# I'm sure this means something to someone **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120 "2008-02-18T17:13:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/21 "2008-02-18T20:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] If poly scooping you is wrong, I don’t want to be right. [/QUOTE] And remember! The plural of ‘spouse’ is ‘spice’! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/22 "2008-02-18T20:10:24Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] If poly scooping you is wrong, I don’t want to be right. [/QUOTE] You can poly scoop my knurled wheel 'til it vibrates anytime, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/23 "2008-02-18T20:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Not to be all fun-busting, but yeah, it makes sense, doesn’t it? Knurled = gnarled, or with vertical scratch lines, like the side of a quarter. Wheel = a piece of the seed dispensing machinery Vibrates = moves in a shaking manner Poly = polyethylene? polyester? Poly-something, probably stiff and plastic Scoop = another part of the seed dispensing machine. So a bumpy wheel turns, and the vibrations of [something] hitting the bumps makes the plastic scoop shake and dispense the seeds. [/QUOTE] When it jams you get ground flour. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/24 "2008-02-18T20:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Ooh, I hate planting tiny seeds. Things like lobelia or moss rose? I just scatter the seed, let them all sprout and battle to the death. No way am I thinning 1,000 seedlings in a 3" pot. [/QUOTE] Even worse is foxglove. They’re like a quarter the size of fine ground pepper. those two you mentioned are nasty though. I don’t know the exact formula used, but some places came up with a gel method for fine seeds. It could have been regular unflavored gelatin. I don’t remember. You put the seeds in the gel and squeeze the gel out of your honey bear or whatever you like to squeeze. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/25 "2008-02-18T20:31:18Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] You put the seeds in the gel and squeeze the gel out of your honey bear or whatever you like to squeeze. :eek: [/QUOTE] If this thread gets any dirtier I’m giving myself a time-out. Who says gardeners can’t get filthy? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/26 "2008-02-18T20:31:32Z")
[singing]Squeeze your honey bear, squeeze your honey bear, yeah yeah![/singing] ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/27 "2008-02-18T20:40:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tenar] Or an ad for a “personal pleasure device?” [/QUOTE] A hooker? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/28 "2008-02-18T21:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] If this thread gets any dirtier I’m giving myself a time-out. Who says gardeners can’t get filthy? 😛 [/QUOTE] What’s that saying, gardeners like to do it in the dirt? ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/29 "2008-02-19T00:00:22Z")
A pink car-beep! A PURPLE moo! _snort_ I remember some thoughts beginning around 2, but I can’t remember nor imagine what brings that stuff on. To my knowledge, I’ve never said anything like that except as an adult…and drunk. Kids are a riot sometimes! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/30 "2008-02-19T02:15:12Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] \ My daughter informed me this morning that’s she’s a “car beep”. Not a beeping car, or a car alarm, but a “car beep”. She then declared that, as a car beep, she is orange, and my suggestion that she be a pink car beep is silly. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Do you know if your daughter is synesthetic? Because she’s absolutely right that horns are orange, not pink. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/31 "2008-02-19T02:25:47Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] A hooker? [/QUOTE] A ho in a gardening thread? oh my :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/32 "2008-02-19T06:20:50Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Do you know if your daughter is synesthetic? [/QUOTE] 😕 I have not a clue. How would one go about testing that sort of thing? (She turned 3 last week, but her verbal skills are still…developing.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/33 "2008-02-19T06:32:37Z")
I don’t know if that is something that you could actually figure out in a three year old when they are being all creative and random and stuff. I guess you can’t really test her for whether her letters and numbers have colours and textures associated with them if she doesn’t know any letters and numbers yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/34 "2008-02-19T06:39:55Z")
Ask her what color a certain number is. No, really. The little girl I babysit has a cool spaceman doll. It has mylar & gold lamé and is cool. I went into a long modern rant about how as a modern little girl she could be anything when she grows up – a neuroscientist, a truck driver, an astronaut, anything. She thought about it carefully for awhile and then said, “ **brujaja** , when I grow up I would like to be an octopus.” Me, too. **Twickster** , you must stop shaking groovy things. It’s making the rest of us look bad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/35 "2008-02-19T06:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] My favorite mystery graffito lately is the one nearby that says, “EMO MILITIA”. :dubious: [/QUOTE] [Emo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo): a type of rock music, short for “emotional.” Also the type of person who listens to such music, usually stereotyped as someone who wears dark clothing and has a pessimistic outview on life. Militia: a civilian defense force. “Knurled wheel vibrates the poly scoop” sounds like Engrish or something. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/36 "2008-02-19T06:50:52Z")
Thanks, **mobo85** ; I do actually know the individual meanings of “emo” and “militia”. It’s the _combination_ that I can’t get my head around. Like the recent hype on my roomie’s cable channel advertising an upcoming movie about “violent onanism”. Violent onanism? What’s that, a circle jerk with real jerks? ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/37 "2008-02-19T13:40:24Z")
As a technical writer, I come upon interesting nonsense (aka technical jargon) regularly. Here’s one of my favorites (from a specification document): > [@](#): > > For all horizontal slab surfaces, bull floating shall be done before bleeding occurs. Use a darby at all edges of slabs. Do not use a fresno before bleeding is complete. No jitterbugging will be allowed without approval of the pavement engineer. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/38 "2008-02-19T14:13:48Z")
_That’s_ some stylin’ prose! ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/39 "2008-02-19T14:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=JustThinkin’] As a technical writer, I come upon interesting nonsense (aka technical jargon) regularly. Here’s one of my favorites (from a specification document): [/QUOTE] You cannot convince me that wasn’t a MadLib. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120/40 "2008-02-19T14:41:14Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] _That’s_ some stylin’ prose! [/QUOTE] I’m glad to see you’ve settled down - no jitterbugging will be allowed, missy! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sure-this-means-something-to-someone/438120.md?page=3)