# Misinterpreted thread titles

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[Does a Jacob’s Ladder have any practical use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-jacobs-ladder-have-any-practical-use/1022811)

I am mainly familiar with said term from the Tim Robbins vehicle, so the answer which immediately popped into my head was “as a stairway to heaven?”

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