# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=939 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 940 --- ## [I just had a meeting in the Thalberg Building](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-meeting-in-the-thalberg-building/667262)
**Author:** [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-meeting-in-the-thalberg-building/667262 "2013-08-27T12:01:59Z")
On the Sony (MGM) lot. I pitched a property to a couple of studio execs. I just had to brag a little. --- ## [Kids (or is it parents?) these days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-or-is-it-parents-these-days/667205)
**Author:** [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-or-is-it-parents-these-days/667205 "2013-08-27T02:43:12Z")
I can’t believe my co-worker just called his daughter at her college dorm to wake her up for school. She’s a freshman and it’s probably her first day of class, but still. My parents didn’t wake me up after 6th grade. … --- ## [Transmissions are expensive. Buh-bye savings!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transmissions-are-expensive-buh-bye-savings/667256)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transmissions-are-expensive-buh-bye-savings/667256 "2013-08-27T01:15:51Z")
So, this year, at the tender young age of 33, I decided to finally get my life into gear. I’ve been working many more hours than I had in previous years, starting next Tuesday I will have two part-time jobs (one with be… --- ## [News article comments: Blech](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-article-comments-blech/667260)
**Author:** [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-article-comments-blech/667260 "2013-08-27T00:28:54Z")
Why do I bother reading the comments below news articles? Regardless of the subject of the article, the vast majority of the comments are thoughtless in both senses of the term. They are both stupid and mean. I guess … --- ## [Student allowed to wear pasta strainer in official photo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-allowed-to-wear-pasta-strainer-in-official-photo/667145)
**Author:** [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-allowed-to-wear-pasta-strainer-in-official-photo/667145 "2013-08-26T22:10:55Z")
\*\*LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - After months of research and countless calls to state and local authorities, Eddie Castillo finally got approval to wear a pasta strainer on his head in his official ID photo.\*\* One more victory … --- ## [Say goodbye to any productivity you had today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-goodbye-to-any-productivity-you-had-today/667231)
**Author:** [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-goodbye-to-any-productivity-you-had-today/667231 "2013-08-26T19:39:55Z")
GIF Dance Party My favorite is Miranda. --- ## [Fitch v. Republican Party: Someone's suing the GOP for being a bad political party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitch-v-republican-party-someones-suing-the-gop-for-being-a-bad-political-party/667186 "2013-08-26T19:22:58Z")
Here’s a link to the court filing on Scribd, and a direct link to the PDF via The Volokh Conspiracy. It’s Fitch v. Republican Party (Cal. Super. Ct. filed Aug. 19, 2013) and Fitch is alleging: Also, from the filing: O… --- ## [WW2 Dornier bomber recovered and intact.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ww2-dornier-bomber-recovered-and-intact/660670)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ww2-dornier-bomber-recovered-and-intact/660670 "2013-08-26T18:55:32Z")
Exciting photos --- ## [EAA Founder Paul Poberezny 1921-2013](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaa-founder-paul-poberezny-1921-2013/667054)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaa-founder-paul-poberezny-1921-2013/667054 "2013-08-26T17:29:25Z")
Experimental Aircraft Association founder Paul Poberezny has gone west I’ve only been to Airventure (most folks still just call it “EAA”) a few times, but remember well growing up in the fox valley and seeing it on t… --- ## [Explain this joke please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-joke-please/666745)
**Author:** [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-joke-please/666745 "2013-08-26T12:52:57Z")
I generally like math jokes; but I came across this one today and I don’t get it. “What happened to your girlfriend, that really cute math student?” “She no longer is my girlfriend. I caught her cheating on me.” “I do… --- ## [The new improved Pirate Bay - now with honeypots!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-pirate-bay-now-with-honeypots/667040)
**Author:** [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-improved-pirate-bay-now-with-honeypots/667040 "2013-08-26T06:31:40Z")
I guess it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. The copyright trolls are getting desperate I suppose. You’d think that they would have learned something from the music industry and I suppose eventually they will. --- ## [The going to work early MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-going-to-work-early-mmp/666625)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 395\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-going-to-work-early-mmp/666625 "2013-08-26T04:27:11Z")
I don’t even have time to get coffee, I have to be to work early. Baking nevers waits. Barely enough time to get “purified” for “irk” and feed the dog and cat,(Nathan and Atilla), so they don’t eat me when I get home. … --- ## [I swear my cat barked.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-swear-my-cat-barked/666881)
**Author:** [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-swear-my-cat-barked/666881 "2013-08-26T03:55:54Z")
Last night, my cat and I were hanging out in my bedroom with the window open. Neighbor dogs started barking. My cat heard them, and he started growling. He growled for quite a while, and then… it happened. One of the… --- ## [Kid friendly CT Scan. Hey don't forget us Adults!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-friendly-ct-scan-hey-dont-forget-us-adults/667155)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kid-friendly-ct-scan-hey-dont-forget-us-adults/667155 "2013-08-26T02:48:45Z")
Pirate themed CT scanner at kids hospital. Wonderful idea and I’m sure it helps keep the kids calm. But what about us adults? CT and MRI scares us too. My dad would get panic attacks in that tube. They had to give him… --- ## [Stupid Iranian Terrorist Bombs Himself in Bangkok](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-iranian-terrorist-bombs-himself-in-bangkok/612812)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-iranian-terrorist-bombs-himself-in-bangkok/612812 "2013-08-26T02:34:00Z")
