# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=259 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 260 --- ## [Two counties divided by a common language](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-counties-divided-by-a-common-language/944534)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-counties-divided-by-a-common-language/944534 "2021-06-20T03:51:42Z")
There are many examples of this but this one really takes the biscuit: 131294201\_10158236705586430\_1643675144519166197\_n.png (739×807) (fbcdn.net) --- ## [Red landscape mulch bark that stinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-landscape-mulch-bark-that-stinks/944499)
**Author:** [@chasole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chasole)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-landscape-mulch-bark-that-stinks/944499 "2021-06-20T02:18:55Z")
I live in a neighborhood that employs a landscape company to maintain the common areas. They put down that reddish colored mulch under the bushes. Whenever it rains lightly I notice it smells like a forest fire. Is it po… --- ## [Getting older](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-older/943726)
**Author:** [@chasole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chasole)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-older/943726 "2021-06-20T01:49:00Z")
Entering my 60’s I often find myself using my toes to pick things up. A sock, a Cheeto, coins (difficult), pretty much anything. I don’t even do it consciously, not sure if it is due to laziness or a desire to not bend o… --- ## [Now that I have moved back to my hometown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-i-have-moved-back-to-my-hometown/944619)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-i-have-moved-back-to-my-hometown/944619 "2021-06-20T00:59:49Z")
Every Wednesday I got to my parents house and make dinner. Ya know what I made this week? Pork chops and applesauce. Gee, it was swell. --- ## [Snowwhite, what the heck? Bad, bad, bad Beck in the forest and, dancing around and singin'(well that's stretching it alittle)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowwhite-what-the-heck-bad-bad-bad-beck-in-the-forest-and-dancing-around-and-singin-well-thats-stretching-it-alittle/944512)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowwhite-what-the-heck-bad-bad-bad-beck-in-the-forest-and-dancing-around-and-singin-well-thats-stretching-it-alittle/944512 "2021-06-19T06:09:38Z")
You know how I acquired my dog Bayliss. Basically he just magically appeared on my deck. Every animal around this joint loves me. (Don’t count the Siamese, I’m not sure they are animals). I’ve recently attracted a 'pos… --- ## [Pocketbook full of money and no destination in mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pocketbook-full-of-money-and-no-destination-in-mind/943233)
**Author:** [@shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pocketbook-full-of-money-and-no-destination-in-mind/943233 "2021-06-19T04:19:54Z")
First stop Brady Texas, then on to Irran. I might crash in Fort Stockton. The mountains are secluded with bountiful varieties of wildlife. Mile after mile of hair pin turns and the windmills allude to surreal in the … --- ## [Lurkers, show yourselves!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-show-yourselves/943968)
**Author:** [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lurkers-show-yourselves/943968 "2021-06-18T19:54:29Z")
I have been a regular visitor to the SDMB for many moons, months of Sundays, donkeys’ years, and other synonyms. I very rarely post but I come here almost daily, and even subscribe to a few favorite threads. There are m… --- ## [Anachronisms that persist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anachronisms-that-persist/944009)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 143\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anachronisms-that-persist/944009 "2021-06-18T15:49:31Z")
My friend who is my age (56) recently called a refrigerator an ‘icebox’ even though home refrigerators have been around since what, the 20s or 30s? Still, not so crazy, I suppose. But even more surprising to me, just th… --- ## [My mother has passed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-has-passed/944087)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-has-passed/944087 "2021-06-17T22:33:56Z")
Midday today my sister went to my Mom’s house and found she had died. Mom was just past her 89th birthday. I loved her as much as anyone in the world. She and my dad did a great job of parenting, although their styles … --- ## [Listen Brain, If You Send Me an Earworm, at least Know the Damn Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-brain-if-you-send-me-an-earworm-at-least-know-the-damn-song/944473)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-brain-if-you-send-me-an-earworm-at-least-know-the-damn-song/944473 "2021-06-17T18:54:35Z")
Look Brain, you don’t know the song Flow Gently, Sweet Afton. I think we heard part of it while watching Pride and Prejudice something like twenty years ago. You know the first line, and maybe half of the second. It s… --- ## [Thurgood Marshall Was An Eloquent Speaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thurgood-marshall-was-an-eloquent-speaker/944416)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thurgood-marshall-was-an-eloquent-speaker/944416 "2021-06-17T01:45:23Z")
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at t… --- ## [Oredigger77 is not a troll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oredigger77-is-not-a-troll/944425)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oredigger77-is-not-a-troll/944425 "2021-06-17T00:26:10Z")
… but he(?) is kind of bad at picking examples. :wink: --- ## [Art Deco is weird](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-deco-is-weird/944257)
**Author:** [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-deco-is-weird/944257 "2021-06-16T18:01:02Z")
I absolutely LOVE art deco architecture. You’d be hard pressed to find an art deco building interior or exterior I don’t like. Yet the furniture, knick nacks etc., associated with art deco I find almost universally hid… --- ## [Uh. . . Anyone in the KC MO area that could do a Doper a favor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-anyone-in-the-kc-mo-area-that-could-do-a-doper-a-favor/943059)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-anyone-in-the-kc-mo-area-that-could-do-a-doper-a-favor/943059 "2021-06-16T16:56:35Z")
I’m on the East Coast, and have a damaged package (USPS) that never made it to its destination. USPS can neither deliver it nor send it back. It’ll have to be picked up and repackaged. Any takers and I’ll PM the detail… --- ## [Man found dead inside a dinosaur statue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-inside-a-dinosaur-statue/942834)
**Author:** [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-inside-a-dinosaur-statue/942834 "2021-06-16T16:49:16Z")
A man was found dead inside a statue in Catalonia after he apparently fell in trying to retrieve his cell phone and got trapped. --- ## [Successful credit card reversals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/successful-credit-card-reversals/944332)
