# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1170 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1171 --- ## [Massacre of Glencoe: 320 years ago today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-of-glencoe-320-years-ago-today/612754)
**Author:** [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massacre-of-glencoe-320-years-ago-today/612754 "2012-02-14T01:29:47Z")
Rare picture unearthed of the aftermath. --- ## [Need a stargazer's help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-stargazers-help/612675)
**Author:** [@Jbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jbone)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-stargazers-help/612675 "2012-02-13T18:57:12Z")
So the past few weeks we’ve had pretty clear skies in WI (along with not having any snow). My young daughters started taking an interest in looking up at the stars when we get home at night. I myself have started taking … --- ## [Wartime Golf Rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wartime-golf-rules/612524)
**Author:** [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wartime-golf-rules/612524 "2012-02-13T16:54:24Z")
What to do if bombs are falling on your golf course. --- ## [I'm going to be the crazy bird lady.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-be-the-crazy-bird-lady/606912)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-be-the-crazy-bird-lady/606912 "2012-02-13T13:30:59Z")
I have two budgies. My apartment manager has two budgies. My apartment manager also has a new baby who seems to be allergic to birds. Budgies need new a new home so I said I’d take them. It was either that or let them g… --- ## [It's a Holly Jolly Sequential Threads Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holly-jolly-sequential-threads-thread/601837)
**Author:** [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Replies:** 687\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2012, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holly-jolly-sequential-threads-thread/601837 "2012-02-13T09:18:29Z")
In Cafe Society: What were these “side dishes” I was served at a Korean restaurant? Pregnant Bones --- ## [Better late than never MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-late-than-never-mmp/611969)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 228\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-late-than-never-mmp/611969 "2012-02-13T05:05:50Z")
I should have started this when I was on line at 1:30 this morning - no idea why I couldn’t sleep, but who knew no one would toss out the ball yet today? So, topic - better late than never. Um, I don’t know what to do … --- ## [Trucking companies and spelling and punctuation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trucking-companies-and-spelling-and-punctuation/612558)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trucking-companies-and-spelling-and-punctuation/612558 "2012-02-12T21:57:08Z")
I get data from more than one trucking company. One thing I’ve noticed is that they tend to have a whole lot of records. I’ve written a program to match current and previous files by a/r number, and to use the previous… --- ## [What brings a smile to your pointless existence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brings-a-smile-to-your-pointless-existence/610823)
**Author:** [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brings-a-smile-to-your-pointless-existence/610823 "2012-02-12T19:51:06Z")
OK, I’m feeling the weight of the world at the moment and mentally railing about things which I have no control over (and a few that I do). During this existential …crisis I went wandering about the interweb and ended u… --- ## [Psyhotic Dream I just awoke from.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psyhotic-dream-i-just-awoke-from/612606)
**Author:** [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psyhotic-dream-i-just-awoke-from/612606 "2012-02-12T19:24:56Z")
First, I know most people couldn’t care less about others dreams. Second, I know dreams don’t mean anything. I’m already forgetting many details and I am not a great storyteller in any case. Disclosure: I have trouble … --- ## [One thing you bought today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-thing-you-bought-today/612048)
**Author:** [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-thing-you-bought-today/612048 "2012-02-12T18:19:12Z")
Vicks NiQuil --- ## [Research touting health benefits of red wine consumption was faked](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/research-touting-health-benefits-of-red-wine-consumption-was-faked/612540)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/research-touting-health-benefits-of-red-wine-consumption-was-faked/612540 "2012-02-12T18:05:24Z")
Oh well… back to carrots. Gulp! Faking red wine research --- ## [Oldest Living Organism Discovered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-organism-discovered/612270)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-organism-discovered/612270 "2012-02-12T15:55:27Z")
Patches of ancient seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea. Up to 200,000 years old. Story here. Analysis shows they could be anywhere from 12,000 to 200,000 years old, but at least 100,000 is probable. That would beat the pre… --- ## [Apparently, Obama was born in Arizona and is also a clone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-obama-was-born-in-arizona-and-is-also-a-clone/612358)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-obama-was-born-in-arizona-and-is-also-a-clone/612358 "2012-02-12T08:34:57Z")
He then moved to Babylonia, got a condo made of stone-a, and is my favorite (live) honky. Seriously: Obama is a clone of Akhenaten, which you can see if you look at his face and Akhenaten’s face side-by-side and are a r… --- ## [I'm so upset I can't even think of a proper Pit title (ed: cheating ex and STD)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-upset-i-cant-even-think-of-a-proper-pit-title-ed-cheating-ex-and-std/609144)
**Author:** [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Replies:** 268\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-upset-i-cant-even-think-of-a-proper-pit-title-ed-cheating-ex-and-std/609144 "2012-02-12T04:25:05Z")
Seriously. Guy: I don’t want a relationship anymore. Me: ? Guy: I’m sorry. I don’t know what happened. I just can’t. Me: Eghh… Guy: And PS I have chlamydia. Me: ?! Please tell me it’s not from some Vegas hooker. G… --- ## [Play it Safe, or Take Chances?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-it-safe-or-take-chances/608092)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-it-safe-or-take-chances/608092 "2012-02-12T03:23:29Z")
I am lucky enough to be in a dull, comfortable rut. Agreeable but boring job with no “future.” Nice apartment in a dull little town. I realize how lucky I am to have the luxury of being bored out of my mind. My imp of t… --- ## [Think You're Important? Here Is Scale Of The Universe!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-important-here-is-scale-of-the-universe/612323)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-important-here-is-scale-of-the-universe/612323 "2012-02-12T01:13:28Z")
