# Thank you, Captain Obvious!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 26, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335 "2013-10-26T23:03:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335/21 "2013-10-28T21:15:21Z")

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From a colleague doing testing on various browsers after updating a web site:

“My testing with IE has shown that each different version of IE has a different set of problems.”

Yep, that’s what makes web developers dream of one day living on a comet.

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**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:** [October 10, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335/22 "2014-10-10T17:15:33Z")

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Today on CNN’s homepage:

**Girl: Dick’s catalogs are sexist**

Well, yes. It _is_ called _Dick’s_, after all.

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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335/23 "2014-10-10T17:22:55Z")

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A news story about some local town history. History of our “POPULAR red light district”.

Not the unpopular one on the other side of town I suppose.

Nor our world famous red light district.

More like WTF? than Capt Obvious but still.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-captain-obvious/672335/24 "2014-10-10T18:45:55Z")

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It said on the label of a sleep aid I sometimes take -

> [@](#):
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> May cause drowsiness.

I would certainly hope so.

Regards,  
Shodan

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