# To Inspire People Anonymously: Would You?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 15, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-inspire-people-anonymously-would-you/668925 "2013-09-15T19:32:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-inspire-people-anonymously-would-you/668925/21 "2013-09-18T04:40:44Z")

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_Foghorn Leghorn voice_ “It was a joke, son.”

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-inspire-people-anonymously-would-you/668925/22 "2013-09-18T06:48:21Z")

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I’m not sure if the model of anonymous inspiration posited by the OP would be very satisfying for the recipient.

But I’m on board with anonymously inspiring (or gratifying) people as a general concept - it’s something I already sometimes do in small, mostly trivial ways - for example, [this](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/st/content/beadmen)and [this](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/st/content/reed_corn_dolly).

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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-inspire-people-anonymously-would-you/668925/23 "2013-09-18T13:12:38Z")

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What’s a corn dolly?

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-inspire-people-anonymously-would-you/668925/24 "2013-09-19T14:54:50Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> I see a lot of room for manipulation, to be honest. As in, “Love the new hedge! Call Bob’s Lawn Maintenance”, in a more subte and nuanced way, of course, but you see my point. I hope.

Def. The first thing I’d expect to see is :“Don’t listen to the 'Pubs, Obama! You and Michelle are doing FAN-TAS-TIC!”

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