# Misinterpreted thread titles
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360
**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
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/301 "2025-11-17T15:03:21Z")
Its an apostastrophe!
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/302 "2025-11-19T21:42:26Z")
[Amazon shipping infinite loop](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-shipping-infinite-loop/1024983)
The shipping charge for infinite loop must be brutal.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/303 "2025-11-21T21:46:46Z")
I thought [Time Wasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037/4) would be a thread devoted to the BBC series about time-traveling jazz musicians. (Yes, I know it’s not written with a space.)
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/304 "2025-11-26T21:53:25Z")
Whenever I see [Welcome to Derry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-derry/1025105/11) (both the thread here and in my HBO Max recommendations) I always think it’s about Derry, Northern Ireland, and think it must be a spinoff of Derry Girls or something. I am familiar with Stephen King’s fictional town in Maine, but the one in Northern Ireland is always the first one that comes to mind for me.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/305 "2025-11-26T22:12:24Z")
Same, but worse for me. I never knew of King’s town until reading about it here.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/306 "2025-11-30T04:15:06Z")
[Do you re-use pet names?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-re-use-pet-names/1025245)
So, like you have a cutesy nickname for your significant other, then you break up, and then start dating someone else, do you use that same nickname for them? …Oh, they mean literal names of pets.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/307 "2025-11-30T12:49:27Z")
I came here to post the same thing. Not having household livestock, my 99% interpretation of “pet name” is for spouse / SO / current squeeze.
Which is itself an interesting discussion. At least for those of us with some turnover in that department.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/308 "2025-12-08T13:40:29Z")
[Evolution of pole arms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evolution-of-pole-arms/1025517)
As opposed to what…tentacle arms?
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/309 "2025-12-09T12:54:53Z")
[Passing counterfeit money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passing-counterfeit-money/1025471)
This could be a problem-- depending on what type of paper the money was printed on, it could cause a serious backup. But, if Treasury agents are on your tail, it might be your only option to get rid of the evidence.
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/310 "2025-12-09T15:51:12Z")
[KIA repair in Central Arkansas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kia-repair-in-central-arkansas/1025521/1)
Look, if someone’s been killed in action, there’s pretty much no way to repair that.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/311 "2025-12-09T16:33:22Z")
That’s just a really crappy title. The misinterpretation was between the OP’s ears as they wrote barely half of what they were thinking.
Sigh. It’s taking longer than we thought.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/312 "2025-12-09T16:40:33Z")
TBH, I didn’t _actually_ misinterpret the title; it just amused the 13 year old in me to intentionally misinterpret it that way.
The ‘Evolution of pole arms’ title I commented on just previously, on the other hand-- that was a genuine ‘WTF’ until I opened the link.
> [@SunUp](#):
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> [KIA repair in Central Arkansas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kia-repair-in-central-arkansas/1025521/1)
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> Look, if someone’s been killed in action, there’s pretty much no way to repair that.
Perhaps rumors of a KIA in Central Arkansas are greatly exaggerated.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/313 "2025-12-09T16:48:26Z")
Yeah. “Pole arms” is either a compound noun you know and recognize, or it isn’t.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/314 "2025-12-09T17:57:52Z")
‘Tis but a scratch. A rat, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/315 "2025-12-12T21:10:48Z")
Not a thread title, but in the spirit of this thread – at lunch time I had the radio tuned to NPR and was just sort of half listing. There was story about the flooding in Washington, and I heard the reporter say something about evacuees worried about “the state their homes are in” or something like that. Of course that meant “state” as in the condition of their homes. But for a split second I pictured the floodwaters carrying people’s homes down to Oregon.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/316 "2025-12-12T21:22:57Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> But for a split second I pictured the floodwaters carrying people’s homes down to Oregon.
As you know, the Colombia river is the border between the two states for ~3/4ths of their common border’s length.
I’m not so sure where all the recent flooding is. But if the Colombia is involved, not too hard for a house on the northern bank to be swept away and at least some of the debris be deposited on the southern bank some ways downstream.
So your first impression is not far wrong. 😁
Makes me think of the classic 1970s song w the chorus tagline “I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.” In a flood your condition is likely to be “wet and wrecked”.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/317 "2025-12-13T23:23:06Z")
[Fire, Low-key, Chopped](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-low-key-chopped/1025624)
In my job I have to read a lot of mil specs (military specifications). If you’ve ever dealt with the military, you’ll know they label everything with the most general term first, then the more specific terms, separated by commas. E.g. “Terminal Block, Molded, Screw Type” is the title of a real mil spec. So to me, “Fire, Low-key, Chopped” sounds like a specification for fire. Specifically, a low-key fire that has been chopped.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/318 "2025-12-14T00:35:53Z")
I had exactly the same reaction when I read it.
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### Author:  [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/319 "2025-12-14T02:09:35Z")
Totally 67! Type that into Google, by the way.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/320 "2025-12-14T02:21:05Z")
Yes..I recommend. 😆
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