# Phrases you don't really want associated with your name... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509 "2014-02-28T11:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/61 "2014-03-03T20:21:58Z")
[ul] [li]Shunned by humanity[/li][li]An embarrassment to all sentient species[/li][li]Incompatible with the entirety of Earth’s biosphere. [/li][li]They managed to crawl into his sinus cavities before laying their burrowing larvae[/li][li]Clumsy wood chipper operator[/li][li]Noxious fumes from every hole[/li][li]Mistook the spiral cut carrot slicer for a pneumatic penis enlarger[/li][li]Autopsy was disgusting, yet humorous in a slapstick sort of way.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/62 "2014-03-03T23:44:17Z")
“Bullet-riddled corpse” “Twice-convicted” “raging alcoholic” “despot” “fugitive” “gunman” ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/63 "2014-03-08T02:00:28Z")
[Many of these](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/27/the-outlook-list-of-things-we-do-not-say/?hpid=z1) are quite appropriate for this thread, certain phrases you really wouldn’t associated with your name. A few examples that work: “Ignominious end” “Eye-popping” “Unlikely revolutionary” “On thin ice” “Little noticed” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/64 "2014-03-08T02:13:47Z")
torn asunder shot to ribbons run through a wood chipper ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/65 "2014-03-08T02:30:30Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > “Bullet-riddled corpse” > > “Twice-convicted” > > “raging alcoholic” > > “despot” > > “fugitive” > > “gunman” More than one of these applies to me. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/66 "2014-03-10T18:31:16Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > More than one of these applies to me. Maybe we should start a “how many of these apply to you?” thread. I’ve been called infamous. Also “deposed”. It’s true in the legal sense, although I’m not sure that’s how it was (incorrectly) meant. Deposed Impeached Indicted Convicted ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/67 "2014-03-11T02:00:08Z")
…claimed he resigned in order to spend more time with his family… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/68 "2014-03-11T02:56:55Z")
…drugs were ineffective… …ward of the State… …the previously-unknown syndrome was named after him… …home invasion… …transfer was refused… ---
**Author:** ![Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tall_Nordic_Slobby)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/69 "2014-03-11T06:11:59Z")
…the formerly female, then formerly male… “…from N. IL” Geriatric pole dancer from Decorah squirrel fetish man A failed Village People impersonator with acne and a lisp …who married a horse… smegma dude ---
**Author:** ![waynemcdougall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@waynemcdougall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waynemcdougall)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/70 "2014-03-11T09:30:09Z")
Infamously flatulent ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/71 "2014-03-11T11:31:30Z")
Two based on real incidents I dealt with on my job. At least my job is not boring. I personally took the 9-1-1 call for the first incident. […his scrotum was torn from his testicles…](http://www.caymannewsservice.com/crime/2014/03/10/no-jail-testicle-assault) […forcing the Delta Air Lines aircraft to make an emergency landing…](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/delta-caymanislands-idUSL2N0M71OF20140310) ---
**Author:** ![bppubjr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@bppubjr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bppubjr)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/72 "2014-03-11T17:50:41Z")
“…before turning the gun on himself.” ---
**Author:** ![MrSBaldrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@MrSBaldrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSBaldrick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/73 "2014-03-11T23:58:07Z")
Chair of the local chapter of the Man/Boy Love Association … attached to the milking machine for 8 hours ---
**Author:** ![Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tall_Nordic_Slobby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/74 "2014-03-12T04:26:08Z")
manhunt APB Swat team Black Friday victim Friend of Bieber and Cyrus Worms got him Pee Wee Found inside shark When the snow finally melted New Fox anchor ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/75 "2014-03-12T05:03:34Z")
who, according to the coroner, was likely conscious when Darwin Award the first known fatality associated with wrongly convicted is being extradited to Nigeria on charges of was widely disliked to be served consecutively ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/76 "2014-03-12T05:47:44Z")
…of the machine manufacturer stated that they had never believed it possible for someone to remain conscious inside… …embarrassing, yet strangely hilarious… …swore that 'the hippo had a pleased… …credit-card number was posted to over… …personal electronics were searched and seized under a special… …clot, he could not explain… …at the end, over 75 parasites… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/77 "2014-03-12T14:08:24Z")
White House insider In addition, I prefer not to have any laws or diseases named for me ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/78 "2014-03-12T14:17:02Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > “surprisingly tasty” “tastes like chicken” ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/79 "2014-03-13T05:43:07Z")
“…was ejected from the vehicle” Ew. You know that’s bad news. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-dont-really-want-associated-with-your-name/682509/80 "2014-03-13T06:11:20Z")
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