# 3 words to describe yourself

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 27, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461 "2000-04-27T12:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/21 "2000-04-28T05:43:00Z")

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What speed limit?

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**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/22 "2000-04-27T18:06:00Z")

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Location, location, location.

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If at first you don’t succeed - redefine success!

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**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/23 "2000-04-27T18:10:00Z")

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Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic.

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TV Reporter: Can you destroy the earth?  
The Tick: I hope not. That’s where I keep all my stuff!

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**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/24 "2000-04-27T18:16:00Z")

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White, male, heterosexual.

\*“I’m demographically correct!”  
—Zippy the Pinhead \*

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/25 "2000-04-27T18:19:00Z")

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Sarcaustic neurotic agnostic.

In other words, a bundle of nervous tics.

(and ‘sarcaustic’ is a word coined by my girlfriend to describe my sense of humor- like sarcastic, but a lot nastier.)

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JMCJ

“Y’know, I would invite y’all to go feltch a dead goat, but that would be abuse of a perfectly good dead goat and an insult to all those who engage in that practice for fun.” -weirddave, set to maximum flame

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/26 "2000-04-27T18:28:00Z")

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Confused, hungry, and lost.

Oh wait, is it 5:00 already? Yeah! I’m outta here!!!

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All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don’t know who you are…

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/27 "2000-04-27T18:31:00Z")

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**Straight Outta Compton? Beeotch!**

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I have chainmail underwear.

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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/28 "2000-04-27T18:35:00Z")

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Crazy Sexy Cool

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**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/29 "2000-04-27T18:45:00Z")

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Eclectic, Childish, Open.

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“Organs gross me out. That’s _organs_, not orgasms.”  
-the wallster

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**Author:** ![MtnMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@MtnMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MtnMan)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/30 "2000-04-27T19:16:00Z")

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Husband, father, lucky.

That pretty much sums it up.

[true story]  
This OP was the subject if my law school entrance application essay. I kid you not. I don’t even remember the words I chose, but I assure you that my essay was a total crock. Just as you would expect. Seriously, do you think they would have accepted my application had I told them that my three words were “lush, procrastinator, and aimless?” I think not. [/true story]

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**Author:** ![SkySlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SkySlash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkySlash)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/31 "2000-04-27T19:56:00Z")

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**Canthearya** beat me to that one so…

_ **You’d never understand!** _

That pretty much sums me up…

-SS 😃

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**Author:** ![Prose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Prose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prose)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/32 "2000-04-27T20:10:00Z")

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Sarcastic,impatient, DONE(school’s out baby!!)

😃 going to get sloshed now

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When he was ready, it was already far too late, to go back.  
There will never be another.  
He is lost to me, as surely as if he had died.  
Standing alone, I stare into the flames trying  
to remember what went wrong.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/33 "2000-04-27T20:34:00Z")

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Tall, dark, handsome.

What, they have to be true?

Okay,

Caring, sensitive, single.  
SwimmingRiddles said: “Complicated, Effervescent, Neurotic”

What, are you _trying_ to turn me on? 😉

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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-words-to-describe-yourself/16461/34 "2000-04-27T22:35:00Z")

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Carnivorous buttocks flies.

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“My hovercraft is full of eels.”

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