# Misinterpreted thread titles

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**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 "2023-01-17T17:58:45Z")\
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> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> In the “Misread thread titles” thread I keep posting stuff where I technically read all the words correctly, but my brain interpreted it completely differently from what the poster intended. So I figured it’s time to start a separate thread just for that.
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> [A Few Questions About Vegas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-vegas/978263/12)
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> I keep reading that as “A few questions about [Chevy] Vegas”, as in the much maligned 1970s subcompact cars. Maybe I read too many car blogs, and I just saw a posting on [barnfinds.com](http://barnfinds.com) this morning for a Pontiac Astre (A badge engineered Vega).

They (the OP) meant Las Vegas and you see Chevy Vegas.

  

Now I’ve got sorta the opposite problem. Here they (the OP) meant people who don’t eat animal products and I see “people who live in Las Vegas”:

> [@Vegans who are judgmental and vocal to you about it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-who-are-judgmental-and-vocal-to-you-about-it/1002905):
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> I had another thread that got locked. For the record, I didn’t mean to imply every Vegan was judgmental, (and that the one’s who are are vocal about it). I’m just wondering if the ones that are are justified in being that way, and telling you about it. I wasn’t even taking a stance, because I’m honesty curious about what both sides have to say. I don’t know if I have to take a side for an “argument” to be made, but I’d much rather not imply that I’m taking a stance. I certainly didn’t mean to …

How _dare_ you criticize my home town! Besides, your tourist shirts and dirty crocs are tacky; at least dress up better than at Wal\*Mart to come here and pay my taxes! Damned proles ruining everything! And _quit_ bogarting the crab legs!!1!

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