# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1181 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1182 --- ## [Steve Wozniak, Android fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-wozniak-android-fan/609962 "2012-01-20T02:47:24Z")
Interesting comments http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2012/01/17/10175148-wozniak-likes-his-android-phone-a-lot --- ## [Ask the chick that had her gallbladder out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-that-had-her-gallbladder-out/609941)
**Author:** [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-that-had-her-gallbladder-out/609941 "2012-01-20T01:50:26Z")
It’s been close to a year since the surgery, and I don’t see a gallbladder “ask the” thread, so what the hell? Ask away! (P.S. I know there are quite a few Dopers that have had a Cholecystectomy and mine was a little u… --- ## [lost NO I KILLED MY SUNSHINE !!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-no-i-killed-my-sunshine/609949)
**Author:** [@lost\_the\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost_the_sunshine)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-no-i-killed-my-sunshine/609949 "2012-01-20T01:34:17Z")
Yesterday I had my beautiful little dog put to sleep, she was deaf and very neurotic and compulsive, a little dominant and growly. But still a joyfull bundle of love wraped in fur on four legs. When I got home I realize… --- ## [Did you get MLK Day off?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-mlk-day-off/609761 "2012-01-20T00:23:24Z")
Today was the observed birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Did you get the day off in whole or in part (obviously only for workers in the U.S.)? What field do you work in? For that matter which holidays do you get off … --- ## [10-digit extensions are over the line, ok](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-digit-extensions-are-over-the-line-ok/609951)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-digit-extensions-are-over-the-line-ok/609951 "2012-01-19T23:42:19Z")
TEN digits? A 10-digit extension? Are you goddamn kidding me?? An entire phone number is 10 digits. A 10-digit extension is like having \*two phone numbers \*(with different area codes)for one person. Never in my LIFE have… --- ## [Greetings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings/609973)
**Author:** [@Keen\_Tojones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keen_Tojones)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings/609973 "2012-01-19T23:16:11Z")
I am Keen Tojones. I look forward to chatting with you all someday soon, when I have more time. I write, paint and play the violin a little. I speak a little french and continue to study it. I’m 52 and female. Homes… --- ## [Any idea of the name of this company (that's probably out of business)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-idea-of-the-name-of-this-company-thats-probably-out-of-business/609998)
**Author:** [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-idea-of-the-name-of-this-company-thats-probably-out-of-business/609998 "2012-01-19T22:17:58Z")
On a rerun of a 2000 Ripley’s Believe it or Not they showed a service that used homing pidgins to fly film to their development lab so you could take pictures far away from the lab, then have the pidgins fly the film bac… --- ## [\*beep\* Forever Haunted by Smoke Detectors! \*beep\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beep-forever-haunted-by-smoke-detectors-beep/609130)
**Author:** [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beep-forever-haunted-by-smoke-detectors-beep/609130 "2012-01-19T21:55:06Z")
Anyone else hear these damn things with low batteries everygoddamnedwhere?! They’re stalking me. There’s one beeping in the basement hallway at work right now. beep I almost always hear them at night. Walking down the st… --- ## [A Cop and His Epic Failure](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cop-and-his-epic-failure/608398)
**Author:** [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cop-and-his-epic-failure/608398 "2012-01-19T20:11:49Z")
A cop gets sued after asking a woman out for a date. The problem is that this is after he gave her a speeding ticket. Mahbe he’s an honest cop and had to give her the ticket and that’s besides the point…? A great side j… --- ## [sequential threads :D](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-d/610056)
**Author:** [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-d/610056 "2012-01-19T19:55:24Z")
:smiley: I’m REALLY not sexist but these gave me a chuckle. http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7096/captureoym.png --- ## [Drunk driver hogtied!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-driver-hogtied/609975)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-driver-hogtied/609975 "2012-01-19T19:13:12Z")
\[ If I had a hat, I’d doff it in honor of these folks. Would it be gauche to buy them a drink? I could be the DD for the evening. --- ## [The Kodak Story: Chapter 11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996 "2012-01-19T18:23:21Z")
Ddamn! \[ \](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_KODAKS\_LEGACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-19-04-04-12) I think they mean “the most storied casualty to date”. Does anyone have Kodak in th… --- ## [Tackling the Mess in the Front Room, or Why I'm Up at 2 am](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackling-the-mess-in-the-front-room-or-why-im-up-at-2-am/609678)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackling-the-mess-in-the-front-room-or-why-im-up-at-2-am/609678 "2012-01-19T18:09:22Z")
I’ve mentioned this in a prior thread or two, but I’ve never been neat, and over the past decade or so have finally admitted to being a proto-hoarder (meaning, clutter and mess but still able to move around the house, si… --- ## [Things You Can Do With Buttocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-with-buttocks/609766)
**Author:** [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-do-with-buttocks/609766 "2012-01-19T16:31:05Z")
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/05/woman-buttocks-damage-painting-clyfford-still What else can one do with buttocks? --- ## [So are 70's porn star moustaches becoming the rage again?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-70s-porn-star-moustaches-becoming-the-rage-again/609185)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-70s-porn-star-moustaches-becoming-the-rage-again/609185 "2012-01-19T16:23:04Z")
