Misread thread titles

Custom Licorice Plates — Seen in the Wild

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!

Tornado tourist advice

The proximity to the “experiences with natural disasters” thread may have influenced my misreading there.

Had you heard of Captain Kirk before he was killed?

Yeah, I had. I saw the TV series and six feature films!

Finnish carpentry advice.

I understand they specialise in wood-panelled saunas.

They do all their glue-ups with sisu.

It doesn’t actually hold, but they’re proud of it anyway.

Happy birthday, gravitational Wales!

As for you folks in Cardiff, better grab ahold of something and hang on.

This one gets me every time:
Widest road you’ve ever been on. Nope; it’s:

Well, if it was actually widest, it would have to be this:

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.

Crosswords and the death of the motorcycle

If all you do is sit around the house doing crossword puzzles, your motorcycle will eventually fall into rusty disrepair.

What happens if a state National Guard refuses to be fertilized?

When in the dinosaur of sequential threads

Could Shalhoub have made use of the One Ring?

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.

Elon the useless

I misread that for obvious reasons…

It’s not like it’s rocket science.

Wrong thread, nevermind.

Could Shelob have made use of an Onion Ring?

For what?

Can Al Ever Be Secure?

Who are we talking about? Al Yankovic? Al Pacino? Al Gore? I hope they can all be secure.

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”

Could Shelob have made use of an Onion Ring?
For what?

A crunchy, tasty side dish for hobbits. :smile: