Complaint Department discussion

I'm going to say #2 is the lie and that's why #3 is true.

Im going with 3)

Hah! Rick thinks #3 is a clue…

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Oh well, Rick spotted the clue :-)

1) I do love my garden (looking at it)

2) I hate gardening

3) And it is alive with chives.

Go for it Rick!

I dare you to find the lie!

1) I love Star Trek Deep Space Nine in part because Capt. Sisko is such a great dad, and he's super hot too (and he didn't put up with any of Q's shenanigans).

2) I hate Star Trek (the original series) in part because Capt. Kirk is as much a womanizing jerk as William Shatner.

3) I love Star Trek the Next Generation in part because Capt. Picard is so damn sexy.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…

Well, I agree with 1), so that must be true :-) And 2) feels like the truth, though I think that's a bit harsh on Tiberius even if he is a smug, shiny-faced twit at times. And 3) sounds about right to be true…

Oh dear…

Okay, I go with 2) is the lie. I don't think you could actually hate the first series.

So there.

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Roger's right. #2 is the lie. While I agree that Kirk is "a smug, shiny-faced twit" I also agree with the Klingon from The Trouble with Tribbles that he's "a tin-plated overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood." I never liked him and as I got older I disliked him more and more. BUT I don't "hate" the original Star Trek series. That was the key.

As a side note, David Gerrold went on to write the wonderful book The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son a sort of fictionalized account of his own struggle to adopt a son. Every time I read it I cry, usually at different points - but there is one moment that always makes me explode in tears. And The Trouble with Tribbles was later revisited on Deep Space Nine in Trials and Tribble-Ations

Good deduction Roger, you win!

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Marcie wrote: "3"

Sorry Marcie,, Roger already one with #2.

*blushing* oops. it didn't do the whole turn page thing. sorry :)

3 ?

Roger wrote: "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... "

I'm sure Roger is very, very busy editing and/or writing or maybe even gardening. He's probably thinking up a real stumper for us. ;)

In fact I've spent all day creating press-level pdfs of 232 pages of the US Gold Story, and for some obscure reason on page 134 Adobe Acrobat keeps moving either the postage stamp-sized picture of a game inlay OR its caption beneath into the opposite gutter of the page, same thing on page 228 and on pages 144–145 the US GOLD header into the center of the spread. It's driven me mad. Now I have to explain to the Spanish printer that out put as separate pages all four are okay, so they'll have to extract the rubbish ones from the pdf docs and replace… GRRRR

Anyway…

1) I used to love creating book layouts in Quark XPress

2) I now love creating book layouts in Adobe inDesign

3) I used to love creating book/magazine layouts with grid sheets and waxed typesetting.

I'm going to say #2 is the lie.

Good luck Roger. The last time I did layouts for printing was the school newspaper in high school. That was a long, long time ago.

numero uno

sorry, rog.

#3

Uncanny… almost Spooky… but Rick, you are correct.

Quark Xpress was almost like my second home. I may have tutored as many as 100 people – page designers and editors of our magazines – in the intricacies of what was once the de facto global pre-press layout program (it was far too vast to be called this silly "app" thing). Adobe, always Quark Inc.,'s bitterest enemy wiped XPress out be outdoing them. But inDesign, while admittedly very clever, is simply not intuitive to use as was XPress

So I don't love creating book layouts with it, really…

And as for 3)… well, that's how I learned everything I came to know about page design and the pre-electronic technology.

For the interested in the above, check out: http://arstechnica.com/information-te...

It's yours, Rick!

Yippee! I can't sleep so now I have someone to do besides read (putting the kindle down gently)

Let's see...

1) Since I was forced to take a remedial English class for two years, my spelling was awful and still is, it was only natural that I would major in English in college.

2) I speak French with an accent that French speakers cannot seem to identify at all and find very ... attractive, for some reason. So I NEVER speak French around women who speak French.

3) I wanted to learn Spanish as a a kid so I could understand what my friends were saying around the house. When they found out I was trying to learn Spanish they stopped speaking it around me.

1) (I'm being nice…)

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Well, #3 is a true story. I think my friend's family thought they were being mean when they realized I didn't speak Spanish, so they stopped. Which was frustrating because it was good practice while I taking my Spanish class.
Thank you for being nice Roger, but #1 is also true. I think I must suffer from some kind of mild dyslexia because I had an absolutely horrible time spelling words correctly. It wasnt until about 8th grade, when the focus of English classes shifted from spelling and grammar to comprehension and analysis that I started doing better in English than in the science classes.
I can speak some French, but my pronunciation is terrible. I read it fairly well though. So Jacob spotted the lie.

The floor's all yours Jacob.

1) I have had an exorcism performed on me.
2) I have performed a wiccan blessing on someone believed to be possessed.
3) I wouldn't even know where to begin with an exorcism much less some hocus pocus wiccan spell blessing thing.

