# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1070 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1071 --- ## [Oh, SWAT is here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-swat-is-here/636799)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-swat-is-here/636799 "2012-10-05T14:05:28Z")
OK, not here; but there was a little excitement in this sleepy village yesterday, of which I was completely unaware. I’m on the mailing list for the chairperson here, and this came in the mail today (identifying informa… --- ## [Webcomic: selling stuff online](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webcomic-selling-stuff-online/636411)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/webcomic-selling-stuff-online/636411 "2012-10-05T13:18:42Z")
Right, so my web comic is beginning to get some traffic. No one is more surprised than me, frankly. And we’re approaching our 100th update. So I want to start offering some items for sale. What do you guys recommend? C… --- ## [Throw You Children To The Alligators! For Their Birthday! Newslink](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632 "2012-10-05T13:09:45Z")
Humanity is too dumb to live. HOW IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL!?!?:eek::eek::eek::smack::smack::smack: --- ## [The best physics class ever? Yep, I think so.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-physics-class-ever-yep-i-think-so/635826)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-physics-class-ever-yep-i-think-so/635826 "2012-10-05T12:14:15Z")
Dang I wish my physics teacher was this cool. Liquid Nitrogen poured in a soda bottle, bucket of warm water, and ping pong balls. What do you think will happen? :smiley: Click the link and watch the video. Wow!!! --- ## [Ink dots on beer cans bottoms.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ink-dots-on-beer-cans-bottoms/636650)
**Author:** [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ink-dots-on-beer-cans-bottoms/636650 "2012-10-05T04:03:46Z")
I just noticed my bud cans may or may not have a dot of blue or green. Anyone else notice this? Any idea what it means? --- ## ["Dad, hold your new baby son..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-hold-your-new-baby-son/636107)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-hold-your-new-baby-son/636107 "2012-10-05T02:50:17Z")
Yay! “…but only for a moment, and then I have to take him to the NICU.” Oof. Aragorn Picard Tildrum,\* our first, entered the world on September 25, weighing eight pounds and looking perfect. His breathing was gravell… --- ## [William F. Buckley apparently changed a Martin Luther King quote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-f-buckley-apparently-changed-a-martin-luther-king-quote/636573)
**Author:** [@Bpelta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bpelta)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-f-buckley-apparently-changed-a-martin-luther-king-quote/636573 "2012-10-05T02:21:02Z")
I was just looking up Martin Luther King’s urging a boycott on Goldwater’s candidacy (link), when I ran into this snippet from William F. Buckley’s 1990 novel, Tucker’s Last Stand: What King actually wrote: --- ## [Please, explain Job's Daughters to me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-jobs-daughters-to-me/106063)
**Author:** [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-jobs-daughters-to-me/106063 "2012-10-05T02:02:53Z")
My friend’s daughter has just joined this club. From what I have read on the Internet (just a basic info site), you can’t belong unless you are related to a Mason of high-standing. I know nothing about Masons. But I r… --- ## [How do topless models really feel? Visual suggestions within (NSFW; mod cleared)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-topless-models-really-feel-visual-suggestions-within-nsfw-mod-cleared/636340)
**Author:** [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-topless-models-really-feel-visual-suggestions-within-nsfw-mod-cleared/636340 "2012-10-05T01:32:37Z")
For those unaware, The Sun, consistently the UK’s first or second most popular newspaper, publishes topless glamour models on page 3 and has done since Murdoch took it over in 1970. It’s a national institution. For a saf… --- ## [I think I've told him he was smart a time too many.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-ive-told-him-he-was-smart-a-time-too-many/636662)
**Author:** [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-ive-told-him-he-was-smart-a-time-too-many/636662 "2012-10-05T01:03:14Z")
Babysitting my 7-yo nephew tonight. LittleDorky turns to him at the dinner table and says, “Hey cuz, you wanna hear the story of the Universe?” I manage to surreptitiously film it. I’ll transcribe it here for you: The… --- ## [Iran thinks hicks prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-thinks-hicks-prefer-ahmadinejad-to-obama/636214)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-thinks-hicks-prefer-ahmadinejad-to-obama/636214 "2012-10-05T00:47:14Z")
I did a search for “onion” and “iran” and didn’t see anything about this. According to the BBC, an Iranian news agency has fallen for an Onion article about rural whites preferring their president to our own. I just had … --- ## [Damn you tonsils....damn you to hell!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-tonsils-damn-you-to-hell/636452)
**Author:** [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-tonsils-damn-you-to-hell/636452 "2012-10-04T23:33:07Z")
Went to the doc today after a few days of having a cold for a few days. Bad sore throat, blocked sinus, muscle ache etc. During the checkup the doc looks down my throat and happens to mention that “your right tonsil is … --- ## [Is there reverse racism or is it all just racist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-reverse-racism-or-is-it-all-just-racist/636209)
**Author:** [@kocko67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kocko67)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-reverse-racism-or-is-it-all-just-racist/636209 "2012-10-04T21:46:17Z")
I am married to a Chinese Malaysian and she continues to tell me how she wishes I was less white and that white people do not know how to do things properly and we are all stupid and have ruined her country. I also get t… --- ## [leather](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather/636742)
**Author:** [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather/636742 "2012-10-04T21:04:38Z")
I just read the entire wiki article on leather. Wow… leather is complicated and fascinating. Also, this is gross: --- ## [Retronaut: Colour photographs of America, 1939-1943](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retronaut-colour-photographs-of-america-1939-1943/636633)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retronaut-colour-photographs-of-america-1939-1943/636633 "2012-10-04T18:36:15Z")
“These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. … --- ## [Eaten by hogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449 "2012-10-04T18:27:27Z")
