Game: The Next Person... (true or false)

[Dark Lightning]

True. Pickles are an abomination.

TNP cannot eat tomatoes.

[billy rubin]

True. I can't swim.
(No, that does not prove I am a witch because I do float! But I can't swim, that's not the same thing.) 

**And that's not Father Flannigan.

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TNP doesn't like pickles.

if yiu can float you can swim.

swimming is just making splashy movements that float you somewhere else.

[Magdalena]

if yiu can float you can swim.

swimming is just making splashy movements that float you somewhere else.

OK. Good to know.
Easier said than done.

[billy rubin]

fill a large bathtub with water, and lie in it full length until your body is floating

now thrash your arms and legs violently up and down.

you are swimming.

[Bad Penny II]

False, you're just making a watery disaster all over the floor.

tnp thinks they will do more swimming/floating in coming months.

When I was a young thin I couldn't float, I had to keep moving, like the apocryphal shark, I'm a good floater now.

[billy rubin]

false

it will be cold soon. the swimming hole is already likely to be uncomfortable, and i havent been init since last year.

the NP has never been bitten by a frightened dog

[Tom62]

False, I've been bitten by angry dogs instead.

TNP prefers cats over dogs

[Biggus Dickus]

TNP prefers cats over dogs

So this is what is known as a false dilemma, sometimes referred to as false dichotomy, either way it is an informal fallacy. Basically it has the form of a disjunctive claim, as it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true.
Obviously no one would prefer kats over Dogs.

TNP finds old Abbot and Costello movies entertaining.

[Bad Penny II]

False
tnp thinks
this imbuing pets with virtues is a crock
painting eyes on a rock 'd serve as well,
but they keep the thought to themself.

[Davin]

tnp thinks
this imbuing pets with virtues is a crock

We're probably also projecting feelings and personalities onto them that aren't representative of their true internal states. Same can be said when interacting with other human animals though. If humans have virtues, then likely so do our evolutionary mammalian distant cousins.

painting eyes on a rock 'd serve as well,

Or painting stars on a clothe, but people seem to like the pictures that Van Gogh feller made. To each their own.

but they keep the thought to themself.

I do not, and that's the problem with the world I suppose, people won't simple sit still in their own homes in silence and never interact with others.

TNP keeps about 92% of their thoughts to themselves.

[Magdalena]

False. I keep about 91.5% of my thoughts to myself.

TNP, just like I, is glad to see Davin posting, interesting stuff, again, as always. 

[Biggus Dickus]

False. I keep about 91.5% of my thoughts to myself.

TNP, just like I, is glad to see Davin posting, interesting stuff, again, as always. 

Very true indeed...I still remember the first time I met Davin. We were 11 years old, and Sister Agatha made us sit next to each other the first semester at school. We didn't talk much because we each had our own group of friends from the previous years that we normally hung out with it, plus Davin came from a really rich family, and always wore expensive clothes. Not that my family was poor, but my parents made me wear hand me downs, so I felt sort of insecure.

Davin was really nice, but he was also kind of preppy...All the girls liked him, that's for sure. I on the other hand was really shy.
One day I forgot my homework, and I new Sister Agatha would beat my ass so I was really upset, and Davin being the cool and nice kid that he was let me copy his homework.



TNP has experienced "15 minutes of Fame".

[Ecurb Noselrub]

False.  I had 2 weeks of fame in Waco, Texas.  I was on the front page of the local paper in 1994 on a case I was trying.  But it did not reach the level of fame of the Branch Davidians.  So, I guess I failed.  But I won the case.

TNP has visited the site of the David Koresh immolation.

[Dark Lightning]

False. I spent about 2.5 hours in the Texas Panhandle, returning home to California at some fairly high speeds, in June of '73. I had a '69 Camaro with a 327 and the panhandle was pretty boring. I stretched the car's legs a bit. I recall seeing a couple of birds swooping after each other. I suspect it was a mating pair, but at my speed (>100 MPH), by the time I saw them, close to the ground, they went under the car. There were no feathers on my car.

TNP considers me an animal for driving that fast, out in the middle of nowhere.

[billy rubin]

many years ago, somewhere in new mexico, in the high desert

on my old triumph, 90 miles per hour

mile after mile, flat on the tank

as the basalt cliffs slowly swung up from over the horizon and grew in height

mile after mile.

tnp has never seen the calm isolation of the high desert

i ask myself.

why am i not in the west? what ever possessed me to emigrate to appalachia?

of all places?