Three True, One False - aka Glatt's Game

Sundae • Sep 28, 2009 10:43 am
Okay.
Glatt's Game - too good not to share.
List three true things that happened today and one false.
Correct answer gets the next go.

I start, because although this is Glatt's game it is my thread.
I start lamely, because I only discovered this game after I told the Cellar just about every damn thing that happened to me today anyway! But it strikes me as a good game - the sort I used to play with my friends all the time.

- I caught Diz trying to get the lid off Mum's cast iron casserole dish - which weighs more than him - in order to get hold of the cooling stewing steak for dinner

- Despite good intentions to the contrary I ate a packet of pork scratchings after I finished lunch

- I bought the Torchwood Encyclopedia

- I bought my niece a gift card for the lingerie store in town for her 15th birthday on Wednesday
glatt • Sep 28, 2009 11:03 am
I'll play!

I think the cat trying to get the pot lid off is false.

And since the object of this game is to spark conversation, let me comment of the pork scratchings. Why are they called scratchings? What a weird name. At least pork rinds tells you it's the rind of the pig.
TheMercenary • Sep 28, 2009 11:08 am
I say the false statement is:

I bought my niece a gift card for the lingerie store in town for her 15th birthday on Wednesday
limey • Sep 28, 2009 11:12 am
I claim the porkie scratchings! You didn't eat them, SG, you'd have had to go and buy them specially, I can't imagine they're the sort of things your parents have lying around beggin' to be eated!
Sundae • Sep 28, 2009 11:32 am
I figure I'll wait for a full house before informing the winner
smoothmoniker • Sep 28, 2009 11:38 am
I'll take the Torchwood Encyclopedia
kerosene • Sep 28, 2009 11:54 am
I am with Merc on this one.
Sundae • Sep 28, 2009 11:54 am
Smooth wins!

Diz is not a scavenger usually, but he is an opportunist and curious as hell. Mum left the casserole dish on a mat on the table because she knew it was safe - neither of us expected Diz to attempt anything, given that he knows the table is out of bounds and very rarely breaches it. The filling will be in a pie tonight - quite safe.

The 'rents discovered that the local supermarket sell multi packs of pork scratchings. Same size as you get in a pub. I've never succumbed before, but today was obviously a day for salty, fatty, porky goodness. I am ashamed.

I pre-ordered the Torchwood Enc. My card was declined. They have some weird system where they place a "phantom" charge on your card, which is refunded later. Because I have a pre-pay card, the phantom charge reduced my balance to below the amount of the invoice, so it was rejected. I called customer services, they said they would sort it out, it's happened again. So I didn't buy it.

The lingerie store in town also sells cotton briefs, pyjama sets, cotton night shirts, standard bras etc. Once a week Abs is allowed to detour on the way home and go into town (I'd call it a mall if it wasn't so laughably small.) I bought her a gift card last year as well - it's up to her and her parents' guidance what she buys after all. It's not like it's for Ann Summers.

Apols for it being a bit of a trick question, as I say - I'd already said a lot about my day beforehand. Smooth is the winner! And I need to call play.com again (grrrrrr)
glatt • Sep 28, 2009 12:03 pm
trick questions are part of the fun.
capnhowdy • Sep 28, 2009 9:59 pm
OK, Smooth. Bring it on.
smoothmoniker • Sep 29, 2009 12:56 am
- The artists I've played keyboards for have sold a combined total of over 30 million albums.

- I was adopted at birth, and raised by wolves. Well, not wolves exactly, but fundamentalists.

- I can read 7 languages, but only speak 3.

- I once drank 16 alcoholic beverage in an evening (Vegas), and awoke the next morning with no hangover, nothing, zip, nada. The liver of the Irish, that's what I've got.

OK, hit me with your best guess (3 true, one false), and give your reason why. Feel free to be personally abusive in your comments.
limey • Sep 29, 2009 6:55 am
smoothmoniker;598011 wrote:
- The artists I've played keyboards for have sold a combined total of over 30 million albums.

- I was adopted at birth, and raised by wolves. Well, not wolves exactly, but fundamentalists.

- I can read 7 languages, but only speak 3.

- I once drank 16 alcoholic beverage in an evening (Vegas), and awoke the next morning with no hangover, nothing, zip, nada. The liver of the Irish, that's what I've got.

OK, hit me with your best guess (3 true, one false), and give your reason why. Feel free to be personally abusive in your comments.


