# 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:** 82
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1623 "2025-06-28T19:12:06Z")
I believe there is a current active thread here with the title _Explain Stocks to Me_ (I think that’s the title - I didn’t actually double check). Anyways for a couple days I kept scrolling past it thinking that it said _Explain Socks to Me_. ---
**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 28, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1624 "2025-06-28T19:14:59Z")
We’ve had threads on the latter here tho, usually in ATMB natch: [Why so many socks/trocks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-socks-trocks/988871) [A question about socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-socks/938431) And yes quite a few on the clothy ones which actually do go on your feet… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1625 "2025-06-29T22:06:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > [Fire resistant dogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flea-resistant-dogs/1020120) > > I’m not going to ask how you developed the breed. Maybe it was a Thai Dog. > [@The rock in the box: I burning your dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rock-in-the-box-i-burning-your-dog/193808): > > If there is one person I could mercilessly kill… without being a war… a bar fight… or “the right situation”, It would have to be the inventor of the rock in the box. What THE fuck were you thinking? -Or in this case, what were you supposed to be thinking that you were not… ? so I know how to keep another pointless product from ever happening? “It’s about to go down…” they call me… the police. I respond: “I’m on this… go in there and chill them crackers out…” I break in the door like the agent s… ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1626 "2025-06-29T22:42:05Z")
The OP asked Please explain stocks to me. I guess socks are already understood. ---
**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 30, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1627 "2025-06-30T17:15:21Z")
[Where can I get a 1966 Japanese ‘Mad Magazine for Men’?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-a-1966-japanese-magazine-for-men/1020260) Third time that extra little “M” word snuck in. I wonder what Alfred E. Neumann looks like if he were Japanese… ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1628 "2025-06-30T17:25:26Z")
[Oysters: are you meant to chew them without swallowing or swallow them without chewing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oysters-are-you-meant-to-chew-them-or-swallow-them-without-chewing/1020268/1) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1629 "2025-06-30T17:27:29Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I wonder what Alfred E. Neumann looks like if he were Japanese… How about Chinese? > **[MAD Magazine Issue 111](https://maditsmadfunny.fandom.com/wiki/MAD_Magazine_Issue_111)** > > Write the text of your article here! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1630 "2025-07-01T12:39:40Z")
[**Is it just my pirate, or what?**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-my-palate-or-what/1020336) Did you wake up to find your bedroom festooned with pieces of eight, with the constables knocking on your door? Probably your pirate. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1631 "2025-07-01T19:11:46Z")
[Never been to Costco? What huge business experiences have you forgotten?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-been-to-costco-what-huge-businesses-experiences-have-you-foregone/1020112) Is my Costco experience “forgotten” or it is “blotted out”? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1632 "2025-07-03T17:19:14Z")
[Lower Body Dementia– any experience with it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lewy-body-dementia-any-experience-with-it/1020368) When your legs forget how to walk, it may not be the drink. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1633 "2025-07-03T20:33:29Z")
I keep reading that one as “Lewd Body Dementia”. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1634 "2025-07-04T08:48:37Z")
[Dating Ultraman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-ultimatum/1020459). [![](https://i.imgur.com/SyVivgq.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/SyVivgq.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1635 "2025-07-04T16:36:36Z")
Whereas I see that one as “Dating Uranium”. And there’s also “My mother (age 96) passed away. My brother is a psychopomp.” Well that’s nice, at least, that she’ll have a member of the family to guide her into the next life. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1636 "2025-07-04T17:13:00Z")
[We got an unwashed kitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-got-an-unwanted-kitten-owner-was-found/1020113) Well, good luck washing it— cats hate baths! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1637 "2025-07-06T01:37:27Z")
[If not college, then what? Trader Joe’s are even worse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-not-college-then-what-trade-jobs-are-even-worse-young-adult-problems-in-the-us-for-jobs/1020532) I’ve heard Trader Joe’s is actually a pretty good place to work. Probably doesn’t pay all that much, though. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1638 "2025-07-07T17:42:08Z")
[The association between cookies and hedonism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-association-between-coolness-and-hedonism/1020598/2) Sounds monstrous. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1639 "2025-07-07T17:45:53Z")
The Cookie Monster would undoubtedly agree with you. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1640 "2025-07-10T01:56:59Z")
New low in sperm attempts ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1641 "2025-07-10T15:51:53Z")
[Any Mike fans here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-miike-fans-here/1020382) That depends on which Mike- Mike Rowe, the ‘Dirty Jobs’ guy? Sure! Mike Tyson? Eh, not so much. Mike Myers? The comedian, yes. The fictional serial killer, no. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1642 "2025-07-10T20:12:48Z")
Ha! When I first read your version, I assumed you would go for the Mike vs. Joel MST3K conflict, since the series came up in the “passing the torch” thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093.md?page=83)