| Archive for The Motor Forum talking cars since 2006 |
| woof woof |
Two truths and a lie...Inspired by this game on the photography site -http://www.amateurphotographer.co...mber/669962/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1 Wonna play???? For those who can't be arsed to follow the link - You have to tell two truths and a lie, anyone guessing the lie has to give their own two truths and a lie... oh, well, here goes... 1. I can move my eyebrows really really unbelievably fast. 2. I have a certificate in gymnastics. 3. I once caused the evacuation of a major defence establishment. Your turn... |
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| Rodge |
It has to be the eyebrow one. From pictures you've posted, I could imagine you in a leotard, not that I'd want to see that sight. Dammit, now I can't think of anything else.....get out of my head!
I reckon you caused the evacuation of one of 'G's former bases. You stole the Hendricks supply truck and everyone chased you. |
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| Eff One |
Have played this before and it's fun.
I reckon Alan's lie is the eyebrow one. |
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| woof woof |
No, the eyebrow thing is true. Surprisingly I've never caused the evacuation of an MOD base. | ||||
| Rodge |
1: I 'borrowed' someones Mini Metro when I was 17 to get pizza.
2: I have never broken any bones 3: I have lapped a rally school track within 5 seconds of the record set by Colin McRae |
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| woof woof |
I think you'd have mentioned number 3 before and I don't remember you mentioning it but it's believable...and I just can't see you as a twocer...
I was going to say that I too have never broken any bones but back in the days when I used to punch people for fun my hand hurt for weeks more than once, so, I'll go for number 2, because you must have broken something? I know I should have gone for 3, or 1, but I'll go for 2. |
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| Eff One |
Rodge - number 3. | ||||
| Rodge |
Correct. Lap record by Colin McRae was 57 seconds in a group B Metro. My best was 1:14 in a Group N Imprezza. Even the guy who ran the school could only do it in 59 secs. The track was only 1 km long too 
The Metro thing is true. It belonged to a friends dad, and we were told to get pizza. Friend handed me the keys, told me to drive. After 30mins of constant badgering, I gave in. We were spotted and his parents found out. Mine didn't though. I'd have been killed. |
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| woof woof |
Bugger! I was soooo close. | ||||
| Eff One |
1. In 2000, during a kart race at Milton Keynes, I encountered a kart driven by a young lady meandering onto the racing line at 5mph - at the unsighted exit of a flat-out corner. At a closing speed of over 50mph, I took to the grass and just grazed her bumper, narrowly avoiding an accident that would have injured both of us. The young lady turned out to be then-S Club 7 member Hannah Spearritt.
2. I was never a passenger in my GTA. 3. I don't have a degree yet work as an editor for a university. |
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| woof woof |
Number 2. I can imagine you not letting anyone else drive it.
But...I was never a passenger in most of my cars....I'll stick to number 3. |
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| cbeaks1 |
I'll go for number one. Its all true other than the member of S-Club. It was Tina. | ||||
| Big TC |
No, number 3's definately the lie.... | ||||
| BeN |
I'm guessing 2, somehow.
Hannah was hot... 
(Look, I was young when they were popular... )
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| BeN |
Blimey, Alan has a certificate in gymnastics?! 
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| woof woof |
Oh yes, I have a supple, toned and athletic body and I look great in a leotard. | ||||
| Eff One |
Number 1 is absolutely true. I've always wondered if I'd have had my fifteen minutes of fame if I had hit her. S Club 7 were in the news a lot at that time because two of the guys in the group (who were also at Daytona that day) had just been busted for cannabis possession. Ben is right, number 2 is the lie. I was driven in the GTA by my wife on several occasions. |
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| BeN |
I guess it's my turn now. 
(I'm actually more adept at lying than telling the truth... )
1) I stay within spitting distance of a football club. 2) I've set off the fire alarm in school once. 3) I can play the piano. |
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| woof woof |
Number 3.
Everyone knows that apartments where you live are too compact for any musical instrument bigger than a Stylophone. |
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| BeN |
Any more guesses?
But for the record, we once had an organ (as in, those church ones) in the house before, so our apartment isn't that small...
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| Big TC |
I reckon it's number 2 - you've set the fire alarm off at school more than once, surely? | ||||
| BeN |
I guess I should reveal the answer before I go...
Alan is indeed correct, despite my attempts to throw him off.  I have no idea how to play any musical instrument whatsoever. Though the one about an organ in my house is indeed true.
I have only set off the fire alarm once, mainly because the other students were taking their turns and it never got round to me again. 
And I do indeed live within spitting distance of a football club. Search for Woodlands Wellington on Wikipedia. Their stadium is barely steps from my place and they sometimes train on the field directly outside my house. |
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| woof woof |
Good luck tomorrow BeN.
