# If life gives you lemons...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 24, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931 "2004-06-24T02:27:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/261 "2004-06-28T19:27:08Z")

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It’s about shooting as many baddies as possible.  
I’m a little teapot…

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/262 "2004-06-28T20:11:50Z")

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…at least, that’s what the voices in my head tell me.  
So this is Christmas…

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/263 "2004-06-28T20:29:24Z")

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> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> So this is Christmas…

…where are my bloody presents???

The best things in life are …

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**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/264 "2004-06-28T20:31:57Z")

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…too damn expensive

Like a…

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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/265 "2004-06-28T21:39:45Z")

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> [@flamingbananas](#):
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> Like a…

…Ike. Eisenhower’s posthumous bid for candidacy.

Jesus wants me for…

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/266 "2004-06-28T22:10:17Z")

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> [@nocturnal\_tick](#):
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> Jesus wants me for…

… the staring role in “Death of Mel Gibson”

A real man is hard to …

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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/267 "2004-06-28T22:25:43Z")

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> [@Bippy the Beardless](#):
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> A real man is hard to …

…lift because he’s all heavy and the sweat is making it slippery work.  
Death is just a natural part of…

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/268 "2004-06-28T22:39:54Z")

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> [@](#):
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> **Nocturnal\_Tick** _said:_
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> Death is just a natural part of…

…being shot in the face with a shotgun.  
WARNING: Objects in mirror may…

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/269 "2004-06-28T22:49:53Z")

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> [@verbenabeast](#):
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> …being shot in the face with a shotgun.  
> WARNING: Objects in mirror may…

…be uglier than first imagined.  
Talk is cheap…

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/270 "2004-06-28T22:50:26Z")

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…look ugly, if they’re you.  
If I had a dollar for every time…

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/271 "2004-06-28T22:52:29Z")

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Dammit!

> [@vunderbob](#):
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> Talk is cheap…

Unless you’re on 1-900-SEX-CHAT.  
If I had a dollar for every time…

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/272 "2004-06-28T23:18:27Z")

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… someone simuposted on the SDMB, I’d be a billionare.

(Just a thought to go with the OP question  
If life gives you lemons and a banana then you’re a boy, if it gives you mellons then you’re a girl.)

There once was an ugly …

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/273 "2004-06-29T01:41:11Z")

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> [@Bippy the Beardless](#):
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> There once was an ugly …

Doper. He had an idea for a thread entitled “If life gives you lemons…”  
Ich bin eine…

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**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/274 "2004-06-29T01:55:05Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> Doper. He had an idea for a thread entitled “If life gives you lemons…”  
> Ich bin eine…

Berlinen! (sp?)

When all else fails…,

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/275 "2004-06-29T03:15:05Z")

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> [@Ryle Dup](#):
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> When all else fails…,

…  
do a search on the Straight Dope.

Hear no evil, see no evil…

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/276 "2004-06-29T12:44:11Z")

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> [@Dragwyr](#):
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> …  
> do a search on the Straight Dope.
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> Hear no evil, see no evil…

but do evil often.

Let not your heart be troubled…

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/277 "2004-06-29T15:23:09Z")

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. . .take your digitalis.  
Jack fell down and . . .

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/278 "2004-06-29T15:51:17Z")

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Jack fell down and . . .

He can’t get up!

Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers…

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/279 "2004-06-29T16:26:00Z")

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. . . fondled their foreskins.  
And Jill came . . .

(I’m really not trying to make this thread obscene. Honest!)

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-gives-you-lemons/251931/280 "2004-06-29T16:42:32Z")

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> [@BJMoose](#):
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> . . . fondled their foreskins.  
> And Jill came . . .
> 
> (I’m really not trying to make this thread obscene. Honest!)

and filed a lawsuit against those idiots who decided to build the well uphill.

Who’s been sleeping in my…

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