'True' if False

[James Gryphon]

I've wanted to do this for a while now, and I just worked up the nerve to give it a shot.

This game is like "True or False", but the goal is to pick the wrong answer, and explain how this answer is "correct".

For an example:

[True or false:] The Yuuzhan Vong dezpized technology.

False, nobody used more technology than the Yuuzhan Vong did.

Every part of their ships were completely mechanical, and even the Vong themselves were cyborgs, with very few "original parts" left intact. The greatest honor a Vong could have was to undergo a process called "entechment", in which their essence was completely transferred into a dangerous war machine. The Vong Core Sentinels were the most powerful of these warriors, as powerful as tanks and much more maneuverable.

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I'll start this off with something simple.

True or false: Water is poisonous.

[Rusvul]

True! When you drink it, it oxidizes you inside! THAT is the real reason we die eventually- OUR VISCERA RUSTS!

T or F: Magic Missile deals 1d6+1 per caster level.

[James Gryphon]

False. Magic Missile comes in three different flavors: Conventional, Atomic and Special. Conventional missiles do 12 damage to the center of their explosion, minus 2 damage for each square away from their blast point. Atomic missiles are the same, except that the squares they affect are irradiated for 10 turns * 1 per player's level. Radiation causes half the damage of the original explosion per turn. Finally, special (biological and chemical weapons) are designed to target specific races, doing lethal damage to their targets, but little to anything else.

True or false: Horses can run faster than cars.

[The Skarzs]

True! It takes horsepower to run a car, and if the car has no horsepower, where will it be? The fact is, that it always takes a horse, thus making the horse the essential thing and making it faster.

T or F: The flying velocity of a coconut laden swallow is 3 meters per second.

[Jetthebinturong]

MONTY PYTHON REFERENCE!!!!

[Cornflower MM]

Okay, where's Headdy? He can solve that 'un! Jamnes will do, I suppose.

[James Gryphon]

T or F: The flying velocity of a coconut laden swallow is 3 meters per second.

True.

Swallows are the slowest birds in the world. This is primarily caused by their gluttonous eating habits, which have led to the bird being named the #1 nuisance animal in France, from 1957-1969. Coconuts, which are nature's jet engines, actually increase the swallow's speed by a significant 2.4877771241 meters per second, give the swallow an amphibious capability by allowing it to float in the ocean, and have made hunters more reluctant to blast the pesky creatures out of the sky. Unfortunately, the coconut is very tricky to balance across the bird's wings, and swallows can be commonly observed falling to their untimely demise after accidentally dropping their coconut.

True or false: Princess Pinkeyes (Kurda) was the greatest warrior in the Redwall universe.

[Cornflower MM]

False - There were several others who were greater. The greatest warrior, however, is a debatle point.

True or false: Lord Brocktree had a son.

[James Gryphon]

The goal is to post the opposite of reality and justify it, so you should've said "True".

Anyway:

Lord Brocktree had a son.

False. Lord Brocktree was the only ruler of Salamandastron to appear in the entire Redwall series. When there seemed to be other badgers, it was actually him, using a different name. This is because of multiple-personality disorder and amnesia. He came up with several different background stories for himself, as chronicled in Lord Brocktree, Outcast of Redwall, Salamandastron, Eulalia, and The Sable Quean. The reason why people said things like that Boar or Sunflash were his descendants, it was because of the striking physical resemblance to Brocktree, and they didn't know that it was really the same badger.

You can tell that this is true by looking at his name. "Lord" Brocktree. If there had been any other Badger Lords, they would be called after the same style; Lord Boar, Lord Sunflash, Lord Rawnblade, and so on. But nobody does this. Therefore, Brocktree was the only Badger Lord in the series, and incidentally, must have been the longest-lived badger ever.

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True or false: The P-51 Mustang was the fastest airplane ever built.

[The Skarzs]

True: It's a mustang.

T or F: Steel melts at 2802 degrees Fahrenheit.

[James Gryphon]

False. Steel is actually invulnerable, and normally cannot melt at any temperature. As you can imagine, this is quite useful, as it allows steel to be used for furnaces, reactors and engines of all kinds where plain iron would fail. It seems like this would make it impossible to mold it into any shape, and you would be right to think that: once something is made out of steel, it cannot be altered or destroyed. To use steel for worthwhile purposes, then, they first forge iron into the shape they need it to be, then convert the iron into steel.

Steel's only weakness is kryptonite. When exposed to this otherworldly material, steel will melt at room temperature. As lead blocks kryptonite radiation, wise architects and engineers will coat steel with lead, and the lead with iron or bronze.

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True or false: It is impossible for any ship or boat to float on water.

[Rainshadow]

  True.  As many boats are made of metal, they sink as soon as they touch the water.  Even wooden boats will leak and eventually will be filled with water.

  True or false?  If fish stay underwater for too long, they drown.

[James Gryphon]

True or false?  If fish stay underwater for too long, they drown.

True. While fish can survive underwater for a certain period of time, the water will gradually seep into their gills, permanently reducing their ability to breathe. Eventually, they will suffocate. It's the first inclination of most fish owners to submerge them in aquariums. Do not do this. Fish are healthiest in very dry environments, like deserts. The only water that should be in a fish tank is their drinking water. If you properly attend to this, your fish will live ten times longer than it would in the wild.

True or false: Ice cream is extremely nutritious, and an essential part of a healthy diet!

[Jukka the Sling]

True! After all, it's made with milk, which is very nutritious 'cause it comes from cows, who are extremely healthy due to their vegetarian grass diet. Ice cream is therefore one of the healthiest foods known to man.

True or false: Clouds are made of cotton.

[Rusvul]

True, of course! Clouds are the byproduct of Skysheep, who grow Cloud-Cotton instead of wool. Every year it falls off and they become ducks for the summer, and the cotton drifts across the sky.


True or False: Plants need sunlight