# Misread thread titles

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**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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Along the same lines, and from the same thread, this passage:

> [@Time machine, tool making question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-tool-making-question/1031735/41):
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> Of course, there were already people here, so they’d have to be befriended. Possibly trading pottery with them would be a good route to that.

I read read as “they’d have to be beheaded”.

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