# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=942 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 943 --- ## [Make me laugh with pictures, God damn it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-me-laugh-with-pictures-god-damn-it/643563)
**Author:** [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-me-laugh-with-pictures-god-damn-it/643563 "2013-08-20T07:38:09Z")
I’ll do you first. Warning: I can have a fucked-up sense of humor and so should you. Bro witch Donation solicitation If I was your boyfriend I’d never let you go Eagle’s the man Cash 4 Gold Sony Vaio Wandering eye … --- ## [Dumped. Wow does this hurt!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-wow-does-this-hurt/666534)
**Author:** [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumped-wow-does-this-hurt/666534 "2013-08-20T06:22:03Z")
This is the sort of post that always seems most appropriate to post on a lonely Saturday evening. My girlfriend of the past ~16 months broke up with me a week ago Friday. She said I had become too negative of a person,… --- ## [MoveOn.Org Is Starting To Drive Me Nuts...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moveon-org-is-starting-to-drive-me-nuts/666657)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moveon-org-is-starting-to-drive-me-nuts/666657 "2013-08-20T03:59:22Z")
OK - so I remember them for being a force to be proud of during the first Obama campaign…so I know their hearts are in the right place. Still - I recently signed ONE petition, and now - wow - it seems like every person … --- ## [Lack of work/work ethic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-work-work-ethic/666670)
**Author:** [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-work-work-ethic/666670 "2013-08-20T03:51:00Z")
I have a job where we receive work assignments, when there is work. If I receive one, I jump on it and even recently stayed to finish an important assignment when I wasn’t feeling great. Of late, there has not been a who… --- ## [Great website..... Awful iPhone app](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-website-awful-iphone-app/666684)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-website-awful-iphone-app/666684 "2013-08-20T02:12:34Z")
FACEBOOK Slow, sometimes doesn’t upload photos or links properly off iPhone YOUTUBE Can’t remember the last time I played a video on my iPhone that didn’t halt at least halfway through ACCUWEATHER Radar, entertainin… --- ## [Shoplifter sprints for freedom.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651 "2013-08-20T01:39:00Z")
Academy Sports & Outdoors store security chases her. She takes off right across 6 lanes of traffic.:eek: Big risk for such a minor offense. Geez that girl must play frogger all the time. --- ## [If today's internet-based sexuality had existed in 1914:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-todays-internet-based-sexuality-had-existed-in-1914/666577)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-todays-internet-based-sexuality-had-existed-in-1914/666577 "2013-08-19T21:16:37Z")
There’s a cute cartoon in the New Yorker magazine . It shows a group of soldiers under fire in the trenches of World War I. One of them reaches out to his buddies and says : “If I don’t make it out of here alive, pleas… --- ## [It turns out that Area 51 does actually exist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-turns-out-that-area-51-does-actually-exist/666529)
**Author:** [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-turns-out-that-area-51-does-actually-exist/666529 "2013-08-19T19:33:03Z")
You don’t say? Yup. It came in the form of unredacted redactions, but hey, for the CIA - baby steps. --- ## [Dear Abby agrees with The Dope on survey phone callers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby-agrees-with-the-dope-on-survey-phone-callers/665574)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby-agrees-with-the-dope-on-survey-phone-callers/665574 "2013-08-19T19:01:34Z")
I can’t help but feel this is worth sharing with The Dope. Call Center worker writes, asking callees to show a little respect. Dear Abby tells HAPPY TO BE EMPLOYED (barely politely) to go to hell. :smiley: Harried Pho… --- ## [Forever 21 no longer having full-time non-management employees?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forever-21-no-longer-having-full-time-non-management-employees/666434)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forever-21-no-longer-having-full-time-non-management-employees/666434 "2013-08-19T18:20:11Z")
I’m having a difficult time corroborating this story: Forever 21 to “demote” all non-management full-time employees to a part-time status. Anybody know anything from any of the legitimate news-gathering sources? --- ## [Sent our kid off to college today \*sigh\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-our-kid-off-to-college-today-sigh/666616)
**Author:** [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-our-kid-off-to-college-today-sigh/666616 "2013-08-19T17:45:42Z")
We put her on a plane this morning for a pre-orientation special interest program. My wife goes out for the official orientation move-in later this week, but I won’t see her until the parent visiting weekend 2 months fro… --- ## [Using a power drill to create a high powered slingshot shotgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-a-power-drill-to-create-a-high-powered-slingshot-shotgun/666634)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-a-power-drill-to-create-a-high-powered-slingshot-shotgun/666634 "2013-08-19T15:54:55Z")
Interesting video demonstrating this concept --- ## [My husband told me that we had a gecko in the bathtub](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538)
**Author:** [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538 "2013-08-19T14:31:58Z")
I wanted to know how he knew it was a gecko, rather than some other kind of lizard. Did it, I asked Bill, try to sell him insurance? He said yes, yes it did. It was a tiny one, he said. So I went into the bathroom, i… --- ## [Another Blurfin' MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-blurfin-mmp/666003)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 349\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-blurfin-mmp/666003 "2013-08-19T10:32:22Z")
Today’s MMP is brought to you by the word “blurf.” What does blurf mean to you? How has it changed your life? How much blurf could a blurf blurf blurf if a blurf blurf could blurf blurf? For this week only, I give eve… --- ## [Meet the Olinguito, a newly-discovered mammal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-olinguito-a-newly-discovered-mammal/666370)
**Author:** [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-olinguito-a-newly-discovered-mammal/666370 "2013-08-19T07:33:19Z")
A new mammal called an Olinguito has been discovered in South America. It’s a relative of the raccoon, and has been described as looking like a teddy bear. (I think there hasn’t been a thread on this yet - mods, feel fr… --- ## [NSA surveillance update: a few thousand violations per year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsa-surveillance-update-a-few-thousand-violations-per-year/666601)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsa-surveillance-update-a-few-thousand-violations-per-year/666601 "2013-08-19T01:05:23Z")