2)

3)

Rick is right again...
1) is true
2) is true
3) is the lie...isn't it obvious lol jk

I have a lot of imagination, Jacob… :-))

clearly lol

"Now I am the master." (cue Star Wars music) since I am the winner in both Truth and Lie games. That means I am The Master (cue Doctor Who theme).

So, let's see if anyone can find the lie:

1) My Dad, a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, is from a family from Bermuda and grew up in Florida, he may even be related, distantly, to Leif Eriksson; while my Mom, of mixed German and English descent, is from a little town in Upstate New York.

2) My Father, was not an American citizen and from Algeria; while my Mother is part Irish, Scottish, German and English. He had gone to college in France, but came to America for his graduate work, where he met my mother.

3) My Popi's family immigrated from Cuba in the early 1800s; while my Mama's family is from Italy. They met in college in southern Florida, but moved north after they graduated.

3)

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#2

Sorry Absinthe, #1 is true. These my parents. The people who raised me.

Sorry Marcie, #2 is also true. These are my biological parents, I've never met them and this is almost all I know about them.

Jacob, you're good at this. This is all lies and fabrications.

You're up Jacob!

1) My first day of work took place today. It was ten times better than what I expected and ten times worse than what I wanted it to be like. I wanted it to be a day that I got along with everyone and got my job done without any issues. I expected to have loads of people telling me what to do at the same time and directing me and expecting me to have several things done at once with ease.
2) My Asst. Supervisor at my new job is really sweet, but so bloody annoying. She likes to hear herself talk and seems to only take her work seriously if we aren't taking it seriously as if she is the only one who can have fun and relax. She says she is laid back then she turns around and says I will write any of you up for the slightest problem I have with you.
3) I got to work on my first day only to realize I wasn't wearing my uniform the right way, I forgot my name tag at home, and I forgot my hat at home. After explaining the situation of my nerves being torn up with excitement and fear to the store manager she permitted me to go back home and get ready because she understood entirely.

#3… because you are more competent than to wear your uniform the wrong way (underwear outside pants, like Superman…?)

#3 - because I doubt you were permitted to go home, but instead sent home... But Roger beat me too it.

So #2, because... Well, Roger took #3.

#3 is correct!!! Go Roger, sorry Rick, maybe next time you will be fast enough.

1) was very much true.
2) Extremely true.
3) Actually, Rick would have gotten it wrong due to explanation and thanks Roger btw I feel competent enough to wear my clothes correctly.
My employers would politely allow one to go home and change without penalty if we forget something or do something wrong and it is only minutes of clocking in. As long as it is quick and hastened.
They never send people home unless the person is being terminated or is ill.

terminated as in Arnold Schwarzenegger?

1) One morning in my boarding school when I was 16 I got so angry with a more junior boy who was irritating me that I picked up an open box of detergent and hurled the contents right in his eyes, which had to be irrigated.

2) One morning in my boarding school house when I was irritating another boy by singing the Searchers' "Needles and Pins" in a falsetto, he shut the half-glazed back door against me and when I made faces through the glass at him he punched it and all the glass fragments went in my eyes and I was rushed to Moorfields Eye Hospital to have then irrigated.

3) In my boarding school I was a member of the Swimming Club, which initials, SC, were synonymous with Smoking Club because all the team members except for me smoked.

Wow, lots of irrigation going on at that boarding school, good thing the pool was handy.

For reason I'm thinking #3

1) but I'm sure it's Rick is right with 3 (or 2)

(Roger, terminated as in fired, sacked, unemployed lol)

#2 (it is all that is left.)

Preston is correct that Rick is right!

In the way that some things really stick in your mind, 1) is one of those I'm least proud of in my life. It was so cruel; and 2)… well, I'm not sure I deserved it, but it was a terrible shock. Obviously Johnny Rawlinson who did it never meant for me to be hospitalized because we were friends really.

I'm afraid to say that every single member of the Swimming Club smoked, including me, as I recall either Gold Leaf or — if you could get the exotic US brand – 555 State Express.

(Jacob, all you need is to ad "ex" to "terminated" and you'd make Rick's Doctor Who day!)

Take it away Rick.

((hahaha))

Ex... Term... Oh, Eggs Germinate.., I get it! :)

1) I finally got in the mail a copy of Harry's Great Trek!

2) I don't own a copy of Boys of Two Cities yet!

3) my copy of Satyr of Capri is on order!

Got to be 2) Everyone owns a copy of Boys of Two Cities!

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Roger's right. I lied, I own it. It's actually rapidly approaching my next book to read position. And if Ohio keeps acting like a state of denial I'm going to need it soon.

Take it away Roger!

Good morning! [[wipes sleep from eyes]]

1) My first proper trip in an airplane was in a B.O.A.C. Argonaut

2) My first proper trip in an airplane was in a B.O.A.C. Comet

3) My first trip in an airplane was in a B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser (also fascinating: Pre-Flight Strat)