# When I grow up, I want to be ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168 "2005-10-21T00:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/1 "2005-10-21T00:15:54Z")
… [Brock Sampson](http://withatruck.ytmnd.com/). Would nail Batman, give Superman a good run. Who would you want to be? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/2 "2005-10-21T00:45:28Z")
I would want to be found in the correct Forum. Off to **IMHO**. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/3 "2005-10-21T01:17:15Z")
[Ina Claire](http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=13279&mod=bio). Sophisticated, talented, [pretty](http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00036164.HTML), bitchy, [chic](http://silentladies.com/BClaireI.html), [successful](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101290930,00.html), funny. I wear a "What Would Ina Claire Do? bracelet. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/4 "2005-10-21T01:39:57Z")
When I grow up I wanna be a G-man, And go Bang! Bang! Bang! I’ll be a great gangbustin’ heman And go Bang! Bang! Bang! I’ll put on disguises Of all different sizes And will I win prizes For tellin’ who spies is. Gee but I wanna be a G-man And go Bang! Bang! Bang! Old song, not mine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/5 "2005-10-21T02:28:20Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I would want to be found in the correct Forum. > > Off to **IMHO**. If this had been started here, I’d be moving it to MPSIMS right now. Maybe tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/6 "2005-10-21T02:57:31Z")
An astronaut! . . . _I haven’t let that one die just yet_. . . ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/7 "2005-10-21T05:55:51Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > If this had been started here, I’d be moving it to MPSIMS right now. Maybe tomorrow. Sounded like a poll to me, but I can never tell where the soft Fora begin and end. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/8 "2005-10-21T10:33:41Z")
Either Destro or Doctor Mindmender. (The good doctor is a mad scientist extraordinare and has that whole “Kaiser Wilhelm on steroids” look going for him; the Baroness is sleeping with Destro. Choices, choices…) ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/9 "2005-10-21T13:03:04Z")
Teddy Roosevelt. I’ve already got the moustache and a Krag carbine. ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/10 "2005-10-21T14:35:25Z")
a grilled cheese sandwich… same style, but the flavor changes from time to time loved the all- young and old american staple seems easy, but it’s perfection is elusive or, a food and wine taster… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/11 "2005-10-21T14:45:38Z")
It’s the thread that nobody wants! Sounds like Cafe Society to me now, what with **ilurvemom’s** existential poetry going on. 😛 I want to be RICH! I wanna be a Toys R Us kid! Hell, I don’t know–and old age is a-starting to creep up me withers here. (is that possible?) I’ll be in the casket thinking, dayum–I wish I coulda done X or Y etc… ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/12 "2005-10-21T14:57:08Z")
… able to do whatever I want, whenever I want. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/13 "2005-10-21T15:11:26Z")
…Financially Solvent (that’s if you ask me today - if you had asked me when I was a wee bairn my answer would have been) A Broadway DIVA (think Carol Channing, Barbara Cook, Chita Rivera et al) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/14 "2005-10-21T15:16:42Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > It’s the thread that nobody wants! Well, I’ve decided. This is definitely mundane and pointless. From IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/15 "2005-10-21T15:35:04Z")
I wanted to be a spaceman that’s what I wanted to be. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/16 "2005-10-21T15:40:38Z")
Eric Cartman. Scott Tenorman must die! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/17 "2005-10-21T21:31:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Eric Cartman. > > Scott Tenorman must die! Mmmm… Chili! Finger food! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be/327168/18 "2005-10-21T23:01:07Z")
[This](http://www.radiomelodic.de/cdcover/Hammerfall-ChapterV.jpg) [guy](http://www.hammerfall.net/downloads/wallpapers/hammerfall_wallpaper_1024_768_02.jpg)