# 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:** 7
**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:** [November 25, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/121 "2024-11-25T18:05:32Z")
[Starship development and progress [previous title: Will Musk’s starship reach orbit this year?]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-development-and-progress-previous-title-will-musks-starship-reach-orbit-this-year/967583) I keep seeing this thread in the ‘Latest’ column, reading the first line, and thinking it’s a CS thread referring to a fictional Starship, like the USS Enterprise or something similar. Which then leads me to wonder, what kind of childishness or hubris does it take to name your spaceship a ‘Starship’ when it will not only never travel between stars, but at present can barely take off and land? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/122 "2024-12-04T23:16:14Z")
[Who likes the “tortured bush” effect?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-the-tortured-bush-effect/1011110/7) Because I apparently have the mentality of Beavis and/or Butthead, my brain keeps wanting to interpret “bush” as the slang word for a woman’s pubic hair. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/123 "2024-12-04T23:32:14Z")
You mean like “tease it 'til it cries”? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/124 "2024-12-09T07:05:55Z")
[Used Pilot vs Explorer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/used-pilot-vs-explorer/1011282) I thought this was going to be about getting Internet Explorer to run on an old Palm Pilot. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/125 "2024-12-09T16:19:21Z")
Meanwhile, I interpreted it as something like “Who would win in a hypothetical fight between a retired airline pilot and an explorer?” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/126 "2024-12-09T20:51:49Z")
Yeah, if I knew what LSLGuy looked like I could envision him in a knife fight with Dora. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjU3OWNmZmMtYjExOC00NmEwLTk4YjctNTI5YmNlYzNjMDIzXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjU3OWNmZmMtYjExOC00NmEwLTk4YjctNTI5YmNlYzNjMDIzXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 9, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/127 "2024-12-09T21:21:53Z")
White, slender, short gray hair but a full head of it, and much taller than a 10yo girl. Think aging Daniel Craig. 😁 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/128 "2024-12-14T01:48:57Z")
[Other moving ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-moving-ceremonies/1011589) Well, I usually just rent a truck and load it up. No need for a big ceremony. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/129 "2024-12-14T18:52:09Z")
I’ve never opened “Can we talk about socks?” but every time I see it I think of Bill Clinton’s cat. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/130 "2024-12-25T16:41:02Z")
[Big waves demolish end of Santa Cruz Wharf](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-waves-demolish-end-of-santa-cruz-wharf/1012078) My mind conjured up an image of Tom Cruise, dressed in a Santa Clause costume, standing on a pier, in a hurricane. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/131 "2024-12-25T16:48:12Z")
Might be an appropriate way to get rid of the annoying twerp. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/132 "2024-12-31T21:12:14Z")
[Peanut roundabouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-roundabouts/1012360/16) Just a very quick image in my mind of one shaped like Snoopy’s nose… ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/133 "2024-12-31T21:20:27Z")
I assumed “peanut roundabouts” were some kind of fancifully named British candy. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/134 "2025-01-02T13:18:54Z")
[Could Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) have received an OBE/et al…?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-phil-lynott-thin-lizzy-have-received-an-obe-et-al/1012416) Out of Body Experience? Thus making me think he went for a trip on the astral plane, or perhaps was hospitalized and had an NDE (Near Death Experience). But the use of the verb “received” was rather curious-shouldn’t that be “experienced”? Oh. Have no idea what the OP actually meant by said abbreviation, nor has anyone bothered to define it there yet–but it appears that it is some sort of knighthood or such. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/135 "2025-01-02T13:36:37Z")
If you were a Brit OBE would be about as obvious to you as FBI is to a USAian. > **[Order of the British Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire)** > > The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or a dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members Th... That’s almost an example of one of those threads where if you don’t immediately recognize the jargon you’ll have nothing to contribute. Which raises the old and oft-discussed controversy of whether we (both OP & subsequent posters) are writing only to/for the other contributors in a thread, or whether it’s all about the (presumably larger) audience of lurkers on that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/136 "2025-01-02T13:50:06Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Out of Body Experience? Thus making me think he went for a trip on the astral plane, or perhaps was hospitalized and had an NDE (Near Death Experience). But the use of the verb “received” was rather curious-shouldn’t that be “experienced”? > [@LSLGuy](#): > > If you were a Brit OBE would be about as obvious to you as FBI is to a USAian. I immediately knew what it was, but I usually use the TLA to mean “Overcome By Events” when the answer or solution to something is moot. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/137 "2025-01-02T14:03:50Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I immediately knew what it was, but I usually use the TLA to mean “Overcome By Events” when the answer or solution to something is moot. Me too. OBE gets used a lot around my place for that. The UK gong, not so much. But the context made it clear (to me) which the OP meant. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/138 "2025-01-03T18:44:30Z")
Yeah, bad title and I was just musing on a guy I considered Irish being born somewhere in the UK being eligible. As for the Beatles, at times they were giving their medals back out of protest yet as it stands Paul and Ringo are Knights and titled “Sir” - yet the best drummer in the Beatles name is “Richard Starkey” And I think it right that George Harrison did not want one-less than Paul McCartney. If he’d only written one more silly love song. “Sir” Bob Geldof was born in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Bono borm in Dublin. My mother was born 96 years ago in Limerick just after Ireland became, well the Republic of Ireland. I’d like to think that all three would not accept (titles) medals ftom the Queen or King from the UK just because. It’s that birthright that I am a citizen of the ROI and the EU and USA. I think I’d have to choose just one were I to run for office, yet I have voted in the USA, Ireland and the UK. Don’t even have to mention Eaoman De Valera - Boris Johnson was born in NYC. I lean too much toward Sinn Fein and was dissapointed I could not run as MP for them if I lived outside of Ireland. I can just as easily not attend Parliament from here as Belfast. Anyways, I’ve asked the thread to be closed. Sir “Boomtown” and Sir “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” are another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/139 "2025-01-03T20:45:54Z")
Every time I see the “North Korea declares marshal law” thread I _want_ to read “North Korea declares thumb war”. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/140 "2025-01-03T22:45:45Z")
Your eyes work rather differently than mine. 😉 Not that I don’t misread stuff, but just not that particular stuff in that particular way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360.md?page=8)