# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=70 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 71 --- ## [And Now for Something Completely Different (Finnish Hobby Horse Championships)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-finnish-hobby-horse-championships/1014681)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-finnish-hobby-horse-championships/1014681 "2025-02-23T13:34:08Z")
See the following: or “Finnish Hobby Horse Championships 2023” on YouTube. Google will bring up much more. Discourse wouldn’t let me post a Youtube link. I don’t think it is necessary for me to ask a question or s… --- ## [Odd Euphemisms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-euphemisms/955745)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-euphemisms/955745 "2025-02-22T19:36:19Z")
Watching the ball game when a commercial came on for tampons. It stood out only because they used a thin red liquid to show their product’s absorbency rather than the puzzling turquoise one. The next commercial feature… --- ## [Giant, carved, wooden forks and spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-carved-wooden-forks-and-spoons/1014405)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-carved-wooden-forks-and-spoons/1014405 "2025-02-22T18:23:31Z")
I’ve occasionally wondered what the deal was with giant, carved, wooden forks and spoons. \[NB: The ones pictured are 30 inches. The ones I recall were about 24 inches.\] As you all know, my dad was a Naval officer in t… --- ## [United Healthcare has taken note of numerous critiques of its business model and is taking steps to correct them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-healthcare-has-taken-note-of-numerous-critiques-of-its-business-model-and-is-taking-steps-to-correct-them/1014216)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-healthcare-has-taken-note-of-numerous-critiques-of-its-business-model-and-is-taking-steps-to-correct-them/1014216 "2025-02-22T15:03:59Z")
By suing. Not by changing its business practices, of course. Just going after the people that put them in a bad light. It’s retained a defamation firm to go after social media posts that put UHC in an unfavourable ligh… --- ## [Fluorouracil treatment SUCKS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluorouracil-treatment-sucks/1014643)
**Author:** [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluorouracil-treatment-sucks/1014643 "2025-02-22T13:40:28Z")
I got scolded by my dermatologist, as one does when one has worked and played outside in the mountains for almost 60 years. I am a week in to fluorouracil 5% and triamcinolone, and I feel like I’ve tangled with a Portug… --- ## [Old box fan, still running!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-box-fan-still-running/1014537)
**Author:** [@a6ka97](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a6ka97)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-box-fan-still-running/1014537 "2025-02-21T18:38:00Z")
I posted a question in Factual Questions about an old “ZERO” brand 20" box fan that came from my elderly aunt’s estate. More related to MPSIMS I have been pondering about the history of this fan. It has my grandpa’s name… --- ## [StarDate's Sandy Wood to Retire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stardates-sandy-wood-to-retire/837505)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stardates-sandy-wood-to-retire/837505 "2025-02-21T17:58:59Z")
StarDate’s Sandy Wood to Retire — spaceref.com, dated 01 Jul 2019 Any other fans of StarDate here? StarDate plays on my local news radio station (KCBS 740AM, San Francisco) every morning @0952. I’ve enjoyed her presenta… --- ## [Android users need to check their Emergency SOS feature ASAP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-users-need-to-check-their-emergency-sos-feature-asap/1014454)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-users-need-to-check-their-emergency-sos-feature-asap/1014454 "2025-02-20T23:26:50Z")
Emergency SOS is a feature I didn’t know about. I checked and it is a feature on my Samsung phone. Thankfully, it’s turned off and I don’t have any emergency contacts setup. Open your Setup (the gear icon) and search f… --- ## [Neighbors and their Damn Car Alarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-and-their-damn-car-alarm/1014587)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors-and-their-damn-car-alarm/1014587 "2025-02-20T19:56:46Z")
The next door neighbors have a white SUV that has a car alarm installed. Not the Viper type … the other popular kind, the car-horn type that does this: So for the last three days in a row, it… --- ## [GAg and MAGAg - The end time is nigh!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gag-and-magag-the-end-time-is-nigh/1014580)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gag-and-magag-the-end-time-is-nigh/1014580 "2025-02-20T15:56:20Z")
Based on the scientifically proven correlation between Lincoln and Kennedy should we not assume this transposition of spelling reveals a true revelation? Or am I just bored? --- ## [A real Jefferson Airplane that flies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-jefferson-airplane-that-flies/1014261)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-jefferson-airplane-that-flies/1014261 "2025-02-20T10:57:10Z")
I’m a billionaire and an aviation nut, as well as a hippie. Could a real Jefferson Airplane, part antique trimotor triplane, part San Francisco Victorian house jus… --- ## [The Shooting of Ralph Yarl in Kansas City (he knocked on the wrong door)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shooting-of-ralph-yarl-in-kansas-city-he-knocked-on-the-wrong-door/982803)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 177\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shooting-of-ralph-yarl-in-kansas-city-he-knocked-on-the-wrong-door/982803 "2025-02-20T03:11:21Z")
A Black teen, Ralph Yarl (16) went to pick up some siblings at a house in Kansas City. He knocked on the door. It was the incorrect home - his siblings were not there. The homeowner shot him through the window. Then he s… --- ## [Martin Niemoller a warning from history. Yeah, I know, NS Sherlock? But hear me out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-niemoller-a-warning-from-history-yeah-i-know-ns-sherlock-but-hear-me-out/1014389)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-niemoller-a-warning-from-history-yeah-i-know-ns-sherlock-but-hear-me-out/1014389 "2025-02-19T21:10:23Z")
So I’ve been reading up on Martin Niemoller (for those that don’t recognize the name he’s the author of the “first they came for…” passage about the Nazis which you’ve probably heard of). And yeah, the dude is literall… --- ## [Gulf of America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-of-america/1014515 "2025-02-19T17:24:38Z")
I was just perusing Google maps and I noticed that they are now calling the Gulf Of Mexico, Gulf of America. Wow. --- ## [I need a root canal treatment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-root-canal-treatment/1013866)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-root-canal-treatment/1013866 "2025-02-19T17:07:48Z")
