# Misinterpreted thread titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 "2023-01-17T17:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/181 "2025-05-02T16:44:53Z")
[Self-Proclaimed King Has Become the Court Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-proclaimed-king-has-become-the-court-jester/1017752) (Seeing thread title in the ‘Latest’ column of the main page, before I noticed the category) I know who _ **this** _ thread is going to be about! Of course, it’s about…_LeBron James?!?_ Oh, it’s ‘The Game Room’…😊 ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/182 "2025-05-02T18:37:46Z")
[How do you value raw land?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-value-raw-land/1017710) Well, my love language is affirmation, so I would send it a birthday card… ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/183 "2025-05-05T01:00:49Z")
[Same name as job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/1) Or Job, rather (upper case)-thought it was asking for how that name translated into other editions of the Bible in other languages… ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/184 "2025-05-06T19:14:21Z")
[Help me understand how a diaphram carburetor works](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-how-a-diaphragm-carburetor-works/1017952) It prevents the sperm from entering the cylinder . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/185 "2025-05-13T10:52:12Z")
[The stupid: Aus local council fines ‘rough sleepers’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-aus-local-council-fines-rough-sleepers/1018319) They’re fining people who toss and turn in bad? Why? How? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/186 "2025-05-13T11:39:15Z")
[How to Approach Concessions Required of Us as We Age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878) My reaction to seeing the title was “Concessions? Like what? Somebody demanding blackmail?” (It’s actually about having to deal with adapting to the circumstances of aging) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/187 "2025-05-13T14:26:54Z")
It helps to know that “rough sleeping” is the UK/Oz/etc. standard term for “homeless” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/188 "2025-05-13T15:21:49Z")
[ninja’ed] ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/189 "2025-05-13T16:36:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > [How to Approach Concessions Required of Us as We Age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878) > > My reaction to seeing the title was “Concessions? Like what? Somebody demanding blackmail?” My first thought was that of concession stands, like at the ballpark. “Well sure, footlong hotdogs and cheese nachos washed down with overpriced beer is fine in your 20s and 30s, but as we age we need to be a bit more judicious in which concession stand concessions we take”. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/190 "2025-05-14T23:17:47Z")
[Skyrim: modded? Which mods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyrim-modded-which-mods/1018311) Surely that thread belongs in ATMB, not The Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/191 "2025-05-16T16:51:49Z")
[Trump is going to use a gifted foreign aircraft as Air Force One](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-going-to-use-a-gifted-foreign-aircraft-as-air-force-one/1018256) I know it’s super-luxurious, but I don’t think it’s any more intelligent or talented than the average 747 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/192 "2025-05-16T17:25:19Z")
I’ve been reading it as a _grifted_ foreign aircraft. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/193 "2025-05-16T17:31:48Z")
Over in ‘Misread thread titles’ @Der_Trihs misread it as ‘glided’. Both ‘grifted’ and ‘gilded’ work equally as well as ‘gifted’, if not better. Ha, I initially mistyped ‘gilded’ as ‘gelded’-- which is how you-know-who is going to feel if all those meanies yelling “corruption!” make him have to decline the offer 🤣 > [@Misread thread titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1583): > > [Trump is going to use a gilded foreign aircraft as Air Force One](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-going-to-use-a-gifted-foreign-aircraft-as-air-force-one/1018256) Which is amusingly both misread and true. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/194 "2025-05-16T17:50:38Z")
[The WHO is going on tour. Should I go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-is-going-on-tour-should-i-go/1018430/10) Will they play “Won’t Get Flu Again”? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/195 "2025-05-16T17:59:32Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > I’ve been reading it as a _grifted_ foreign aircraft. That’s not “_Misinterpreted_” titles. That’s “ **Correctly Interpreted the Hidden Subtext** ” titles. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/196 "2025-05-16T18:10:06Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > [The WHO is going on tour. Should I go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-is-going-on-tour-should-i-go/1018430/10) > > Will they play “Won’t Get Flu Again”? Happy Vax Are RFK Jr.'s Grandkids Alright? My Vaccination ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/197 "2025-05-18T16:08:48Z")
**Nazi nuke thread naked?** Do I have to open the thread to see if Heisenberg is wearing clothes? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/198 "2025-05-21T12:56:29Z")
You must know your exact velocity, because your thread position is a little bit off 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/199 "2025-05-21T13:22:24Z")
I LOLed. Well played there @solost. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/200 "2025-06-01T00:46:10Z")
**[Q for weight lifters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-weight-lifters/1019033)** I, too, sometimes wonder if any bulking-up fans are also believers in Pizzagate. Oh, you mean _question_. Never mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=11)