# The stealth-bragging thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488 "2010-07-21T17:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/61 "2010-07-24T04:30:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m sorry to hear that you have to do physical labor to make a living. Thanks, but it’s really not so bad. I mostly just hate to waste the athletic skills fate has entrusted to me, so I donate my salary to charity and live off of the income from my life saving medical patents. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/62 "2010-07-24T06:57:49Z")
Though I myself have cured several forms of cancer, I decided that I should not earn a living through the illnesses and mishaps of others. Still, one does what one must. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/63 "2010-07-24T18:01:47Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > > I’m sorry to hear that you have to do physical labor to make a living. > > Thanks, but it’s really not so bad. I mostly just hate to waste the athletic skills fate has entrusted to me, so I donate my salary to charity and live off of the income from my life saving medical patents. Life-saving, dear. Or lifesaving, if you must. Perhaps you should save enough money from your NBA career to invest in a spell-checker, hm? Some of us, of course, were blessed with enough brainpower to not need them, but the little people deserve good spelling too. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/64 "2010-07-24T20:19:44Z")
The Most Interesting Man in the World called me up today asking for advice, and I had to finally tell him to pay up the previous invoices or I’m going to have to cut him off. The nerve of some people! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/65 "2010-07-25T03:46:20Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Life-saving, dear. Or lifesaving, if you must. Perhaps you should save enough money from your NBA career to invest in a spell-checker, hm? You’re very kind, but I did mean life saving, in the mundane sense of “saving lives.” Only five of my patents actually have anything to do with aquatic rescue. Is that not correct stylistically? I beg your forgiveness, as English is my sixth language. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/66 "2010-07-25T07:06:48Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > Life-saving, dear. Or lifesaving, if you must. Perhaps you should save enough money from your NBA career to invest in a spell-checker, hm? > > You’re very kind, but I did mean life saving, in the mundane sense of “saving lives.” Only five of my patents actually have anything to do with aquatic rescue. Is that not correct stylistically? I beg your forgiveness, as English is my sixth language. Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/67 "2010-07-25T07:44:04Z")
[quote=“Malacandra, post:66, topic:547488”] > [@pravnik](#): > > Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/68 "2010-07-25T12:43:41Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > [@pravnik](#): > > > > > > Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/69 "2010-07-25T13:00:47Z")
I was such a poor student in high school that my GPA was only 1/1000th of my SAT score. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/70 "2010-07-25T13:52:33Z")
One day I will tell you all about laying those Siamese twins who played the trumpet. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/71 "2010-07-25T15:45:44Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > One day I will tell you all about laying those Siamese twins who played the trumpet. It was a trombone, and they were triplets…did they not tell you…? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/72 "2010-07-25T17:03:48Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > > > [@pravnik](#): > > > > > > > > Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. > > > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. > > And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: That just means he speaks British too. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/73 "2010-07-25T17:15:19Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > > > > > [@pravnik](#): > > > > > > > > > > Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. > > > > > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. > > > > And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: > > That just means he speaks British too. That is the most nested quotes I’ve seen since I designed that designed that messageboard software from scratch on that computer I built from things in my kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/74 "2010-07-25T18:45:55Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. > > > > And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: > > That just means he speaks British too. Well, sadly not. You see, being fluent in British - though I mention this purely as a matter of fact; _boasting_ about it, over here, would be seen as deplorably gauche - I’m in a position to call you on your… sharing of the earlier poster’s creativity. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/75 "2010-07-25T19:08:29Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > > [@descamisado](#): > > > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. > > > > > > And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: > > > > That just means he speaks British too. > > Well, sadly not. You see, being fluent in British - though I mention this purely as a matter of fact; _boasting_ about it, over here, would be seen as deplorably gauche - I’m in a position to call you on your… sharing of the earlier poster’s creativity. :dubious: Obviously you are not familiar with the specific dialect of British written on a tiny island just South of Japan where I spent three years hunting whales with my bear hands. (Yes, bear hands. Not bare hands. BEAR hands.) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/76 "2010-07-26T02:15:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > > [@descamisado](#): > > > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > > > > > > [@Malacandra](#): > > > > > > > > > > > [@pravnik](#): > > > > > > > > > > > > Now there’s something enviable! It must be so convenient to be able to count how many languages you can speak. > > > > > > > > > > Oh, you have to count? How unfourtunate. I can just say that I speak them all. > > > > > > And yet you spell “unfortunate” rather… _creatively_, and code like someone’s granny. :dubious: > > > > That just means he speaks British too. > > That is the most nested quotes I’ve seen since I designed that designed that messageboard software from scratch on that computer I built from things in my kitchen. A long time ago I developed the “edit” function, and I mention it here only because you could probably have used it to delete (ah, “delete,” another of my favorite creations!) one of the “designed that” phrases in your post. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488/77 "2010-07-26T17:28:38Z")
At the beginning of the year I resolved to be a better person, so I am not going to brag about myself. Honest. Though it really limits my topics of conversation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stealth-bragging-thread/547488.md?page=3)