# 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:** ![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 31, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1663 "2025-07-31T18:43:13Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> [Increasing my dosage of Creator](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasing-my-dosage-of-crestor/1021551).

Side effects include excessive self-righteousness, uncontrollable proselytizing and possible disappointment at no life after death.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1664 "2025-08-02T03:38:32Z")

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[Nuclear subs being destroyed by Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-subs-being-deployed-by-trump/1021592).

What a weird combination of pacifism and authoritarianism. Wait…nevermind.

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1665 "2025-08-02T08:56:56Z")

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[Why is Einstein the scandal that has stuck, and why now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-epstein-the-scandal-that-has-stuck-and-why-now/1021460)  
@EinsteinsHund, do you have a clue? What has your _Herrchen_ done and why has it stuck? And what has it stuck to?

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1666 "2025-08-02T14:34:46Z")

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I dunno, maybe someone told Trump that not he but my master is the most brilliant genius who ever lived, and that put him in a state of rage and made him even more bonkers than usual?

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**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:** [August 2, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1667 "2025-08-02T14:43:59Z")

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Now you’ve done it. Trump’s gonna fire the head of the National Science Foundation in revenge.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1668 "2025-08-02T16:34:48Z")

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Hasn’t he already done that and replaced him with a chimpanzee? It’s hard to keep track on the news in these times…

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**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:** [August 2, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1669 "2025-08-02T22:06:43Z")

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[To Those who Make Facebook Posts Extolling Home Scrolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-those-who-make-facebook-posts-extolling-home-schooling/1021607)

I’d rather they do that, rather than taking up tables at Starbucks while endlessly scrolling on their freaking laptops.

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**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:** [August 2, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1670 "2025-08-02T22:29:26Z")

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Voicing limited agreement with a Bigfoot stereotype..

Yeah, they smell bad and don’t bury their poop.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1671 "2025-08-03T12:58:15Z")

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[A new kind of hair conditioner - hapless hype or wildly useful?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634)

Is this the breakthrough for my troubled hair?

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**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:** [August 3, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1672 "2025-08-03T17:41:11Z")

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[Should I try drinking Poupon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-drinking-yaupon/1021631/1)

No.  
Do. Not.

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**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:** [August 3, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1673 "2025-08-03T18:11:32Z")

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But of course.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1674 "2025-08-03T22:04:37Z")

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This one keeps tripping me up: **[Bands with slightly different names depending on which planet you’re on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-slightly-different-names-depending-on-where-on-the-planet-you-are-standing/1021635)**.

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**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:** [August 4, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1675 "2025-08-04T02:01:54Z")

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-ponders-

By Jove, I think I’ve got it @LSLGuy! If I combine the thread in question, along with another recent thread on Saturn, the answer is simplicity itself! They’re talking about different nomenclature for different bands around said planet. Of course we couldn’t expect the Space Whales of Saturn to use _our_ terminology for their rings.

😜

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1676 "2025-08-04T02:12:01Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> By Jove, I think I’ve got it @LSLGuy! If I combine the thread in question, along with another recent thread on Saturn, the answer is simplicity itself!

The band names on Jupiter are different yet again!

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**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:** [August 4, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1677 "2025-08-04T07:57:50Z")

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On Mars, they just call it The Volta.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1678 "2025-08-04T09:40:24Z")

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All this space travel makes me think of this famous “band”:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y2rDb4Ur2dw/maxresdefault.jpg "Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (Live At The Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO/1965)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2rDb4Ur2dw)

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**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:** [August 4, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1679 "2025-08-04T14:13:37Z")

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[What are your least good AI?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-least-good-at/1021674)

Most of my AI creations are special, but some people don’t like the chocolate tree I planted.

[[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/3RSLcss.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/ut11CvL)

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1680 "2025-08-06T11:46:57Z")

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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#):
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> [When and why did kale go from garish decoration to superfood?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-why-did-kale-go-from-garnish-decoration-to-superfood/1021139/14)

When and why did Kate go from garnish/decoration to superfood?

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**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1681 "2025-08-06T15:47:56Z")

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[Billy Joel take down of Bill Maher](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-joel-take-down-of-bill-maher/1021768/12)

Tho someone in the thread ninja’ed me before I could get over here.

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1682 "2025-08-07T04:17:53Z")

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I was rather sure I wouldn’t be the first person to wonder why Billy Joel had it in for Bill Maher, and it seems I was correct.

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