# What, exactly is a Moonraker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 22, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025 "2001-03-22T17:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/21 "2014-10-06T19:16:12Z")
> [@Moon\_Raker](#): > > A moonraker was Quote "… um… if you’re going to use the quote symbol, you don’t have to say “Quote”… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/22 "2014-10-06T20:54:00Z")
But do you always go around the internet looking to say “And another thing…” in conversations that fell silent back when the Twin Towers were still standing? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/23 "2014-10-06T21:19:17Z")
Hey, cool, a zombie of one of mine! Thanks for the info, Moon Raker. ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/24 "2014-10-06T21:19:17Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > um… if you’re going to use the quote symbol, you don’t have to say “Quote”… And it’s bad form to not give credit (or cite) to who or what you are quoting. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/25 "2014-10-06T21:25:26Z")
> [@Moon\_Raker](#): > > Actually Bob,I’ve had the nickname since a young boy…I’m 60 now…Used to love night fishing and missed many morning school lessons or fell asleep during them,until I was caught on a “private” stretch of river by the bailiff with a net full of contraband…the judge called me a moonraker and it stuck…it was my call sign as a transporter and all my friends call me Moonie to this day…I’m now a retiring world travelled live Singer/muso with the same stage name…the judge recited the folklore to me during his summing up and my parents explained it’s meaning and why I wasn’t hanged 😃 What I meant, was that this seems to be your first foray into The Straight Dope, and I assumed that you must have found the query via a search engine. My father was, for a couple of years, a riparian landowner. He always complained that poachers caught a great many more fish than he ever had. ---
**Author:** ![rodjm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rodjm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rodjm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/26 "2015-11-28T08:22:24Z")
Moonraking means following crazy fancies.Gazing at the moon is connected to romance and crazy behaviour. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025/27 "2015-11-28T15:40:14Z")
Where are you? Why do you hide? Where is that moonlight trail that leads [to your side](http://www.perennials.com/plants/phygelius-rectus-moonraker.html)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-moonraker/59025.md?page=1)