I've had a go so if anyone else wants to post their 2 truths and a lie feel free... |
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| Big TC |
Ok, I'll take a turn...
1) I used to be a drum roadie for a rock band 2) My birthdate is the same as Tim Henman's 3) I have broken my left leg twice |
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| Rodge |
Number 2. Tim Henman is at least 15 years older than you! | ||||
| Big TC |
Same birth date, different year, natch! |
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| woof woof |
Looking at your photo, I can see you as a roadie, and everyone has a birthday so -
It's gotta be number 3. I mean, why would you want to break your own leg once? never mind twice?
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| Big TC |
A fine deduction, alan, you're right - I have not broken my left leg twice. In fact, I've never broken a single bone in my body........ | ||||
| BeN |
Good for you.
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| Blarno |
I'll have a go:
1: I can't operate 4 toes on my right foot. 2: I have a Prince Albert piercing. 3: One of my tattoos is drawn incorrectly. |
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| DaveGibson |
Number 3. There's got to be a mistake somewhere in one of your tattoos. | ||||
| Blarno |
Number 3 is not the lie. | ||||
| Skyhook |
Number 2. | ||||
| Big TC |
I reckon it's number 2 too - I know you've got loads of piercings, but anyone with a
Prince Albert has got to be totally mad - and you're not. Well, not totally, anyway. |
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| Blarno |
Correct. I did consider a Prince Albert about 6 years ago, but I saw sense and spent the money on beer instead. | ||||
| Skyhook |
At least you'll be able to pee the beer without looking like you've a sprinkler attached ;-)
1. I've had in the past my nipple, nose and ear pierced. 2. I was an inter school olympics spacehopper champion. 3. I ran the Newstead Abbey 3 mile dash carrying an ashtray, cigarette and lighter so I could smoke as soon as I finished for a joke. Edit: sorry lept in before Big TC |
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| Blarno |
All of them could be true.
I'll say 1 is the lie. |
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| Skyhook |
Nope, number 1 is true. | ||||
| Matt |
3 is the lie. 2 is just too fruitloop to be untrue... | ||||
| Skyhook |
You've got it Matt! The spacehopper race put me in good stead for Sportka ownership
A marathon runner mate did actually see a bloke run with an ashtray etc, but it wasn't me at the Newstead race - I just wanted to finish... Your go... |
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| Matt |
I've been arrested for breaking a window in student accommodation
I once failed to give way on a mini roundabout, right in front of a Police Mondeo I once did a wanker sign behind the head of a local BBC presenter on Children in Need night. |
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| BeN |
Blarno can't operate four toes? I thought I had it bad...
Anyway Matt, I'd go for 3. All are believable, but I think you are least likely to make a fool of yourself on television... |
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| Matt |
Wrong! | ||||
| Big TC |
It's number 1 - you were arrested for far worse than breaking a window, surely? | ||||
| Matt |
Number 1 is the lie. I've never been arrested, but I did feel a wally cutting up the police car. I got a good talking to. | ||||
| Blarno |
You've just had major surgery, trust me, you're in a worse way than me! I can only operate the big toe on my right foot, which is the important one.... |
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| Big TC |
Right, another one from me. You've got 2 hours to get it right, as I'm off on hols.
1. The first car I drove on the road was a Saab 99, when I was 16 2. The first car I drove on the road belonged to my girlfriend's father 3. My girlfriend's father didn't know I was driving the car at the time |
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| DaveGibson |
Number 1. | ||||
| cbeaks1 |
I'm thinking 3, you bad man. | ||||
| Big TC |
cheaks - number 3 IS the lie. My girlfriend's father was IN the car at the time, so he DID know I was driving it! Oh, happy days.....
Your go - and that's me signing off for my holiday in Turkey. Later............ |
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| Matt |
Have a great holiday, TC. | ||||
| woof woof |
My sister and her hubby have just gone to Turkey. I wonder if they'll all meet...
A body, mind and physiological one - 1. MENSA think I'm a "Genius." 2. After more than one medical examination I've been told that my size, weight, BMI etc., everything about me is spot on. I am the ideal human. 3. Physiological tests categorise me as "loving and caring, a people person and a humanitarian." |
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| Rodge |
I really want to say number 1 is a lie but I think I'd be wrong there.
My IQ is around 140. Remember that big IQ thing the BBC did years ago? Apparently 100 is the average score. A chap I know did it and got 92. So you could easily be a genius. |
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| woof woof |
I think all it proves is if you're good at doing IQ tests or not. No guess at what's my lie? | ||||
| BeN |
My guess is 2.
There is no such thing as an ideal human. |
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| woof woof |
Ideal as in height, weight, fat etc being what they'd consider to be ideal, going on their charts and tables and things. Something like that anyway, and to the annoyance of my then gf who, they said, was obese.
