Comments on: Have Fun With a Lie Detector http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: avatar28 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-455371 avatar28 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:41:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-455371 Hmm, I bet this would make for an interesting game of "Truth or Dare." Hmm, I bet this would make for an interesting game of “Truth or Dare.”

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-444188 jayessell Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:50:25 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-444188 Or.... A hack Sci Fi writer, having one of his characters once say he'd be rich if he invented a religion, puts that harebrained scheme into motion, using "E-Meters" to prove to people that they're unhappy due to the influence of alien ghosts. Naaaa! Nobody is that stupid! Or….

A hack Sci Fi writer, having one of his characters once say he’d be rich if he invented a religion, puts that harebrained scheme into motion, using “E-Meters” to prove to people that they’re unhappy due to the influence of alien ghosts.

Naaaa! Nobody is that stupid!

]]> By: Jim Dunn http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-442459 Jim Dunn Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:28:12 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/28/have-fun-with-a-lie-detector/#comment-442459 It sounds like a bad idea for a party, or a good idea for a "Twilight Zone" episode. Guests are joking around, asking each other stupid questions, when one guest jokingly asks the subject, "Have you ever killed anybody?" Subject says no, lie detector goes crazy, everybody gives the subject the major skunkeye, and he spends the rest of the episode defending himself, only to kill himself in terror at the end. Then the creator of the machine goes, "Wait, there's a busted fuse in this thing. Louie really was telling the truth." And everybody has a good laugh. Or something. It sounds like a bad idea for a party, or a good idea for a “Twilight Zone” episode. Guests are joking around, asking each other stupid questions, when one guest jokingly asks the subject, “Have you ever killed anybody?” Subject says no, lie detector goes crazy, everybody gives the subject the major skunkeye, and he spends the rest of the episode defending himself, only to kill himself in terror at the end. Then the creator of the machine goes, “Wait, there’s a busted fuse in this thing. Louie really was telling the truth.” And everybody has a good laugh. Or something.

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