# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=341 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 342 --- ## [What car(s) did I see?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-s-did-i-see/839711)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-s-did-i-see/839711 "2020-03-01T03:33:37Z")
I saw 2 cars in a garage. Didn’t see any more than the back. 1 was a lime green Chevy, badged XLV. I assume it is a limited edition Camaro convertible. The other, I have no idea. The rear seemed perfectly rectangula… --- ## [How about THAT! It actually works!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-it-actually-works/848531)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-that-it-actually-works/848531 "2020-03-01T00:07:38Z")
Per Beckdawrek’s request, she wants me to start more threads. Or something like that. Anyway, we are drowning in consumer products. TV ads, Internet, phone calls, mail order catalogs, ads on buses, in-flight magazines i… --- ## [atmospheric reentry images](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atmospheric-reentry-images/848722)
**Author:** [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atmospheric-reentry-images/848722 "2020-02-29T23:00:38Z")
Beautiful images from this 2014 Orion reentry footage. Very nice sequence of images, all the way to splashdown. --- ## [Congratulations, Heaven Fitch! (High school wrestling champ!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-heaven-fitch-high-school-wrestling-champ/848604)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-heaven-fitch-high-school-wrestling-champ/848604 "2020-02-29T15:09:46Z")
Story here. Picture here. You go, girl! Good job! --- ## [It's been a while since I had a good spit-take.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-while-since-i-had-a-good-spit-take/848702)
**Author:** [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-while-since-i-had-a-good-spit-take/848702 "2020-02-29T14:09:38Z")
I’m eating breakfast at my local diner this morning. Sharing a table with several friends, swapping stories and news, drinking coffee by the gallon and just easing into the morning. Usually we tend to skip over the polit… --- ## [Caller ID - "Probably Fraud"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caller-id-probably-fraud/848676)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caller-id-probably-fraud/848676 "2020-02-29T13:58:26Z")
This showed up on our caller ID when the phone rang last night. (Land line - AT&T U-verse) I noticed a month or two ago that some calls started showing up on our Verizon Wireless mobile phones as “Potential Spam”. So it… --- ## [Quirky hobbies/pastimes which you suspect only you partake in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-hobbies-pastimes-which-you-suspect-only-you-partake-in/726278 "2020-02-29T02:33:28Z")
Such that, if even a fellow Doper were to say that he or she did it too, you’d be surprised. We Dopers of course are a sufficiently odd slice of society so that you probably wouldn’t be able to put anything over us, but … --- ## [Update on my sons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-on-my-sons/848303)
**Author:** [@Declanium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declanium)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-on-my-sons/848303 "2020-02-29T01:41:14Z")
Hello all. I’m back with an update. As you may remember, I am the bad mom with the two teen boys (15 and 17) who were smoking and vaping weed last year. Family therapy. Long talks. The 17 year old has turned around, I… --- ## [Brace yourself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brace-yourself/848563)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brace-yourself/848563 "2020-02-28T21:16:35Z")
I’ve got a pad of paper and a pen right here, and I’m going to divide the next number I see by zero. Yes. I’m doing math in pen. This is going to be so irreversible! --- ## [So, the cops knock at my door](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-cops-knock-at-my-door/848548)
**Author:** [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-cops-knock-at-my-door/848548 "2020-02-28T20:22:51Z")
It’s 7pm, I’m decked out in jammies (cuz that’s how I roll) watching My Name is Earl with the Mrs and Kid Cheesesteak, when the doorbell rings. It’s the police, doing a welfare check on my next door neighbor, a 33 year … --- ## [A Newish Scam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-newish-scam/848674)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-newish-scam/848674 "2020-02-28T19:53:56Z")
Just new because of the time they called. At 2 am we got woken up by a phone call, supposedly from my bank’s security office, saying our card had been compromised by a purchase in China, that they were blocking it, and … --- ## [Why are they called smart phones?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-smart-phones/848232)
**Author:** [@Yakamaniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakamaniac)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-smart-phones/848232 "2020-02-28T16:38:54Z")
The cellular telephone was a device for transmitting and receiving voice calls using radio signals. What people are carrying around today are not phones, they are palm top computers that have the ability to emulate or p… --- ## [Clicking on the wrong thing on Amazon, Oh No!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clicking-on-the-wrong-thing-on-amazon-oh-no/848602)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clicking-on-the-wrong-thing-on-amazon-oh-no/848602 "2020-02-28T15:14:30Z")
You see a picture of something. Your not sure what it is, or perhaps think it’s something different then what it is. Being a man and liking manly things, I click on and find out that instead of a trailer hitch or wood … --- ## [Tell me about your skydiving experiences (especially first-timers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-skydiving-experiences-especially-first-timers/848345)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-skydiving-experiences-especially-first-timers/848345 "2020-02-28T05:44:17Z")
Yeah, I’m tossing around the idea of leaping out of a mechanically sound aeroplane. I’d love to hear stories and advice\*, good and bad. mmm \*even if the advice is “don’t be a fool” --- ## [No congestion pricing in NYC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-congestion-pricing-in-nyc/848526)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-congestion-pricing-in-nyc/848526 "2020-02-28T04:57:23Z")
NYC was about to introduce congestion pricing in Manhattan below 59th St. next year. For some reason they need permission from the federal highway administration (why?). Which they had assumed would be automatic. But … --- ## [Westminster Sex Abuse Report – It’s Not Exactly Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westminster-sex-abuse-report-it-s-not-exactly-breaking-news/848575)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/westminster-sex-abuse-report-it-s-not-exactly-breaking-news/848575 "2020-02-28T04:35:02Z")
