Two truths and a lie

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1. I can perceive various pitches/tones from engines and scraping metal.

2. I once had a compound fracture in my arm and almost had it amputated.

3. I sing fluidly and accurately within a fixed solfege system.

dyad,
Wow that's quite the list. I don't know what #3 means, but it sounds impressive. I'll roll the dice and pick #3 at random.

1. I was tied to a tree on an island during a storm, while boating.

2. I christened our third boat with a bottle of rum.

3. I was almost thrown overboard in a plastic laundry bin, as an infant.

#3 for Dyad, #2 for Isabella

You're right for me. I know I've shared the stories of 1 and 3 before.

I was 13 and I christened the boat with a bottle of champagne, but I hit it so hard the bottle broke and there were shards of glass in the water around the dock. This was at my grandfather's property so he was upset he wouldn't be able to wade in the water safely. I got in big trouble. I seemed to do everything wrong as a child; I had no idea the bottle wasn't supposed to break. To make matters worse there's a photo of me, mid-swing.

How about some Golden Girls true or false trivia?

Beatrice Arthur who played Dorothy did not like Betty White who played Rose and she once called her a c**t.

Estelle Getty was Jewish in real life but her character Sophia was Catholic

Rue McClanahan was actually from Georgia just like her character Blanche, a vain and shallow southern belle.

I really hope it's #1, TW1Z.

My #3 is true TW1Z. I was a newborn and there was such a terrible storm that someone told my mother to throw me overboard in a plastic tub, thinking it would be like a life raft if the boat sank. My mother was like "um, no....", which was one of her finer parenting moments.

I don't know enough about the "Golden Girls."

But I'm thinking #1? She called her something else---but not a "c**t."

You're both correct. I was taught fixed solfege but never became reflexive with it. It's a "Do Re Mi" system. Movable solfege means that "Do" is the 1st note in your major scale, no matter which major scale. Fixed solfege makes you represent every note specifically, so if you play G major then "So" is the 1st note. You also alter the words for key changes. Therefore, a G major scale in fixed solfege is "So La Ti Do Re Mi Fi So." Since G major has an "F#", you make "Fa" into "Fi." I want to practice it and eventually become reflexive.

I had guessed 3 for you Isabella before I saw the answer. I had wondered why you would be in a laundry bin

Actually number 3 is false. Rue was not from Georgia.

And I heard that Bea actually called Betty a c**t because she was the first to win an emmy reward out of the cast, but maybe I better double check that?

Bea Arthur did in fact not like Betty White though.

https://m.newser.com/story/69444/bea-ar ... -what.html

According to this article Bea called Betty the C word while intoxicated.

1. I learned a little bit about "12-tone" music.

2. John Cage composed about four minutes of "nothing."

3. Be-Bop originated before Swing.

dyad, I'm so musically-impaired I don't even know how scales work. It's ironic because there are many musicians in my life, but I've never sought to learn. Your knowledge sounds very impressive!

1. My father used to drive me around our first property on a snowmobile in the winter.

2. My father used to say he wouldn't die until I wrote a book.

3. My father hated the colour blue, and I can't think of a single blue item from our house.

#1 for Isabella. I don't sense you lived in an extremely northernly latitude at any time.

1 for Izzy, 3 for Kraft.

Nope, 1 is true. We used to have a lot of snow in that area even though it wasn't "extremely northerly". Now, it would be impossible because there isn't that much snow. It must be a climate change issue?

3 is also true. My father had blue eyes so his mother always dressed him in blue as a child, and he learned to hate / reject it. Nothing was blue in our house, ever. He liked soft green and red, or lots of gold and cream tones.

My lie is #2. It was my maternal grandmother who said she wouldn't die until I wrote a book about our family. Ooops!

I'm making up for lost time by sharing far too many stories on here. I hope that counts.