# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 399
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8351 "2026-09-23T18:28:08Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Nothing to do with you, of course, it’s just your comment brought that time back full force. I’m sorry, I should have known better. > [@robby](#): > > Along with a hull breach, a main steam line rupture was one of the two things I was always aware of that could kill me the fastest in a submarine engine room. For me (on a CVN, not a sub) it was steam line rupture or electricity. Especially the 4160V. Radiation was a nothingburger by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8352 "2026-09-23T19:57:40Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I’m sorry, I should have known better. No problem You weren’t to know. I hadn’t thought about it in quite a while (it was over 40 years ago), but the memory came rushing back. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8353 "2026-09-23T21:00:36Z")
Has there been a thread on this board that has wandered further afield than this one, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8354 "2026-09-23T21:18:24Z")
What were we **THINKING**? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8355 "2026-09-23T21:35:58Z")
What ~~were~~ _are_ we **THINKING**? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8356 "2026-09-23T21:40:17Z")
Are we thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8357 "2026-09-23T21:45:35Z")
And if not, are we? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8358 "2026-09-23T21:51:10Z")
Everyone has a THINK…kinda like we all have a, _well you know._ 🙄 😄 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8359 "2026-09-23T22:14:07Z")
I’m using the [Think Method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man_(1962_film)) to learn how to play Beethoven’s Minuet in G on the trombone. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8360 "2026-09-23T22:17:40Z")
I used to play trombone. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8361 "2026-09-23T22:18:30Z")
I still do, but I used to, too. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8362 "2026-09-23T23:17:03Z")
I play trombone as well. Low brass kicks ass! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8363 "2026-09-23T23:19:57Z")
My three favorite musical instruments are Hammond B3 Organ with Leslie Amplifier, Pedal Steel Guitar and Baritone Sax. Trombone is probably #4. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8364 "2026-09-23T23:29:14Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Has there been a thread on this board that has wandered further afield than this one, I wonder? Yes, the original Trolls’R’Us thread, which was abandoned precisely because of hopeless hijacks. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8365 "2026-09-23T23:29:56Z")
–Prays for someone without an earned Pit thread to say something stupid and save us all from the Hijacks– ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8366 "2026-09-23T23:37:35Z")
Trombone is my favorite jazz instrument. Not because I play it or even know much about jazz, but because if I see a trombone in a jazz band, I know they won’t be taking themselves too seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8367 "2026-09-23T23:38:41Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Has there been a thread on this board that has wandered further afield than this one, I wonder? It’s not wandering. It’s lying in wait. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8368 "2026-09-23T23:50:01Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > if I see a trombone in a jazz band, I know they won’t be taking themselves too seriously. Doubly so if there’s a [tromboon](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tromboon). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8369 "2026-09-23T23:52:33Z")
Pennsylvania 6-5000. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8370 "2026-09-24T00:02:15Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Yes, the original Trolls’R’Us thread, which was abandoned precisely because of hopeless hijacks. It turned into a few people fighting back and forth and _would not stop_, and I got tired of it and made a new one. That’s probably the worst hijack I’ve ever seen of any thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=398) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=400)