# Declarations
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 13, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719 "2004-04-13T03:06:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/1 "2004-04-13T03:06:28Z")
When I first thought of this thread I wondered where it would go, or indeed whether it would go at all.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/2 "2004-04-13T03:07:42Z")
In fact, the nice thing about it is that there is no set direction for posts.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/3 "2004-04-13T03:08:46Z")
The posts _do_, however, have something of a structure.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/4 "2004-04-13T03:10:08Z")
'Course, the only thing you have to do is make sure your first word is appropriate; otherwise you’re free to **declare** whatever you want.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/5 "2004-04-13T03:44:39Z")
Of all the pies in the world, I think my favorite is lemon meringue.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/6 "2004-04-13T05:04:09Z")
Human boredom, pure and simple, is what causes threads like this.
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### Author:  [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/7 "2004-04-13T05:22:39Z")
There’s nothing like a week of vacation to make me want another week of vacation.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/8 "2004-04-13T05:27:08Z")
Er…
Events such as music concerts and art gallery openings are my thing.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/9 "2004-04-13T05:36:37Z")
It seems as though **rhubarb** didn’t get the rules that were set for this post but maybe there’ll come a time when it…
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/10 "2004-04-13T05:38:16Z")
…becomes obvious to him just what we are doing.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/11 "2004-04-13T07:02:12Z")
I have to, it’s killing me…
Necessary to life are oxygen, food, and water.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/12 "2004-04-13T07:22:10Z")
For my entire life I’ve wondered what rhubarb pie tasted like… one day, perhaps, I’ll try it.
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/13 "2004-04-13T12:51:03Z")
I’m 6 ft 1.
(Did I oversimplify it?)
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### Author:  [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/14 "2004-04-13T14:47:00Z")
One day, I’ll understand what you guys are doing.
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/15 "2004-04-13T15:05:11Z")
People, people. If you don’t understand the rules, please don’t post.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/16 "2004-04-13T15:14:46Z")
To be, or not to be, that is the question. (It is, isn’t it?)
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/17 "2004-04-13T15:41:44Z")
Remain calm. There is enough **decla** for everybody, as long as nobody takes more than his or her **decla** ration. Pushing and yelling will not make it go any faster.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/18 "2004-04-13T15:45:33Z")
Dissolve one cup of sugar in one cup of coffee, and drink quickly - my remedy for the “not yet awake” Dopers among us 😉
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### Author:  [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/19 "2004-04-13T16:05:03Z")
The method of making delicious coffee had always been a mystery to me, until \*\*TellMeI’mNotCrazy \*\* enlightened me. For that, and for relieving me of the burden of dealing with a recalcitrant verb, I am forever in \*\*TellMeI’mNotCrazy’s \*\* debt.
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### Author:  [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declarations/239719/20 "2004-04-13T16:14:02Z")
The political structure of this nation is three-parted, yet bi-cameral. What is that?
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