Spot the lie.

1. I briefly met Bill Bruford
2. I shook hands with Ronald Reagan
3. I can’t really swim
4. I can ride a bicycle

Definitely going with 3.

My lie is not 3

Ok, 4. Perfect pitch?

Mine is Ronald Reagan. When I was 13 or 14 he came to my hometown. I was disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to see him. In the intervening years my view of him has dimmed quite a bit, but at the time I was easily impressed!

my dear friend, you have on this site so often proven that you have a great sense of humor that this statement is either another example of this or a weird case of self-deception

^^ I meant it sincerely, and I thank you.   It could be due to lack of sleep and stress. I'm quite suggestible, and have had various people insist that my sense of humour sucks or is lacking with no dissent from others. I've also had the opposite reaction, but sometimes I obsess too much on the negative. I shouldn't take it hard or that seriously. Some evolutionary biologists say that we developed humour as a social tool, it can bring people together, but it can also push people away. Methinks I joke around too much sometimes to compensate for my social anxiety, and sometimes I use it to try lighten the mood but it backfires. My sense of humour can be used inappropriately, it even got me landed in the brig, and got me committed to a psych ward at another time. Had I owned up to my joking each time I would have been okay, but I was too embarrassed to say each time that it was just a little joke intended to lighten the mood. It was badly timed and not really appropriate.

^ As for the Bible, I mentioned to various classmates that I was thinking about doing that as I had found that I'd left that little fake worm in my pants after fishing the day before, and they all insisted that I should and they would not tell on me.   I felt guilty about doing it at the time (these days she wouldn't be allowed to do that as I was not in a religious school), but I gave into peer pressure. As soon as she asked who did it, without hesitation the class in unison said "Greg did it." The little disloyal feckers! ;) :) I would not have told on the others, but then I'm quite loyal in that way.   Were it something serious, well that would be another matter. Still, I laugh about it now. This punk got punked, and it could have been a valuable lesson in terms of trust.... It was an unexpected reaction from the principal, but then she was not a well-liked teacher by anyone (terrible teacher, but I felt desperately sorry for her. Turns out she had significant psychological issues, and when I saw her years later she was so warm, and embraced me).

Edited by Logan - June 23 2019 at 10:54

TCat wrote: 1.  I have through-hiked the Appalachian Trail when I was 50 years old.  I hiked from the Georgia trailhead to the Maine terminus starting in April and finishing in October of the same year. 2.  I have co-written a screenplay and was involved in the production of a satire of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" called "Attack of the Killer Bananas" which was made into a movie.  3.  I lived in Italy when I was 19 and had my own radio program and was also involved in a few stage productions.   4.  I never drank coffee until I was 55 and then I only started because I was advised by a doctor to do so.

The lie is number 1.  I want to hike the trail from bottom to top some day, but I haven't done it yet.

Here’s another from me:

1. An unaccompanied monkey once walked a dog down my street.
2. My relative is a (former) mortician in jailed for bilking old people.
3. I made an official visit to a fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) town.
4. My mother purchased a sports car once owned by David Bowie.

Choose wisely!

BaldJean wrote: I'll go with 1 being the lie

believe it or not that’s true. A guy up the street has an illegal pet monkey. When he went to work, the monkey let the dog out. Happened a few times before someone called it in!