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Note: I was going to post this in the comments of my QotD entry on the topic, but it turned into enough of an entry that I figured I'd put it in its own post.

Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies….but ask me to tell a lie and I'll tell a half-truth…

    – I once ran a four-and-a-half-minute mile
TRUE – Back in high school, I was quite the runner.  My freshman year I ran a 4:50 mile.  My junior year, I was down to 4:30.  My senior year, I ran a 4:20 mile to win the regional championship and was seeded first for the state track meet.  The guy I beat in the regional meet ended up winning the state's mile competition.  I came in middle of the pack, definitely not my best race (story behind that some other time), but I'll always have my 4:20 mile to remember as I get more and more out of shape with the years :-)

    – I once broke both of my front teeth while sailing…on the 4th of July
FALSE – This is the half-truth.  It was actually MY BROTHER who did this.  He was out on the Chesapeake Bay taking part in a sailing class one summer, and he didn't duck when the boom suddenly (and surprisingly) reversed direction on a tack.  I was supposed to be there that day but I was sick.  He broke both of his front teeth, exposing the nerve on one of them.  If that wasn't bad enough, can you imagine how hard it is to find a dentist who is working on the 4th of July?!?!

    – I once drove a US Navy nuclear submarine
TRUE – My father was a captain in the Navy before he retired, and he happened to be the captain of a submarine at points in his career, too.  On a dependents' cruise, I got to sit in the Officer of the Deck's (OOD's) chair and steer, and on the Captain's orders of "Surface, Surface, Surface", I pulled back on the wheel and surfaced the boat from (I think) a few hundred feet underwater to the ocean's surface.  Pretty cool experience, and something I'll always remember.  It's not every day you're in control of a half a billion dollars worth of machinery!

Congrats to LaLatte for guessing correctly!!!!

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