# 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:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1121 "2024-03-30T01:00:20Z")
[What is your favorite funny noise?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-funny-novel/998832)
Boi-oi-oing!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1122 "2024-03-31T17:53:10Z")
**The “insect” option on a web page–Why?**
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1123 "2024-03-31T18:22:42Z")
[How precise are these condiments?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-precise-are-these-coordinates/999621)
Odd, precision is never a characteristic I thought to apply to them.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1124 "2024-03-31T18:44:19Z")
You must use exactly 1 tbsp of mayonnaise and not one smidgen more or the dish will be ruined!
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1125 "2024-03-31T18:52:20Z")
I can think of an exact amount of mayonnaise that would be acceptable in a meal. 🏃♂️
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1126 "2024-04-01T11:30:02Z")
This one has been pissing me off since it appeared in New threads three days ago and for … reasons … I’ve not cleared my New backlog so I keep tripping over it every few hours. Gaaah
**[‘Unfrosted’ trailer drops. Anybody gonna watch the movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561)**.
I guess I don’t misread it so much as misunderstand it.
I read “unfrosted” as the opposite of frosted. As in cakes, buns, flakes, and other food items lacking a glaze. I read “trailer” as “device pulled behind a truck or car”, and “drops” as the noun for a viscous liquid poured sparingly onto a whatever. Eyedrops, food coloring drops, drip-on surface lubricant, etc.
So I’m left trying to figure out what sort of unglazed food drizzle is best applied to a hauling trailer. And/or what the difference is between a frosted and an unfrosted hauling trailer. And how such a drizzle can be a not-glaze at the same time! Holy Brain-twister, Batman!! Gaah!
So now I’m three words into the title and I’m mainly wondering why the OP was insane enough to suggest such a surreal idea. Then he suddenly alludes to a movie and I have mental whiplash all over again.
I have to read it 2 or 3 times to switch to “trailer” as “short advertising clip for a movie”, “drops” as “Is released to distribution”, and eventually “Unfrosted” must be the title of some entertainment I’ve never heard of. Which should be italicized in most style guides, but Discourse won’t let us do that in titles.
It’s exhausting to see this damned thread. Now that I’ve vented, I’ve marked it read so it won’t bug me again.
Gee thanks there @solost! 😁
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1127 "2024-04-01T12:42:31Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Which should be italicized in most style guides, but Discourse won’t let us do that in titles.
Hey, if it’s good enough for The New Yorker…
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1128 "2024-04-01T22:26:56Z")
[Questions about iPhone 13 charging options](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-iphone-13-charging-options/956799)
Fancy! My iPhone only has two charging options: plug-in and cradle.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1129 "2024-04-01T23:25:34Z")
[(Nit) picking a lock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-picking-a-lock/999688/1)
Well, _technically_ that’s a wafer tumbler lock, not a pin tumbler.
(I totally had to look up locks on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_and_key#With_physical_keys) to write that joke; I really don’t know enough about locks to nitpick them)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1130 "2024-04-02T13:34:26Z")
Sometimes as I’m quickly scrolling titles I misread one that I have seen correctly dozens of times before. Today it was “[The insect option on web pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inspect-option-on-a-web-page-why/999642)”.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1131 "2024-04-03T20:29:00Z")
[Ways in which you are annoyingly pediatric](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676)
Waaaah! I want that! Want it!
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1132 "2024-04-03T22:32:46Z")
Since I’m the third person who came here to post about the “insect” option on web pages, that must be a fairly commonly misread title. Interestingly, the answer to the “why” question is the same in both the real version and the misread one: to find bugs.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1133 "2024-04-05T00:25:09Z")
[NY AG Letitia James drops the (civil) hammer {On Trump FINALLY} [9/21/2022]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-ag-letitia-james-drops-the-civil-hammer-on-trump-family-9-21-2022/971991/3208)
I know what it reads, but every time I see it, that’s what I see…
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1134 "2024-04-06T18:53:21Z")
[Do they make shock collars for parents?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-make-shock-collars-for-parrots/999942)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1135 "2024-04-06T19:02:14Z")
[Shotgun on FX](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shogun-on-fx/998188)
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1136 "2024-04-06T19:13:25Z")
Phileas Fogg preferred twenty three grains of pepper on his steak, not twenty two, nor yet twenty four…
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1137 "2024-04-08T22:06:08Z")
[Is my son too young to view the Apocalypse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-son-too-young-to-view-the-eclipse/999902)
I sincerely hope that we all are.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1138 "2024-04-09T07:16:53Z")
**[Abandoned cat, how can I take possession?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-car-how-can-i-take-possesion/1000009)**
Just leave out some tuna or sardines, and soon it will be yours!
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1139 "2024-04-09T07:51:51Z")
> [@Topic Playlist (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/517):
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> Sun songs You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder Sunshine Superman - Rickie Lee Jones Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles Walking On the Sun - Smash Mouth White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
I keep reading, “Toxic Playlists.”
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1140 "2024-04-09T22:58:05Z")
I know what the thread’s about, since I even posted in it, but I keep seeing…
[Ways in which you are annoyingly pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676/163)
I am incredibly infectious.
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