It’s been looking like NSA surveillance was likely to survive its recent scrutiny largely unscathed, but the Washington Post has just stirred the pot again with an article about a secret NSA internal QA review that found… --- ## [I really don't want to do those things today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-want-to-do-those-things-today/666576)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-want-to-do-those-things-today/666576 "2013-08-18T23:07:21Z")
There’s an independent documentary showing this afternoon at an independent theater in the next town, and I have something to do in the next town over from it, but it’s something I could do any time. And I just don’t wa… --- ## [Strange, strange book ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-strange-book-ads/666566)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-strange-book-ads/666566 "2013-08-18T17:06:11Z")
(In which a topic a little bit Cafe and a little bit Pitty falls into the realm of the mundane.) So I’m leafing through today’s \[8/18\] NYT Book Review section, and on successive recto pages are group ads for works from … --- ## [The Holistic Lawyer Smackdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-holistic-lawyer-smackdown/666406)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-holistic-lawyer-smackdown/666406 "2013-08-18T13:00:35Z")
Yesterday I went to something called a “foreclosure clinic”, staffed by UW law students and faculty to help people like me who have the wolves at their door. Because only a couple of folks showed up, I had two law stude… --- ## [Interesting bit of history regarding photo postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bit-of-history-regarding-photo-postcards/666527)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-bit-of-history-regarding-photo-postcards/666527 "2013-08-18T09:14:37Z")
Interesting bit of history regarding photo postcards - Link here --- ## [What do you want displayed at funeral/buried with you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-displayed-at-funeral-buried-with-you/666296)
**Author:** [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-displayed-at-funeral-buried-with-you/666296 "2013-08-18T04:43:30Z")
Whether its objects to represent your life & passions, or just stuff to mess with archaeologists’ heads, what would you like to have on display at your funeral &/or buried with you? A Celtic cross pendant around my neck … --- ## [Linndale speed trap](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linndale-speed-trap/666040)
**Author:** [@lawbuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawbuff)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linndale-speed-trap/666040 "2013-08-18T04:29:28Z")
Speed trap history; Linndale, often called a speed trap,\[7\]\[9\] has been the site of the busiest, on a per-capita basis, Mayor’s Court in the State of Ohio.\[10\]\[11\] The village in the past has successfully defended its… --- ## [I've got Meadow Mushrooms!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-meadow-mushrooms/666310)
**Author:** [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-meadow-mushrooms/666310 "2013-08-17T22:43:19Z")
We’ve had a lot of rain, and mushrooms popped up in my yard. Turns out they are Agaricus campestris, a delicious choice edible. If I ate mushrooms, I’d be enjoying a delicious mushroom omelet right now. Note- please do… --- ## [The $20 change scam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-20-change-scam/665879)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-20-change-scam/665879 "2013-08-17T21:08:15Z")
I don’t know what this scam is officially called. But it has happened to me twice. It works like this: let’s say the price for something is $3.90, and I hand the cashier a $20 bill. He puts the bill in the cash register… --- ## [Jerry Sandusky's appeal to be held in a school.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-sanduskys-appeal-to-be-held-in-a-school/666459)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-sanduskys-appeal-to-be-held-in-a-school/666459 "2013-08-17T18:35:20Z")
Jerry Sandusky’s appeal in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania will be heard next month in Dallas High School’s auditorium! I’ve heard of traveling courts, but this sure is ironic. We sure never got to do anything lik… --- ## [Know Any Unemployed Archeologist Who Needs Work? Need Answer Fast!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-any-unemployed-archeologist-who-needs-work-need-answer-fast/666503)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-any-unemployed-archeologist-who-needs-work-need-answer-fast/666503 "2013-08-17T18:32:20Z")
No joke - I was searching for jobs and ran across this open position: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/349451300 I would imagine there are not tons of jobs for archeologists and this doesn’t pay all that badl… --- ## [My surprise for the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-surprise-for-the-day/666410)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-surprise-for-the-day/666410 "2013-08-17T17:04:19Z")
Someone posted this link on my Facebook feed. It’s an interesting idea – colorizing old B&W photos; they seem to be fairly conscientious about it, too. Then I got to photo #8. The guy on the left is my grandfather. … --- ## [Warning: Cute Kid Anecdotes Ahead!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-cute-kid-anecdotes-ahead/666393)
**Author:** [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-cute-kid-anecdotes-ahead/666393 "2013-08-17T13:52:07Z")
Granted, I think all of my kids are brilliant and funny and good-looking (take after their mom, you know,) but I’m still giggling about Lily’s latest: Lily is 3. She’s about as 3 as three can be, and frequently a giant … --- ## [I'm writing slash fanfic again!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-writing-slash-fanfic-again/666481)
**Author:** [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-writing-slash-fanfic-again/666481 "2013-08-17T08:29:36Z")
Anybody who feels that they are completely pathetic – c’mere, I got the cure right here! About thirteen years ago, during the renaissance of the internet forum, I got a bad case of Shipper Disease. This was around the … --- ## [Oprah Winfrey Gives Away A Car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-winfrey-gives-away-a-car/666359)
**Author:** [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-winfrey-gives-away-a-car/666359 "2013-08-17T07:11:01Z")
Oprah Winfrey Gives Away A Car During Her Appearance On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live Any chance this is to deflect any negative press regarding buying - or not - ridiculously expensive crap that no one needs? A lot of the commen… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=941) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=943)