ConnieMack

ConnieMack
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A "writer" in that I transmit others' words, all the time, on a huge variety of subjects. A professional observer; a silent listener. I nonetheless have a voice, which I like to let out once in awhile (nice doggie). Owner of children and cats and one puppy. Standing still, battling fight or flight syndrome.

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APRIL 30, 2009 2:42PM

Truthiness - It's a Gas! - Truth Revealed

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UnderOath2 

I'm all for the Truthiness Doctrine.

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However....

Two Truths/One Lie:

1.  I first flew a plane at age 18.

2.  I had a small character based on me in a mystery novel set in Key West.

3.  I was once clinically dead for 3.7 minutes.

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Two Truths, One Lie.... Come on, betcha can't guess!
I'm guessing it is #3 - I hope so - that one sounds very unpleasant.
#1 - You were probably younger.

(thumbified. I want to believe you're a wild woman.)
i vote 2.
i flew a plane when i was 10 (ok, i pulled the stick and stomped on the peddles as my cousin laughed at my sister turning green).
And i was intellectually dead for 4 years (some say i still am). So being clinically dead is reasonable.
];-)
oooooooookay, geez what an interesting life you must have girl... I'll go with #3 just because the 3-7 minute part seemed a bit arbitrary... I'm guessing that you would know the exact amount of time you were dead, especially since it was "clinically dead"
I'm going for number 1 being the lie. Don't know why.
Just an aside to yH:

It's not 3 to seven minutes. It's three point seven minutes.
#1 - what are the chances of that?
#1 'cause #2 is no mystery and #3 "cause most hospital clocks aren't synchronized.
wow, must be my font - it looks like 3-7, not 3.7, weird... ok, that changes everything then...um, well I guess I still like #3 b/c now 3.7 seems awefully exact to be true - how's that for a flip flop in logic?
I'm with #1 being the lie - age is possibly wrong.
I'm going with number 2 Connie. We all know it was Key Largo.
I'm going with number one as the lie.
1. I remember see you at the airport...yea, that's the ticket. At the airport (True)
2. I have that novel. It's one of my favorite but the names escapes right now. (True)
3. I can only hold my breath for 1.3 minutes (I apologize if this turns out to be True)...(False)

Rated & Cheers!
#1 I'm saying it was 16 or 17
I'm going with No. 1. You were probably younger.
#1 , I am thinking younger.
2 is a lie. it was set in Havana when you bought your first cigar.
I want them ALL to be true.

#3 is the lie? If not, how was it?
i'm in the #1 camp. where were you for the OS anniversary bash?
Anniv bash - I never received Formal notification of, but when I wrote of going to Las Vegas with the ungrateful children, someone asked me if I was gonna be here - you are referring to "here", right? - and I said, Alas, no.

BUT when was it how was it when's the next one???
Pure guess ---#3.
I will guess #2 is the fib. Character in a novel? Yes. But I'm guessing it was set somewhere other than Key West.

I'll check yours tomorrow, you check mine.
I believe you flew a plane at 18, this is different than soloing a plane, but I would believe that too.

A character in a mystery novel set in Key West? hmm. okay I'll buy that.

Dead for 3,7 minutes struck me as odd as it did another commenter. Americans can't think in tenths. They just don't. If you'd said 3 minutes and 10 seconds I might have believed this one. But that's not what you said so I think this is THE LIE.
This is impossible! Forget it. I'm not guessing. No way. Sorry.

Number One.
Oh crap, I'm TERRIBLE at guessing games...I'm going to go look at your cloud pictures again...
1. I wasn't allowed to do Anything before I turned 18 (except, of course, get pregnant - ha - I showed them): The week I turned 18 I got my ears pierced, gave up my 2 other jobs and went to work at Red Lobster (I could then serve beer), and started taking flying lessons, in a little 4-seater Cessna. Got the VFR in short order. (The tattoo came sometime later.)

2. Had a most passionate first and one and only "date" - more like a bacchanal - with a novelist from Key West who happened to be the brother of a good friend. (I should write about our passion play, it was amazing, truly one for the books.) We tried - well, he tried - to keep up our relationship via correspondence - this was before the internet - and ultimately put me in a novel. Named me Sheila, 'cause I always wanted to move to Australia back then.

3. You got me here. I do think in terms of decimal points, and probably should have said "over three minutes" or something more vague. Frankly, I'm glad I haven't died. Yet.
yessssssssssss - I'm that good
Nicely done. I have questions about the Key West novel. I like a number of Florida writers. Will you provide details?