# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=880 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 881 --- ## [It truly was the "World" Trade Center](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-truly-was-the-world-trade-center/80925)
**Author:** [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-truly-was-the-world-trade-center/80925 "2014-02-12T20:51:16Z")
Howyadoin, Amidst all the “America Under Attack” rhetoric, let’s remember that the casualties of this disaster will likely include people of many different nationalities. It is unlikely that any of us around the world w… --- ## [Burying Both Parents Within 8 Days of Each Other](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burying-both-parents-within-8-days-of-each-other/674116)
**Author:** [@atlantic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atlantic)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burying-both-parents-within-8-days-of-each-other/674116 "2014-02-12T19:40:42Z")
Well, the title sums it up. My dad died Wednesday, 11/6 from Parkinson’s - a disease that had, in six years, taken a perfectly healthy, active, hard-working man and reduced him to a total shell of himself - bedridden and… --- ## [Squirrel tries to bury nut into dog's thick coat.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-tries-to-bury-nut-into-dogs-thick-coat/681017)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-tries-to-bury-nut-into-dogs-thick-coat/681017 "2014-02-12T17:10:03Z")
I love the “WTF are you doing?” expression on the dog’s face. That is one mixed up, crazy squirrel. --- ## [Moon rock given to Holland is fake](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096 "2014-02-12T16:50:58Z")
How does this happen? (I’m thinking someone did a swap when no one was looking.) --- ## [I made a mistake this morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-mistake-this-morning/680756)
**Author:** [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-a-mistake-this-morning/680756 "2014-02-12T14:34:10Z")
Woke up, showered, then made the crucial error of thinking about what order to dry myself with the towel. Does it go: head, chest, arms, then feet-climb out of tub, back, or head, chest arms, back, then feet-climb out o… --- ## [An open letter to Pope Francis!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-pope-francis/680808)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-pope-francis/680808 "2014-02-12T13:31:12Z")
Holy Father, do not look away! For the priests with the altar boys play! If you plunge your aspergil To feed base, primal urge, you’ll Risk the wrath of the Ancient of Days! “Touch these little ones not,” sayeth He! … --- ## [More cheese with my whine, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cheese-with-my-whine-please/681067)
**Author:** [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-cheese-with-my-whine-please/681067 "2014-02-12T09:43:25Z")
About a month ago, I lost an uncle. He was married to one of my father’s sisters and was found in the house with a stroke. He’d been the full time caretaker of my aunt, who has frontal lobe dementia. My cousins had tried… --- ## [Houston meeting in February](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-meeting-in-february/677847)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-meeting-in-february/677847 "2014-02-12T08:33:13Z")
It’s time for my annual trip down south and that means a meeting. I’m fairly flexible on days but the second or third weekends would be good if it works for other people. --- ## [I peed in my pants.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-peed-in-my-pants/680853)
**Author:** [@Mathematics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathematics)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-peed-in-my-pants/680853 "2014-02-12T05:32:32Z")
Title says it all really. A few hours ago, I drank a lot of diet Mountain Dew when typically I only drink water. Perhaps that had something to do with it. I do not know. I made it to the bathroom, but at that point, I … --- ## [I guess pro journalists suck at spellchecker too.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-pro-journalists-suck-at-spellchecker-too/680315)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-pro-journalists-suck-at-spellchecker-too/680315 "2014-02-12T00:13:29Z")
Look out he’s got a organic chemical process! It kind of amuses me when professionals end up with absurd substitutions to obscure words. Makes me feel a bit less jackassy about mine. --- ## [Ask the National Spelling Bee Champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-national-spelling-bee-champion/667500)
**Author:** [@Lord\_Geoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Geoff)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-national-spelling-bee-champion/667500 "2014-02-11T19:11:09Z")
What seems a lifetime ago. --- ## [Well, folks, today was a new low. I've never felt like such a big loser.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-folks-today-was-a-new-low-ive-never-felt-like-such-a-big-loser/680859)
**Author:** [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-folks-today-was-a-new-low-ive-never-felt-like-such-a-big-loser/680859 "2014-02-11T16:46:10Z")
At today’s Weight Watchers weigh-in, I discovered that I lost four pounds this week, which means – for the first time since I started WW several years ago – I’m down more than fifty pounds (52.6, to be exact). The first… --- ## [Blegh Telephones...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blegh-telephones/680981)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blegh-telephones/680981 "2014-02-11T16:10:10Z")
I like talking to people, I like doing it in person and I like doing it online but I absolutely frigging hate telephone conversations, every time it turns into an awkward stuttering conversation as I inadvertantly talk o… --- ## [The Dopers' Valentine Bash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopers-valentine-bash/680820)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dopers-valentine-bash/680820 "2014-02-11T16:03:46Z")
As it was with the beach party last summer, so Dopers meet for Valentine’s Day. The banquet hall is festooned with red hearts, silhouetts of Cupid, arrows, the word “Love” in scores of languages, and–something no Dopers’… --- ## [Get your milk and cookies ready. Iranian warships coming to US coast.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-milk-and-cookies-ready-iranian-warships-coming-to-us-coast/680873)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-milk-and-cookies-ready-iranian-warships-coming-to-us-coast/680873 "2014-02-11T15:38:17Z")
Lets welcome them with milk and cookies shall we. :stuck\_out\_tongue: They came such a long distance to \[del\]annoy\[/del\] visit and embrace us. Perhaps we should host a barbeque? I’ll bring the beer. http://hosted.ap.org… --- ## [Attention authors, writers, and journalists:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740 "2014-02-11T15:10:25Z")
