# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=864 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 865 --- ## [Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR: Anyone here have personal experience?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lewis-and-clark-college-portland-or-anyone-here-have-personal-experience/684797)
**Author:** [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lewis-and-clark-college-portland-or-anyone-here-have-personal-experience/684797 "2014-04-03T03:53:13Z")
Anyone here an alumnus/a? Faculty? Staff? Live in the neighborhood and have had enough of those damn kids? Looks like Lewis and Clark is tentatively my niece’s first choice. And we ain’t got no money, so the fact that … --- ## [Law Enforcement Kills Mentally Ill Person, Then Deputy Sues Family](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-enforcement-kills-mentally-ill-person-then-deputy-sues-family/685100)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-enforcement-kills-mentally-ill-person-then-deputy-sues-family/685100 "2014-04-03T01:31:22Z")
"The wife’s voice quivers. Her desperation is clear. The call to 911 is her last-ditch plea to save her husband, and maybe even her family…"My husband is disconnected from reality,“No, he doesn’t have a weapon, she says,… --- ## [8.2 earthquake, 6-foot tsunami off Chilean coast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-2-earthquake-6-foot-tsunami-off-chilean-coast/685133)
**Author:** [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-2-earthquake-6-foot-tsunami-off-chilean-coast/685133 "2014-04-03T01:21:18Z")
About an hour ago. Tsunami warning for West Coast of South America. USGS is not sure if Tsunami was generated, but I would guess there is a pretty good chance. Look out West Coasters and Hawaiians. Edit…now revised t… --- ## [Is "Nothing" something? Need answer fast.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nothing-something-need-answer-fast/684554)
**Author:** [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nothing-something-need-answer-fast/684554 "2014-04-02T23:23:57Z")
I vaguely recall that \*Scientific American \*once had an entire article on the subject of nothingness. I used to be pretty good at remembering years I read something out of a mag and often the month. But my memory is not … --- ## [Any April Fool's pranks get you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-april-fools-pranks-get-you/685139)
**Author:** [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-april-fools-pranks-get-you/685139 "2014-04-02T22:46:47Z")
I failed. I got caught by a headline that Ethnologue had reorganized Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Dravidian, Kartvelian, and Afro-Asiatic into the Nostratic superfamily. What about you? --- ## [How Zebra got its stripes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-zebra-got-its-stripes/612302)
**Author:** [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-zebra-got-its-stripes/612302 "2014-04-02T20:30:56Z")
Zebra’s stripes stave off blood-sucking insects. ‘We conclude that zebras have evolved a coat pattern in which the stripes are narrow enough to ensure minimum attractiveness to tabanid flies’, says the team and they add… --- ## [April Fool's Day 2014](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-2014/685086)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-2014/685086 "2014-04-02T17:00:19Z")
Each year there is usually a thread compiling the April Fools day jokes on the Internet. I didn’t see one so I am starting one: Google has a link to a service that puts David Hasslehoff in your pictures. Netflix recomm… --- ## [What kind of crank call / phone scam is this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-crank-call-phone-scam-is-this/684969)
**Author:** [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-crank-call-phone-scam-is-this/684969 "2014-04-02T13:06:59Z")
I got a call from a a different area code and I said “Hello” and a woman says “Hello. Is this Brandon?” and I said “yes” and she says “Sorry. I have the wrong number” and hangs up weird wth is that about? --- ## [Poem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poem/685085)
**Author:** [@PlainLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainLost)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poem/685085 "2014-04-02T11:19:38Z")
Be cool. --- ## [High Court in Aus recognises Gender Neutral status!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-court-in-aus-recognises-gender-neutral-status/685147)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-court-in-aus-recognises-gender-neutral-status/685147 "2014-04-02T09:01:59Z")
OK, so maybe we’re not so savvy as to allow gay or lesbian folk to marry, but the courts now acknowledge gender-neutral identification! High-five High Court! :slight\_smile: --- ## [Quick fists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-fists/685148)
**Author:** [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-fists/685148 "2014-04-02T06:32:53Z")
Dunno, I dabbled in martial arts for several years in college. Been into a number of scrapes. But these prank victims have some of the fastest reaction times I ever saw, not to mention good execution. I thought America … --- ## [Say my name, dammit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-my-name-dammit/684536)
**Author:** [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-my-name-dammit/684536 "2014-04-02T03:44:17Z")
I have no clue if I"m in the right forum, I always try to make things easy for the admins, but something like “this” I’m just playing the guessing game. I’m just curious why I introduce myself as \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\<–insert formal… --- ## [Did you hear the rumor about Cecil Adams?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hear-the-rumor-about-cecil-adams/685105)
**Author:** [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hear-the-rumor-about-cecil-adams/685105 "2014-04-02T02:15:01Z")
As the story goes seems old Cecil retired and moved to Florida … then he went on a diet cola enema diet losing 20 pounds and now all he does is text his answers to everyone’s questions from the bathroom in Boca Raton, wh… --- ## [Constant Rearrangement of Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constant-rearrangement-of-furniture/582263)
**Author:** [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constant-rearrangement-of-furniture/582263 "2014-04-01T23:16:26Z")
My mother has been constantly rearranging household furniture for at least a decade. I’m twenty-two years old, so it is quite possible that she has been rearranging furniture constantly for her whole life, but I just hav… --- ## [They really \*can't\* go home again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964 "2014-04-01T22:56:46Z")
Not these people in Sweden. They’re entire town is being moved 2 miles east. They will have their homes bought from under them and offered a new property in the new town. The land is just too unsafe to live on anymore. … --- ## [Fermat's Last Theorem Disproven!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fermats-last-theorem-disproven/685063)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fermats-last-theorem-disproven/685063 "2014-04-01T18:23:12Z")