I'll take the languages as false. As a musician your ear is good and you'll be OK speaking any language you car to put your mind to. If you've put your mind to reading it, you'll also be able to speak it.
Sundae • Sep 29, 2009 6:59 am
- I once drank 16 alcoholic beverage in an evening (Vegas), and awoke the next morning with no hangover, nothing, zip, nada. The liver of the Irish, that's what I've got.

I cry false. I think it was more :)
monster • Sep 29, 2009 7:36 am
I'll call the wolves/fundies just because I can. I think they adopted you as a spotty teenager.
Shawnee123 • Sep 29, 2009 8:18 am
Then I'll take number of albums...probably more like 100 million?
smoothmoniker • Sep 29, 2009 12:13 pm
smoothmoniker;598011 wrote:
- The artists I've played keyboards for have sold a combined total of over 30 million albums.


True. Melissa Etheridge and Nelly Furtado make up the lion's share of that.

- I was adopted at birth, and raised by wolves. Well, not wolves exactly, but fundamentalists.


True. Not only are they fundamentalists, they embrace the label. Well, my mom does at least.

- I can read 7 languages, but only speak 3.


FALSE! I can read 3 (English, Spanish, Old Dead Greek) and only speak 2 (English, Spanish)

- I once drank 16 alcoholic beverage in an evening (Vegas), and awoke the next morning with no hangover, nothing, zip, nada. The liver of the Irish, that's what I've got.


So true. Ah, good times.

Feel free to be personally abusive in your comments.


I'm very disappointed by the quality of personal abuse received in the replies. You can do better, people!
TheMercenary • Sep 29, 2009 12:13 pm
oops, I missed it.
glatt • Sep 29, 2009 1:24 pm
limey, you're up.
Shawnee123 • Sep 29, 2009 1:31 pm
I'm glad I didn't win: I can't think of 3 true things interesting enough about me and I suck at lying about myself so there goes the 4th.
limey • Sep 29, 2009 2:13 pm
When I took up the French Horn I had no idea what it looked like and only chose it because I guessed it must be smaller than the other instrument on offer, the double bass.

I took part in a cycle ride around Arran to raise money for the local brass band, and was thrilled to complete the 60-mile circuit in less than 5 hours.

Although I lived in a student house at uni, and did share a flat with a person in my early twenties, I never co-habited with anyone until I was 42.

I spent four full, enjoyable and happy years as a member of the Girl Guides and didn’t earn a single badge throughout that time.

Do your worst, folks!
Sundae • Sep 29, 2009 2:41 pm
Bloody hell.
Grateful as I am to have all options open to me, it's frustrating to have them all sound so likely!

I'd be tempted by the Guides one, as the badges are easy and you strike me as an achiever, but then why would you mention it if it wasn't true? I can think of more amusing falsehoods.

So I'm gonna go with the cycle ride. Either you worked as a steward, or you did it in less than 5 hours.
glatt • Sep 29, 2009 2:43 pm
If you're not going to take it, then I will. No way is that Girl Guides one true.

The Girl Guides one is false.
Pie • Sep 29, 2009 4:03 pm
I'll take the French Horn for $200, Alex.
monster • Sep 29, 2009 4:06 pm
hmm well I think the guides too, but I'll take the biking to be a sport. Maybe it was 61 miles?
limey • Sep 29, 2009 4:10 pm
Monster, dear, I think SG beat you to the bike ride!
Sundae • Sep 29, 2009 4:24 pm
I'll let Monnie ride along. We share the shame if'n we're wrong, and she'll probably have some bizarre options if'n we're right :)
monster • Sep 29, 2009 4:34 pm
Oh sorry was distracted mid post. I know it's not the co-habit thing but i guess that's mine for the taking. I'm guessing if it's false then you never even shared uni housing. Not that i wouldn't love sharing with Sundae but it's all about the game.....
limey • Sep 29, 2009 4:55 pm
Well .... folks ... somewhere on the Cellar I'm pretty sure I posted the admission that I cannot ride a bike. Nope. Never learnt. Last time I tried was when I was thirtysomething and I got embarrassed by all the little kids in the park doing wheelies around me as I continually wobbled and fell to one or other side ...
I wanted to play flute but my parents couldn't afford lessons and the school was offering free lessons in the instruments needed for the school orchestra, so I chose the French Horn without any idea of what it actually looked like.
I never did take a badge as a Girl Guide - I don't know why I was let to get away with it, but there it is!
And, well, until Best Beloved moved here I had never co-habited with a partner, despite the two instances of sharing mentioned here.
SG is the WINNAH (unless she wants to share with Monster).
Next ...
capnhowdy • Sep 29, 2009 8:38 pm
I can read 7 languages, but only speak 3.


