# Squib? FUCKING SQUIB!?!?!??!!?!?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 23, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766 "2007-10-23T22:39:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/101 "2007-10-24T23:41:14Z")

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Culture is like marmalade. The less you have, the more you have to spread it.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/102 "2007-10-25T05:46:00Z")

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3 pages, and I still don’t get why you’d try to buy electronics from a library supplies company.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/103 "2007-10-25T05:59:33Z")

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[QUOTE=VCO3]  
If my last name was Gaylord, I wouldn’t open “Gaylord Electronics.”  
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No, but you might start a rather successful [publishing and entertainment business](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Entertainment_Company).

😉

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/104 "2007-10-26T01:38:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Sapo]  
Culture is like marmalade. The less you have, the more you have to spread it.  
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I thought culture was like legs. To be spread as often as needed.

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**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/105 "2007-10-26T01:42:49Z")

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Funny thing, apropos of nothing. When I walked out of my office today I noticed that the suite of offices right next door to mine belonged to “Bristol-Meyers Squibb”.

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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/106 "2007-10-26T03:57:15Z")

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I somewhat agree with the spirit of the OP.

There’s a prominent car dealer around here named ‘‘Jim Raper’’

I mean, come on.

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/107 "2007-10-26T05:20:36Z")

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**VCO3** , are you familiar with the concept of “branding”? How about “name recognition”? Or, if neither of those, how about “perspective”?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/108 "2007-10-26T19:39:00Z")

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I was going to change my name to Stokely, but you’ve convinced me. Squibb it is.

Idiot.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/109 "2007-10-26T20:26:40Z")

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[Squibb Carmichael?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Ture_(Stokely_Carmichael))😉

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/110 "2007-10-26T21:25:08Z")

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[QUOTE=FaerieBeth]  
Both! Didn’t you read the title…Squib fucking Squib.  
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…The brain bleach is getting billed to _your_ account. (It probably exists now, too. Rule 34.)

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**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:** [October 27, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squib-fucking-squib/423766/111 "2007-10-27T02:39:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Kythereia]  
…The brain bleach is getting billed to _your_ account. (It probably exists now, too. Rule 34.)  
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Once I get my [anal bleaching](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=436744&highlight=bleaching) taken care of, brain bleaching is next on the list.

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