# Things you feel smug about. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669 "2002-12-10T01:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/41 "2002-12-10T19:56:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* > (slightly off topic:) > > **yosemitebabe** , how much does a good kiln cost? Just curious. I always did want to work with pottery or ceramics! > > (resume regularly scheduled topic) Give or take, about [$500 - $600 new](http://www.kickwheel.com/olympic.price.html). I’d recommend an electric kiln with an 11 1/4" x 9" interior or bigger. Good for most medium-small sized dinnerware and stuff. It’s the size I use most often. Used kilns are cheaper, and should work fine as well. Cress, Olympic and Paragon and good brands. (I favor Cress.) [Back to regular scheduled topic.) ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/42 "2002-12-10T20:00:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ol’Gaffer \* > \*\*Damn. See what I get for working this morning? > > So, **besides** never having seen _Titanic_, I am smug about my nicely shaped cranium which I keep freshly shaved so as to show it off. \*\* Once heard a great quote about this… “God only made a few perfect heads and on the rest he put hair.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/43 "2002-12-10T20:37:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ol’Gaffer \* > \*\*So, **besides** never having seen _Titanic_, I am smug about my nicely shaped cranium which I keep freshly shaved so as to show it off. \*\* Yeah, but you don’t understand. I’m really, _really_ smug about it. We’re talking total prick here. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/44 "2002-12-10T20:51:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > \*\*Yeah, but you don’t understand. I’m really, _really_ smug about it. We’re talking total prick here. \*\* So, do you have a t-shirt or something? Smugness of this magnitute deserves some recognition. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/45 "2002-12-10T20:55:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Washte \* > \*\*Once heard a great quote about this… “God only made a few perfect heads and on the rest he put hair.” > > 😃 \*\* That’s great! Now if only “God only made a few perfect backs/asses and on the rest he put hair” applied to me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/46 "2002-12-10T21:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Atreyu, regarding XJETGIRLX’s proof_ > \*\*Oh God. > > I think I’m in love. \*\* But alas, **Atreyu** , she’s married. And as I’m in the same city (Tallahassee) as She of the Off-Limits Cute-ness, I can feel your pain even more poignantly. 😉 [slight hijack] BTW, **Jetgirl** , did you do the drawings that are on your website? [/sh] Back to the t **OP** ic… Smug… I can play the piano – also having stuck with it from grade school (kudos to you, **Luka** ) – and majored in it, among other things, in college. FSU beat up on UF on the football field a week and a half ago – still feeling somewhat smug about that. Bragging rights in Tallahassee this year over those of the Gator-ly persuasion… And I can dance rather well, and have a good lead – in all sorts of partner dances (West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Cha-Cha, Two-Step, Hustle, etc. – swing, ballroom, country, various…) > [@](#): > > From **Kalhoun** > In 46 years, I have NEVER had a cavity. I’d be smugger if my teeth were straighter, but I guess you can’t have it all. Well, unless your father is a dentist, and he did your braces when you were in junior high, and since your brother followed in his footsteps, you won’t have the need for dental insurance for a long time. (by “your”, I of course mean “my”). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/47 "2002-12-10T21:30:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Monstre \* > \*\*[slight hijack] > BTW, **Jetgirl** , did you do the drawings that are on your website? > [/sh] > > And I can dance rather well, and have a good lead – in all sorts of partner dances (West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Cha-Cha, Two-Step, Hustle, etc. – swing, ballroom, country, various…) > \*\* First, let me start out with a hearty **Go Noles!** Yes, I did draw all the pictures on my site (the ones in the album, at least) And I’d say that the ability to dance well is definitely cause for smugness. I took cotillion for 4 years and I’m pretty happy with the results. Damn. I’m really not an arrogant cocky wanker, but I’m sure beginning to sound like it, thinking of all the things I could possible be smug about! Okay. I’ll cancel it out with something I am definitely not smug about: I’m quite incredibly horrid at math. There. I’ve said it. Now you can resume with your grinning and guffawing. ::curtseys:: Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/48 "2002-12-10T22:57:07Z")
Cool. Lots of crafty people around. The thing is I’m only 20 (which is why I said my age group) I know pretty much no one who has done any of that since home economics in junior high who is my age. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/49 "2002-12-10T22:59:55Z")
22 here. I know of exactly one other person my age (or close) that even knows how to sew! (I married him, btw!) ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/50 "2002-12-10T23:10:32Z")
I’m an old fogey of 28 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/51 "2002-12-10T23:57:16Z")
> [@](#): > > From **XJETGIRLX** > Okay. I’ll cancel it out with something I am definitely not smug about : I’m quite incredibly horrid at math. There. I’ve said it. Well, I’m good at math, but I’m totally inept when it comes to sewing… even a button… Perhaps we need a thread for “Things you couldn’t possibly even begin to feel smug about”. 😉 (BTW, I like the drawings, especially the one with the filename “wolfdraw”) ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/52 "2002-12-11T00:18:57Z")
I’m smug about my ability to pick hobbies up and do things as I go along. I always adapt recipes, design things myself, and I also sew (I’m 25). I used to show horses, so I sewed most of my show clothes. Major smugness when someone complimented my outfit and asked where I bought it. I’m also a bit smug in that I think I have a good sense of style, but maybe everyone’s just lying to me. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Trari\_de\_Reeson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Count\_Trari\_de\_Reeson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Trari_de_Reeson)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/53 "2002-12-11T01:04:54Z")
Well, my very first thread and it went to two pages. Now I really have something to feel smug about! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/54 "2002-12-11T03:05:10Z")
I used to be smug about the fact that I was one of those people whom everybody asked teir weird questions to and I always had the right answers. My smugness left when I came here, but people I know still ask me all of their questions and The Straight Dope just helps me answer more of them. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/55 "2002-12-11T03:09:59Z")
I also know how to sew,hand sew of course,Crochet,knit,cross-stitch, and plastic canvas. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/56 "2002-12-11T03:14:03Z")
I am thirteen years old, and I work hard in Advanced Communications (basically advanced English and Reading). I am known as MissDictionary by my classmates, because I can write, spell and speak at a college level. I read the Lord of the Rings in one week. I know I’m bragging, but isn’t that what feeling smug is all about? SideLight: If anybody was involved in the Witchblade message boards, I was on there. I dropped off suddenly, because the whole thing snowballed and I just didn’t care. Anyway, I posted as MissDictionary. Just thought you’d like to know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/57 "2002-12-11T03:17:07Z")
I was like that at your age too, believe it or not, alot of people hated me for some reason so I never got to brag. IThinkNot, are you in a gifted program at your school? ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/58 "2002-12-11T03:21:57Z")
Flowerchild: Yes. There’s Advanced Math, too, but I believe that hemisphere of my brain was destroyed to some extent as a child. 🙂 By the way, my Message Board Name comes from a joke I heard in Advanced Comm. Ready? Here we go: So Renee DesCartes walks into a bar. He orders a beer. He drinks it. The bartender says, “Would you like another, sir?” Renee DesCartes responds, “I think not.” And he promptly disappears! HA! I just LOVE that! ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/59 "2002-12-11T03:54:33Z")
I have no debt. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669/60 "2002-12-12T03:57:55Z")
I just got 96 percentile and 200 points on my PSATs. I also got a letter from Drake university that said “we are impressed by your exceptional abilities” or some such thing. I’m a sophomore in an inner city public high school, too. I’m smug about going to a good school like that, instead of the awful all-girls’ Catholic school I went to last year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-feel-smug-about/141669.md?page=4)