False
monster • Sep 29, 2009 10:35 pm
OK, I'll go. family themed tonight, so about everyone but me (saving those for later ;) ):

My 7-year-old can solve simultaneous equations
My 10-year-old built a firing gun out of lego
My 11-year old has one blue eye and one brown eye
My 38-year-old has a suspicious bruise on his neck
Pie • Sep 29, 2009 11:52 pm
I'll go with the seven-year-old.

(I'm also pretty sure you had something to do with that bruise!)
Clodfobble • Sep 30, 2009 1:31 am
Hmm... I'm going with the 38-year-old with a suspicious bruise. Monnie knows how to hide her work.
smoothmoniker • Sep 30, 2009 3:46 am
My 11-year old has one blue eye and one brown eye

False.

Everybody has at least one brown eye (heh heh), but I don't believe that she has only one blue eye.
Sundae • Sep 30, 2009 4:46 am
Which leaves me with the firing gun made of Lego.
Not my first choice, but that's what you get for being late to the party. Leftovers.

I do remember something about Hebe's eyes, but I'm not sure it was one brown and one blue. So that's the one I would have gone for given my druthers.
Shawnee123 • Sep 30, 2009 8:39 am
No, Thor thinks X = 7. Always.

Number one.

edit: Oh, Pie picked it already so if it's right she won, but I just wanted to guess. :blush:
Clodfobble • Sep 30, 2009 8:53 am
Yeah for the record, that was my first guess too, but Pie already picked it. :)
monster • Sep 30, 2009 5:20 pm
Ok we all done.

It was the 11yo -she has one brown and one green eye :lol:
smoothmoniker • Sep 30, 2009 6:10 pm
Huzzah! I win again! I'll post my new 3+1 a little later tonight.
lumberjim • Sep 30, 2009 6:35 pm
make sure you use "I used the word 'Huzzah!' in a sentence today." No one will believe that shit.
smoothmoniker • Oct 1, 2009 1:05 am
Tonight I am snacking on a plate of cheese and crackers.

Tonight I am finishing up a choral composition based on the poetry of Sappho.

Tonight I am drinking my way through a very nice $3 bottle of wine.

Tonight I am watching last night's episode of "Melrose Place".
limey • Oct 1, 2009 4:46 am
I'll take the wine - you're not that cheap, Smooth! (I am though, where'dya gettit?!)
Sundae • Oct 1, 2009 6:54 am
Tonight I am watching last night's episode of "Melrose Place".


I don't know what this is. Therefore it's easier to believe you aren't watching it. Works in my head anyway.
Pie • Oct 1, 2009 8:51 am
[COLOR=Wheat](I thought I won?)[/COLOR]
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 9:20 am
You did. That $3 wine is killing smooth's brain cells.
Shawnee123 • Oct 1, 2009 9:24 am
Huh?

Pie, didn't you pick "the 7 year old?" And the answer was "the 11 year old"?
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 9:27 am
Oh. Yeah. Never mind.
Pie • Oct 1, 2009 9:31 am
Oh. SOmehow, I was taking Shaw's assurance over Monnie's! Haggis.
Shawnee123 • Oct 1, 2009 9:33 am
I FELT so sure! D'oh!
monster • Oct 1, 2009 10:39 am
heehee that's 'cause my lie was also a clever half-truth :lol:
monster • Oct 1, 2009 10:44 am
oh! re the Thor knows X=7, well i went to quiz him on it, and he said oh It's 7 mostly. Sometimes. So I make up a simple equation like X+ 3 = 5 and he got it straight away, so i did a few more.... so then I said OK, smarty-pants, try these:
X + Y = 5
X * Y = 6
and he solved it straight away. (X= 2, Y=3, not sure what would have happened if I'd asked if X can be 3....) so we got a bit more complex.... up to X + Y = 13, X * Y = 42 which he got right after a couple of trial X's because he couldn't remember what times what was 42 other than 2 * 21... I was pretty impressed given that he hadn't encountered that type of problem before.
Shawnee123 • Oct 1, 2009 10:48 am
Wow.

I'm telling you, he and my 7 year old niece...

They got interim reports and she got her normal straight As.