Blew his legs right off, the moron. This afternoon. The still-developing story. So there were these three Iranians who rented a house in the Sukhumvit Soi 71 area and were using it as a bomb factory. Seems one bomb blew… --- ## [The Russian gov't has NO sense of humor!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-russian-govt-has-no-sense-of-humor/667059)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-russian-govt-has-no-sense-of-humor/667059 "2013-08-26T02:31:26Z")
The above link is to a story I saw about “Pastafarians” or, members of the Church of the Flying Spahetti Monster. They has a parade/demonstration in Moscow, and the police set on them, for “offending the sensibilities… --- ## [Note to self: Avoid threads like this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-self-avoid-threads-like-this/666986)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-self-avoid-threads-like-this/666986 "2013-08-25T23:01:35Z")
I was lurking on another board, and found a thread titled “Job interview question”. It was a recent college graduate who (naively, I should add) interviewed for a job selling life insurance, because she’s been unable to… --- ## [How far do you live from train tracks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-train-tracks/665008)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-train-tracks/665008 "2013-08-25T20:02:57Z")
Thinking back over the various places I’ve lived, it seems I’ve never been more than 5 miles from train tracks. Freight trains, commuter trains, I’ve been near both. At one point I was right above the biggest railyard in… --- ## [No relief...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-relief/667057)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-relief/667057 "2013-08-25T15:37:01Z")
So, ha, you packa bastards, you thought you’d be rid of me this week. But our lovely cruise ship sails without us this afternoon and I get to stay home and express my pleasure instead. Fuck. --- ## [tipping: not for (white) Americans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-not-for-white-americans/666945)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-not-for-white-americans/666945 "2013-08-25T09:01:27Z")
There’s been some discussion here about tipping, so I immediately thought of SD when I saw this: why-dont-we-tip-flight-attendants/ 1902 and 1930 are both before my time; the article asserts that: --- ## [Narrowest home in NYC is just over 8ft inside & sold for $3.25M](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/narrowest-home-in-nyc-is-just-over-8ft-inside-sold-for-3-25m/666785)
**Author:** [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/narrowest-home-in-nyc-is-just-over-8ft-inside-sold-for-3-25m/666785 "2013-08-25T08:03:18Z")
8ft 4in is the widest interior space to be precise. Pics at link --- ## [So just what is the legal drinking age for a Thai elephant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-legal-drinking-age-for-a-thai-elephant/666804)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-is-the-legal-drinking-age-for-a-thai-elephant/666804 "2013-08-25T06:29:32Z")
Thai police seize 14 elephants with fake IDs ::reads article:: \[Emily Litella\] Never mind. \[/EL\] --- ## [Damn! I squashed a nest of bunnies.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-squashed-a-nest-of-bunnies/667005)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-squashed-a-nest-of-bunnies/667005 "2013-08-25T03:50:36Z")
Bummer of a start to the weekend. I came home from work and because I was going to work on something in my driveway, I parked the truck in the vacant lot next door. I’ve parked there many times. Ran right over them. Two … --- ## [My tweeting, Ugly Drum Smoker temperature controller; please vote!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090)
**Author:** [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090 "2013-08-25T01:05:29Z")
I’ve recently created a temperature controller for Ugly Drum Smokers (UDS) that runs on an Android device. The geek factor is that it also tweets so you can know immediately every time I’m smoking something (you need to… --- ## [Color Coded, Interactive Racial Map of the US](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-coded-interactive-racial-map-of-the-us/666995)
**Author:** [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-coded-interactive-racial-map-of-the-us/666995 "2013-08-25T00:58:44Z")
Check out this cool, drill down map of the United States. Color coded dots indicate the racial makup (based on census data) of any given area, from the country as a whole to a street level view. Clicking the “AddMap La… --- ## [Girl Stabbed to Death While Chinese Police Officers Watched And Did Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stabbed-to-death-while-chinese-police-officers-watched-and-did-nothing/667006)
**Author:** [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stabbed-to-death-while-chinese-police-officers-watched-and-did-nothing/667006 "2013-08-24T20:43:27Z")
Murder is apparently a spectator sport in China: http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/videos/girl-stabbed-to-death-while-chinese-police-officers-stood-by.html “Surveillance footage during the crime showed: While the girl was… --- ## [Weird/recurring dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/666997)
**Author:** [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/666997 "2013-08-24T18:39:24Z")
For a while, but not any longer, I would have a recurring dream where even though I was 40, I was going back to high school. It was some requirement of my high school that even though we had already gone, we had to go ba… --- ## [Falafel: the gateway food to terrorism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falafel-the-gateway-food-to-terrorism/666981)
**Author:** [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falafel-the-gateway-food-to-terrorism/666981 "2013-08-24T18:33:27Z")
And before you think I’m being cheeky or satirical with the thread title, she really did say that. Bachmann: ‘We Must Ban Falafel’ in School Lunches. I have to agree with one of the commenters below the story: if fala… --- ## [Quebec to legislate religious intolerance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quebec-to-legislate-religious-intolerance/666962)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quebec-to-legislate-religious-intolerance/666962 "2013-08-24T17:23:55Z")
The separatist government of Quebec has reintroduced the bill announced last winter and then allowed to drop that would legislate religious intolerance in the public service. Specifically, anyone in the public service (… --- ## [One little sentence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771)
**Author:** [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771 "2013-08-24T16:18:12Z")
I wrote a sentence in a Wikipedia article about 3 years ago. There was recently a 3-day, heated argument about this sentence. It was resolved by an uninvolved editor changing the word “during”, to “in”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=938) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=940)