# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=575 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 576 --- ## [New President Trump Riddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-president-trump-riddle/777064)
**Author:** [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-president-trump-riddle/777064 "2017-01-16T17:56:14Z")
I don’t see where anyone else has posted this one, but I heard what I considered an awesome riddle at lunchtime (the English teachers here are very liberal and very vulgar!). Warning: this riddle only works when you TEL… --- ## [I dont know who I want to kill first](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-who-i-want-to-kill-first/777045)
**Author:** [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-who-i-want-to-kill-first/777045 "2017-01-16T16:32:48Z")
me, my cousin or my husband husband home for the third time this week because of pain my cousin because her SIL, me and a LAWYER told her what to do about her abusive, stalking ex boyfriend and she just cant deal with … --- ## [Do you name your vehicles?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-name-your-vehicles/777223)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-name-your-vehicles/777223 "2017-01-16T16:30:36Z")
And how did it get it’s name? I’ve named a few… My first truck was called Puddles. I did a lot of off road/jeeping/4-wheeling in it. Always going through massive ‘puddles’. And it did leak a little oil. So it becam… --- ## [Fiennes as Michael Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiennes-as-michael-jackson/776917)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiennes-as-michael-jackson/776917 "2017-01-16T15:46:01Z")
is it blackface when you have to lighten your skin? --- ## [Come on, let's change history properly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-lets-change-history-properly/776980)
**Author:** [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-lets-change-history-properly/776980 "2017-01-16T05:21:50Z")
Everyone who has a time machine always goes back and kills Hitler, right? To prevent WWII. But, maybe the times were right for a Hitler to arise, and if you kill him, the next corporal over will step into his shoes. When… --- ## [Do you wash your back every time you shower?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wash-your-back-every-time-you-shower/776530)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wash-your-back-every-time-you-shower/776530 "2017-01-16T00:59:09Z")
A bit TMI perhaps, but I will admit I don’t wash my back (with soap and scrub brush) every time I shower. Am I alone in this? --- ## [Overcoming trauma](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overcoming-trauma/776808)
**Author:** [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 16, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overcoming-trauma/776808 "2017-01-16T00:56:16Z")
Anyone would like to share experiences/knowledge about how they or others overcame trauma, especially from childhood? --- ## [McGill University has a junk science course](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcgill-university-has-a-junk-science-course/777171)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcgill-university-has-a-junk-science-course/777171 "2017-01-15T23:33:14Z")
So McGill University in Montreal has a professor teaching a course called “UFOs: History and Reality”. In The Montreal Gazette, Montreal’s main anglo daily newspaper, they interview him for an article, at the link below: … --- ## [Write a Paragraph Where Each Letter Is Used At Least Once Uppercase and Lowercase](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-paragraph-where-each-letter-is-used-at-least-once-uppercase-and-lowercase/777238)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-paragraph-where-each-letter-is-used-at-least-once-uppercase-and-lowercase/777238 "2017-01-15T18:31:10Z")
Adam boarded a ferry, the Xavier Ignatius, from Edgartown to Chappaquiddick, then exited the vessel at the west dock. Meanwhile, Danny, Frank, Genevieve, Harley, Jeff, Kirk, Louis, Nancy, Otis, Patrick, Russell, and Thom… --- ## [Agnotology - The Spread Of Ignorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnotology-the-spread-of-ignorance/777085)
**Author:** [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnotology-the-spread-of-ignorance/777085 "2017-01-15T16:17:18Z")
I was pleased to learn that the deliberate spreading of ignorance now has an official name and is being studied as a sociological phenomena. Our enemy now has a name. --- ## [SNL's change of tone for me.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-change-of-tone-for-me/777219)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-change-of-tone-for-me/777219 "2017-01-15T15:49:37Z")
With more recurring cameos and some players being there so long, self-referencing bits…SNL has become, for me, more of a “comfortable sitcom” then what it used to be. Which is good! --- ## [Future archeologists just unearthed your home...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-archeologists-just-unearthed-your-home/777027)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-archeologists-just-unearthed-your-home/777027 "2017-01-15T15:49:15Z")
As you read this, your home is suddenly and instantly buried and preserved by mysterious forces, not to be discovered for several centuries. One day, the great-great-great-great-great-etc-grandson of Indiana Jones and h… --- ## [Job Ad: Computer for Work Included](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-ad-computer-for-work-included/776981)
**Author:** [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-ad-computer-for-work-included/776981 "2017-01-15T04:10:52Z")
The university I work at recently had a job fair and I saw the strangest advertisement for a web developer. Among the many perks they included a “computer for work”. Is this some new trend among IT companies to not inclu… --- ## [Damn it! I wasn't gonna get a dog today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-i-wasnt-gonna-get-a-dog-today/775871)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-i-wasnt-gonna-get-a-dog-today/775871 "2017-01-15T03:52:47Z")
Some of you may know from another thread that I had my dog Brewster put down on Monday from cancer. Well after three days of an empty house, I decided to go the county animal shelter to look at dogs. Just look. I had gon… --- ## [So - Clinton Global Initiative is closing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-clinton-global-initiative-is-closing/777194)
**Author:** [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-clinton-global-initiative-is-closing/777194 "2017-01-15T03:03:24Z")
Guess it lost its raison d’etre. --- ## [As seen on TV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-seen-on-tv/281206)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-seen-on-tv/281206 "2017-01-14T23:42:29Z")
