# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=995 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 996 --- ## [Share your mental picture of your fellow doper(s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mental-picture-of-your-fellow-doper-s/653954)
**Author:** [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mental-picture-of-your-fellow-doper-s/653954 "2013-04-07T20:34:53Z")
In another thread I shared this (possibly toungue-in-cheek (my OWN cheek, I don’t even know papergirl IRL(and wouldn’t want to risk a paper cut there anyway))). So - based on their screen name, posts, profession, whate… --- ## [I need HELP! from Natural Gas Using Dopers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-from-natural-gas-using-dopers/654973)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-from-natural-gas-using-dopers/654973 "2013-04-07T18:44:41Z")
Use Natural Gas in your home? Keep reading… Go check your water heater for a little cloth bag hanging from the cold water valve. Looks like the old “Gold Rush” bubble gum bags for use old-timers. Got one? Keep reading… … --- ## [I hate it when...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it-when/654877)
**Author:** [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-it-when/654877 "2013-04-07T18:30:21Z")
…I’d forgotten I’d taken a multiple vitamin earlier in the day, and next time I pee, I’m momentarily alarmed because my piss looks like plutonium flavored Kool-Aid… --- ## [Obama is scaring my uncle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-scaring-my-uncle/655015)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-scaring-my-uncle/655015 "2013-04-06T23:01:19Z")
Just got out of bed (yes, I slept until 7:30 this morning :eek: ) and woke up to anemail from an uncle: I’m not awake enough to even think of how to begin to respond. :rolleyes: --- ## [Research help needed: subculture and cars of the '50's...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/research-help-needed-subculture-and-cars-of-the-50s/654889)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/research-help-needed-subculture-and-cars-of-the-50s/654889 "2013-04-06T21:56:58Z")
I’m in need of subject matter experts: specifically, knowledge of the “greaser” subculture as it stood in the mid to late '50’s, and of the cars of the era (or earlier; late 40’s to early '50’s). Google has been spectac… --- ## [Build a Bear now has My Little Pony figures](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bear-now-has-my-little-pony-figures/655031)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/build-a-bear-now-has-my-little-pony-figures/655031 "2013-04-06T18:12:44Z")
I passed two Build a Bear stres with these today. Looking at those gooey-cute figures with their enormous be-lashed eyes prompted an evil thought: --- ## [How Mark Twain would have profoundly influenced America today if he never wrote a word](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-mark-twain-would-have-profoundly-influenced-america-today-if-he-never-wrote-a-word/654988)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-mark-twain-would-have-profoundly-influenced-america-today-if-he-never-wrote-a-word/654988 "2013-04-06T17:54:10Z")
My title is not entirely accurate since Twain’s wealth allowed him to do what he did, but what he did was not otherwise related to his writing. Twain met a young black law student at Yale University names Warner T. McGu… --- ## [So...THIS Time, I am Officially a Failure... :-)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-time-i-am-officially-a-failure/654447)
**Author:** [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-time-i-am-officially-a-failure/654447 "2013-04-06T15:11:34Z")
A FOSTER Failure, that is! Two weeks ago, I got my second foster dog from above & Beyond Setter Rescue a orange & white 4 year old English Setter named Sugar. I was a little bit worried about taking her; she had been i… --- ## [Your Credit Card Company Is Building A Psychological Profile Of You](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-credit-card-company-is-building-a-psychological-profile-of-you/502398)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-credit-card-company-is-building-a-psychological-profile-of-you/502398 "2013-04-06T11:35:32Z")
\[Interesting article from the consumerist.\](Your Credit Card Company Is Building A Psychological Profile Of You) What do you think your purchases would say about you? --- ## [UncleBeer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unclebeer/654862)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unclebeer/654862 "2013-04-06T09:58:58Z")
UncleBeer ain’t posted since 2010. Anybody hear from him? I’m worried… --- ## [One last thing for Opal.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-thing-for-opal/653907)
