Editing Talk:952: Stud Finder

In most of the U.S. local building codes specify 16 inches (about 41 cm) center-to-center as the standard distance between wooden studs.[[Special:Contributions/138.163.106.72|wknehans]] 15:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


Could Black Hat probably have fixed Cueball's stud finder so that it always showed studs everywhere? [[User:Guru-45|Guru-45]] ([[User talk:Guru-45|talk]]) 15:23, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
:Well, I think it's Randall who's talking in the alt-text. --[[User:Castriff|Jimmy C]] ([[User talk:Castriff|talk]]) 17:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I thought Black Hat was about to say he had a "stud" for sale.  Which can be taken in one of several ways... [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.63|199.27.128.63]] 21:34, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I've always taken this as Black Hat doing in real life what obnoxious advertisers do on the Internet.  Which is to say, take key words out of things you type (like your email or a search box) and advertise at you based on that.  Black Hat pounced on the word "stud" and Lord only knows what products might be advertised at you based on that word, especially out of the twisted mind of BH, and Cueball is smart enough to head that one off at the pass. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.54|108.162.216.54]] 23:50, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I think this is obviously sexual innuendo and not about a "stud finder finder". (for non-native speakers, "stud" can also mean "sexually attractive male") Black Hat is offering Cueball access to some sort of technology allowing sexually available gay men to locate each other. One example would be an app like Grindr, which connects users based on their physical proximity to each other at any given moment. Someone using such an app, at least in an area with a large gay population, would indeed be confronted with a menu of "a rapidly shifting network of hundreds and hundreds of studs". [[User:EristicWidgeon|EristicWidgeon]] ([[User talk:EristicWidgeon|talk]]) 14:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Note to all:  stud-finder-finder is obviously and completely correct.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 20:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:I concur. Al´though there are obviously many other references to the words Stud, then by saying he has a product that will interest a guy that is already looking for his own stud finder, it would not make much sense that the product should not be for finding the stud finder. (And not for finding studs etc.) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:43, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

At first, I thought Cueball was referring to rats in his walls in the title text. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.100|108.162.216.100]] 20:40, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

It's a little bizarre that Cueball appears to want a stud finder to hang a picture. That's…mostly impractical and more trouble than it's worth. (Also, most people who hang pictures don't have stud finders, I claim.) A picture is one of the lightest things you can mount to a wall, it's normal to use a drywall anchor (of various types) or even forgo the anchor and use a picture-frame hanging hook (cf. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/choosing-proper-fastener). I'm not sure if Randall is just taking a shortcut here to come up with something that you could plausibly use a stud finder for, even though normally you would not, because illustrating, e.g., a bookshelf might be harder? Or perhaps he actually uses stud finders to hang pictures, which would be an example of overkill (Should there be a Category, like "tangential overkill"? It could include this comic, 952, as well as [[1384: Krypton]] and [[804: Pumpkin Carving]]). Or maybe something else? It's hard to know what is meant ironically, and thus hard to know what to put in the commentary. [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 22:46, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
:Hey, I bought this stud finder, I need my money’s worth >:( [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu|talk]]) 16:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)