# 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:** 87
### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1723 "2025-09-10T15:32:42Z")
[Custom Licorice Plates — Seen in the Wild](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1050)
You might be thinking-- how do I get ‘Custom Licorice Plates’ from ‘Custom License Plates’?!?
Well, I’ll tell you. I saw the first two words and briefly misread them as ‘Custom Licorice’; thinking for a second it was a thread about making your own styles of licorice at home. Which actually sounds like it might be fun to try!
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1724 "2025-09-11T00:53:57Z")
[Tornado tourist advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-tourist-advice/1022923)
The proximity to the “experiences with natural disasters” thread may have influenced my misreading there.
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1725 "2025-09-14T11:46:42Z")
[Had you heard of Captain Kirk before he was killed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-you-heard-of-charlie-kirk-before-he-was-killed/1023003)
Yeah, I had. I saw the TV series and six feature films!
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1726 "2025-09-14T21:00:50Z")
[Finnish carpentry advice.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-carpentry-advice/1023040)
I understand they specialise in wood-panelled saunas.
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### Author:  [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1727 "2025-09-14T21:22:09Z")
They do all their glue-ups with sisu.
It doesn’t actually hold, but they’re proud of it anyway.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1728 "2025-09-15T00:22:30Z")
[Happy birthday, gravitational Wales!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-gravitational-waves/1023045/1)
As for you folks in Cardiff, better grab ahold of something and hang on.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1729 "2025-09-15T15:08:14Z")
This one gets me every time:
_Widest_ road you’ve ever been on. Nope; it’s:
> [@Weirdest road you’ve ever been on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098):
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> There are lots of winding roads, and of course long ones, and certainly narrow and crooked ones, but this one is one of the weirdest I’ve ever encountered. The first time I drove on it, I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Notice how 11th st. simply turns into a parking lot? Weird. (Click on the photo view icon)
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1730 "2025-09-15T15:19:17Z")
Well, if it was actually _widest_, it would have to be this:
[ ](https://wgme.com/resources/media/360b252d-875e-411f-adbe-bd9e887a8265-large1x1_njturnpike.jpg?1553878263952)
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1731 "2025-09-15T16:43:46Z")
6 traffic lanes each way is not so huge.
But it being divided into 4 sections, each with two full width shoulders, so 8 shoulders total, makes for a 20-lanewidth roadway. Pretty darn wide I’ll say.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1732 "2025-09-15T20:35:18Z")
**[Crosswords and the death of the motorcycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crosswords-and-the-death-of-the-monoculture/1023058)**
If all you do is sit around the house doing crossword puzzles, your motorcycle will eventually fall into rusty disrepair.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1733 "2025-09-16T22:23:57Z")
[What happens if a state National Guard refuses to be fertilized?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-a-state-national-guard-refuses-to-be-federalized/1023075)
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### Author:  [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1734 "2025-09-20T02:31:27Z")
When in the dinosaur of sequential threads
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1735 "2025-09-23T16:17:25Z")
[Could Shalhoub have made use of the One Ring?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-shelob-have-made-use-of-the-one-ring/1023320)
Tony Shalhoub? I just picture him trying to clean a smudge off of the ring, although I know that’s just a character he once played.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1736 "2025-09-23T21:51:26Z")
[Elon the useless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elrond-the-useless/1023340/1)
I misread that for obvious reasons…
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1737 "2025-09-24T00:02:27Z")
It’s not like it’s rocket science.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1738 "2025-09-24T01:29:12Z")
Wrong thread, nevermind.
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1739 "2025-09-24T03:58:10Z")
[Could Shelob have made use of an Onion Ring?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-shelob-have-made-use-of-the-one-ring/1023320)
For what?
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1740 "2025-09-24T04:17:37Z")
[Can Al Ever Be Secure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ai-ever-be-secure/1023315)
Who are we talking about? Al Yankovic? Al Pacino? Al Gore? I hope they can all be secure.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1741 "2025-09-24T06:24:55Z")
Emergency room sticker shock!
“Look, doc, no need for the shock paddles, I’ll get the sticker out with a needle at home, k-bye now”
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### Author:  [@Plutonium\_Chef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plutonium_Chef)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1742 "2025-09-25T15:30:45Z")
> [Could Shelob have made use of an Onion Ring?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-shelob-have-made-use-of-the-one-ring/1023320)
> For what?
A crunchy, tasty side dish for hobbits. 😄
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