# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 360
**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:** [February 24, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/360 "2026-02-24T14:56:20Z")
[Back-in Parkers - You Bastards!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-parkers-you-bastards/1027858) Despite the fact that I was a somewhat early poster in that thread, and understood the meaning perfectly well at the time, I keep seeing the thread title in the ‘Latest’ column and my brain, for a split second, interprets ‘Back-in Parker’ as a similar construction to the phrase ‘Nosey Parker’. What ‘Back-in Parker’ would mean in that assumed context, since the ‘Parker’ part would be a completely different meaning, is interesting. For that one split-second my brain sort of interprets the term as maybe someone who keeps annoyingly quitting and then re-joining things. And after the split second passes, my brain goes ‘durrr, I already know what the thread means’ 🤦‍♂️ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360)._