**Author:** [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-thing-for-opal/653907 "2013-04-06T08:40:50Z")
\*\*KATHERINE HOWARD/OPALCAT – A Life On Record \*\* Whatever else you might say about Opal, she was definitely on the record for just about everything. So it seems fitting and very appropriate that we have the service “Li… --- ## [A note to data entry people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-data-entry-people/654185)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-to-data-entry-people/654185 "2013-04-06T05:53:59Z")
Please learn how to spell. Please do not use ambiguous abbreviations. Plurals do not use apostrophe-s. (Side note: It’s cemeteries, not cemetary’s.) Thank you. --- ## [The "Sovereign Citizen" movement reaches the African-American community](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sovereign-citizen-movement-reaches-the-african-american-community/654947)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sovereign-citizen-movement-reaches-the-african-american-community/654947 "2013-04-06T03:15:45Z")
Stories here and here. This group calls themselves “Moorish American Nationals,” and one of their number just got popped for burglarizing (by which they mean “living in”) an unoccupied mansion in this area that he says … --- ## [Cop shot by suspect in Police Station.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-shot-by-suspect-in-police-station/654945)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-shot-by-suspect-in-police-station/654945 "2013-04-06T02:20:13Z")
A major clusterfuck. I didn’t think cops carried their guns into interview rooms? For exactly this reason. Just like prison guards don’t carry guns when they are in rooms with inmates. Facts are still coming out slowly… --- ## [Southpaws/Citeogs/Lefthanders, ever subject to discrimination?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southpaws-citeogs-lefthanders-ever-subject-to-discrimination/653572)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southpaws-citeogs-lefthanders-ever-subject-to-discrimination/653572 "2013-04-06T01:44:13Z")
I don’t recall it ever being an issue in my life but Mrs. Gadaí’s mother was denied employment in the 1970s due to her being lefthanded. I was born in 1981 so by the time I was in school I wasn’t instructed to use my rig… --- ## [Tell me about visiting Helsinki, Finland](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-visiting-helsinki-finland/654686)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-visiting-helsinki-finland/654686 "2013-04-06T01:01:00Z")
One of my favorite bands (Bolt Thrower) is visiting the US for the first time in like 14 years, but all of their shows are sold out except for an appearance concurrent with SXSW in Austin, TX. I really don’t want to go … --- ## [The Number of the Beast...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-number-of-the-beast/533812)
**Author:** [@DickP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DickP)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-number-of-the-beast/533812 "2013-04-05T23:53:10Z")
I remember hearing something on the radio a few years ago to the effect that biblical scholars had determined that Satan’s zipcode isn’t 666, but some other number. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks --- ## [Dreams about dreams (or explicitly about memories)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-about-dreams-or-explicitly-about-memories/654952)
**Author:** [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-about-dreams-or-explicitly-about-memories/654952 "2013-04-05T22:02:25Z")
I recently woke up from a dream in which I was talking to a friend (who is now, actually, several years dead), about a memory I had of attending a Fleetwood Mac concert (the original, bluesy Fleetwood Mac, with Peter Gre… --- ## [Israeli fish monument](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-fish-monument/654936)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-fish-monument/654936 "2013-04-05T17:43:49Z")
There is supposedly a monument in Israel to Gambusio affinnis for it’s mosquito eating ability and malaria eradication. Does anyone know about it? Thanks, CP --- ## [What is the biggest silly mistake you ever made?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-biggest-silly-mistake-you-ever-made/653299)
**Author:** [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-biggest-silly-mistake-you-ever-made/653299 "2013-04-05T15:56:46Z")
I’m not asking about mistakes that necessarily changed your life (or anyone else’s). This is more about those msitakes that made you look silly but had no lasting consequences. As host of this thread, I’ll start: My f… --- ## [My eyes are killing my back](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-are-killing-my-back/654852)
