Here's something fun to try: make up an outrageous lie about yourself, then share it here. It's OK if everyone knows it's untrue.
Leap over the Orange Barrier of Inhibition with me, and I'll tell a few tall tales to get you started.
I'm not making this up: I was the actual model for the smiley face. I was, like, ten years old and my friend Gianni Bucatini tried to draw my portrait on a restaurant placemat. They'd only given us black and yellow crayons, and when he showed me my picture I laughed so hard that a guy at the next table came over to see. He was from life insurance company or something, and offered to buy the picture for a whole dollar. That was good money! This was back when a 12 oz Coke cost $0.15, including the $0.03 deposit for the glass bottle. Anyhow, I was shocked when the smiley face became this huge fad. People were walking around wearing pins with my face on them! Boy I wish I got royalties! :-)
This is the honest-to-God truth: I'm actually quite a snappy dresser, in fact I've got closets full of impressive couture. You've never seen any of it because I have to tone it down in public. It's a nuisance, really, but when I'm dressed sharp I become irresistible to women.
Speaking of women, I'm not kidding; this the gospel truth: I'm married to a woman who loves sports. She's crazy about them. In fact, she used to be a power forward on a semi-pro women's basketball team. She gave that up though when she took up dog agility. She says dog agility is more challenging, and she doesn't mind wearing the fur suit or the rubber nose.
Hand to heart, I swear on a stack of Bibles: there's a park in my town that's named after one of my maternal ancestors, Pine Banks. "Pine" was a nickname, of course. He always went by "Pine" because he didn't like his real name, which was "Rob". There was some controversy over using the nickname for the park, but ultimately the town fathers decided that "Pine Banks" would be better on the sign. Anyhow, old Pine was pretty well known in his day as an inventor. Most of his inventions like the self-peeling potato or the dog harmonica have kind of fallen out of use. But the most most successful thing he invented was the Boston Accent, and that's still going strong! People around here still think it's "wicked pissah".