MetaChat - Truth, or dare?

Truth.

posted by jonmc 01 March | 16:49

Truth!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 March | 16:49

Truth, baby.

posted by matildaben 01 March | 16:50

No deal! Wait. Truth!

posted by chewatadistance 01 March | 16:51

Dare

posted by bmarkey 01 March | 16:52

Okay. Biggest lie you ever told?

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 16:52

Dare!

posted by TrishaLynn 01 March | 16:54

Dare: I dare you dare-takers to set up an anonymous email address and send steamy mash letters to 5 MetaChatters of your choosing.

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 16:55

Truth.

posted by me3dia 01 March | 16:55

For those of you who are wienies and aren't answering, here's where we are.

Truth: Biggest lie you ever told?

Dare: Set up an anonymous email address and send steamy mash letters to 5 MetaChatters of your choosing.

Now, don't be a chicken.

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 16:57

As a dare-eater, rather than dare-taker, I recuse myself from this endeavor.

posted by bmarkey 01 March | 16:59

Can they be the same letter to 5 people? Steamy takes time.

posted by danostuporstar 01 March | 16:59

I've sent that many mash letters just yesterday from my non-anonymous email address. You're going to have to do better than that.

posted by matildaben 01 March | 17:00

Hmm. I suppose so, dano. But, you know, try to personalize it a bit.

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 17:00

Can you write five steamy letters to the same person?

posted by Miko 01 March | 17:00

You come up with one, matilda. You're more adventurous than I am.

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 17:01

Truth. WBut who asks whom? How do we play? You people are chaotic and you enjoy it, damn you. Okay, to hell with rules! FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD!

posted by shane 01 March | 17:01

Biggest lie? I'm a lousy liar, and always have been, so I rarely get away with big lies, so this is bound to be disappointing. In 12th grade, this kid Pete had some firecrackers, and I used my lighter to set one off in the school courtyard. The teachers heard it and hustled us off. I told him to say that I just loaned him my lighter, and that's what I told the principal, and Pete backed me up. I felt bad abou that one, but I had already been suspended that year.

I've sent that many mash letters just yesterday from my non-anonymous email address. You're going to have to do better than that.

The mash notes have to include naked pictures!

posted by jonmc 01 March | 17:02

Just kidding, Mupps. Ride with it.

posted by matildaben 01 March | 17:04

Man. This game needs a committee. I quit!

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 17:06

Man. and I truthed and everything.

posted by jonmc 01 March | 17:07

I'd already decided to go with dare before I opened the thread, so five someones will get a mashy steamy letter from me, unless mats comes up with a better dare.

How steamy should we get? I mean, I don't want offend anyone.

posted by Specklet 01 March | 17:07

steamy enough to coook dumplings and sterilize medical equipment. make a cloud of steam so big that we'll expect micheal jackson to emerge, speckster.

posted by jonmc 01 March | 17:09

Truth!
Biggest lie I ever told: Some years ago, I told this guy that I had an identical twin sister named Roberta. (I just have one younger sister. No twin that I know of!) When he asked me why I'd only mentioned my younger sister before and not my twin, I said that Roberta had been estranged from the family for a long time (hence, he hadn't seen a picture of her or anything)and it was too painful to talk about her but that we were working on repairing the relationship. He bought it. : )

I've run into him a few times since and every time he asks me if I'm Rachel or Roberta. ; )

posted by sisterhavana 01 March | 17:10

I wish I'd taken dare. I have no idea what the biggest lie I ever told was. I'm really bad at telling lies. Probably it would be a hapless, in-denial lie such as "I'm not attracted to him; we're just friends."

I will consider composing my steamy mash notes once I'm home and can adequately concentrate without getting distracted by helpdesk tickets. Even though I picked truth. It will be fun.

posted by matildaben 01 March | 17:14

I have this image of the MetaChat slumber party. We're all sitting around in our jammies. Having had a little too much to drink, we decide to play truth or dare. And then there is the discussion of rules. Someone breaks out a pad of paper and a ballpoint pen and begins committing the rules to the page. But there is quite a bit of revision, so the ballpoint pen is traded for a pencil. Half an hour later, having reached an impasse regarding one's ability to exempt oneself, the laptops come out. Frantic emails are sent to dodgy and taz, who will surely get us out of this mess. Meantime, while we're waiting for their responses, we decide to play spin the bottle. A long discussion ensues on what kind of bottle we should use. And whether you get a do-over if the bottle points to a person of the same sex. And what to do if someone slips an unwanted tongue.

The laptop comes out again....

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 17:14

Uh, what's a mash letter?

posted by eamondaly 01 March | 17:14

That's not at all the image I have of the Metachat slumber party. We go straight to the tongues, forget the bottle.

And there are cameras.

posted by matildaben 01 March | 17:16

Biggest lie? Good god, that's a tough one.

During a rough patch in my relationship, I kissed another woman, then claimed I didn't when confronted by my partner. Didn't get away with it, but fortunately I was forgiven... over time.

posted by me3dia 01 March | 17:18

Truth!
For many many years I refused to admit that I was a smoker. I would never, ever smoke in front of anyone I knew and denied it any time anyone asked me about it. Everyone knew and I knew everyone knew, but I couldn't bring myself to admit it. i still don't, but now that I no longer smoke, it is true.

I can picture that slumber party perfectly, mudpuppie and it would be exactly as you described. The only hard part to imagine is an unwanted tongue from any of you. Also, I think we would jump straight to the laptops, unless someone happens to have a Moleskin notebook with them.

posted by dg 01 March | 17:20

Really? You think it'd be that rules-focussed? Sounds more like a MetaTalk slumber party.

posted by me3dia 01 March | 17:21

Judging from this thread, me3... Yes. (Maybe what this thread needs is pajamas?)

