# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1134 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1135 --- ## [News ticker crawls that require more information](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-ticker-crawls-that-require-more-information/620982)
**Author:** [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-ticker-crawls-that-require-more-information/620982 "2012-05-05T13:22:09Z")
On ABC during their morning “news” show: Salmonella in Dog Food Sickens 14 people in 9 States. (Really? There’s a dog food called “Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul?”) --- ## [There Will Be Blood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-blood/620924)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-will-be-blood/620924 "2012-05-05T06:56:12Z")
Yesterday I had surgery on the arm I broke a year ago, because it hadn’t healed properly. The operation was fine; the bone surgeon rebroke my arm and attached a titanium strip to position it perfectly. I was at home af… --- ## [yep It ain't my house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yep-it-aint-my-house/620929)
**Author:** [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yep-it-aint-my-house/620929 "2012-05-05T03:23:03Z")
To my mother’s boyfriend AKA Assholio You’re right It’s not my house But it isn’t your house either It is my mother’s house But it is MY home and it was my home long before you got here and will be my home long … --- ## [Deluged by butterflies!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deluged-by-butterflies/620825)
**Author:** [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deluged-by-butterflies/620825 "2012-05-05T00:46:59Z")
There has been an explosion of Red Admiral butterflies passing through Upstate NY and probably elsewhere. They say they are migrating from Mexico to Canada and were pushed off course by a storm, and will be mostly gone … --- ## [The Secret Service bad luck continues.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930 "2012-05-04T22:03:26Z")
Well, at least he didn’t have a hooker in the car at the time. :stuck\_out\_tongue: Been a rough few weeks for the Secret Service. The reporting isn’t very good either. A Agent, their car? Singular/plural screw up. … --- ## [Secrets you might as well share now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-might-as-well-share-now/398562)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-might-as-well-share-now/398562 "2012-05-04T21:00:48Z")
Surely there was somebody in your past who swore you to secrecy and you have kept that promise all these years but now it seems pointless not to reveal the secret just to get it off your mind. This could be a “moot secr… --- ## [If Five is your lucky number, today is your lucky day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-five-is-your-lucky-number-today-is-your-lucky-day/620907)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-five-is-your-lucky-number-today-is-your-lucky-day/620907 "2012-05-04T20:36:08Z")
Today is May 5, the fifth day of the fifth month. Starting from zero on New Year’s Day, today is the 125th (5x5x5) day of the year. This lunar month is the fifth lunar month in the Chinese calendar. Today also marks t… --- ## [Meteorite "Gold Rush" in Lotus, California](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorite-gold-rush-in-lotus-california/620905)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorite-gold-rush-in-lotus-california/620905 "2012-05-04T20:30:47Z")
No, there aren’t meteorites made of gold, but close to where I live there is a huge amount of interest in a meteorite that broke up and crashed, leaving meteorite everywhere. So now folks, including scientists, academics… --- ## [Drop Bears](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-bears/620099)
**Author:** [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drop-bears/620099 "2012-05-04T20:08:42Z")
Australia - Boulder, Colorado calls and raises. This is two blocks from my daughter’s house. --- ## [Three cats is too many...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cats-is-too-many/620607)
**Author:** [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cats-is-too-many/620607 "2012-05-03T06:41:21Z")
…especially when one of them bites, harasses the other cats, keeps knocking over the folding bookcase and biting every wire in the house, and wakes me up by clawing at my face (albeit not maliciously, he’s just too godda… --- ## [Pawky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pawky/620717)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pawky/620717 "2012-05-04T18:41:16Z")
It’s been a decade at least when some friends, maybe 10 of us in all, played a parlor game we called Fictionary, whether we were playing the “official” version or not. The idea was that each in turn would use the diction… --- ## [Toddler wars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toddler-wars/620671)
**Author:** [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toddler-wars/620671 "2012-05-04T17:46:20Z")
They have begun. The precious semi-animate carbon blob has evolved into a proto-human with a will and drive of its own, yet without standard safety protocols or, apparently, a user-serviceable ‘off’ switch. The war has … --- ## [Missouri Republican legislator 'comes out' in response to anti-gay bill.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762)
**Author:** [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-republican-legislator-comes-out-in-response-to-anti-gay-bill/620762 "2012-05-04T17:22:34Z")
Missouri now has “the only openly gay Republican currently serving in a state legislature in the United States.” I don’t have much more to say about it, but figured this would be good Dope fodder. --- ## [My Facebook changed to Timeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-facebook-changed-to-timeline/620718)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-facebook-changed-to-timeline/620718 "2012-05-04T16:05:00Z")
Don’t hate it as much as I thought I might. --- ## [If I my play double's advocate:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-my-play-doubles-advocate/620686)
**Author:** [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-my-play-doubles-advocate/620686 "2012-05-04T13:15:40Z")
For all intensive purposes, this board is a great place to spend time. Even the pit’s no holes barred, doggy dog culture can be a blessing in the skies. But some of the posters here can be a bunch of pre-Madonna’s with… --- ## [Words you know you're pronouncing wrong, but still do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-know-youre-pronouncing-wrong-but-still-do/618459)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-know-youre-pronouncing-wrong-but-still-do/618459 "2012-05-04T12:12:27Z")
