     I don't like being analyzed or assumptions made about me.  ME ME.  Take the out while it's available. 

[ER]

There are lots of ways to be insulted, even unintentionally.  Ah, the anybody "you".  I don't use nor do I care for that convention and the member who offended me did not clarify his remark as such.  I regret sharing that one truth, and if I'd not been quoted so often, I'd remove my original post.  YOU YOU YOU.  When a person responds to me and states YOU, I take it as ME ME ME.    And the subject was September 11.  WTF?  People are apparently trapped in their own heads.  I have a "tendency"?    I don't like being analyzed or assumptions made about me.  ME ME.  Take the out while it's available.  

I think you were blessed with a literal mind, John, and most people are more figurative than I've found you to be. I've noticed my son is like that too, which leaves him open to my oldest daughter's deviling.

Ever hear the story of the Silk Road king who was hoping to make friends with the chieftain of a horde of barbarians, so he sent the chieftain a lovely message saying the chief was like a son to him, and the barbarian became furious, because in his culture a son owed his father all honor and obedience and he thought the king was saying that he owed that to the king, so the enraged barbarians sacked the city and did-in the well-meaning king?

Misunderstandings fuel history and message boards.

PS If ever you feel like sharing this last visit to the WTC, I think it'd be something we'd all be touched to know about.

[Allhallowsday]

Great parable.    

I do not care for other people's explanations of anyone's behavior; you may be correct, nonetheless you don't know that. 

[RCMerchant]

1. I shot a hole in the ceiling  with a 12 gauge in a botched sucicide attempt.
2. I almost OD'd on heroin.
3.I ate a large black beetle.
4.I jumped off my bike and climbed a tree when I was being chased by 3 dobermans.
5.I bit a guy in the neck during a fight.

[Rev. Powell]

1. I shot a hole in the ceiling  with a 12 gauge in a botched sucicide attempt.
2. I almost OD'd on heroin.
3.I ate a large black beetle.
4.I jumped off my bike and climbed a tree when I was being chased by 3 dobermans.
5.I bit a guy in the neck during a fight.

I'd believe all of those, but I'm going to guess #2 is the lie.

[RCMerchant]

Yer right! I never done heroin.

[ER]

1. I shot a hole in the ceiling  with a 12 gauge in a botched sucicide attempt.
2. I almost OD'd on heroin.
3.I ate a large black beetle.
4.I jumped off my bike and climbed a tree when I was being chased by 3 dobermans.
5.I bit a guy in the neck during a fight.

Gosh, Ron, they all sound so..... you. Uh, gotta agree, maybe number 2 is the untruth?