# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=603 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 604 --- ## [When the moon hits your eye, and your car, that's a typhoon tossing it over the road](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100)
**Author:** [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100 "2016-09-16T17:25:24Z")
Typhoon meranti cafuses a huge inflatable moon to run over people and cars in China. Thank goodness that it was not a festival that makes a reference to planet Jupiter! --- ## [Angels do walk among us Part II](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-do-walk-among-us-part-ii/766089)
**Author:** [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-do-walk-among-us-part-ii/766089 "2016-09-16T15:45:34Z")
Back in December 2012, I told the story of how Angels walk among us and how we seemed to hit it off pretty quickly. Our relationship grew, we became good friends, happy in each others company and well, I’m happy to say … --- ## [Apparently, I have no future](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-i-have-no-future/766053)
**Author:** [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-i-have-no-future/766053 "2016-09-16T11:06:54Z")
For the second time this week, I cracked open a fortune cookie and found NO fortune inside. These were from two separate restaurants. Guess my life’s gonna be really boring for a while? --- ## [I need a new excuse...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-new-excuse/764937)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-new-excuse/764937 "2016-09-16T08:48:59Z")
… or just more of them. My standard answer when I’m asked to do something I have absolutely no desire to do (like move cinderblocks from a friend’s basement Saturday afternoon) is “I’d love to but I’m washing my hair tha… --- ## [Crazy Eddie Dies! His Casket is Insane!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-eddie-dies-his-casket-is-insane/765765)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-eddie-dies-his-casket-is-insane/765765 "2016-09-16T03:29:27Z")
It’s noted in the Celebrity Death Pool thread, but didn’t gets its own. Eddie Antar , founder of Crazy Eddie’s electronics, has died. He lived in New Jersey, not that far from Pepper Mill. His logo looked as if he stol… --- ## [Free Stuff on eBay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff-on-ebay/765901)
**Author:** [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff-on-ebay/765901 "2016-09-15T21:14:36Z")
Wonder if they’re the old fashioned kind, or the ones from Africa… http://sarasota.craigslist.org/zip/5771795748.html :smack: Craigslist, not eBay…can a mod change the title please? --- ## [Your favourite /least favourite teacher at school](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-least-favourite-teacher-at-school/765995)
**Author:** [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-least-favourite-teacher-at-school/765995 "2016-09-15T20:30:20Z")
Mine Favourite - year 11 ICT teacher Least year 6 primary school teacher --- ## [Losing Your First Parent (to Death, Not a In a Mall or Something)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-first-parent-to-death-not-a-in-a-mall-or-something/765516)
**Author:** [@Subtlety\_Wrecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subtlety_Wrecks)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-your-first-parent-to-death-not-a-in-a-mall-or-something/765516 "2016-09-15T19:43:01Z")
How old were you when the first of your parents died? How did you deal with it? I’m 33 and my mom is in the hospital indefinitely with terminal liver disease brought on by years of alcoholism. One doctor said she’d liv… --- ## [The Department of Ironic Headlines Department.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-department-of-ironic-headlines-department/765925)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-department-of-ironic-headlines-department/765925 "2016-09-15T14:19:23Z")
Lawmaker who opposed universal helmet law dies in motorcycle crash I mean, really. :wink: --- ## [Butter Knife at 10:55pm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-knife-at-10-55pm/765739)
**Author:** [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-knife-at-10-55pm/765739 "2016-09-15T14:16:10Z")
So we were about to close up the grocery store tonight. Only a few people had been in during this day’s last hour of business for the usual… beer, breakfast items, cigarettes, school lunch needs etc. But at 10:55 a young… --- ## [I thought he was my friend but he turned out to be my Anemone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-he-was-my-friend-but-he-turned-out-to-be-my-anemone/765943)
**Author:** [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-he-was-my-friend-but-he-turned-out-to-be-my-anemone/765943 "2016-09-15T05:58:14Z")
My youngest daughter and I have been keeping a small reef tank for a while now with great success. I’d read very mixed things about anemones, but we wanted to get one so our clown fish could host it. I had read that an… --- ## [My cat was taken by a coyote on September 9, 2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-was-taken-by-a-coyote-on-september-9-2016/765986)
**Author:** [@Klangill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klangill)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-was-taken-by-a-coyote-on-september-9-2016/765986 "2016-09-15T04:47:42Z")
My life for the past 7 years was a fantastic time for my adopted cats Roxy and Mia. I rescued them from downtown Westend cramped home 2 children 1 bedroom 1 dog and 500 square feet … The owners were well intended but Ro… --- ## [Can anyone help in identifying some old reading textbooks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-in-identifying-some-old-reading-textbooks/765983)
**Author:** [@favabean1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/favabean1982)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-in-identifying-some-old-reading-textbooks/765983 "2016-09-15T04:46:27Z")
OK, this is seriously bothering me. My mom, who used to be a school speech therapist, once brought home a series of old reading textbooks. Each book came with an accompanying teacher’s guide as well. The books were co… --- ## [DSLR gets sprayed with pink fire retardant...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dslr-gets-sprayed-with-pink-fire-retardant/765980)
**Author:** [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dslr-gets-sprayed-with-pink-fire-retardant/765980 "2016-09-15T04:16:08Z")
…gets hosed off, and keeps on going! \[QUOTE=The article I linked\] Maneely \[the photographer in question\], who lives in the small town of Ukiah in Northern California, is experienced in photographing wildfires and under… --- ## [Link me to interesting Wikipedia pages.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-interesting-wikipedia-pages/765915)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-interesting-wikipedia-pages/765915 "2016-09-15T04:12:03Z")
