# Tell me about your big but...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 4, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623 "2003-02-04T01:09:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/21 "2003-02-04T13:30:05Z")
I’ve always wanted (and still do want) to be an actress. I was in a comedy troupe and was set to perform. I wanted to enjoy my youth as a cool artistic person going to clubs and seeing bands play. i want to be in movies. I should be working my ass off to do it now, BUT I came to Japan, got married, inherited 2 step children, and the combination of kids+non-english speaking country means my dreams have to wait.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/22 "2003-02-04T13:31:18Z")
Well…
I want to become a paleontologist **but** my marks aren’t good enough to get me into the course. I need an 80% average and I just found out my math sits at 53%. Also I don’t even know if they will accept my math course because whenever I try to call the registrars office I get a runaround on the machine, and my math is a substitute for math 30 which I cannot take because they changed the curriculum and I cannot take the ‘new math’ because I don’t have the prerequisites, nor the time to do them.
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/23 "2003-02-04T14:49:56Z")
I thought I’d be a journalist of some kind (as a back-up career) by now **but** I listened to the damned guidance counselors who advised me towards “something money-making”. All hope is not lost, however.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/24 "2003-02-04T14:51:43Z")
Off-topic, I know, but at the store last weekend, I saw Leinenkugel was offering a doppelbock, with a label showing two rams about to collide, named “Big Butt.”
Great name and a very good brew.
Carry on.
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### Author:  [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/25 "2003-02-04T15:05:17Z")
I always wanted to work in animation or graphic design, and even had a kick-ass scholarship lined up for a great school, _ **but** _ I was promoted from my part-time job to a full-time salaried position and decided not to go (I would have had to move to a diff. state).
I’m glad I didn’t though, as I would never have met my husband :😁:
I tried to post to this last night **but** my post got eaten. _Grrrr_
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### Author:  [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/26 "2003-02-04T16:42:46Z")
As a child I always expected to be an artist **BUT** when it came time for college, I chickened out. I didn’t think I had enough talent. I **do** , however, plan to be another Grandma Moses someday. Since she didn’t start till she was in her eighties, I figure I still have time to perfect my technique.
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/27 "2003-02-04T16:51:33Z")
My swim coach in highschool said I could have made it to the Olympics if I really felt like training for it, **BUT** the training pool was forty five minutes from home on the ‘bad side’ of Rochester so my mother refused to drive me there three times a week.
That…more than anything is the biggest regret of my life.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/28 "2003-02-05T00:30:19Z")
**FairyChatMom** – go for it! You can’t become a professional dancer, obviously, but there are beginning ballet classes for adults. I started taking tap when I was 33 – and am still at it, 15 years later. I just agreed to be in the spring show this year – something I haven’t done in 6 or 8 years. I totally lack any natural aptitude for it – but love it love it love it.
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### Author:  [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/29 "2003-02-05T01:20:39Z")
I wanted to grow up to play baseball for the San Francisco Giants and I worked hard at playing ball all day long _ **BUT** _ I’m a girl and Title IX didn’t exist when I was a kid and so there was no coaching and no teams that allowed girls. And then there’s the problem that, although I was great as an 8 year old, I was only average by the time I was 12.
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### Author:  [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/30 "2003-02-05T03:01:48Z")
DH and I decided we’d have 12 kids after we married **BUT** it turns out I couldn’t carry another baby to term **SO** we adopted and fostered and settled for 6 😃
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### Author:  [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-big-but/152623/31 "2003-02-05T03:19:33Z")
I almost got married BUT my boyfriend left SO that didnt happen.
I enjoyed playing the cello when I was younger BUT I do not have one any longer SO I cant make music.
I do not want to be a pillion anymore BUT I only have a helmet AND its snowing 😃
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