# 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:** 72
### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1423 "2024-12-31T15:47:30Z")
[What peoples of the world have a strong national identity but no strong urge for incontinence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peoples-of-the-world-have-a-strong-national-identity-but-no-strong-urge-for-independence/1012323)
The Peeples Republic of China?
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1424 "2025-01-03T02:36:04Z")
[Work. Would this offend you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-would-this-offend-you/1012505)
Work is the curse of the lazy class.
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### Author:  [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1425 "2025-01-03T04:13:50Z")
Work, I’ve seen pictures of it. It’s not pretty.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1426 "2025-01-04T14:17:59Z")
[HP madness or how to confuse someone like me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-madness-or-how-to-confuse-someone-like-me/1012538)
I think mad cow disease comes from a prion, not from your steak sauce.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1427 "2025-01-04T17:33:07Z")
I first thought Harry Potter.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1428 "2025-01-04T17:39:51Z")
[Herpes from rock and roll songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-from-rock-and-roll-songs/1012532/26)
I mean, I’m a rock fanatic, but I’ve never got herpes from it. But I don’t listen much to hair metal…
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1429 "2025-01-04T20:36:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> I first thought Harry Potter.
Wrong thread.
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1430 "2025-01-06T00:46:35Z")
[Genetics vs brand name breakfast cereals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generics-vs-brand-name-breakfast-cereals/1012598)
I simply don’t have the genes to eat Cap’n Crunch.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1431 "2025-01-06T13:35:06Z")
[Why do women like dancing more than men?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-more-women-like-dancing-than-men-do/1012501)
Which technically means the same thing as the OP, but I keep opening the thread to see if anyone has comically wondered if “women like dancing more than they like men”, only to look again and see that the title is actually unambiguous.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1432 "2025-01-06T13:59:06Z")
My inner linguist keeps rephrasing that thread title as “Why do more women like dancing than I do?”
[Reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion)
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1433 "2025-01-06T15:11:47Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#):
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> It was just for a moment, but it made me smile:
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> _“So, what made you smite today?”_
“That damn Onan-- He had _one simple task_. And what does he do? He totally deserved My divine punishment.”
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1434 "2025-01-06T15:14:40Z")
You people DO realize that there is another thread for _misinterpreted_ titles, right? I may have to start flagging posts so that they get moved there, sheesh.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1435 "2025-01-06T19:38:56Z")
I don’t see why we need two threads anyway, since they’re only posted in once a day or so. At least it’s only _two_ threads, and not the 5 or more subreddits for misread signs and/or posts, and Jeebus help you if you post in the wrong one because its the _wrong kind of misreading_. They also don’t get enough posts IMO to justify separate subs.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1436 "2025-01-06T23:46:09Z")
[History’s Single Greatest Mistake?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historians-single-greatest-mistake/1012632/3)
Invading Russia in winter, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1437 "2025-01-07T16:14:30Z")
…and they did it _twice!_
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1438 "2025-01-07T19:35:36Z")
[Different actors on TV shows whose character was killed off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/difficult-actors-on-tv-shows-whose-characters-are-killed-off/1012674)
I thought this would be about situations where, say, Darren Stevens had to be killed off because they had gone through so many actors playing him. I was curious…
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1439 "2025-01-09T01:40:18Z")
[What’s the Best Pork You Pulled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-prank-you-pulled/22970/46)
I’ve had some good pulled pork, but the one time I tried doing it myself it was undercooked and tough.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1440 "2025-01-09T19:33:34Z")
[So how do I make decent porn at home?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-i-make-decent-popcorn-at-home/1012679)
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1441 "2025-01-09T20:23:17Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> [So how do I make decent porn at home?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-i-make-decent-popcorn-at-home/1012679)
The issue is I wasn’t using enough butter
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1442 "2025-01-09T22:48:14Z")
[Chocolate speeds on turntables.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsolete-speeds-on-turntables/1012761/28)
Time for bed i think.
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