Because I’ve been noticing them starting to crop up. Then again, maybe it’s just confined to hockey players, because that’s where I’ve been seeing them. I thought maybe Progressive Insurance’s new unnamed commercial ch… --- ## [Yeah, I'm gonna get firfed from work.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-im-gonna-get-firfed-from-work/609429)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-im-gonna-get-firfed-from-work/609429 "2012-01-19T15:40:34Z")
Ok, the tittle was in jest. I’m not going to get fired. But still, what the hell was my friend and I thinking? At work we have this conference room where all the upper management folk have there daily meetings. In orde… --- ## [AP Opens Pyongyang Bureau](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-opens-pyongyang-bureau/609968)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-opens-pyongyang-bureau/609968 "2012-01-19T02:47:18Z")
Story here. Making them the only international news agency with a full-time staff there. Located inside Korean Central News Agency HQ. However, the staff will be locals and presumably watched closely. I wonder what they… --- ## [What \*is\* it about quarries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-quarries/609958)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-about-quarries/609958 "2012-01-19T00:31:31Z")
I’ve seen quite a few references in the last 2-3 days, about throwing stuff into a quarry to see if it’s fun, or something like that. Where did that meme come from? --- ## [Wikipedia shutting down for 24 hours on January 18.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-shutting-down-for-24-hours-on-january-18/609765)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-shutting-down-for-24-hours-on-january-18/609765 "2012-01-18T23:23:55Z")
To protest the anti-piracy, web blocking bill in Congress. --- ## [Rescuer shoots out car window underwater to save trapped children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescuer-shoots-out-car-window-underwater-to-save-trapped-children/608661)
**Author:** [@wei\_ji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wei_ji)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescuer-shoots-out-car-window-underwater-to-save-trapped-children/608661 "2012-01-18T22:32:39Z")
Here is one for discussion. Story is in the Salt Lake Tribune, January 5, 2012, “Rescuer says shooting out car window was only option to save children.” Story Lead: "Chris Willden wants to be perfectly clear — if h… --- ## [Remember Google! with an ! in it? Or the Green Twttr Logo? Old Web Page designs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-google-with-an-in-it-or-the-green-twttr-logo-old-web-page-designs/609924 "2012-01-18T22:21:25Z")
This article brought back a few memories. :smiley: I still remembered Google! originally had an exclamation mark. I never understood the change. I had never seen the first Amazon page before. Nor the butt ugly green T… --- ## [What meaning can be attached to "YPAM"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-meaning-can-be-attached-to-ypam/609921)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-meaning-can-be-attached-to-ypam/609921 "2012-01-18T21:58:41Z")
I can’t get anything to make sense in the Acronym Finder universe. --- ## [Shit homophobic people say](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shit-homophobic-people-say/609528)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shit-homophobic-people-say/609528 "2012-01-18T19:02:36Z")
Gee, they didn’t even mention Adam & Steve. I’m too tired to put this in the pit; nothing original here anyway. It’s just sad that people actually believe this shit, in the 21st century. --- ## [Video: History's First Recorded IT Professional.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-historys-first-recorded-it-professional/609858)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-historys-first-recorded-it-professional/609858 "2012-01-18T17:28:44Z")
If you’ve ever done IT support this hits home. Even if you haven’t it’s hilarious. It’s safe for work. --- ## [Nostalgia for places I have never seen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-places-i-have-never-seen/609912)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgia-for-places-i-have-never-seen/609912 "2012-01-18T17:16:48Z")
I miss plenty of long-gone places: bookstores (Gotham Book Mart, Scribner’s), shops (Altman’s, Fiorucci’s), restaurants (the great Paolini’s in Bryn Mawr). But I was thinking last night of places my mother had told me a… --- ## [Easter candy is out, and it's not even Valentine's Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-candy-is-out-and-its-not-even-valentines-day/609669)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-candy-is-out-and-its-not-even-valentines-day/609669 "2012-01-18T16:04:23Z")
I was in the grocery store today and saw a small display of Easter candies, things like Russell Stover’s marshmallow eggs, and Cadbury cream filled eggs. How can they have this stuff out before Valentine’s Day? Easter … --- ## [An open letter to Der Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-der-trihs/609602)
**Author:** [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-der-trihs/609602 "2012-01-18T15:37:21Z")
I was a very religious Christian. My earliest memory of you is of you calling Jesus a cunt. I messaged the mods to get some discipline handed out, but no luck. Over the years I have watched you virulently and unapolog… --- ## [So, who else reads in the bath?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-else-reads-in-the-bath/609501)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-else-reads-in-the-bath/609501 "2012-01-18T12:46:13Z")
Inspired by this thread, of course. Who else reads in the bath? --- ## [The ultimate 'beauty secret': Fotoshop by Adobé](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720)
**Author:** [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-beauty-secret-fotoshop-by-adobe/609720 "2012-01-18T11:50:29Z")
Link to Scientific American (!) video-of-the week page. Funny and scary at the same time. --- ## [99 rejected Cosmo story ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rejected-cosmo-story-ideas/609803)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rejected-cosmo-story-ideas/609803 "2012-01-18T04:16:59Z")
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