2 Truths/1 Lie (Part 4) (UPDATED)

 I will tell you three facts about me and you must guess which one is the lie.  Ready?

(1) We moved into our current home in 2000

(2) The house has a fireplace in the living room

(3) The house has a finished basement

The correct answer is #3.  Only 1/3 of the basement is finished.

2 Truths/1 Lie (Part 3) (UPDATED)

I will tell you three facts about me and you must guess which one is the lie.  Ready?

(1) My home was built in 1941

(2) I got engaged at age 27

(3) My 7 cats have all been rescues

The correct answer is #2.  I got engaged at age 19 to my first boyfriend.  It didn't last.

2 Truths/1 Lie (Part 2) (UPDATED)

I will tell you three facts about me and you must guess which one is the lie.  Ready?

(1) I put dirty dishes in the dishwasher

(2) I have lived in 3 different states: PA, NJ, VA

(3) I have owned 6 cars in my life

The correct answer is #1.  I put dirty dishes in the sink.  Arteejee does a better job at loading the dishwasher.

 

Damn, most of you got it right! 

 

 

2 Truths/1 Lie (Part 1) (UPDATED)

I will tell you three facts about me and you must guess which one is the lie.  Answers on a postcard please.

Ready?

(1) I am allergic to pollen (flowers, grass, trees)

(2) I am the life of the party in a social setting

(3) I need glasses to help me see at a distance when driving

 

The correct answer is #2.  In a social setting, I hang back against the wall and survey the scene until I feel comfortable making conversation.

 

Damn, most of you got it right! 

2 Truths/1 Lie

Since I have no shame, I stole this from Michael.

I will tell you three facts about me and you must guess which one is the lie.  Answers on a postcard please.

Ready?

(1) I have spent 15 years at my current job. 

(2) I have 2 college degrees, and have never used either of them on a job. 

(3) I have visited all 50 states, Canada, France, Italy, and the UK. 

UPDATE: #3 is the lie.  I have visited 40 states, Canada, France, Italy, and the UK.

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#12) - Update

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

And since Mistress Maddie asked so nicely...(must be the gin talking!)...

Here are 5 schools I have attended/graduated.  Which one is the lie?

1.  villanova university

2.  northern virginia community college

3.  villa maria academy 

4.  montgomery county community college

5. saint patrick parish school

Place your bets, folks!

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I won't leave you holding!

1.  TRUE.  Graduated 1976 with a B.A. in Economics/Business.  I have never used this degree.

2.  TRUE.  Graduated 1998 with an A.A.S. degree in Travel/Tourism.  I have never used this degree either.

3.  TRUE.  Graduated 1972.  YUCK; have never been to a reunion; too many cunts.

4.  LIE.  This community college is in my neighborhood, but I have yet to attend a class here.  Until they open their new culinary arts program...

5.  TRUE.  Graduated 1968, June 4.  A horrible day in American history. 

Congrats to MAC, Mistress Maddie, and RJ!!!

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#11) - Update

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

In keeping with his city theme, here are 5 cities I have toured; which one is the lie?

1. paris

2. san francisco

3. london 

4. dallas

5. seattle

Place your bets, folks!

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1.  TRUE.  1970, 2 years after the student riots.  I was on a French study trip with some fellow high school students and my French teacher.  I was 15 and about to start 11th grade.  I still have my photos and can still remember the places I visited.

2.  TRUE.  1980s with my ex-spouse.  Expensive city, but beautiful.  Would like to return and meet up with Raybeard!  And get some real sourdough bread too!

3. TRUE.  Last stop on the 1970 tour (see #1 for details).  I also visited Rome, Geneva, Bern, Lausanne on this trip.

4.  LIE.  I have never been to TX ever.

5.  TRUE.  1980s with my ex-spouse.  Very interesting city, strange streets, had my first taste of Starbucks house blend here and shopped at the flagship Nordstroms.  And I never did get to the top of the Space Needle; it was closed due to a fire. :(

Bob got it right!  Jim should have not changed his mind. ;-) 

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#10) - Update

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

Here are 5 cars I have owned (1972-present); which one is the lie?

1. hyundai elantra

2. ford pinto

3. chevy monte carlo

4. pontiac sunbird
 
5. volkswagon beetle

Place your bets, folks!

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1.  TRUE.  my current car, purchased used in 2006.