A 70-year-old Coos County, OR, farmer has been eaten by his hogs. Fair enough, I reckon. We eat enough of them. --- ## [Eek! Phone's Word search game app dropped the N-bomb on me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eek-phones-word-search-game-app-dropped-the-n-bomb-on-me/636717)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eek-phones-word-search-game-app-dropped-the-n-bomb-on-me/636717 "2012-10-04T17:05:53Z")
I have a nifty little word search game on my phone called Crossibus. It’s nicely designed, and it crafted surprisingly complicated puzzles with esoteric word lists. Its only fault has been that it’s prone to crashing w… --- ## [Space Shuttle Endeavour's California Flyover & Final Flight,This Thursday Morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-shuttle-endeavours-california-flyover-final-flight-this-thursday-morning/634866)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-shuttle-endeavours-california-flyover-final-flight-this-thursday-morning/634866 "2012-10-04T06:15:17Z")
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s California Flyover & Final Flight,This Thursday Morning Come out to see the space shuttle! Before Endeavour retires to its permanent home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, this T… --- ## [How to free inactive memory (Mac)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-free-inactive-memory-mac/636652)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-free-inactive-memory-mac/636652 "2012-10-04T06:07:54Z")
Right now I’ve got over a gigabyte of inactive memory, and I’m trying to figure out how to free it up. The purge command doesn’t work, because I’m on OSX 10.6.8. I read that Xcode would enable that command, but I need … --- ## [Hey MeanOldLady!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meanoldlady/635879)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meanoldlady/635879 "2012-10-04T03:59:12Z")
There’s a mouse in my apartment. I was getting ready for work this morning and noticed a seed on my dresser. I picked it up and it wasn’t a seed, it was a mouse poo. --- ## [Tomorrow my father will have been gone for a year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomorrow-my-father-will-have-been-gone-for-a-year/636438)
**Author:** [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomorrow-my-father-will-have-been-gone-for-a-year/636438 "2012-10-04T03:42:40Z")
I’ve started this post four times. I don’t know what to say. I just want to say something, get something out, because I feel so sad and so frustrated and so lost. I never expected to lose my father so young - he was only… --- ## [There was a bomb scare earlier in my town.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-bomb-scare-earlier-in-my-town/579268)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-a-bomb-scare-earlier-in-my-town/579268 "2012-10-04T02:51:05Z")
There was a cordon around the local Garda (police) Station when I ventured down to the village this afternoon, it’s about 500 metres from the house. Someone told me it was a bomb alert. Just read up on it there when I go… --- ## [Matters pertaining to money(or lack thereof)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matters-pertaining-to-money-or-lack-thereof/636617)
**Author:** [@HeWhoWanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeWhoWanders)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matters-pertaining-to-money-or-lack-thereof/636617 "2012-10-04T02:23:49Z")
This is my first time posting and I am glad to be here. This is a question of sorts, but not necessarily factual in nature. I am 18, just graduated and I am in the process of becoming a personal trainer. This coupled wi… --- ## [WTF is happening to my computer??? Help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-happening-to-my-computer-help/636545)
**Author:** [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-happening-to-my-computer-help/636545 "2012-10-04T02:11:26Z")
This has been happening the last 3 days and I haven’t been looking at unsavory websites or downloaded anything. I want to get rid of it but I have uninstalled all unnecessary programs. I have never seen this before. Wher… --- ## [I Don't Like Ike Any More](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-ike-any-more/636637)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-ike-any-more/636637 "2012-10-04T00:20:01Z")
The government has admitted that it tested chemical weapons on low-income St Louis neighborhoods in the 1950’s. http://news.yahoo.com/secret-cold-war-tests-st-louis-raise-concerns-214608828.html --- ## [Steampunk kids room.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steampunk-kids-room/636345)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steampunk-kids-room/636345 "2012-10-03T23:54:48Z")
Ok, so the 12 year old has committed in her heart to transforming her room into a steampunk oasis. We picked up some antiques for her, a good Art Deco vanity and dresser as well as a bed. Now we need the accessories. An… --- ## [Tongue surgery update (aka I'm tired of this crap)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tongue-surgery-update-aka-im-tired-of-this-crap/636470)
**Author:** [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tongue-surgery-update-aka-im-tired-of-this-crap/636470 "2012-10-03T23:54:24Z")
Had Tongue surgery in early August. Had a mass on the side of my tongue, prevailing wisdom was that it was caused by a cracked molar. Biopsy came back negative. So that’s good. Well it didn’t stay gone. Doctor slice… --- ## [NY Teacher beat up by First Grader](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-teacher-beat-up-by-first-grader/636561)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-teacher-beat-up-by-first-grader/636561 "2012-10-03T22:30:08Z")
I’m not sure why the press is snickering at this. The little shit got the guy in the knee and ankle multiple times. If you’ve seen a six year old throw a fit then you know how unhinged they can be. I’m assuming this guy… --- ## [Cat won't eat or drink](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-wont-eat-or-drink/636230)
**Author:** [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-wont-eat-or-drink/636230 "2012-10-03T16:30:18Z")
Before anyone says it, of course I already took her to the vet as soon as I noticed something was wrong. A few days ago, one of our cats started acting pretty lethargic, stopped eating and drinking, and look like she’s … --- ## [Some things I know about Iowa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-things-i-know-about-iowa/636522)
**Author:** [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-things-i-know-about-iowa/636522 "2012-10-03T16:21:31Z")
Somebody wanted me to write a story about something that happened to me. This is what I came up with. Smith and Jones and Wilson are made up names, because I have no idea what the real ones are. The rest are real, beca… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1069) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1071)