# Your self-identification can be wrong.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 11, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284 "2010-07-11T08:50:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/101 "2010-07-15T16:21:51Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Maybe that passage was a metaphor.

A metaphor for taking things as a metaphor??

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/102 "2010-07-15T16:27:07Z")

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Yeah, like “all Cretans are liars” or something. It’s DEEP, man!

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/103 "2010-07-15T16:33:30Z")

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> [@Angua](#):
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> _blushes furiously_

Don’t blush, dearest. No matter how cute you get, I am still not giving you any of my chicken casserole.

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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/104 "2010-07-15T16:38:19Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> Don’t blush, dearest. No matter how cute you get, I am still not giving you any of my chicken casserole.

Darn! What can I say, I tried. 😉

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/105 "2010-07-15T16:39:51Z")

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> [@Angua](#):
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> Darn! What can I say, I tried. 😉

:: tessers Angua a plate of chicken casserole stolen from the Skald of Earth-analgoue-oh-who-cares-what-the-number is ::

I mean, technically it’s not MINE.

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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-self-identification-can-be-wrong/546284/106 "2010-07-15T17:19:38Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> :: tessers Angua a plate of chicken casserole stolen from the Skald of Earth-analgoue-oh-who-cares-what-the-number is ::
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> I mean, technically it’s not MINE.

I’ll take it so long as its tasty… And almost like yours…

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