**Author:** [@oldoaktree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldoaktree)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/successful-credit-card-reversals/944332 "2021-06-16T16:29:31Z")
What’s your most expensive credit card reversal you’ve been able to get? Obvious fraud where you simply didn’t make the charge doesn’t count. I’m talking about a dispute with the business that you did actually have a t… --- ## [This was not the morning I had planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-was-not-the-morning-i-had-planned/944295)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-was-not-the-morning-i-had-planned/944295 "2021-06-16T15:20:34Z")
I did not plan to find myself driving from the barn where I board my horse Ben to the hospital with a wad of paper napkins stanching the bleeding from my ankle. But let me start at the beginning: I’d watched the mornin… --- ## [BippityBoppityBoo : Cake-Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bippityboppityboo-cake-day/944130)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bippityboppityboo-cake-day/944130 "2021-06-16T13:41:59Z")
@BippityBoppityBoo has been with us for a full year! Congrats, and thanks for sticking around. (Lots of newbies run screaming into the night…) --- ## [TubaDiva has passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121)
**Author:** [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Replies:** 425\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121 "2021-06-16T05:39:58Z")
I just got word from a friend who knows her from the Atlanta juggling community that Our Humble TubaDiva passed away, I believe yesterday. No details known as yet. --- ## [Whale tries to eat man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whale-tries-to-eat-man/944124)
**Author:** [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whale-tries-to-eat-man/944124 "2021-06-16T02:50:53Z")
In local news (New England) – a humpback whale tried to eat a man who was diving for lobsters. He was actually IN THE WHALE’s CLOSED MOUTH. FInally the whale spit him out. Here he is telling what happened. … --- ## [Hey Bad Bad Bad Lady!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-bad-bad-bad-lady/944247)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-bad-bad-bad-lady/944247 "2021-06-16T02:17:12Z")
Inquiring minds gotta know! Are the puzzle books providing a distraction on D-Days? Just about every word puzzle was available in one book or another. I used to really enjoy logic puzzles until I went on Pain Management… --- ## [McDonald's early policy - we don't hire women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-early-policy-we-dont-hire-women/925717)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-early-policy-we-dont-hire-women/925717 "2021-06-16T02:11:00Z")
I came across this article a few years back when researching the earliest McDonald’s in NE Ohio. The article is a 1959 interview of one of the largest McDonald’s operators - Donald Coffey from Arlington Heights. After h… --- ## [Texas Power Grid: Summer lovin' had me a blast!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-power-grid-summer-lovin-had-me-a-blast/944342)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-power-grid-summer-lovin-had-me-a-blast/944342 "2021-06-15T19:35:01Z")
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages. At the same time, the stat… --- ## [Clumsy things I have done (or can't stop doing)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clumsy-things-i-have-done-or-cant-stop-doing/943979)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clumsy-things-i-have-done-or-cant-stop-doing/943979 "2021-06-15T14:03:56Z")
I was going to post this in the “Brain Farts” thread, but I think it’s more clumsy than brain fart-esque. I know, in theory, how to open a door that has a doorknob and I’m on the side that opens away from me. Turn knob,… --- ## [Million Dollar Mansions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/million-dollar-mansions/943393)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 126\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/million-dollar-mansions/943393 "2021-06-15T02:25:30Z")
I see real estate shows where spectacular million dollar mansions are displayed, and I was wondering what a million dollars (more or less…and don’t go overboard on the “more”, please) worth of house would look like in yo… --- ## [Nothing to See Here - Reported Leak At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-see-here-reported-leak-at-chinese-nuclear-power-plant/944249)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-see-here-reported-leak-at-chinese-nuclear-power-plant/944249 "2021-06-15T01:19:52Z")
Gotta love the Chinese approach - to “fix” the problem increase the permitted amount of radiation release! Seems the French part-owners weren’t making headway and are now asking the US for assistance. I’m sure the Ch… --- ## [Jeffery Toobin flashed his junk on a Zoom call to other New Yorker staffers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-toobin-flashed-his-junk-on-a-zoom-call-to-other-new-yorker-staffers/923363)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 173\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-toobin-flashed-his-junk-on-a-zoom-call-to-other-new-yorker-staffers/923363 "2021-06-14T18:58:33Z")
…and has now been suspended. He says he thought he wasn’t sharing video…Hmmmmmm. He has requested time off for personal matters at his other gig, CNN and they have granted it. C’mon, what possible reason would he ha… --- ## [When things don't work. At all](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-things-dont-work-at-all/944159)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-things-dont-work-at-all/944159 "2021-06-14T16:23:05Z")
My task for today was to install a new toilet in the powder room we just added. I had already installed the new flange, so it should have been a simple matter of setting the toilet on the flange seal and bolting it in pl… --- ## [Memorial gathering for Nate Wooley/Jonathan Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-gathering-for-nate-wooley-jonathan-chance/944149)
**Author:** [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-gathering-for-nate-wooley-jonathan-chance/944149 "2021-06-14T14:56:12Z")
In case there are any here who would like to attend, this is an invitation to the memorial gathering for Nate/Jonathan To all who wish to celebrate the life of Nate Wooley, a drop-in memorial service will be held July 3… --- ## [I'm melting, I'm melting in the MMP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-melting-im-melting-in-the-mmp/943758)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 277\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-melting-im-melting-in-the-mmp/943758 "2021-06-14T02:04:03Z")
Looks like summer is upon southern Merrylande, and other places, too. Heat, humidity, insects, t-storms, cats and dogs living together… :open\_mouth: :rofl: When I was a kid, we didn’t have a/c, but we did have a window… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=258) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=260)