# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 344
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6862 "2025-05-18T13:29:11Z")
The luggage question is hard, because it depends on the length of the trip. I’ve certainly flown with just a small backpack. But i decided i usually carry a rollerboard, and voted that way ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6863 "2025-05-18T14:52:12Z")
I typically gate check my rollerboard. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6864 "2025-05-18T16:02:53Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Would Mc Donald be counted as two names or one in the poll? What about Mac Donald or Van Winkle? Two words, one name. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6865 "2025-05-18T16:47:48Z")
I don’t know what that kind of luggage is called. I’d probably have called it a wheelie; but I haven’t got one and I haven’t been shopping for luggage since they became common. I haven’t been on a plane in quite a while and when I last was I took a backpack, a shoulder bag, and (to check through) an old Samsonite suitcase. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6866 "2025-05-18T17:49:06Z")
I call a piece of carry-on luggage with wheels a piece of carry-on luggage with wheels. mmm ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6867 "2025-05-18T17:51:10Z")
I usually call it a “suitcase”. I have back packs and shoulder bags and duffle bags without wheels. I haven’t used a suitcase without wheels in a very long time. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6868 "2025-05-18T17:54:41Z")
Actually, that’s not true. I have a small, soft-sided suitcase that i sometimes bring as my larger carry on when i check the one with wheels. It’s nice because it fits overhead on the small planes that don’t have room for a full sized “carry-on” bag. And it’s well organized. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6869 "2025-05-18T19:47:47Z")
Yes, I get that there other possible names for that kind of luggage. The point of the poll was which of those two options do you believe is correct, as IMO one of them is wrong and is based on a mishearing of the other, yet I see people that term everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6870 "2025-05-18T21:45:34Z")
This article > **[Roller Board vs. Roll Aboard: The Definitive Answer - Fly&Dine](https://flyanddine.boardingarea.com/roller-board-vs-roll-aboard-the-definitive-answer/)** > > What do you call wheeled carry-on luggage? Is it a roller board or a Rollaboard? Fly&Dine sets out to find the definitive answer. Says that rollaboard is a trademark, and rollerboard is a widely used generic name for the category, and both are common and acceptable in speech if you aren’t in a position to violate the trademark. Also, my MIL claimed her ballet troop invented the idea in the 70s, literally strapping roller skates to their trunks when they traveled. But they certainly didn’t patent the idea or mass-produce it. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6871 "2025-05-18T22:59:28Z")
The first patent for wheeled luggage was filed in February 1970 and granted in 1972, so unless your MIL filed in January 1970 or earlier, she couldn’t have gotten a patent anyway. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6872 "2025-05-19T00:00:00Z")
You know, i got the dates wrong. She was touring in the 50s and very early 60s, before her second child was born in 1963. So yes, she was doing that before 1970. But they were literally strapping roller skates to trunks, not making suitcases with built-in wheels. And she never claimed it was her idea, it was apparently something all the ballet dancers in her her troup did. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6873 "2025-05-19T00:04:35Z")
I also know a guy whose father used microwaves to cook food during WWII. He was a soldier who used radar for military purposes, and the troops noticed that if you put a hotdog where the microwaves were focused in the big dish antenna, it got hot. They used it to heat food, but they didn’t develop a consumer device or patent anything, either. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6874 "2025-05-19T00:10:16Z")
Yeah, using the radar like that leads to serious eye issues- especially cataracts. [Cataracts induced by microwave and ionizing radiation - ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0039625788900884) > **[Cataracts - AMAS](https://aviationmedicine.com/article/cataracts/)** > > Introduction Good vision depends on many factors. One factor is the transparency of the eye structures in the line of sight. Any disturbance in the clarity may impair best visual acuity or cause problems with glare or cause other visual distortions... ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6875 "2025-05-19T00:12:36Z")
I’m pretty sure they were putting their food into the beam, not their heads. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6876 "2025-05-19T01:57:02Z")
According to Jefferson Airplane, it’s ok to put food into your head. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6877 "2025-05-19T02:59:49Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m pretty sure they were putting their food into the beam, not their heads. 🤷‍♀️ Russian researcher says “Hold my vodka!” > **[Anatoli Bugorski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski)** > > Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Бугорский; born 25 June 1942) is a Russian retired particle physicist. He is known for having survived a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his head. > As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Russian SFSR, Bugorski worked with the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union, the U-70 synchrotron. On 13 July 1978, he was checking a malfuncti... > On 13 July 1978, he was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 [GeV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeV) [proton beam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_beam). He reportedly saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns” but did not feel any pain.[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#cite_note-wired_future_ruins-1) The beam passed through the back of his head, the [occipital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe) and [temporal lobes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe) of his brain, the left [middle ear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_ear), and out through the left-hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 [roentgens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_(unit)) (2,000 to 3,000 [Sieverts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert)).[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#cite_note-gd-info_km_ru_personal-3) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6878 "2025-05-22T12:10:43Z")
On that luggage bit my usual is one of those “convertible” suitcase-backpack type bags where you can deploy shoulder straps for ease of carry but you can cram to fit the space. If it’s a really short trip and I know I _won’t_ be on a regional then I will use my small roller case. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6879 "2025-05-23T01:41:06Z")
When my mother died 2 years ago there was no current will. There was a will that was so old it named my sister as my guardian. Like the question there are four of us. I don’t know if sizable is the right word but there was a house to sell and some savings. There was no question of doing anything but splitting it 25% each. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6880 "2025-05-23T01:45:07Z")
For the 4th of July question, the poll didn’t include, “celebrate? I’ve never really celebrated the 4th of July”. I’ve often done something because I had the day off. And I enjoy fireworks, so I’ve sometimes gone to see fireworks then. But I don’t think anyone will be giving me a vacation day on Canada day, nor hosting fireworks. I’m going to a square dance event that is scheduled for “4th of july”, but I’ll actually be there on Canada day, too. But really, I just think of it as the IAGSDC convention. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6881 "2025-05-23T01:45:57Z")
We had a will that said to split everything equally. But I can’t imagine anyone having the moral (or legal) authority to do something other than an equal split without a will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=343) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=345)