{"id":196,"date":"2007-03-17T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/17\/the-stupidest-thing-ive-ever-done-to-myself\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T23:56:44","slug":"the-stupidest-thing-ive-ever-done-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/17\/the-stupidest-thing-ive-ever-done-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE STUPIDEST THING I&#8217;VE EVER DONE TO MYSELF&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading Cecil Adam&#8217;s <em>Straight Dope<\/em> column for more than twenty years. If you are familiar with his work, you know that he has managed to cop a pretty good living crafting informative and entertaining answers to his readers&#8217; many arcane questions (and man, would I love to have his job!). <a href=\"http:\/\/straightdope.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StraightDope.com<\/a> is definitely a <a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/category\/www\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website Worth Watching<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/\" target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a> of Cecil&#8217;s writing, the website also hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Straight Dope Message Board<\/a>, one of the livelier discussion forums you&#8217;re likely to encounter. My favorite is the <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/forumdisplay.php?s=&amp;forumid=4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MPSIMS<\/strong><\/a> (&#8220;<em>Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share<\/em>&#8220;) and a thread titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=164457\" target=\"_blank\">The stupidest thing I&#8217;ve ever done to myself<\/a>&#8220;. It began when a woman described punching herself in the nose while trying to put on her bra. After a few hasty inquiries from sensitive men who wanted to make sure that her breasts were all right, a long thread soon grew as more contributors described various self-inflicted bodily injuries. Something about this thread has inspired numerous tales, and there are now well over a hundred posts detailing all types of pratfalls, black eyes, blows to the skull and other precious body parts.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I have too many of my own tales to recount here , but the thread reminded me of a time that I faced my own mortality with razor-like reflexes and a hearty &#8220;<em>nyuck-nyuck<\/em>&#8220;, in an incident I can only call:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/25\/my-death-as-a-stooge\/\" target=\"_blank\">MY DEATH AS A STOOGE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading Cecil Adam&#8217;s Straight Dope column for more than twenty years. If you are familiar with his work, you know that he has managed to cop a pretty good living crafting informative and entertaining answers to his readers&#8217; many arcane questions (and man, would I love to have his job!). 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