# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1158 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1159 --- ## [dude you haven't even met me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-you-havent-even-met-me/615531)
**Author:** [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-you-havent-even-met-me/615531 "2012-03-13T17:13:53Z")
dude We met online. It’s not a dating site, it’s a social site. One I haven’t been on in years. The messages people leave me come to my email and I was cleaning them out and I responded to yours. No reason other than be… --- ## [Please welcome my Dutch friend, Miss Einighausen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-my-dutch-friend-miss-einighausen/615417)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-my-dutch-friend-miss-einighausen/615417 "2012-03-13T14:02:11Z")
My glowing reviews of this messageboard have made a good friend of mine curious enough to find this place on her own and make a test post here. She is not yet very familiar with the concept of messageboards, and like me,… --- ## [Flashing in Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashing-in-phoenix/615388)
**Author:** [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashing-in-phoenix/615388 "2012-03-13T13:22:40Z")
No, not that kind of flashing! The kind caught on a news broadcast. I found the traffic cam’s location here. (Choose the I-17 Radio Button and then S of Northern on the "Select-a-location drop down menu.) Here is the L… --- ## [Onion: Government Admits To Hiding Embarrassingly Lame 1973 Extraterrestrial Encounter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-government-admits-to-hiding-embarrassingly-lame-1973-extraterrestrial-encounter/615634)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-government-admits-to-hiding-embarrassingly-lame-1973-extraterrestrial-encounter/615634 "2012-03-13T12:13:50Z")
http://www.theonion.com/articles/government-admits-to-hiding-embarrassingly-lame-19,27584/ --- ## [14th century medieval castle destroyed by kids with Cigarettes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-century-medieval-castle-destroyed-by-kids-with-cigarettes/615590)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-century-medieval-castle-destroyed-by-kids-with-cigarettes/615590 "2012-03-13T08:38:07Z")
First, its a shame to see an important piece of 14th century history lost. Its a good thing Genghis Khan and histories other invaders didn’t know the secret to breaching a castle. Send in kids with Cigarettes. … --- ## [My state has embarrassed me again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-state-has-embarrassed-me-again/615085)
**Author:** [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-state-has-embarrassed-me-again/615085 "2012-03-13T08:19:32Z")
Don’t get me wrong-- I love Tennessee. Ain’t no place I’d rather be. But my beloved state frequently makes me squirm with shame. Last night Santorum won the Republican primary here. Not that I like any of the GOP candida… --- ## [If America really is irreversibly down the road of plutocracy, how can someone invest to make money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-america-really-is-irreversibly-down-the-road-of-plutocracy-how-can-someone-invest-to-make-money/615600)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-america-really-is-irreversibly-down-the-road-of-plutocracy-how-can-someone-invest-to-make-money/615600 "2012-03-13T07:58:30Z")
So if the country is a plutocracy or plutonomy, and there is no realistic chance of making that better anytime soon how can a person invest in that? Principles be damned, I want in. My brother invested some money when t… --- ## [Virginity really messes with sex quizzes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginity-really-messes-with-sex-quizzes/615587)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginity-really-messes-with-sex-quizzes/615587 "2012-03-13T06:00:02Z")
That is today’s profound observation. :slight\_smile: --- ## [Lgdttqatsdt...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lgdttqatsdt/615606)
**Author:** [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lgdttqatsdt/615606 "2012-03-13T00:51:52Z")
LOL. --- ## [Greatest mugshot and arrest EVER!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-mugshot-and-arrest-ever/615464)
**Author:** [@gerund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gerund)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-mugshot-and-arrest-ever/615464 "2012-03-12T22:25:37Z")
Hi guys. I was watching my local news and they ran a story about Christine Wright Darrisow (quite possibly my new hero). I am very surprised that the net has not run away with this story yet. I think our society needs… --- ## [My son found a "dinosaur" skull in the backyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-found-a-dinosaur-skull-in-the-backyard/615563)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-found-a-dinosaur-skull-in-the-backyard/615563 "2012-03-12T20:37:40Z")
This Saturday the weather was great and my 4-year-old son (I like to call him The Boy) was playing in the backyard. I was in the basement finishing up a couple quick odd chores when I heard “Mommy, Daddy, come quick! Lo… --- ## [If Your Pet Was Human, What Would Their Occupation Be?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-pet-was-human-what-would-their-occupation-be/615046)
**Author:** [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-pet-was-human-what-would-their-occupation-be/615046 "2012-03-12T19:53:25Z")
Just for fun, this question was just asked on my rescue dog loop. I thought it might be a fun discussion here too! Nick, male Gordon Setter- He would be a minor celebrity, probably a singer. Think American Idol top 10 f… --- ## [Saddest Onion article ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-onion-article-ever/615172)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-onion-article-ever/615172 "2012-03-12T17:54:20Z")
As I read it, I sorta wanted to laugh with a knowing recognition, and sorta wanted to cry…with a knowing recognition. Saddest Onion article of all time. --- ## [Find the fish!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-fish/615555)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-fish/615555 "2012-03-12T16:41:06Z")
I wonder where that fish did go? --- ## [Fair seas, Enterprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fair-seas-enterprise/615481)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fair-seas-enterprise/615481 "2012-03-12T16:12:29Z")
USS Enterprise, CVN-65 has set sail on her final deployment. The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been plying the seas for 50 years. That’s a long time for a warship. Now the time has come for her fi… --- ## [Follow-up on the twitching cheerleaders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-up-on-the-twitching-cheerleaders/615159)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-up-on-the-twitching-cheerleaders/615159 "2012-03-12T11:29:56Z")
