# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=38 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 39 --- ## [44 years ago today, Oregon gave us the bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-years-ago-today-oregon-gave-us-the-bird/704457)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-years-ago-today-oregon-gave-us-the-bird/704457 "2025-11-12T20:11:46Z")
If you said “Oregon”, I’d only think of two things, & unbelievably, the both occurred on the exact same day! First, that bruiser, figure skater Tonya Harding was born. To celebrate this most auspicious day, the Oregon … --- ## [Aurora australis might be on show tonight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aurora-australis-might-be-on-show-tonight/1024656)
**Author:** [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aurora-australis-might-be-on-show-tonight/1024656 "2025-11-12T16:25:44Z")
Aurora australis is the southern hemisphere’s equivalent of the northern lights (aurora borealis) Bureau of Metrology has issued an alert that “A coronal mass ejection is expected to impact the Earth within the next 48… --- ## [Watching Remembrance Day Ottawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-remembrance-day-ottawa/1024776)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-remembrance-day-ottawa/1024776 "2025-11-12T04:11:19Z")
Chief Justice Wagner has just arrived, subbing in for an ailing Gov Gen. He and the Silver Cross mother are escorted to the Cenotaph. PM Carney was already in the assembled group, since he has lesser precedence than th… --- ## [Remembrance Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembrance-day/1010084)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembrance-day/1010084 "2025-11-12T02:27:33Z")
Watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies on CBC. The veterans just marched past. --- ## [An interesting unit of measurment - the denier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-unit-of-measurment-the-denier/1024674)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-unit-of-measurment-the-denier/1024674 "2025-11-11T21:42:26Z")
I bought something made of 600D cloth and searched to see exactly what that meant. It is the abbreviation for 600 denier fabric, a rather tough outdoor rated cloth. A denier unit means each strand of yarn weighs 1 gram p… --- ## [Help me think up a good story for my new scar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-good-story-for-my-new-scar/1024448)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-good-story-for-my-new-scar/1024448 "2025-11-11T17:38:55Z")
I had a minor hand surgery yesterday. A small (almost certainly benign) growth removed just below the bottom knuckle of the pointer finger. So it’s probably going to look like I punched a window or something. Trouble … --- ## [leonid meteor shower](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leonid-meteor-shower/275189)
**Author:** [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leonid-meteor-shower/275189 "2025-11-11T16:17:09Z")
The shower is this week Though it may not be as spectacular as in years past I still wanted to send out a notice for those who may be interested. Unfortunately it’s cloudy here in my neck of the woods and probably will… --- ## [Kayaker runs Tahquamenon Falls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-runs-tahquamenon-falls/1024739)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-runs-tahquamenon-falls/1024739 "2025-11-10T23:53:33Z")
Just south of Whitefish Point discussed in the Edmund Fitzgerald thread is Tahquamenon Falls which is ~50 feet tall and ~200 feet wide. A kayaker went over it and survived “The kayaker did not seek park medical attentio… --- ## [A couple of new moon wallopings caught on video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-new-moon-wallopings-caught-on-video/1024699)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-new-moon-wallopings-caught-on-video/1024699 "2025-11-10T23:02:28Z")
Transient lunar phenomenon events recorded on October 30th and November 1st. --- ## [Wisecracks or Sayings that Improve your Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisecracks-or-sayings-that-improve-your-day/1024543)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisecracks-or-sayings-that-improve-your-day/1024543 "2025-11-10T21:40:40Z")
Mood is a weird thing. You can have a great day and something comes out of left field and ruins it. We have a lot of threads about that. But sometimes, you’re wandering around in your usual/default mood and you’re sud… --- ## [How have you betrayed your younger self? (Please read criteria in OP before posting!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-you-betrayed-your-younger-self-please-read-criteria-in-op-before-posting/1024230)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-you-betrayed-your-younger-self-please-read-criteria-in-op-before-posting/1024230 "2025-11-10T19:40:03Z")
How have you betrayed your younger self? By which I mean not merely changes in your tastes or preferences, e.g., you used to read fantasy books, and now prefer sci-fi, or you only listened to heavy metal in high school,… --- ## [Comptroller of the Currency. Two for two](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comptroller-of-the-currency-two-for-two/1024734)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comptroller-of-the-currency-two-for-two/1024734 "2025-11-10T18:42:38Z")
Thankfully the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has not been affected by the shutdown; the only other time I had to use them they were. The first time, a bank manager for BofA kept refusing to seen a cashiers c… --- ## [I've been admitted to psychiatric wards in Virginia about 20 times in 18 years: AMA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-admitted-to-psychiatric-wards-in-virginia-about-20-times-in-18-years-ama/1024638)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-admitted-to-psychiatric-wards-in-virginia-about-20-times-in-18-years-ama/1024638 "2025-11-10T16:58:19Z")
On Saturday, October 25, I went to Obici Memorial Hospital in Suffolk, Virginia for psychiatric treatment. They eventually found a bed for me at Virginia Commonwealth University hospital in Richmond, where I was from the… --- ## [(Old) Gunpowder, Treason and Plot in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gunpowder-treason-and-plot-in-the-mmp/1024524)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 317\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gunpowder-treason-and-plot-in-the-mmp/1024524 "2025-11-10T06:23:21Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 12c/53f with a predicted high of 14c/57f and cloudy. Weather app says “Stratus clouds are known for producing light rain or snow. They’re also knobjockey twatfaces.” Over here this we… --- ## [What is community service?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-community-service/1024623)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-community-service/1024623 "2025-11-09T22:23:26Z")
