# A motto for the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 31, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948 "2006-08-31T17:39:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/21 "2006-08-31T19:41:43Z")
[QUOTE=Greenback] Isn’t that false advertising? It’s like saying ‘we won’ in reference to Iraq. [/QUOTE] How about: Irony! It isn’t just for breakfast anymore! Or: A whoosh is just a whoosh by any name, but smells as sweet… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Stalky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Stalky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stalky)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/22 "2006-08-31T19:41:50Z")
“What’s a motto?” “What’s a motto with you?” -Timon and Pumbaa ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/23 "2006-08-31T19:59:31Z")
[Moderator Hat ON] I think this’ll do better in IMHO. Hey, maybe _that_ can be the official Great Debates motto… [Moderator Hat OFF] ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/24 "2006-08-31T20:12:16Z")
The Straight Dope Message Board - Where ignorance fights back!" ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/25 "2006-08-31T20:14:33Z")
Khaaaaannnn!!! ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/26 "2006-08-31T20:14:56Z")
MINE!! 😃 “What do I know?” :smack: Michel de Montaigne - February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/27 "2006-08-31T20:15:11Z")
“The Straight Dope: Cite?” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/28 "2006-08-31T20:28:30Z")
[QUOTE=Gaudere] [Moderator Hat ON] I think this’ll do better in IMHO. Hey, maybe _that_ can be the official Great Debates motto… [Moderator Hat OFF] [/QUOTE] I LIKE that! ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/29 "2006-08-31T21:07:21Z")
“Home of the sincere, the ignorant, and the sincerely ignorant.” ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/30 "2006-08-31T21:15:24Z")
The Strai … **ERROR - Connection Timed Out** The Straight Dope Messa … **ERROR - Connection Timed Out** The Straight Dope Message B … **ERROR - Connection Timed Out** The Straight Dope Message Board - “It takes longer than we thought.” That there’s a joke. Not to be taken as a complaint about board speed or the lack thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/31 "2006-08-31T21:20:54Z")
How about my sig? I just realized I’ve never actually used it since I changed it a year or so ago… ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/32 "2006-08-31T21:22:01Z")
Yeah. If you, y’know, preview, then, y’know, submit, the “Show your signature” checkbox gets unchecked. Which is good. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/33 "2006-08-31T21:24:15Z")
_We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true._ --Robert Wilensky ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/34 "2006-08-31T21:43:18Z")
Holy crap Giraffe! I have never seen that quote before… funniest damn thing I have read in a long time. how about: “We are smarter than you, so?” ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/35 "2006-08-31T21:58:49Z")
_Cricetus nunquam victus ab hoste cedit._ “The hamster never turns away defeated from the enemy.” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/36 "2006-08-31T22:08:46Z")
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/37 "2006-08-31T22:16:14Z")
That was of course Charles Dickens. Still, it’s a fine motto for the SDMB. Oh god, I could find a million of these: “The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.” -George Eliot “When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.” -Prince Otto ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/38 "2006-08-31T22:43:40Z")
“You’ve been a very naughty boy and must be disciplined. Assume the position.” 😃 What? Oh, I thought you wanted a motto for the BDSM. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/39 "2006-08-31T23:22:44Z")
> [@](#): > > “Fighting ignorance” Although we have occasional threads in GD where it can seem more like it’s “the fighting ignorants”. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-motto-for-the-sdmb/370948/40 "2006-09-01T03:30:35Z")
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