# Puzzle - what you're not.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 1, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484 "2008-08-01T13:19:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/21 "2008-08-03T02:31:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Scarlett67]

I am Spartacus!

[/QUOTE]

No,

_I’m_ Spartacus!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/22 "2008-08-03T02:53:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Cisco]  
You’re on the right track. I think I nailed it in post #11.  
[/QUOTE]

I have a hard time seeing how Sigmund Freud fits that solution.

“Dammit, I’m a doctor, not a…er…different kind of doctor!”

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/23 "2008-08-03T04:18:17Z")

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I Am

That I Am. Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/24 "2008-08-03T04:26:13Z")

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I am

what I yam. I’m Popeye the sailor man!

Clearly, this riddle plays on a certain stock genre of riddles. Shall we let them in on the conventions of that framework?

And by “we”, I mean those who actually know. **Cisco**? **jali**?.. Sissy Spacek’s onscreen father?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/25 "2008-08-03T05:02:52Z")

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[Chief Wiggum] We need more information. [/CW]

It’s creeping up on two days since the OP posted. I’m not posting here again until he gives the answer or a clue, and I suggest others take the same stance, or it’ll be another “14 gpf in a k” thing.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/26 "2008-08-03T11:48:55Z")

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btw - wtf _is_ the answer to 14 **g f p** in a **k**?

\<gd&r\>

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/27 "2008-08-03T18:38:17Z")

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I am [spoiler]I said. To no one there. And on one heard at all.

Not even the chair.[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/28 "2008-08-03T22:52:42Z")

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I am not an animal! I am a human being! I… am… a man!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/29 "2008-08-03T23:50:57Z")

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I am

not a number! I am a free man!

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/30 "2008-08-03T23:52:53Z")

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I am

I said. To no one there.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/31 "2008-08-04T01:27:32Z")

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I am

not a human being, I am an animal!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/32 "2008-08-04T01:40:38Z")

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I am not a crook!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/33 "2008-08-04T02:32:08Z")

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You are… Mary Queen of Scots?

[spoiler]I am!

[sounds of crashing, pounding, general mayhem, etc.]  
[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/34 "2008-08-04T02:58:49Z")

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I am…Two Four Six Oh OneBeyond that, I have no idea.

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/35 "2008-08-04T03:02:08Z")

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I am…

Legend

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/36 "2008-08-04T11:19:37Z")

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I am Sam, Sam I am.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/37 "2008-08-04T20:47:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]  
It’s creeping up on two days since the OP posted. I’m not posting here again until he gives the answer or a clue, and I suggest others take the same stance, or it’ll be another “14 gpf in a k” thing.  
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A clue, Bryan?

Mtgman is about half way there. Follow his line of reasoning and see where it takes you.

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/38 "2008-08-04T21:10:09Z")

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Oh, shit, I just got **Cisco** ’s solution. “I’m a doctor, not a(n)…”

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/39 "2008-08-04T21:36:32Z")

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]  
I am

I said. To no one there.

[/QUOTE]  
Actually, you are too late on that one. 😛

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzle-what-youre-not/458484/40 "2008-08-04T22:24:37Z")

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Seeburger seems incredibly specific. Business Integration Software? That’s got to be relevant.

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