# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=384 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 385 --- ## [Gift for 5-year Old Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-for-5-year-old-girl/837445)
**Author:** [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-for-5-year-old-girl/837445 "2019-07-23T19:32:11Z")
My older daughter, 5.5 years old, gets small gifts from me from time time, outside of the usual birthday/Christmas gift-giving. They’re usually small and inexpensive. They’re often given when I return from a trip, or w… --- ## [My next DIY project, a homebuilt electric bicycle built from salvaged parts...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-next-diy-project-a-homebuilt-electric-bicycle-built-from-salvaged-parts/837335)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-next-diy-project-a-homebuilt-electric-bicycle-built-from-salvaged-parts/837335 "2019-07-23T17:11:34Z")
Yes I know I could simply buy a premade electric bike (very expensive) or any number of electrification hubs (less expensive but still expensive) but I want to try to build something myself on the cheap with as many salv… --- ## [RIP Chris Kraft](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chris-kraft/837486)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chris-kraft/837486 "2019-07-23T12:43:32Z")
NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft has died at 95. Wikipedia biography. --- ## [Vice President Pence Recalled to DC.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-president-pence-recalled-to-dc/836401)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-president-pence-recalled-to-dc/836401 "2019-07-23T11:20:20Z")
A trip to New Hampshire has been cut short and Air Force Two has returned to DC. No word yet why. Link --- ## [Remember Mary Jo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mary-jo/837240)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-mary-jo/837240 "2019-07-23T09:44:12Z")
50 years ago, Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne were in a black Oldsmobile that ran off Dike Bridge and into Poncha Pond on Chappaquiddick Island. He escaped the flooded car; she died there. The accepted date is July 18… --- ## [My traveling Amazon package](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-traveling-amazon-package/837325)
**Author:** [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-traveling-amazon-package/837325 "2019-07-23T06:23:18Z")
I hope my Amazon package is enjoying itstravels. I’m jealous. Wonder what other places it will get to visit on its way from Portland OR to Spokane WA. --- ## [Car damage possibility question...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-damage-possibility-question/837454)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-damage-possibility-question/837454 "2019-07-23T04:26:47Z")
Yesterday I took some deceptive potholes too fast and felt the results. A passenger didn’t see anything leaking right after, and I drove over two hours (varying speeds, not in a row) with no apparent problem. This morni… --- ## [Painkillers vs. pain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painkillers-vs-pain/837394)
**Author:** [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painkillers-vs-pain/837394 "2019-07-22T22:24:48Z")
A good friend of mine recently found out she’s stage IV of a rare type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She was hospitalized and had days of tests and biopsies. The first few days, she was on a regular floor, as oncology was f… --- ## [Man on flying board at Bastille Day celebrations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-on-flying-board-at-bastille-day-celebrations/837126)
**Author:** [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-on-flying-board-at-bastille-day-celebrations/837126 "2019-07-22T22:14:26Z")
This video of a guy on a flying board at the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris is pretty amazing. It appears that we are now living in a science-fiction world. --- ## [Apollo 11 Google Doodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-11-google-doodle/837300)
**Author:** [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-11-google-doodle/837300 "2019-07-22T16:46:28Z")
Awesome Google Doodle today narrated by my favorite astronaut Mike Collins (if you haven’t read his autobiography run out today and get it). --- ## [Many AWD cars always start out in AWD mode](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/many-awd-cars-always-start-out-in-awd-mode/837025)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/many-awd-cars-always-start-out-in-awd-mode/837025 "2019-07-22T15:51:38Z")
After the car hits around 5-10 MPH it shifts to front wheel drive mode . Depending on the car you might be able to see this happen by looking at the dashboard. My Nissan Rogue can show me which wheels are getting… --- ## [ISS (space station ) video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-space-station-video/837331)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-space-station-video/837331 "2019-07-22T11:34:46Z")
A really neat video from one of the current astronauts. --- ## [How are you prepping for the big heatwave coming in this weekend?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-prepping-for-the-big-heatwave-coming-in-this-weekend/837238)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-prepping-for-the-big-heatwave-coming-in-this-weekend/837238 "2019-07-22T09:24:46Z")
I’m sure all you Southerners and Western Desert Dwellers are going to laugh and point at us Northerners (hey, we laugh and point at you when you panic about snow , so it’s only fair :wink: ) but bear in mind that many o… --- ## [Robot Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-queen/837099)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-queen/837099 "2019-07-22T03:28:22Z")
Since, by convention, the Queen of Canada only acts (usually by and through her Governor General) on the advice of her ministers, could the Queen be replaced by a robot? As far as I know, the monarch of Canada has not e… --- ## [A (dreaded) vaction in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dreaded-vaction-in-the-mmp/837112)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dreaded-vaction-in-the-mmp/837112 "2019-07-22T02:11:39Z")
I have to go on vaction this week. :frowning: For the first time in 24 years, I’m doing a ‘normal’ vacation, a few days at the beach. Normally, for ‘vacation’ I go to events were I am a part of them, on the non-public… --- ## [That’s it! I’m buying a bloody dashcam!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-s-it-i-m-buying-a-bloody-dashcam/837225)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-s-it-i-m-buying-a-bloody-dashcam/837225 "2019-07-22T00:17:14Z")
