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Post by lugg on Nov 16, 2020 19:09:01 GMT
I am not sure if this will have any legs but how about a new game ?
...post two truths and a lie about you/ your life/ your family / your history etc etc .... the person who guesses the lie correctly takes up the challenge .
I will start;
1. I have appeared on television.
2. My childhood home had a tree in the garden that was used to tether a dancing bear
3. I did my first parachute jump when I was 54 years old.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 16, 2020 19:20:24 GMT
Number 2.
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Post by lugg on Nov 16, 2020 19:23:53 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2020 19:25:06 GMT
Number 1.
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Post by lugg on Nov 16, 2020 19:28:25 GMT
Nope that is true too..... |
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2020 19:48:22 GMT
I'll take a stab in the dark and say number 3?
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Post by lugg on Nov 16, 2020 20:08:44 GMT
I'll take a stab in the dark and say number 3? yep - never ever would I jump out of a plane with a piece of plastic and a bit of string on my back Re the dancing bear - the chains were still around the tree when my parents bought the house - poor thing but it was a remnant from a travelling circus that used to visit before the house was built. Re TV - I was filmed by the BBC pushing a hospital bed into the newly opened Alexandra hospital in 1985 whilst the namesake ( Princess Alexandra ) stood by and watched. Mark - your turn. |
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2020 20:22:32 GMT
Princess Alexandra drove past my school when I was very young and we all had to go out an line the street and wave.
1) I deliberately rubbed dog shit in the carpet of an Iranian secret policeman's car.
2) I kicked a vicious dog down a set of stairs.
3) I watched Robert Mugabe in Frankfurt buying bags of British food in Marks and Spencer's.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 16, 2020 21:08:06 GMT
3.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2020 21:14:57 GMT
It's true Mick. I was gutted as it was before mobile phones with cameras and I chased quickly around trying to see one of those disposable ones nearby, but there weren't any. He'd be handing loads and loads of stuff to his security men who all had baskets full.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 16, 2020 21:32:02 GMT
2
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2020 22:11:30 GMT
Correct.
I was arresting a man on the landing at the top of the stairs in his house. He became violent so it was a struggle. He called for his dog, a mutt but with some bulldog in it, which was downstairs. I had my hands full and as it came bounding up the man shouted to it 'kill, kill' (cliché but true). As it cleared the last step full pelt, I put my foot out and it leaped, hit the sole of my foot (with its nose) and bounced back down the stairs breaking its leg.
This incident was raised during the court case because my evidence of the arrest differed from his and he had a complaint running with the police about my excessive force in detaining him - thus he wanted to discredit the rest of my evidence.
He was convicted of the offence I arrested him for, I was believed and not him and later the complaint against me was dropped.
That was my account of the dog incident and I'm sticking to it. I never kicked it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 17, 2020 7:53:42 GMT
My turn then...
1. I can't hold my drink
2. I was a hunt saboteur
3. I've been on TV
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 17, 2020 11:08:13 GMT
2.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 17, 2020 12:57:26 GMT
Correct.
1. I've never been very drunk, but I get quite squiffy after a glass of wine (as some anyporters have observed)
3. Twice..once on Gardeners' World and once on the local news when I was with the local astronomical association at the space centre, watching the transit of Venus in 2004.
2. Whilst I am totally against blood sports the closest I've come to being a saboteur was write a letter to my local MP when there was going to be a vote about banning hunting with dogs.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 17, 2020 15:21:11 GMT
Cheery, knowing you as I do I just couldn't see you being a hunt saboteur although I know you don't agree with it.
Anyhow:-
1. I've driven a steam locomotive (it was a 60th birthday present lesson).
2. My daughter's house was once a stable.
3. We have a brain surgeon in our family.
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Post by lugg on Nov 17, 2020 21:00:06 GMT
just catching up ... I am not sure I would have guessed mark's correctly ..think I would have chosen 1 . Cheery you media star ... would love to know more about your Gardener's World TV appearance.
Mick ...hmmm ... all very plausible but I am going to plump for 3 ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 17, 2020 22:09:08 GMT
Regret not lugg. My niece’s husband is a brain surgeon.
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Post by lugg on Nov 20, 2020 11:12:58 GMT
No 2 ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 20, 2020 11:55:13 GMT
Nope. It was indeed a stable once.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 20, 2020 16:27:02 GMT
Lugg. I was at GW live at the NEC in the plant swap tent. I dug up an astrantia seedling from my grden and took it along, one of the production team came and nabbed me asking if I'd mind being filmed. I tried saying 'NO' but I was with my sister and she said 'Yes she will'. I was filmed talking to Carole...I look like Godzilla next to her tiny form and, for some strange reason...I developed a west country accent during the interview. Jeff recorded it. Damn him.
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Post by lugg on Nov 20, 2020 18:08:49 GMT
I developed a west country accent during the interview. Jeff recorded it. Damn him. You just have to share with us  |
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Post by lugg on Nov 20, 2020 18:10:01 GMT
Nope. It was indeed a stable once. good one Mick so it has to ne No 1 . As I have posted mine once maybe someone else will join in next? |
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 12, 2020 15:45:58 GMT
1. I was hired as the personal assistant of the #1 pop star of France.
2. I flew around the world and paid US$20.
3. I was a close friend of Ronald Reagan's daughter in university.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 12, 2020 16:41:37 GMT
My guess -
Number 1 is wrong.
Your long term job would have enabled number 2 and you went to university in LA, number 3, where the daughter did also.
So unless there is some exaggeration, e.g. it cost you $200 or you knew of Patti Reagan but that's all, then I'd say you were offered the PA job but turned it down.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 12, 2020 17:10:04 GMT
Let's see if anybody else has some ideas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 12, 2020 17:20:00 GMT
I think #2 is the lie on the logic that it's the most plausible statement.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 12, 2020 18:16:06 GMT
Kerouac, I think it is #3
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 12, 2020 18:31:08 GMT
You are correct, mich. I did not know her all that well, but I sat next to her parents Ronald and Nancy at an amateur university performance of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Of course, back then he was only governor of California and not POTUS.
I was hired by the #1 pop star (Claude François) but I quit after just one day because he was a total creep. His building was totally filled with video cameras and he would yell at people in various offices all day long because he was obsessed by his wall of screens, which of course I saw when I went in for my initial interview.
As for my round the world trip, I had obtained a free ticket from Cathay Pacific for Paris-Hong Kong-Vancouver. Delta Airlines had a policy of charging only $20 per "direction" for airline employees at that time so I only paid $20 for Vancouver-Seattle-Los Angeles-Tampa-Atlanta-Paris. Most of it was in 1st class. Those were the days!
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Post by mich64 on Dec 12, 2020 19:12:06 GMT
I am going to think about this and hopefully come up with something interesting!
Kerouac, my thoughts were that I think you mentioned about #1 in a post in the past and to decide between #2 & #3, I thought if anyone would have found a way to fly around the world for $US20, it would be you!
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