# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=46 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 47 --- ## [Do raccoons make vocal noise? Beckdawrek?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-raccoons-make-vocal-noise-beckdawrek/1021842)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-raccoons-make-vocal-noise-beckdawrek/1021842 "2025-09-05T17:30:23Z")
I have on this youtube channel called “the bird perch” as background noise, and they have a nighttime feed channel thing. Question is, do raccoons make noise? Answer, yes. The parent just bit/moved a youngster and it … --- ## [Windows 11 curiosity question (don't need answer fast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-11-curiosity-question-dont-need-answer-fast/1022713)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-11-curiosity-question-dont-need-answer-fast/1022713 "2025-09-05T07:26:28Z")
I’m working from home, controlling a workplace computer via a combo of VPN + the Mac version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. Not too long ago, the workplace upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11. I do most of … --- ## [Suggestive road names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestive-road-names/970820)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestive-road-names/970820 "2025-09-05T06:58:11Z")
I know we have discussed odd road names and how they came about if known. My new favorite, a rather suggestive road name is from Ottawa County, Ohio. I can picture a conversation where I tell my address and get funny lo… --- ## [I just had a square birthday](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735)
**Author:** [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-square-birthday/1022735 "2025-09-05T00:37:41Z")
…I turned 45 today, which is the square root of 2025! After this year, it won’t happen again until 2116, when the lucky ones reach 46…. and the last time it happened was 1936, for those hitting 44. Very mundane and poi… --- ## [Chuck E. Cheese is a sleeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-e-cheese-is-a-sleeze/1022715)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-e-cheese-is-a-sleeze/1022715 "2025-09-04T09:29:48Z")
Police have released bodycam video of their arrest of Chuck E Cheese at work. He had stolen cheddar off someone’s credit card. --- ## [Echos of Y2K in a hole in my barn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echos-of-y2k-in-a-hole-in-my-barn/726625)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/echos-of-y2k-in-a-hole-in-my-barn/726625 "2025-09-04T02:29:57Z")
Some of you may recall the first part of this tale, told a few times here in passing over the years. But now the tale has a 2nd, more bizarre part. Back about 1998 or so, the Mrs. and I rented out the old farmhouse (bu… --- ## [The Orgy Tent at Burning Man has been destroyed in a windstorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orgy-tent-at-burning-man-has-been-destroyed-in-a-windstorm/1022509)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orgy-tent-at-burning-man-has-been-destroyed-in-a-windstorm/1022509 "2025-09-03T21:46:39Z")
Of course, there are lots of jokes about this not being the kind of blowjobs one expected to see in and around this structure. I’ll leave any theological discussions to people, regarding their own personal beliefs. ETA… --- ## [Is your birthday a Big Deal to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-birthday-a-big-deal-to-you/1022139)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-birthday-a-big-deal-to-you/1022139 "2025-09-03T17:39:34Z")
Like, does it matter to you if casual friends/co-workers say Happy Birthday to you? Does your family/friends do some kind of special celebration? Anything from “just have a cake with supper that day” to full on parties… --- ## [Legal hypothetical involving store theft](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-hypothetical-involving-store-theft/1022676)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-hypothetical-involving-store-theft/1022676 "2025-09-03T16:37:26Z")
Let us say a store prominently posts this sign: “WARNING SHOPLIFTERS! ALL ITEMS IN THIS STORE ARE MARKED $1000. NON-CRIMINAL DISCOUNTS APPLIED AT CHECKOUT FOR ALL PAYING CUSTOMERS ONLY. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITH PR… --- ## [SDMB stuff that makes me smile](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-stuff-that-makes-me-smile/963434)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-stuff-that-makes-me-smile/963434 "2025-09-03T14:32:14Z")
The little yellow flag was up, in my upper right corner, so I clicked on it and saw this: “Sauron Russia invades Ukraine” And thought: “Oh great: now we’ll have to send anti-Orc weaponry to Ukraine!” --- ## [What can you buy with a quarter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-buy-with-a-quarter/1022665)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-buy-with-a-quarter/1022665 "2025-09-03T13:02:53Z")
You have 25 cents in your pocket and that’s all. No cell phone, no charge cards. What can you buy with it? You must pay taxes if applicable. If you are European, you have a 20 Euro-cent coin or perhaps a 20 pence coin i… --- ## [RIP Rainier V. Weiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rainier-v-weiss/1022675)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rainier-v-weiss/1022675 "2025-09-03T01:48:25Z")
Who? Nobel prize co-winner in n2017 for his work on LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves. Also, according to Wikipedia: Weiss helped realize a number of challenging experimental tests of fundamental physics. … --- ## [Ugh. Doggie Diarrhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-doggie-diarrhea/1022373)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-doggie-diarrhea/1022373 "2025-09-02T15:20:41Z")
Der Hund hat Der D. No reason to worry, this happens with dogs from time to time. Inevitably, the day I say “shit, better call the vet” (because it’s been 5 or 6 days) is the day it just clears up, sometimes because he p… --- ## [Anyone else's dog do this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-dog-do-this/1022591)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-dog-do-this/1022591 "2025-09-02T14:38:55Z")
Burp like a person. If you were in the other room you’d assume it was a person. BUUUURRRRRPPP --- ## [New Study on Nutrition and Healthy Aging](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-study-on-nutrition-and-healthy-aging/1016419)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-study-on-nutrition-and-healthy-aging/1016419 "2025-09-02T10:01:48Z")
An interesting study came out recently in Nature, looking at the self-reported diet of 105,015 people and comparing various foods and diets over 30 years. The study prioritized “healthy aging”, which it defined as reachi… --- ## [Last Day of August Grief](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-august-grief/1022641)
