Having watched a TV show last night called “Would I lie to you?”, I’ve decided to list twenty (20) things about myself, one of which will be a big fat lie. The person who first guesses which item is the lie will win a Christian/theological book of my choosing, delivered to your door, by the good people at Amazon… But don’t expect it to be expensive… think cheap… real cheap… no; cheaper than that… yup now you’re in the ballpark. The offer is only open to residents of the UK, Australia, or the USA. I will email the winner, and then you can email me back a postal address for your prize.
Okay: Here are twenty (20) things about me… which one of them is untrue???
- I lived in China for a year as a child
- I once spent Easter at the home of Francis and Edith Schaeffer
- I have met the present pope (before he was pope)
- I used to have long green hair
- I married my brother
- I used to be in a death metal band
- I once hit a golf ball and got an old man in the head
- I have never tried peanut butter on bread
- I once gave a cigar to John Milbank
- I have been threatened with murder by an armed man
- I hate moths
- I lost feeling in my finger for a year after snapping a pocket knife shut on it
- I have been on children’s TV in Australia
- I used to teach Scripture to primary school children
- I have never watched the movie Titanic
- I have a tattoo
- I once paid $120 USD to get a load of washing done
- I once recorded the whole Old Testament onto tape
- My dad and my brother were extras in a Jet Li movie
- My house was once burgled by my next-door neighbours
Let the guesses commence…
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Number 8 is a lie. You’ve tried peanut butter on bread (although I haven’t). However I didn’t know John Milbank smoked cigars and I’m sorry that your neighbours didn’t obey the commandment. They may have loved you too much though as well as all your things.
Why on earth did you pay that much to get your washing done?
I would say # 5 is a lie. I’m pretty sure that is illegal wherever you live ; )
Bryan L
My university lecturer married me … but I didn’t marry him.:-)
Can I have 20 guesses? If not, I’m going to go with #7.
ahhh only one guess each: I won’t reveal if there has been a winner until I’ve left at least a day for people to get in their guesses… all will be revealed in good time…
I have played golf with you so number seven leaks truth like a sieve.
ah yeah… sorry again about that Steve… two kidneys in two shots… what are the odds???!!
Tough challenge. 9 or 18 but seeing as 9 has already been taken I’m going for 18. I reckon you never got round to reading it all onto tape. But that still leaves a lot of pretty interesting experiences! Just like with Paul, it’s pretty important to understand the man in order to understand the theology …
#20, I think that’s it.
My guess is #15.
Jeff
thats a toughie…
but i say 16 is the lie…
you’re just too…. uninteresting to have a tattoo… (hehe, I totally win)
So, with #5,#7,#8,#15,#16,#18 and #20 gone, I will have a stab at #11. No reason, just chancing my arm. There’s only one lie though? you sound like an interesting person…..or a name dropper, i’m not sure which!
#4
What an awesome shot that was on the golf course – I still remember running from the old guy
surely you’re not dumb enough to pay 120 for washing – I’m going with 17
A lot of adjectives are being bandied about: illegal… interesting… uninteresting… name dropper… dumb… leaks like a sieve… Well I have to confirm that all of these descriptions are true of me. But alas, the lie has not yet been uncovered. The competition continues…
I’ll go for a less obvious one: #3, looks like wishful thinking!
can i guess again at #1?
no one ever guesses #1
I’m going to guess something mundane and say 14. Ten seconds of typing for the chance at a free book: of course. (And hey, it’s a good way to make sure you’ve got twenty blog readers. I’d probably have to do a list of four things on my blog.)
James
Mmm I think the other Peter has got it right. That extra bit of detail (before he was pope) looks like it might have been added for ‘authenticity’, and surely you would have mentioned meeting the Pope recently given your propensity for name dropping (…?! not my words…see above) and the fact that his very own conference is coming up.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Ten seconds of typing has paid off for Peter Kirk: I have never met the present pope – not even before he became pope… It was, as the other Peter deduced, an authentic sounding porky pie.
In relation to some of the other guesses: I have never tried peanut butter on bread – the idea just does not appeal to me. I married my brother as the celebrant. I got the old man a beauty with the golf ball (not on purpose, mind). And one recommendation: If you ever stay at a hotel, don’t just hand them a bag of washing to do without asking them how much it costs… I could have bought a whole new wardrobe with that $120!!!
Congratulations Peter – I’ll send you an email about getting the book to you.
Well done all!
Thanks, Matthew. It was of course a complete guess. You won’t need to use international postage for the book.
It’s a shame. That’s the one I was gonna choose first but I wanted to be funny and make a play off the way you worded a sentence.
Doh!!! : )
Bryan
It was worth it though, making the rest of us chuckle… I often find myself trading away positive opportunities in life all for the sake of cracking a joke
Bryan, since you stole the joke I was thinking of making, I had to go for the serious answer and steal your prize! Your joke reminds me of the TV show where beautiful blonde asks shy single curate to marry her, she was thinking of him taking the service, he understood things differently, you can imagine how it went …
My prize arrived today, Monday. Thank you! It certainly looks like an interesting read. Am I allowed to reveal what it is, Matthew, or would that make my fellow competitors too jealous?
I didn’t even get to guess…. ah well off to spend my $40 Amazon Father’s gift card…
Ahh do feel free to reveal the prize Peter: The fellow competitors need some incentive to enter future exciting competitions here…
Awww $40 Amazon gift card? I could do with some of them. I did get a kinda funny father’s day treat though: Our 3yo girl Cara got lost in the congregation at church on Sunday, and was getting panicky… a friend of ours found her and said, “Ohh poor girl – have you lost mummy?” – to which Cara indignantly responded, “No! I’ve lost DADDY!!!” Ahhhh… nice to be wanted!
The book I was so kindly awarded is “Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament” by Christopher J.H. Wright (IVP 2007). Another Wright who writes right, and more readable I think than Bishop NT (and more scholarly than Rev Jeremiah!). I still remember studying Chris Wright’s triangles twenty years ago. And I actually met the guy briefly one Sunday afternoon at the door of his private home, when I delivered a package for a student of his.
The book seems very appropriate to the Father’s Day theme. In his Father’s Day sermon my vicar touched on how God is revealed as Father in the OT. I look forward to finding out more on this subject. So the book is high on my to be read pile.
probably won’t get a book, might get a Leatherman multi-tool of some sort.
I didn’t know you had a tattoo!