Truth and Lies

Here's a use for the hilarious Googlism website to which Alan Levine alerted me. It wasn’t until I was looking for an online icebreaker activity that I made the connection with the corporate training classic Truth and Lies.

• Search Googlism for your first name. (In practice simply using first names ensures plenty of comical results and avoids any possible social trauma if Google doesn't know of you or your namesakes!)


• Choose two false Googlisms to which you add one truth.


• Post your list to a public forum, and have fun trying to correctly guess everyone's true statement.

The group I trialled it with enjoyed it—just a shame you can't hear the laughter online.