# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1208 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1209 --- ## [Very interesting article - "THE CLASS SCHISM AMONG THE SEGREGATIONISTS"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-interesting-article-the-class-schism-among-the-segregationists/603416)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-interesting-article-the-class-schism-among-the-segregationists/603416 "2011-11-23T20:23:07Z")
THE CLASS SCHISM AMONG THE SEGREGATIONISTS by BRENT NELSON I’m only a bit of the way in, but it’s a fascinating read on a sociological terrain that has only been lightly explored. --- ## [HTC Phones don't have alarm app](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/htc-phones-dont-have-alarm-app/603906)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/htc-phones-dont-have-alarm-app/603906 "2011-11-23T19:48:42Z")
Well… sometimes they do. I have a new HTC Incredible II that I really like. Except… The standard alarm and timer app no longer works. It worked for a while, then stopped and then came back. Now it appears to be gone… --- ## [Video: Gratitude](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-gratitude/603908)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-gratitude/603908 "2011-11-23T19:40:25Z")
A video presentation by Louis Schwartzberg: It starts with a stage talk in which he explains his background and shows some of his work. All that’s very nice and pretty, but the profound part starts around… --- ## [Mundane lightbulb moments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-lightbulb-moments/603426)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-lightbulb-moments/603426 "2011-11-23T19:32:23Z")
I had a rather mundane epiphany last week. I want to hear yours too. So, I started a new job on the 8th. The city it’s in is one I’ve only been to a couple of dozen times before and only two of those times were in the p… --- ## [Wii Fit users - what's your daily calorie goal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-fit-users-whats-your-daily-calorie-goal/603642)
**Author:** [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-fit-users-whats-your-daily-calorie-goal/603642 "2011-11-23T18:58:28Z")
Mine’s 93 and has been for about a year; it doesn’t sound much, so I’m considering increasing it. However, since I like doing some of the yoga and muscle exercises as well as aerobic, that already takes about half an hou… --- ## [Help design an "Intuition" Test](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-design-an-intuition-test/603492)
**Author:** [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-design-an-intuition-test/603492 "2011-11-23T18:24:13Z")
just as a theoretical exersice, what sort of questions would you put on a test designed to measure intuition? The best I could do would be a question in which there was no possible way a person could “know” the answer a… --- ## [Facebook funkiness?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-funkiness/603868)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-funkiness/603868 "2011-11-23T17:47:59Z")
Anyone else having problems with Facebook this morning? --- ## [What's The Oldest Thing You Use Everyday?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-thing-you-use-everyday/603449)
**Author:** [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-thing-you-use-everyday/603449 "2011-11-23T17:41:12Z")
It must be a thing, not a person or animal or plant. You must use it at least five out of 7 days a week… For me it’s a wind up watch. It’s simplistic and it works great. My grandmother got it before World War II. --- ## [How Can I Find Reports About My Grandmother's Murder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-find-reports-about-my-grandmothers-murder/603723)
**Author:** [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-find-reports-about-my-grandmothers-murder/603723 "2011-11-23T16:07:42Z")
What I’ve always known is that my grandmother was murdered in 1977, beaten to death by ‘person or persons unknown’ (as it says on her death certificate), no reason for the murder ascertained - she still had 2d on her per… --- ## [Let's be Facebook friends!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329)
**Author:** [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329 "2011-11-23T15:23:06Z")
Inspired by this thread… Why don’t we fill up our facebook friend lists with fellow Dopers, instead of these twits? Here’s my profile, go ahead and friend me if you want. I might occasionally be guilty of posting a p… --- ## [What's the wierdest thing you use every day?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wierdest-thing-you-use-every-day/603608)
**Author:** [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-wierdest-thing-you-use-every-day/603608 "2011-11-23T14:24:35Z")
I go over to my computer desk and look at my monitor. Stupid lizard. Serious answer: I talk to my purple stuffed animal moose. It pleases me to get his insights on the day’s events. --- ## [A Dumb Thing I did](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522 "2011-11-23T13:37:55Z")
The water heater is leaking. A friend of mine who is a plumber and I go to Loewe’s to buy another. He had to attend a pressure test on some gas plumbing he did, so we bought it today, he will do the install tomorrow. B… --- ## [Somebody's working late....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebodys-working-late/603836)
**Author:** [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebodys-working-late/603836 "2011-11-23T13:36:56Z")
I don’t order a ton of stuff online, but when I do, I usually get a shipping confirmation a day or so later. Tonight at 7:52 I ordered a bundle of three things through Amazon, all coming from different vendors. At 8:54pm… --- ## [Pendulum waves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pendulum-waves/603795)
**Author:** [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pendulum-waves/603795 "2011-11-23T13:24:58Z")
"Harvard students built a device with a series of 15 pendulums in a row, each one slightly longer than its neighbor, then set them in motion and filmed the result. The resulting patterns in this short video are quite fa… --- ## [Cutest Owl In The World](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutest-owl-in-the-world/603443)
**Author:** [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutest-owl-in-the-world/603443 "2011-11-23T12:24:50Z")
Maybe cutest bird ever Be prepared to go AWWWWW before you click the link --- ## [Whales drown in Great Flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whales-drown-in-great-flood/603669)
