# Die of embarrassment! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 22, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076 "2002-09-22T02:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/1 "2002-09-22T02:39:05Z")
After reading **Hillbilly Queen’s** post in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136029) thread, I got to thinking - if you should unexpectedly drop dead tomorrow, what, if anything, would you be embarrassed to be found in your personal belongings by a family member or friend? I guess in my case it would be a big ol’ vibrator. :eek: Oh, and I hope no-one reads my journals! :o ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/2 "2002-09-22T02:52:22Z")
Probably my collection of Oded Fehr pictures on my computer. My BF already knows about them (I think, he uses this computer too) and he let me stick an Oded Fehr magnet on the refrigerator, but if anyone else found them, I’d be embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/3 "2002-09-22T03:26:45Z")
The balance in my check book. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/4 "2002-09-22T03:59:41Z")
My debt. #1 reason why I can’t die yet. As for the porn. Well the only thing I ever really enjoyed on **The Man Show** was their bit on a service that, the moment you died, would rush into your place and replace all porn objects with innocent things. But I think I’d survive, dead or not. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/5 "2002-09-22T04:18:28Z")
That’s a good question… I really don’t own any porn or drug paraphernalia and my computer is completely clean of anything x-rated so there isn’t anything to worry about there. I own a few movies that I might be a bit embaressed about (The Princess Diaries, All the Pretty Horses) and some CD’s as well (my Celine Dion Collection) but that’s about all. I guess the biggest thing would be my journal. It’s on my computer and someone would have to do a bit of searching to find it but it’s not like it’s password protected or anything. I’d be mortified if anybody ever read it. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/6 "2002-09-22T04:39:08Z")
Why are people afraid of having their journals found? If you’re dead does it even matter? What’s the point of writing a journal if you don’t want anyone else to ever read it, even if it’s after you’re gone? ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/7 "2002-09-22T04:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dignan \* > \*\*Why are people afraid of having their journals found? If you’re dead does it even matter? What’s the point of writing a journal if you don’t want anyone else to ever read it, even if it’s after you’re gone? \*\* I write for me, no-one else. Just becuz I’m dead doesn’t give someone the right to invade my privacy. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/8 "2002-09-22T04:43:14Z")
Oh, and btw - I LOVE **Bottle Rocket**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/9 "2002-09-22T13:46:54Z")
My massive collection of personal memorabilia: cards, ID bracelets, concert ticket stubs, pamphlets, invitations movie tickets, drink bottle labels, boarding passes, etc. I’d be mortified if anyone discovered I was a sentimental softy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/10 "2002-09-22T14:16:13Z")
All of my dirty laundry that I have scattered about my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/11 "2002-09-22T15:40:13Z")
Butt plugs. Definitely butt plugs. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/12 "2002-09-22T17:54:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boscibo \* > \*\*Oded Fehr \*\* ???😕 😕 ??? Explain please. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/13 "2002-09-22T18:51:49Z")
[Oded Fehr gallery](http://www.odedfehr.de/index2.html). Nothing bad, he’s sexy. ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/14 "2002-09-22T23:48:47Z")
My “objects of shame” would be the dildos, butt plugs, cock rings and gay porn DVDs I keep stashed under my bed. The jar full of condoms and the three bottles of lube would no doubt raise an eyebrow or two as well. Don’t think I’d want my parents to find the Zippo lighter, carton of Marlboros and the big box of cigars, either. If they found out that I smoke, they’d be absolutely mortified. My laptop already has my best friend’s name on it, should the worst ever happen. Although none of the files and folders contain anything objectionable as such, I still wouldn’t want my family sifting through them. Besides which, he’d have more use for it than they would, so it makes sense that it would go to him. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/15 "2002-09-23T00:01:00Z")
I have written about 20 short stories in the past few years. No one has ever read them but me. Some are funny, some are sad, all could be read to children. But I don’t think of myself as much of the literary type. Plus I have a pair of [manties.](http://www.manties.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/16 "2002-09-23T00:04:31Z")
I wouldn’t want any of my relatives to discover my user name on here. 😃 And, the big ol’ vibrator. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/17 "2002-09-23T00:16:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racer72 \* > \*\*Plus I have a pair of [manties.](http://www.manties.net/) \*\* LMFAO!!! :eek: 😛 :eek: 😛 :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/18 "2002-09-23T03:14:52Z")
When I was still living in a dorm, I got very sick over the Christmas break & was unable to return to school, so my folks had to clean out my room. Of course, when I left, I thought I’d be coming back. Hence, I made no effort to conceal the play handcuffs, condoms, cherry-flavored lube, & cat o’ nine. Yick. I pretended that the cat o’nine & cuffs were part of a Halloween costume that I was holding for a friend whose parents had come to visit, & that the condoms & lube were hers as well. My folks pretended that they believed me, & that was that. Yiiiiiick. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/19 "2002-09-23T12:12:46Z")
_Laughs at Cosmopolitan_ Sorry, that was just too funny… _dissolves into giggles_ _Finds out what “manties” are, and laughs even harder_ I don’t have anything to be embarrassed about, aside from some stories I wrote waaaay back when I was a kid, and Mom’s already seen those and showed them to all her friends… So I suppose I’ve already used up my quota of embarrassment for those. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076/20 "2002-09-23T12:14:26Z")
Argh, that should be “Cosmopolitan’s story”. Preview is my friend. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-of-embarrassment/129076.md?page=2)