# 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:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1683 "2025-08-07T10:10:47Z")
[How do medieval helicopters work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-medevac-helicopters-work/1021728)
They don’t. The village idiot sits in it, pedaling furiously, while the other peasants point and laugh.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1684 "2025-08-08T21:12:48Z")
It’s not a thread title, but in the same spirit as this thread:
I’m looking at the name of a company that makes a cleaning solvent my company uses. The name of that company is “Chemetall”. I keep seeing “Chemtrail”. (This solvent is used in the aerospace industry… 🤫)
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1685 "2025-08-08T23:12:30Z")
LOL, I had to move closer to my monitor to see that it WASN’T Chemtrail…
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1686 "2025-08-10T13:30:54Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> What are your least good AI?
I keep reading it as “What are you at least _good_ at?”, which is almost, but not quite, the opposite meaning of the real title.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1687 "2025-08-10T18:27:41Z")
Uploading salad.
Wish my phone could.🥗
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1688 "2025-08-11T16:46:32Z")
[Aint it a Pap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-it-a-pip/1021897/3)
Nope, it’s one of them Covid swab thingies.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1689 "2025-08-13T15:13:32Z")
[In the world of professional banking, white sandwich bread is…?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-world-of-professional-baking-white-sandwich-bread-is/1021949)
It’s generally accepted as a safe security, although without much growth potential.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1690 "2025-08-13T17:35:01Z")
[Most Attractive Hobbits?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010/4)
Frodo for sure.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1691 "2025-08-13T17:37:30Z")
I was thinking the most attractive Hobbes. Just about to post the attractive Hobbes in the AI image thread.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1692 "2025-08-13T18:01:14Z")
[Anyone else dislike The Onion? Let’s talk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-dislike-onions-lets-talk/1021932)
No, I like it very much; I think it’s an unparalleled satire site, though its writers are hard-pressed these days to write political satire that’s more outrageous or exaggerated than what’s actually happening these days.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1693 "2025-08-13T18:20:48Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> [In the world of professional banking, white sandwich bread is…?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-world-of-professional-baking-white-sandwich-bread-is/1021949)
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> It’s generally accepted as a safe security, although without much growth potential.
There’s actually considerable growth potential if you forget about an unrefrigerated loaf, though probably not as much as in the date nut bread and cream cheese sandwich that sat in the back of my high school locker for several months.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1694 "2025-08-13T19:28:02Z")
[How do you deal with accidents that you can’t understand?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-deal-with-accents-that-you-cant-understand-customer-service-or-tech-support/1021986)
I just let the insurance companies sort it all out.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1695 "2025-08-14T17:52:48Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I keep reading it as “What are you at least _good_ at?”, which is almost, but not quite, the opposite meaning of the real title.
Same here. The first time I saw the thread, I actually started typing a response based on that misreading, but realized my mistake before I posted. Then I thought about changing my answer to “reading comprehension” but just dropped it.
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1696 "2025-08-14T22:53:27Z")
[The cremation of the planets in our solar system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creation-of-the-planets-in-our-solar-system/1022065/3)
Sure, the closest three planets will eventually be swallowed when Sol becomes a red giant, but that leaves five planets that won’t be burned…
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1697 "2025-08-15T22:22:57Z")
[Your wife – luck or good management?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-life-luck-or-good-management/1022103)
You better tell _her_ it was luck…
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1698 "2025-08-17T04:48:01Z")
“So, this is it, right? (Trump Announces He is Federalizing DC Police, and More)”
I swear I read that as “Fertilizing”…and that it still wouldn’t enough to turn the Republicans against him.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1699 "2025-08-17T06:15:17Z")
“_What percentage of American atheists are white?”_
Yeah, I read **athletes.** I was so confused. 😬
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1700 "2025-08-17T16:22:14Z")
[Why is Nevada so valuable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-nvidia-so-valuable/1021982)
It’s all the cash people lose at the casinos.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1701 "2025-08-17T21:06:19Z")
[Most Attractive Hobbes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-hobbies/1022010)
Well, the philosopher was nasty, brutish, and short.
> **[Thomas Hobbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#/media/File:Thomas_Hobbes_(portrait).jpg/)**
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> Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
> In his early life, overshadowed by his father's departure following a fight, he was taken under the care of his wealthy uncle. Hobbes's academic journey began in Westport, leading him to the University of Oxford, where ...
But the cartoon character was a distinguished-looking gentleman.
> **[List of Calvin and Hobbes characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Calvin_and_Hobbes_characters#/media/File:Hobbes_comic_strip_character.jpg/)**
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> This is a list of characters from Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson. The strip revolves around a mischievous six-year-old boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. Other characters include Calvin's parents, classmates, and numerous imaginary creatures.
> Calvin, named after the 16th-century theologian John Calvin, is a six-year-old boy with spiky blond hair and a distinctive red-and-black striped shirt, black pants and sneakers. Despite his poor grades in school, Calvin dem...
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1702 "2025-08-17T21:15:55Z")
**Darren\_G** beat you to the punch on that one 4 days ago.
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