Thank You Conor: More Truths
Turns out that Conor is a major source of Truth on this planet. He had a few memories of untruths I'd forgotten, and he claims to have the real story of how John Basedow "died."
First, more truths.
I am not an architecture major writing my thesis on stairs. I only vaguely remember this one, but I'm guessing that it went along with Alyssa being a Llamaloligist from Vermont on a world speaking tour? Perhaps. Either way, neither of those are true.
Mr Rogers did not die in a drive by shooting. As tempting as this may sound, there is nothing true about this.
Conor brought up that fact that Joe Rogan will not be the next host of Jeopardy, contrary to what rumor might have you believe. I had this one firmly planted in my mind on the first go around of Truths, but I kept it out for two reasons. First: he might actually end up being the next host of Jeopardy. I haven't seen any press release that says, "Joe Rogan will not be the next host of Jeopardy." So, we can't be sure. Second, I can't remember the origin of this less than truth. Maybe Conor does, or this one may have come from Big James. Not sure.
As for the details on Basedow. How bout a little cut and paste and you can read for yourself.
With John Basedow, at least from my end, what happened was a simple beginning to a solid rumor. I was sitting with my back to the tv one day and my friend goes, "OH my god, John Basedow died..."And I cut her off and said "Holy shit! How?" (I was imagining some bizarre exercise accident. But what she was going to say before I cut her off was,"Oh my god John Basedow died his hair blonde.")
This is actually an interesting plot twist. While in line at the Cat Club, some guy did chime into our conversation and tell us that the death of Basedow was a rumor. He had heard somewhere that Basedow had died, and he was certain that it wasn't true. Were our sources of bad information linked? Or did somebody else start a Basedow rumor? We may never know.
First, more truths.
I am not an architecture major writing my thesis on stairs. I only vaguely remember this one, but I'm guessing that it went along with Alyssa being a Llamaloligist from Vermont on a world speaking tour? Perhaps. Either way, neither of those are true.
Mr Rogers did not die in a drive by shooting. As tempting as this may sound, there is nothing true about this.
Conor brought up that fact that Joe Rogan will not be the next host of Jeopardy, contrary to what rumor might have you believe. I had this one firmly planted in my mind on the first go around of Truths, but I kept it out for two reasons. First: he might actually end up being the next host of Jeopardy. I haven't seen any press release that says, "Joe Rogan will not be the next host of Jeopardy." So, we can't be sure. Second, I can't remember the origin of this less than truth. Maybe Conor does, or this one may have come from Big James. Not sure.
As for the details on Basedow. How bout a little cut and paste and you can read for yourself.
With John Basedow, at least from my end, what happened was a simple beginning to a solid rumor. I was sitting with my back to the tv one day and my friend goes, "OH my god, John Basedow died..."And I cut her off and said "Holy shit! How?" (I was imagining some bizarre exercise accident. But what she was going to say before I cut her off was,"Oh my god John Basedow died his hair blonde.")
This is actually an interesting plot twist. While in line at the Cat Club, some guy did chime into our conversation and tell us that the death of Basedow was a rumor. He had heard somewhere that Basedow had died, and he was certain that it wasn't true. Were our sources of bad information linked? Or did somebody else start a Basedow rumor? We may never know.
posted by Dibital at 9:24 AM
8 Comments:
OK, I'm a big fan of this whole blog/discussion idea. Though I have nothing to discuss. I still don't really buy the argument against the minimum wage though.
I'm a really big fan of untruths, which I like to call joke lies, particularly those involving alter egos/enhanced identities. I had forgotten all about passing myself off as a llamalologist. We fooled everyone, I think.
My sister and I created a pretty good untruth recently. We spend a lot of time instant messaging each other while at work, and were recently talking about an upcoming party that we were going on at her neighbor's house, and how we thought a dog at the party could really be the deal breaker, as far as this being a fun party, or a superfun party. Not having a dog of our own or any friends with good party dogs, we posted the following on Craigslist: https://post.craigslist.org/manage/177099404/hmy7d
The next day, we got this response, with subject line "dogsforparty":
"hey saw ur ad on craigslist and wanted to get a lil more info.... how old r u, M/F? My name is Katie and i'm 22 from Cambridge...I have a great party dog but depends on other dogs that r there?? let me know, Katie"
Two weeks later, we got this one, with the subject line "is it too late for the dog party?":
"I just read about the interviews.
Celeste and FDR"
Sadly, it was, in fact, too late for the party so we never met Celeste and FDR, and Katie was a no-show, so it ended up being a dogless party.
PS, we did end up getting a picture of FDR, who is a brussels griffon. And the president. If I knew how to post it here, I would.
Holy Crow. a dog party is a terrific idea. That's hysterical.
Let me try to figure out how you can post pictures.
Seamus - blogger is freaking out right now, so I can't post the topic Robert emailed in. I'll try to get it up there as soon as possible.
Also, I'll try to make it sot that anybody can post on my blog, that way I don't have to just copy in emails with topics
holy crud i just read the original dog party post. hysterical.
http://johnlives.ytmnd.com/
I'm impressed with your site, very nice graphics!
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Interesting website with a lot of resources and detailed explanations.
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