# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=729 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 730 --- ## [Preaching BS from the pulpit.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preaching-bs-from-the-pulpit/723109)
**Author:** [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preaching-bs-from-the-pulpit/723109 "2015-06-23T18:37:44Z")
Until we were “conrirmed”, my parents required us to attend church and Sunday school. One December when I was 13, Reverend Philip (last name omitted) had the audacity to give a sermon at my church in which he told all t… --- ## [London-bound passengers stranded in Canada military barracks as flight crew rests in hotel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-bound-passengers-stranded-in-canada-military-barracks-as-flight-crew-rests-in-hotel/722545)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-bound-passengers-stranded-in-canada-military-barracks-as-flight-crew-rests-in-hotel/722545 "2015-06-23T17:25:01Z")
The airlines just seem to continue to get worse and worse. I’m so thankful my job rarely requires me to travel. I drove to the last computer conference my employer sent me to. I’ll take a 4 hour car trip \*any day \*over … --- ## [Too many books, too many movies, people, too little time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-books-too-many-movies-people-too-little-time/723103)
**Author:** [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-books-too-many-movies-people-too-little-time/723103 "2015-06-23T14:41:08Z")
There are too many people, movies, languages to learn/read/whatever. It is impossible to experience/learn all of them. I do really feel sad for not being able to learn/read all of them. What is the motivation behind my… --- ## [Insurance card MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurance-card-mmp/722567)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 341\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurance-card-mmp/722567 "2015-06-23T13:19:25Z")
If you use paper car insurance cards (as opposed to an app), just put the new one on top of the old one in the glove compartment; that way if you get pulled over & don’t have the current one, you can show the cop that yo… --- ## [How best to handle this awkward and embarrassing co-worker situation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-best-to-handle-this-awkward-and-embarrassing-co-worker-situation/520516)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-best-to-handle-this-awkward-and-embarrassing-co-worker-situation/520516 "2015-06-23T12:12:59Z")
One of my co-workers picks and eats - by which I mean, he picks at his nose, ears, scalp, chin, etc, examines what he just dug up, then puts it in his mouth and eats it, smacking his lips a little each time. He does thi… --- ## [You guys, do you start Facebook posts with "You guys..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808 "2015-06-23T10:27:24Z")
I’ve noticed in the past week or so a trend on Facebook where people start posts with “You guys…” As in “You guys, look at this boil on my thigh” or “You guys, my son is breakdancing” or "You guys, I’m on a boat! Anyon… --- ## [Re: funerals of very crummy people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-funerals-of-very-crummy-people/722482)
**Author:** [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-funerals-of-very-crummy-people/722482 "2015-06-23T01:13:22Z")
Just curious if anyone might have a story to share regarding having attended the funeral of someone lying in a casket that met his/her death and that most everybody attending the procession pretty much knew was a massive… --- ## [Humorously attacking one w/chainsaw..](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorously-attacking-one-w-chainsaw/723090)
**Author:** [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorously-attacking-one-w-chainsaw/723090 "2015-06-22T17:25:55Z")
The other day I was at a website called LiveLeak.com and watched this fellow, Russian, I think, sneak up with a chainsaw in hand to these two dudes that were crashed out on the ground (during the day), and so he gets rig… --- ## [Cat goes for ride of its life (happy ending)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-goes-for-ride-of-its-life-happy-ending/723151)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-goes-for-ride-of-its-life-happy-ending/723151 "2015-06-22T16:18:44Z")
The cat is fine. Otherwise, this video would be terrible. I’m guessing poor kitty fell asleep and awoke to a huge shock. I’ll just let the video speak for itself. :slight\_smile: Kitty goes for ride. --- ## [Help me design my Enlightenment Library](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-design-my-enlightenment-library/723036)
**Author:** [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-design-my-enlightenment-library/723036 "2015-06-22T05:22:48Z")
A decade ago I went to London and saw the newly-opened King’s Library exhibit at the British Museum. I loved it. Hands down my favorite museum exhibit ever. I fell in love with the idea, not specifically of the King’s li… --- ## ["Actions speak louder than talks"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actions-speak-louder-than-talks/723118)
**Author:** [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actions-speak-louder-than-talks/723118 "2015-06-22T03:44:10Z")
So says the fortune that I got today in my Chinese Fortune Cookie. But word is cheap. --- ## [Can I just cut off my belly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-just-cut-off-my-belly/722955)
**Author:** [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-just-cut-off-my-belly/722955 "2015-06-22T01:12:08Z")
I’m morbidly obese, about 400lbs. I look like I’m 13 months pregnant. So with electric carving knife in hand could Miller cut off my belly, with Asimovian following along with a road flare to cauterize the wound? … --- ## [Best and Worst Airports you've Experienced](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-airports-youve-experienced/722581)
**Author:** [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-airports-youve-experienced/722581 "2015-06-22T00:48:29Z")
Based on comments from this thread: ask the girl who is stranded at the Detroit airport overnight - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board and rather than resurrecting a zombie thread… --- ## [Lawn tractors back from shop, still not working right](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawn-tractors-back-from-shop-still-not-working-right/723012)
**Author:** [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawn-tractors-back-from-shop-still-not-working-right/723012 "2015-06-21T16:50:59Z")
Ok, last year our 13 year old Sears Craftsman lawn tractor was damaged when I ran over a chunk of concrete (long story). The belt that drives the blades snapped and came off. We were having some financial issues at the t… --- ## [A Person Born in the 19th Century Is Still With Us](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-born-in-the-19th-century-is-still-with-us/638932)
