four truths and one falsehood - answers

[pauraque_bk]

Don't peek until you've already guessed.


1. When I was a toddler, I once sat in Katharine Hepburn's lap.
False! But based on a true story. When my mother was growing up, her parents worked at a hotel in Orange County, where Joan Crawford occasionally stayed. Ms Crawford apparently took a liking to my mom, who was a toddler at the time, and from time to time would sit by the pool with her in her lap. (I substituted Katharine Hepburn because Joan Crawford died several years before I was born. Nothing can compare to the campy cachet of Joan, so I didn't try to substitute anything like an equivalent.)

Congratulations to tangledaria, kristenk2, z_rayne, deslea, and idlerat for guessing right. As a prize, you may head down to the pool and sit in the lap of the aging film star of your choice.

2. I have walked barefoot in the snow in Wyoming.
True. We were on a very long Greyhound ride to Denver for a convention, and stopped off in Wyoming. I had taken off my shoes at some point, but was eager to get outside, so I jumped off the bus -- and right into a puddle of melting snow. I had no idea that snow could be found in Wyoming in April, so this was a bit of a surprise for me. Not wanting to look stupid in front of Keladry and Malograntum (the fanfic pen names they would take up several years later), I pretended I'd done it on purpose, and walked barefoot through the snow up to the gas station store and back.

3. In front of a crowd of people, I have pantomimed giving a complete stranger a blowjob.
True. This was at Rocky Horror. My castmates were conducting a virgin sacrifice onstage, and were having the virgins play "Fake An Orgasm". One of the gentlemen needed a little encouragement, so I ran up and started... encouraging him. I think he was very surprised, but he played along. I don't recall whether he won the game or not, but I can say that the reaction of the audience made it worthwhile for me.

4. I have given Marilyn Manson advice, in person, on how to do his hair.
A plurality of voters thought this was the lie, but it is True, to my great embarrassment. I briefly met the man at a CD signing in San Francisco some years ago, when he had just cut his hair rather short. While my friend, ahead of me in line, was getting his CD signed, the following exchange took place:

Me: You cut your hair.
Marilyn Manson: Yeah.
Me: It looks good, you should keep it that way.
Marilyn Manson: Uh-huh.

*facepalm*

5. There is a large inflatable giraffe in my bedroom.
True. I don't collect actively anymore, but for some years I collected giraffes. Art, toys, books, and miscellaneous giraffe-themed junk. There was no particular reason for this; I just like giraffes. I got the inflatable giraffe from my school store, which was full of weird novelties, probably from Oriental Trading. I used my good-behavior points to pay for it.

Comments

[shadowluck.livejournal.com]

I peeked.

:P

[typicrobots.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I have SO MANY DAMN GIRAFFES in my collection. It was a disease for a while there. The stuffed keychains alone...

Then I kind of got over it, but no one else seemed to notice, so for years I've continued receiving giraffe-related gifts. Just like no one remembers I swapped my Beatles obssesion for an XF one back in '98.

Family. *g*

We probably have some of the same stuff, actually. There can't be *that* much giraffeobilia out there.

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[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Whee, I was right! :)

Would you like to know why I guessed that one? Basically, I thought about your approximate age (which I don't know, but I figure it's somewhere between your 20s and 30s) and then about Hepburn's age. So the meeting would have been when she was in her 70s or 80s. And during those years, I happen to know she's been pretty much a recluse living in her lovely home in Saybrook, Connecticut, keeping to herself and not traveling much. Since you'd never mentioned ever going to CT whenever I brought it up in my LJ, I guessed that you've never been there, and thus never met Ms. Hepburn. (I never met her, either, of course, although we've gone past her house in our boat several times.) :)

You've had a way cool life, btw. I adore this meme because we get to learn such quirky, fascinating things about our friends.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! My first right answer.

I know a guy who successful passed himself off as MM for a day in LA, with MM's permission and cooperation. It was a story idea he had for SPIN, so they paid all the expenses...limo, hired glamour girls...He wrote a story about it, how people treated him. It was pretty weird. And quite self aggrandizing on the part of my talented but extremely narcissistic ex-pal.

So anyway, I basically believe all MM stories.

[pauraque]

Clever deduction! And you're right, I've never been to Connecticut, though I've been close to the border.

You've had a way cool life, btw.

Heh, thanks. The Greyhound trip actually involved far more bizarre and fascinating events than the walking in snow. I should post about it sometime. Four truths and one falsehood about the great Greyhound trip to Denver? ;)

[pauraque]

Cool. Your name should have given that away, Sophia Jirafe. :)

At one point I think I gathered a large amount of my giraffe stuff in one place and took a picture. I'll look for it.