2.  TRUE.  sorry to disappoint all y'all.  my parents bought this for me in 1972 when I graduated high school; they had a death wish for me.  I drove it until 1977, when it broke down for good; only had 77K miles on it.  and I didn't die, which made the parents quiet unhappy.

3.  TRUE.  I owned this one from 1980-1991.  it was a lucky car; purchased 8-8-80 with 8 miles on it.

4.  TRUE.  I owned this one from 1977-1980.  what a piece of shit!

5.  LIE.  I have never owned a beetle; my old man did though.

and I cannot believe raybeard has never driven a car or even owned a car!  in this country, it's a right of passage!

I see no one got this quiz right; oh well, try try again. :(

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#9) - Update

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

Here are 5 classes I took in high school (1968-1972); which one is the lie?

1. trigonometry

2. home ec

3. chemistry

4. french

5. american history

Place your bets, folks!

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1. TRUE.  senior year I had a choice of pre-calculus, trig, or "math for dummies".

2. TRUE.  junior year I had a choice of cooking or sewing; I chose sewing.  sewing was ok, but I really found my inner artist in knitting.

3. LIE.  science?  AUUUGGGHHH!  I took home ec instead.

4. TRUE.  quatre ans.  4 years for you non-french speakers.  I can still read the language.

5. TRUE. junior year requirement.

Congrats to Jim!

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#8) - Update

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

Here are 5 jobs I have had from 1970-2013; which one is the lie?

1. variety store cashier

2. book manuscript typist

3. hotel front desk clerk

4. customer service center telephone worker

5. office manager

Place your bets, folks!

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Well, since Raybeard is so impatient, I guess I had better respond. ;-)

1. variety store cashier - TRUE.  my first job at age 16.  the store owner paid me under the table in cash (not exactly kosher), and they wanted me to (a) dust the glass display shelves and (b) follow the customer around the small store as if the person were a common thief.  well!  (a) - I hate housework and (b) - WRONG on every count!  I didn't last too long there.

2. book manuscript typist - TRUE.  mid-1970s, pre-computer days, IBM selectric typewriter with carbon paper in between the sheets.  I did this job for a college professor; he paid me in booze.  The book sold about 100 copies.

3. hotel front desk clerk - TRUE.  for 3 weeks in 2000; sweet mother of pearl, what a load of horseshit!  I don't know how dear Ron puts up with the crap.  plus all my co-workers smoked at the desk whilst on duty.  my allergies were not happy.

4. customer service center telephone worker - LIE.  I would not take a job like this EVAH!

5. office manager - TRUE.  this is my current position; going on 10 years now.

Congrats to Jim and the corporate slave!

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#7) - Update

Cripes, I have not done one of these since April!

I thought I would steal this from Jim. 

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1. I own 3 pairs of shoes.

2. I like to drink a margarita occasionally.

3. I hate touching dirt in the yard.

4. I am meeting Buddybear in August!

5. I just celebrated my 24th year "cancer birthday".

Place your bets, folks!

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I have a guest blogger providing the answers today: the spouse!

1.  TRUE.  And thank you, Jay, for setting this one up for me.  ("No lady has ONLY three pairs of shoes.")  “That’s no lady, that’s my wife!” (ba dum ching!)

AM says: 3 pairs = 1 pair of house slippers, 1 pair of everyday black clogs, 1 pair of snow boots.  that's it; that's all I need.  dr. spo has more pairs that I do, and he's a guy!  PS - whoever said I am a lady doesn't know me very well!

2.  LIE!  Bingo!  Okay, this could be a technicality with the word occasionally in the sentence, i.e., she could wolf a pitcher of these salt-rimmed babies down every weekend!  Margaritas are made with tequila, and this liquor is on Anne Marie’s Short List (But Always Subject to Perpetual Additions) of Dislikes. 

AM says: I have never gotten into tequila.  or tila tequila, for that matter.

3.  TRUE.  Dirt is another entry on Anne Marie’s Short List of Dislikes.  We shall never witness Anne Marie pulling up weeds in the side yard.  I suspect she might hate touching dirt on the remote chance that the soil may have come in contact with another entry on her list of Dislikes: vegetables.  

AM says: I was born in the city.  city kids touch concrete, not dirt.  my hands were not born to touch dirt.  (diva much?)

