Misinterpreted thread titles

There’s an app for that?

Is there any way to rearrange Gmail by “sender”?

How about:

  • “Seemingly” drab
  • Yes: “bad” gremlin
  • My “single” bread

Is your will straightforward?

I used to think it was. I’m offered a choice of cereal or eggs for breakfast. I choose cereal. Boom, free will exercised. Pretty straightforward.

But then I wonder-- was I influenced by nostalgic memories of being served cereal as a kid? Did I choose cereal because I was convinced by the media that cereal is a healthier choice? Is there something in my genetic makeup that causes me to prefer cereal? Did I exercise free will, or was I captive to outside circumstance? Does free will exist at all?!?

With the “a brush with Nazism” thread, I keep envisioning a hairbrush that wants to kill all the Jews.

LOL!! (Yes, discobot, this is a full sentence.)

I had been seeing this thread for awhile now in CS, and simply assumed there was a film out there named “Dismalest” (if there isn’t there should be) that I hadn’t heard of before.

Out of mere idle curiousity just clicked on it…

OP of course actually meant the generic description “most dismal” instead, with his first example being the film Cell.

Help a moderator please? Go fund me for Rico online now, all help appreciated

My brain keeps interpreting “Rico” as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and thus it looks like one of our mods is facing RICO charges and needs help paying for a lawyer.

A friend tells me he voted twice for Trump

My first thought was: in the same election? :astonished:

Yeah, me too, in which case I though it would be about the OPer’s moral struggles about whether or not to turn his friend into the authorities.

I had those exact thoughts.

The CPAP racket

I totally thought this was going to be a complaint about the noise CPAP machines make.

2 weeks after a book being published, why is there no price crash on Ebay?

My first thought: “I don’t remember any announcements from two weeks ago about a new book called How to Cause a Price Crash on eBay….”

I had a similar double-take, but thought the book in question was Melania’s tell-all.

Which left me wondering what she could possibly say that would tank all of eBay. :crazy_face:

A novel misinterpretation! (As opposed to thinking it’s about a “CRAP machine”)

Parental status under a candidate’s name

I thought this would involve some kind of scheme whereby the local family court could somehow register you as your adoptive child’s parent under the name “Kamala Harris” or “JD Vance.”

It’s Penguining Time: “The Penguin” show

Aw man, I thought this would be a live feed to some actual penguins… (They’re so cute!)

I made a joke in the thread, but for 1/10 of a second I did misinterpret Mild pitting of Beck as being about the musician rather than Beckdawrek.

My brain suddenly said in it’s best Edgar G Robinson voice “Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico”

I’m hoping I’m misinterpreting the title of the thread “I blew up a Toastmasters group last night” :astonished:

Yeah, back when it first started I was constantly misinterpreting that one too.