# Of What Would You be the Patron Saint?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206 "2017-12-11T16:04:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/1 "2017-12-11T16:04:24Z")
So let’s say you’re being canonized by the Church (posthumously, of course). Of what do you think you would be the patron saint ? And what would you LIKE to be patron saint of? And what miracles would you perform to get the honor?
I’d probably be made the patron saint of glory. But I’d like to be the patron of proper grammar and syntax. My miracle would be causing all the internet posting in the world to be reasonable and well-informed for a full day.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/2 "2017-12-11T16:09:31Z")
Monster movies
Especially the King Kong/Beast from 20,000 Fathoms/ Godzilla variety where its a big galumphing thing destroying a city.
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/3 "2017-12-11T16:31:30Z")
Spare Tires. Of both the rubber and stomach kind.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/4 "2017-12-11T16:33:30Z")
Subject-Verb Agreement
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/5 "2017-12-11T16:33:35Z")
Patron Saint of Muddling Through.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/6 "2017-12-11T17:09:26Z")
I’m a mercurial fellow…
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/7 "2017-12-11T17:12:01Z")
Patron Saints
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### Author:  [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/8 "2017-12-11T17:12:44Z")
Recommendation Letters. My miracles would be getting really wonderful kids with weaker applications into schools that were good matches.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/9 "2017-12-11T17:16:08Z")
Procrastination.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/10 "2017-12-11T17:17:15Z")
Nail biters.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/11 "2017-12-11T17:19:12Z")
Could it be voodoo instead of catholic? (pretty much the same idea)
We were in NOLA, checking out a voodoo shop. At the time I had a cannabis garden that my gf found impressive. She purchased a statue of an agricultural woman who would help me with my gardening. It was $5 extra for a blessing.
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### Author:  [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/12 "2017-12-11T17:19:34Z")
Inertia
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/13 "2017-12-11T17:25:25Z")
The Patron Saint of Really Bad Timing.
As in, you go though life, doing the right things, for the right reasons, and then Life repeatedly kicks you square in the nuts for your trouble(s), as if to say, “Well, then, fuck you; didn’t anyone tell you that Nice Guys finish last?”
Is that a thing? Or is it just Monday?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/14 "2017-12-11T17:45:17Z")
Patron saint of:
- terrible singing
- having a song for everything
- ballad meter
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/15 "2017-12-11T17:47:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Subject-Verb Agreement
Parallel Series
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/16 "2017-12-11T17:48:52Z")
I would be St. Indolensus, the patron saint of not doing any more than you really have to.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/17 "2017-12-11T18:47:12Z")
For that your name would have to actually be Indolensus.
I’d like to either steal the crews of nuclear-powered ships (in any medium) from my own naming patron, or join my birth-day patron in protecting wiseasses and protecting other people from being wiseassed to death. If we’re going to be serious, I’d like to be one of the patrons of communication, with emphasis in avoiding _mis_communications.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/18 "2017-12-11T19:55:37Z")
Patron Saint of Metal, which is great because that’s what I’d want to be patron saint of. And my miracles would all involve helping things to totally fucking rock!
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/19 "2017-12-11T20:10:48Z")
Whining.
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### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-what-would-you-be-the-patron-saint/804206/20 "2017-12-11T20:17:37Z")
Patron saint of laziness. I’d actually be okay with that.
Don’t really feel like doing any miracles though.
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