Plus she's a cutie! :)
limey • Oct 1, 2009 11:08 am
I'm confused. Who's it?
Shawnee123 • Oct 1, 2009 11:10 am
There itt is!
monster • Oct 1, 2009 11:27 am
smooth is it.
monster • Oct 1, 2009 11:28 am
I'll take the composition for the win..... now who's crackers?
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 12:28 pm
I'll be crackers. But he's eating them with the cheap wine, so I won't win.
monster • Oct 1, 2009 12:49 pm
OK smooth, hurry up and finish that choral composition based on the poetry of Groucho Marx and announce me the winner!
smoothmoniker • Oct 1, 2009 1:23 pm
smoothmoniker;598558 wrote:
Tonight I am snacking on a plate of cheese and crackers.

false - tonight I am snacking on wine and more wine

Tonight I am finishing up a choral composition based on the poetry of Sappho.

True. I am entering a young (ha!) composer's competition sponsored by Pacific Chorale, so I'm racing to finish the piece and the demo by today!


Tonight I am drinking my way through a very nice $3 bottle of wine.

True! There's a local market here that sells a cheap bottle of Sangiovese, and it's quite lovely.

Tonight I am watching last night's episode of "Melrose Place".

Alas, true. It is an awful, awful television show, with horrible writing and even worse acting, but one of the artists I play for had a song placed in this week's episode, so I had to give it the obligatory viewing.

It was just as awful as I had imagined it would be.
Shawnee123 • Oct 1, 2009 1:26 pm
Tonight I am finishing up a choral composition based on the poetry of Sappho.


True. I am entering a young (ha!) composer's competition sponsored by Pacific Chorale, so I'm racing to finish the piece and the demo by today!


See how two dimensional images can fool the eye? I never would have guessed you were a young lesbian!
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 1:39 pm
I won! I won glatt's game!

Ok. I can't really say anything about today, because nothing much has happened today. So I'm going to expand it to this past week.

This past week, I:

1. Had my rubber gloved hand up to my elbow in the sewer pipe under our toilet removing a foreign object from the pipe.

2. I saw a guy on my 7:30 AM Metro train commute drinking from a large can of malt liquor.

3. I interviewed an attractive 20 something woman for a position requiring Norwegian language skills.

4. I made a Swedish Fish costume with my daughter out of carpet padding and red spray paint.
monster • Oct 1, 2009 1:48 pm
Man you do tough ones.

I say the guy on the subway was not drinking a can of malt liquor
Pie • Oct 1, 2009 1:54 pm
I'm hopin' (for your sake) it wasn't the rubber-glove nastiness. That's my vote, at any rate.
Clodfobble • Oct 1, 2009 2:29 pm
I'll take the Norwegian language skills. I'm guessing she needed some other kind of language skills. (And I have a friend who is a lawyer and speaks Japanese, if'n you ever need that...)
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 2:34 pm
Clodfobble;598715 wrote:
(And I have a friend who is a lawyer and speaks Japanese, if'n you ever need that...)


That actually comes up every once in a while. On a contract basis though.
Clodfobble • Oct 1, 2009 2:35 pm
Yeah, she'd like a full-time position, but she's been doing contract work for a couple years now. But she's licensed in California, so I don't think she could practice in your state.
limey • Oct 1, 2009 2:50 pm
I don't think it was a SWEDISH fish - maybe some other nationality?
glatt • Oct 1, 2009 3:12 pm
Limey wins it!!

My daughter wanted to be a Swedish Fish for Halloween, and I came up with an idea for making a costume out of carpet padding kinda like Eddie Murphy as Gumby on Saturday Night Live. But everyone voted me down, and they are going to make something out of construction paper or something.

The other stuff was true. I don't want to talk about the toilet thing. It was unpleasant, but everything works fine now. The guy drinking beer on the Metro in the morning was astounding to me. I had never seen that in almost 20 years of riding Metro. He didn't even look all that dirty. And the Norwegian interviewee was true too. We've got a new case with a Norwegian client.

Limey, what have you got for us?
limey • Oct 1, 2009 3:29 pm
(in my last effort I didn't realise it was supposed to be events from today ...)
Well folks, today I ...

was charmed by a film clip of farming folk and fiddle playing brought to my attention by a Swedish friend;

was appalled to discover that the source of the bluebottles in the house was the two-day-old corpse of a hare on the back doorstep brought to me by my cats;

was thrilled to find that my new purple Doctor Marten's ankle boots (brought to me by the postman) are very comfy;

was delighted to have my quote for a 5,000 word translation (brought to me by the internet) on the subject of road building accepted, so I really should be working now!

