# Things you'd never admit in public
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 4, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619 "2000-04-04T18:07:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/1 "2000-04-05T05:31:00Z")
Hi, everyone.
My name’s Claudia.
And I like Hanson.
There, I said it. I just think they have really catchy tunes and I kind of like that little one’s voice.
I feel better now.
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### Author:  [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/2 "2000-04-04T18:07:00Z")
Hi, I’m Brooke, and until Friday, I watched 90210 every day. Including the weekends. Even episodes I’d already seen. I just moved, and purposefully didn’t get cable.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/3 "2000-04-04T18:12:00Z")
I still love the Macarena; I never got tired of hearing it, even when it was on the radio all the time.
(Claudia, you poor soul, that ought to take some of the heat off you!)
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“Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.” - Marx
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### Author:  [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/4 "2000-04-04T18:17:00Z")
My name is Sarah and I like…Barry Manilow.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/5 "2000-04-04T18:18:00Z")
Hi, I’m Big and I read romance novels.
So what they’re trashy and have no literary value, I love that it’s all about the woman. Her sensual needs. Her emotional needs. In these books the heroine is a goddess and all men fall to their knees in her presence.
Hail to me! I am Woman! Fulfill all my needs!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled message board.
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/6 "2000-04-04T18:19:00Z")
I like watching ballroom dance competitions on PBS.
\< blush \>
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### Author:  [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/7 "2000-04-04T18:23:00Z")
Nothing I would say here that I wouldn’t admit in public but if you’re digging for some dirt…
## I actually enjoyed watching the Pokemon movie on Sunday. I think it was called “The Creation of MewTwo” or something like that. It was complete shit, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Just make yourself comfy while I shoot nuclear particles into your heart.
(Courtesy of Wally)
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### Author:  [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/8 "2000-04-04T18:25:00Z")
I think Pauly Shore is the funniest person in the world…and a close second is Adam Sandler.
WOW…this confession stuff sure makes you feel better. 😃
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Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/9 "2000-04-04T18:31:00Z")
I like bad movies. Not crappy movies, like “Jurassic park: the lost script, so we had to use whatever we found lying around” and “the green miles and miles of going nowhere while tom hanks emotes” that you’re supposed to like.
No, I like really, truly bad movies. Like Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, where you can see the zipper in the Godzilla suit, and you can see the wires hanging King Ghidorah from the roof. I enjoyed Manos: The Hands Of Fate. I liked Airplane! and Airplane II, dammit.
And “Godzilla 1998: Attack of the overpaid CG artists” was quite possibly the crappiest movie ever. I hated that one.
But cheesiness reigns. Bad theater is Good.
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## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes
Joe Cool
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### Author:  [@curious\_george](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious_george)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/10 "2000-04-04T18:32:00Z")
I watch the Disney Channel and The Nashville Network. I read magazines at Barnes & Noble but never buy any. Hope they don’t catch me.
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/11 "2000-04-04T18:59:00Z")
I read the Clive Cussler “Dirk Pitt” novels.
Uh… wait! Actually, I’m a house-sitter, using Rick’s account. Yeah, that’s it.
Whew. Close one.
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/12 "2000-04-04T19:03:00Z")
## I love Archie Comics. Especially Betty and Veronica – Jughead, not so much. I buy “Betty and Veronica’s Double Digest” every month at the grocery store and pretend its for my (non-existent) kid.
Jodi
_Fiat Justitia_
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### Author:  [@quadell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quadell)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/13 "2000-04-04T19:13:00Z")
I read the comic Rose Is Rose. _blush_
Your Quadell
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### Author:  [@I.M.Kierkegaard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.M.Kierkegaard)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/14 "2000-04-04T19:17:00Z")
Hi, I’m Dan and I’ve been known to spend hours watching reruns of the 197x World’s Strongest Man competitions on ESPN and ESPN2… for no apparent reason whatsoever.
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–I am Soren Kierkegaard.–
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
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### Author:  [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/15 "2000-04-04T19:19:00Z")
Hi, I’m Lucretia, and I…
on occasion…
will…
watchJerrySpringer. :o
You’re right, Ankins, I do feel better.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/16 "2000-04-04T19:27:00Z")
There is a long dead thread along these same lines where I admitted to liking a Celine Dion song.(and no, I am not going to try and dredge it up again. We all have secrets we need to let die.)
I have to join I.M.Kierkegaard in the shameless watching of oft-repeated World’s Strongest Man competitions. Oh for the days of Jon-Pall Sigmarsson’s reign.
Throw in Australian Rules Football and we’ve got ourselves a party.
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We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place.
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/17 "2000-04-04T20:09:00Z")
When home sick, I watch every single trashy talk show that comes down the pike. From Jenny to Ricki, Springer to Sally. All of em. And Divorce Court. And Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown! And on the weekends, I watch the food channel - for the entire day both days. And yes, I write down the recipies.
No, I don’t feel better. Now I’m just embarassed that everyone here knows what a shallow, anal retentive idiot I am. As if I haven’t proved THAT already…
:::mutters to self, walks away:::
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### Author:  [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/18 "2000-04-04T20:15:00Z")
I have a mad crush on Van Morrison and John Lydon (FKA Johnny Rotten). And not just from when they were in the '70s and really hot, I mean currently, I’d do either of them, despite the fact that I think they’ve both gone insane.
Also, I think Fry from Futurama is really, really hot.
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“I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman
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### Author:  [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/19 "2000-04-04T20:22:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by I.M.Kierkegaard:
> \*\*Hi, I’m Dan and I’ve been known to spend hours watching reruns of the 197x World’s Strongest Man competitions on ESPN and ESPN2… for no apparent reason whatsoever.
> \*\*
Can anyone beat Magnus Vir Magnussen?
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### Author:  [@I.M.Kierkegaard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.M.Kierkegaard)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-never-admit-in-public/15619/20 "2000-04-04T20:31:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by KarmaComa:
> \*\* Can anyone beat Magnus Vir Magnussen?\*\*
Perhaps Magnus Samuelson… or Magnus Simpson… or Magnus Clinton… or Magnus… well, you get the idea. You automatically have a huge head start in the Strong Man if your first name is Magnus.
Perhaps we’ll need a World’s Strongest Man Addicts thread someday!
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–I am Soren Kierkegaard.–
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
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