Got a filling redone 3 weeks ago, which I was worried about because the original filling was already very deep and close to the nerve, but my new dentist seemed blasé about it. A couple of days later the tooth started hu… --- ## [Finding Historical Market Caps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-historical-market-caps/1014463)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-historical-market-caps/1014463 "2025-02-19T15:11:04Z")
So I follow a few startups that interest me. I’m not an investor in individual stocks, so this is just because these companies are in my field and I like what they’re working on. However, as they are startups, they issu… --- ## [Rasmussen called last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rasmussen-called-last-night/1014453)
**Author:** [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rasmussen-called-last-night/1014453 "2025-02-18T21:36:05Z")
Yes - I still have a landline. Not just because I’m an old fart; I work in telecom, and I know how reliable wireless lines are. Also, polling operations call landlines. Last night, Rasmussen called, and I got the oppo… --- ## [Leonard Peltier Up for Parole (for Murder of 2 FBI Agents in 1975--American Indian Movement)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leonard-peltier-up-for-parole-for-murder-of-2-fbi-agents-in-1975-american-indian-movement/1002742)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leonard-peltier-up-for-parole-for-murder-of-2-fbi-agents-in-1975-american-indian-movement/1002742 "2025-02-18T21:00:32Z")
Two other Native American men (Robert Robideau and Dino Butler) who fired at the agents were tried in 1976 and found not guilty by reason of self-defense. Peltier fled to Canada before the trial. He was eventually extr… --- ## [I may have saved a life yesterday](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418)
**Author:** [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418 "2025-02-18T18:21:28Z")
Yesterday on my ride, I spotted far ahead a person sprawled on the sidewalk. At first I thought it was a homeless person taking a nap but a moment later I registered the wheelchair against the curb and the direction he w… --- ## [What are YOUR important marital(ish) duties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-important-marital-ish-duties/1014267)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-important-marital-ish-duties/1014267 "2025-02-18T14:20:00Z")
Yeah, yeah. For richer or poorer. In sickness or health. Love honor and obey. All that stuff they actually put in the marriage vows. But they tend to leave out the quirky yet critical to partnership happiness stuff. … --- ## [(Old) Buddying With Allies in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118)
**Author:** [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Replies:** 389\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118 "2025-02-17T12:53:05Z")
Yes, Spot is a very cute and amusing cat, but he’s gotten several thread titles recently, so IMO other Mumpets should step up and take a turn. :slight\_smile: For newer MMPers, I have two cats: Allie is 14 and we met her… --- ## [There is a new Old Man of the Mountain {Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan, is now the Aga Khan V}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380 "2025-02-16T23:53:27Z")
Prince Karim Al-Husseini Aga Khan, the 49th imam of the Nizari branch of the Isma’ili branch of the Shia branch of Islam, better known as the Aga Khan IV, died on February 5, 2025. His son, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga … --- ## [USS Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Vessel in Mediterranean Sea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276 "2025-02-16T23:14:06Z")
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), the flagship of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, collided with M/V Besiktas-M around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy said Thursday. T… --- ## [Interesting exhibition at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379 "2025-02-16T20:34:18Z")
… --- ## [Proverbs meaning the opposite in English or other languages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proverbs-meaning-the-opposite-in-english-or-other-languages/1014027)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proverbs-meaning-the-opposite-in-english-or-other-languages/1014027 "2025-02-15T23:26:01Z")
In my native German, there are the proverbs “Gegensätze ziehen sich an” which directly translates to “Opposites attract”, and “Gleich und gleich gesellt sich gern”, which means something like “Same and same like to socia… --- ## [Bad bad bad Becks kissing booth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-becks-kissing-booth/1014327)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-becks-kissing-booth/1014327 "2025-02-15T02:10:57Z")
So…how’s your Cupids bow ? You know that indentation under your nose above your lip. When its right its adorable. If its not there, its forgotten. Mine was never a thing, to my dismay. Then I had a car wreck. I had … --- ## [We ran out of heating oil while it was 18 degrees, but I learned some useful stuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-ran-out-of-heating-oil-while-it-was-18-degrees-but-i-learned-some-useful-stuff/1014052)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-ran-out-of-heating-oil-while-it-was-18-degrees-but-i-learned-some-useful-stuff/1014052 "2025-02-14T21:40:29Z")
For about 25 years we’ve had a maintenance plan where our heating oil supplier’s “model” would estimate when it was time to refill. I’m not sure how that all worked, but we never ran out, so there’s that. One day, howev… --- ## [South Africa cuts off trade with the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-cuts-off-trade-with-the-us/1014292)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-cuts-off-trade-with-the-us/1014292 "2025-02-14T06:26:04Z")
Is this true? I’ve only seen it in one news source, the Maravi Post, a news outlet in Malawi, not South Africa. Paging @MrDibble and @scudsucker --- ## [My Time Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-time-machine/1014279)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-time-machine/1014279 "2025-02-13T21:21:27Z")
Choose: Go back in historic times as you are? Or… Go back to a younger you, as you were then? Decisions, decisions… --- ## [Bingo - there was a farmer…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-there-was-a-farmer/1014259)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-there-was-a-farmer/1014259 "2025-02-13T16:16:25Z")
There was a farmer had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O B-I-N-G-O B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. Was the dog’s name Bingo? Or the was it the farmer’s name? Hmmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=71)