Well?
Pie • Oct 1, 2009 3:41 pm
I'm guessing the Doc Martins. Maybe they were uncomfortable. Maybe they shipped the wrong size.
[COLOR=LemonChiffon](Maybe I'll actually get one of these right, for a change. D'oh!)[/COLOR]
classicman • Oct 1, 2009 4:17 pm
I'll go with film clip ... just cuz I can.
dar512 • Oct 1, 2009 4:29 pm
glatt;598744 wrote:

I don't want to talk about the toilet thing.

I sympathize on the toilet thing. Been there myself. Would you be willing to at least share what the object was?

In my case it was a plastic figurine that one of the darlets must have been playing with.
classicman • Oct 1, 2009 4:50 pm
...mine was a toothbrush.
dar512 • Oct 1, 2009 5:05 pm
classicman;598760 wrote:
...mine was a toothbrush.

Must be a rite of passage for dads. :)
monster • Oct 1, 2009 5:54 pm
not for beest.....yet.....apparently jammer swimsuits flush clean away......

limey, I'm going with the corpse -I think it was probably a different animal. And I don't think they have to be today..... do they?
jinx • Oct 1, 2009 8:19 pm
Alright, I'll take the road building thing.
limey • Oct 2, 2009 12:53 pm
limey;598751 wrote:
(in my last effort I didn't realise it was supposed to be events from today ...)
Well folks, today I ...

was charmed by a film clip of farming folk and fiddle playing brought to my attention by a Swedish friend;

was appalled to discover that the source of the bluebottles in the house was the two-day-old corpse of a hare on the back doorstep brought to me by my cats;

was thrilled to find that my new purple Doctor Marten's ankle boots (brought to me by the postman) are very comfy;

was delighted to have my quote for a 5,000 word translation (brought to me by the internet) on the subject of road building accepted, so I really should be working now!

Well?

Yesterday ...
I was charmed by the film (classic, I think you were picking one true thang, but it's the falsie you should be after!);
I was appalled by the two-day old corpse of a hare on the doorstep;
I was thrilled with my new boots (and panties!?);
but I got the translation job last December and it's long gone now!

So JINX is the WINNAH!
Pie • Oct 2, 2009 3:58 pm
limey;598872 wrote:

I was thrilled with my new boots (and panties!?);

Doc Marten makes panties?? Who knew? :p
jinx • Oct 2, 2009 9:49 pm
Holy crap... I was just batting clean up... uh, ok.....

1. I drove a cube.
2. I left the orchard empty handed, informed that the apples trees just didn't blossom this year.
3. I saw Johnny Knoxville from Jackass at Outback Steakhouse in Frazer.
4. I walked 6 miles.
morethanpretty • Oct 2, 2009 10:39 pm
2: I left the orchard empty handed, informed that the apples trees just didn't blossom this year.
monster • Oct 2, 2009 10:41 pm
the orchard. I heard a similar story at my pottery class this evening. bizarre though. we got the most apples ever on our trees this year. but I don't think you left empty-handed. Well maybe you did, but not empty bellied?
monster • Oct 2, 2009 10:42 pm
you bitch mtp

ok then 6 miles. different distance. mutter.
morethanpretty • Oct 2, 2009 10:44 pm
i stolez from uez!
monster • Oct 2, 2009 10:46 pm
ur just too fast.

i red that on the bathroom wall

:p
Undertoad • Oct 2, 2009 10:46 pm
It's possible that Johnny Knoxville would be in the area because that Bam Margera is from around here.

It's possible that Jinx from a cube because Jimmy and Nissan are related.

It's possible that Jinx walked six miles because she regularly does such physical exercise.

I voat that moar is correct
monster • Oct 2, 2009 10:56 pm
well I think so too. but to really play the game, you gotta pick one that hasn't been taken already.......you never know...
Pie • Oct 2, 2009 10:56 pm
I think she put her foot down about the cube. I mean, come on, have you seen the damn thing?? Fugly.
Image
monster • Oct 2, 2009 10:57 pm
fair point there, pie.
Clodfobble • Oct 2, 2009 10:59 pm
That leaves Johnny Knoxville? I'll take it. Maybe I'll get lucky by batting cleanup just like jinx did!
jinx • Oct 2, 2009 11:02 pm
Yeah, it was Johnny. I've seen him there, but not recently...