I love my Smart Chopper. This, if you’ve never seen the adverts, is a small, hand-cranked food processor. My dad gave me one yonks ago. I managed to break the handle, but I repaired it with some epoxy. I picked one u… --- ## [Winter storm Jupiter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-jupiter/777167)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-jupiter/777167 "2017-01-14T23:21:31Z")
Apparently, they now have a process about whether or not to name temperate zone storms. I was unaware of this until just now. Hey, I live on the west coast, this is more of a east-of-the-Rockies-type thing How do they d… --- ## [Boycotts and Marches! Seems like the 60's again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycotts-and-marches-seems-like-the-60s-again/777052)
**Author:** [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycotts-and-marches-seems-like-the-60s-again/777052 "2017-01-14T18:39:38Z")
Well Trump has given us boycotts and marches on Washington again! (Links below.) Just like in the 60’s. Maybe long hair on men and the peace sign will come back as well? I think I will get a few boycott bumper stickers… --- ## [Flight to HEL](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-to-hel/777113)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-to-hel/777113 "2017-01-14T18:04:15Z")
Flight 666 takes off on Friday the 13th, 13:00 local time, destination HEL. I don’t suppose the passenger manifest included Louis Cypher? :stuck\_out\_tongue: --- ## [Watch a drone hit the Space Needle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-a-drone-hit-the-space-needle/777098)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-a-drone-hit-the-space-needle/777098 "2017-01-14T05:14:57Z")
Oopsie!: http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/01/12/seattle-drone-crash-orig.cnn --- ## [I sneeze down my shirt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sneeze-down-my-shirt/49439)
**Author:** [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sneeze-down-my-shirt/49439 "2017-01-14T04:16:31Z")
My mother hates germs. She taught me not to sneeze in my hands, because that spreads germs, so she told me to sneeze down my shirt. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid, so even though I don’t mind germs so much, I can… --- ## [Can I Get My Yard Landscaped for Free?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-my-yard-landscaped-for-free/381554)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-my-yard-landscaped-for-free/381554 "2006-11-27T01:40:21Z")
I’ve tried to landscape my back yard, but the results don’t look…good! Here is my idea: I approach a professor at a local university school of landscape design. I offer my yard as a class or individual student project. I… --- ## [The way Trump speaks - does it mean anything?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-trump-speaks-does-it-mean-anything/776918)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-trump-speaks-does-it-mean-anything/776918 "2017-01-13T20:04:06Z")
This is not about the words he uses or his positions. I have noticed that when he speaks he bares his lower teeth almost all the time, and I was wondering if there is any research indicating any personality or character … --- ## [Birdfeeder issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birdfeeder-issues/774778)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birdfeeder-issues/774778 "2017-01-13T19:11:52Z")
We put two birdfeeders in the back yard this year. It’s been fun and relaxing watching the various birds outside the kitchen window, especially the colorful cardinals. We are kind of new to this, though, and I’m noticing… --- ## [Bush sisters write to Obama sisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-sisters-write-to-obama-sisters/777001)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-sisters-write-to-obama-sisters/777001 "2017-01-13T13:35:36Z")
Here’s their letter. Say what you like about George W Bush, he raised his family right. --- ## [Heartburn/Reflux...what foods set you off??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heartburn-reflux-what-foods-set-you-off/776213)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heartburn-reflux-what-foods-set-you-off/776213 "2017-01-13T04:32:37Z")
For me, it’s fish and chocolate. Which is a total piss-off because I LOVE fresh fish, and I LOVE chocolate. But after a few years of severe gastric upsets (culminating in vomiting much of the time) I finally put two an… --- ## [Car's ignition interrupts music ("If they can put a man on the moon...")](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-ignition-interrupts-music-if-they-can-put-a-man-on-the-moon/776944)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-ignition-interrupts-music-if-they-can-put-a-man-on-the-moon/776944 "2017-01-12T23:28:40Z")
…why can’t car radios keep the tunes going while the key is being turned? I just got gas, a good tune just started on the radio, but starting the car ruined the flow. --- ## [A vision of Trump's funeral](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vision-of-trumps-funeral/776754)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-vision-of-trumps-funeral/776754 "2017-01-12T22:47:38Z")
So when Trump eventually dies, and has his nationally-broadcast state funeral like past presidents in the age of television, I imagine that it is going to be largely modeled on this. --- ## [From scientist to specimen, how ironic.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-scientist-to-specimen-how-ironic/776966)
**Author:** [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-scientist-to-specimen-how-ironic/776966 "2017-01-12T19:18:06Z")
This lovely scumbag that shouldn’t be called a human being, was a “scientist” in life and is now a teaching tool in a Brazilian college. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the\_americas/bones-of-mengele-angel-of-death-… --- ## [Media coverage of Trump's inauguration and subsequent reign as president.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-coverage-of-trumps-inauguration-and-subsequent-reign-as-president/776827)
**Author:** [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-coverage-of-trumps-inauguration-and-subsequent-reign-as-president/776827 "2017-01-12T16:57:39Z")
The media, from the day that the donald descended the escalator, has done nothing but to egg the man on, and give him free publicity. It doesn’t matter whether they are making fun of him, criticizing him, or lauding him,… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=574) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=576)