# Propose a Name for This Embarrassing Event **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009 "2005-04-12T19:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/21 "2005-04-13T05:13:02Z")
It’s basically the standard expectation that when my car starts, loud, awesome, 80’s metal will ensue. For the entire duration of the ride. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/22 "2005-04-13T12:09:53Z")
Jacksonian Demography? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/23 "2005-04-13T15:30:39Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > I’m glad to tell you that you’re not alone. But, then again, I’m a 15-year-old Canadian girl. So, maybe you are alone… ☹ Big difference… you’re _supposed_ to listen to Avril Lavigne. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/24 "2005-04-13T15:32:17Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > I own Avril Lavigne CDs. _Xanadu_ soundtrack on **CD.** I win. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/25 "2005-04-13T15:36:03Z")
I don’t know what to call it, but this happens to me all the time, since I have extremely eclectic musical taste (my husband insists it’s not so much “taste” as it is “complete lack thereof.”) The only time it REALLY created a problem for me was when I loaded the car full of fourth-grade Girl Scouts and started the car, forgetting that I’d been listening to the soundtrack from _Hair_. “SodoMEEEEEEE!, fellatiOHHH!, cunnilingus, pederasty…” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/26 "2005-04-13T15:37:13Z")
_Audiocornholia._ Minnie Ripperton so infected me last. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/27 "2005-04-13T16:05:35Z")
Awwwwww. . .slam fuckin’ DUNK motherfuckers!!! _Quadrophobia_ What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/28 "2005-04-13T17:25:05Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > _Xanadu_ soundtrack on **CD.** > > I win. _Xanadu_ movie on **VHS**. I win in a related category. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/29 "2005-04-13T17:45:35Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > I for one sometimes intentionally choose some of my more jarring tracks, just to see how long it takes friends to beg for change or laugh at me. I have a CD of Finnish folk music I use for this purpose. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/30 "2005-04-13T17:56:06Z")
I am a twenty-nine year old single female with eclectic musical tastes. (I own _both_ JCS and Avril Lavigne–as does my mother, which might worry me more.) Like **Regallag** , the largest possibility is the sudden and ear-shattering attack of the Hair Metal Bands. I’m from New Jersey, I’m _expected_ to own every Bon Jovi album (which I don’t)–but people who think you’re cool will completely reverse their opinion when they discover that the CD in the player is Poison’s _Look What the Cat Dragged In._ I get embarrassed about some of my musical soundtracks, too. Mostly because I’m singing along at the top of my lungs, so that’s totally my fault. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/31 "2005-04-13T17:57:24Z")
Compact Discust (pronounced ‘disgust’, for anyone who can’t read that.) ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/32 "2005-04-13T18:00:07Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I have a CD of Finnish folk music I use for this purpose. 🙂 [Zoolander] Oh, this is this fantastic band, the Little Kings, I met when I was ice sailing in Finland. And that’s my sherpa, Lap Sang. [/Zoolander] ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/33 "2005-04-13T18:01:11Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > For \*\*Hyperelastic \*\* it should be _Discomfiture_, but I’m not sure how to pronouce it. Maybe for everyone, if we emphasis the “disc” rather than the “disco”. I like that better than my suggestion. 😃 More multipurpose, though in my case the emphasis would be ‘ **Disco** mfiture’. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/34 "2005-04-13T18:48:01Z")
I was thinking about this while driving around at lunch, and it occurred to me that I’m really not terribly concerned about what anyone who might get into my car would think–these are people that know me, and know I’m odd. It’s _other drivers_, who stare at me in traffic and might even be able to hear me through the windows, that concern me. What do we call that? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/35 "2005-04-13T19:00:00Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > It’s _other drivers_, who stare at me in traffic and might even be able to hear me through the windows, that concern me. What do we call that? I don’t know what to call it, but I’ve discovered that the only way to deal with it is to **go wild**. If someone catches you singing along in your car…turn and sing **to them!** Throw all of your passion into it. Make their day!. If you are playing air guitar, go Pete Townshend on them. Get those windmill strums a rockin’! It’[s the only way to avoid major embarassment and laughter from the other car. Make **them** slink away, not you. This also works with opera. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/36 "2005-04-13T19:04:56Z")
What do you call it when I’m driving up I-95 with _50 Cent_ cranked, and then when I get to a red light on MLK Blvd. in Baltimore City, I turn it way down, or off? We need a name for that. Yes, I know it happened in “Office Space”. I also know it happens to me like 3 days a week. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/37 "2005-04-13T19:15:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I don’t know what to call it, but I’ve discovered that the only way to deal with it is to **go wild**. You’re absolutely brilliant. I now look forward to being stuck in traffic next to some old stuffy stick-in-the-mud who thinks I’m crazy and shouldn’t be allowed on the road. Thank you. Thank you so much. 🙂 **Trunk** , I believe that’s called _Whiteguydoesntwannagethisassbeatophobia._ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/38 "2005-04-13T19:22:11Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > You’re absolutely brilliant. I now look forward to being stuck in traffic next to some old stuffy stick-in-the-mud who thinks I’m crazy and shouldn’t be allowed on the road. Thank you. Thank you so much. 🙂 > > **Trunk** , I believe that’s called _Whiteguydoesntwannagethisassbeatophobia._ That’s a catchy name, but it’s not really that either. More like “white guy from the other side of town doesn’t want to act like _he’s down_.” ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/39 "2005-04-13T20:42:26Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > I’m glad to tell you that you’re not alone. But, then again, I’m a 15-year-old Canadian girl. So, maybe you are alone… ☹ No, Troy’s definitely not alone (28 y.o. straight male, owns 2 Avril CDs). -DF ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009/40 "2005-04-14T02:51:06Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > That’s a catchy name, but it’s not really that either. > > More like “white guy from the other side of town doesn’t want to act like _he’s down_.” Well, judging from the hiphop fans in my life, I don’t think there’s much risk that anyone will think you’re down because you listen to 50 Cent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/propose-a-name-for-this-embarrassing-event/299009.md?page=3)