# Exercise: Describe Yourself in 20 Words or Less

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 13, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334 "2001-02-13T18:40:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/41 "2001-02-14T05:04:47Z")

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Silly cheerful serious megalomaniac innocently perverse lunatic anarchist feminist with delusious of grandeur and dreams of possible pragmatic implementation scenarios.

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**Author:** ![Hiro\_Protagonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hiro\_Protagonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiro_Protagonist)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/42 "2001-02-14T05:25:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by eponymous \*  
> \*\* To make this even more interesting, go ahead and “psychoanalyze” or “deconstruct” me. I’d be curious to see your responses.
> 
> Former military officer; book, movie, and travel-loving dysthymic; brown-haired, brown-eyed, divorced, male Ohio community college geography instructor from West Virginia.  
> \*\*

ahem. well since you asked…

\*\* Former military officer \*\* \<–never made it past O-3 and couldn’t hack it.

\*\* book, movie, and travel-loving dysthymic; \*\* \<–book, movie, and travel-loving psuedo-manic depressive hypochondriac with access to too much information.

\*\* brown-haired, brown-eyed, divorced, male Ohio community college geography instructor from West Virginia. \*\* \<–gay.

As for me, the fewest words yet:

I am Forrest Gump’s evil twin.  
fourteenth utterly despicable post and still counting.

P.S. If you mistake my facetiousness for rudeness, you are probably right. But lighten up. 😛

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/43 "2001-02-14T05:29:16Z")

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A riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a vest.

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**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/44 "2001-02-14T05:34:00Z")

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Teenaged girl-loving college student of the North with short stature, glasses, ridiculously curly hair and sense of high irony.

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/45 "2001-02-14T05:39:28Z")

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Short, bibliophile, with a dark side, rampant sex drive, father and husband before all else. Also loves all things Medieval.

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**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/46 "2001-02-14T05:59:09Z")

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15-year-old computer programmer from Oregon. Obsessed with…sex (of course), SDMB (one word?) and shameless self-promotion ([_cough_](http://www.stas.net/kinkajoy/))

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**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/47 "2001-02-14T06:31:02Z")

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24, overweight, beautiful, whimsical, intelligent, hypersensitive, autodidactic, mood-driven woman with impressive vocabulary and my whole life ahead of me.

Perfect.

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**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/48 "2001-02-14T07:53:28Z")

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21, big, virtuous, boisterous, happy, energetic, thoughtful, sensitive, charming, obsessive, intelligent, sexual female

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**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/49 "2001-02-14T08:02:09Z")

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I am 23, smarter than I appear (probably); insanely ambitious perfectionist brain-surgeon-astronaut-lawyer-superhero who loves pink carnations.

Too many hyphens?

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**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/50 "2001-02-14T08:34:48Z")

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I am a…

quiet, inhumanly bizarre engineering student who loves music, cats, and listening to people and who cares more than he should.  
There, 20 words if you don’t count the lead in… and a complete sentence if you do 🙂

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**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/51 "2001-02-14T08:58:44Z")

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33-male-engineer-concert production manager-intelligent-witty-6’1-dark hair-hazel eyes-happily married-wouldn’t mind a flirt or two…

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**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/52 "2001-02-14T09:00:51Z")

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You see I am not a native English speaker, so I felt no guilt in just listing unrelated words and phrases instead of writing a camplete sentence.  
(BTW my explanation sentence is 27 words, so i am a hopeless case 🙂 )

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**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/53 "2001-02-14T10:33:35Z")

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Tall, Filipino, White, charmer, with interest in languages and writing systems, likes men, drawing, tattoos, and flashy but stylish clothes.

Ha! 20 exactly

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/54 "2001-02-14T13:30:00Z")

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Strange but harmless American white male living in London, happily married, thirty-three years old, interested in music, reading, cats, and felching puppies.

Damn…23 words…

Okay, just leave off the last three words, then.

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**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/55 "2001-02-14T14:29:27Z")

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\*Originally posted by Hiro Protagonist \*

> [@](#):
>
> \*\* Former military officer \*\* \<–never made it past O-3 and couldn’t hack it.
> 
> \*\* book, movie, and travel-loving dysthymic; \*\* \<–book, movie, and travel-loving psuedo-manic depressive hypochondriac with access to too much information.
> 
> \*\* brown-haired, brown-eyed, divorced, male Ohio community college geography instructor from West Virginia. \*\* \<–gay.

ROTFL! 🙂

> [@](#):
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> As for me, the fewest words yet:
> 
> I am Forrest Gump’s evil twin.

“Life is like a box of chocolate’s…”  
::_cue Psycho shower scence music_:: DIE! DIE!

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/56 "2001-02-14T14:39:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by eponymous \*
> 
> > [@](#):
> >
> > As for me, the fewest words yet:  
> > I am Forrest Gump’s evil twin.
> 
> “Life is like a box of chocolate’s…”  
> ::_cue Psycho shower scence music_:: DIE! DIE!  
> \*\*

No, no – “_Coeds_ are like a box of chocolates – there’s always this pink gooey stuff inside…”

or

“Psycho is as psycho does, Mother always says. Isn’t that right, Mother?..”

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**Author:** ![Saturn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Saturn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/57 "2001-02-16T07:26:19Z")

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**20 words…20 words…hmmm…** Nope. Sorry eponymous, I’m just too complex for that! 😉

**Wait, let me try…**

Blonde dyed red-haired, blue-eyed, petite, intelligent, funny, good-looking, female studying computers and infatuated with eponymous’ butt.

_snickers_

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**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/58 "2001-02-16T08:50:39Z")

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Shiftless, skinny bald poem writer, little use for small talk (read shy), pool fanatic who smokes way too many cigarettes.

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**Author:** ![Eohippus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Eohippus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eohippus)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/59 "2001-02-16T12:58:41Z")

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Married father of 3, 48, brown / blue, love the outdoors, former archaeologist, current businessman,always traveling, always daydreaming, never satisfied.

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**Author:** ![eirroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@eirroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eirroc)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-describe-yourself-in-20-words-or-less/54334/60 "2001-02-16T14:33:14Z")

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31yr old 5ft6 redhead, blue eye, brown eye, unfit, loves to laugh, loves computers, hates british winters, loves her kids.

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