# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1092 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1093 --- ## [Tour da U.P. 2012 Wrap-up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-da-u-p-2012-wrap-up/631150)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-da-u-p-2012-wrap-up/631150 "2012-08-12T03:20:12Z")
Pretty good trip (Porcupine Mts region) , other than the WX. There was a horrible headwind the later half of day 1 (and to a lesser extent day 2) The rain on night two didn’t bother me - my tent is well made. Day 3 was n… --- ## [Ask the Hospice Worker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-hospice-worker/630215)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-hospice-worker/630215 "2012-08-12T00:40:31Z")
If I approached you on the street, in your office or at the dinner table, and asked you what the worst part of your job was, how would you respond? Would you even talk about your work? Does the public understand what you… --- ## [So, We Have New Cat (Pictures)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-have-new-cat-pictures/631160)
**Author:** [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-have-new-cat-pictures/631160 "2012-08-11T21:56:15Z")
As regular readers would be aware we have the worlds most handsome three legged Blue Persian, Keyser Soze. (Shown here with 4 legs). It has been a while since the Siamese popped her clogs, so we gave in today and bought… --- ## [The universe peaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-universe-peaks/631155)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-universe-peaks/631155 "2012-08-11T21:45:30Z")
The universe reaches its apex, its climax, its greatest moment right…wait for it…just few more seconds–now! Hope you enjoyed it, losers. It’s all downhill from here. --- ## [Things I've learned in my first month as a parent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-ive-learned-in-my-first-month-as-a-parent/630592)
**Author:** [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-ive-learned-in-my-first-month-as-a-parent/630592 "2012-08-11T19:59:11Z")
Since it is (at least in my time zone) now August 6th, I’ve been a parent for a full month now. It seemed like a good opportunity to reflect on a couple of things I’ve learned about myself, babies, and being a parent. An… --- ## [Learned a new word today! dibber - it's a tool. You have a new word for us?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learned-a-new-word-today-dibber-its-a-tool-you-have-a-new-word-for-us/631077)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learned-a-new-word-today-dibber-its-a-tool-you-have-a-new-word-for-us/631077 "2012-08-11T17:08:17Z")
I’ve been an avid reader since age 6 and always scored really well in vocabulary tests. It’s fun learning new words. I’m surprised that I hadn’t ran across a dibber before. It’s an old gardening tool used for centuries… --- ## [After landing on you...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118)
**Author:** [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118 "2012-08-11T15:16:35Z")
…I must determine whether you are prey or not by building a suitable image in my head to identify what you are…completely by touch…my, you’re a big one, this might take a while…good night! --- ## [Let's predict what the Curiosity rover will discover on Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-what-the-curiosity-rover-will-discover-on-mars/630766)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-what-the-curiosity-rover-will-discover-on-mars/630766 "2012-08-11T12:00:54Z")
Yep… it’s a pretty amazing feat, that rover thing, isn’t it? And now after the landing, it’s time to stop celebrating and …get to work. But who wants to wait for a year or two while NASA analyzes the data? So let’s a… --- ## [Why are all the Flash videos I watch in Chrome zoomed in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-the-flash-videos-i-watch-in-chrome-zoomed-in/630663)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-the-flash-videos-i-watch-in-chrome-zoomed-in/630663 "2012-08-11T11:48:15Z")
For some reason, suddenly all Flash videos and images I look at in Chrome are zoomed in. If I right click and choose Show All or Zoom Out nothing happens. It looks like all I’m seeing is the upper left corner of the vide… --- ## [Perthians: Ever been to Fleet Street (Fremantle)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perthians-ever-been-to-fleet-street-fremantle/630946)
**Author:** [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perthians-ever-been-to-fleet-street-fremantle/630946 "2012-08-11T11:08:01Z")
I found this awesome looking place by farting around on Google Maps. What goes on there? There seem to be far too many parking spaces for a lighthouse keeper, but it doesn’t seem like a great place to swim, fish, or have… --- ## [God is talking to (well, e-mailing) me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-talking-to-well-e-mailing-me/628631)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-talking-to-well-e-mailing-me/628631 "2012-08-11T04:16:11Z")
I got this in my e-mail today! ===================== Hi, This is a personal message from God Allah to you. It may be the only message you ever receive from Me so please respond. I, God Allah, am here in the USA look… --- ## [I'm getting grey hair and beard, and I'm not even 30!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712 "2012-08-11T03:24:47Z")
Seriously what the hell? :eek: They ones on my head are proliferating to the point it is becoming noticeable, the beard not so much but they are multiplying. I mean I can pass as a high school student which can be ann… --- ## [So how do you even research personal genealogy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-even-research-personal-genealogy/631066)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-even-research-personal-genealogy/631066 "2012-08-11T02:10:06Z")
I’m a genealogy hater, or at least find it annoying. But I’m curious how you even research it? Maybe if you had a rich and well known family or something? Ok just for informational purposes on my fathers side from talk… --- ## [Selling your home out from under you, and legally!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-your-home-out-from-under-you-and-legally/631050)
**Author:** [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-your-home-out-from-under-you-and-legally/631050 "2012-08-10T23:11:08Z")
:confused: I was reading this link and was so shocked I got out of bed and to my PC to type this. I cannot sum it up with quotes other than to say, a company bought a condo complex, sold it to himself in another company… --- ## [Nude Man Covered In Crisco Seeking Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-man-covered-in-crisco-seeking-friends/631039)
