# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/221 "2025-06-20T13:22:38Z")
Opening act: The CDC ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/222 "2025-06-26T23:22:06Z")
[Greatest living American elimination game (game thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-living-american-elimination-game-game-thread/1019715) It read to me as a thread in which we nominate a number of great living Americans, and then gradually are left with one as the rest are eliminated by no longer being living rather than by being voted off. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/223 "2025-06-26T23:24:51Z")
For a second I thought it was like a scavenger hunt thing, where “hunt” was taken literally. (Ya, know, all that talk about “game”) ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/224 "2025-06-30T23:43:52Z")
[Sometimes Amazon is Outrageously high](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-amazon-is-outrageously-high/1020303/26) What have you been smoking, Amazon? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/225 "2025-07-01T03:52:49Z")
Their pricing policies sometimes do seem drug-induced. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/226 "2025-07-02T18:15:43Z")
[Jimmy Dean stuffed hash browns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-dean-stuffed-hash-browns/1020413/2) He did? When? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/227 "2025-07-02T18:28:30Z")
Jimmy! How many times have I told you not to play with your food! Aww, Mommmm. I was jes’ havin’ a little fun. And for heaven’s sake child, pull your pants up! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/228 "2025-07-04T10:31:38Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > [Jimmy Dean stuffed hash browns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-dean-stuffed-hash-browns/1020413/2) > > He did? When? “He was?! When!?” ---
**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:** [July 12, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/229 "2025-07-12T00:41:34Z")
[The Trump deportation news thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404) Every time I read this, my brain says “Wait, there’s news about Trump being deported?” And then my brain is happy for one nanosecond… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/230 "2025-07-18T14:56:52Z")
I and others thought that there was a conflagration at Tomorrowland at Disney! Turns out it was a separate festival _called_ Tomorrowland. > [@Looking at the way this burned (Tomorrowland festival main stage), was it ever safe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-way-this-burned-tomorrowland-festival-main-stage-was-it-ever-safe/1020962): > > The main stage at the Tomorrowland festival in Antwerp, Belgium, burned to the ground the day before the festival opening: According to early reports, this happened during testing of some pyrotechnics, but the question I have is: Looking at the way this went up (there are lots of videos online), was it ever even safe? The flames and smoke being produced look like something oil-based is burning, as though the whole set was constructed from sculpted foam or similar. I don’t know if fire crew… ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/231 "2025-07-18T15:38:11Z")
As mentioned here … > [@Post-death casseroles?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-death-casseroles/1020947/41): > > I misread this as Pre-death casseroles, which calls to mind [a whole different genre](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poison-mushrooms-killings-australian-woman-convicted-erin-patterson/). Or maybe it was about murderers who later cook and serve their victims. Perhaps even served to their subsequent victims. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/232 "2025-07-25T17:48:40Z")
Every time I see the thread title [Did prohibition officials poison drinkers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-prohibition-officials-poison-drinkers/1020378), my eyes skip ahead to the end and think that it will be about “poison drinkers”, i.e. people who drink poison. Which is technically true if the officials poisoned them, but it still makes the sentence appear incomplete, making me think that it will continue to say something about said poison drinkers. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/233 "2025-07-25T17:53:38Z")
My jaw dropped when I Saw " [Water spots be us, our new MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-spots-be-us-our-new-mmp/1021132/26)" because I first read it as “Water sports”. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/234 "2025-07-25T18:22:55Z")
Not real sure why you cited my post #26 from a few days ago instead of the OP in that thread. But OK. But yeah, a couple people in that thread have admitted to keeping making that same mistake. Me too occasionally. Also, you’re _misreading_ the thread title, not _misinterpreting_ it. So your comment belongs over here: > [@Misread thread titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093): > > This morning , I thought it said “Just porcupines”. Turned out to be Just punchlines, over in Thread Games. That ever happen to you? Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/235 "2025-07-28T10:52:50Z")
[Opinions on places in the world for Americans to retire to cheaply](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-places-in-the-world-for-americans-to-retire-to-cheaply/1014410) My brain thought this was an incomplete sentence: to cheaply what? To cheaply add to their butterfly collection? To cheaply sip mai tais by the pool? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/236 "2025-07-28T17:22:38Z")
[Why are phone apps so huge nowadays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-phone-apps-so-huge-nowadays/1021353/6) I keep interpreting it as “Why are phone apps so popular these says?”, but what the OP is actually asking is why are they so large in terms of megabytes. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/237 "2025-07-29T11:52:32Z")
[Rock marriages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-marriages/1021404) I think granite and dolomite would be a perfect match for each other, forming a gneiss solid relationship. Everyone should stay away from shale, though: too flaky. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/238 "2025-07-29T12:20:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I think granite and dolomite would be a perfect match for each other …until dolomite starts taking its mate for granite. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/239 "2025-07-29T18:58:24Z")
> [@solost](#): > > …until dolomite starts taking its mate for granite. That happens when you’ve been together for millions of years. You might say they have a sedimental attachment to each other. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/240 "2025-07-29T22:18:10Z")
I think some of you clowns need some mineral therapy: a rock upside the head. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=13)