# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=622 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 623 --- ## [What's the Weirdest/Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen/Witnessed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-strangest-thing-youve-ever-seen-witnessed/758894)
**Author:** [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einstein_was_a_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-strangest-thing-youve-ever-seen-witnessed/758894 "2016-07-06T11:42:40Z")
I have been hearing people talk about weird things they found hiking in the woods, or seen out on the ocean or in the sky that they cannot explain. What is the weirdest or strangest thing you have ever seen or witnessed… --- ## [Personalized book cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personalized-book-cover/759172)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personalized-book-cover/759172 "2016-07-05T23:45:57Z")
My wife ordered a book from amazon.ca that was delivered today. It was “You are Here” by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. It is essentially a book of photos from space. What was amazing was the cover. It had a past… --- ## [We're getting a new deck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-a-new-deck/756743)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-getting-a-new-deck/756743 "2016-07-05T18:08:26Z")
Our deck spans half of the back of the house, and the other half has a cracking concrete slab patio and about a four-foot section of paving tiles I put down for the wood stack, a square of bricks, and a rotted ‘bridge’ t… --- ## [Cities that recovered from major disasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-recovered-from-major-disasters/758618)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-recovered-from-major-disasters/758618 "2016-07-05T02:56:37Z")
The 150th anniversary of the Great Portland Fire is coming up. This was the fourth major fire in our city’s history. Our town motto is “Resurgam”, latin for “I will rise again”, refering to the many times the city was … --- ## [RIP Elie Wiesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-elie-wiesel/758965)
**Author:** [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-elie-wiesel/758965 "2016-07-05T02:54:31Z")
Leaving the world better for his having lived in it, and poorer for his no longer being in it, Elie Wiesel has passed away at age 87. An outstanding life, risen from the deepest pit to which mankind descended in our age… --- ## [Satan's Ten Commandments for Parents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satans-ten-commandments-for-parents/758922)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satans-ten-commandments-for-parents/758922 "2016-07-04T21:09:09Z")
Satan’s Ten Commandments For Parents Thou shalt not take thy children to a Bible-believing church Thou shalt not teach thy children to know and serve Jesus Christ Thou shalt not spank thy children Thou shalt enroll thy… --- ## [Boris Johnson for VEEP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-johnson-for-veep/758696 "2016-07-04T16:57:41Z")
I just saw Boris Johnson’s photo in the paper yesterday and realized that if you dyed his hair orange, he is a Trump look-a-like. He is a natural born American. And apparently no prominent Republican is interested in b… --- ## [What else happened the day you were conceived?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168)
**Author:** [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-else-happened-the-day-you-were-conceived/758168 "2016-07-04T16:21:59Z")
What was the most newsworthy or historically important event on what you can reasonably calculate to be the day you were conceived? For me: The British liner Llandovery Castle was sailing from Gibraltar to Marseilles c… --- ## [No thank you, I do not want to dance. Which of these words is giving you trouble?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-thank-you-i-do-not-want-to-dance-which-of-these-words-is-giving-you-trouble/667546)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-thank-you-i-do-not-want-to-dance-which-of-these-words-is-giving-you-trouble/667546 "2016-07-04T13:44:22Z")
Dear fellow party/wedding/nightclub attendee, I do not like to dance. I do not wish to dance. I have made this perfectly clear. So why, in the name of Christ, do you feel it is your duty to hustle me (get it?) onto the… --- ## [How Does An Air Conditioning System Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-an-air-conditioning-system-work/750315)
**Author:** [@mattm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattm)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-an-air-conditioning-system-work/750315 "2016-07-04T11:12:43Z")
OK I started this as an answer to another thread and it got out of control. So for those of you who want to know how an A/C system works, here you go. I’ve been an HVAC tech since 1984 in one form or another… --- ## [Want to slide 1000 ft above the ground?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-slide-1000-ft-above-the-ground/758980)
**Author:** [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-slide-1000-ft-above-the-ground/758980 "2016-07-04T06:13:25Z")
Not me --- ## [It's a Moving and Grooving MMP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-moving-and-grooving-mmp/758502)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 252\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-moving-and-grooving-mmp/758502 "2016-07-04T03:22:47Z")
I’m packing up my worldly possessions this week. On Saturday, a crew of hopefully fit and well hydrated folk will appear and load my gear into a truck. It will then disappear into storage for about 6 weeks while we wai… --- ## [Weird worries - you or someone else...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-worries-you-or-someone-else/757337)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-worries-you-or-someone-else/757337 "2016-07-04T01:39:18Z")
My MIL is a relatively intelligent woman, and very sweet, but boy-howdy, does she worry about some bizarro stuff! For example, this past Sunday around noon, she called to ask if our daughter (who lives in Orlando) was s… --- ## [I'm graduating soon!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-graduating-soon/759026)
**Author:** [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-graduating-soon/759026 "2016-07-03T22:01:17Z")
I haven’t posted for ages, but I’m very excited and wanted to update a few people. I have ONE MONTH of massage therapy school left. :slight\_smile: It’s been kind of an ordeal…I got sick (interstitial cystitis) halfway t… --- ## ["Feels like" temperature](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feels-like-temperature/758999)
