# 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:** 263
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5241 "2025-08-09T08:02:37Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Google’s voice calls Monte Sano in Huntsville, AL “Mahnt-eh Sah-no”, which doesn’t even have an excuse that it is the original Spanish since as far as I know “Monte” would be pronounced more like “Moan-tay”. So it pronounces it like “Monte Carlo”? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5242 "2025-08-09T13:38:51Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > The one and only time Google Maps ever did that for me mid-trip… was back in 2017 when I drove cross-country to see the eclipse. Whoa. That anecdote I told was the only time Google did that to me… … when I drove cross-country to see the eclipse. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5243 "2025-08-09T13:45:43Z")
I’m not too surprised at that. If you don’t take cross-country trips very often, within _this_ crowd, an eclipse is likely be high on the list of rare reasons you’d choose to travel that way. I wasn’t able to go to the 2024 eclipse due to reasons, but I totally would have gone to that one too if offline stuff hadn’t precluded it, and would not have been surprised at at least one reroute mid-trip. The longer your trip, the more likely something can happen that needs a reroute after you’ve set your route for the entire trip. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5244 "2025-08-10T02:20:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > brodying across the shoulder What is “brodying”? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5245 "2025-08-10T03:42:09Z")
We often used it to mean driving off the road, usually in a spirited manner. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5246 "2025-08-10T06:06:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Within an hour, it told me to get off I-94 onto a small county road, then back toward the interstate and along a frontage road (WTF?). As I did so, I realized there’d been an accident and I was passing dozens of cars. My new friend Google had me rejoin the highway after the masses were all done Looky-Loo’ing. And I remember being guided off a jammed freeway and into a maze of residential streets - no frontage road available. Because the GPS was guiding everyone off of the freeway, those residential streets jammed up solid, quick. I’m a little leery, now, of being guided off a freeway in an area I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5247 "2025-08-10T12:37:25Z")
Was on I-70 near Vail (high in the Rocky Mountains) just before Christmas about 3 years ago when Google Maps said the road was closed ahead and we should take detour. Did that and got onto some snowy secondary roads but I wasn’t too worried, us being in a 4WD truck. After a while the snow got so deep I couldn’t tell where the road was. Got _very_ stuck. Still had cell signal so was able to call a tow truck. It cost $300.00. Found out shortly thereafter the road was temporarily closed for maintenance and we wouldn’t have had to wait more than 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5248 "2025-08-10T14:09:24Z")
You have to admit there wasn’t much traffic on the secondary roads, though ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5249 "2025-08-10T15:30:45Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > What is “brodying”? IME, ‘brodiying’ is causing a vehicle to slide on gravel or dirt. A lot of people had ‘brodie knobs’ on their steering wheel to help them turn the wheel faster. ‘Brodie’ is named after [Steve Brodie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Brodie_(bridge_jumper)). > Brodie’s fame persisted long past his death, with Brodie portrayed in films and with the slang term “Brodie”—as in to “do a Brodie”—entering American vernacular, meaning to take a chance or a leap, specifically a suicidal one. How it became associated with recklessly operating vehicles, I can only assume. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5250 "2025-08-10T16:45:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > A lot of people had ‘brodie knobs’ on their steering wheel to help them turn the wheel faster. Is that a regionalism? I’ve only know them as wheel spinners or, more colloquially, necker/necker’s knobs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5251 "2025-08-10T17:12:56Z")
Southern California. As a kid, ‘brodie’ also meant to wipe out spectacularly. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5252 "2025-08-10T17:18:19Z")
New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5253 "2025-08-10T19:36:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Brodie’ is named after [Steve Brodie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Brodie_(bridge_jumper)). The guy is famous over a century later for being a reckless daredevil, yet died at age 39 in bed from diabetes and tuberculosis. The world is weird. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5254 "2025-08-10T19:40:22Z")
But “brodie” is such a good word. Nice woody sound to it. “_Brodie_.” Not at all tinny. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5255 "2025-08-10T19:49:21Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Whoa. That anecdote I told was the only time Google did that to me… > > … when I drove cross-country to see the eclipse. What @Ponderoid said, plus the best eclipse-viewing locations didn’t have any particular relation to where the major roads are, so a lot of folks ended up going down back roads in the middle of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5256 "2025-08-10T20:25:53Z")
Once I was heading east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, trying to get from Ohio to Northern Virginia. A big winter snowstorm effectively shut down the interstate that evening. I pulled off at the first rest area available. Looked at the big map of Pennsylvania on the wall. Found the alternate way by heading south via route 40 to I-68, which led through Cumberland, MD, to I-70, which got me to my destination neat as you please. I found almost no traffic along the way. All I needed was a look at the big map of Pennsylvania at the rest area, and I was good to go. I drove where the blizzard wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5257 "2025-08-10T20:42:06Z")
How did the big map poster show the location of the blizzard? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5258 "2025-08-10T20:43:48Z")
It didn’t, of course. It so happened that the route I found led away from the blizzard to the south of my planned route. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5259 "2025-08-10T20:59:32Z")
You’re a Blizzard Wizard! ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5260 "2025-08-12T18:28:23Z")
Going back to a subject from a few days ago, at least some bit of justice: > **[Man arrested for throwing sex toy at Phoenix Mercury crowd, court docs say](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/man-arrested-throwing-sex-toy-phoenix-mercury-crowd-court-docs-say)** > > An 18-year-old man was arrested while at a Phoenix Mercury game after police say he threw a sex toy toward the seats in front of him, hitting a man and his niece. > - Kaden Lopez is accused of bringing a sex toy to a Phoenix Mercury game and throwing it at the seats in front of him. > - A man and his young niece were hit by what’s described as a “green dildo.” > - Lopez was booked into jail on suspicion of several charges, including assault. Couldn’t even manage to throw it all the way to the court. Figures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=264)