This news article reports the latest in a long line of damp squib “investigations”. The events date back decades. No evidence of an organised paedophile network was found – right? Nothing to see here, move on. So that… --- ## [CSX train hauling crude oil somehow lost 41 of its 113 tankers, leading to a derailment of 18.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csx-train-hauling-crude-oil-somehow-lost-41-of-its-113-tankers-leading-to-a-derailment-of-18/848621)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/csx-train-hauling-crude-oil-somehow-lost-41-of-its-113-tankers-leading-to-a-derailment-of-18/848621 "2020-02-28T03:42:09Z")
East Chicago, Indiana, during yesterday’s evening rush; fortunately there was no leakage. How did all those cars get disconnected from the rest of the train? --- ## [Your personal catchphrases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-catchphrases/12040)
**Author:** [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-catchphrases/12040 "2020-02-27T15:09:07Z")
OK, I figure I can jump on a bandwagon as well as the next guy. What catchphrases do you use in everyday conversation? They can either be really common ones or phrases you use that no one else does. Some of mine: That… --- ## [A mundane victory, please add yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mundane-victory-please-add-yours/847604)
**Author:** [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mundane-victory-please-add-yours/847604 "2020-02-27T13:04:21Z")
Yesterday I had some rare time alone at home, I was getting things ready for today and being productive. I looked in my closet and saw a pair of pants that I had forgotten about, so I tried them on. Excellent in the wais… --- ## [My stroke -or- That explains a lot!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stroke-or-that-explains-a-lot/848085)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-stroke-or-that-explains-a-lot/848085 "2020-02-27T12:58:56Z")
I had an MRI recently and my Neuro guy was going over it with me. “All normal except this little scar from your stroke, so…” I interrupted, “What stroke?” I had a bit of a stroke in my right temporal lobe. This happe… --- ## [Say I'm travelling west......\>\>](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-im-travelling-west/846448)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-im-travelling-west/846448 "2020-02-27T02:39:53Z")
I’m in the Orange Menace I’m leaving Texarkana, Ark. I’m pretty sure I can find Texarkana, Tx. A Doper, any Doper west of there, tell me how to get to where you are. (This is a game, I’m not really coming to your hou… --- ## [Reporter on Facebook accidentally turns on his face generator.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-on-facebook-accidentally-turns-on-his-face-generator/848558)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporter-on-facebook-accidentally-turns-on-his-face-generator/848558 "2020-02-26T21:46:23Z")
A reporter doing a news feed on Facebook Live accidentally turned on his face generator filter without knowing it with hilarious results. --- ## [Dad Jokes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-jokes/844384)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-jokes/844384 "2020-02-26T20:21:27Z")
Why do squids have ten tentacles? Any other dads on the Dope? Got a Dad joke? --- ## [Just a little Runaway (beck's bad, bad, bad break away)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-runaway-becks-bad-bad-bad-break-away/848269)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-runaway-becks-bad-bad-bad-break-away/848269 "2020-02-26T19:51:11Z")
I decided to leave my soft, warm house for the big bad world. Get yer motor running, head out for the highway. Well, actually it’s a crappy state highway. Lots of curves and potholes. Gotta look out for deer and log tru… --- ## [“Y’all” vs. “All Y’all”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y-all-vs-all-y-all/848448)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/y-all-vs-all-y-all/848448 "2020-02-26T16:44:06Z")
I am interested to know if any of SDMB people see the distinctions between “y’all” and “all y’all” the same way I see them. I would guess that it varies depending what part of the country you are from. Maybe in some pa… --- ## [Amazon "Echo Loop" PDA RIng](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-echo-loop-pda-ring/848554)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-echo-loop-pda-ring/848554 "2020-02-26T15:53:20Z")
This is too stupid for words. Amazon seems to be test-marketing a device you wear like a ring. You can talk into it and through your smart phone to Alexa, the Amazon personal digital assistant. You have to be impressed… --- ## [Does Europe need NEED (Northern European Enclosure Dam)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-europe-need-need-northern-european-enclosure-dam/848396)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-europe-need-need-northern-european-enclosure-dam/848396 "2020-02-26T13:08:06Z")
A proposal to dam the North Sea and English Channel to cut northern Europe off from the Atlantic and avoid the consequences of sea level rise. They claim it’ll be cheaper than any other way to adapt to global warming. We… --- ## [Dog runs away and turns himself in at the police station.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-runs-away-and-turns-himself-in-at-the-police-station/848510)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-runs-away-and-turns-himself-in-at-the-police-station/848510 "2020-02-26T03:29:44Z")
A Shepard-husky mix named Chico ran away from his owner’s yard and visited a police station. After playing with the officers, Chico left before animal control arrived. Chico went home by himself, but not before his pictu… --- ## [What are you wearing? Right now. Tell the truth now.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-wearing-right-now-tell-the-truth-now/848101)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-wearing-right-now-tell-the-truth-now/848101 "2020-02-26T03:00:25Z")
I was looking at my dirty laundry from the last few days. Lots of warm sleep pants, warm sweaters, a hoodie, fuzzy socks. It warmed up here, the last 2 days. Right now I have on long shorts of some weird thinnish mater… --- ## [Do you have notalgia paresthetica?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-notalgia-paresthetica/737367)
**Author:** [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-notalgia-paresthetica/737367 "2020-02-26T00:46:16Z")
For the last 15-20 years, I’ve had an itchy spot on my back that drives me nuts. It’s on the left side, just below the scapula. This became so maddening that I bought a back scratcher to keep in my car (in addition to th… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=340) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=342)