4.  TRUE.  This is the worst kept secret since Eric Snowden came home to his girlfriend and said, “Hey, honey!  Guess what I told The Guardian today?  Everything!!!!”

AM says: my boyfriends are such gossip-whores! ;-)

5.  TRUE.  Which means next year we get a party.  I will insist!

AM says:  I'm there, dude!  bring on the chippendale dancers and the cosmos! 

Congrats to Nadege and Mistress Maddie for selecting the correct answer!

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! (#6) (update)

I thought I would steal this from Jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1. It's only 356 days til the next blogger meetup!

2. My baseball team sucks ass.

3. I try to eat salad 3x/week.

4. I still have a landline phone in my home.

5. I have a wood-burning fireplace in my living room.

Place your bets, folks!

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I have a guest blogger providing the answers this time: the spouse!

1.  TRUE.  You know, math was never my strongest subject, so I will take her word for it.  The reference is to the blogger meetup in Lewes DE in 2014.

2.  TRUE.  We root for the Phillies, and they are not doing very well this year.  The term “suck ass” is very subjective; I wouldn’t say they suck ass so much as they are playing like the Peanuts kids with ace starter Charlie Brown.  Okay, they suck ass…

3.  FALSE.  Bingo!  Anne Marie hates vegetables which precludes her eating salads…ever.  Oh, she’ll do a fruit cup and raw carrot sticks once in awhile, or eat grapes and strawberries and bananas for snacks, but tuck in to a huge bowl of greens with dressing and croutons…no f-ing way!  I, on the other hand, will eat salads every chance I get. I am also the only one in the house with a heart condition. Yeah, even my doctor can’t figure out that disconnect either.

4.  TRUE.  We believe we are the only couple on the North American continent who do not own a cell phone.  Call us on our land line or at work or not at all.  We’ll not only admit this, but we’re smug about it.

5.  TRUE.  We do have a fireplace in our living room, which is used only when it gets verrrrrry cold outside. Since we had a mild winter, the fireplace did not get used at all this season.

Ron receives lovely parting gifts for guessing correctly!

Liar Liar Pants on Fire! (#5) (update)

I thought I would steal this from Jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1.  I have horrible spring allergies.

2.  My spouse is philadelphia born and bred (as am I).

3.  I like to swim.

4.  I collect shot glasses from places I visit.

5.  My spouse writes a blog.

Place your bets, folks!

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I have a guest blogger providing the answers this time: the spouse!

1.  Technically TRUE; her spring allergies last all year round…as do mine for the last few years.

2.  TRUE.  Raybeard raises an interesting point.  I was born in Philly, then moved at age 10 to an upstate Pennsylvania hamlet called Catawissa, hardly a city.  Thus I like to believe that I was raised in urban Pennsylvania and rural Pennsylvania (or, as we refer to it, North Alabama).

3.  FALSE!  Girlfriend has never had a swimming lesson and has no intention of ever taking a swimming lesson.  Her loss!  (AM says: truth be told, I am afraid of water, heights, and enclosed spaces)

4.  TRUE.  I collect shot glasses from places I visit.  I learned in one of my earliest phone conversations with Anne Marie that this was something we had in common (cue Twilight Zone theme!)  Our shot glasses are bought, carefully wrapped, brought home, carefully unwrapped, cataloged, and placed on a shelf crowded with about 400+ other examples of short glassware where they collect dust, untouched by alcohol. I know…terrible waste of a shot glass, but go figure.

5.  TRUE.  These comments were brought to you by arteejee.blogspot.com.  Oh, wretched world! (cue melodramatic gesture of hand against forehead.)  Can it be true?  Can it be that some of you have not experienced the satirical musings of arteejee.blogspot.com?  I blame the conservative media!  Damn you, Fox News, damn you!

Bob, Nadege, David, Janey, and Java all receive lovely parting gifts for guessing correctly!

Liar Liar Pants on Fire! (#4) (update)

I thought I would steal this from Jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1.  I love chocolate.

2.  I saw a psychologist twice in my life (2 different psychologists in 2 different states).

3.  My IQ is over 130.

4.  My ex-husband was a cross-dresser.

5.  My favorite painter is Renoir.

Place your bets, folks!

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1. TRUE - I AM a woman; I need the hormones!

