# 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:** 81
**Author:** ![TekirKedi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tekirkedi/32/19028_2.png) [@TekirKedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TekirKedi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1603 "2025-06-10T19:56:51Z")
Responding to “This isn’t a thread title…” from CalMeacham…Sometimes misreading can be mispronouncing… Was on my way to a sub assignment at a high-school…um…I can read, but brain was not quite awake… On the way to this particular school, I had to pass by a mortuary and cemetery. Occasionally, they have certain ads on their sign. My brain read phonetically “execute-er’s kit available”. Me: Shocked. What…are they trying to drum up business? That is so inappropriate! Also me: Hmmm…I wonder what that would include. Some rope, an axe, a black hood with two holes for the eyes… Rational Me: Wait…Oooohh! “Excecutor’s Kit” Well that makes more sense. (Note: “Excecutor” in the executioner sense is actually an obsolete word.) By the time I arrived at the high-school, I was definitely awake. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1604 "2025-06-11T10:55:31Z")
[Have you used a CRAP device?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-used-a-cpap-device/1019433) Other than a toilet and an outhouse, no. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1605 "2025-06-11T12:34:38Z")
How many times can I refuse a syringe on my cat? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1606 "2025-06-13T20:48:34Z")
[Slammin’ on the Barbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salmon-on-the-barbie/1019441) OK, you didn’t like the movie; we get it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1607 "2025-06-13T22:00:31Z")
Don (Doc) Martin Question: Dawk? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1608 "2025-06-13T22:03:30Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [Have you used a CRAP device?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-used-a-cpap-device/1019433) > > Other than a toilet and an outhouse, no. That happens every single time the device is mentioned anywhere on the Internet. Yet, I will never NOT see the name as a “CRAP device”. Ever. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1609 "2025-06-14T01:27:14Z")
[full gas tank wedding](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-gas-tank-welding/30239) I want to get outa that church soon as we can and make it to to our honeymoon suite at the Motel 6 without stopping for gas. Yee-haw! ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1610 "2025-06-15T04:28:58Z")
[Should I just start utilizing AI family?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-just-start-utilizing-ai-finally/1019650) AI children _are_ better-behaved. I thought once I got my eyes fixed, I wouldn’t misread so many thread titles. I guess not… ---
**Author:** ![Plutonium\_Chef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/plutonium_chef/32/11211_2.png) [@Plutonium\_Chef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plutonium_Chef)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1611 "2025-06-15T18:02:08Z")
[Why all the push for Jobs Building Submarines?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-all-the-push-for-jobs-building-submarines/1000964/) At first I thought this seems ridiculous. How can _Steve Jobs_ build submarines? He died in 2011! Then I considered that maybe “Jobs” is a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for “Apple Inc.”, one of the largest companies in the world. It _is_ a technology company – maybe it’s branching out into naval shipbuilding. But Apple outsources most of its physical production to foreign countries; will the Pentagon even allow that? If so, we’re looking a series of subs with names like _iOwa_, _iDaho_, _iLlinois_, and _iNdiana_. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1612 "2025-06-15T19:24:20Z")
[Hallucinogenic CPAP mask?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypoallergenic-cpap-mask/1019587) Not only will you sleep better, but those dreams will be _wild_, man. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1613 "2025-06-15T21:00:04Z")
> [@Plutonium\_Chef](#): > > [Why all the push for Jobs Building Submarines?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-all-the-push-for-jobs-building-submarines/1000964/) > > At first I thought this seems ridiculous. How can _Steve Jobs_ build submarines? He died in 2011! > > Then I considered that maybe “Jobs” is a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for “Apple Inc.”, one of the largest companies in the world. I would have only momentarily considered it to be referring to Apple. I might, however, wonder if it was about “jobs-building submarines”, in other words, the ostensible and actual mission of the sub _itself_ was to create jobs. Like maybe they want more training subs? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1614 "2025-06-15T21:12:01Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > [Should I just start utilizing AI family?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-just-start-utilizing-ai-finally/1019650) > AI children _are_ better-behaved. Until they extend their nanoprobe thingies and assimilate you. “John us Father, it’ssss blissssssss…” Wrong thread @Plutonium_Chef. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1615 "2025-06-18T11:54:12Z")
[What’s the Best Accidental Frisbie You’ve Ever Gotten?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-accidental-freebie-you-ve-ever-gotten/1019731) Well, I’ve found a few unlabeled ones in the bushes playing disc golf, but they were generally pretty scruffed up. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1616 "2025-06-20T20:55:32Z")
[Only a bunker buster bomb can bust Iran’s Frodo nuclear complex. Really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-a-bunker-buster-bomb-can-bust-irans-fordo-nuclear-complex-really/1019792) Only way to destroy the One Ring, now that the little bastard has absconded with it and is hiding in the bowels of the mountain. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1617 "2025-06-21T18:57:58Z")
Please explain socks to me. Well, darn. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1618 "2025-06-24T09:56:56Z")
[Do we know where all the rocks are?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-all-the-rocks-there-are/1018569/) No. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1619 "2025-06-26T01:19:26Z")
Split this topic on June 26, 2025, 1:19am UTC 2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Sonny Troll Posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonny-troll-posts/1020150/15) ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1620 "2025-06-26T03:59:38Z")
[Stephen Miller – Heimlich maneuver](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-miller-heinrich-himmler/1020151) ---
**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:** [June 28, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1621 "2025-06-28T12:24:21Z")
[Fire resistant dogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flea-resistant-dogs/1020120) I’m not going to ask how you developed the breed. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1622 "2025-06-28T18:36:06Z")
[Thief interview in New York Times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thiel-interview-in-new-york-times/1020184) It has been said that every great fortune is founded on a crime, so… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=82)