# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 215
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4281 "2025-04-02T14:08:51Z")
I wonder if they added that one as one of the crappy models you have to buy [before you can buy one of the good ones?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-tells-that-give-away-knockoff-merchandise/1014850/21) ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4282 "2025-04-02T14:23:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They already have the Submariner, and (I just discovered) the Sky-Dweller, Don’t forget the Sea Dweller and its big brother, the Deep Sea Dweller. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4283 "2025-04-02T14:25:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The problem is that their naming convention didn’t allow for sufficient options over time. It’s a problem when a watch doesn’t have enough options over Time. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4284 "2025-04-02T14:45:18Z")
I’m waiting for the Dweller on the Threshold. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4285 "2025-04-02T16:11:25Z")
_Indwelling Horror_ perhaps? Has a nice ring for the people driven by their demons to accumulate pointless amounts of money then spend it frivolously. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4286 "2025-04-02T17:36:22Z")
I’m on a budget, and waiting for the Mouth-Breather model. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4287 "2025-04-02T17:46:32Z")
Am very interested in the Cave-Dweller Rolex with a super-luminous dial and fire-starting capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4288 "2025-04-02T17:49:48Z")
But how much O’Keeffe would be in a Cave-Dweller Rolex? /mst3k ref ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4289 "2025-04-02T18:43:49Z")
One hopes they atop before releasing the Cellar-Dweller. I also wonder what Boeing will do after the 797. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4290 "2025-04-02T18:51:57Z")
The 808, eventually the 909, and then the One After 909. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4291 "2025-04-02T19:13:17Z")
Not that it would stop the marketers, but I think Boeing has already used 8xx numbers internally for something else. 3xx were piston-engined airliners, for example. I’m having trouble searching for the specifics, but I think they had a series for bombers, and another for helicopters. It was just happenstance, at the time, that 707 was used for their jet airliner, but it caught on and they stuck with it. I found one reference that the 8xx were secret projects like the X-20. 9xx was for hydrofoils and I travelled on one of those in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4292 "2025-04-02T19:35:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > One hopes they atop before releasing the Cellar-Dweller. I’m sure [C.H.U.D.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/) is somewhere on the list of proposed names. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4293 "2025-04-03T01:19:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I also wonder what Boeing will do after the 797 At the current pace of things I wonder if they’ll ever get to that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4294 "2025-04-03T01:33:44Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I also wonder what Boeing will do after the 797. Crash and burn? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4295 "2025-04-03T03:31:45Z")
Nintendo going a little on-the-nose with their latest cross-promotion. > **[Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3lltqzytvo52g)** > > HITMAN World of Assassination - Signature Edition for Switch 2 includes Luigi/Mario color themed content for preorders (Signature/Quack Pack) buff.ly/JU1rv9g [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637/bafkreibnq3hake53y4cvfbzxojpa45eav35bhojjqjotdfn6dbrtqrojxy@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637/bafkreibnq3hake53y4cvfbzxojpa45eav35bhojjqjotdfn6dbrtqrojxy@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4296 "2025-04-03T16:45:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > > I also wonder what Boeing will do after the 797. > > Crash and burn? :golf clap: ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4297 "2025-04-03T18:37:22Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > But how much O’Keeffe would be in a Cave-Dweller Rolex? > > /mst3k ref Would that be _Miles_ O’Keefe? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4298 "2025-04-04T03:14:34Z")
[Yet another American decides North Sentinel Island is on his bucket list.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-arrested-leaving-coke-world-204641820.html) > [@](#): > > An American tourist has been arrested after sailing to a remote island and leaving behind a can of Coke and a coconut for the world’s most dangerous and isolated people. > > [North Sentinel Island is home to the Sentinelese,](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/07/my-extraordinary-journey-to-visit-the-last-stone-age-tribe/) a pre-Neolithic tribe that has rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing bows and arrows at passing helicopters and killing those landing ashore. > > Yet Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, made an illegal visit to the island on Saturday using a makeshift craft to cross a 25-mile strait, Indian police said. He’s lucky, though; he did not get up close and personal with the Sentinelese, although he, as mentioned further in the article, did visit other restricted tribes. No word on if the Sentinelese are lucky enough to avoide exposure to whatever outside diseases he’s carrying. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4299 "2025-04-04T07:07:55Z")
Miles and miles O’Keefe. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4300 "2025-04-04T08:08:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 3xx were piston-engined airliners, for example. Boeing had the 247 with 2 piston-engines, and later the 307 with 4. So no clear scheme, except all their passenger planes end in -7. Except then there’s the 720. Arghh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=214) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=216)