# Resolved, SDMB should discourage use of “star-bellied sneetch” **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408 "2023-08-11T14:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/1 "2023-08-11T14:25:20Z")
This time of division and polarization must end. In my youth, I was a baseball. We must move forward, not backward, upwards, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! I’m so tired of Dopers always saying this elitist term. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/2 "2023-08-11T14:29:18Z")
I’d like to see that go further, excluding all celestial bodies and breakfast cereal marshmallow shapes on sneetch bellies from derision. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/3 "2023-08-11T14:58:49Z")
Resolved, no further usage of the word, “resolved,” unless you’re [cleaning your carpet](https://www.google.com/search?q=resolve+carpet+cleaner&sca_esv=555929706&ei=N0zWZO39HrWrqtsPuY2qYA&oq=resolve&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiB3Jlc29sdmUqAggHMgoQABiKBRixAxhDMgoQABiKBRixAxhDMggQABiABBixAzINEAAYigUYsQMYgwEYQzIHEAAYigUYQzILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEyBRAAGIAEMggQABiABBixAzIIEAAYgAQYsQMyERAuGIoFGLEDGIMBGMcBGK8BSLs1UIsOWIsOcAF4AZABAJgBXqABXqoBATG4AQHIAQD4AQHCAgoQABhHGNYEGLADwgIKEAAYigUYsAMYQ-IDBBgAIEGIBgGQBgo&sclient=gws-wiz-serp). ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/4 "2023-08-11T15:08:40Z")
Funny seeing this now. I just posted yesterday my very first reference to sneetches since childhood, while riffing off the idea of a “cat convertor”. > [@What is this creature crawling on my utility meter at 5:00 this morning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature-crawling-on-my-utility-meter-at-5-00-this-morning/988100/73): > > Now I’m imagining some Dr. Seuss contraption, like the machine that put the stars on the bellies of the sneeches. There’s a long line of cats going in and dogs coming out. Of course, just like with the sneeches, there was a machine to remove the stars. A long line of dogs going in and cats coming out! Now I see the OP. I didn’t realize I was walking so close to the line! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/5 "2023-08-11T15:22:26Z")
Okay then: Snerks Snicks Snallas Skeeters Slathers Smikes Scooby Thelma & SpongeBob (RIP) Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/6 "2023-08-11T15:43:32Z")
I actually didn’t read your thread or post. I’m going to assume it was innocent and _that you are now better informed_. I’d forgotten about the machines. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/7 "2023-08-11T15:44:40Z")
Skittles? Sufferin’ succotash. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/8 "2023-08-11T15:47:26Z")
I’m tired of the stereotype that sneeches only like to live by the shore and greedily buy up all coastal property. “Sneeches get beaches” is just untrue. They like mountains, plains, lakes, all kinds of terrain. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/9 "2023-08-11T15:50:54Z")
Now, really? Don’t put words in my mouth. I never said that S-word! I would never use that in polite society. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/10 "2023-08-11T15:54:52Z")
Apparently, the mushrooms they grow up in Canada are particularly effective. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/11 "2023-08-11T15:58:11Z")
It’s the Australian ones you have to watch out for these days. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/12 "2023-08-11T16:04:59Z")
#uponthars ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/13 "2023-08-11T16:08:15Z")
Do they bite? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/14 "2023-08-11T16:33:24Z")
No. You just have to jump on them with both feet. Or throw a turtle shell at one, but that has its own problems. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/15 "2023-08-11T16:43:05Z")
There’s a somewhat popular TikTok poster who talks about his experiences working at the front desk at a hotel that’s part of a chain. He uses the term Star-Bellied Sneetch, along with a hand gesture like a star, to describe customers who are in the chain’s loyalty program and ask for, nay, **demand** , special treatment. One of his posts described how he was looking for a term that captures their attitude when he came across SBS. I think it fits perfectly and is quite humorous in its use. Of course I know the OP is kidding, unless @Dr_Paprika is actually a (dum-dum-dum) SBS! ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/16 "2023-08-11T16:44:07Z")
Sneetches get steetches. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/17 "2023-08-11T16:45:30Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > In my youth, I was a baseball. In my youth, we worked hard to hit guys like you out of the yard. And we didn’t cotton to no _belly itchers_, either! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/18 "2023-08-11T18:45:51Z")
We want your _peeches_, not _star-bellied sneetches_… Unless you’re moving out to Georgia… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/19 "2023-08-11T19:23:07Z")
And you’re gonna eat a lot of _peeches_. As long as they don’t have a rubber arm. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408/20 "2023-08-11T20:09:35Z")
Moderating: This thread appears to have been started for the sole purpose of mocking another poster’s ATMB thread. Let’s not do this. This thread is closed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408.md?page=2)