**Author:** [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-man-covered-in-crisco-seeking-friends/631039 "2012-08-10T21:03:09Z")
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/267950/82/Police-Naked-man-covered-in-Crisco-just-looking-for-a-place-to-party These are the stories we journalists get on our knees and pray for every night. --- ## [Oh, good Lord. A "pwincess pwecious" just moved into our department.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-good-lord-a-pwincess-pwecious-just-moved-into-our-department/630887)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-good-lord-a-pwincess-pwecious-just-moved-into-our-department/630887 "2012-08-10T19:12:43Z")
She just moved in yesterday and is sitting in her open office, about 20 feet from my desk, chatting with another woman. She’s cycled between “normal adult woman” voice to “affected baby-talk” voice several times during … --- ## [Oh dopers! Why are you so pedantic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930)
**Author:** [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dopers-why-are-you-so-pedantic/629930 "2012-08-10T17:47:20Z")
… --- ## [My local theater caught a guy with weapons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724)
**Author:** [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-theater-caught-a-guy-with-weapons/630724 "2012-08-10T17:37:50Z")
The news this morning was a bit startling in a sort of, “Oh, by the way, guess what happened at the movies this weekend!” way. They announced that a 37-year-old man was arrested without incident after they searched his b… --- ## [Would it kill the USPS to have public phone numbers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-kill-the-usps-to-have-public-phone-numbers/631053)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-it-kill-the-usps-to-have-public-phone-numbers/631053 "2012-08-10T16:36:15Z")
I’ve had several issues that were not dumb and couldn’t be handled by the brain dead 800 line. They apparently cannot even look shit up on USPS’s internal system which the employees at local branchs can, any problem they… --- ## [Have you ever just had an inexplicable mental jump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-just-had-an-inexplicable-mental-jump/630722)
**Author:** [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-just-had-an-inexplicable-mental-jump/630722 "2012-08-10T15:25:01Z")
This just happened and it’s weirded me out. I’m sitting at my laptop on the kitchen table. I look up, and see the muesili jar on the bench and notice that is full - clearly my mother has refilled it, happy days. I not… --- ## [The ROCKET in rocket science!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rocket-in-rocket-science/631024)
**Author:** [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rocket-in-rocket-science/631024 "2012-08-10T15:23:26Z")
Sometimes it IS rocket science! The explosions are at 1:56 and 6:21, but move toward the end and watch the fire trucks try to put out the fire. The vehicle disappears in clouds of foam, the truck ease up to see how they… --- ## [Don't you hate the steady 'Drip, drip, drip' of gonorrhea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-hate-the-steady-drip-drip-drip-of-gonorrhea/631018 "2012-08-10T13:33:01Z")
Gonorrhea becoming resistant to only treatment left Of course some people won’t believe that claptrap. --- ## [I know now how feces get on public surfaces....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-now-how-feces-get-on-public-surfaces/631028)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-now-how-feces-get-on-public-surfaces/631028 "2012-08-10T13:16:03Z")
Because I am a parent. There is nothing quite like noticing a …stink of human excrement and rounding to corner to find your child has removed his diaper and used poo as an artistic medium. :eek: I’ve been dressed and s… --- ## [Obama descends from first African-American slave](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-descends-from-first-african-american-slave/631064)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-descends-from-first-african-american-slave/631064 "2012-08-10T11:31:13Z")
A recent report from Ancestry.com concludes, with considerable evidence, that Barack Obama is descended from the first known African-American slave. As seen at many on-line pedigrees, Barack Obama’s mother’s mother’s mo… --- ## [Religious sect discovered living in underground bunker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-sect-discovered-living-in-underground-bunker/630947)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-sect-discovered-living-in-underground-bunker/630947 "2012-08-10T10:18:25Z")
In Tatarstan, Russia, a breakaway Muslim sect following a a man who styled himself as the new prophet has been discovered living in catacomb cells in an eight-level underground structure. Most members never left the bui… --- ## [Legal defense fund for a U.S. Soldier -- A plea for help, a plea for money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-defense-fund-for-a-u-s-soldier-a-plea-for-help-a-plea-for-money/626703)
**Author:** [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-defense-fund-for-a-u-s-soldier-a-plea-for-help-a-plea-for-money/626703 "2012-08-10T04:03:06Z")
Bottom line up front: I asked for, and received, permission from the staff\* here to open this thread in hopes of raising money for a U.S. Army Sergeant First Class (a Platoon Sergeant) that is facing charges of negligen… --- ## [Another flaming gay marriage opponent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-flaming-gay-marriage-opponent/630833)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-flaming-gay-marriage-opponent/630833 "2012-08-10T03:55:45Z")
What a flamer! --- ## [Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lech-walesa-is-walking-500-feet/631027 "2012-08-10T01:41:08Z")
“Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet!” “Uh… OK?” Great. Was a Hero of the Counterrevolution paralyzed while I dozed? Is this valid news? “Turn on FOX News! Lech Walesa is walking 500 feet above the ground!” “What?” "Sol… --- ## [We hold these truths to be self-evident...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident/631032)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident/631032 "2012-08-10T01:33:17Z")
… that cake is thicker than water. And two in the hand is worth more than one in the bush! And that you should never cook your chickens before they hatch, you should cook eggs before they hatch! Or, possibly, eggs that… --- ## [Olfactory memories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olfactory-memories/630847)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/olfactory-memories/630847 "2012-08-09T23:19:03Z")
I just got a strong memory of the smell of the gas they used to put me under for ear surgery when I was… oh, had to be less than ten, I think, because I wasn’t that old when I opted for IV induction instead of the gas. (… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1091) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1093)