This one is NOT a lie: "The drinking age was 18 in Maryland for most of my time in high school."

[karynnj]

20. True, except there was not one minute where he was 18 and the drinking age was 18

I agree with you that that sentence as quoted is true, but in context it is misleading because the intention is to suggest that in his senior year, they drank and it was legal to do so. In fact, in the time in question, the summer before his senior year, he was 17 -- making it a moot point whether the age was 18 or 21.

What is true is that he drank illegally in his senior year and before -- and at Yale, where, if I interpreted this article correctly, he would not have been a legal drinker until his 20th birthday in February 1985. So, for the first year and first semester of the second, he was drinking illegally -- and it was his freshman year when he is accused of being often drunk by his roommate and when he was accused of assaulting Ramirez.