# 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:** 11
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/201 "2025-06-02T13:02:37Z")
I was thinking more along the lines of… [![](https://ajblackwriter474462300.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/7a27c-e4180b8588c0bf459e3c3c4b0d31b499f96a1307.jpg) ](https://ajblackwriter474462300.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/7a27c-e4180b8588c0bf459e3c3c4b0d31b499f96a1307.jpg) C’mon, ignorant human…I know you have two more reps in you. Let’s go! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/202 "2025-06-02T13:13:09Z")
“Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the barbell.” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/203 "2025-06-02T18:05:18Z")
This one likely gave every Whovian on the board a heart attack. [I’m not one of them, but that was the first thought that came to my mind] [The Doctor will no longer be in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-long-be-in/1019108) @Czarcasm, next time you may want to make your title a _wee_ bit **more** specific. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/204 "2025-06-02T19:09:40Z")
“The Doctor is _in!_” is how his show started every episode. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/205 "2025-06-02T20:26:39Z")
Perhaps ask an active mod to add “Wind down yer radios”? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/206 "2025-06-02T21:16:36Z")
Naw. A lot of responses so far and none of them confused about the topic. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/207 "2025-06-03T16:00:22Z")
[Question about new home solar system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-new-home-solar-system/1019164) I thought the OP wanted a model of the sun and all the planets for their home. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/208 "2025-06-03T16:17:46Z")
Had one in grade school. It was not to scale. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/209 "2025-06-03T18:39:23Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I thought the OP wanted a model of the sun and all the planets for their home. 😮 Up until you posted this, I never even considered that it was about solar panels. I assumed that it was about a model solar system! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/210 "2025-06-03T19:44:37Z")
I guess I’m a terminal nerd. My first thought was about colonizing outer space. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/211 "2025-06-03T20:47:27Z")
Mine too. Tired of this solar system, thinking of trying Proxima Centauri. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/212 "2025-06-03T23:52:45Z")
And now this: [Got charged at by a black bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-charged-at-by-a-black-bear/1019176/6) Even though it’s silly, the first place my mind went was to think the bear said the OP owed it money. I guess there was a slight misreading there, too, as my brain omitted the “at” and just read it as “got charged by…” ---
**Author:** ![TekirKedi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tekirkedi/32/19028_2.png) [@TekirKedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TekirKedi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/213 "2025-06-10T07:37:03Z")
My thought was, “Huh? It’s not new.”, then, “Is this an update because they found something new or because they have demoted some planets? But that’s not new information…” So I had to click on it. Had no idea it was about solar panels. More of a mislabeled thread title… ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/214 "2025-06-10T15:42:04Z")
> [@TekirKedi](#): > > More of a mislabeled thread title… Not really. It is pretty common to refer to solar panels and their related equipment together as a “solar system”, at least by the companies that sell them. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/215 "2025-06-10T17:09:49Z")
[Please recommend a nonfiction vacation book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-nonfiction-vacation-book/1019371) For the whole time that thread has been active, I assumed the OP was looking for a book _about_ vacations, like a nonfiction travelog or something. I finally clicked on that thread, and realized what they actually want is a book to read _while on_ vacation. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/216 "2025-06-10T17:10:55Z")
Cabbage card games. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/217 "2025-06-10T18:17:21Z")
Yeah. I parsed “home solar system” as a single noun phrase for a well-known consumer product. It’s about like reading “Question about new Ford Caravans” and thinking they’re asking about driving a parade of family wagons across a river without a bridge. \* Yes, I know the Caravan was a Dodge, not Ford, product. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/218 "2025-06-12T12:47:06Z")
[Summer McIntosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-mcintosh/1019506) New variety of apple? Interesting. I’ll keep an eye out when I’m produce shopping. Oh, it’s a _person_– a Canadian swimming champ. Huh. Had not heard of her. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/219 "2025-06-20T11:58:17Z")
[What is your reaction to Android 15?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873) I thought it was a [Dragonball Z](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Android_15) reference; not about phones. GIGObuster made a joke about that in the thread before I noticed it, as well. > [@WildaBeast](#): > > And now this: > > [Got charged at by a black bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-charged-at-by-a-black-bear/1019176/6) > > Even though it’s silly, the first place my mind went was to think the bear said the OP owed it money. For me, I imagined that the bear was paying for something with a card; mostly because of a joke from an old comic strip where someone is yelling _“Look out, that rhino is going to charge!”_ as an anthropomorphic rhino lady pulls a card out of her purse. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/220 "2025-06-20T12:49:24Z")
I had no idea that Android 15 meant anything except Google’s OS. I’m out of touch and not familiar with Dragonball Z. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=12)