The orchard thing was a bummer. Guy claimed its a problem all over - but then I went to walmart where they had 6 or 7 varieties, lots of them, for $1/lb. We're making applesauce for cooking class...

Clod wins it.
monster • Oct 2, 2009 11:04 pm
:lol: sorry about the apples, though. I went to walmart tonight -brutal.
Clodfobble • Oct 2, 2009 11:13 pm
HA!


Today I...

1.) Spun my daughter on the merry-go-round for 15 minutes nonstop.
2.) Watched a pill break the pill crusher, instead of the other way around
3.) Had to toss out my son's very first birthday party invitation, because the food, cake and ice cream will not be GFCF.
4.) Re-confirmed through a barely edible dinner that I just don't like polenta, no matter how many different ways I try to cook it.
monster • Oct 2, 2009 11:31 pm
I think you didn't throw out the invitation. Or at least I hope you didn't and found some way to allow him to attend and avoid the food.
jinx • Oct 2, 2009 11:33 pm
Loves the polenta.
Sundae • Oct 3, 2009 6:28 am
1) spun the daughter.

You just did it until she was sick (approx 5 minutes)
Pie • Oct 3, 2009 9:54 am
Pill crusher?
Clodfobble • Oct 3, 2009 12:35 pm
1.) Spun my daughter on the merry-go-round for 15 minutes nonstop. - TRUE: Kids with proprioceptive sensory issues don't get dizzy. They can spin and spin forever.
2.) Watched a pill break the pill crusher, instead of the other way around - TRUE: Stupid pill crusher.
3.) Had to toss out my son's very first birthday party invitation, because the food, cake and ice cream will not be GFCF. - FALSE: The party food will be GFCF!
4.) Re-confirmed through a barely edible dinner that I just don't like polenta, no matter how many different ways I try to cook it. - TRUE: I really want to, but I just can't get used to the idea of gelatinous corn.


Monnie wins again!
Sundae • Oct 3, 2009 12:54 pm
I think polenta is grim too. I have to add so much to it, it might as well not be an ingredient in the first place.
Kinda like cassava.
Pie • Oct 3, 2009 1:29 pm
Huh. We had polenta (aka cornmeal mush) for breakfast -- topped with a little fried crumbled salami, a fried egg, some hot sauce.

:yum:
Clodfobble • Oct 3, 2009 2:18 pm
I have this feeling that if I had authentic polenta, I would like it. Like the consistency of oatmeal, I imagine. But the only kind available to me is the pre-cooked kind that comes in a plastic tube, and it's quite firm. I've tried baking it, I've tried slicing and frying it, I've tried crumbling it up and heating it with additional liquid, and it still always reminds me of corn jello.
Sundae • Oct 3, 2009 3:07 pm
Clod, trust me. I've bought authentic polenta twice (we used to have a significant Italian population in town, although it's dimished now) and I simply couldn't find a way to enjoy it.

Given a packet was about 12 portions - I was also cooking for a husband and friends at the time - I gave it plenty of chances. Okay, this was pretty much pre-internet, or at least pre casual-browsing, but I did about everything to it except stuff it up my snatch.

The only time I liked it was when it was garlicked & cheesed & Tabascoed to buggery.
On a plate I mean.
monster • Oct 3, 2009 5:34 pm
ooooooooh! I winned.


Hmmmm.

gimme a few minutes.....
monster • Oct 3, 2009 5:40 pm
Today I

watched Hebe's soccer game in the rain
didn't watch Hector's soccer game in the sun because it was cancelled due to the weather
watched with pride as Thor played his first hockey game with his new team
watched Hector out-touch a swimmer who is usually faster than him in the freestyle

I'm being tricksy here, I warn you........
Pie • Oct 3, 2009 6:45 pm
I'll take #4. I'm guessing Hector didn't have a swim practice and soccer on the same day? And the weather in Ann Arbor looked shitty today.
jinx • Oct 3, 2009 8:18 pm
I'll take #2, Hector's game.
limey • Oct 4, 2009 6:56 am
I'll take no3 ... because Pie says the weather was crap down your way on the day in question!
Sundae • Oct 4, 2009 10:01 am
I'll go with Thor. No reason other than I like his name and his attitude, regardless of the facts.
monster • Oct 4, 2009 4:15 pm
I think Limey already got that one. i think no-one has Hebe's game in the rain.
limey • Oct 4, 2009 8:09 pm
monster;599248 wrote:
I think Limey already got that one. i think no-one has Hebe's game in the rain.


yup
monster • Oct 4, 2009 11:58 pm
waiting for a taker on the last one......

