# Iconic self-identifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446 "2024-02-12T01:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/221 "2024-02-16T23:23:03Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > [Gabriel](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I’m an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why. Well, that is creepy as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/222 "2024-02-16T23:31:16Z")
Well now, they often call me Speedoo… But my real name is Mr. Earl ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/223 "2024-02-16T23:39:40Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. And then there’s this, from _Bill The Galactic Hero_: “I am Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang and you will call me ‘Sir’ or ‘M’lord’.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/224 "2024-02-16T23:45:16Z")
“NOOO!!! You don’t have to call me Johnson! My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr. . . but you doesn’t hasta call me Johnson!” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/225 "2024-02-17T01:01:11Z")
(see post #206) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/226 "2024-02-17T01:01:52Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > [Gabriel](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I’m an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why. > > Well, that is creepy as fuck. One of my favorite movies, although it’s damaged by the sequels, which were terribly dissapointing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/227 "2024-02-17T01:16:26Z")
Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and taste I’ve been around for a long, long year Stole many a man’s soul and faith And I was 'round when Jesus Christ Had his moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate (Continue for three verses and four refrains until finally) As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/228 "2024-02-17T01:46:14Z")
From Collateral: I’m Vincent. > [@Kimstu](#): > > (see post #206) Yeah, but really, you can’t get too much of a good thing! 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/229 "2024-02-17T01:51:48Z")
“Revenge! The King under the Mountain is dead and where are his kin that dare seek revenge? Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his sons’ sons that dare approach me? I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, _strong,_ Thief in the Shadows!” he gloated. “My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath _death!”_ - Smaug, _The Hobbit_ ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/230 "2024-02-17T04:11:02Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Nenge! Nenge Mboko, from Cameroon? Do you remember me? It’s Lionel Joseph! 'Cause I’m a karate man! Alright? Karate man bruise on the inside! They don’t show they weaknesses. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/231 "2024-02-17T04:35:45Z")
^That was a good one! I’m Inga from Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/232 "2024-02-17T05:13:21Z")
Some people call me the Space Cowboy. Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/233 "2024-02-17T07:39:30Z")
“I am Subotai! Thief and archer. I am Hyrkanian. The Great Order of Kurlit.” “So what are you doing here?” "Dinner for wolf. " ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/234 "2024-02-17T07:45:01Z")
I’m Henry the Eighth I am, I am. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/235 "2024-02-17T08:37:47Z")
_I get up at seven and I go to work at nine I got no time for livin’ cause I’m working all the time It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am I guess that’s why they call me the working man They call me the working man I guess that’s what I am_ ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/236 "2024-02-17T11:12:24Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “I am Groot.” I am Steve Rogers. [![](https://y.yarn.co/a4c2e961-3d4b-4c4d-956a-c9f5ea8817cd_text.gif) ](https://y.yarn.co/a4c2e961-3d4b-4c4d-956a-c9f5ea8817cd_text.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/237 "2024-02-17T13:46:39Z")
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/238 "2024-02-17T16:08:04Z")
Ooh! Good one! ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/239 "2024-02-17T22:16:20Z")
“My name is Mud.” ---
**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:** [February 18, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/240 "2024-02-18T16:31:11Z")
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