Mrs. Gertie McEvoy, of Broken Bow, Nebraska, has found a counterexample to a theorem more than 300 years old. 386692\[sup\]7\[/sup\] + 411413\[sup\]7\[/sup\] = 441849\[sup\]7\[/sup\] Although Mrs. McEvoy discovered this counterexa… --- ## [I can't remember the last time I burned a CD or DVD](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-remember-the-last-time-i-burned-a-cd-or-dvd/684915)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-remember-the-last-time-i-burned-a-cd-or-dvd/684915 "2014-04-01T17:48:15Z")
I needed to copy big fileset the other day and all my thumbdrives were MIA. I was about to swipe my camera’s SD photo card for this when I remembered I have a CD-DVD burner. I started looking for a blank DVD then I reme… --- ## [Man of Steel movie and Malaysian F370 conncection.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-of-steel-movie-and-malaysian-f370-conncection/685060)
**Author:** [@karol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karol)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-of-steel-movie-and-malaysian-f370-conncection/685060 "2014-04-01T16:28:26Z")
Man of Steel (2013) shows the exact spot where F370 supposedly crashed. Coincidence ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV7eNTD2dzU A lot more symbolism here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajmAvijHIE --- ## [Dispite this, I still love my family](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dispite-this-i-still-love-my-family/684913)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dispite-this-i-still-love-my-family/684913 "2014-04-01T15:58:03Z")
My Beloved, my son and some of her sisters and friends flew down to Vegas a couple days ago(Mom-in-law has a Worldmark membership). I couldn’t go because I only have five days of vacation each year and I am already comm… --- ## [Doper tropers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-tropers/577191)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-tropers/577191 "2014-04-01T15:02:24Z")
Does anyone post at tvtropes? I don’t, BUT I do waste an inordinate amount of time there. --- ## [Spaghetti harvest in Switzerland!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaghetti-harvest-in-switzerland/685069)
**Author:** [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaghetti-harvest-in-switzerland/685069 "2014-04-01T14:29:43Z")
Like many pasta aficionados around the world, I am eager to see what the spaghetti season 2014 will bring. I found a BBC report from 1957 on Youtube about the spaghetti harvest in the Ticino region of Switzerland (near t… --- ## [Delsina's Daily Dilemmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delsinas-daily-dilemmas/685076)
**Author:** [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delsinas-daily-dilemmas/685076 "2014-04-01T14:02:53Z")
Hi Everyone: You may know me as the woman with the sick Dog Ollie. He is still doing good, and I am spoiling him like crazy. I just wanted to come here and vent. You see, I am a good person, never got into to much tr… --- ## [NYPL Puts 20K Historical Maps Online](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nypl-puts-20k-historical-maps-online/685050)
**Author:** [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nypl-puts-20k-historical-maps-online/685050 "2014-04-01T13:47:27Z")
All these maps are available digitally and are in the public domain. There’s even a tool that “aligns historical maps with current maps”. You can download high-res images and use them however you want. --- ## [Hobie Alter, dead at 80](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobie-alter-dead-at-80/685067)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobie-alter-dead-at-80/685067 "2014-04-01T12:09:55Z")
Sad day in the world of water sports. Hobart “Hobie” Alter, surfboard pioneer and creator of the eponymous sailboat died yesterday. I’ve spent many fun, exciting hours on Hobie Cats. Great design, cool guy. Bummer. --- ## [A "Thigh Gap" for girls & women as an aspirational body shape -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thigh-gap-for-girls-women-as-an-aspirational-body-shape/684771)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thigh-gap-for-girls-women-as-an-aspirational-body-shape/684771 "2014-04-01T09:19:27Z")
Apparently there was a recent mania I missed completely. First I’ve heard of it, feel like I’ve been living in a cave. Apparently this is big deal and a hugely desirable thing to have. I am curious as a “thigh gap” doe… --- ## [I don't care where they go-I still want to fly Kulula!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-where-they-go-i-still-want-to-fly-kulula/684933)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-care-where-they-go-i-still-want-to-fly-kulula/684933 "2014-04-01T07:45:05Z")
My favorite airlines is one I haven’t even flown on yet. :smiley: --- ## [Interesting worldwide map re where same sex marriage is allowed & not allowed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-worldwide-map-re-where-same-sex-marriage-is-allowed-not-allowed/684920)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-worldwide-map-re-where-same-sex-marriage-is-allowed-not-allowed/684920 "2014-04-01T07:39:02Z")
World marriage-equality laws Map here, Bigger map here It’s interesting to see where exactly same sex marriage is and is not recognized. A lot of lower South America is far more progressive than I might have imagined i… --- ## [Here's some free advice: Don't get cancer.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-some-free-advice-dont-get-cancer/669765)
**Author:** [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-some-free-advice-dont-get-cancer/669765 "2014-04-01T06:24:51Z")
I’m at home now, continuing recovery from surgery. Anesthesia for any kind of operation is a pain in the ass, so avoid it if you can. The nausea I suffered yesterday sucked big time. The operation was on my jaw and neck,… --- ## [Getting tough on crime: rates halved in weeks!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tough-on-crime-rates-halved-in-weeks/684661)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-tough-on-crime-rates-halved-in-weeks/684661 "2014-04-01T06:09:02Z")
A major regional city in Victoria, Geelong, has seen its burglary-rate virtually halved in recent weeks. Better policing, zero tolerance, community crime-stoppers you ask? Not quite :wink: --- ## [When my generation were young](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-my-generation-were-young/684158)
**Author:** [@Bonner100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonner100)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-my-generation-were-young/684158 "2014-04-01T01:35:38Z")
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a ca… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=863) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=865)