# What's your all purpose, ass covering disclaimer in answering SDMB questions?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 19, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318 "2006-09-19T19:58:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/1 "2006-09-19T19:58:37Z")
I liked[this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=388750) disclaimer by Caffine.addict who CYA’s himself with this classic.
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> \*I am not your lawyer, you are not my client, I don’t know you, You don’t know me. I am not licensed in your state. See a lawyer for legal advice. I am just making a WAG about your scenario. This post is for entertainment purposes only, I could be a monkey with access to a keyboard. Don’t take legal advice given over the Internet"
[Here’s the one](http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=84930) I used when giving advice about hacking the Motorola RAZR cell phone on a portable phone forum.
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> You can possibly nuke your phone if you do this wrong, so proceed at your own risk. No warranties expressed or implied - Free advice is worth what it cost you
What’s your disclaimer?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/2 "2006-09-19T20:26:04Z")
“Does this disclaimer make my ass look fat?”
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/3 "2006-09-19T20:28:31Z")
“Take into account that I’m drunk.”
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/4 "2006-09-19T20:31:52Z")
“Sometimes I intentionally mislead people for fun, however what I’d do is…”
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### Author:  [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/5 "2006-09-19T21:13:36Z")
I don’t tend to use a disclaimer much myself, but my favorite observed disclaimer is from the editorial page of _Modern Drunkard Magazine:_
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> Views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Modern Drunkard staff or publisher. In fact, I would like to take this opportunity to deny everything. Your Honor, I was never even near the place and, what’s more, those are not my trousers and those are most assuredly not my friends. They are merely a drunken and surly gang of hitchhikers I made the terrible, terrible mistake of giving a lift. I promise to be good. Really. I swear.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/6 "2006-09-19T21:30:09Z")
> [@mrklutz](#):
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> I don’t tend to use a disclaimer much myself, but my favorite observed disclaimer is from the editorial page of _Modern Drunkard Magazine:_
Nice to see another MDM reader around.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/7 "2006-09-19T22:01:37Z")
My disclaimer is now my sig line.
Roddy
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/8 "2006-09-19T22:04:25Z")
> [@Roderick Femm](#):
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> My disclaimer is now my sig line.
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> Roddy
Which I see on preview but not after posting (I don’t know why, I see other people’s sig lines), so in case you can’t see it either, here it is:
“Have you ever done this sort of thing?”
“Never.”
“You have no idea, then, how best to begin?”
“Why, I may have formed some ideas on the subject, but as I have never submitted them to the test of experience, I should be sorry if you were induced to regulate your proceedings by them.”
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/9 "2006-09-20T00:03:26Z")
“Herr Doktor puts the mad in mad scientist. Advice given by him may violate the laws of your area or the laws of physics. Herr Doktor is never wrong, but he may have been thinking of a parallel universe when he answered your question. In conclusion, damage due to use of abnormal brains is the sole liability of Shegor.”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/10 "2006-09-20T01:53:01Z")
Ymmv :d
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/11 "2006-09-20T02:28:57Z")
This advise is worth exactly how much you paid for it.
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/12 "2006-09-20T02:32:01Z")
“This advise is worth exactly how much you paid for it.”
Spelling expertise extra.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/13 "2006-09-20T02:44:47Z")
“I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about, but pretending for the sake of argument that I do…”
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/14 "2006-09-20T02:49:12Z")
Unless specifically stated otherwise, all numbers are rectally derived.
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### Author:  [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/15 "2006-09-20T03:15:18Z")
“I should not speak so boldly were it my due to be believed.”
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### Author:  [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/16 "2006-09-20T03:22:05Z")
“–but, of course, I’m one of those ‘total dipsticks’ you’ve heard about.”
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### Author:  [@MrDantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDantastic)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/17 "2006-09-20T03:51:11Z")
I’m only half as stupid as a look.
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### Author:  [@MrDantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDantastic)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/18 "2006-09-20T03:52:24Z")
Bah, that would be “I’m only half as stupid as _I_ look.”
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/19 "2006-09-20T03:58:29Z")
You sure?
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-purpose-ass-covering-disclaimer-in-answering-sdmb-questions/373318/20 "2006-09-20T04:30:42Z")
I actually had the opportunity to post a disclaimer [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7792279&postcount=22).
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