What some of my colleagues DO all day. Though our jobs are taxpayer funded, so it kind of is my business.
Only my business in a very narrow genetic sense: if I have a half sibling, and what they are like. My dad was a sperm donor to a lesbian couple long before he met my mum.
Which celebrities are gay. I really would LOVE to go to one of those exclusive parties for closet cases.
Which celebs are really assholes.
There was a girl in high school, in the year above me. I didn’t know her, really, but it was a tiny school so everyone sort of knew everyone. She was nice, in a not-really-my-type-of-person way, but nice.
I left the country a few weeks after graduation. Maybe ten years later, I have a flatmate from the city where I went to school, and we’re talking about our schools and I mention this girl’s name (her family was pretty well known). My flatmate’s jaw drops and she says, ‘You don’t know?’
This girl had disappeared, years earlier. It was big news in the country where I went to school, because of her being from there and from a well-known family. Over here, it never made the news, and since we weren’t close and our friends didn’t overlap and this was pre-Facebook, I never heard about it.
No one’s ever found out what happened to her. There have been plenty of theories, but no one knows for sure. Not my business since I barely knew her, but still, I wish I knew. I’d like to say ‘I hope she’s OK’, but that seems unlikely.
This is the “none-of-my-molly-focking-business” question for me - eclectic wench, that didn’t happen to be in S.C., did it? A friend of my brother’s disappeared one night after a concert in Columbia, and my brother was questioned (briefly) because he was the last bar patron she was seen talking to, other than the bouncer.
And now that I think about it, that would be my question - where did she go? It was a huge concert (U2), and there were thousands of concert-goers in the area of Columbia where she disappeared. Someone HAD to have seen SOMETHING.
U2 played Columbia?
I have to wonder where. Williams-Brice Stadium is the only place I can think of they wouldn’t overflow, and even that’s assuming they put out chairs over 2/3 of the playing field.
I want to know if my aunt was born disabled or if she suffered a brain injury as an infant. She was born in the early 30’s – anyone who might have known and any medical records are long gone. I always wondered what she would have been like if she had been able to communicate better. Those were the days when there really wasn’t any sort of special education. She had a home-grown sort of sign-language so could communicate basic needs, but not much more.
I also want to know the whole story of WallyM7.http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=542334&highlight=wallym7
What a mess that was.
Lets just say she had a bit of a hair trigger. 
Either I’m too much of an old fogey to understand what you mean by that, or you and I have a VERY different definition of the phrase “nothing happened between us.” 
Hey, she had sensitive feet! I was so incredibly naive at the time I didn’t even realize what was happening initially.
Yeah, whatever. They were so on/off and dysfunctional I stopped caring after a while.
It was W-B, and it was a madhouse (according to my brother). 1992, ZooTV tour. Thousands and thousands of people who didn’t even have tickets flooded the streets just to be a part of the experience, and that’s what makes this girl’s disappearance so freaky. My brother was talking to her in a bar, said he’d give her a ride home after he went to the bathroom, went to the bathroom and came back out and she was gone.
Apparently, she talked to the bouncer for a few minutes before she left, then left…and literally disappeared. In a crowd of thousands of people in the streets in the Five Points area.
What if they have more than one missile?
A guy I know, a friend of my mom’s, apparently did some work for the Navy involving submarines. He can’t talk about it, ever. I wanna know!
My father used to work for the state, apparently doing something involving tobacco. But he carried a pistol in his car. Why?
Three years ago my uncle ODed on heroine. He was 30 years old with two children, and had just gotten out of the psychiatric hospital due to severe depression. That evening he had called his sister and told her he was lonely and asked to come over. She told him no because she was so fed up with the drug use, they got into a big fight that also somehow involved his girlfriend and the rest is history. I guess it doesn’t really make a difference one way or another, but I want to know if he intentionally committed suicide.
For those of us who failed remedial read-between-the-lines: You massaged her feet and that took her to the promised land!?
You da man!
Now I’m seriously confused, because I still lived in Columbia in '92. What the hell was I doing to miss that?
Dude, only you can figure that one out 
Although that information just moved to the top of “things that are none of my business” list.
September 23, 1992. Did you move away that summer, maybe?
My Aunt was adopted by my very catholic grandmother after my grandfather died in WWII but she looks an awful lot like my mother (to the point I have mistaken them for each other from behind) and also like my grandmother in her younger years. Also my adopted aunt is diabetic and I can remember as a child my mother once being concerned that it might run in the family.
I’m never going to ask but I’d love to know what the story is.
My mother’s father died before she was married, so well before I came along.
According to my father (my mother will not discuss her father), my maternal grandfather had a whole other family on the side—a wife/mistress and at least one kid. I want to know.
I guess it’s my business, but I have no way of finding out. I’d like to know if my dad knew I was coming - that his wife was pregnant - when he died.
I want to know what happened to the guy that murdered my grandfather. He was never officially caught, but apparently my Uncle (at the time), who was a politician with supposed ties to organized crime, came to my grandmother and told her it had “been taken care of.”
This was over thirty years ago, that Uncle is now deceased, so I guess I’ll never know. My grandmother might know, but I’d never dare ask her.
Dude. I was in middle school and I went to that concert! With my mom!
And I assume the girl is Dail Dinwiddie, who is famous for being missing. God, there were signs up for years and I’m shocked Jungle Jim’s didn’t go out of business as the last place she was seen alive. I can see the signs now in my mind’s eye.
Oh, I forgot to say what I’m nosy about! I had a best friend for more than a decade - through high school, grad school, job search, etc. We practically lived in each other’s pockets. My parents should have been able to claim her on their tax returns. She stayed at my house more than her own house.
So, she finally meets this guy, this conservative Christian guy. And she stops answering my calls. Claims to be having phone problems. It took me months to figure out that he didn’t want her seeing me because I was a ‘bad influence’, evidently because when we’d all three hung out I’d mentioned a few guys I had dated. (Seriously. I still haven’t slept with more than ten guys.) I mean, I’d always known she was kind of weak, but seriously? So obviously I dropped out of contact with her, although we’re in the same sort of job so I see her maybe once a year or so. I don’t speak to her.
The last time I saw her she’d gotten so fat I couldn’t even be happy about it. And if I can’t get down with the schadenfreude, you know it’s bad.
So, is she still WITH that asshole? Are they married? Does she feel guilty? Pathetic? Does she miss me? Is he as controlling as I assumed? WTF is going on there, or went on there, or used to be going on there?