Today has been a banner day for morons behind the wheel (I don’t even class them as drivers, driving takes SKILL, something these cranial-deficient morons are solely lacking… So far, FOUR events today; Idiot 1; fourth … --- ## [Prime Day 2019 - what’d ya get?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-day-2019-what-d-ya-get/837160)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prime-day-2019-what-d-ya-get/837160 "2019-07-21T13:22:59Z")
I’ve been making these threads since Prime Day began way back in 2015 so I might as well keep it going. I bought a cordless drill because I need a cordless drill. Over the weekend I rented some movies for less than the… --- ## [He’s two timing me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314)
**Author:** [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314 "2019-07-21T01:06:46Z")
First, he took off right after supper like he had an important errand. Next morning I expected to see him sharing my pillow, but he wasn’t home. I didn’t worry as he is loyal but very independent. After a couple days … --- ## [On how to phrase out-of-office emails](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-how-to-phrase-out-of-office-emails/837344)
**Author:** [@MrLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrLee)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-how-to-phrase-out-of-office-emails/837344 "2019-07-21T00:36:04Z")
In my job I send a lot of emails, so I receive a fair number of automatic out-of-office replies (‘Thank you for your email. Please be advised that I am on annual leave until \[…\]’). Perhaps it’s just me, but I have alway… --- ## [Here I am without power for 6 hours now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-without-power-for-6-hours-now/837374)
**Author:** [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-i-am-without-power-for-6-hours-now/837374 "2019-07-21T00:22:03Z")
And I am really not as prepared as I thought. We haven’t had any outages of duration for over 5 years. Line of storms took it out. Last time my generator worked and we had a full pool to dip into for flushing toilets. … --- ## [Need a punchline quick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-punchline-quick/837211)
**Author:** [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-punchline-quick/837211 "2019-07-20T12:06:11Z")
There are three cows walking down the road, one cow says…? --- ## [1940's style toaster technology](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-style-toaster-technology/837158)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-style-toaster-technology/837158 "2019-07-20T03:03:51Z")
Technology Connections is an excellent YouTube channel that usually examines the technology behind consumer electronics like TV’s and CD’s. He’ll occasionally take a break from hi-tech, like in this video, where he exami… --- ## [Jay Leno debuts 2020 Corvette](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-debuts-2020-corvette/837321)
**Author:** [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-debuts-2020-corvette/837321 "2019-07-19T21:37:20Z")
The first production mid-engined vette. Reminiscent of the 1990 CERV-III concept car. --- ## [How do you define fascism. Who is a fascist. And how do you identify.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-define-fascism-who-is-a-fascist-and-how-do-you-identify/837111)
**Author:** [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-define-fascism-who-is-a-fascist-and-how-do-you-identify/837111 "2019-07-19T18:27:24Z")
Please, oh please. DO tell us your definition of fascist/fascism, who you think ARE fascist, and how you identify. I’ll post a non pit thread for you to ignore shortly. Ok Ditka. Please enlighten us. This ain’t the pit… --- ## [She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-was-the-most-beautiful-girl-i-had-ever-seen/837189)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-was-the-most-beautiful-girl-i-had-ever-seen/837189 "2019-07-19T08:40:14Z")
She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. I was sixteen years old and even at that age I had a little boy’s crush on her. I hadn’t seen her in almost forty years. This morning, I found out she died yesterday. Sh… --- ## [Walmart used to let people camp overnight in their RVs in the parking lot.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-used-to-let-people-camp-overnight-in-their-rvs-in-the-parking-lot/837198)
**Author:** [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-used-to-let-people-camp-overnight-in-their-rvs-in-the-parking-lot/837198 "2019-07-18T21:00:41Z")
I have been hearing that they are less tolerant of it these days, because homeless people started using RVs to live there. --- ## [What's your profession's light bulb joke?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-professions-light-bulb-joke/836825)
**Author:** [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-professions-light-bulb-joke/836825 "2019-07-18T17:26:43Z")
There are as many different light bulb jokes as there are light bulb types\*, and we’ve all heard some, a few way too often. But I’m interested in hearing the l.b. jokes for your job, and also whether you think anyone fr… --- ## [Operation Toupee: man arrested in Spain with drugs under wig](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-toupee-man-arrested-in-spain-with-drugs-under-wig/837197)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-toupee-man-arrested-in-spain-with-drugs-under-wig/837197 "2019-07-18T17:19:16Z")
A picture is worth a thousand words: --- ## [Goodbye Odie.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-odie/837210)
**Author:** [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-odie/837210 "2019-07-18T15:10:56Z")
Today I have to take the best dog that ever was to the vet for the last time. And it is so hard. I don’t know how to explain to anyone why Odie was the best dog. But I will tell you that he was. 15 years ago my sister-i… --- ## [Motion picture ratings and margarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-picture-ratings-and-margarine/837209)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-picture-ratings-and-margarine/837209 "2019-07-18T13:28:00Z")
A guy at work was just talking about “x-rated films”. It occurred to me that the Motion Picture Association eliminated the ‘X’ rating and replaced it with ‘NC-17’ nearly 30 years ago. Yet the term ‘x-rated’ is still syno… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=385)