I throw this challenge out to you:
Identify the three lies below, and share your guess in the comments. (I posted something like this on Facebook a few years ago, but it has remained unsolved.)
If any of you wants to try a similar post, please link up below and/or Tweet your list with the hashtag #SpotTheThreeLies.
Here are 25 things about me. Which three are lies?
- I was so engrossed in a book on tape once while stopped at a red light that the light changed to green and back to red again before I realized it. (Cars honked a lot.)
- I was in my college hang gliding club.
- I make a great coconut cream pie with a secret ingredient.
- I caused five minutes of dead air during my college radio newscast debut.
- I think it’s cheating to look ahead in a book. (It’s a curse.)
- I came in second in a disco dance contest in junior high school.
- I drank Scotch with Norman Mailer.
- I hate ordering from people at the deli counter so much that I will wait in line to order from the computer even if people at the counter are free.
- I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
- If I miss a few seconds of a show or movie coming back from a commercial, I rewind so that I can see the whole thing.
- I have been to Laos.
- I hiked to the top of Mount Marcy.
- I hate tattoos and won’t even let my avatars get them.
- I saw the Grateful Dead in concert.
- I feel like a rock star when I play Rock Band.
- I wish the U.S. had pubs like the pubs of Ireland.
- I always finish watching movies or reading books, even if they’re terrible. Well, almost always.
- I am addicted to ChapStick.
- I fix typos even when they are in notes to myself.
- The only class I ever cut in high school was gym because I felt so uncoordinated trying to play tennis.
- I have kissed the Blarney Stone.
- I have a purple toe.
- I was born in Connecticut.
- My great-grandmother was born in Ireland.
- It’s abnormal how easily I get startled.
I would love it if you did a similar post, and I will try to spot your three lies. If you decide to link up, please include a link back to this post, so that your readers can join in the fun. Share your post on Twitter with the hashtag #SpotTheThreeLies. Update: Feel free to include fewer items in your post.
Guess the three lies in the comments.
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This is such a fun idea…and it’s hard too! I think maybe 7 (although I think it would be so cool if you had drunk scotch with Norman Mailer so I hope I’m wrong), 20 and 22 are lies. I’ll try and do a post too, although I’m not sure if I’ll have time – but I hope I do! Thank you for sharing this post with the Gallery of Favorites.
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Love this! You’ve always got such fun posts. I’m going to guess #9, #19, #20. I really have no idea though.
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Ok I’m going to do this one Marcy … but I think you three lies are:
I was in my college hang gliding club.
I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do – if this is real, please don’t take me down!
I drank Scotch with Norman Mailer – I hope this one isn’t a lie!
And I’m only saying the top two because you used to be too timid … maybe I don’t know!
I drank Scotch with Norman Mailer – I hope this one isn’t a lie!
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I don’t want to give away the answers yet, but thanks for guessing! I will spill the beans that I did drink Scotch with Norman Mailer.
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Fun post. It’s a bit of wild guess, but I’m going go with these three:
2.I was in my college hang gliding club.
7.I drank Scotch with Norman Mailer.
10.If I miss a few seconds of a show or movie coming back from a commercial, I rewind so that I can see the whole thing.
Can’t wait to find out the real answers!
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I have no idea but I’m going to guess #7, #9, and #22. What a fun idea!
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I am so gonna do one of these! I was searching for something to blog about, although coming up with 25 interesting things may be a trick.
As for my guesses, by process of elimination and guesstimation:
I was in my college hang gliding club.
I caused five minutes of dead air during my college radio newscast debut.
I hate tattoos and won’t even let my avatars get them.
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Hi Marcy,
Thanks for the contribution on your childhood memories
.I loved reading about them.
thank god we grew up hehe…
I used to feel so shy too when I was in school
I am going to read through all your posts before I try to guess which one are lies…. I may get some clues
Oh how fun! Totally guessing, but I’m gonna say #9, 12, and 23. And I’d love for you to link up at my “Look Whooooo’s Snapping” photo linky party going on now!
Blessings,
Breena
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Breena, you got one of them right. Thanks for playing and for the invite!
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Oh cool! I must be a good guesser
Thanks for sharing at “Life as this Mommy knows It”!
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Hmmm if Norman Mailer is true then my 3rd lie for you would be no 2??
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3 you make a coconut cream pie with a secret ingredient. (you are on the fence about liking coconut)
8. I hate ordering from people at the deli counter so much that I will wait in line to order from the computer even if people at the counter are free. (No matter how much you dislike the people, if they are free you will go)
12. I climbed to the top of Mount Marcy ( a good, believable lie, but a lie nonetheless)
So close!
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This is a fabulous idea! I am going to guess #2, #3 and #12 to be lies. I am so #17 and #10…
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I think i will go with no 6: if you were second in a disco, then you should not be out of your comfort zone for salsa.
then 13 and 23….I have no idea why!!!!
I like your logic, but oddly enough, I did come in second in a disco dance contest in junior high school. As much as I can’t dance, I had taken lessons and busted out some choreographed moves.
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You guys are zeroing in on the lies. Breena got one correct, Alicia got two correct, and Doreen got one correct.
(I have found it very hard to guess on the posts of the people who linked up! I am enjoying learning new things about everyone.)
Thanks for playing!
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wait wait wait! Did Doreen really only get one right? not 2? This throws everything off for me! I was sure 3 and 12 were correct.
Oops, my bad! Doreen had two correct.
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This is very hard, but I am going to say #3 is a lie because you seem like a recipe sharer. The rest all seem like they could be true to me. Thanks for linking up to the Gallery!
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Very cool. I’m impressed with your editing skills.
Thanks for sharing your photo with HMA’s Oh Snap!shots of the Week party. 
3 coconut cream pie
4 dead air on the radio station
12 mount st Marcy.
Final answer.
Just 2
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Nice try, TT.
You are too germaphobic to kiss the Blarney Stone.
Ding, ding, ding!!! We have a winner! I think I would have done it–I am a total sucker for tourist traps like that, but Randy was not having it, so we didn’t even go to that area. I long to go back to Ireland, so maybe some day? I have heard local boys pee on it, though, so there’s that.
So to sum up, here were my three lies:
#3. I make a great coconut cream pie with a secret ingredient.
#12. I hiked to the top of Mount Marcy.
#21. I have kissed the Blarney Stone.
Great job, Alicia! Your prize is that you get to do an Irish karaoke song with me!
Oh man, I’m mad my reasoning was off! Pee on it? if you do kiss it some day knowing that, you will truly lose the too timed and squeamish title.