# 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
**Page:** 20
### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/381 "2022-04-14T19:32:10Z")
> [@Tusculan](#):
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> How do marines f\*\*\* in their shirt?
Darn it, now I can’t look at the title without seeing your version!
🙂
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/382 "2022-04-14T23:25:09Z")
[Presidental Medal of Madness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-medal-of-fitness/962826)
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/383 "2022-04-17T22:56:10Z")
[Does it matter how much you sign off from email?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-much-matter-how-you-sign-off-from-email/962966)
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/384 "2022-04-18T00:26:38Z")
> [@Dropo](#):
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> **Do you think emergency pedant service is worth the cost?**
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> I cannot imagine any emergency that would require a pedant, but I’m glad such services exist 'cause, you know, just in case.
On the contrary, such emergencies frequently arise. It’s not unusual to have someone, suddenly and without warning, misuse a word like “literally” or emphatically declare that they “could care less” about something. It’s important in these situations to be able to unleash a surly pedant with a sharp wit to nitpick at these linguistic scofflaws until they see the error of their ways.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/385 "2022-04-20T23:14:54Z")
\*\*Why Does Vinegar Make Me Swear? \*\*
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/386 "2022-04-22T23:25:02Z")
**Yet another “Name That Tuna”**
I don’t normally think of pet tunas as a thing, so not sure why I misread it that way!
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/387 "2022-04-23T08:20:13Z")
Can basic dessert and retributivism be justified under Cannibalism?
Sounds like a slippery slope to me.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/388 "2022-04-23T19:34:29Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> **Emergency pedant service** - Isn’t that actually a fair description of these Boards?
Perfect!
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/389 "2022-04-27T18:59:13Z")
[Has A Government Ever Taken Drastic Measures To Address A Ladder Shortage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-government-ever-taken-drastic-measures-to-address-a-labor-shortage/963261)
Release the ladders from the Strategic Ladder Reserves!
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/390 "2022-05-02T16:46:12Z")
**[No more Lego Walls! Enough!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777)**
Damn kids.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/391 "2022-05-04T13:09:54Z")
You have any unconventional medical recipes?
Have another bowl of [oleander soup](https://medreview.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/is-oleander-soup-for-cancer-a-scam-part-1/) with aconite cheese topping? You’ll never be symptomatic again!
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/392 "2022-05-10T18:56:38Z")
[I’m Back from My Vacation WITH TRUMPETS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-my-vacation-with-trumpists/964235/1).
Not a typical souvenir, but if the poster is a musician I could imagine that is something one might bring back from vacation.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/393 "2022-05-10T23:50:43Z")
Not misread per se, but mis-parsed: I keep reading the title [Which Single Parenting Decision Makes The Biggest Difference?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-single-parenting-decision-makes-the-biggest-difference/964164)) as referring to decisions about single parenting, rather than single decisions about parenting.
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/394 "2022-05-11T17:50:17Z")
[Steaming Advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/streaming-advice/964213/1)
I get lots of advice that can be described as a “steaming pile…”
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/395 "2022-05-21T12:49:23Z")
NASA had a good lunch today
Celebrating the return of the all-you-can-eat buffet, no doubt. Space makes me hungry too.
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/396 "2022-05-21T15:23:00Z")
[A crumbly jelly MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crumby-jelly-mmp/964490)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/397 "2022-05-21T17:07:07Z")
Yes. Since it was first posted, I read it as crumbly.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/398 "2022-05-22T02:02:34Z")
I keep reading a certain thread as “Can we get rid of ‘r\*\*\*\*\*\ ***S** ’ next?”, and the added “S” makes it seem like a call to action rather than talking about the word.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/399 "2022-05-23T00:10:45Z")
Question double shit experiment
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/400 "2022-05-24T17:12:54Z")
[Is there anything I can do with my in-door trashcans to prevent ants from getting into them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-i-can-do-with-my-in-door-trashcans-to-prevent-ants-from-getting-into-them/964967/9)
I didn’t misread it, but the strange way the poster hyphenated “in-door” made me misinterpret it. I took “in-door” to mean “part of the door”, like the OP had trashcans that were literally built into their doors. Of course when I actually read the thread I realized they meant “indoor” as in “inside the house”.
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