# Nothing is Unique **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033 "2003-05-28T15:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [May 31, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/41 "2003-05-31T00:15:05Z")
b.t.w. Fermat’s last theorem is x[sup]n[/sup] + y[sup]n[/sup]= z[sup]n[/sup] has no non zero integer solutions for n\>2. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/42 "2003-05-31T05:56:31Z")
The Delorean. They only ever made one type of those… unless you count the one in Back to the Future. All the rest of them looked exactly alike; there were no other options. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/43 "2003-05-31T06:26:57Z")
Lot’s of living things. there is only one panda. Only one duck-billed platypus. Only one ginkgo. The list is endless in this category. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/44 "2003-06-01T19:04:50Z")
Doesn’t bode well for the longevity of their species, does it? 😉 ---
**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:** [June 1, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/45 "2003-06-01T21:41:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*:smack: And hey, we’ve missed the TRULY obvious one: The Universe. By definition, there’s only one of those, because there isn’t anything else, and it contains all of the other allegedly non-unique things. \*\* Sorry, dude. [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000](http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000) ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/46 "2003-06-02T01:11:31Z")
I was sent into a momentary depression when I realized that no thought I will ever have will be unique. Someone’s thought just about everything. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/47 "2003-06-02T03:02:07Z")
[A. Whitney Brown] Just remember: Even if you _are_ a one in a million kind of guy… In a world of 6 billion people, that means there’s 6,000 guys exactly like you. That’s the big picture. [/A. Whitney Brown] ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/48 "2003-06-02T11:00:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CRorex \* > \*\*Dunno that baboon I saw running around throwing rock and masturbating at the same time was pretty damn unique. \*\* Goddamned baboons get to have all the fun… I say we elect that one President. Jacking off while slagging an opponent? That’s the definition of politics. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/49 "2003-06-02T14:22:11Z")
I know about Parallel Universes. For one, it’s a THEORY. Secondly, this universe is still unique unless the other ones are like it - which case it’s not much of a parallel universe. Thirdly, there’s still the thing all the parallel universes are part of. 😉 I saw a commercial with a joke like that A. Whitney Brown one: "If you’re a one-in-a-million guy, there’s 1000 people in China just like you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/50 "2003-06-02T22:18:19Z")
Hey!? A. Whitney Brown is unique! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/51 "2003-06-02T23:02:07Z")
My stone with a hole in it is unique. The phrase “Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.” is unique (thank you Stephen Fry) The universe is unique. Seems to me that you have merely softened the definition of _unique_ - we could just as easily go the other way and say that _everything object is unique_ because whatever object we examine, it is the only one in the entire universe that is exactly _that_ object. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/52 "2003-06-02T23:04:19Z")
[(Link that works)](http://www.eat-it.freeserve.co.uk/stuff/Thing.jpg), and of course I mean ‘_every object is unique_’, as opposed to the above gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/53 "2003-06-03T00:13:52Z")
i thought the OP meant something like not being able to find just ‘coffee’ anymore, but you have mocca, expresso, decaffeinated etc… ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/54 "2003-06-03T12:43:34Z")
Yeah, that’s what I thought as well. Since everything the OP was thinking of have some variety he wanted to know of things that were completely the same. To find something with no uniqueness, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033/55 "2003-06-03T13:34:35Z")
Tibet. That is a unique place filled with unique people. Heck, no one else has a Dalai Lama and everything that he stands for… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-is-unique/178033.md?page=2)