# Demotivational posters - your ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476 "2007-03-18T19:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/21 "2007-03-19T01:55:54Z")
[If you love something…](http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i298/middlecase/?action=view¤t=poster90436300.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/22 "2007-03-19T02:03:14Z")
**Scissorjack** , what might work even better would be an image of a gull dropping a clam. With the caption modifed: **If You Love Something Let it Go…** so when it shatters you can get at the really tasty bits. I tried to find an image online to make the poster, but all the ones I found were copywritten, and very small. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/23 "2007-03-19T02:22:07Z")
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/24 "2007-03-19T02:24:20Z")
Heh. Would you believe I already had a couple of these made, just for the heck of it? [Karma](http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42210673/?qo=2&q=by%3Aranchoth&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps) [Technicalities](http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42265535/?q=by%3Aranchoth+in%3Ascraps&qh=sort%3Atime) [Nuke It from Orbit](http://home.comcast.net/%7ERanchoth/nukedemotivator.jpg) (Heh. Couldn’t resist throwing together my own take!) Plus, I’ve got a couple of…well, more inspired by the [RPG Motivators](http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/) than the demotivators, proper. [Crazy Prototypes](http://home.comcast.net/%7ERanchoth/luftnazidemotivationposter24584000.jpg) [Pragmatism.](http://home.comcast.net/%7ERanchoth/Jokerdemotfin.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/25 "2007-03-19T02:36:07Z")
Let’s try [this one](http://diy.despair.com/show.php?file=poster41744940.jpg) shall we? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/26 "2007-03-19T03:26:58Z")
I just want something in a nice parchment effect paper engraved with my very most favorite passage from the “Deteriorata,” to wit: **"Rest assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarce get your feet wet; fall not in love, therefore, it will stick to your face."** Or maybe my second favorite passage; **"Hire people with hooks."** Yup, 'bout sums it up for me… ---
**Author:** ![Yag\_Rannavach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/858c86/32.png) [@Yag\_Rannavach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yag_Rannavach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/27 "2007-03-19T03:35:01Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] **Scissorjack** , what might work even better would be an image of a gull dropping a clam. With the caption modifed: **If You Love Something Let it Go…** so when it shatters you can get at the really tasty bits. I tried to find an image online to make the poster, but all the ones I found were copywritten, and very small. [/QUOTE] You mean like [this](http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/yaggeti/poster12737694.jpg?t=1174275022)? My attempt (the image isn’t mine): [Life](http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/yaggeti/poster88463272.jpg?t=1174275190) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/28 "2007-03-19T03:37:03Z")
[QUOTE=Yag Rannavach] You mean like [this](http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317/yaggeti/poster12737694.jpg?t=1174275022)? [/QUOTE] That’s it! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/29 "2007-03-19T04:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=NajaNivea] [Ennui](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/422885067_252fbb85dc_o.jpg) [/QUOTE] Not a motivational poster, but how about [this article](http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Nihilism) from Uncyclopedia? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/30 "2007-03-19T04:09:43Z")
A few of mine from another thread/board: [link1](http://grapevine.com.au/~ash51/image/demov5.jpg) [link2](http://grapevine.com.au/~ash51/image/demov3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/31 "2007-03-19T04:32:41Z")
Why bother? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/32 "2007-03-19T05:08:23Z")
These are all [RPG (mostly D&D) related](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/) but still funny. Some could even be a more standard demotivational poster. I rather like [Chick Tracts](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/Chick.jpg), [Paranoia](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/clearance.jpg), [Gelatinous Cube](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/cube.jpg) (mostly the tag line), [Intelligent Discourse](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/discourse.jpg), [Fantasy Football](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/fantasyfootball.jpg) (I link to that one at the start of every football season), [Int](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/IntDump.jpg) (this is the Dope, after all, gotta get some political bashing in), [Ignorance](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/ignorance.jpg), [Leadership](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/leadership.jpg), and [The Rules](http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/therules.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/33 "2007-03-19T06:16:44Z")
[This one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/21711975@N00/426390054/) always kind of unmotivated me. They’d post it on my office door every time I pointed out that my boss’s plan was idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/34 "2007-03-19T06:36:49Z")
[Dieting](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/426409786_8ff3cb3229_o.jpg) I totally stole that pic from a Doper…but it’s a damn good pic (someone’s daughter shot it). ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/35 "2007-03-19T10:27:56Z")
[The Wisdom Of Age…](http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i298/middlecase/?action=view¤t=poster37478224.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/36 "2007-03-19T12:51:38Z")
I swiped **asterion** ’s Rules poster concept, and [made my own.](http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u273/ke3om/Funny/Rules_Catapault.jpg) ETA: The photo is over 1 MB; do not use dial-up to follow the link. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/37 "2007-03-19T19:18:40Z")
I made another! I can’t decide which is better: [Accountability 1](http://download-v5.streamload.com/4c732f54-6ce6-43cf-90da-ae624c7e37d6/teresareads/Hosted/Accountability.jpg) [Accountability 2](http://download-v5.streamload.com/4c732f54-6ce6-43cf-90da-ae624c7e37d6/teresareads/Hosted/Accountability%202.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/38 "2007-03-19T20:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] That’s my new wallpaper! [/QUOTE] (r.e. **feckafree** ’s Entropy) Me too! It’s uncannily appropriate given the state of my desk… ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476/39 "2007-03-20T02:29:11Z")
I didn’t create this one, but thought I’d post it considering the recent holiday… [St Patrick’s Day](http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2968/stpatricksdayjk5.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demotivational-posters-your-ideas/396476.md?page=1)