# Post your mundane explicable stories here, and I will bunk them **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060 "2010-06-21T23:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/141 "2010-06-26T22:23:42Z")
I won’t go into all the harrowing details of my capture by the Phil Collins-led robot minions of the planet Susudio, but I do heartily welcome anyone who wants to help bunk or re-bunk any of the offerings in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/142 "2010-06-26T22:26:03Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I went for a long drive out in the country today and had a great time, listening to music, driving with my windows open and enjoying the sun and fresh air and back roads. Explain THAT, my physkhic friend. Based on my recent excursion into the wilds of Minnesota, those are all things enjoyed by dead raccoons. Is it possible that you are channeling the spirit of a dead dead raccoon? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/143 "2010-06-26T22:29:30Z")
A dead dead raccoon? Deader than your average dead raccoon? How do you get dead dead - back the car up and run over it again? Sorry, got off track there - yes, it is indeed possible. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/144 "2010-06-26T22:29:33Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Er… I don’t think so. I’d have to look. > > On to the next question. Who here would like to propose a moratorium on people asking questions about the wacky things that cats do? They’re cats, they do that stuff. > > Now, why is it that my dog hates lenolium so much that she’ll walk backwards out of the kitchen? Dogs have been at war with Linoleum for centuries. They are both physical manifestations of canonical spirits of the universe. As a puppy, did your dog pee on the floor? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/145 "2010-06-26T22:32:05Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I have been banished to the furthest part of the house with a can of beer. I believe the cat farted and I got blamed. Is that unfair? Few people mind a little alone time with a brew. So my question is, what is wrong with you? Is the can empty? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/146 "2010-06-26T22:33:01Z")
Empty as a cat fart. I think I have a new saying. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/147 "2010-06-27T07:37:36Z")
Sometimes when I’m in bed, the lower fitted sheet comes loose from the edges of the bed and bunches up in the middle of the bed. Why? It can’t be my restless turning in bed, can it? I mean, last night I dreamt I was in the Girl Genius world, but that’s because I’d just been reading the book and it was next to my pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/148 "2010-06-27T21:24:52Z")
It’s probably the bed fairies, playing little tricks on you. They put crumbs in my bed, too (I’m sure it’s not the crackers I eat in bed - that can’t be it). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/149 "2010-06-27T23:28:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s probably the bed fairies, playing little tricks on you. They put crumbs in my bed, too (I’m sure it’s not the crackers I eat in bed - that can’t be it). How is my old mate Crackers? ---
**Author:** ![Looey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Looey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Looey)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/150 "2010-06-28T03:03:24Z")
Why do I always run out of ketchup just before I run out of french fries? I really like ketchup and I often squirt a puddle of it on my plate to dip burgers and hot dogs, so that there’s just the right amount on every bite. But no matter what I dip, I always have to add more ketchup to the plate for the last bite. And then there’s ketchup on the plate with nothing to dip… so I need more fries. And then I run out of ketchup again, but there’s still that last french fry. AAAAACK! I can’t quit! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/151 "2010-06-28T06:27:58Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > I won’t go into all the harrowing details of my capture by the Phil Collins-led robot minions of the planet Susudio, but I do heartily welcome anyone who wants to help bunk or re-bunk any of the offerings in this thread. I just knew something terrible had happened, I could feel it in the air. I’m sorry you felt the cold Invisible Touch of the robot minions but at least you were able to escape Against All Odds. ---
**Author:** ![maninthemoon101010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@maninthemoon101010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maninthemoon101010)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/152 "2010-06-28T08:19:24Z")
What we are looking at here is simply the Law of Selective Reporting. \>Maybe you ordered lasagna at a restaurant and they brought you manicotti \>by mistake, and you actually kind of wished you had ordered the manicotti. You DON’T remember all the times the waitress just brought you exactly what you ordered, or when she brought you a cheeseburger and you sent it back saying WTF? In an infinite universe, all manner of strange things happen. It’s just we only notice (and write reports on the internet about) the events that match patterns we think we have already identified. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/153 "2010-06-28T08:29:47Z")
Law of Selective Reporting? That sounds like total bunk to me! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/154 "2010-06-28T11:21:26Z")
> [@maninthemoon101010](#): > > What we are looking at here is simply the Law of Selective Reporting. > > \>Maybe you ordered lasagna at a restaurant and they brought you manicotti > \>by mistake, and you actually kind of wished you had ordered the manicotti. > > You DON’T remember all the times the waitress just brought you exactly what you ordered, or when she brought you a cheeseburger and you sent it back saying WTF? > > In an infinite universe, all manner of strange things happen. It’s just we only notice (and write reports on the internet about) the events that match patterns we think we have already identified. This is a pretty low-flying aircraft. Did it really go over your head? How tall are you? ---
**Author:** ![HawksPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HawksPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawksPath)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/155 "2010-06-28T20:10:54Z")
Thanks for the interesting thread cricetus. Now I know I’m not the only one who’s full of bunk, well ok they might use a slightly different last word when referring to me. ---
**Author:** ![HawksPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HawksPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawksPath)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/156 "2010-06-28T21:09:19Z")
Now, I will attempt to bunk the true nature of “cricetus” whose name is actually an acronym for “cryogenically received individual choosing extraordinary training (in) unknown secrets”. At sometime in the distant future he was unfrozen, but like some accounts of the fabled Merlin CRICETUS moves backwards through time. He has been on the watch list of One World Government trackers for a long time, but we have yet to establish who gave him his training but we know much about the contents of his secret training. Our current best researcher has delved deep in the mind and mystery of CRICETUS and put out a website so that others can share the great knowledge of the one known as CRICETUS: [www.timecube.com/](http://www.timecube.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/157 "2010-06-28T23:59:26Z")
> [@Looey](#): > > Why do I always run out of ketchup just before I run out of french fries? I really like ketchup and I often squirt a puddle of it on my plate to dip burgers and hot dogs, so that there’s just the right amount on every bite. But no matter what I dip, I always have to add more ketchup to the plate for the last bite. And then there’s ketchup on the plate with nothing to dip… so I need more fries. And then I run out of ketchup again, but there’s still that last french fry. AAAAACK! I can’t quit! You’ve never heard of the Hot Dog Bun Conundrum? By having 10 hot dogs in a package and 8 buns in a bag, you are forced to continually buy dogs or buns to prevent any from being wasted. Iirc, it was scientifically proven as fact back in 800 AD by Pythagoras and Jesus, before the invention of hot dogs. Back then, it was “Ye Olde Conundrume of Condoms to Whore Holes.” Then Murphy Brown stole it and made Murphy’s laws. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/158 "2010-06-29T00:04:36Z")
> [@ToborAton](#): > > So I keep running into these digits everywhere I go. I wrote down ten in no particular order: 6, 3, 2, 5, 0, 8, 9, 1, 4, 7. I see you also fworship the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Well met, Mongo, and 7, 5, 2, 13, **27.** ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/159 "2010-06-29T01:14:52Z")
27? 27?!? You, sir, are no gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060/160 "2010-06-29T01:31:07Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > 27? 27?!? You, sir, are no gentleman. It’s only painful the first time, and not everybody enjoys it, but that’s how I roll. Oo look! A new Dr. McNinja comic! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-mundane-explicable-stories-here-and-i-will-bunk-them/544060.md?page=9)