Ryan explains his lying about his marathon time ...

[IggleDoer]

... by blaming it on his back injury. Is this his all-purpose magic eraser for anything else he is shown to be wrong about?

[C_U_L8R]

1. The backbone's connected to...

the brain bone (or lack thereof)

[mythology]

17. In Ryan's case, the backbone is rather near his head

After all the rectum is relatively near the lower portion of the back. Unfortunately the lack of oxygen isn't conducive to clear thinking.

[enough]

2. You mean all the pain meds he had to take? (nt)

[randome]

6. Just what I was thinking!

It almost sounds like a 'rush job' -i.e. a Rush Limbaugh excuse that flops over to another subject entirely.

[IggleDoer]

12. Show us his medical records.

Or give him a pee test.

[Scuba]

3. "Numbers wonk" can't keep track of time.

[SDjack]

4. If Ryan's back is so bad that he can't tell the truth, then

he should remove himself from the ticket.

[BarackTheVote]

5. So his back pain

made him forget his time accurately, or he had back pain during the marathon and giving himself a 1 minute handicap because of it?

[GeorgeGist]

9. That would be 1 HOUR.

[BarackTheVote]

18. I think I was still mostly asleep when I wrote that

yes, 1 hour handicap LOL

[iemitsu]

7. back pain does not explain or excuse lying.

what is wrong with this man?
spoiled, petulant, woman hating asshole.
i guess when one has the material wealth mr ryan has one does not need the added baggage of integrity.

[Bettie]

8. You know, I'd have had a teeny bit of respect for him if he'd just said

Man, I was just wrong on that. I screwed up.

But, he'd never admit he was wrong, just making excuses.

[GallopingGhost]

10. So does that mean MS causes snobbery?

[EC]

11. Every time he speaks he has three points of white showing in his eyes.

The two sides and the bottom. That is one of the signs of lying I've been told in my police science classes.

[lunatica]

16. A dead giveaway for lying is the upside down V of the eyebrows because

They're trying to look innocent and believable.

[lunatica]

13. His bad back makes him tell lies?

I've never heard of that medical condition.

[treestar]

14. Does not even make sense

If he back is so bad he can't remember his own marathon time, how does he remember anything else?

[cynatnite]

15. I was told that you always know what your marathon time is. You never forget it. Ever. n/t

[Generic Other]

19. Did he get the back injury in the Spanish American War?

Even before his death, Münchhausen's reputation as a storyteller was exaggerated by several writers, giving birth to a fully fictionalized literary character usually called simply Baron Munchausen. The (fictional) Baron's exploits, usually narrated by himself, focus on his impossible achievements as a hunter, warrior, and traveler, including rides on cannonballs and trips to the moon.

[abumbyanyothername]

20. Well at first I thought Ryan reminded me of Dogberry

But on reflection, this sounds a bit more like rMoney:

" . . . Dogberry is in continual danger of being misunderstood, as he uses contradictory terms with engaging abandon: “to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured”, “the most senseless and fit man” (III.3), “thou villain, thou art full of piety” (IV.2) As often with malapropisms, Shakespeare is perhaps making a joke over the character’s head – a senseless man might well be the most suitable for this deranged law enforcement operation! (Bearing in mind that it is Dogberry’s men who discover the plot against Hero, by the technique of sitting on the church bench whilst waiting to go to bed.) When Dogberry presents the case to Don Pedro, the Don is forced to ask the prisoners themselves why they have been arrested, explaining diplomatically that “This learned constable is too cunning to be understood.” (V.1)

Dogberry’s grandiloquent and mangled verbal displays are probably due to his desire to impress everyone. He has a very large sense of his own importance, demanding that his position as constable be respected (or “suspected”, as he calls it) and flying into a rage when one of the prisoners calls him an “ass”. This insult seems to offend him more than the intrigue and death Conrade and Borachio stand accused of, telling Leonato that “this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass” and asking that it “be remembered in his punishment.” (V.1)

Despite his rampant pomposity and self-regard, Dogberry is so full of energy and verbal ingenuity that it is difficult to dislike him. When played well, he is one of Shakespeare’s finest comic turns, and more than earns his place in Much Ado About Nothing. . . . "

http://suite101.com/article/dogberry-in-much-ado-about-nothing-a29847