**Author:** [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-born-in-the-19th-century-is-still-with-us/638932 "2015-06-21T13:51:09Z")
Besse Cooper I just did a search and Besse comes up. She is the last person alive to have been there during the Grover Cleveland administration. --- ## [Passage of time in dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passage-of-time-in-dreams/723066)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passage-of-time-in-dreams/723066 "2015-06-21T11:07:52Z")
I occasionally have dreams that I’m back in school. At some point in the dream I realize that I’m dreaming, because well, it’s November in the school year and I’m 41 and in high school. Makes no sense. But I figure I’m n… --- ## [Looking for an author interested in a hell of a story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-author-interested-in-a-hell-of-a-story/721312)
**Author:** [@CraterLayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CraterLayer)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-author-interested-in-a-hell-of-a-story/721312 "2015-06-21T06:38:21Z")
These are posts I originally put on GQ: On August 16, 1945, the day after Japan surrendered, there were only four American airmen still alive at the Osaka Kempei Tai prison. The men were told that they were being freed … --- ## [Selling memories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-memories/723018)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-memories/723018 "2015-06-20T23:41:00Z")
Today was the third day of a garage sale held at my mother’s home. My father, who was killed last September, had tons of tools and automotive equipment, plus jars of nuts, bolts and the like. Most all of that sold. Th… --- ## [What's the weirdest dream you've had lately?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-dream-youve-had-lately/648391)
**Author:** [@Steener122](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steener122)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-dream-youve-had-lately/648391 "2015-06-20T20:54:54Z")
Last night I had one of those weird dreams. I dreamt people had tontakevtese rickity live boats through a like/river thing that was supposed to be the nasty river in our city to any place we had to go. Then all the sudde… --- ## [Dental Concerns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dental-concerns/717895)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dental-concerns/717895 "2015-06-20T20:49:18Z")
Well, confession - I am seriously overdue with the dental visits due to simple lack of funds. I haven’t had any dental coverage for years now, and these past two years have simply not had the money to pay out of pocket. … --- ## [The biggest rummage sale in town is doing this - AGAIN (Not quite Pit worthy)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-rummage-sale-in-town-is-doing-this-again-not-quite-pit-worthy/722923 "2015-06-20T20:01:31Z")
For the past 20 years at least, our local symphony has had a ginormous rummage sale every summer, and this is their weekend for it again. It starts on Wednesday evening, with a $10 admission, hors d’oeuvres, wine, strin… --- ## [Great views of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon in the northern dusk sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-views-of-venus-jupiter-and-the-moon-in-the-northern-dusk-sky/720710)
**Author:** [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-views-of-venus-jupiter-and-the-moon-in-the-northern-dusk-sky/720710 "2015-06-20T14:36:48Z")
They’re forming a large obtuse triangle. --- ## [Vincent Bugliosi is dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-bugliosi-is-dead/722105)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-bugliosi-is-dead/722105 "2015-06-20T02:22:25Z")
VICE story here. Wow. He was 80 years old, and if the name isn’t familiar, he’s the guy who put Charles Manson behind bars nearly 45 years ago. --- ## [Sometimes you just gotta admire the artistry of spin docors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-gotta-admire-the-artistry-of-spin-docors/722739)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-gotta-admire-the-artistry-of-spin-docors/722739 "2015-06-19T23:48:31Z")
We learned this week the a BIG state-wide program initiative is being delayed. It’s the state’s integrated IT system called STAR, advertised to put all the state agencies onto a common package of software that all talk … --- ## [Another Time Travel Thought Experiment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-time-travel-thought-experiment/722948)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-time-travel-thought-experiment/722948 "2015-06-19T21:17:54Z")
I have invented a machine that allows me to travel to the recent past. It can only send me back a week. So, on May 19th, I enter the machine, and re-emerge on May 12th. Knowing that my actions could affect the future, I… --- ## [Without looking it up, can you say what day of the week 9/11 happened on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238 "2015-06-19T16:51:46Z")
Reply to this before you look it up and before you read any of the other replies…can you correctly post the week day that 9/11 happened on? I was reading a few people talking about it on a different site and it seemed t… --- ## [787 climbs vertical after takeoff for airshow? Wow.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/787-climbs-vertical-after-takeoff-for-airshow-wow/722438)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/787-climbs-vertical-after-takeoff-for-airshow-wow/722438 "2015-06-19T16:02:40Z")
Video of this is really impressive, even though it’s obviously a lightly loaded 787. Still, climbing vertical is something every pilot dreams of and it appears this plane, under the right circumstances, does that. … --- ## [Why I was baptized with the name I was baptized with :)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-was-baptized-with-the-name-i-was-baptized-with/722937)
**Author:** [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-was-baptized-with-the-name-i-was-baptized-with/722937 "2015-06-19T14:35:24Z")
Hi everybody! This is a little story I told during the Cologne dopefest in April, and I was encouraged by the attending dopers to put it here for everybody to read. So, after my usual delay due to chronic procrastination… --- ## [Glowing stories about living people nobody likes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glowing-stories-about-living-people-nobody-likes/722614)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glowing-stories-about-living-people-nobody-likes/722614 "2015-06-19T14:13:18Z")
The funerals and weddings threads reminded me of this. In the late 1990s, I had a really bad job experience that left me with post-traumatic stress disorder, because of my incredibly horrible boss, who thought she was D… --- ## [Interesting Tiny Airports](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-tiny-airports/722654)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-tiny-airports/722654 "2015-06-19T09:32:20Z")
Branching off from this thread on best and worst airports, what’s your experience with really small airports? When I was in grad school, Willard Airport in Champaign Illinois was tiny, with one airline (Ozark) a few re… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=728) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=730)