I love reading intriguing, interesting, amusing, weird, scary, or even morbid Wikipedia pages. What are some of the best reads you know of? Here are some of mine… First a few lists: Specific articles: What a… --- ## [Mom's spending her birthday in hospital.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moms-spending-her-birthday-in-hospital/765250)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moms-spending-her-birthday-in-hospital/765250 "2016-09-14T19:19:33Z")
So yesterday my mother fainted in the parking lot of a coffee shop and fell face first in the parking lot. Her face is scratched and she had one hell of a nose bleed, but no nothing’s broken. She would not let my father… --- ## [Stephen King Compares Donald Trump To Cthulhu; Cthulhu Issues Angry Denial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855 "2016-09-14T14:32:06Z")
I love this --- ## [Are You Misunderstood?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-misunderstood/765633)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-misunderstood/765633 "2016-09-14T02:57:17Z")
A question inspired by this thread about negative people, but I felt it would be more appropriate to start my own thread rather than posting there. Are you misunderstood? There was one particular post by Arcite in that… --- ## [Nooz sights thet cannt right hed-lines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nooz-sights-thet-cannt-right-hed-lines/765858)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nooz-sights-thet-cannt-right-hed-lines/765858 "2016-09-13T21:02:30Z")
I mean, just how stupid do you have to be to write a headline like this? 7 killer features in Chevrolet’s new $30,000 electric car Purposely-broken link: http://www.businessinsider.comXXX/chevrolet-bolts-killer-featur… --- ## [Meet the newest addtion to the Group W bench.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-newest-addtion-to-the-group-w-bench/765833)
**Author:** [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-newest-addtion-to-the-group-w-bench/765833 "2016-09-13T20:30:55Z")
I swear the reporter must have doing on purpose (I lol’d, literally) when she said ‘Harper’s name was found on an envelope’. Short story, a DPW worker finds the envelope amongst a garbage strewn alley (I assume reported… --- ## [Fishbowl Fighter does a Hadoken](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishbowl-fighter-does-a-hadoken/765771)
**Author:** [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fishbowl-fighter-does-a-hadoken/765771 "2016-09-13T20:29:08Z")
Cardinal fish spitting out an ostracod Awesome, isn’t it? You can barely see the shrimp darting downwards near the end of the action. --- ## [You know how they say never flip anyone off because you never know who might pull a gun on you...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-how-they-say-never-flip-anyone-off-because-you-never-know-who-might-pull-a-gun-on-you/765831)
**Author:** [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-how-they-say-never-flip-anyone-off-because-you-never-know-who-might-pull-a-gun-on-you/765831 "2016-09-13T14:54:10Z")
Well, shit just got real. (disclaimer, I’m not sure what set this off) First of all, I should mention that Milwaukee, going way back, well before the recent news events about the riots and the ‘worst place to live if y… --- ## [On This Day in 1899....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-in-1899/765832)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-in-1899/765832 "2016-09-13T10:54:14Z")
The first recorded automobile death in North America: https://web.archive.org/web/20001017123110/http://www.rememberbliss.org/history.html --- ## [When was the first time you thought you were in love?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-first-time-you-thought-you-were-in-love/765278)
**Author:** [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-first-time-you-thought-you-were-in-love/765278 "2016-09-13T06:33:06Z")
Can be anyone --- ## [Ladies (and guys), did you have anything "done"? ( Cosmetic surgery)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-and-guys-did-you-have-anything-done-cosmetic-surgery/765632)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-and-guys-did-you-have-anything-done-cosmetic-surgery/765632 "2016-09-13T04:48:55Z")
I have. I’m curious if other people have, and if it is still a taboo to talk about it. I admit I’m vain. To me, that is just common sense: women are very much judged by their looks. There’s a lot of hard evidence to bac… --- ## [Negative people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-people/765428)
**Author:** [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-people/765428 "2016-09-13T03:13:23Z")
Ever run into these types of people? Are you one?? My cousin goes so far over the end…bugs me to shit! BUGS BUGS ME! Anyone in your life?? I try to be positive and I know its hard to always be positive but damn!! :e… --- ## [Drug price comparison: Canada vs. US](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-price-comparison-canada-vs-us/765339)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-price-comparison-canada-vs-us/765339 "2016-09-13T01:57:56Z")
My wife had to get a scrip in the US. It cost $44, close to C$60 at the current rate. She just got a renewal from our doctor here. Cost $12 and there was no provincial subsidy (don’t know why). Both were generics inc… --- ## [Please allow me to vent about restaurants with the television volume set to eleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-allow-me-to-vent-about-restaurants-with-the-television-volume-set-to-eleven/765100)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-allow-me-to-vent-about-restaurants-with-the-television-volume-set-to-eleven/765100 "2016-09-13T01:40:06Z")
Friends invited us to dinner Saturday. The restaurant has approximately 3 million televisions, all tuned into college football games. This was, by far, the loudest restaurant I’ve ever been in. I felt as if the game anno… --- ## [Oh noes! Hillary has pneumonia! She can't be president!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-noes-hillary-has-pneumonia-she-cant-be-president/765805 "2016-09-13T00:23:43Z")
For Pete’s sake, FDR was in a freaking wheelchair. Can’t we pick something a little more relevant to natter on about? Like foreign policy or health care or whether pigs have wings? --- ## [Watch evolution in action for 11 days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-evolution-in-action-for-11-days/765658)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-evolution-in-action-for-11-days/765658 "2016-09-13T00:06:07Z")
Here’s something quite interesting (and scary). Harvard Medical School has produced a time-lapse video of bacteria reacting to increasingly potent anti-bacterial agents by mutating and surviving. I’d like to show this … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=602) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=604)