British friend sent me this link to a cool Flash graphic of the scale of the universe. (Go to the “Scale of the Universe” link on this site.) --- ## [Great Blog or Greatest Blog: Ghetto Hikes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-blog-or-greatest-blog-ghetto-hikes/612548)
**Author:** [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-blog-or-greatest-blog-ghetto-hikes/612548 "2012-02-12T00:36:59Z")
If you’re looking for some laughs today, I recommend you check out this blog, Ghetto Hikes. The author has a job leading urban kids who’ve rarely ventured outside the city on nature hikes and writes down what they say. “… --- ## [Dysfunctional familial WIN!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dysfunctional-familial-win/612566)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dysfunctional-familial-win/612566 "2012-02-12T00:32:54Z")
Going through my 40s, I have been increasingly disturbed by the frightening realization that my hands are starting to look like my mother’s hands do in my memory – and I loathe my mother. She is not a nice lady. Ha ha,… --- ## [So where did I put that $4,000?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518)
**Author:** [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518 "2012-02-11T21:48:46Z")
Damn. I had to pay some taxes here in Japan, and they only take cash. So I had about $4,000 in an envelope and I put it somewhere in my house. And I can’t remember where the fuck I put it. :smack: So where is it? --- ## [Help a fellow out, please -- just reply to one (or more) of your choice from:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-fellow-out-please-just-reply-to-one-or-more-of-your-choice-from/612533)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-fellow-out-please-just-reply-to-one-or-more-of-your-choice-from/612533 "2012-02-11T18:21:36Z")
Just to see the magnitude of the problem I have had with starting threads that have gotten zero replies, I found that I have (as of this moment) 33 such threads dating back to my first year here. Some are very recent. A… --- ## [Teenaged boy eats like a starving wolf -- normal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenaged-boy-eats-like-a-starving-wolf-normal/612105)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenaged-boy-eats-like-a-starving-wolf-normal/612105 "2012-02-11T18:14:01Z")
For reasons too boring to bother explaining, a teenaged semi-nephew of ours had to stay at our house from after school yesterday until leaving for school this morning. His mother had said “he’ll eat anything” and “he li… --- ## [Why talk to friends from 30 years ago?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-talk-to-friends-from-30-years-ago/612525)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-talk-to-friends-from-30-years-ago/612525 "2012-02-11T17:47:29Z")
With facebook , people keep telling me they talk to friends from many years ago. Why do people want to do that now? I have zero interest in that. I live where I grew up so I can talk to friends from way back in pers… --- ## [It's a small town I live in, and sometimes things make no sense...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-small-town-i-live-in-and-sometimes-things-make-no-sense/612227)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-small-town-i-live-in-and-sometimes-things-make-no-sense/612227 "2012-02-11T16:39:04Z")
Every year when my mother came to Door County on vacation, she would buy an item, usually a piece of furniture, from Ida Bay, who ran the best antique store in the county, where every item was put on sale only after bein… --- ## [Hardened criminals on the loose](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardened-criminals-on-the-loose/612271)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardened-criminals-on-the-loose/612271 "2012-02-11T03:24:57Z")
A thief in Iowa City stole a $250 “Mega Masturbator” doll from a sex shop at 3 a.m. and fled. Entertainingly, the police released a security camera photo to the public to help identify him. The images on the doll’s box… --- ## [Does anyone make adjustable platform beds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-adjustable-platform-beds/612469)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-make-adjustable-platform-beds/612469 "2012-02-11T01:59:10Z")
I need a firm mattress to sleep on, and at a mattress store today a worker recommended I get a platform bed instead of box springs. There are adjustable metal bed frames like this model that work with box springs. Th… --- ## [I have a new job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-job/612371)
**Author:** [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-job/612371 "2012-02-11T01:21:36Z")
The economy must be improving. :slight\_smile: I had a telephone interview with a Fortune 400 company today at 1pm, ending at 1:30pm. At 2:15pm the recruiter called me back and said the client was “really pumped up” an… --- ## [Huh. So I apparently co-own some property that I was unaware of!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-so-i-apparently-co-own-some-property-that-i-was-unaware-of/612483)
**Author:** [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huh-so-i-apparently-co-own-some-property-that-i-was-unaware-of/612483 "2012-02-11T01:20:17Z")
I divorced in 1995. At the time, my then-husband and I had a mortgage on a house (tiny little house in a nearby town.) The divorce decree “awarded” him the house (we probably had about $1.47 in equity at the time, since … --- ## [Cool youtube video about pulsejet engines by gent who has built one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-youtube-video-about-pulsejet-engines-by-gent-who-has-built-one/612471)
**Author:** [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-youtube-video-about-pulsejet-engines-by-gent-who-has-built-one/612471 "2012-02-10T23:30:48Z")
As he says at the end, it’s technically an infomercial. But don’t worry about that. There’s over five minutes of solid content and I found it both interesting and simple - in a good way. Here it is: - YouTube --- ## [Curious factoid about sunset times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-factoid-about-sunset-times/612405)
**Author:** [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-factoid-about-sunset-times/612405 "2012-02-10T23:17:17Z")
At this time of year, here high up in the northern hemisphere, I find myself longing for the arrival of spring, sometimes poring over the sunset/sunrise times at timeanddate.com . There are a few features of seasonal va… --- ## [I am claiming victory in this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844)
**Author:** [@J\_Cubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_Cubed)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-claiming-victory-in-this-thread/611844 "2012-02-10T22:52:23Z")
This thread here. That’s right, I win it. Things were getting pretty hot and heavy in there last night, but it is clearly I who finally broke Granny Rainbow. You’re all welcome. Please inscribe my trophy thusly. Alt… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1171)