# Everybody's a Maverick !! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411 "2008-10-31T12:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/21 "2008-10-31T19:01:58Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Interestingly enough, I heard a news story on the radio that the Maverick family has asked the McCain/Palin campaign to stop using the term Maverick, since the family supports Obama. > > Apparently the “original” Maverick was a rancher who refused to brand his cattle, so when other local ranchers found an unbranded stray among their herds, they called it a “Maverick.” I heard this interview on CNN as well. They’re a bit annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/22 "2008-10-31T22:26:40Z")
I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/23 "2008-11-01T00:28:41Z")
I’d like to think my congressman, a certain Mr. Kucinich, has more maverick in his little toe than John McCain has in his whole body. Not that I always agree with him, but at least he voted agin’ that godawful financial bailout. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/24 "2008-11-01T00:43:32Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Speaking of Oprah, Tom Cruise was ‘Maverick’. Does this mean we get to see McCain jump on the couch? ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/25 "2008-11-01T01:34:26Z")
I don’t want to be a maverick. I always thought Goose was cooler. Until he, you know, died. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/26 "2008-11-01T17:36:19Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I realize that the status quo is a bad thing. The status is not quo. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/27 "2008-11-01T17:45:22Z")
> [@WillSantini](#): > > Kind of the other way around, anytime Mr. Maverick “found” unmarked cattle, he took ownership. Seems like that would have worked better in reverse. If everyone else is branding their cattle, there wouldn’t be many unbranded strays that weren’t his, while all the other ranchers had to do was brand his stray to make it theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/28 "2008-11-02T07:00:52Z")
> [@Bean\_Counter](#): > > I always thought Goose was cooler. Until he, you know, died. Dude! Spoiler warning! Jesus! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/29 "2008-11-02T17:10:39Z")
There was a guy dressed as Maverick (the Tom Cruise version) at a Halloween party I was at. Very clever. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/30 "2008-11-02T17:16:36Z")
For the young’uns–[the titular Pepper commercial!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DWf-rSHn0) David Naughton was so cute back in the day… ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411/31 "2008-11-02T19:40:05Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > For the young’uns–[the titular Pepper commercial!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DWf-rSHn0) > > David Naughton was so cute back in the day… This thread makes quite a bit more sense now. Though good god, what a horrid commercial! If everyone is a maverick, then wouldn’t the few holdouts who aren’t calling themselves mavericks in fact be mavericks? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodys-a-maverick/470411.md?page=1)