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Title: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: geoteo on July 02, 2019, 01:07:26 PM
Rude Discussions and Refinements
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: aside on July 05, 2019, 07:40:48 PM
Sphincter article:  The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors

Ouch!
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: ab_grp on July 10, 2019, 10:18:25 AM
consulting pig
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: ab_grp on September 06, 2019, 04:42:31 PM
Avita! (the musical, sort of?)
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: archaeo42 on September 07, 2019, 06:44:06 AM
Applying as an asshole

I did a double take
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: ab_grp on September 07, 2019, 01:23:01 PM
Quote from: ab_grp on September 06, 2019, 04:42:31 PM
Avita! (the musical, sort of?)

I just looked more closely and realized that I read it correctly. Hmm!
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: traductio on September 18, 2019, 06:19:52 AM
IT help while in the bathroom
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: FishProf on February 15, 2021, 09:21:18 AM
I don't think we have a thread for misread usernames, so I'm putting it here.

For months, I read you as Liquid ARM-BAR (and thought, ooh, a wrasslin' fan)
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: Liquidambar on February 15, 2021, 05:44:08 PM
Quote from: FishProf on February 15, 2021, 09:21:18 AM
I don't think we have a thread for misread usernames, so I'm putting it here.

For months, I read you as Liquid ARM-BAR (and thought, ooh, a wrasslin' fan)

Ha, that's awesome!  Yes, I can do an arm bar, but in fact my name is a genus of tree.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: ab_grp on February 16, 2021, 04:13:39 PM
Quilt it! Every single time, no idea why.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: dismalist on February 21, 2021, 07:04:53 PM
For Vaccination Nation I've always read Vacation Nation.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: Langue_doc on September 14, 2021, 05:41:05 PM
Reviving this thread.

I still read that title as "Ventilation and Flirtation", only to be sadly disappointed.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: mamselle on September 14, 2021, 06:24:25 PM
Quote from: Langue_doc on September 14, 2021, 05:41:05 PM
Reviving this thread.

I still read that title as "Ventilation and Flirtation", only to be sadly disappointed.

Me, too.

That's why I started a "Lonely Hearts Club" thread, here!'

   http://thefora.org/index.php?topic=2574.msg84296#msg84296

And then when I went to look for the link, just now, I discovered that smallcleanrat had started a similar one much longer ago (Oct/2020), here:

   http://thefora.org/index.php?topic=1849.msg48198#msg48198

It ran for 6 pages and the last post was on July 19 of this year...and I had posted to it, as well.

So much for my brain cells!!

;--}

M.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: Langue_doc on September 15, 2021, 05:45:50 AM
Quote from: mamselle on September 14, 2021, 06:24:25 PM
Quote from: Langue_doc on September 14, 2021, 05:41:05 PM
Reviving this thread.

I still read that title as "Ventilation and Flirtation", only to be sadly disappointed.

Me, too.

That's why I started a "Lonely Hearts Club" thread, here!'

   http://thefora.org/index.php?topic=2574.msg84296#msg84296

And then when I went to look for the link, just now, I discovered that smallcleanrat had started a similar one much longer ago (Oct/2020), here:

   http://thefora.org/index.php?topic=1849.msg48198#msg48198

It ran for 6 pages and the last post was on July 19 of this year...and I had posted to it, as well.

So much for my brain cells!!

;--}

M.

Wouldn't you agree, though, that flirtation in the teaching thread is much more salacious and therefore much more interesting than flirtation in the general discussion thread?
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: mamselle on September 15, 2021, 07:08:12 AM
Hmmmm.....

I suppose it depends on the object of the flirtation. But, yes, indeed, it could be.

In fact, is that one of the losses to faculty from Covid isolation measures? Reduced opportunities for flirting among the faculty?

Hmmm...

M.
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: ab_grp on September 15, 2021, 10:59:33 AM
Not really a misreading, but every time I see that thread title I hear in my head "English, %^&%$! Do you speak it?!" (from Pulp Fiction) solely because of the format of the title (financial advisors? do you use one?).
Title: Re: Misread Thread Titles
Post by: dismalist on September 15, 2021, 05:19:50 PM
"The living hell of multi factor authentication" I first misread as "the living hell of multivariable integral calculus." :-)