“Grizzly” is reserved for the bear, and geographical places named after the bear. Also Grizzly Adams. If it’s gory, gruesome, or gnarly – the word you’re looking for is “grisly.” That is all. --- ## [USPS delivery question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usps-delivery-question/681021)
**Author:** [@Scoo8b](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoo8b)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usps-delivery-question/681021 "2014-02-11T05:21:45Z")
I had something weird happen today - a package that I ordered had been sent USPS and the tracking said it was delivered this morning. Well, I live in an apartment with clearly marked, locked, mail boxes - and mine was em… --- ## [My gf and i met kreayshawn at pride](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-and-i-met-kreayshawn-at-pride/681015)
**Author:** [@kkkodyriley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kkkodyriley)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-and-i-met-kreayshawn-at-pride/681015 "2014-02-11T05:00:11Z")
shes kinda flat, her friends came up after and grabbed her arms and tried taking off the band aids she was wearing on her titties lol --- ## [So I Seem To Have Voluntarily Become Homeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-seem-to-have-voluntarily-become-homeless/678853)
**Author:** [@Strain\_of\_Thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strain_of_Thought)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-seem-to-have-voluntarily-become-homeless/678853 "2014-02-11T03:50:45Z")
In late 2007, more than two years after having a nervous breakdown and dropping out of college, I officially became disabled. What followed from that breakdown until now was a cycle of falling back on family members for … --- ## [Gay Mountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-mountain/680958)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-mountain/680958 "2014-02-11T00:30:39Z")
UK Channel 4’s reaction to the anti-gay idiocy connected with the Sochi Winter Olympics is a short musical number called ‘Gay Mountain’. I can’t post a link to it from here (because of video content restrictions) - but t… --- ## [What ONE PRODUCT comes to mind when you think 1950s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855)
**Author:** [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855 "2014-02-11T00:13:45Z")
Tagging on to Zeldar’s thread idea… When you think of the decade of the 1950s, what product comes first to your mind? Go ahead and list others, too, but highlight the first. Please tell us your general age and in what … --- ## [Holy Crap! S&W introduces a .460 revolver.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-s-w-introduces-a-460-revolver/679641)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-s-w-introduces-a-460-revolver/679641 "2014-02-11T00:07:11Z")
A Backpack Cannon. $1200, but you can also fire .45 Long Colt and .454 Casull with it. Just the thing for those pesky raccoons. I WANT ONE!!! --- ## [Wireless computer keyboard + Mouse WTF](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-computer-keyboard-mouse-wtf/680803)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-computer-keyboard-mouse-wtf/680803 "2014-02-10T23:36:46Z")
In order to hook up my laptop display to the large screen TV- though that has drifted down to medium screen- I got a wireless keyboard and mouse. This way they computer can stay near the TV and I can be on the couch, al… --- ## [Ask the Devil's Advocate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-devils-advocate/680738)
**Author:** [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-devils-advocate/680738 "2014-02-10T23:31:50Z")
I am the counter-point to your oh-so-precious point. Ask away… --- ## [I've seen people throw away pennies, but this is new...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-people-throw-away-pennies-but-this-is-new/680989)
**Author:** [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-people-throw-away-pennies-but-this-is-new/680989 "2014-02-10T20:13:20Z")
I stopped at the ATM on my way to work this morning, and something shiny on the ground caught my eye. It was a British 20 pence coin. Minted in 2002. I live in a suburb of Detroit; how it got here, I cannot imagine. … --- ## [The woo artists are at it again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woo-artists-are-at-it-again/680943)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woo-artists-are-at-it-again/680943 "2014-02-10T16:19:57Z")
DNA Analysis Of Paracas Elongated Skulls Released. The Results Prove They Were Not Human Oh, the pain. My head hurts. I’m so sick of ‘ancient aliens’. And bigfoots. Feet. Whatever. And please, nobody mention falli… --- ## [The I Got Called Out During The Sermon MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-got-called-out-during-the-sermon-mmp/680407)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 321\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-got-called-out-during-the-sermon-mmp/680407 "2014-02-10T12:20:39Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ early so I can do this. YAWN 'Tis 67 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 71 for the day. Rain shall also descend upon us at some point later in the day. So, here it is… --- ## [Your moments of "I see what you did there," except nobody saw what you did there](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-moments-of-i-see-what-you-did-there-except-nobody-saw-what-you-did-there/680875)
**Author:** [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-moments-of-i-see-what-you-did-there-except-nobody-saw-what-you-did-there/680875 "2014-02-09T19:30:12Z")
Recent open season zombie threads have reminded me of many an unappreciated bon mot of my own over the years, that I was sad to see pass by unremarked. What clever or tittilating remarks have you made that went unacknowl… --- ## [2nd Annual Winterlude OttawaDopeFest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-winterlude-ottawadopefest/680206)
**Author:** [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-winterlude-ottawadopefest/680206 "2014-02-09T17:16:34Z")
Winterlude starts Today!!! and runs for the next 3 weekends. If a Winterlude dopefest is going to happen we had better get organized! Since I am creating the thread I get to propose the plan: How does Sunday Feb 9th w… --- ## [Snatch - Pecker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snatch-pecker/680879)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snatch-pecker/680879 "2014-02-09T05:56:46Z")
So tonight, I am flipping through the cable listings. On STZCIN (i think that’s Starz Cinema) the 10:00 pm movie was Snatch Followed at 11:45 by Pecker So what would you guess the title of the movies before Snatch a… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=879) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=881)