# "Where r u" -- "In mnhol hlp" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771 "2009-07-12T18:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/41 "2009-07-13T19:17:15Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > oddly, I recall the name of the _dog_, but not of the guy. Probably because Winston is such an awesomely amusing name for a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/42 "2009-07-13T19:38:08Z")
> [@supergoose](#): > > Probably because Winston is such an awesomely amusing name for a dog. No, Winston is only for bulldogs. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/43 "2009-07-13T19:46:22Z")
Man, that sounds like something I would do. Still hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/44 "2009-07-13T20:05:02Z")
Mom: Where’s Alexa? Dad: Dunno, she texted she’s walking down Aaauuuggghhh… Mom: What? Dad: She’s walking down Aaauuuggghhh… Mom: That doesn’t make sense. Dad: Something must have happened while she was texting. Mom: Oh come on! Dad: Well, that’s what it says. Mom: Look, if something happened, she wouldn’t have bothered to text ‘Aaaauuuggghhhh’. She’d just say it. Dad: Maybe she was dictating it. Mom: Oh shut up! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/45 "2009-07-13T20:18:44Z")
> [@raguleader](#): > > or, you know, if the dog is texting.:eek: yr bt sml gd ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/46 "2009-07-13T20:25:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > No, Winston is only for bulldogs. He was a German Shepherd. So… “Vinstön”, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/47 "2009-07-13T20:31:24Z")
I hereby nominate the OP for the coveted **Really Not All That Bright’s Favorite Thread Titles Award.** ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/48 "2009-07-13T21:05:53Z")
This is the same stupidity that gets pedestrians run over by cars. It also causes wrecks when drivers decide to text message instead of, you know, drive the damn car!! ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/49 "2009-07-13T21:23:20Z")
This is the best part > [@](#): > > Alexa lost one of her sneakers in the sewer. She does not want it back. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/50 "2009-07-13T23:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Her mother, Kim Longueira, said it doesn’t matter that her daughter was walking and texting, and also, the ‘gross’ factor that can’t be ignored. Is there some statute protecting people from the gross factor? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/51 "2009-07-14T00:10:39Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Is there some statute protecting people from the gross factor? You’ve heard of [_attractive nuisance_](http://www.nolopress.com/definition.cfm/Term/9501915B-CA16-42DA-9108FE98965C0AAB/alpha/A/)? Well this is _unattractive nuisance_, familiarly referred to as “gross factor.” ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/52 "2009-07-14T16:03:24Z")
The gross factor is a mathematical term for any number divisible by 144. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/53 "2009-07-14T20:50:04Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Upon further thought, I have decided it would be hillarious if a blind person fell in a manhole while texting on his phone. I have seen blind people text before, but always while sitting or standing. All it takes is a phone with a full alphabet selection (ideally the full keypad, but if you do the old fashioned “hit 2 once for A, twice for B, three times for C” that works too) that can vocalize received texts. (The rest of the keystrokes are memorized.) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/54 "2009-07-20T21:53:34Z")
Here’s a TV report on this incident: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hk-ru57A-c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hk-ru57A-c) ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/55 "2009-07-21T02:12:23Z")
Oh, the humanity! How much more dramatic could the reporters have been? Slow news day, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/56 "2009-07-21T13:39:16Z")
Ya know, if my teenage son was walking along with his head up his ass, not paying attention to the world around him, and he fell down a manhole, once I ascertained that he was okay I’d be laughing my fool ass off. I would then make sure I bring it up at every family gathering we both attended for the rest of my life. Does that make me a bad mother? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/57 "2009-07-21T14:10:55Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Does that make me a bad mother? No, but I thought the last word in your post was going to be “father”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/58 "2009-07-22T15:27:26Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > No, but I thought the last word in your post was going to be “father”. 🙂 🆒 Totally off-topic, but people I talk to on the phone call me “sir” all the time. And I’ve heard recordings of my calls, I have the voice of a 12 year old girl. I guess I have masculine syntax or something. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771/59 "2009-07-22T18:22:09Z")
The workers were negligent. That doesn’t make this any less hilarious, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-r-u-in-mnhol-hlp/502771.md?page=2)