# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=494 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 495 --- ## [Army prepares to sell surplus 1911A1 pistols.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-prepares-to-sell-surplus-1911a1-pistols/806011)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-prepares-to-sell-surplus-1911a1-pistols/806011 "2018-01-09T00:48:04Z")
Awesome news for gun collectors. I’m going to look into getting a 1911A1 pistol for my collection. Wonderful guns and this is a unique opportunity to get a vintage pistol. I hope interest doesn’t push the price beyond … --- ## [Have a prostate biopsy on Tuesday...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-prostate-biopsy-on-tuesday/806055)
**Author:** [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-prostate-biopsy-on-tuesday/806055 "2018-01-08T21:53:41Z")
And the fear/panic part of my brain is in overdrive. The urologist told me I would experience “pressure” and “minor discomfort” during the procedure. I can hardly believe that in the course of inserting a proble into my… --- ## [45 Years Ago (wrritten a few weeks ago) or When Should a Parent Tell Offspring That Parent is Dying?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-years-ago-wrritten-a-few-weeks-ago-or-when-should-a-parent-tell-offspring-that-parent-is-dying/805295)
**Author:** [@JBGUSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBGUSA)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/45-years-ago-wrritten-a-few-weeks-ago-or-when-should-a-parent-tell-offspring-that-parent-is-dying/805295 "2018-01-08T21:29:50Z")
45 years yesterday, on December 15, 1972 (also a Friday) I was a 15 year old high school sophomore. I came home from school that icy day, hoping that the Holiday concert I was due to perform in wasn’t going to be snowe… --- ## [There was no "elk crossing" sign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-no-elk-crossing-sign/806030)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-no-elk-crossing-sign/806030 "2018-01-08T21:06:17Z")
Along the main highway between Portland and the Oregon Coast, there was an incident More than a dozen elk were killed early Thursday when a Banks man drove his truck through a small group attempting to cross Highway 26 … --- ## [What's the coldest outdoor temperature you've ever experienced?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coldest-outdoor-temperature-youve-ever-experienced/805743)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coldest-outdoor-temperature-youve-ever-experienced/805743 "2018-01-08T21:00:31Z")
New Year’s Eve was extremely cold here in southern Alberta–our little city broke a cold record, hitting -38C/-37.3F. (Cite.) But I recall one cold winter’s night years ago, in Ontario, about two hours north of Toronto,… --- ## [Goodbye! Adieu! Auf Widersehen! Sayonara!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-adieu-auf-widersehen-sayonara/806010)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-adieu-auf-widersehen-sayonara/806010 "2018-01-08T18:48:12Z")
I’m off (everyone knew that already.) Love ya! It’s been a great decade-anna-half. I’ve met some very good friends here. (Plus some real jerks.) New job, no time, I’ll miss ya. This has been a great bunch, and I’ve… --- ## [Post Your Predictions for the Year 3000...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-predictions-for-the-year-3000/806040)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-predictions-for-the-year-3000/806040 "2018-01-08T16:20:10Z")
I must tell you all, I am fascinated by the future. Maybe the fact I have always been an avid Trekkie has something to do with it, I don’t know. I also am awed by just how far we have come in my lifetime. If current tren… --- ## [99 surprising things discovered about Donald in "Fire & Fury: Inside Trump's White House"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-surprising-things-discovered-about-donald-in-fire-fury-inside-trumps-white-house/805970)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-surprising-things-discovered-about-donald-in-fire-fury-inside-trumps-white-house/805970 "2018-01-08T14:46:46Z")
I’m stunned-- stunned, I tell you-- by what is revealed inside “Fire & Fury.” So stunned, I figured I’d list out the things I’m most stunned by, and encourage you to add to the stunning list of things we’re all stunned b… --- ## [Don't count on AAA the day after a holiday in cold weather.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-count-on-aaa-the-day-after-a-holiday-in-cold-weather/805849)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-count-on-aaa-the-day-after-a-holiday-in-cold-weather/805849 "2018-01-08T13:54:41Z")
On 1/2 my car broke down on a limited access highway on my way to work. I pulled over at 8:15 am. The temperature was in the teens. I have an older car and I have used AAA many times (in fact they gave me a jump for a d… --- ## [President Modi of India appears to believe that the 21st century began on 1st Jan 2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-modi-of-india-appears-to-believe-that-the-21st-century-began-on-1st-jan-2000/805197)
