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Rissa

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 06:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't know if this will interest anyone or not. I don't consider myself a super reliable lie detector but I know some of the signs to look out for... fidgeting, no eye contact for example. Well, I was just over a discovery.com (am waiting impatiently for the new Mindbender quizes LOL) and they have a contest going:

The Great Canadian Experiment

You simply watch a very short video clip of Leslie Neilson answering the same question in two different ways and then determine which of his stories was the lie.

I thought this would be easy, but I am NOT SURE!!!! {G} I am guessing the ketchup one because:
1) who the heck would pick ketchup?
2) he kept giving too many rationales for it.

But he kept rubbing his hands and looking off for both, so am not sure. Anyone else want to give it a shot?

Silksmoke

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 06:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rissa, I thought the ketchup story was a bit too convoluted as well. However, I find it difficult to believe that sour cream is something new to Leslies diet. His comparison to mayonnaise was weak, in my opinion. So I am going with sour cream. Even though I thought he was lying both times.

I tried to call in, but got a message that the number was out of my calling area (whatever that means lol, I had no idea we had limits).

Babyruth

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I checked this out too and am firmly convinced the sour cream is the lie. Initially, he nervously touched his face and hair while thinking of his answer. The rhythm of his story was repeatedly interrupted as he thought up new reasons to like sour cream, and you could just tell he was making it up as he went along. The link from mayo to sour cream was on the spot and weak. His voice, his eye contact and his speech pattern gave him away (for me).

The ketchup answer seemed to come more easily and naturally, I thought. In both situations he looked away at times and fidgeted with his hands, but the ketchup convo seemed more relaxed.

I didn't consider the food choices he made, just his delivery of them, but lots of people do looooove ketchup and claim to put it on almost everything.

I tried to call too, but I think this is a Canadian toll free number (you have to be calling from within Canada)...

Rissa

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 07:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmm, interesting. I seem to be in the minority. LOL The intro. made mention of how we detect lies.. by the words, the facial expressions or body language. So I started the video then put it behind another window so I could just listen. The ketchup one, his voice seemed more hesitant. That could mean though that he was actually coming up with his own words as opposed to reciting the lie? Or that because it was a lie, he was having to search for ways to justify it? I thought it would be much easier to tell. LOL

Azriel

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 08:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bread, butter and ketchup, eeeewwwwwwwwww.

Rissa, I thought he sounded less hesitant talking about the ketchup. He really got into the ketchup story.

This is hard for me to decide because I know Leslie Nielsen is so good at improv. I sit here and wonder if he went for the funny story in the one he could make up and the sour cream was just boring because he was telling the truth.

Geesh, I'm going to say the ketchup story is true and I'm probably so wrong.

Aunt_Bob

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 10:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched it twice and 'listened' to it only, - once. I believe the lie is the 'ketchup' fav. But, that was not until after - I just listened to him. Hey, it could be a)ketchup or b)sour cream, but what if it is c)all of the above and they're just messin' with our heads! (I sure like that Leslie Nielson)

--> On the web page next to the toll free #, it states *only available in canada

Grannygrunt

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 02:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the sour cream was the lie. I agree he seemed to talk about the ketchup with more ease than the sour cream. He told both with a story about his mom and when he was little and that sour cream reminded he of mayo. Now my husband says that and he will not touch either one. But the ketchup story seemed to be easier to tell than the sour cream. So I vote for sour cream to be the lie. Will be interested to know which one was the truth.

Halfunit

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't watch the clip, but hubby's interrogation classes have taught him that people who fidget with their LEFT hand or do things with the left side of their body tend to be deceitful - not fullproof, just a tool....

Edited - ok, I watched it and I vote for ketchup to be the lie. Most hand movements were with the left or to the left. With the sour cream, he used his right hand more.

Twiggyish

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I also vote the ketchup, because he kept looking to the side before answering, then he looked up, as if thinking about what to say.

The sour cream sounded more real.

Strawberry

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I vote the ketchup is the lie. He answered too quick and he looked alot to the left. When he talked about the sour cream he paused alot like he was thinking about his answer.

How and when can we find out what the lie was?
Does anyone know where we get the answer from?

Rissa

Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 06:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The answer will be aired Friday night. Not sure how fast they will get it online, they are usually pretty good (couple hours after the show airs). I will let you know what the answer was.

Just FYI, this poll was released in three different ways.
1) Was printed in the National Post
2) Heard on Radio
3) Video on the Discovery.ca (which is what we watched online).

I tried to find the printed only version but it doesn't look like they posted it online.

Babyruth

Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, we have a split vote in our house. I asked my partner (who is a psychologist) to view it, and she thinks the ketchup is the lie. We both only viewed it once, and went with our first impressions.

Neko

Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 02:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Ketchup is the lie.
He seemed as though he was trying to say way too many reasons of why he likes ketchup.
It'd made me think he was trying to make sure you thought that he liked ketchup but went overboard.
Also, he was MUCH more fidgety in the ketchup story.
He was fidgety in the sour cream story but deffinately not as much.

He also wouldn't look at the interviewer as much in the ketchup....

((Edited to say - The Mom thinks it's Ketchup because when he said the actual thing of "I like Ketchup," He was looking to the left and sort of down, and she heard that that means they're lying.))

Halfunit

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 08:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone catch the answer that was supposed to be announced Friday night?

Neko

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 09:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The Results: So, which is Leslie Nielsen's favourite food: ketchup or sour cream? Leslie spilled the beans at the end of the week-long experiment, Friday, October 4, 2002: sour cream was the lie ... ketchup really is one of his favourite foods!
Canadians didn't do too bad in spotting the lie, but for both readers and listeners, only a little over half of the respondents chose the right answer.


% OF PEOPLE WHO SPOTTED THE LIE
Readers from The Globe and Mail & globeandmail.com = 57%
Listeners from Canada AM & ctv.ca = 55%
Viewers from Daily Planet & exn.ca = 65%


So I was wrong!!Nooo...LOL

**Taken from the website at the beginning of the thread**

Rissa

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Neko, I was just on my way to post the results as well. I got it wrong also. Well, sorta. I thought the ketchup was the lie which was wrong, but since I had taken an informal poll here and most thought it was the Sour Cream... I entered Sour Cream was the lie as a group vote. LOL

So I guess the lesson here is that I should avoid people selling marsh land in Florida {g}

Rissa

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 11:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wanted to add that I caught that poll on my way to do the MINDBENDER quiz. Every second week they post 5 science related questions. All correct entries get put in a draw for a 3-in-1 jacket and then there are runner up prizes also. I have been doing this quiz for three years now. Up until last year first prize was a leather jacket which I have won three times!!! I am dying to get my hands on the 3-in-1, it's a great looking jacket. The runner up prize is usually a pack including a t-shirt, baseball cap, a keychain, etc. I got a collection of astronaut food once as well. LOL Still haven't worked up the nerve to try the freeze-dried strawberry ice cream. LOL

I know for a fact that Americans can enter this because a friend of mine in CT won last year. We usually use ICQ to work on the quiz together. This week they only have 3 questions. If anyone wants to try it and post their answers before officially submitting them, we can compare and confirm. The website is: MINDBENDER Good luck!!

Grannygrunt

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 11:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Got that one right now why can't I pick the one to be booted on Survivor. I am really lousy at that!!

Silksmoke

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hurray Granny!!! I got it right too. (I'm stunned, I'm the most gullible person I know, and I know this because somebody told me)

Grannygrunt

Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Surely, it was the person who also told you that you were sweet, cute and absolutely the best person in the world.