(going to bed now, I expect the suspense will kill you all.....)
glatt • Oct 5, 2009 8:33 am
I'll take the last one. Hector is good, but that other swimmer is faster. No way is that true. ;)
Pie • Oct 5, 2009 9:14 am
Pie;599128 wrote:
I'll take #4. I'm guessing Hector didn't have a swim practice and soccer on the same day? And the weather in Ann Arbor looked shitty today.

Okay, this time, I'm sure [COLOR=White](I think)[/COLOR] that I did take that last one... Did I screw up again?[COLOR=White] (or does Monster have me on Ignore??)[/COLOR]
glatt • Oct 5, 2009 9:28 am
Aw crap. That's my mistake. She said the "last one" and I thought she meant the fourth one, not the remaining one.

I'll take Hebe's game in the rain.
monster • Oct 5, 2009 7:16 pm
yes I meant the one remaining one, Hebe's game in the rain which is the RIGHT ANSWER!

All three kids had a swim meet which we had to fit everything else around. Hector was going to leave early to get to his game, but it was a breaststroke meet and that's his best stroke so he stayed, swam his last event then ran like hell to the soccer game which he then found was cancelled even though it was sunny and all other games in the city were on. Hebe had played earlier in the rain, but I did not see that game because I took Thor to his hockey game at the same time, and he did me proud :lol:.

Your floor, glatt:
Sundae • Oct 6, 2009 8:33 am
I'm beginning to think Glatt is cheating.
Hang on, he owns the game - Glatt are you changing the rules every round?

(j/k because... I realised years later that my Dad did this with pretty much every game we played because my bro was 4 years younger and would throw a tantrum if he was too far behind. Surprising how many sub-clauses there were in the rules for Monopoly, Ludo and Snakes & Ladders in our house. I only found out when I embarrassed myself at friends' houses by getting annoyed at the fact they weren't playing "properly". One of the rules in every game was that if you had to know and invoke the rule or it didn't count. So if your opponent didn't know, "Land on Mayfair, move on three spaces because you also landed on Regent Street" then it's their loss. Crafty crafty Dad.)
glatt • Oct 6, 2009 8:51 am
No. I'm not cheating. Although I do occasionally cheat when playing games with my kids so that I can make one of the kids who has lost numerous rounds in a row finally win one. When I'm able to anyway.

Ok. So, on with the game...

Because the day has just begun, I'll do yesterday.

Yesterday,

1. I found out that the attractive Norwegian speaking woman we were considering hiring took another job immediately after interviewing here. We lost her.

2. I saw 3 bunnies on my walk home from the Metro.

3. I was tossing a soccer ball to a visiting kid in our back yard, practicing headers, and I nailed her in the nose.

4. While taking out the garbage, I had to toss the neighbor kid's basketball back over the fence to him twice.
monster • Oct 6, 2009 8:58 am
I'll take 3. I think you didn't nail her on the nose -you got basketball kid. deliberately.
Pie • Oct 6, 2009 9:47 am
2. It was only two bunnies.
Sundae • Oct 6, 2009 11:08 am
I knew you couldn't cheat at this game, but it confirms my suspicions of Dads at least! Oh, that's reminded me of a polygamy thread I wanted to start.

ANYWAY.
Norwegian for me.
jinx • Oct 6, 2009 1:02 pm
4. You kept the basketball.
glatt • Oct 6, 2009 4:17 pm
It was the bunnies! I saw none.

Pie, you win.

There are always a ton of bunnies around in the spring and early summer, and then they become scarce as the season goes on. Don't know if predators are getting them, or if they are getting better at hiding as they get older.
monster • Oct 6, 2009 4:21 pm
Bunny Pie...... :yum:
glatt • Oct 6, 2009 4:28 pm
Actually, when I'm eating out, I will eat rabbit whenever it's on the menu.
Pie • Oct 6, 2009 5:23 pm
Oooh oh! Today:

1. I had lunch with a friend who recently had knee surgery.

2. I wanted to strangle a whole company in Sweden -- their GPS product is not working in my experimental setup, and I wasted the whole morning on it.

3. I went home after lunch intending to take the dog on a short walk. She peed right after we got out of the house, so we went right back in 'cause I was lazy, and had to get back to work.

