Five "Facts"

[jorgebrito2]

The good thing about it is that you are honest about that you lied. Thank you for being honest. I like that.

[PofRCT]

Way to praddle on, and on, and on, and on, and on....

[starpilot1]

Hey, just did a search for me and ran into this. Thanks for tagging me, Natster! I always thought you were cool, and now it's confirmed. I've supposedly quit youtubing though... Hmmm... We'll see...

[Mrzk19]

Love from the Netherlands, `saai`

[Mrzk19]

you are sooooooo boring get a hobby!

[hawky2]

I guessed she's way out there...hang on, let me check...Yup, I'm right.

[jjuran]

Nice eyebrow arch at 3:41!

[coolstream1]

subscriber 446 reporting in!

[projectblogsphere]

Okay... I haven't watched the "factual fact" vid yet, which I assume is the unveil of the 1 truth. So here's my guess... the 1 true fact is that you were in the spelling bee.

Off to see if I guessed right... LOL! :-)

[projectblogsphere]

Bah!

Okay, for the record, I guessed wrong. But I was close... I guessed the most true lie. :-)

[ExperimentsinHonesty]

I am dieing to know which is true. Thanks for joining. So far I am one for five. The pills thing was awesome in a totally weird way.

[Tylzen]

I made my reply :P Enjoy.. Which one is the true fact?

[Prepoceros]

All will be revealed . . . probably tomorrow.

[DClaudeKatz]

What kind of pills are those?

[Prepoceros]

I have extra footage about them that I'll probably throw into the next video.

[OC5]

"Thanks for college, etc."

Heh. Good luck with that. I did college and some grad school and I still have had many crappy jobs. Then again, I did major in philosophy.

[Prepoceros]

I've heard that from so many people that it's dashed my dreams of academia and driven me in a more practical direction. Next year: law school.

[DClaudeKatz]

But...but...but...Natalie, surely with your background and talents, you could find an academic (or quasi-academic) career path that would make you much more employable than a philosopher. Somehow law school seems to me like a kind of black hole into which interesting people fall, then maybe emerge in another dimension when they approach retirement. (One of my Greek teachers was a retired lawyer.)

[Prepoceros]

I'd like to teach when I retire. Teach what, I don't know, but teach.

I'm counting on my time in the real world (earning real money) to give me clues about what sort of career path would interest me, because right now I haven't a clue.

[DClaudeKatz]

I guess that makes sense. I worked as a computer programmer after college, which gave me a chance to think about what direction I wanted to go. But that was only a few years. Going to law school and then working as an attorney seems like more of a life commitment. Though I guess you can have one life and then start another life later.

[OC5]

It's a rough road, academia, but I do know quite a few people who have been reasonably successful. I also know an awful lot of lawyers who make good money and feel pretty fulfilled. Good luck with that.

[YourTaciturnFriend]

Trust your mathematical mind to want to chart a progression tree for this meme. That's so you.

Um, anyway, I have no idea which fact is true.

[Prepoceros]

Oh I do, I do. There's a Google spreadsheet that supposedly tracks who's been tagged, but by now it's very incomplete.

[DClaudeKatz]

I've been tracking it separately in Excel (although the official spreadsheet is useful for tracking old links that were broken before I found them, such as when WillVlogForFood got deleted). This is clear evidence of insanity on my part.

[Note: there are 2 "official" spreadsheets, one of which just lists the names grouped by first letter, and the second shows the structure of the tree, but it's hard to read because it's so big.]

[Prepoceros]

Insanity, yes, but the best kind of insanity.

It would definitely be easier to read tree-style, probably zoomable. I'm thinking mind-map-style, with the branches going out in all directions.

[DClaudeKatz]

I couldn't think of a good way to represent it with any software that I have, so I just used (independently) the same spreadsheet structure as in the "official" tree. It's easier for me to read my own because I can use shortcut keys in Excel. I don't know how to navigate through a Google spreadsheet over the Web.

[DClaudeKatz]

BOCADEGD: Bipolar Obsessive Compulsive Attention Deficit Eccentric Geek Disorder. It's only a matter of time before it gets recognized by the American Psychiatric Association.

[TheOptimisticSkeptic]

Fact #1 I was tagged, but I never did a video.

If you're gonna make up facts you should have come up with really some good ones like you were skydiving, and your parachute didn't open, but you survived. :p

[TheOptimisticSkeptic]

Fact #2 I was one of ExperimentsinHonesty's first 20 subscribers on another account, and she's still subscribed to me. :-)

[Prepoceros]

Ha, but if all my lies were that awesome, the single dull truth would be obvious!

[mikma]

SPELLING BEE IS THE TRUTH

[mikma]

MIKMA WAS HERE

[DClaudeKatz]

OMG I've been tagged. I'll probably make a video tomorrow or Saturday.

So...concerning the potential trueness of one of your facts...I'm not sure if this counts for the fact in question...but...should I refer to you as "the Natalie"? (Is that too subtle?...or not subtle enough?...)

FYI nerimon tagged Laurbubble, who tagged MusicFromBlueSkies, who tagged WillVlogForFood, who tagged jammiejames2150. I think I'll give the whole pedigree in my video.

[Prepoceros]

Either I'm too dense or that's too subtle, because I don't get it. I think you might be barking up the wrong tree; my true fact doesn't contain or imply a "the Natalie".

Oh neat, cool that you could track that down. That puts me in the 11th generation, I think.

[DClaudeKatz]

OK, what if I called you "the Donald" instead?

[Prepoceros]

Damnit, I'd forgotten about that. An accidentally true "lie", egads!

[Prepoceros]

On second thought, it's still false the way I told it. Phew!

[JunkmanJim]

Excellent lies. This is tough. No broken bones possible. A secret alter ego hater channel? hmm. James Bond is a horrible enough name for a dog that it might be true. A "real job" tricky one, Pappasitos is first job place and hostess is a common sucky job. I think denouement would have been a coached word if you would have gone to the finals and third round is pretty darn good. I can't stand this, not enough data. JOB- final answer.

[Prepoceros]

Dude, James Bond is an awesome name for a dog. Most dogs WISH they were so lucky.

[HKurck]

2, 3, 4 and 5 are lies. Uhm, though you sound believable :D Though I guess the untrue stories probably have a lot of real stuff in them.

Well, I guess 1 is true, but I'm probably wrong :P

[Prepoceros]

It's good to know I can lie convincingly. =)

Only two of the lies contain nuggets of truth, actually. The other two are entirely made up.

[marjan15]

Is 1 true? :)

[rhythm7a]

I'm still planning the first video I did.