I figger that most people have at least one big lie.

The lies are usually both major and insignificant – they don’t hurt anyone or break any laws; they’re just great big lies that have been around for so long they’re generally accepted as truth. I have one, and so does Ed. In fact, many people we know have lies.

My lie is pretty common knowledge – my name isn’t really Kimli. I mean, it is, but it’s legally spelled differently – “Kim Lee” vs. “Kimli”. I’ve been using Kimli as my first name for everything since I was 14 or so, with the exception of the things I need a legal name for. I think I’ve told the story before – things start to blur when you’ve got almost 6 years of content on the internets – but when I was a wee bairn I discovered that my “middle name” wasn’t supposed to be a middle name at all but the second half of my first name. To dispel some of the confusion, I changed the spelling of my name to make it all one word and I traded in two vowels for one. As far as I’m concerned, my name is Kimli. The government, however, says otherwise – but who cares what they think, anyway. It’s just the government.

Contrary to popular opinion, it is NOT a lie that I am an Internet Superstar – I totally am. It says so on my business card.

Ed’s lie is just as silly – his birthday is not really May 31st. It seems although he was born in the wee hours of June 1st, his mom started labour on the 31st and wanted that to be his birthday. So .. it is. It’s on his birth certificate and everything. His birthday celebrations are nothing more than frosted cakes of LIES!

We have three friends whose names are not their names – each of them go by a middle name instead of their given name. Oh, the intricate weaving of years upon years of LIES! It’s shocking, the number of people who hide behind a safety net of pure deception.

What’s your big lie?