Eamon: Mash note.

posted by mudpuppie 01 March | 17:23

But, I don't wear or even own pajamas. You will all see my rude bits!

posted by dg 01 March | 17:33

dg, that's the point!

posted by Specklet 01 March | 17:47

Truth, biggest lie I ever told... When I was a teenager, I manufactured a rather nasty childhood trauma because I desperately wanted to be accepted by the group of people I was around, who all had their own traumas. My actual childhood traumas didn't seem to make the grade, though they were plenty bad.

posted by King of Prontopia 01 March | 17:57

Truth. I got so tired of telling the story of my breakup with my wife that I have let various people at work believe that we are still together. It's just not worth the trouble to explain it all to work acquantainces. And now it's gone to far for me to just blurt out one day "yeah, we split up 9 months ago". Heh. I figured at the time that I'd have a new job by now and it wouldn't be an issue. Oops.

Someone send me a steamy email. Address in profile!

posted by mike9322 01 March | 19:08

Truth: When I was 13, I took my mother's car and wrapped it around a light pole. I told her it was the first time I'd driven it and that another kid coerced me into doing it, but actually I'd been joyriding with my friends for weeks.

posted by krix 01 March | 19:13

Truth: I was a camp counselor for one week. My friends and I snuck into an empty cabin and played strip poker. One of my campers caught me, and I told her what I had been up to (I was probably 15 or 16 at the time!). Of course, it spread around the entire camp. When my friends and I were called up in front of the head counselors, we lied our asses off and put most of the wrong-doing on one girl - she was so graceful about it, and is still my friend today (The head honchos didn't believe us, and I was never asked back). Of everything in my life, I am only ashamed of my behavior during that week at summer camp.

posted by muddgirl 01 March | 19:36

You know, it's hard to write steamy mash notes to people WHEN THEY DON'T PUT THEIR EMAIL ADDYS IN THEIR PROFILES.

Can I get another dare, please?

posted by TrishaLynn 01 March | 20:27

Ooh, I just received my first anonymous steamy mash note.

Those of you who I know full well have crushes on me are invited to send them non-anonymously. Yes, you know who you are!

posted by matildaben 01 March | 20:33

I just got a very steamy mash note. So steamy, in fact, that I cooked a lobster in it. Somebody melt some butter.

posted by jonmc 01 March | 20:42

Woohoo! I got a steamy mash note too! : ) Keep 'em coming. ; )

posted by sisterhavana 01 March | 20:47

damn. no steamy letters.

posted by rebirtha 01 March | 20:48

I’d be happy with an Anchor Steam and some sour mash.

posted by bmarkey 01 March | 20:58

I'd be happy with a sour note about a steamer.

posted by danostuporstar 01 March | 21:04

I don't feel like I know enough MeCha'ers to do some smut up right, so I guess I'll go with truth: I handed in a programming assignment in college that I'd basically cribbed directly off a friend of mine. The TA busted me on it, and I faked righteous indignation that he'd ever suggest such a thing. Not particularly juicy, but I still feel crappy about it to this day.

I've never been much for lying when there was actually something at stake, mostly because I have a terrible memory and can rarely remember enough of the ins and outs to cover if and when I'm called out. I do often indulge in the conversational lie, though: "Oh, I love this band, too!" "I can't believe you met [obscure famous person whose name I barely recognize]!" "Yeah, I'm really shy, sometimes."

And the truth is I'm not sorry!

posted by eamondaly 01 March | 22:47

I didn't get any mash notes, so I'm not sending any out. So there.

posted by sciurus 02 March | 07:52

Mash notes for all! Merry Christmas!

posted by flopsy 02 March | 08:24

I didn't get mash notes, either.

posted by cmonkey 02 March | 11:21

No mash for me either. :(

posted by Miko 02 March | 11:32

Oooh! Now, that's more like it. Thanks, admirer :)

MetaChat: The single girl's best friend.

posted by Miko 02 March | 12:56

I only just saw this thread so:

Oh, MetaChat, your jeweled bosom heaves in the moonlight. End my suffering and yield your passion to me. I have dreamt of the moment I could get you alone for months on-end now. The scent of your hair, the feel of your breath on my neck as you lean over my shoulder to help me with my spreadsheets. It's too much for me to bear. I need you, MetaChat, to go on living. I also need ten (10) million US dollars of various, non-sequential denominations, or I feel I shall wither and fade away for the dearth of you, my dearest.

×5

posted by Eideteker 02 March | 13:13

Truth:
I lied to the mister when I told him that I'd had a couple serious relationships before him. Truth is he's the first man with whom I've willingly had sexual contact.

What do I win? Mash notes? ;^)

posted by deborah 02 March | 13:46

Holy shit, did I ever just get a mash note.

posted by sciurus 02 March | 14:10

Anonymous mash noter: Hot damn!

posted by cmonkey 02 March | 15:20

Also, y'know, if you're single and in Portland...

posted by cmonkey 02 March | 15:26

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms.

posted by dg 02 March | 17:11

Some of y'all better be writing me mash notes because I sent out SIX to you. (The last one wasn't by accident, I just couldn't resist.)

posted by Specklet 02 March | 17:11

I can't read them because I am at work, but from the first lines it appears that I got one about Hawkeye and BJ Hunnicutt.

posted by matildaben 02 March | 17:40

I got a M*A*S*H slash bit too! Radar and Hoolihan.

And a viking wanted to touch my boobies.

posted by Specklet 02 March | 18:50

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