**Author:** [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feels-like-temperature/758999 "2016-07-03T20:42:39Z")
It’s not yet 9 am here, and the weather site says it “feels like” 103. What the hell does that mean? As a point of reference, I have no idea what 103 “feels like”, because when it is actually 103, it “feels like” 115.… --- ## [Another Dog Story (Too long too)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dog-story-too-long-too/78055)
**Author:** [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dog-story-too-long-too/78055 "2016-07-03T20:28:58Z")
I once read a story about an Irish Wolfhound. These are the largest of all dog breeds, and the reason there are no wolves left in Ireland. There was a Prince, and he had a wolfhound that he loved. The dog was named Gle… --- ## [Gah. Cockroach in toilet bowl. Talk me down.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-cockroach-in-toilet-bowl-talk-me-down/758928)
**Author:** [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-cockroach-in-toilet-bowl-talk-me-down/758928 "2016-07-03T16:30:13Z")
Spouse and I returned from a one-week vacation and there was a cockroach (dead presumably, but I wasn’t about to check too closely) in the second-floor toilet bowl. The lid was down. So, I’m assuming it got in from the… --- ## [What's your pet peeve(s)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018)
**Author:** [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pet-peeve-s/758018 "2016-07-03T15:51:57Z")
My top two are wet socks and dumbass drivers who cut me off with/without signaling. --- ## [Can YOU tell?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell/217289)
**Author:** [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell/217289 "2016-07-03T13:09:07Z")
http://www2.b3ta.com/femaleorshemale3/# This is a test of your perceptions… good luck! I scored 15 out of 16 which must mean I’m no fool. --- ## [Strange things we do for our pets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-we-do-for-our-pets/758716)
**Author:** [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-we-do-for-our-pets/758716 "2016-07-03T06:30:42Z")
I love chow mein, especially shrimp chow mein. There is a Chinese restaurant near my house that does it very well, so I get a to-go order about once a week and take it home. Almost every chow mein recipe contains green… --- ## [Going to the Gym to NOT Work Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-the-gym-to-not-work-out/758697)
**Author:** [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-the-gym-to-not-work-out/758697 "2016-07-03T02:13:27Z")
Not really a vent, but curious. I’m probably just being nosy. I was in spin class yesterday. There are about 25 bikes, and the instructor is tough and it’s a great work out. Sometimes the class is full, sometimes it’… --- ## [Your tales of run-ins with sociopaths/psychopaths](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-tales-of-run-ins-with-sociopaths-psychopaths/758698)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-tales-of-run-ins-with-sociopaths-psychopaths/758698 "2016-07-03T00:13:28Z")
People who don’t get that everything doesn’t revolve around them, that the way they see things is the only way, and that people have a right to do things any other way but their way. I’ve known a few. One agent got piss… --- ## [A photo of Nigel Farage is rather popular in Malaysia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-photo-of-nigel-farage-is-rather-popular-in-malaysia/758920)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-photo-of-nigel-farage-is-rather-popular-in-malaysia/758920 "2016-07-02T23:02:01Z")
If your mind is suitably in the gutter, click the link to bring a smile to your day. Languages are wonderful things, especially for the cunning. --- ## [Is Mylanta no longer made?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mylanta-no-longer-made/710817 "2016-07-02T21:16:29Z")
Mylanta was my best friend in the entire world throughout the 1990’s. I was swigging it nearly everyday to keep indigestion at bay. Without Mylanta I’d wake up at 3 AM needing to throw up the acid that had built up in m… --- ## [Spray bottles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spray-bottles/758927)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spray-bottles/758927 "2016-07-02T20:58:02Z")
My personal experience with spray bottles (the kind you buy empty) has been confirmed, sort of. I can’t recall a sprayer I bought that worked right the first time, didn’t leak if tipped, held its prime and/or kept workin… --- ## [Environmental extremism collides with reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-extremism-collides-with-reality/758909)
**Author:** [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-extremism-collides-with-reality/758909 "2016-07-02T19:24:29Z")
Germany has been trying to shut down all coal-fired power plants. Large sections of the German populace and government had come to believe the idiocy of carbon dioxide being called a “pollutant.” (Never mind that it’s … --- ## [So, I was having brunch with Olivia de Havilland in Paris last week . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-having-brunch-with-olivia-de-havilland-in-paris-last-week/623353 "2016-07-02T19:00:09Z")
. . . and if you don’t think I am going to casually work \*that \*into every conversation, including at the dry cleaner’s and the deli . . . I was staying in Montmartre with friends last week, and on Thursday Olivia de Ha… --- ## [The Fuzz BOLO Fuzzy-Wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fuzz-bolo-fuzzy-wuzzy/758883)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fuzz-bolo-fuzzy-wuzzy/758883 "2016-07-02T15:48:40Z")
A bear knocked a cyclist off his mountain bike and killed him in a rare encounter Wednesday afternoon near the Glacier National Park. “We are attempting to capture and/or confirm the identity of the offending bear,” Me… --- ## [The Indignant Dogs of Summer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-indignant-dogs-of-summer/758711)
**Author:** [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-indignant-dogs-of-summer/758711 "2016-07-02T03:36:08Z")
I live in the farmland of central Pa. After work I went for my usual run, but it is was hot and humid. It had rained an hour before, but now the sun was back, superheating the pavement, and the water from the rain was … --- ## [What would you write on a thermonuclear warhead? (Messages on bombs)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-write-on-a-thermonuclear-warhead-messages-on-bombs/758739 "2016-07-01T22:10:49Z")
I was idly wondering about this today, writing messages on bombs is a time-honoured tradition: Flash-forward to the present (and well…fifty odd y… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=621) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=623)