# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/141 "2024-02-13T15:05:44Z")
“We are the champions, my friends And we’ll keep on fighting 'til the end We are the champions We are the champions No time for losers 'Cause we are the champions of the world!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/142 "2024-02-13T15:27:52Z")
“I’m the best at what I do, and what I do ain’t pretty.” – The Wolverine ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/143 "2024-02-13T16:17:10Z")
Ahem. Post # 85. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/144 "2024-02-13T16:22:33Z")
What’s “Ahem. Post #85.” from? It doesn’t seem very inconic. Dammit! I should have read the thread more thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/145 "2024-02-13T16:39:36Z")
“I’m Mr. Bilbo Baggins, I’ve lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way.” From the 1977 Rankin-Bass movie And of course- “I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means … ME!” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/146 "2024-02-13T16:40:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > “I’m that same Davy Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half man, half alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle, can wade the MIssissippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of Lightning, slide down a honey locust and not get scratched…” [off-topic aside] My other favorite Davy Crockett quote (which wouldn’t play too well in a [current Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/852) 😁): “_You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas_.” [/off-topic aside] ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/147 "2024-02-13T19:45:55Z")
I’ll just leave this here… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7xEwbzEBw14/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGH8gEygpMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCyt7HeN-D2CkdTWPGL0tMKGQGrOg "CHUMBAWAMBA: Everything You Know is Wrong") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xEwbzEBw14) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/148 "2024-02-13T20:20:35Z")
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, we’re sure glad to be here in Kokomo tonight. We’re the good old… blues brothers… boys band from Chicago… sure hope you like our show . I’m Elwood, and this is my brother Jake.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/149 "2024-02-13T20:39:19Z")
_“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”_ – Muhammad Ali ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/150 "2024-02-13T20:47:19Z")
“Say my name.” “You’re Heisenberg.” “You’re goddamn right!” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/151 "2024-02-13T21:44:48Z")
_Neverending Story_: “Come for me, G’mork! I am Atreyu!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/152 "2024-02-13T22:41:57Z")
> [@Jack\_Burden](#): > > And of course- > “I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means … ME!” Although, “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor, and you shall not pass” is a bit more badass. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/153 "2024-02-13T23:01:40Z")
I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE. And I Bring You… ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/154 "2024-02-13T23:12:48Z")
“Hear me, X-Men! I am no longer the woman you knew! I am fire! I am life! Now and forever, I am Phoenix!” ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/155 "2024-02-13T23:15:13Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > The name of this band is … > > … The Talking Heads Aggghh! The whole point was No Article! Talking Heads. No “The”. :^) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/156 "2024-02-13T23:47:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > > [@Jack\_Burden](#): > > > > And of course- > > “I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means … ME!” > > Although, “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor, and you shall not pass” is a bit more badass. Undoubtedly. However my read of the OP is having the character actually introduce themselves by name and I’m limiting my submissions to that; clearly many other posters are reading it differently and I’ve enjoyed their submissions as well. So maybe also: “Gandalf the Grey? That was my name. **I** am Gandalf the White and I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/157 "2024-02-13T23:53:07Z")
“Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman, damn glad to meet you.” Gets a lot of mileage in my peer group ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/158 "2024-02-14T00:58:28Z")
> Many are my names in many countries: > Mithrandir among the Elves, > Tharkûn to the Dwarves; > Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, > in the South Incánus, > in the North Gandalf; > to the East I go not. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/159 "2024-02-14T01:03:14Z")
“I’m Buffy the Vampire Slayer - and you are?” https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7178143603825380650 ---
**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 14, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/160 "2024-02-14T01:34:39Z")
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