Inspired by this thread. I’m well aware that “draught”, as in beer or checkers, is simply the British spelling of “draft” and is meant to be prounced as such. Nonetheless, I can’t help but pronouncing it “drawt” anytime… --- ## [Invasion of the Jumbo Shrimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invasion-of-the-jumbo-shrimp/620513)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invasion-of-the-jumbo-shrimp/620513 "2012-05-04T06:19:15Z")
--- ## [Now I've seen everything!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-ive-seen-everything/620803)
**Author:** [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-ive-seen-everything/620803 "2012-05-04T03:52:16Z")
Yes folks, it appears humanity has run out of acceptable products to create and invent. How do I know this? Because there is a board game about picking up dog poop. I’m going to go see if the penguins will let me hang… --- ## [The raptors are out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-raptors-are-out/620764)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-raptors-are-out/620764 "2012-05-04T03:05:57Z")
That’s not unusual; there are hawks and eagles around all the time. But last month I was on the freeway, and I was swooped by a bald eagle. It probably didn’t get closer than 20 feet off the deck and about 30 feet ahea… --- ## [Where have all my socks now gone, long time passing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-my-socks-now-gone-long-time-passing/620815)
**Author:** [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-my-socks-now-gone-long-time-passing/620815 "2012-05-04T01:15:48Z")
I’ve…worn socks you people wouldn’t believe. Sports socks with odor control off the rack at Macy’s. I watched my gold-toe socks glitter in the dark, without their mates. All my socks are now lost, for a long time, like l… --- ## [Some bastard stole my license plates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-bastard-stole-my-license-plates/620763)
**Author:** [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-bastard-stole-my-license-plates/620763 "2012-05-03T23:58:48Z")
I live down a quiet road. My driveway is about 100 feet long with a turnaround near the end. I have a vehicle that stays parked in the turnaround most of the time. Last night I noticed the license plates were gone. I… --- ## [If evolution is true....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-evolution-is-true/620582)
**Author:** [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-evolution-is-true/620582 "2012-05-03T20:33:15Z")
…then how do you explain Juggalos? I dare any of you evolutionists to explain that one. Granted, I really can’t fit them in with the idea of a loving, omnipotent Creator, either. --- ## [Engineers - What things do you in your day to day jobs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineers-what-things-do-you-in-your-day-to-day-jobs/620707)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineers-what-things-do-you-in-your-day-to-day-jobs/620707 "2012-05-03T16:12:25Z")
I know there are a lot of different types of engineers, but I am curious about what engineers actually do for a living. Lets say a company like HP or IBM or DuPont or similar hires you. Being an engineer you’re presumed… --- ## [Ouch - did I just tattoo myself?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-did-i-just-tattoo-myself/620683)
**Author:** [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-did-i-just-tattoo-myself/620683 "2012-05-03T15:28:17Z")
Putting the cap on one of those gel pens, somehow jammed the tip WAY into my right palm. Of course, the tip then broke off, and I had to pull the tip out with tweezers. When I squeezed the wound to get the ink out ther… --- ## [This is dark (super-tanned woman)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-dark-super-tanned-woman/620754)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-dark-super-tanned-woman/620754 "2012-05-03T14:58:07Z")
Paint her lips white and put her in a minstrel show. Regards, Shodan --- ## [1123 AD: The daring attempt to rescue the king of Jerusalem from the fortress of Khartpert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1123-ad-the-daring-attempt-to-rescue-the-king-of-jerusalem-from-the-fortress-of-khartpert/619391)
**Author:** [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1123-ad-the-daring-attempt-to-rescue-the-king-of-jerusalem-from-the-fortress-of-khartpert/619391 "2012-05-03T12:38:39Z")
The newly-minted Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem withstood crisis after crisis all through its history, and arguably one of the worst disasters it faced was the capture of its king, Baldwin II, along with several of his mo… --- ## [Hurk. That was a fly.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurk-that-was-a-fly/620431)
**Author:** [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurk-that-was-a-fly/620431 "2012-05-03T04:53:36Z")
There I was, cycling in to work this morning, enjoying the spring sunshine after a wet weekend, breathing hard coming up Tower Hill. Suddenly I see a blur of something heading towards my face, and then… hurk. There’s a b… --- ## [What dreams have you had?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dreams-have-you-had/620464)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dreams-have-you-had/620464 "2012-05-03T04:47:11Z")
I want to be a chicken’s pension fund manager. Chickens are being scammed out there: They work their whole lives paying into a pension fund, then, when they think they’re going off to a retirement village, most of them … --- ## [Had to put down our dog today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-to-put-down-our-dog-today/620577)
**Author:** [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-to-put-down-our-dog-today/620577 "2012-05-03T04:06:29Z")
F\*\*k! I had to have the vet put down our dog Peaches. She was a 15 year old Cocker Spaniel. She had a bad heart and water around her lungs. 15 is about a year longer than the average lifespan of a Cocker Spaniel, but… --- ## [Parents who forget what it's like to be a teenager](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-who-forget-what-its-like-to-be-a-teenager/620385)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-who-forget-what-its-like-to-be-a-teenager/620385 "2012-05-03T03:39:08Z")
I’m re-watching Dan In Real Life (great Steve Carrell movie) and, when the teenaged (14? year old?) daughter tells her dad that she’s in love with a guy after knowing him for three weeks, he tells her it isn’t real love.… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1135)