# 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:** 70
### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1383 "2024-11-05T02:19:37Z")
I thought it was:
“Attacking a car with a sticky dink”
I swiped left right away.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1384 "2024-11-05T02:32:40Z")
That poor car, no matter how you read it.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1385 "2024-11-05T02:40:39Z")
I know a third option.
Nah. Ain’t gonna do it.
🤭
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1386 "2024-11-05T02:46:31Z")
**I** wasn’t gonna say it 😇
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1387 "2024-11-05T02:57:59Z")
Attacking the car with a Shrinky Dink…
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1388 "2024-11-05T15:57:20Z")
_Every time_ there is an “Omnibus” thread, I misread it as “Ominous”. But the election day one may be appropriate depending on how the results look at the end of the day: [election day ominous thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-omnibus-thread/1009683)
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1389 "2024-11-05T16:10:58Z")
Remember, that thread is a safe space for crying.
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1390 "2024-11-05T20:00:44Z")
Another I’ve already posted in, but misread.
[Penthouse Rock Lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretentious-rock-lyrics/1009504/87)
Dear Penthouse Forum
I never thought this would happen to me…
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1391 "2024-11-15T20:48:58Z")
[Have you ever bought anything from a hotel minotaur? Why?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-bought-anything-from-a-hotel-minibar-why/1010275)
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1392 "2024-11-19T02:00:56Z")
[Jackie Brown is even better live](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackson-browne-is-even-better-live/1009417/2)
They made a play out of a Quentin Tarantino movie?
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1393 "2024-11-19T17:50:15Z")
[“God is a hedge against inflation.” Meaning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-is-a-hedge-against-inflation-meaning/1010458)
The idea might be trust in a god should give one an edge,
To keep one’s fortune from plunging off a ledge.
I would not be so sure of any grand plan,
For even the gods themselves are subject to the invisible hand.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1394 "2024-11-22T09:41:11Z")
Cormac McCarthy had a 17-year-old mouse.
> [@Cormac McCarthy had a 17-year old muse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-had-a-17-year-old-muse/1010582/1):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Cormac McCarthy has died (13 June 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-has-died-13-june-2023/985448): Vanity Fair reported yesterday that McCarthy had a relationship with a 17 year old that started in 1977 when he was 43. She evidently was his “muse” and inspiration for several of his characters. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. It clearly fits today’s definition of grooming, and I don’t think that 1977 makes it that much better. But there’s more nuance to the whole story than just the headline. Anyway, it’s intere…
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1395 "2024-11-22T19:37:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Cormac McCarthy had a 17-year-old mouse.
OMG! It’s just like in **The Green Mile**!
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1396 "2024-11-25T00:03:06Z")
[Infectious process of the month?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infectious-process-of-the-mouth/1010400)
Shingles has a narrow lead over histoplasmosis, but there’s still time to get your votes in.
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1397 "2024-12-03T18:59:19Z")
[Token cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635)
The brie on the charcuterie board is for representation only.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1398 "2024-12-05T19:01:24Z")
[Several kinds of alien plants to conquer mankind, and they have offices to do their planning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/1)
OMG, alien plants! And several! And they have offices! We’re doomed.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1399 "2024-12-05T23:25:29Z")
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1400 "2024-12-06T00:43:12Z")
[Are modern penis basically useless junk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-modern-pens-basically-useless-junk/1011178/1)
Well, “junk” is apt slang, but “useless”?
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1401 "2024-12-06T01:51:15Z")
I’ve read that male fertility is on a long term secular decline. So maybe not “useless” yet but heading that way. 😉
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1402 "2024-12-06T13:13:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> “In five years, the penis will be obsolete,” said the salesman.
John Varley **Steel Beach** (1992)
(the opening sentence, no less)
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