Two truths and a lie

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1 was my lie.
I always have fresh lemons for my ice water, tea, lemonade, thai food and caesar salads.
I always have peanut butter because I love its peanutty butteriness.
I like avocados and guac but I just pick them up as needed.


Potato: I really hope yours is 1 or 2. I don't know which is worse. I actually think 2 would be worse, for me.

1. Isabella is the classy mainstay of the Two Truths and a Lie thread.

2. Mr. Fixit Man is the quiet anchor.

3. I’d rather have watched Mister Rogers as a kid than the “Wacky Races.”

I'm assuming you are inferring that #1 is true, and for that I thank you! *blushes* *aw, shucks...*

We know Mr. Fixit Man (whom I believe is Potato?) is indeed a dapper gentleman.

By elimination does that leave #3 as a blatant, wolfish lie?

I'm pretty obsessed with Mister Rogers now.....but I used to really think it was "corny" back then.

I became re-obsessed with Wacky Races around 2010. I was absolutely obsessed with them in the late 60s-early 70s. The whole Dick Dastardly/Muttley/Penelope Pitstop thing. I can't forget the other racers! Probably even more so than Dastardly and Penelope. I used to try to imitate Muttley's laugh all the time.

In the 1960s:

1. I loved "Quisp" cereal.

2. I loved Franco-American Spaghetti-O's.

3. I loved hot dogs.

Technically, mine are all true as they're all things I did when I was younger, but 1 was the lie, as I was into adolescence (17 iirc) when I did that, and stopped when the floss got snagged temporarily somewhere in the back part of my tongue one time.

Nowadays, my eyes don't have the tolerance they once did. Not sure what the heck happened as I went 6 or 7 without getting them checked, but for some reason nowadays a routine eye exam is a bother and they begin to water after a while of forcing. A minor inconvenience, but it could be so much worse.

Do you have any recollection of "Wacky Packages," Mr. Fixit Man?

I had to consult Google, and I can't say that I do. Maybe it's been more popular in some regions than others, but then I didn't really bother much with collecting as that costs money, something my family didn't have that much of. It was enough for the basics along with a bit of entertainment, but not much else beyond that.

There's an obscure song from 1968 called "Mr. Fixit Man." It was played on American Bandstand, in a segment called "Rate-A-Record." It never became a hit.

If somebody could tell me how to insert a YouTube video into WP, I can post the song. It would be Sentient Potato's theme song (at least for this thread).


In 1973, at the age of 12:

1. I did a very naughty thing: I threw snowballs into the front of cars while they were proceeding. Some guy got out, and started yelling. I ran down the street. He said I could have killed someone.

2. I started going to public school---I went to 7th grade at Russell Sage Junior High School (JHS 190). This was the last pre-college school that actually had a school song LOL

3. My voice started to change, and I experienced the first "signs" of adolescence.

If you paste the complete link to the video on its own line, and you wrap the YouTube tags around it, it should work such that

[*youtube]https://youtu.be/OMTQbRH0pAA[/*youtube]

without the asterisks equals



And your lie is 3. You were around the age that I was when mine changed.

Were you 14, like me?

Let's see if this works. The song is actually called "Mr. Ticket Man."

I tried it twice. It didn't work.

You can go on YouTube and inquire: "Ing Bandstand." The proper video will probably be the first video. This guy named Jeffrey Ing uploaded it on YouTube.

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I found the problem. The first D in the second half of the link needed to be capitalized. That portion of the link is the video's id, and to maximize the number of available ids, case sensitivity and some special characters are needed.


And yes, it was when I was 14 during my freshman year of high school where mine changed.

Mr. Fixit Man!! ! It works!

I apologize. The guy's name is Patrick Ing, not Jeffrey Ing.

It is said that the video comes from 1967---but I'm thinking it comes from 1968. What do you think of the song?


In 1968, when I was 7:

1. I remember the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King. He used to be called "The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior" all the time in the news. Right before he was shot, he was conducting a "poor peoples' march."

2. I remember they used to broadcast the amount of people killed in Vietnam. It always seemed as if 10 times as many Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed than South Vietnamese and Americans.

3. I hid out in the fire escape for a while, because I didn't want to be spanked for being out too late.

I listened to those songs I love the funky dance moves like on Charlie Brown Christmas.

I suppose 3 is your lie?

1. I broke my wrist when I was ten, and needed surgery to reset it


2. I broke my foot last year by falling down a stairwell (then re-broke it two months later, by dropping a heavy can)


3. I broke my ankle jumping from the top of a slide at a play park, when I was five