# Misread thread titles **URL:** \ **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:** 45
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/881 "2023-11-15T07:15:26Z")
Request: Replace the BELL button… Hey, no one told me we Taco bell on demand. Where’s that button again? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/882 "2023-11-15T07:17:34Z")
**Presidents that totally failed** I could name a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/883 "2023-11-15T13:07:35Z")
I assume/imagine it’s been pointed out numerous times already, but I just saw for the first time **Misread thread titties** ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/884 "2023-11-15T20:32:32Z")
[Microwave even odd operation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-oven-odd-operation/993154/4) I thought this person’s microwave was doing something with even and odd numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/885 "2023-11-17T12:03:36Z")
[Will there ever be a time without capitalizing and what would it look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-a-time-without-capitalism-and-what-would-it-look-like/992862) it would look pretty neat, if occasionally confusing. maybe we should try it here on the straight dope? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/886 "2023-11-17T13:12:23Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > it would look pretty neat, if occasionally confusing. maybe we should try it here on the straight dope? e.e. cummings already tried it. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/887 "2023-11-17T13:25:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > How about **[Parents that totally failed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presents-that-totally-failed/992871)**. > > What’s doubly embarrassing is that I’d already read the title correctly _and posted to the thread_ just an hour before I totally misread the very same title. D’oh!! At least you didn’t go ahead and post in the thread complaining about the way your parents raised you 😉 I wonder if that’s ever happened-- somebody writes a post based on a misreading of the thread title? I have seen several posts over the years where someone who presumably had multiple threads open, posts in the wrong one. > [@Cardigan](#): > > I assume/imagine it’s been pointed out numerous times already, but I just saw for the first time > **Misread thread titties** Wow, a meta-misread. Nice! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/888 "2023-11-17T13:52:59Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I wonder if that’s ever happened-- somebody writes a post based on a misreading of the thread title? I have seen several posts over the years where someone who presumably had multiple threads open, posts in the wrong one. Dunno about that, but there are some posters who have a very hard time making their title actually align with the body of their OP. Seems like they write a title describing the first thought that popped into their head about [whatever] then as they write & rewrite the OP body their thinking about [whatever] evolves, leaving the OP body about one thing and the title about something else. I’ve seen lots of posts where it’s evident some later poster read the title, not the OP, none of the intervening posts, and simply replied to the title and only the title. Which reply was a total _non sequitur_ for where the thread was at that point. So not a misreading, more of a mis-writing. Done by the OP, but exposed by the subsequent posters demonstrating how they fell into the OP’s clever trap. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/889 "2023-11-17T15:39:55Z")
[Need help identifying a Nasal Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-naval-gun/992860) My explosive sneezes just aren’t getting it done. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/890 "2023-11-17T16:06:02Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > My explosive sneezes just aren’t getting it done. Good thing you didn’t misread it as _Navel Gun_ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/891 "2023-11-17T21:08:11Z")
Don’t shoot your nose off to spite your face. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/892 "2023-11-17T22:02:41Z")
Be careful with cigarette lighters. > **[Drayfus shoots off his nose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJNauH4ZrIw%2F)** > > Drayfus shoots off his nose ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/893 "2023-11-17T23:09:24Z")
Who does **That**??!? 🤔 ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/894 "2023-11-17T23:46:17Z")
[Thoughts on my made up crackpot recipe please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-my-made-up-crockpot-recipe-please/993209/9) Start by making a hat out of foil… ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/895 "2023-11-18T14:21:42Z")
why would I **Mistread thread titles**? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/896 "2023-11-19T20:06:57Z")
[Sharpening Bluray 1970s Era VHS Or Betamax Video Images](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharpening-blurry-1970s-era-vhs-or-betamax-video-images/993028) They had Bluray in the 1970s? On VHS and Betamax? Color me perplexed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/897 "2023-11-20T16:48:34Z")
[Insulting a pipe under the house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulating-a-pipe-under-the-house/993334). Screw you, pipe! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/898 "2023-11-21T02:14:08Z")
Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/899 "2023-11-21T02:26:36Z")
I’m so confused. What was the double-title joke? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/900 "2023-11-21T02:30:13Z")
I deleted the post. I guess I will stop linking to the threads from now on since not only does it show up in the thread itself, sometimes I link to posts within the thread by mistake rather than the top of the thread. (But I initially misread the word “Schloop” as “Schtoop”.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=46)