**Author:** [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-modi-of-india-appears-to-believe-that-the-21st-century-began-on-1st-jan-2000/805197 "2018-01-08T10:24:00Z")
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/2018-crucial-for-those-born-in-21st-century-modi/articleshow/60068832.cms At 11.30 pm 31st Dec 1999 I rang the London police information line and asked: Is it the Millennium t… --- ## [Come on in, the water's warMMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 260\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675 "2018-01-08T03:49:48Z")
Today is one of my favorite days of the year; later today, I’ll head down South\[sup\]\*\[/sup\] for what is usually fun & frolic in the Atlantic Ocean. The water will be warm\[sup\]\*\*\[/sup\] despite losing 3° in the past coupl… --- ## [So what IS the correct answer to "Do these pants make my butt look big?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-the-correct-answer-to-do-these-pants-make-my-butt-look-big/619486)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-the-correct-answer-to-do-these-pants-make-my-butt-look-big/619486 "2018-01-07T19:43:44Z")
Inquiring minds want to know. --- ## [T. Rex Autopsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-rex-autopsy/805735)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-rex-autopsy/805735 "2018-01-07T14:54:29Z")
This is a couple of years old but it was new to me, maybe to others here as well. An “autopsy” of a full-scale model of a Tyrannosaurus that was made as anatomically accurate as is currently known. https://nerdist.com/n… --- ## [Any old-time BBS people here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-time-bbs-people-here/69602)
**Author:** [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-time-bbs-people-here/69602 "2018-01-07T08:40:56Z")
Back in the olden days, before some of you were even in double digits, and before many of you had even used a modem, the Internet wasn’t on the lips and minds of so many of the world’s citizens. There was no DSL, no cab… --- ## [A Year of No Shopping](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-year-of-no-shopping/805993)
**Author:** [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-year-of-no-shopping/805993 "2018-01-07T04:22:49Z")
Inspired by this piece in the NYT Sunday Review section a few weeks ago: My Year of No Shopping. I like to lead a simplified life, and what better way to simplify than to give up shopping, if just for a year? I decide… --- ## [Signed lease for rental house; current tenants won't move out (need answer fast!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signed-lease-for-rental-house-current-tenants-wont-move-out-need-answer-fast/805957)
**Author:** [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signed-lease-for-rental-house-current-tenants-wont-move-out-need-answer-fast/805957 "2018-01-07T02:34:17Z")
As if life hasn’t been stressful enough with my dad dying two months ago, now we got word that our new house is not being vacated as planned. In the middle of planning a funeral, my wife and I were (and are) in the proc… --- ## [Malaysia Airlines 777 Missing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malaysia-airlines-777-missing/683168)
**Author:** [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Replies:** 1746\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malaysia-airlines-777-missing/683168 "2018-01-06T22:44:13Z")
According to CNN, air traffic controllers lost contact with the jet somewhere over Vietnam. The plane would be out of fuel by now, so it looks pretty grim. 239 people on the plane… --- ## [Whats so bad about all wheel drive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-bad-about-all-wheel-drive/805510)
**Author:** [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-bad-about-all-wheel-drive/805510 "2018-01-06T22:15:29Z")
My cousin has read a few reviews, probably an understatement about a few, they said that AWD has more or actually twice the expense on repairs than 4 wheel or front wheel. (If that made sense):smack: Now she wont touch … --- ## [My sister has had 2 strokes in as many days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-has-had-2-strokes-in-as-many-days/805950)
**Author:** [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-has-had-2-strokes-in-as-many-days/805950 "2018-01-06T19:37:35Z")
I’ve read many of the posts on the subject here on the Dope, and the information in them helped reduce my anxiety some. But the thing is, I’ve taken family relations as “whatever”, with no real connection (different sto… --- ## [Does your job require you to do anything you consider unethical / immoral?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-job-require-you-to-do-anything-you-consider-unethical-immoral/805334)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-job-require-you-to-do-anything-you-consider-unethical-immoral/805334 "2018-01-06T18:09:55Z")