**Author:** [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-eyes-are-killing-my-back/654852 "2013-04-05T14:05:41Z")
On Monday I got a bit of a backache. On Tuesday I got a worse one. Yesterday it became unbearable. I had to think about what was going on. I do my back exercises every morning, and I use my knees to lift. If I lift anyth… --- ## [Obnoxious things to teach a 3 year old \[NEED ANSWER FAST\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obnoxious-things-to-teach-a-3-year-old-need-answer-fast/624855)
**Author:** [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obnoxious-things-to-teach-a-3-year-old-need-answer-fast/624855 "2013-04-05T06:11:52Z")
I’m babysitting my friends’ 5 month old and 3 year old tonight. The baby is the nicest, most calm baby ever, so I’m not worried about that. The three year old, on the other hand, is a handful in all the best ways (seriou… --- ## [What sort of odd momentos do you cherish from loved ones who've pass on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-odd-momentos-do-you-cherish-from-loved-ones-whove-pass-on/654694)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-odd-momentos-do-you-cherish-from-loved-ones-whove-pass-on/654694 "2013-04-05T05:18:12Z")
Thought of this today, when I left my pink earrings at the gym. Frantic phone call ensued. Grandfather, long gone, bought those for me when I was about 16. Pink, FCS, but I had a pink skirt and he thought they’d be just… --- ## [So, uh...Kittens.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-uh-kittens/654698)
**Author:** [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-uh-kittens/654698 "2013-04-05T03:27:09Z")
My family recently welcomed in a stray cat that has become mine. I named her Snuggleslut but that has become a misnomer really, in that she is no longer very snuggly. What I thought was a super affectionate cat soon sett… --- ## [A little bit cool - Crayola Crystal effects window markers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-bit-cool-crayola-crystal-effects-window-markers/654811)
**Author:** [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-bit-cool-crayola-crystal-effects-window-markers/654811 "2013-04-04T23:49:51Z")
Bought some of theses http://www.crayola.com/browse-products/crystal-effects-window-markers.aspx via ebay. I have only just had a play with them. My bedroom window looks like Jack frost has been to visit. Nice video of… --- ## [Mr Wizard substances that do amazing things.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-wizard-substances-that-do-amazing-things/654842)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-wizard-substances-that-do-amazing-things/654842 "2013-04-04T21:51:34Z")
Metal that melts in your hand. Water that instantly freezes when touched. A gas that is so heavy that objects float on it. And more… Mr Wizard would have loved this stuff. I love it too. :stuck\_out\_tongue: M… --- ## [Multiple Sclerosis - Liberation Treatment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-sclerosis-liberation-treatment/518519)
**Author:** [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Replies:** 186\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-sclerosis-liberation-treatment/518519 "2013-04-04T14:56:32Z")
As reported on W5 last night. Link An Italian doctor figured out a link between blood flow in the brain and MS. All the people he has tested who have MS have constricted veins from their head. Essentially, this is lik… --- ## [Nanotechnology blows me away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanotechnology-blows-me-away/654806)
**Author:** [@Pacific420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pacific420)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanotechnology-blows-me-away/654806 "2013-04-04T06:07:31Z")
It blows me away but I’m also intrigued, how can someone work on things they can’t see? --- ## [Mother of Princeton Students Urges Female Students to Find a Husband at Princeton](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-of-princeton-students-urges-female-students-to-find-a-husband-at-princeton/654430)
**Author:** [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-of-princeton-students-urges-female-students-to-find-a-husband-at-princeton/654430 "2013-04-04T03:17:20Z")
Wow. My husband told me that this woman’s sons probably said, \*“Mom!” \* when this letter ran in Princeton University’s newspaper. :eek: Also, would you want to be the daughter-in-law of this woman? YMMV, but I wo… --- ## [Ask the Middle Aged Woman with Severe ADHD](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-middle-aged-woman-with-severe-adhd/653403)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-middle-aged-woman-with-severe-adhd/653403 "2013-04-04T00:41:20Z")
I know a good number of Dopers have ADHD besides myself, and I invite them to add to this thread freely. I was diagnosed with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder in 2005, when I was 46 years old. The short and snappy vers… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=994) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=996)