# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=681 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 682 --- ## [Thanksgiving.........how many at your table](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558)
**Author:** [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-how-many-at-your-table/738558 "2015-11-28T04:22:18Z")
Happy Thanksgiving everyone !!! Back to the family homestead, last count was 32. Stragglers or friends of family always appear so will be 1 or so more I suspect will be there. How about you all ? --- ## [Cleaning and sanitizing my wooden...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-and-sanitizing-my-wooden/738725)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-and-sanitizing-my-wooden/738725 "2015-11-28T03:38:05Z")
This thread came about because I was on the main page, where the forum titles are on the left side and the most current thread in each forum is listed opposite on the right, and I saw the title of a thread shortened to f… --- ## [So who is working tomorrow?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-working-tomorrow/738554)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-is-working-tomorrow/738554 "2015-11-28T01:13:19Z")
Me. I have no plans other than working 2 -7. And maybe walking 5 miles home if the weather is still warm enough at that hour. What am I going to eat? Who knows? I might stop at the local IHOP for eggs and pancakes. I … --- ## [Is Black Friday Losing its Real Meaning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-black-friday-losing-its-real-meaning/738601)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-black-friday-losing-its-real-meaning/738601 "2015-11-28T00:58:08Z")
This was an actual headline on the business page of the Dayton Daily News today. --- ## [Jodi Arias' former lawyer, Kirk Nurmi's new book - felt he was "Trapped with Ms. Arias,"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-arias-former-lawyer-kirk-nurmis-new-book-felt-he-was-trapped-with-ms-arias/738771)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-arias-former-lawyer-kirk-nurmis-new-book-felt-he-was-trapped-with-ms-arias/738771 "2015-11-27T21:47:48Z")
He was stuck on this case for Five long, long years. Knowing that a psychopath was doing everything possible to manipulate him. Talk about a man really hating his job. :stuck\_out\_tongue: I understand his reaction. On… --- ## [Autistic logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-logic/738729)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-logic/738729 "2015-11-27T17:28:18Z")
My almost-six-year-old daughter wanted to play a rousing game of “toy or garbage?” this morning, which apparently involves her holding up an item and asking if it’s a toy or garbage, and then putting it into the appropri… --- ## [Question about gay people in Syria - HuffPost article.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gay-people-in-syria-huffpost-article/738655)
**Author:** [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gay-people-in-syria-huffpost-article/738655 "2015-11-27T14:04:04Z")
Apparently “gay men” will be given priority in escaping Syria because of the risk of violence to them in that country: My question is: what about gay women over there? I’m not questioning their refugee status to come… --- ## [Tell me about the most awful thing you’ve ever smelled](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-most-awful-thing-you-ve-ever-smelled/737762)
**Author:** [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-most-awful-thing-you-ve-ever-smelled/737762 "2015-11-27T07:47:56Z")
…In graphic detail. For me, it was a carton of wet cat food that ever-so-slightly split a seam within a 24-tin case. The case was packaged with a cardboard bottom and then plastic wrapped most-but-not-all of the way shu… --- ## [Picketing abortion clinics banned in Vic, Aus.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketing-abortion-clinics-banned-in-vic-aus/738679)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketing-abortion-clinics-banned-in-vic-aus/738679 "2015-11-27T05:31:04Z")
Rather than resurrecting this behemoth of a thread from a few years ago, may I just say that Victorian parliamentarians yesterday made it illegal to picket, photograph or otherwise annoy people in the vicinity of an abor… --- ## [Got wood?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-wood/735722)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-wood/735722 "2015-11-27T01:53:22Z")
Mrs. L.A. bought a cord of firewood, which was delivered yesterday. Unlike last time, when they dumped it in the driveway and I had to move it to the back yard and stack it, the guy dumped it at the corner of the house … --- ## [My chiropractic experience](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-chiropractic-experience/738589)
**Author:** [@Dingbang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dingbang)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-chiropractic-experience/738589 "2015-11-26T20:10:19Z")
My wife believes in chiroptactic treatment and goes regularly. I do not. She recently started taking my 12-year-old son for adjustments and, though I expressed my skepticism and concern about messing around with a child’… --- ## [Just what the frigg is his problem?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-the-frigg-is-his-problem/738286)
**Author:** [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-the-frigg-is-his-problem/738286 "2015-11-26T20:07:43Z")
I do my work (genealogy) and my work (from process serving) on my computer. I’m here a lot and otherwise I am on the phone to my cousin who is in distress. But this does not happen all the time. I get dinner made, I get … --- ## [So, was yesterday the 52nd anniversary of JFK assassination?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-was-yesterday-the-52nd-anniversary-of-jfk-assassination/738404)
**Author:** [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-was-yesterday-the-52nd-anniversary-of-jfk-assassination/738404 "2015-11-26T19:49:05Z")
I must have missed it, I don’t recall seeing any anniversary stories or remembrances. I just thought about it this morning when I wrote out today’s date. I guess after the 50th anniversary events seem to get less memor… --- ## [Fish tank sprung a leak...where's the water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fish-tank-sprung-a-leak-wheres-the-water/738334)
**Author:** [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fish-tank-sprung-a-leak-wheres-the-water/738334 "2015-11-26T18:11:23Z")
Yesterday I got home from work (now regretting staying 2 hours longer than I needed to) and heard my fish tank making the noise that it makes when the water falls below the level of the filter outputs. It loses about a … --- ## ["Black Friday?" -- Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-why/738634)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-why/738634 "2015-11-26T16:44:06Z")
If your definition or source is more reliable or believable than these, please share: --- ## [Cheer me up, please!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-me-up-please/738383)
**Author:** [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheer-me-up-please/738383 "2015-11-26T16:13:41Z")
I’ve been juggling some pretty heavy problems for the last month or so, and two of them came to a head this morning at 0330. Which was a relief to know exactly what I needed to do, but it was still packaged up in an ugly… --- ## [I Passed The "Probephase" (Test Phase)!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-the-probephase-test-phase/738451)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-the-probephase-test-phase/738451 "2015-11-26T15:19:10Z")
The “Probephase” in a German apprenticeship is the first few months, where they essentially can let you go for any reason. It’s meant to weed out applicants to the system who just don’t fit with the company. At the end o… --- ## [Denver bookstore vandalized because it's called "ISIS"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denver-bookstore-vandalized-because-its-called-isis/738318 "2015-11-26T15:11:57Z")
:mad: Idiots! It’s a New Age bookstore, named after an Egyptian goddess. The dog in “Downton Abbey” was named Isis too, and last season, I did a double-take any time someone called her by name. --- ## [Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/738622)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/738622 "2015-11-26T15:04:08Z")
Another Thanksgiving has arrived. Seems like I was just responding to this same thread a few months ago. This year I’m up early and decided to get it started. We’ve already got the steaks marinating. My family decide… --- ## [The Silicon Valley Suicides: article in The Atlantic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silicon-valley-suicides-article-in-the-atlantic/737890)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-silicon-valley-suicides-article-in-the-atlantic/737890 "2015-11-26T13:35:53Z")
Link to online version here: The Suicide Clusters at Palo Alto High Schools \