# What the hell did I mean by this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286 "2012-10-30T02:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/21 "2012-10-30T06:35:54Z")
Must Squeeze Hemorrhoids ---
**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:** [October 30, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/22 "2012-10-30T07:01:51Z")
Mount Saint Helens? Is it about time to explode? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/23 "2012-10-30T08:51:55Z")
Must stay home? 14 K of G in a MSH? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/24 "2012-10-30T13:12:37Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > given the OP’s username, it can only be: > > Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Not a single one of you will believe this, but this is the answer. And I did not realize it until a minute or so after I read this response. I don’t know if I ever would have come up with it on my own. This is the strangest thing that has happened to me in recent memory. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/25 "2012-10-30T13:19:41Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Not a single one of you will believe this, but this is the answer. And I did not realize it until a minute or so after I read this response. I don’t know if I ever would have come up with it on my own. > > This is the strangest thing that has happened to me in recent memory. > mmm 😕 I think I need an explanation as to why you’d need a reminder for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Yes, I know this is a Beatles’ song title. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/26 "2012-10-30T13:19:59Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > This is the strangest thing that has happened to me in recent memory. “In recent memory”? There goes the air from that balloon. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/27 "2012-10-30T17:26:04Z")
OK, I give up. Why did you enter a reminder for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer today?!? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/28 "2012-10-30T17:44:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > OK, I give up. Why did you enter a reminder for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer today?!? I’m subscribing purely to see the answer to this. C’mon, man – out with it! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/29 "2012-10-30T17:50:04Z")
Yeah. Color me intrigued… ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/30 "2012-10-30T17:58:38Z")
Perhaps it’s his Halloween costume? At least we can be reasonably sure the OP will in fact post again, so we can hound him incessantly until he coughs up an explanation… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/31 "2012-10-30T18:06:56Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > At least we can be reasonably sure the OP will in fact post again, so we can hound him incessantly until he coughs up an explanation… Well, I wouldn’t hound him too much if he’s actually got Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Keep an eye out beyind you… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/32 "2012-10-30T18:13:02Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > OK, I give up. Why did you enter a reminder for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer today?!? Trip to the hardware store? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/33 "2012-10-30T18:30:56Z")
\*Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine…\* I’m going to sing it over and over and over until you tell us why you put in that reminder… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/34 "2012-10-30T19:22:18Z")
I’m tempted to leave you all in suspense, but I hate when people do that. I play the piano. I had my iPod on shuffle the other day and MSH came up. It occurred to me that that would be a fun song to mess around with on the ivories. Today was the first chance I’d have time to play, so I set a reminder to give Maxwell a go. It is frightening how quickly and easily my brain farted on that one. And shout out to **Peter Morris**! My OP was just for kicks; I had zero expectation of resolving the issue with it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/35 "2012-10-30T19:25:53Z")
Best mystery thread in awhile. Bizarre situation posed, explanations offered, one was cryptically correct, OP returned and clarified. All within 18 hours. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/36 "2012-10-30T19:27:53Z")
MSH will always be the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game to me! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/37 "2012-10-30T19:31:47Z")
Is there literally NOTHING the dope cannot answer? Other than the stupid G of B in a PDQ or whatever? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/38 "2012-10-30T19:32:27Z")
Admit it. You threw out three random letters to see what we’d come up with, then chose the most interesting and unlikely one just to intrigue us, right? ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/39 "2012-10-30T19:53:44Z")
Now, here, before the great answer was revealed, I kept thinking Memorize ShortHand …you know, so he could stop forgetting what it was he was entering in the Forgetful app and therefore make the thing useful when strange codes appeared weeks later. —G! Bang! Bang! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286/40 "2012-10-30T20:05:47Z")
> [@For You](#): > > Mount Saint Helens? I’d prefer to mount Salma Hayek, TBH. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-did-i-mean-by-this/639286.md?page=3)