# Misread thread titles

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093 "2017-09-11T22:38:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/301 "2022-01-17T16:53:08Z")

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[James Watt Space Telescope successfully launches](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-launches/956624/20)

Why the @#$% would they name a telescope after Reagan’s interior secretary whom everybody hated?  
Oops. Watt, Webb, whatever.

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### Author: ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/302 "2022-01-20T02:28:53Z")

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Al Frankens betrayer possibly found

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### Author: ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/303 "2022-01-20T02:33:55Z")

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[Let’s imagine for a moment that there was no colorization](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-imagine-for-a-moment-that-there-was-no-colonization/957955)

What? Colorizing old black-and-white movies is still a thing? 😕

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### Author: ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/304 "2022-01-23T13:01:34Z")

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[is a DOOM dopefest possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-zoom-dopefest-possible/958146/31)

Yes. It’s been multi player since the late 90s.

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### Author: ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/305 "2022-01-28T01:46:11Z")

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Teeny little upstairs demons on new homes

(squeaky voice) “Get out of the house!”

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### Author: ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/306 "2022-01-28T23:18:57Z")

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[Groping your bookmarks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grouping-your-bookmarks/958584)

Yep, #ThemToo.

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### Author: ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/307 "2022-01-31T11:29:06Z")

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Getting a Message to a Poisoner

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### Author: ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/308 "2022-01-31T14:11:50Z")

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_Is Bread not considered Virginian?_

No, it’s for those degenerates from the Carolinas.

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### 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: [January 31, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/309 "2022-01-31T23:31:38Z")

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I read that one as “Is bread not considered virgin?”

I sure hope my bread is virgin. I’m not sure I want to imagine what non-virgin bread would be.

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### Author: ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/310 "2022-02-01T18:54:21Z")

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[Let’s take stock of children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-s-talk-chicken-stock/958694)

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### 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: [February 1, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/311 "2022-02-01T19:08:37Z")

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[We should talk about storks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-talk-about-strokes/958662/1)

Ok, birds are interesting…

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### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/312 "2022-02-03T05:41:35Z")

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[My daughter ate my homework question (math/trigonometry)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-homework-question-math-trigonometry/958756)

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### Author: ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/313 "2022-02-04T03:13:40Z")

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My cats windows open

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### 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: [February 7, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/314 "2022-02-07T19:46:34Z")

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Young People With Landmines

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### Author: ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/315 "2022-02-07T20:22:58Z")

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I regularly misread the word “title” as “titties”. At first this thread scanned as “Miserable thread tittys”

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### Author: ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/316 "2022-02-09T00:50:25Z")

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**LotR: Why didn’t Sauron make Eleven rings?**

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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/317 "2022-02-09T02:27:10Z")

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**Young people with landmines**

I just hope they don’t take them on spring break.

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### Author: ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/318 "2022-02-09T05:08:03Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Young People With Landmines

Came here to post exactly this. And it keeps happening, even now that I know what it really says.

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### Author: ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/319 "2022-02-09T19:52:44Z")

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> [@Shoeless](#):
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> LotR: Why didn’t Sauron make Eleven rings?

Huh. I misread it the same way. I am not a LotR fan, so the question made sense to me. I wonder what the real title is… (you didn’t leave a link…)

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### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/320 "2022-02-09T20:15:25Z")

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Elven instead of Eleven. I also read eleven.

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