It's number 3. On the psychological tests (if I'm being honest) I come out as an alpha one male type, assertive, etc., all that stuff. Surprising but true. |
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| BeN |
I should have guessed.... | ||||
| DaveGibson |
I would have said number 3 was incorrect because physiological tests could not identify your character. Psychological tests, possibly. | ||||
| woof woof |
The perils of posting at work and not paying full attention to either, and the joys of pedantry, so common, and so welcome on the internet. It's what some live for
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| BeN |
Hehe.
I guess I should go again. 1) I do not have to serve National Service. 2) I have five televisions in my house. 3) I sleep on a double bed. One of the truths is a givaway, so this should be easy. |
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| woof woof |
No.3.
Because you on't sleep on a double bed, you sleep on a king sized water bed.
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| BeN |
Wrong! I wish though.
Damn, that gives it away now... |
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| DaveGibson |
I think No. 2 is the lie.
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| BeN |
Indeed it is. I only have three televisions.
Your turn now I suppose.
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| Li'ldude |
Only? |
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| BeN |
One main one in the living room, connected to cable. One in my brother's room, mainly for the XBox 360 (but he can watch TV on it too), and one in my room, only used to play XBox. |
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| DaveGibson |
1. I gained my pilot's licence on a flying scholarship as an air cadet.
2. I have flown on Concorde in the cockpit. 3. I am descended both from Welsh royalty and Oliver Cromwell's family. |
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| BeN |
I guess 2. | ||||
| Rodge |
It has to be 3. Nobody would claim to be Welsh... | ||||
| Li'ldude |
1. Don't doubt the license bit. | ||||
| DaveGibson |
Dude is half correct. I don't have a pilot's licence but you could get a licence through a flying scholarship as an air cadet. You had to have 20/20 vision to be eligible, which unfortunately I didn't. | ||||
| Li'ldude |
So I win?
Righty-who: 1) I am descended from Cornish people 2) The furthest west I have been is Ireland. 3) My dream was once to be a Pencil Maker. |
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| BeN |
2.
You have travelled further West than that surely... I mean, if you count Brunei from the other direction...
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| Li'ldude |
Right, but wrong reason, I haven't even been that far west! My current record is Cumbria. | ||||
| BeN |
Blimey. Right on the first guess!
I've already been twice, so I suppose whoever wants to go next can do so. |
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| GonnaBreakABuggy |
Go on then:
1) I once fixed one of Hamiltons cars for him. 2) I have never broken a bone in my lifetime. 3) I once killed a dog with a biro. |
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| BeN |
Number one.
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| GonnaBreakABuggy |
Bugger
Nope, never lifted a spanner to any of Hamilton's cars, although my mate Ed use to do some spannering for him, and I have milled a few bits for the team that found their way on there :) |
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| Racing |
What did the dog do to you??
And Rodge, what were you doing on a website called "Boners"??!! My three: 1. I have owned six different VW Golfs; 2. I have got so drunk on a plane that I had to be carried off; and 3. I cannot get within a foot of touching my toes if I bend forwards. Which one is nonsense? |
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| Big TC |
It's 3, isn't it? Surely you have an operative to touch your toes for you? | ||||
| GonnaBreakABuggy |
Sneaked up behind me and seriously ragged my hand, I'd got a biro in my other pocket which I sorta stabbed it with to get it off, but I hit it in the eye, made a mess. 
Oh, and 2. |
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| BeN |
I think it's 3.
I believe you have mentioned about the Golfs on this forum before. |
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
I think it's #1 - you've had a lot of Golfs, but not six. Unless you're counting the S3 ...
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| Rodge |
It was for work....*cough*.....important project....*cough*.....or,eh....That's the phone ringing, My guess is number 1. /Exits stage left |
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
So go on, Racing, which is the untruth? | ||||
| Racing |
You were right with the option but wrong with the reason. I've actually had seven different Golfs - six Mk2s (a GL, a GLi, a GTI and three 16vs) and a Mk3 GTI. I cannot get anywhere my toes when bending forwards - combination of disproportionately long legs and not being very flexible. And the being carried off a plane drunk incident took place when I was 9 as an unaccompanied minor on an Alitalia flight from London to Milan! |
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| Li'ldude |
Wow...
That's a story... |
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| BeN |
You were allowed alcohol at 9? Blimey!
I guess it's Nick's turn now... |
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| Racing |
By the stewardesses....in those days I remember the meals came with a little bottle of red wine automatically included in them. I asked for, and got, a second. |
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| Li'ldude |
Hah.
...Lightweight
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| Big TC |
Blimey - I was 13 before I got pissed the first time. | ||||
| Racing |
In Italy as kids we used to get allowed one glass of red wine mixed with fizzy water as a treat from time to time. So I was used to the idea of drinking it. | ||||
| woof woof |
did someone mention drink? |