2. TRUE - sorry, Raybeard.  I attended sessions with a female doctor in Virginia (1989) and another female doctor in Pennsylvania (2002).

3. TRUE - 135 to be exact.

4. TRUE - just 1 of the 928374650 reasons we divorced. is he still doing it?  who the hell knows; I have not spoken to him since July 1991, when our divorce became final.  He liked pantyhose, panties, and slips.

5.  FALSE - it's Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.  I love his painting.
I saw the linked picture in Chicago; I have seen his work at Yale University, and I will see more of his art in Allentown this spring.  The Philadelphia Museum of Art has several of his works too.  Check out "Moulin Rouge", the 1951 movie with Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Ron, Sean, Bob, and Spo all receive lovely parting gifts for guessing correctly!

However, some clarifications: Ron, I did paint-by-numbers as a child.  Sean, I love "Starry Starry Night" and "Sunflowers" by Van Gogh.  Bob, you have GOT to be kidding me! :-b

Liar Liar Pants on Fire! (#3) (update)

I thought I would steal this from jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1.  I grocery shop only 2 times per month.

2.  I joined a gym 18 months ago and I am still going 3 times per week.

3.  I drive a 2001 model used car.

4.  I don't like the taste of beer.

5.  I will be watching the Super Bowl tomorrow.

Place your bets, folks!

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1.  TRUE - I get paid twice a month, so that's when I shop.  It's not rocket science.

2.  TRUE - I enjoy my 30 minute strength exercises with my trainer.  My trainer motivates me to achieve my goals.

3.  TRUE - I bought a 2001 used hyundai elantra in 2006 (1 owner, 49K miles); it's now at 92K miles and still runs great.  Why yes, I DO keep up with the maintenance schedule!  My previous hyundai was purchased new and ran for 15 years (1991-2006)!

4.  TRUE - my adult beverages of choice are wine, gin, vodka (not necessarily in that order).  Beer shall never touch my lips!  Cosmos and gin-n-tonics always go down easy! (heh heh heh, I said "go down".)  And no rubbish either (with a nod to spo)!

5.  LIE - I am a baseball-only fan and nothing else.  9 days til the start of baseball season (muppet flail)!  But congrats to bawlmer (native pronunciation) anyway.

Janey, Jim, Sean R, Ron, and Tornwordo all receive lovely parting gifts for guessing correctly!

Confidential to Ron - the salivating was for the spouse's benefit, not mine!  He is the beer drinker in the family (he IS german, after all)!

Liar Liar Pants on Fire! (#2) (update)

I thought I would steal this from jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1.  I dye my hair.

2.  I still have my xmess lights up and lit.

3.  I  have adopted 5 cats since 1991.

4.  I love the summer season.

5.  I have been a VERY chatty bitch this weekend.

Place your bets, folks!

(heh heh heh, this is post #69)

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1.  TRUE - clairol nice and easy #110 (natural light auburn).  been doing this since my late 20s.

2.  TRUE - the electric candles in the windows are lit from 4:30p to 10p thru january 31.

3.  TRUE - sydney (adopted 1991 - deceased 2002), meredith (adopted 1992),  kelly (adopted 2002 - deceased 2006), steven (adopted 2006 - deceased 2012), nyla (adopted 2012).

4.  LIE - I detest summertime!

5.  TRUE - look at all my posts and comments!

So, a lovely parting gift belongs to VICTOR (with no projections) for playing along!

Liar Liar Pants on Fire! (update)

I thought I would steal this from jim.

Here are 5 things about me; which one is the lie?

1.  I have a younger sister.

2.  I have quit jobs after only 3 weeks.

3.  I have only 7 years to go til retirement.

4.  I like my job.

5.  I love indian food.

Place your bets, folks; but my pot is not worth $500 million. :)

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Well well well! ALL of you are WRONG!

I do have a younger sister; she is 5 years younger than I. We are on total opposite sides of the fence: she is religious and rethuglican, I am atheist and democrat. She had a child, I have never given birth. She puts up with my sperm & egg donors, I told them to fuck off in 1990. She is divorced and never re-married, I am divorced and re-married.

THE CORRECT ANSWER IS #3.

I will never retire; retirement is not a word in my vocabulary; my house is mortgaged until I am 85 (and I am currently 58). Yeah, you see where this is going. Also, I cannot just sit and do nothing.

Thanks for playing along; I will do this again soon! :)