# 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:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1763 "2025-10-16T20:38:17Z")
[Halloween - how do I make porn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-how-do-i-make-a-horn/1024021)
Nowadays all you need is a smartphone and a consenting partner.
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1764 "2025-10-16T20:51:54Z")
### [Let’s talk about Welsh Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-welsh-rarebit/1023705)
For some reason I always read “rarebit” as “rabbit.” But as best as I can tell, the dish appears to be rabbit-free, Welsh or otherwise.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1765 "2025-10-16T21:05:41Z")
[Either is correct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit).
Wiki says the etymology is unknown but the story I heard was that “Welsh Rabbit” was a term the English used as a slur, claiming the Welsh couldn’t even afford rabbit in their main dish which was then made “Rarebit” as a way of gentling that.
Or maybe it’s a leaky rhotic R.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1766 "2025-10-17T21:10:02Z")
The only Welsh slur (of sorts) I’d heard of was used in one of Dick Francis’ novels, when he referred to someone or something “leaking like the Welsh” - a play on words referring to popularity of leeks in Wales.
Speaking of a nastier English slur, I’m reminded of one employed by famous plantsman Christopher Lloyd in a book on gardening. He referred to vegetative parts harvested illegitimately by garden visitors for propagation purposes as “Irish cuttings”. The phrase has found its way into Jackmannii family discourse (in private only) regarding the temptation\* to snip off bits of other people’s plants to root for one’s own garden.
\*which I’ve long resisted of course.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1767 "2025-10-17T21:53:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> The only Welsh slur (of sorts) I’d heard of was used in one of Dick Francis’ novels, when he referred to someone or something “leaking like the Welsh” - a play on words referring to popularity of leeks in Wales.
“Welsh” also has a long history of pejorative use as a verb meaning “refuse to pay a debt.”
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1768 "2025-10-18T00:02:08Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Speaking of a nastier English slur, I’m reminded of one employed by famous plantsman Christopher Lloyd in a book on gardening. He referred to vegetative parts harvested illegitimately by garden visitors for propagation purposes as “Irish cuttings”.
This reminds me of my time in Navy ROTC decades ago. We had periodic inspections, and any loose or visible exposed threads on one’s uniform were blithely referred to as “Irish pennants.”
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1769 "2025-10-21T21:34:51Z")
[In the (US) military, is it forbidden, or considered dishonorable, to relieve yourself on a dead enemy’s corpse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-us-military-is-it-forbidden-or-considered-dishonorable-to-relieve-a-dead-enemys-corpse-of-his-valuables/1024167)
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1770 "2025-10-22T03:13:29Z")
[How would lighting have affected large sauropods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-lightning-have-affected-large-sauropods/1024108)
I don’t know, were dinosaurs prone to photosensitive epilepsy?
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1771 "2025-10-23T16:26:30Z")
[Hard Boiled Eggs…how do you make them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-boiled-eggs-how-do-you-mark-them/1024189)
Not the funniest misreading, but I thought that was going to be a thread about different methods for making boiled eggs. And I was legit confused when I read the OP. What? Just writing HB on an egg doesn’t make it hard boiled, the egg’s still going to be raw!
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1772 "2025-10-23T20:43:11Z")
[Does the state have a monopoly or violence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-state-have-a-monopoly-on-violence/1024175)
Are those the only two choices?
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1773 "2025-10-24T16:50:01Z")
[So we’re going to go to Golden Coma this year for Thanksgiving](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-were-going-to-go-to-golden-corral-this-year-for-thanksgiving/1024187)
It’s a new promotion where you’re encouraged to load up on buffet turkey and stuffing until you pass out.
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### Author:  [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1774 "2025-10-24T16:57:58Z")
help I revisited this- I’m WHEEZING Bahahahah
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1775 "2025-10-25T17:30:45Z")
[How do I stop my frog from jumping on me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-my-dog-from-jumping-on-me/1024251)
You can’t, it’s what they do!
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1776 "2025-10-30T20:31:39Z")
[Thoughts on becoming a SHAM](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-becoming-a-sahm/1023160)
I see that _every time_ that thread comes up. And I keep think the poster wants to become a con artist or something.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1777 "2025-10-31T15:15:37Z")
[Is Trump’s style of Fascism actually Pathetic ultranationalism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trumps-style-of-fascism-actually-palingenetic-ultranationalism/1023719)
Well, yes.
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1778 "2025-10-31T17:34:32Z")
**Is Trump’s style of Fascism actually palindromic ultranationalism?**
Wouldn’t that be msilanoitanartlu ultranationalism?
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1779 "2025-11-04T18:23:54Z")
[I work for Prince Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-for-prince-andrew/839341)
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1780 "2025-11-07T03:41:40Z")
[What is “ok” to put through a stink disposal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-ok-to-put-through-a-sink-disposal/1024542)
I just threw out the remnants of week-and-a-half-old Chinese food because the smell made me want to hurl. But YMMV.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1781 "2025-11-07T16:38:48Z")
[What’s going on with the local street revolutions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-local-street-renovations/1024665)
Antifa is taking over, one neighborhood association at a time.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1782 "2025-11-10T14:58:51Z")
[Demi Moore Celebrity Cruise director](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darren-moore-celebrity-cruise-director/1024625)
I’m sure she does a decent enough job, but she’s no ‘Julie from the Love Boat’.
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