# Simon Sez?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813 "2000-02-28T16:35:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Buck\_Naked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Buck\_Naked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Naked)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813/1 "2000-02-28T16:35:00Z")

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Who is the Simon refered to in the childrens game Simon Says?

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I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here.

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**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813/2 "2000-02-28T16:38:00Z")

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Simon Bar Sinister ?

It’s not plane,nor bird, nor even frog …

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A point in every direction is like no point at all

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**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813/3 "2000-02-28T17:40:00Z")

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When Polly’s in trouble, I am not slow…

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_…send lawyers, guns, and money…_

```
       Warren Zevon
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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813/4 "2000-02-29T06:08:00Z")

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“Bar sinister”. Ugh! One of the great UL’s of all time.

You can’t have a “bar sinister”. A “bar” is a thin stripe going from one side of the shield to the other. “A thin stripe going from one side of the shield to the other on the left” is just nonsense.

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John W. Kennedy  
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”  
– Charles Williams

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simon-sez/7813/5 "2000-02-29T06:46:00Z")

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It’s up, up, up!  
And away I go!

I think Simon Bar Sinister was Jewish, his father’s name being Sinister.

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Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.