**Author:** [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-august-grief/1022641 "2025-09-01T23:52:23Z")
The last day of August always brings me grief. The anemic bleating of the end of summer crickets, the early darkness, the chill in the air. Seventeen years ago on this day my son was killed in a car accident. The raw,… --- ## [Rudy Giuliani seriously injured in a car accident (Breaking News)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-giuliani-seriously-injured-in-a-car-accident-breaking-news/1022633)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-giuliani-seriously-injured-in-a-car-accident-breaking-news/1022633 "2025-09-01T23:51:36Z")
Shortly after rendering aid to a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident, Rudy Giuliani was driving home on the highway when his vehicle was struck from behind. He suffered a fractured thoracic vertebra… --- ## [Have you ever called 911?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-called-911/1021736)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-called-911/1021736 "2025-09-01T16:45:33Z")
As of today I have 3 times First was a guy passed out on my front lawn. I thought it might be a medical emergency but when the paramedics arrived it was just that he was overly drunk. Second were two children (8-12 I … --- ## [Great Business Names, real or otherwise.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375)
**Author:** [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375 "2025-09-01T16:31:48Z")
I have always been intrigued by some of the wacky names self-employed people cook up for their businesses and have thought ‘hmm, I wish I had a trade where I could use a wacky name too!’. If I were a baker, my bakery wo… --- ## ["Shooting reported at Catholic School in Minneapolis" BREAKING NEWS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-reported-at-catholic-school-in-minneapolis-breaking-news/1022532)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-reported-at-catholic-school-in-minneapolis-breaking-news/1022532 "2025-09-01T16:13:28Z")
Shooting reported at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis https://wapo.st/420xPXq At least five children were injured in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Gov. Tim Walz (D) said the i… --- ## [Another "miracle" power source from 10 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-miracle-power-source-from-10-years-ago/1022608)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-miracle-power-source-from-10-years-ago/1022608 "2025-09-01T12:14:34Z")
I really wish I could remember more about this contraption (or bookmarked the damn thing, duh). I think it was about 10 years ago and we did discuss it. It was, as best as I recall, similar to those types of perpetual mo… --- ## [I'm a visionary philosopher! (Online IQ test)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-visionary-philosopher-online-iq-test/138904 "2025-09-01T09:34:53Z")
I thought this online IQ test was kinda cute. Not only does it supposedly test your IQ (these online tests have given me scores all over the map), but it supposedly tells you your “intellectual type,” whatever that is. … --- ## [(Old) It’s Time For A New MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-it-s-time-for-a-new-mmp/1022452)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 285\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-it-s-time-for-a-new-mmp/1022452 "2025-09-01T04:10:04Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 89 and sunny. I foresee quality cee-mint pond time on such a nice day. Of course there will be other RDOS inactivities… --- ## [Another 'propellantless drive'... scam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-propellantless-drive-scam/1000552)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-propellantless-drive-scam/1000552 "2025-09-01T02:57:32Z")
These seem to keep cropping up. The guy appears to claim NASA credentials, for what it’s worth. ‘NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery - Slashdot’ --- ## [Another woman at my dialysis center died: how was this allowed to happen this way?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-woman-at-my-dialysis-center-died-how-was-this-allowed-to-happen-this-way/1022594)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-woman-at-my-dialysis-center-died-how-was-this-allowed-to-happen-this-way/1022594 "2025-08-31T18:11:53Z")
Monday morning at dialysis one of the inmates was carted off in an ambulance. The thing about dialysis patients, you see the same people 3+ times a week. You hear them chatter about their lives. You meet some of their p… --- ## [Let's talk about memory function and age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-memory-function-and-age/1002637)
**Author:** [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-memory-function-and-age/1002637 "2025-08-30T18:27:26Z")
I’m in my late 70’s. Generally good health. We travel a bit both with and without our camper. Frequent trips to a son whose settled some 650 miles away. When we travel, I can remember every turn and every exit. I ca… --- ## [Bus trip through 12+ states. Wanna meet up and just say hi?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bus-trip-through-12-states-wanna-meet-up-and-just-say-hi/1022584)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bus-trip-through-12-states-wanna-meet-up-and-just-say-hi/1022584 "2025-08-30T15:06:33Z")
Bus road trip time. From PHX, ARIZONA to BUFFALO, NEW YORK. I will be going through: New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Del… --- ## [How do you pronounce ‘paprika’?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-paprika/1022459)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-paprika/1022459 "2025-08-30T07:31:58Z")
Was watching a cooking show and heard the host pronounce it PAH-prih-kah. I’ve always pronounced it pah-PREE-kah. Which is more correct? Is it a regional thing? I think my pronunciation is the more correct one, but I was… --- ## [AI for online novelists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-for-online-novelists/1022369)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-for-online-novelists/1022369 "2025-08-30T02:38:26Z")
My wife wrote an online novel about a woman somehow transported to Wuxia era China, in the persona of a man. Last year I did a website that was kind of intro to the book, it’s premise and characters and a link to Wattpa… --- ## [Anybody here have a background in growing corn? Tell me about it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-a-background-in-growing-corn-tell-me-about-it/1022541)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-a-background-in-growing-corn-tell-me-about-it/1022541 "2025-08-29T22:03:46Z")
So, I’m a total suburban kid from Massachusetts, and know virtually nothing, so enlighten me, please. What I know: there are at least two types of corn. Sweet corn (the stuff we buy by the ear and eat off the cob) and … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=47)