# What's the first line in your autobiography?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 26, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576 "2000-05-26T03:51:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/1 "2000-05-26T03:51:33Z")
Being that no matter how hard I fight upstream. To think differently. Walk to a different tune, it is no use. One day, my children will run on the green grass of a soccer feild, and I will have become a soccer mom.
Inspiring the opening lines of my soon to be released autobiography, " My Life In A Nutshell." (Coma Books, $24.95)
_"On September 5th, 2006, I became a cliche._ I didn’t mean it to happen. It just did and it didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would. Giving up a slice of my personal identity to become another mindless drone was not the world wide event that I thought it would be when I was younger and more self absorbed than I am right now."
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/2 "2000-05-26T11:09:08Z")
I fully expect such hacks like Ike, Eve, Milossarian and Wally to be checking in on this. I know it’s only 7am, I know the java hasn’t kicked in yet, but dammit, I thought this was a fun thread title.
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### Author:  [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/3 "2000-05-26T11:10:42Z")
“Call me Ishmael.”
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### Author:  [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/4 "2000-05-26T11:46:25Z")
“I was born naked and started out as a child.”
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/5 "2000-05-26T11:52:16Z")
I thought it was normal to take a liking to small, oiled up farm animals, but it turns out that it is viewed as a rather unacceptable practice in public places. Thus, my story begins.
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### Author:  [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/6 "2000-05-26T11:56:01Z")
“Unfortunately, I made my first mistake shortly after birth, when I survived my childhood diseases.”
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### Author:  [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/7 "2000-05-26T12:01:47Z")
“I was born a poor black child.”
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/8 "2000-05-26T12:03:01Z")
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> I thought it was normal to take a liking to small, oiled up farm animals, but it turns out that it is viewed as a rather unacceptable practice in public places. Thus, my story begins.
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David Copperfield meets the local deviate. I like it.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/9 "2000-05-26T12:04:34Z")
“No matter how long I begged and explained it was all a joke that got slightly out of hand, they would not let me off the hook. It sure took the fun away from my otherwise flawless Salman Rushdie impersonation. How the heel was I supposed to know that Iranian Customs Officers have no sense of humour?”
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### Author:  [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/10 "2000-05-26T12:17:18Z")
What a cruel joke it is that God plays on us. I am sure that the happiest years I shall ever experiance were my earliest, and I am equally sure that the likelyhood of that pure, unbridled enthusiam for living recurring at some point in my later years is quite low. So I shall begin at a time when magic was palpable in the air, the monkeybars were my Everest, and a creamsicle was my manna.
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### Author:  [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/11 "2000-05-26T12:17:49Z")
Having been blessed with a good memory I am able to remember some of the earliest days of my life.
The very first thing that I can remember is swimming around with a bunch of friends. Swimming kind of aimlessly (after all it was dark) and hearing this male voice say, “I promise I won’t…”
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### Author:  [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/12 "2000-05-26T12:23:59Z")
It all began with a scream, the scream of terror from my mother let me know that from this day forward, the challenge was out, red feather head had been challenged to wreak havoc…
not bad… 37 years later I’m still at it.
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/13 "2000-05-26T13:24:53Z")
“What hath God wrought?”
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/14 "2000-05-26T13:30:55Z")
“I’ve got a weird middle name. But I’ll tell you all about that in Chapter Two…”
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### Author:  [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/15 "2000-05-26T13:33:05Z")
I was born on a cold and rainy morning in October of 1973. I’m still waiting for something else interesting to happen.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/16 "2000-05-26T13:33:40Z")
It really is just mind over matter. The biodoctors have been able to duplicate my feat, but only with the most openminded individuals. Let me relate to you my first three hundred years. If you listen carefully perhaps you too can attain immortality.
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### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/17 "2000-05-26T13:45:02Z")
I guess my first inkling was when I was kidnapped. They cut off my finger and sent it. When my Dad demanded more proof, I began to suspect that I was an unwanted child. I guess I should have realized it earlier. My Mom wouldn’t breast feed me because she said she needed the milk for the cats.
I was never very popular as I was growing up, although in high school a pretty girl phoned me once. She said, “Come on over. Nobody’s home.”
When I got there, no one was home. I still wonder about that.
I met the Surgeon General once. He offered me a cigarette. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I didn’t vote for him.
Then I met Wanda…
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### Author:  [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/18 "2000-05-26T14:38:28Z")
I have been told by my mother, who I consider to be a reliable witness, that I was born on the twenty-fourth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy three. I was preceded into this world by two brothers - neither of whom are truly worth the time it takes to mention them. Virgil was the eldest, however, and was six years my senior. Agamemnon preceded me by three years. Mother was nothing if not regular.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/19 "2000-05-26T14:46:23Z")
"Well, you’ve obviously got the book or we wouldn’t be having this discussion. I don’t know why you have it but I’ll wager you didn’t pay for it. My guess is that it was a gift from a cheap friend who stole it from a second rate bookstore in one of the seedier parts of town. Probably for your birtday, people always give cheaper gifts for birthdays than they do for Christmas. In any case, I won’t be making my car payment on time again this month.
Since you’re here anyway and _I_ certainly have nothing better to do (and no money to do it with, thanks to your larcenous friend), sit down a while and we’ll talk about me."
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-line-in-your-autobiography/20576/20 "2000-05-26T14:47:09Z")
My mother always wondered where she went wrong with me. I suspect it was in February, 1942. I was born in November that same year.
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