A lot of you have probably heard about that outbreak of strange, spastic behavior amongst high school girls up in New York State. Hereis a really interesting piece on it. --- ## [How the hell do I add fonts to Photoshop? (Mac)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-do-i-add-fonts-to-photoshop-mac/615508)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-do-i-add-fonts-to-photoshop-mac/615508 "2012-03-12T10:28:59Z")
I’ve tried Googling this, but nothing any link shows works. All the processes I find are for Windows (despite me putting “Macintosh” into my parameters) or assumes that you’re freshly downloading the font from some webs… --- ## [Favorite glasses - a beverage-ish MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-glasses-a-beverage-ish-mmp/614805)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 178\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-glasses-a-beverage-ish-mmp/614805 "2012-03-12T10:00:03Z")
Yesterday, I broke one of the last of my favorite glasses. I started out with a dozen over 20 years ago, and now I just have 4. I got them at Albertson’s for a quarter each - they were the remainders of a glassware pro… --- ## [Is porn driving a kind of penile inflation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-porn-driving-a-kind-of-penile-inflation/615458)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-porn-driving-a-kind-of-penile-inflation/615458 "2012-03-12T06:15:21Z")
There is hetero porn bragging about the guys having 16 inch tubers, which is pretty damn amazing. So you have guys talking about their embarrassingly small 7 inch dicks, or telling a chick they can’t fit in Trojan Magnum… --- ## [The guy who loves the car has horrible credit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guy-who-loves-the-car-has-horrible-credit/615227)
**Author:** [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guy-who-loves-the-car-has-horrible-credit/615227 "2012-03-12T04:03:14Z")
I sold cars for a couple of summers. I had several customers who fell in love with the car, didn’t push hard on the price etc., just generally acted like the perfect “lay-down.” Until I ran their credit, when the music… --- ## [I'm off to see a giant rock.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-off-to-see-a-giant-rock/614844)
**Author:** [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-off-to-see-a-giant-rock/614844 "2012-03-12T00:08:43Z")
No, not this one. The boulder that’s slated (sorry) to become “Levitated Mass” is currently on its way to LACMA. It’s resting today in La Mirada, and as today is my day off this is my best chance to gawk in person. I’m … --- ## [And Today, I Rode!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-today-i-rode/615421)
**Author:** [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-today-i-rode/615421 "2012-03-11T22:38:43Z")
This is truly mundane and pointless to everyone else in the world but me, but I cannot stop grinning. After 25 years, I got on a horse again. I have been volunteering at a horse rescue every Saturday, cleaning stalls,… --- ## [How you can often avoid sitting on hold](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-can-often-avoid-sitting-on-hold/615353)
**Author:** [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-can-often-avoid-sitting-on-hold/615353 "2012-03-11T17:21:38Z")
Just read this in SmartMoney. There are apps like FastCustomer and LucyPhone that will navigate the purgatory that is most AVRS’s (automated voice response systems). FastCustomer even gives you the option to have THEM … --- ## [Is this sexual harassment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-sexual-harassment/615318)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-sexual-harassment/615318 "2012-03-11T14:15:22Z")
Is it sexual harassment if I am maintaining forced eye contact to obviously avoid looking at her breasts? --- ## [I have a week to figure out what to do with my life.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-week-to-figure-out-what-to-do-with-my-life/591488)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-week-to-figure-out-what-to-do-with-my-life/591488 "2012-03-11T01:52:39Z")
As posted about in Pit thread: Workplace griping, anyone?, I’ve expressed that I’m having difficulty handling my job… mentally. I have a week before I decide whether or not I want to either ask for a one or two days to … --- ## [The woman in front of me at the coffee cart had so much perfume on, and I think I'm going to be sick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woman-in-front-of-me-at-the-coffee-cart-had-so-much-perfume-on-and-i-think-im-going-to-be-sick/615273)
**Author:** [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woman-in-front-of-me-at-the-coffee-cart-had-so-much-perfume-on-and-i-think-im-going-to-be-sick/615273 "2012-03-10T20:36:39Z")
It’s been over an hour and I can still smell it on my clothes. It feels like the smell has lined my nasal passages. I have a huge headache and feel like I am going to hurl any minute. Two weeks ago I was on the PATH t… --- ## [Today's Little Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-little-irony/615271)
**Author:** [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-little-irony/615271 "2012-03-10T20:34:28Z")
Someone printed a large, fancy presentation on the color printer in my office yesterday. But over the course of yesterday and this morning, I’ve asked every single person with access to the printer if it was theirs, and… --- ## [Washington/Canadian feet in sneakers mystery solved](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-canadian-feet-in-sneakers-mystery-solved/615361)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-canadian-feet-in-sneakers-mystery-solved/615361 "2012-03-10T17:32:45Z")
You may recall that over the past several years 9 separate feet shod in sneakers have washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest. There were lots of theories of foot fetish serial killers and what have you. The British Col… --- ## ["Low Tech" Nuclear Warfare-Would This Work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-tech-nuclear-warfare-would-this-work/614977)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-tech-nuclear-warfare-would-this-work/614977 "2012-03-10T08:03:11Z")
I have been carrying around this idea for a long time-it is based upon a story developed long ago, in the old “Terry and the Pirates” comic strip. Basically, a country hostile to the US decides to attack us. Since they … --- ## [Do you ever hurt yourself in your sleep?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-hurt-yourself-in-your-sleep/281963)
**Author:** [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-hurt-yourself-in-your-sleep/281963 "2012-03-10T03:54:14Z")
(This might count as a poll, and I nearly put it in IMHO, but it’s really more of a mundane and pointless anecdote that ends with a call for other mundane and pointless anecdotes. So I figured MPSIMS was its proper home.… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1157) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1159)