# "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:** 9\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/161 "2009-02-28T17:20:06Z")
irrelevant mourned by none subject of a Oompa-Loompa song ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/162 "2009-02-28T17:50:42Z")
“Had to change his identity…” “Disfigured” And having an illness or a law named after you. That’s never a good sign. ---
**Author:** ![TJVM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@TJVM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJVM)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/163 "2009-02-28T19:20:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > **Common-law wife** is a phrase you never hear about, say, the longtime companion (in a heterosexual way) of the local symphony director. That’s the one I came in to say. There’s nothing technically wrong with being a common-law wife, but it always seems to be mentioned on the news in an unsavory context, as in “…being sought for questioning in connection with the slaying of his common-law wife.” ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/164 "2009-02-28T20:21:07Z")
“Kennedy cousin” or “member of the Kennedy clan” other bad words to see in an obit: unrepentant shameless gratuitous hapless effete recalcitrant purveyor of adult novelties silly grotesquery carnival legend fey campy foppish aspiring stand up comedian Youtube legend ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/165 "2009-02-28T20:24:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Lovecraftian” batrachian eldritch gibbous ineffable ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/166 "2009-02-28T22:59:46Z")
“…before turning the gun on himself.” ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/167 "2009-03-01T07:09:39Z")
“the Lollipop Guild held a parade for the assassin of\” ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/168 "2009-03-01T07:56:38Z")
“survived by…” ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293/169 "2009-03-01T07:58:09Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > subject of a Oompa-Loompa song 😃 😃 😃 Yes, that is a terrible way to be described posthumously. That and any limerick that starts with “There once was a…” There should be a thread where people write Oompa-Loompa songs about themselves. There aren’t enough of them in this world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/known-to-police-and-other-ways-you-dont-want-to-be-described/486293.md?page=8)