# Jaw-droppingly stupid things
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886 "2007-04-20T02:34:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/121 "2007-05-01T22:51:23Z")
A while ago while playing Trivial Pursuit with some friends, we had a question that referenced a President who had a son. So we were listing out recent Presidents that had and didn’t have sons (that we knew of)
Teammate 1: Reagan had a son, Clinton, no…
Teammate 2: Does Bush have a son?
Me: No, Bush the Younger just has two daughters.
Teammate 2: What about the elder?
Me: I’m going to let you think about that for a minute.
He realized what he had asked pretty quickly, but it was good for a laugh.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/122 "2007-05-01T23:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry]
Maybe it’s a guy thing, or maybe I need better recipes.
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Nah, a better husband. 😉
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/123 "2007-05-01T23:16:05Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
I can top that: I once parked at a public library in Fort Pierce, Florida. One of the spaces had a sign reading, “LIBRARY PERSONAL ONLY.”
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Back in 2001 or 2002, CALTRANS put up a temporary sign directing people to “Monterey Peninsula Collage” during the registration periods.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/124 "2007-05-01T23:19:27Z")
> [@nashiitashii](#):
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> Swedish meatballs are also made with a “white” sauce as well, but it’s definitely more of a gravy than a pasta sauce. If he were confusing alfredo for marinara, he’d be even dumber than Batsinma Belfry had previously implied.
OK–I wouldn’t know, I’ve only had Swedish meatballs once, and only then in the form of a TV dinner maybe four years ago.
> [@5-4-Fighting](#):
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> Occasionally, they offered the following: a melee of vegetables.
Did you ever order it? How do you know they didn’t battle for supremacy once you’d paid for the dish? They might have even bled warm, gooey cheddar cheese. I bet you feel like an idiot for missing out, don’t you?
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/125 "2007-05-02T02:38:33Z")
[QUOTE=fetus]
A girl I met while going to the U of Arizona was a typical 2004 sorority girl–with the shirt cut off above the shoulders and tied at the belly button and all that bullshit–
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You know, although I’m trying incredibly hard, I just can’t picture what a shirt cut off above the shoulders would look like.
Unless you mean a turtleneck.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/126 "2007-05-02T03:00:53Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
You know, although I’m trying incredibly hard, I just can’t picture what a shirt cut off above the shoulders would look like.
Unless you mean a turtleneck.
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Try “sleeves cut off past the the shoulders.”
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/127 "2007-05-02T04:34:46Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
You know, although I’m trying incredibly hard, I just can’t picture what a shirt cut off above the shoulders would look like.
Unless you mean a turtleneck.
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I figured he meant a shirt like [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0085549/posters).
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/128 "2007-05-02T14:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=dangermom]
I read a Nancy Drew novel today that my little girl was reading. The theme is “Nancy tours South America,” so she visits several major historical sites, Macchu Picchu etc. The big crime syndicate activity that she hunts down in this episode? _Quinine smuggling._ In very small amounts. 😕
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That would the [The Clue in the Crossword Cipher.](http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/cipher.jpg)
Laugh at me all ya want, but I actually have learned a lot of stuff from Nancy Drew books. Until I read this one, I had never even HEARD of the Nazca Lines. I had a woefully inadequate education back in grade school. 😃
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/129 "2007-05-03T19:54:07Z")
> [@Sublight](#):
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> I figured he meant a shirt like this.
:smack: D’oh! Of course. I could’ve chosen a clearer way to express that, for sure…
(Actually, the 2004 sorority version cuts off a little more. Most of both shoulders are exposed. Why this phenomenon skipped 20 years, and whether or not it’s still going on in sororities, I can’t tell you.)
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaw-droppingly-stupid-things/400886/130 "2007-05-04T01:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]
It was the LT. But now I have to go watch it again just to be sure. I’ll let you know.
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**Brainglutton** , I just watched the sequence. It is Lt. George who asks the landmine question.
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