# Iconic self-identifications

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**Created:** [February 12, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446 "2024-02-12T01:06:09Z")\
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**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")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> “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]

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