# If I didn't start this thread, there wouldn't be one yet. What is your inane phrase of the Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673 "2012-08-06T23:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/41 "2012-08-08T13:20:46Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Why is it that you always find something in the last place that you looked? > > Probably because once you find it you stop looking. Okay, this objection always bugged me. It’s not saying the tautology “the final place I looked is where it was.” It’s saying “out of all the locations I chose to search, it was in the one at the bottom of the list.” I.E. The last POTENTIAL place to look. At least that’s what I mean when I say it. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/42 "2012-08-08T16:39:07Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Why is it that you always find something in the last place that you looked? > > Probably because once you find it you stop looking. If things always are in the last place you look, why don’t people just \*look there first? \*Doh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/43 "2012-08-08T19:02:34Z")
My grandma, bless her heart, said a great one that I will never forget. We were talking about an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast. Her response: “Yeah, but who can eat all that?” My response: “Well, _I_ can eat all that I can eat.” mmm ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/44 "2012-08-08T21:33:28Z")
The Texas Chili Parlor in Austin had a sign that read “Don’t you feel more like you do now than when you got here?” Mostly I’m posting to display my sig. For those who have disabled sigs, it says “What if it was something totally different than what it is?” which was posted in GD long ago by **minty green** in response to another poster’s escalating series of “but what if?” scenarios. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/45 "2012-08-09T01:42:18Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > “It is what it is.” > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > This expression enrages me. I’m not even sure why. Eh, whatcha gonna do? It is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/46 "2012-08-09T04:53:27Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Eh, whatcha gonna do? It is what it is. Autolycus, you have a keen grasp of the obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/47 "2012-08-09T04:59:04Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Autolycus, you have a keen grasp of the obvious. Well, you know what they say, boys will be boys. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/48 "2012-08-09T05:03:41Z")
Yeah, with that and a quarter you can buy a cup of coffee. (an admittedly obsolete inanity) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/49 "2012-08-09T05:05:10Z")
“How are you today?” “Well I’m alright, I can’t complain.” “Yeah, you know it wouldn’t do you any good anyway!” (_followed by big guffaws of laughter)_ Ugh. Yet another example of how smalltalk makes me want to put a bullet in my skull sometimes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/50 "2012-08-09T05:50:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yea, it never is what it isn’t. This conversation reminds me of non-duality. In this view there is no distinction between this and that, subject and object. There is only subject. So a thing literally is what it ain’t. And that’s why I say: Do what you cannot. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/51 "2012-08-09T06:06:58Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Do what you cannot. How? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/52 "2012-08-09T06:12:59Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > How? Just do it. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/53 "2012-08-09T14:15:40Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I still want to take “New Normal” out back and give it a good beating. New Normal sucks, because if it didn’t, I wouldn’t be saying it did. Sign on Huey’s Department Store, long ago in Urbana Illinois: “This is the place cuz there’s no other place jes’ like it!” ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/54 "2012-08-09T16:32:12Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > This conversation reminds me of non-duality. In this view there is no distinction between this and that, subject and object. There is only subject. So a thing literally is what it ain’t. And that’s why I say: > > Do what you cannot. “There’s more than the eye can see here.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/55 "2012-08-09T16:33:48Z")
There are none so blind as those who will not see. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-didnt-start-this-thread-there-wouldnt-be-one-yet-what-is-your-inane-phrase-of-the-day/630673/56 "2012-08-13T01:49:18Z")
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