Would you like to play a game? (Yes, I am old enough that my brain reads that in a computer voice to a young Matthew Broderick.)
There is a classic party/icebreaker/Girl’s Camp game called “Three Truths and a Lie”. I figured we could play. It’s easy. (Even a UofU grad can figure it out.)
Here’s what you do: I have listed 4 statements below.
• Three of them are true.
• One is a lie.
Your job is to figure out which one is the lie. Easy peasy.
Here we go.
1. I was once bitten by a lion in Africa, as my Zulu guide just stood and watched. I survived.
2. I live in Utah. I have survived.
3. I was once trapped in an ancient temple in Bangkok, and rescued by a Buddhist monk. Survived that too.
4. I am not at all famous. If you learned my name, you would not recognize it.
There. Simple enough, right? Now you get to vote! You can vote as many times as you want. Feel free to use the comment section to share your vote and defend it.
FYI: Some weasel went in and voted for one of the answers about 50 times on Thursday night- which greatly skewed the results – luckily I had pulled the original data before the mischief. I will add those 200+ votes to any that come in from here on out. Now you can only vote once.
!! I would also like to point out that mCat left the first comment, which makes her a very big deal.
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See? I KNEW you lived in Utah!!! (I was scratched by 3 lions in South Africa. & That is not a lie.) Hmmm. I guess #1. Not sure what the prize it. Did you say? Well, it’s not #4 ‘cuz if you WERE famous, you’d already know Vickey & David & all my other famous Utah friends..
This is fun. Love the comments & all the rationalizing..
BTW, who is Bishop Higgins?
I KNEW you lived in Utah!!!
I said the Bangkok temple. I know that is not where you served your mission but I thought that it was more far fetched that getting bit in Africa.
I think I must live a boring life. Nothing nearly that exciting has happened to me. Although I could change it around and do 3 lies and a truth 🙂 I read some of the comments and it appears that some of your readers may be stalking you. I think you better confess to being famous before someone hires a private investigator and finds out who you really are!!
Teach and I both went for #1. The lion thing just seemed pretty unlikely. I could see the Bangkok thing happening to my brother on his mission to Thailand so that seemed pretty plausible. I already figured you lived in Utah and if you were already famous, you would have told us your name by now since obviously fame doesn’t bother you.
Sandy
You mentioned going to General Confeence for one session and bing home for the next, so you not only live in Utah, but likely less than an hour and a half from temple square, probably a lot less. I don’t think anyone too famous would have time to keep up with a blog, so of the two choices left I’m going to guess the lion thing is a lie.
Guthrie only basis I have for that guess is that I have not gotten an overwhelming sense that you hate cats or anything.
I do not believe that the correct answer is selectable in the poll. And no, I do not know you, other than what I have read here.
Nope. One is a lie. The other are solid truth.
You can survive a lion gumming on your arm or hand! Zulu guide just gets a better tip afterwards for the photo opp.
I said #3
My, my. It looks like Rach has a cynical side. Gumming? No. Teeth, and blood? Yes.
Oh darn. I thought this post was going to be a critique of Obama’s speech yesterday. I am disappointed. 🙂
LOL! Love that, Jocelyn! *zing!*
Jocelyn: I decided not to go there…. besides, who wants to play “Four lies and no truths”?
The funny thing,Rachel…is that is what I seriously thought of first!
You are definately NOT lion material as they only go after the weak or the slow…or so I’m told.
FYI, I voted twice accidentally. My real vote is on Utah, so one of the votes for famous doesn’t count (unless, of course, you want it to).
I used to read Bishop Higgins when he was posting a lot, and thought he was really, really funny – but sometimes I felt a twinge of guilt for laughing too hard. I’m flattered by your comparison. I must admit that I felt a bit of satisfaction when my follower count passed him by. He factored into my thought process before starting this blog. From the beginning I wanted to see if it was possible to be funny, informative and inspiring – all at the same time – it is quite a juggling act.
Are you in any way related to “Bishop Higgins”, formerly known as the “Inappropriate Bishop Higgins”? I’ll not give away his Clark Kent identity, but your humor is very similar to his. Although yours is more appropriate than his.
You once said that you “live within the shadows of the everlasting hills” which I take to mean Utah due to the whole Music and the Spoken Word intro every week. So that’s out… Well, that’s really the only clue I had to go on, so mine was just a wild guess.
Nope. I never said that. I said “I was raised within the shadows of the everlasting hills.”
But that doesn’t necessarily make you wrong.
We play this at our yearly ugly sweater holiday party between Christmas and New Years. We love this game.
I voted for the lion because unless it was in a zoo and you put your finger through the gate I don’t believe you’d have survived it. That one seems less believable than the buddhist monk rescuing you…you could have been stuck in the bathroom and he unlocked it.
On facebook you mentioned you watched the Jazz play and I know they were in the Energy Solutions arena that evening…so unless you actually traveled to see the Jazz… never mind. I don’t think so.
If you were someone famous, wanting to remain anonymous you wouldn’t admit it or you’d be tempting the fates…cause you know there’d be a huge investigation. I think you’re smarter than that. BTW, I doubt you need me to tell you I’m pretty sure there was a conference talk referring to this very thing….I think you’re okay though. You seem to be behaving behind the mask.
You obviously put more thought into your answer than I put into the post.
1) Maybe I only have one arm because the lion took one, so I type with one hand, making my blog doubly impressive,
2) “The only downside of going to a Jazz game is that you have to watch the Jazz play.” Doesn’t look like I said I was at Energy Solutions from that.
3) Do Buddhist temples have locks on the bathroom doors? I dunno!
4) Maybe I secretly wish to shed my anonymity because I am wracked with guilt.
Thank you for playing!
1. Yes that would be doubly impressive but somehow I doubt it.
2. You didn’t say they were there…you didn’t need to. I already knew they
were all on my own. Reread my statement above, Silly Goose.
3. Sheesh. I hope so.
4. We can hope.
Now I’m going to go get a life again.
I would have voted for #1, or maybe #2 or #3, but I’m questioning the definition of “survived.”
Now don’t go making it more complicated than it is. I’m not parsing words, or playing with definitions. You can disregard andy of the survival jokes if you want.
I voted for you not being famous because you are famous even if it is just as MMM it is still you HA
If you think MMM is famous, you need to get out more.
I voted for number 1 because it seems like it would be hard to get bitten by a lion and survive, unless of coarse it was a lion cub then it might be possible.
I voted for number one…..probably cuz it was first.
It’s a good thing there’s no prize involved or I would worry about how i vote. Because what if you really are famous and that’s why you are staying anonymus? ;o) I’m not a great test taker. I over think things. =)
LOL!
#2 is a lie. You make too many references to non-Utah stores and restaurants to still live in Utah.
I’m going with 4, I’m guessing you’re not Mitt Romney!
If he is Mitt Romney then Romney secured my vote 🙂
Are you going to actually give us the answer?
Kayli: That cracked me up! Yes, I plan on giving you the answer. Why do you ask? Is it a mistake? Should I not be doing this?
And oh my crap! I was the first to leave a comment on MMM’s blog? That sorta makes me a big deal
I went back and mentioned it in the actual blog post, so that it can be saved for posterity. Congratulations!
3 is a lie.
At least that’s my guess