# Are you a Star Bellied Sneetch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893 "2024-04-29T04:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/1 "2024-04-29T04:22:32Z")
I am a star bellied sneetch. But I think it is genetic. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/2 "2024-04-29T05:16:16Z")
I don’t know what this is all about, but I’ll play. 🎶 _I am a star bellied sneetch,_ _But I think it’s genetic,_ _Hey, I’m not trying to preach,_ _What I’m doing’s poetic …_ 🎶 How’d I do? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/3 "2024-04-29T06:21:53Z")
Plain-bellied Sneetch here. Please don’t hate me. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/4 "2024-04-29T06:25:01Z")
🎼I’m a Star Bellied Sneetch; I suck like a leech I want everyone to act like me ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/5 "2024-04-29T10:16:37Z")
🤨 > [@Resolved, SDMB should discourage use of “star-bellied sneetch”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408): > > This time of division and polarization must end. In my youth, I was a baseball. We must move forward, not backward, upwards, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! I’m so tired of Dopers always saying this elitist term. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/6 "2024-04-29T12:41:05Z")
An old sig line of mine: > [@](#): > > _Sneetches_ – a fragrance inspired by the writings of Dr. Seuss. Exclusively from Prince Matchabelli ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/7 "2024-04-29T13:03:52Z")
It’s a good thing Prince Matchabelli didn’t go with _Yertle_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/8 "2024-04-29T13:06:16Z")
🤨 The fight for free speech has never been more important. Won’t you help? For only pennies a day, you can help provide sneetches with hot food and clean water. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/9 "2024-04-29T13:29:29Z")
Somehow in high school I was given the nickname **The Once-ler**. Beats me. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/10 "2024-04-29T15:17:45Z")
Do they get steeches? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/11 "2024-04-29T15:22:11Z")
Perhaps it was your top hat and your passion for chopping down coloured trees? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/12 "2024-04-29T15:22:51Z")
Bio-star-bellied, and plain-bellied by identity preference. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/13 "2024-04-29T15:23:04Z")
How do you think they got the star in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/14 "2024-04-29T16:53:37Z")
If you defend free speech You must defend free sneetch No? Well, it worked for Johnny Cochran. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/15 "2024-04-29T17:06:28Z")
I’m a plain bellied sneetch who married a star-bellied sneetch. Our kids are both triangle bellied sneetches. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/16 "2024-04-29T20:43:21Z")
Freaks. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/17 "2024-04-29T22:16:24Z")
Next question. Considering the worldwide sneetch population, what is the average number of stars per sneetch? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/18 "2024-04-29T22:40:42Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > 🎼I’m a Star Bellied Sneetch; I suck like a leech > I want everyone to act like me. Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich But your boss gets richer off you… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/19 "2024-04-29T22:53:29Z")
Sneetchish? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893/20 "2024-04-30T00:25:49Z")
I was born a plain-bellied sneetch, but I went through the machine to become a star-bellied sneetch. No regrets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893.md?page=2)