# Poll: What do you want to be remembered for in years to come? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 14, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709 "2004-12-14T01:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/21 "2004-12-15T19:27:00Z")
I’d like to be remembered for having been funny and making people laugh. If not, then I’ll use **Catalyst** ’s answer. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/22 "2004-12-15T20:10:17Z")
No one’s gonna remember my _Movieline_ column—it’s long past even wrapping fish. But I hope in 20, 40, years from now some kid finds one of my books at a dusty old bookstore and discovers old movies or theater through it—that’s how it happened with me. I was in the library of the Phila. College of Art, and they had all these books by and about silent movie stars, and I was _hooked_. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/23 "2004-12-16T06:49:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Not dying. I don’t remember who said it…“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.”. Woody Allen, maybe? I’d like to be remembered as “that thouroughly decent, tall, dark, charismatic, witty, creative, humanitarian, obscenely well-endowed rich guy…you know, what’s-his-name…?” The fact that none of it’s actually true should have nothing to do with it. Seriously, as a decent human being. That’s the only legacy I really give a crap about. ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/24 "2004-12-16T08:04:54Z")
I don’t want to be remembered. I want to be thought of right now. ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/25 "2004-12-16T10:34:50Z")
As the a–hole who won the largest publishers clearing house prize in history…lol…No just as a good man, husband, and father ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/26 "2004-12-17T01:37:40Z")
By having women want me, and men want to be me. Of course, I’ll end up with having men want me, and women want to be me, but that’s acceptable too, since I’ll be dead and all. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709/27 "2004-12-17T02:08:56Z")
“Women loved him and not just for the fact that he was fabulously wealthy!” 🙂 OK, I guess my aim mostly is, if people think of me and say “He was a nice man.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-for-in-years-to-come/279709.md?page=1)