# Your Patron Saint Designation by . . . Swimming Riddles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536 "2000-04-27T12:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/161 "2000-05-03T22:16:17Z")
(Sung in the voice of the White Rabbit) I’m late, I’m late To a very important date No time to say hello, goodbye Please SwimmingRiddles, make me a saint! And not the patron saint who can’t quite rhyme, please. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/162 "2000-05-03T23:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Bless us, St. wierddave: Patron Saint of Wierdness. (oooh, lucky…) That’s perfect! How did you know? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/163 "2000-05-03T23:23:27Z")
Swiddles, dear, Who is the Patron St. of spelling. Have you designated one yet? You kinda need to. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/164 "2000-05-04T00:07:11Z")
you know, wierddave, you are asking to be demoted to Patron Saint of Crackers. But I fear you are correct. While my grammar is quite good, my spelling sucks. Never been a priority, what with spell checks everywhere. Everywhere but on this board. Bless us, St. Spiny Norman: Patron Saint of Danes who are Not Hamlet or the Scarlet Pimpernel, Patron Saint of Cool Independant Record Labels, and Patron Saint of Spelling. (happy, dave?) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/165 "2000-05-04T00:41:44Z")
SwimmingRiddles posted: > [@](#): > > [Irishman] \*So Swimmy, are you keeping a list of these, somewhere a little more organized than this thread? I’d hate to see you accidentally repeat an appellation and get accosted by an angry title holder. \* > > ::snicker:: a list? A LIST? Are you mad, man? I’m lucky I have a date book that has the correct year in it. Organization is not Swiddles middle name. Karen is. But if you would like to be the official List Keeper of the Patron Saints, I’ll tack that on to your title. Brooke Karen … Riddles? Probably not. 😉 Let’s see, take my time and effort to generate a list of names and corresponding titles to organize someone else, or read MPSIMS threads. Hmmmmm. Swiddles posted: > [@](#): > > Therefore the use of “a bitch” is correct when referring to it as a priciple, ie: Fate is a bitch, or **compounded** (you were right on that, my brain fart) Fate’s a bitch. The “is” is a third singular verb. > > [snip] > > I, unfortunately, took Latin for a long while, and also edited a paper. As a result of those two things, I am the most anal retentive grammar chick in the world, especially when it comes to plurality and singularity matching in a sentance structure. Now if we can just work on that vocabulary. It’s **contracted** and **contraction**. 😉 But otherwise I agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/166 "2000-05-04T01:19:31Z")
Oh, **Swimming Riddles** , I know that you have been working so hard at this, and it is so late in the game, but please, please, please? I did want to be a nun for about a week and a half when I was 11, so this will be a way of making my childhood dream come true, while at the same time allowing me to have sex. Also, could my boyfriend be a saint too? On the internet, he usually goes by Fonz. I’ll bake you my patented homemade chocolate amaretto cheesecake. ---
**Author:** ![Rosethorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Rosethorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosethorn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/167 "2000-05-04T01:54:05Z")
oooh yes! I get to be the saint of prickly flowers! Lets see, who shall I start blessing today? thisles? Roses? Christmas Cacti? Hehee, but sersiously I am very grateful for this honor!1 ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/168 "2000-05-04T03:58:05Z")
Make me a saint please. Just not the Patron Saint of Mexican Food 😉 Maybe Patron Saint of Molosters, since I looked down the list of last posters and saw my name eight times…oops! Adding another… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/169 "2000-05-04T05:57:48Z")
Oh why have I ignored this thread until now? I hope I’m not too late to be ordained as well. ---
**Author:** ![pipefitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@pipefitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipefitter)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/170 "2000-05-04T08:07:59Z")
Thank you oh great one, don’t particularly appreciate the being in charge of male porn stars, but if it brings in the ladies, I’ll be happy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![single\_files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@single\_files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/single_files)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/171 "2000-05-04T09:19:05Z")
Thank you so much, great spitter-outer of saints. I absolutely love being the patron saint of running with scissors. You are too kind. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/172 "2000-05-04T13:21:37Z")
Wow. OK mr man come up with 4 pages of anything remotely showing creativity, and then you can whine. In other words, lay off **SR**. She has shown smarts and politeness and even . . . patience. _If you don’t like your “saint name” then create your own._ and quit making this thread your life. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/173 "2000-05-04T13:34:01Z")
::Swiddles takes out her notebook and makes the notation: “extra points: Nothingman.” :: I hereby declare that anyone who complains about my spelling, grammer, use of vocabulary, canonization, or any other whining will have their sainthood revoked, and will be given a big black mark against them in said notebook. Swiddles is getting tired of people who beg her to come up with a creative canonization and then whine. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/174 "2000-05-04T13:40:14Z")
I’ll take a sainthood! ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/175 "2000-05-04T13:42:48Z")
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hmmm - would this effort make you the patron saint of patron saints (a meta-patron, so to speak ?) - and have you considered making this a career ? (Mail-order certificates of sainthoods, expuisitely engraved, tastefully framed and signed by both popes - oopa, a Blackadder moment.) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/176 "2000-05-04T14:01:39Z")
I hadn’t considered it yet, Norman, but I like the way your mind works. ::scribbles “Get Norman to write a business plan” in notebook:: ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/177 "2000-05-05T10:25:00Z")
Thank you Swiddles! If you have time and energy, Id like to get double canonized too… ---
**Author:** ![FlatULance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FlatULance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlatULance)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/178 "2000-05-05T13:52:10Z")
Ooh! I truly \*\*\* LOVES \*\*\*a catfight! ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/179 "2000-05-06T13:24:15Z")
I know i’ve probably dragged this thread from the depths of the abyss, but Swimming, if it’s no problem, would you please, oh pretty please designate me the patron saint of something? Thank you kindly Doobieous ---
**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/3ec8ea/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT_REALLY)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-patron-saint-designation-by-swimming-riddles/16536/180 "2000-06-29T01:22:28Z")
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