Just curious. Certain jobs appear to require a person to hold their nose from time to time and I’m just wondering what it’s like to work with that lingering doubt. I’ll try to kick things off, but my job doesn’t really … --- ## [Sarcastic Winter PSAs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastic-winter-psas/805719)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarcastic-winter-psas/805719 "2018-01-06T15:13:42Z")
You may have noticed the white masses falling from the sky in recent weeks. That’s called snow, and it presents a problem. The problem is traction: Snow provides way too much. People can walk in it, crunching it down an… --- ## [Name a good/bad thing that happened today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-good-bad-thing-that-happened-today/805638)
**Author:** [@Reecejackox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reecejackox)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-good-bad-thing-that-happened-today/805638 "2018-01-06T08:47:28Z")
I will start Good Won a game on fifa Bad Headache --- ## [Furthest/Shortest distance you have moved home from to to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811)
**Author:** [@Reecejackox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reecejackox)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811 "2018-01-05T21:33:06Z")
I would say furthest would be Lancashire to Surrey Don’t know about Shortest --- ## [First impressions from Morocco](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-impressions-from-morocco/805204)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-impressions-from-morocco/805204 "2018-01-05T19:17:11Z")
I’ve been here, in Casablanca, for 1 day so far. Visiting my wife’s sister, who lives here. Later today we take the train to Marrakech, and we’ll be there for a few days. First impressions: Food is extremely cheap. A go… --- ## [Police, Puh-Leaze Don't Shoot Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-puh-leaze-dont-shoot-me/805918)
**Author:** [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-puh-leaze-dont-shoot-me/805918 "2018-01-05T15:06:11Z")
Rather than tack onto the SWATting thread, I thought it worthwhile to start a new thread about the deadly over-use of surprise raids, SWAT tactics and police shooting innocent people. This news article I read is pretty … --- ## [What happened to Karen Greenlee, the unrepentant necrophile?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-karen-greenlee-the-unrepentant-necrophile/639246)
**Author:** [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-karen-greenlee-the-unrepentant-necrophile/639246 "2012-11-02T02:16:12Z")
Does anyone know what came of Karen Greenlee? Such would have been the title of this thread if I wrote it in Great Questions. But since I have just come accross her I thought I’d share the page I just read here. Even so… --- ## [ideas for raffle prizes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-raffle-prizes/805626)
**Author:** [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-raffle-prizes/805626 "2018-01-05T08:11:47Z")
I have been tasked with making recommendations for raffle prizes for an upcoming event. Past prizes have been anything from “green egg” cookers, Yeti coolers, to modest flat screen TVs. That is, prices ranging up to $200… --- ## [Ask the person who just vacationed in Antarctica.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-who-just-vacationed-in-antarctica/805106)
**Author:** [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-who-just-vacationed-in-antarctica/805106 "2018-01-04T22:33:07Z")
Since it’s not a common destination, I thought I’d start a thread and see if I could be helpful, or at least interesting. What would you like to know about this trip? --- ## [The Searchlights That Weren't](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-searchlights-that-werent/805779)
**Author:** [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-searchlights-that-werent/805779 "2018-01-04T21:09:13Z")
Mundane and pointless, yes indeed. But really kind of cool. I was driving along a highway a few days ago well after dark, when my (adult) daughter said, “Hey, what are those lights?” When I turned to look, there were fo… --- ## [Fixing jeans pockets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-jeans-pockets/805838)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-jeans-pockets/805838 "2018-01-04T19:05:31Z")
It’s the inner lining that’s developing the holes, of course. I tried some of those iron on fabric patches, and it not only stuck to the iron more than the fabric, it scorched (or browned) whatever it touched, though tha… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=493) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=495)