4. This afternoon, I worked with a woman and her fiancee on the same experimental setup.
monster • Oct 6, 2009 7:47 pm
You don't have a dog.
jinx • Oct 6, 2009 7:49 pm
4. Your cow orkers hate each other.
lumberjim • Oct 6, 2009 8:31 pm
1. you don't have friends.
monster • Oct 6, 2009 9:27 pm
Someone needs to go for swedish strangulation....
Pie • Oct 6, 2009 9:44 pm
<whistling>
monster • Oct 6, 2009 10:26 pm
beest says yes to taking the swedish strangulation. Under harassment. poor lamb probably thinks soemthing kinky's gonna happen tonight.....
Pie • Oct 6, 2009 10:30 pm
Well, beest better come up with his list of four.

He wins; it was a German company.

The dog is my mom's, and we're looking after her till spring. My co-workers Andrea and Dave are planning to be married on December 31st. And Karen opted to get the cadaver tissue graft -- she's doing very well!

Jasper:
monster • Oct 6, 2009 10:42 pm
beest is cleaning bathroome... I will alert him :)

(Bless him -the fumes fuck with my asthma)
monster • Oct 6, 2009 10:46 pm
He's excited (sorta) but may make you wait until tomorrow......... :lol:
Beest • Oct 7, 2009 11:31 am
monster;599577 wrote:
He's excited (sorta) but may make you wait until tomorrow......... :lol:


1. I went to parent teacher conferences, all teachers said the kids are great, I am pleased to have them in my class. ( The deluded fools!)

2. I went to sleep before midnight. ( as in, in bed a sleep until morning, not the dozen other times I may sleep during the day)

3. I did clean the bathrooms, put shopping away and make lunches ( I'm just putting this in as there had better be some pineapple upside down cake and custard left when I get home)

4. I forgot to shave this morning (even though I have a beard, I still shave daily, Oh the vanity!) ( also does this count as it's something I didn't do?)
Pie • Oct 7, 2009 11:43 am
'Forgetting' is an active thing; it counts.

I'll take #1. :)
monster • Oct 7, 2009 10:19 pm
come ON people.....
jinx • Oct 7, 2009 10:25 pm
4. No shaving, you wax.
Clodfobble • Oct 7, 2009 10:28 pm
I'll take #2. You're a night-owl, for sure.
DanaC • Oct 8, 2009 3:33 am
I go for number 1: I daresay lots of teachers said that, but all of them?
limey • Oct 8, 2009 12:11 pm
I'll take no 3 as you din't make the lunches, Beestie! Though we know you cleaned the bathroom (when can you get round here to do ours?).
DanaC • Oct 8, 2009 2:59 pm
Just realised Pie beat me to no. 1 :P
Pie • Oct 8, 2009 3:03 pm
If we're right, you can have it Dana. I already had a chance to play and haven't done anything interesting today!
monster • Oct 8, 2009 4:34 pm
ooh full house. I understand he's having a crap day at work.....

BUT NOT AS CRAP AS MY FUCKING DAY.
monster • Oct 9, 2009 11:22 pm
and now he's pissed off on a paintallingl weekend in Indiana leaving you all in the lurch. (and me in the mom-taxi) :rolleyes:

I believe Jinx is Teh Winnah -he did not forget to shave. Although it has happened.
jinx • Oct 10, 2009 8:16 pm
1. I burned 838 calories walking 4 miles, according to the treadmill.
2. I busted in on a guy taking a whiz and he apologised for not locking the door.
3. The kids really enjoyed the tacos I made for dinner
4. There is currently a live squirrel foot sticking thru the insulation around the ac unit in my son's window.
monster • Oct 10, 2009 8:37 pm
3. you didn't make tacos for dinner.
Pie • Oct 10, 2009 8:38 pm
4. Squirrel's dead.
monster • Oct 10, 2009 8:53 pm
monster;600324 wrote:
3. you didn't make tacos for dinner.


....or you experimented with pumpkin tacos and it wasn't so well received by the fans of jinx originals......
Sundae • Oct 11, 2009 11:05 am
838 calories seems high for 4 miles.
Hope it's true though

That's my entrance.
limey • Oct 11, 2009 11:17 am
The guy was taking a dump :eek:!
Dude111 • Nov 11, 2020 9:20 am
I love bananas
I love digital video
I have socks on
I just woke up a few mins ago


Guess which one is false dues!