# "Known To Police" and other ways you DON'T want to be described **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293 "2009-02-17T17:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/61 "2009-02-18T14:16:38Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Nah, I could live with that one. 🙂 > > It involves a bit more money than "very quiet, “kept herself to herself” _seemed_ pleasant enough … :eek: Fair enough Paris. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/62 "2009-02-18T15:23:50Z")
“Has stepped down (or resigned) for personal reasons.” This one always reeks so strongly of suspicion of some egregious wrongdoing. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/63 "2009-02-18T15:30:04Z")
I commented to a new friend the other day "I think that cop saw us. We’re now ‘ **known associates** ’. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/64 "2009-02-18T15:49:39Z")
Subject of several fatwa’s ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/65 "2009-02-18T15:52:19Z")
I don’t want to be an “aspiring” anything or a “serial” anything, or an “embattled” anything. Or a “television personality.” ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/66 "2009-02-18T16:42:22Z")
Public Official “A” ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/67 "2009-02-18T21:08:19Z")
Was seen on Dr. Phil (Maury, et al) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/68 "2009-02-18T21:16:10Z")
Multiple. Multiple what? Doesn’t matter. As Terry Pratchett says, nothing good ever comes after “multiple.” Stab wounds, sclerosis, personality disorder, trauma, … ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/69 "2009-02-18T21:17:48Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Multiple. Multiple what? Doesn’t matter. > > As Terry Pratchett says, nothing good ever comes after “multiple.” Stab wounds, sclerosis, personality disorder, trauma, … …orgasms? ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/70 "2009-02-18T21:17:48Z")
“Once promising” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/71 "2009-02-18T21:30:57Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I don’t want to be … an “embattled” anything. … This was mine. I’ve been counting the “embattleds” in the news lately. I saw Lyle Lovett last weekend, and he told about the time his friend and cello player John Hagan were mentioned in the news. Lovett was reported to have been “seen in the back seat of his car with _male companion_ John Hagan.” Lyle smiled that crooked grin of his and shrugged, “hey we were just going somewhere in the car!” ---
**Author:** ![Alastair\_Moonsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Alastair\_Moonsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alastair_Moonsong)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/72 "2009-02-18T21:32:34Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > “Plagued by recent financial difficulties” > > “Perennial third party candidate” > > “ **An erratic genius** ” > > A personal favourite, from an obituary thread I read many years ago: “One of the foremost courtroom nuisances of his time”. Hey! That’s something I ASPIRE to, thank you very much! Either “erratic genius” or “eccentric genius”, whichever scares the neighbors more! 😃 My contribution: “Deposed ruler of…” ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/73 "2009-02-18T21:37:47Z")
You also never want to see your name and “Jaws of Life” in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/74 "2009-02-18T22:35:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > …orgasms? I dunno… I wouldn’t want to be _known_ for that. It would have to be my secret. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/75 "2009-02-18T22:37:47Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > This was mine. I’ve been counting the “embattleds” in the news lately. Quit now. You’ll go insane. ---
**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 18, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/76 "2009-02-18T22:38:47Z")
“Highly radioactive” or “aflame” would be bad. “Consensual cannibal” “Eunuch” ---
**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 18, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/77 "2009-02-18T23:01:54Z")
Quoth **Alastair Moonsong** : > [@](#): > > Hey! That’s something I ASPIRE to, thank you very much! Either “erratic genius” or “eccentric genius”, whichever scares the neighbors more! Amen to that. I’ve been carefully cultivating a reputation as “eccentric” for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/78 "2009-02-19T00:19:02Z")
“Eccentric” means “crazy, but rich.” I could handle “known radical.” I’m probably on file somewhere as a “known associate of crime figures.” I guess I can’t escape that. “Iconoclast” is something I’ve worked to be all my life. “Local man mauled by dogs?” No thanks. “Dies after high-speed chase” ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/79 "2009-02-19T00:26:30Z")
“Resigned to spend more time with his family” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/80 "2009-02-19T01:58:59Z")
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