# Misread thread titles

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**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")
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### 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: [April 1, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1129 "2024-04-01T23:25:34Z")

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[(Nit) picking a lock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-picking-a-lock/999688/1)

Well, _technically_ that’s a wafer tumbler lock, not a pin tumbler.

(I totally had to look up locks on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_and_key#With_physical_keys) to write that joke; I really don’t know enough about locks to nitpick them)

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