**Author:** [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whales-drown-in-great-flood/603669 "2011-11-23T11:58:12Z")
According to this news story, numerous whale bones, including 25 complete skeletons found in a Chilean desert have led many to argue that this is evidence for the Great Flood. Whales… Drowning… In a flood… --- ## [Unexpected Kevin Baconness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpected-kevin-baconness/602266)
**Author:** [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpected-kevin-baconness/602266 "2011-11-23T10:05:15Z")
(linky if you need an explanation) Have you ever found two unrelated aspects of your life that connected in weird ways? I’ve had two in the past week: I lived in a small town (Evergreen), my first paid job was working… --- ## [Orphaned elephants may suffer from PTSD much like humans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orphaned-elephants-may-suffer-from-ptsd-much-like-humans/603557)
**Author:** [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orphaned-elephants-may-suffer-from-ptsd-much-like-humans/603557 "2011-11-23T04:32:36Z")
Ran across a very interesting article from a recent National Geographic. It talks about an African refuge for orphaned elephants and about recent findings that suggest elephants have very human-like reactions to the trau… --- ## [Well \*\*\*\*.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/603663)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well/603663 "2011-11-23T03:28:27Z")
My body has a strange relationship to caffeine- as of last night and early this morning I may have found a pattern. It seems that if I drink Coke (or choke down some coffee) when I’m tired, the caffeine does diddly squat… --- ## [Baby's here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538)
**Author:** [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538 "2011-11-23T01:34:35Z")
As I’m sure many of you remember fromthis thread my husband and I have been expecting a baby. Well, we are expecting no longer because she has finally arrived! Thursday morning I checked into the hospital and gave birt… --- ## [Ever have "chicken pox parties"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-chicken-pox-parties/603210)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-chicken-pox-parties/603210 "2011-11-23T00:40:52Z")
This odd story reminded me that as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s I knew a number of kids who had “chicken pox parties”. When a neighborhood kid got chicken pox, parents would often send their kids to hang out with the… --- ## [Extreme couponer - "Nobody has a stockpile like mine!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-couponer-nobody-has-a-stockpile-like-mine/603576)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-couponer-nobody-has-a-stockpile-like-mine/603576 "2011-11-22T22:07:26Z")
It’s like a mini mall! Couponers uncover extreme savings --- ## [Newt Gingrich’s Education Plan Is To Fire Janitors And Replace Them With Kids](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-s-education-plan-is-to-fire-janitors-and-replace-them-with-kids/603682)
**Author:** [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-s-education-plan-is-to-fire-janitors-and-replace-them-with-kids/603682 "2011-11-22T21:51:19Z")
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/not-an-onion-spoof-newt-gingrichs-education-plan-is-to-fire-janitors-and-replace-them-with-kids/ So here we get a two-fer. Those precious over-paid janitors who have been living high-on-the-… --- ## [Banner Ad - "Take a Breath Brake" - huh?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banner-ad-take-a-breath-brake-huh/603791)
**Author:** [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banner-ad-take-a-breath-brake-huh/603791 "2011-11-22T20:49:40Z")
I just noticed a big orange banner ad for “Kids Kicking Cancer” that says “Take a Breath Brake.” I guess kids learn martial arts and relaxation techniques in order to better cope with chemotherapy. Which is great. But… --- ## [Have name-brand Kleenex gotten smaller & thinner lately?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-name-brand-kleenex-gotten-smaller-thinner-lately/603652)
**Author:** [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-name-brand-kleenex-gotten-smaller-thinner-lately/603652 "2011-11-22T19:51:56Z")
I recently bought a 3-pack of boxes of Kleenex, but they seem very thin and a little smaller than they used to be. I usually buy store-brand tissues, so it probably has been a while since I used real Kleenex. Has there… --- ## [Nice grocery-store moment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-grocery-store-moment/603496)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-grocery-store-moment/603496 "2011-11-22T18:10:18Z")
I was at the Shop-Rite fish counter this morning and noticed the fishmonger had put the porgy and bass right next to each other. All day I’ve been humming “Bass, you is my dinner now.” --- ## [Photo montage of one young person's Occupy Wall Street experience this past weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-montage-of-one-young-persons-occupy-wall-street-experience-this-past-weekend/603713)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-montage-of-one-young-persons-occupy-wall-street-experience-this-past-weekend/603713 "2011-11-22T15:12:45Z")
Some interesting pics This is the occupied park that was in the news that the police were trying to clear out. Not sure of the exact location. Works best if you choose the “slideshow” viewing option. --- ## [I passed my exam! In Icelandic!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-my-exam-in-icelandic/603687)
**Author:** [@toodlepip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toodlepip)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-my-exam-in-icelandic/603687 "2011-11-22T14:42:52Z")
It won’t change my life in any way whatsoever. It doesn’t give me a qualification that will be of any use. The subject is a hobby I will never make a living from, nor would I want to. Most of my fellow students were kids… --- ## [Dogs named "Bella"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-named-bella/603381)
**Author:** [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-named-bella/603381 "2011-11-22T07:22:26Z")
I know at least 3 dogs named “Bella” and I’ve heard people mention dogs named Bella more than that. Why is this such a common dog name? Or is it just chance that I happen to know so many? --- ## [Got a $1 Megabus ticket!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-1-megabus-ticket/603721)
**Author:** [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-1-megabus-ticket/603721 "2011-11-22T05:03:45Z")
I knew it was possible, but I never was able to plan far enough in advnace to actually get one. But they just opened the first few weeks of January for booking, and I managed to get an overnight journey from Kansas City … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1209)