# Your "I had'nt thought of that" moment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656 "2009-04-01T23:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/41 "2009-04-04T17:19:34Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I’ll wait for someone to ask before explaining it, just so I don’t have to feel alone. Let’s say that I’m on a computer in the lab today and I decide that I’ll want to use it tomorrow. So while I’m there I just go ahead and make the reservation. Or I’m at a computer in an Internet cafe and decide that I’ll want to make a reservation for a computer in the library. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/42 "2009-04-04T17:25:50Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > Or I’m at a computer in an Internet cafe and decide that I’ll want to make a reservation for a computer in the library. Certain possible. But internet cafes are nothing like common around here. Basically, the irony is that the _vast_ majority of people using the internet at the library (around here, anyway) do so because they don’t have anywhere else they can use the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/43 "2009-04-04T19:56:05Z")
One I just had the other day: I was rereading the part of **The Zombie Survival Guide** where zombie outbreaks throughout history are recorded, including one where French Legionaires were beseiged at a desert fortress. Not being a French speaker, I was wondering how if I magically appeared then that I could tell them to use head shots. Word for head? Maybe related to “capit” somehow, as in decapitate? So I would have to tell the capitaine’ to… the Head? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/44 "2009-04-04T20:21:59Z")
We had just moved into a new apartment, and the front door would remain unlocked until you locked it again with a key. In our previous apartment, the front door would lock automatically, you didn’t have to turn the key. I noticed a toggle on the lock, and I thought to myself “Hey, I bet if I toggled this toggle, the door would lock automatically!” Too bad I had that realization when I was standing OUTSIDE. I had my “oops, I hadn’t thought that through” moment just as the door swung shut and automatically locked. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/45 "2009-04-05T03:49:11Z")
My friend gets new glasses. They look great on him, so I try them on - wondering what they look like on me. It’s all a bit of a blur in the mirror so I ask him how I look … he says it’s all a bit of a blur. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/46 "2009-04-05T06:48:35Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > On shows like “Man vs. Wild” whatever cliff face the host is climbing up, there must be a cameraman doing the same thing but with a big-ass camera on his/her back while trying to get the shot. Makes the talking head seem like kind of a wimp, eh? Same with the show “Mantracker”. Basically, a Marlboro Man-esque horseman tracks a couple of city slickers through the wilderness in an attempt to catch them before they reach a specified goal. There are camera shots of the prey throughout the show as they are running, jumping and hiding behind shrubs. The cameraman has to keep up with the prey all the while maintaining the shot. While I’d appreciate his athleticism, if I was a contestant I could see myself constantly asking the camera man to “Get Down!” or “Hurry Up!”. I wonder if the cameraman wears camo to assist in removing himself from the equation. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/47 "2009-04-05T13:46:09Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > One I just had the other day: > > I was rereading the part of **The Zombie Survival Guide** where zombie outbreaks throughout history are recorded, including one where French Legionaires were beseiged at a desert fortress. Not being a French speaker, I was wondering how if I magically appeared then that I could tell them to use head shots. Word for head? Maybe related to “capit” somehow, as in decapitate? So I would have to tell the capitaine’ to… the Head? :smack: Couldn’t you just have a tete-a-tete with the capitaine? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/48 "2009-04-05T14:59:36Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > My friend gets new glasses. They look great on him, so I try them on - wondering what they look like on me. It’s all a bit of a blur in the mirror so I ask him how I look … he says it’s all a bit of a blur. HA! That’s great. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/49 "2009-04-05T15:51:21Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > Same with the show “Mantracker”. Basically, a Marlboro Man-esque horseman tracks a couple of city slickers through the wilderness in an attempt to catch them before they reach a specified goal. > > There are camera shots of the prey throughout the show as they are running, jumping and hiding behind shrubs. The cameraman has to keep up with the prey all the while maintaining the shot. While I’d appreciate his athleticism, if I was a contestant I could see myself constantly asking the camera man to “Get Down!” or “Hurry Up!”. I wonder if the cameraman wears camo to assist in removing himself from the equation. I’m so glad someone else has noticed this! The prey works so hard at not leaving any trail, but I suspect that the cameraperson is far too busy to be that careful, thereby destroying any efforts the prey has made. Even worse, I’ve seen an episode where the prey was paddling a canoe in the middle of a lake, and the camera shot appeared to be from directly above. I can only assume that means it was taken from a helicopter, which I further assume would be awfully easy for Mantracker to spot. Once I noticed that shot, I started seeing a number of different overhead shots of the prey that could only have come from helicopters. The realization spoiled any chance I had of believing he’s actually tracking them using ‘just his wits’. Right. Just his wits, and by following the giant hovering aircraft. ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/50 "2009-04-06T14:27:39Z")
The washbasin in my toilet has a removeable screw-on ‘cup’ attached to the bottom of the pipe below the plughole. I guess the idea is that if you dropped anything valuable down the plughole, you could unscrew the cup and recover your valuable object. I noticed that the cup wasn’t screwed on straight, so I unscrewed it. The cup was full of water, of course. No problem, I’ll just pour that water down the washbasin plughole, and then screw the cup back on… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/51 "2009-04-06T23:47:58Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > My friend gets new glasses. They look great on him, so I try them on - wondering what they look like on me. It’s all a bit of a blur in the mirror so I ask him how I look … he says it’s all a bit of a blur. I did something similar a few days ago. I have a sleep mask I bought for travel (though I’m too paranoid to use it) and I sometimes use it for naps. The other day I put it on and thought, “Hey I must look pretty silly wearing this. I should look in the mirror to see.” Then it clicked that, as I was blindfolded, looking in the mirror wouldn’t really work all that well. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/52 "2009-04-06T23:53:45Z")
The Monkees, I imagine, were named in a reverse process from the Beatles. “Mon-KEYS”, looks like a musical pun. Better change the spelling." ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/53 "2009-04-07T01:52:02Z")
> [@Caveat\_lector\_1](#): > > I did something similar a few days ago. I have a sleep mask I bought for travel > (though I’m too paranoid to use it) and I sometimes use it for naps. The other day I put it on and thought, “Hey I must look pretty silly wearing this. I should look in the mirror to see.” Then it clicked that, as I was blindfolded, looking in the mirror wouldn’t really work all that well. You couldn’t possibly look as silly as [Arlene Francis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI) (YouTube link). ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/54 "2009-04-07T05:17:02Z")
Okay that was _weird._ Seeing him doing that clip while knowing that he’d go one to be one of the more important presidents was just…disconcerning somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656/55 "2009-04-07T12:19:05Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > My friend gets new glasses. They look great on him, so I try them on - wondering what they look like on me. It’s all a bit of a blur in the mirror so I ask him how I look … he says it’s all a bit of a blur. You just cracked me up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-hadnt-thought-of-that-moment/491656.md?page=2)