When a person is sentenced to community service by a court what are they being told to do? Is it unpaid labor? Maybe cleaning roadsides. If you are supposed to do something for others, like serving in a soup kitchen h… --- ## [Will no-one think of the ostriches?!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-no-one-think-of-the-ostriches/1024472)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-no-one-think-of-the-ostriches/1024472 "2025-11-08T14:17:04Z")
The Supreme Court of Canada may. Nearly a year ago, a federal agency order a cull of a domestic flock of ostriches at an ostrich ranch in BC, because of cases of avian flu. The ostrich ranchers have been fighting the c… --- ## [Has anyone used Cost Plus Drugs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-cost-plus-drugs/1024539)
**Author:** [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-cost-plus-drugs/1024539 "2025-11-08T00:29:14Z")
Has anyone used Cost Plus Drugs for any of their medications? I’ve been diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism and prescribed a drug that is outrageously expensive. I tried to use a GoodRx coupon but Kroger said the price … --- ## [I have arrived](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349)
**Author:** [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349 "2025-11-07T20:03:57Z")
Kinda IYKYK. I’ve been around for a very long time, but am new here to SD. SDC? I’ll figure it out. A friend recommended this place. The forums I’ve been on for the last couple of years is in its way out, so I need a new… --- ## [Jerry Andrus' clever dragon illusion: make one yourself!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-andrus-clever-dragon-illusion-make-one-yourself/343022)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-andrus-clever-dragon-illusion-make-one-yourself/343022 "2025-11-07T17:10:33Z")
I’ve been a big fan of magician Jerry Andrus for years, not so much for his magic tricks as his inventive and totally original illusion gadgets. I just found a new one (to me) which you can download and make yourself i… --- ## [Has anyone experience with a hermaphrodite cat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596)
**Author:** [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596 "2025-11-07T06:47:43Z")
About two months ago, a very small male kitten came to us . He was skinny, shaggy, and very hungry. Since he obviously wanted to stay with us, I made an appointment with the vet for an initial examination and vaccination… --- ## [The Florentine diamond wasn't lost after all](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florentine-diamond-wasnt-lost-after-all/1024648)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-florentine-diamond-wasnt-lost-after-all/1024648 "2025-11-07T03:57:13Z")
The Habsburgs just kept it hidden for 100 years… Quote: Its 137 carats, intricately cut, passed through the hands of one European dynasty after another – the Medicis, the Habsburgs – before disappearing in the fog of… --- ## [Infected, aggressive Rhesus monkey escapes crashed truck in Mississippi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infected-aggressive-rhesus-monkey-escapes-crashed-truck-in-mississippi/1024371)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infected-aggressive-rhesus-monkey-escapes-crashed-truck-in-mississippi/1024371 "2025-11-07T03:31:36Z")
Infected monkey escapes crash on Mississippi interstate | News | fox13memphis.com A truck carrying Rhesus monkeys from Tulane University crashed on I-59, just north of Heidelberg at mile marker 117 on Tuesday. The sher… --- ## [Our Brains, Sleep, & the Perception of Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-brains-sleep-the-perception-of-time/1024597)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-brains-sleep-the-perception-of-time/1024597 "2025-11-07T02:15:10Z")
This morning I was having a dream where I was trying to escape from a facility that was well populated with armed men who were definitely the enemy. Using stealth and a good dose of luck, I made it to an exit door that a… --- ## [What is Facebook like nowadays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-facebook-like-nowadays/1002627)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-facebook-like-nowadays/1002627 "2025-11-06T22:08:44Z")
I used to be on it a few years ago, but sort of fell away around the time Trump became President.after hearing stories about the proliferation of right wing stuff. But lately I’ve had an itch to check it out again. Befo… --- ## [A...i..............in...space!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-i-in-space/1024615)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-i-in-space/1024615 "2025-11-06T21:56:14Z")
Seems to me that putting your datacenter in orbit might just possibly be the worst place for it, but what do I know. --- ## [Sand Mandala last week in San Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-mandala-last-week-in-san-francisco/1024603)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-mandala-last-week-in-san-francisco/1024603 "2025-11-06T19:10:40Z")
Have you observed this? This was my first experience. It was very cool to see. While it is Buddhist, I am Christian and do not understand much of what this means. Sand Mandala, pics and videos on 2 imgur albums: ➙ Crea… --- ## [Car companies with "themes" to their model names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-companies-with-themes-to-their-model-names/1024336)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-companies-with-themes-to-their-model-names/1024336 "2025-11-06T00:24:34Z")
This is a bit of an offshoot of the cars named after geological features thread. How many car companies can we think of that have or have had a certain “theme” to their model names? Here are a few I can think of off th… --- ## [High-end retail outlets at airports: Do people actually buy stuff there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-end-retail-outlets-at-airports-do-people-actually-buy-stuff-there/1024379)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-end-retail-outlets-at-airports-do-people-actually-buy-stuff-there/1024379 "2025-11-06T00:15:23Z")
I’ve been to quite a few airports in my time. People shop in the duty-free area (of course) and they might buy a book from the bookstore people to while away their time during the flight. But the big-branded stores, the… --- ## [Murder 101](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-101/1024492)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-101/1024492 "2025-11-05T23:59:11Z")
I was at the kitchen island getting my snack. Heard a noise. Go in my room and a murder has occurred. What is that allover the floor? Oh, oh. I see the victim under the bed. Round, pink and a few spots. Face is gone.… --- ## [Electric scooters, the scourge of residential neighborhoods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-scooters-the-scourge-of-residential-neighborhoods/1023970)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-scooters-the-scourge-of-residential-neighborhoods/1023970 "2025-11-04T22:40:32Z")
As I type, there are two abandoned electric scooters from different companies sitting on sidewalks on my block. This is very common. I suspect just one person is leaving them around, but I don’t know, because we don’t ha… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=39)