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firechief - 01 Jun 2005 00:34 GMT

Most Amazing Questions

Some questions need no answers. Here are
a few of Marilyn vos Savants favorites.

When dogs bark for hours on end, why don't they ever get
hoarse?

Can sour cream go bad? Is so, how can you tell? Please
answer soon, because I have an unopened container in the
back of my refrigerator with an expiration date of April
1996.

You're at a baseball game and the visiting team is at bat.
The batter hits a long line drive heading into the stands:
a home run! Assume everyone in the stands starts blowing
into the air as hard as they can. Do you think this would
produce enough force to blow the ball back onto the field?

What is the purpose of earlobes besides hanging things on?

In the extreme Northern and Southern Hemispheres, where
there is light for half the year and dark the other half,
does a rooster crow only once a year?

Why don't people snore when they are awake?

Why do wet dogs stink while dry ones smell fine?

Don't you think - anatomically speaking - men would be
more comfortable in skirts and women in pants?
(And why don't men ride sidesaddle?)

When I'm walking my dog - considering he has twice
as many legs as I do - is he getting twice as much
exercise as I am....or half as much?

What size were hail stones before the game of golf
was invented?

Is volcano dust good to eat?

When you pick something up so your hands are full, why
does your nose of someplace else on your face start to
itch?

Do fish ever sneeze?

Could leap year be switched from February 29 t June 31?
it would give us an extra day of summer and one less day
of winter?

Why do people like to pop bubble wrap so much?

Suppose the hokey-poley is what it's all about?

Can you please explain gravity in plain English? I have
tried to do some research on the subject, but it always
jumps right into mathematics that is way over my head.

... Your secrets are safe with me and my friends.

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Nann Bell - 01 Jun 2005 02:52 GMT

> Why don't people snore when they are awake?

actaully, Ive known some who did/do, at least at times. You gotta have bad
enough sinus problems for it............

> Why do wet dogs stink while dry ones smell fine?

I've known too many who also stank dry......

> Don't you think - anatomically speaking - men would be
> more comfortable in skirts and women in pants?
> (And why don't men ride sidesaddle?)

often wondered that myself, at least the last part. Been told the pants
issue for men has to do with personal "security" ;)

brings to mind a brief poem once written by a now-deceased friend:

Why Men should wear Underwear

The agony wrought
When zipper caught

> Why do people like to pop bubble wrap so much?

heeheehee when I worked in a hospital lab, one time we got some equipment in
a big sheet of the big-bubble bubble wrap. During a slow period that night
(I was on night shift then) we spread it out on the lab's hallway floor and
started jumping up and down on it. Great fun! Didn't think about how it
would sound elsewhere! LOL All the nurses from around the corner came
running, fearing some major disaster. LOL Gave us STRICT orders to STOP IT!
.............and laughed understandingly.........

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d'huit - 01 Jun 2005 12:36 GMT

> Most Amazing Questions
>
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> When dogs bark for hours on end, why don't they ever get
> hoarse?

***dogs do indeed bark themselves hoarse. we had a black lab who did bark
himself hoarse and quite often.

> Can sour cream go bad? Is so, how can you tell? Please
> answer soon, because I have an unopened container in the
> back of my refrigerator with an expiration date of April
> 1996.

****toss that puppy! however, once you open the container and it to air,
after awhile it becomes pretty obvious. the discolorations of all kinds are
molds.

> You're at a baseball game and the visiting team is at bat.
> The batter hits a long line drive heading into the stands:
> a home run! Assume everyone in the stands starts blowing
> into the air as hard as they can. Do you think this would
> produce enough force to blow the ball back onto the field?

nope. can't happen. even if fans who blow can affect a strong enough
breeze, the fact that everybody in the stands are doing it would create
crosscurrents.

> What is the purpose of earlobes besides hanging things on?

***so that everybody in the world can imitate carol burnett.<smile>
seriously though, sound vibrations are also captured by skin nearest the
hearing organs which differentiate those vibrations.

> In the extreme Northern and Southern Hemispheres, where
> there is light for half the year and dark the other half,
> does a rooster crow only once a year?

***nope. the rooster would freeze to death first.

> Why don't people snore when they are awake?

***some indeed do.

> Why do wet dogs stink while dry ones smell fine?

****a dirty dog, whether wet or dry will stink.

> Don't you think - anatomically speaking - men would be
> more comfortable in skirts and women in pants?
> (And why don't men ride sidesaddle?)

***there is a certain degree of anatomical support offered by pants. the
sidesaddle was originally designed for women who wore long skirts. its
design was intended to prevent men from becoming overly stimulated by the
sight of women's ankles, which are attached to legs and so on, which lead
men to "thoughts".LOL

> When I'm walking my dog - considering he has twice
> as many legs as I do - is he getting twice as much
> exercise as I am....or half as much?

*** depends upon if it is a huge dog who is pulling you down the path at
breakneck speed. in that case, you are getting twice as much of a workout
as he is.

> What size were hail stones before the game of golf
> was invented?

***the size of short-range rocks for your hunting sling.

> Is volcano dust good to eat?

***grab a spoon and find out for yourself. actually, vocanic dust is a
nutrient rich component in good farming soils. so, in a way, you are
eating processed vocanic dust.

> When you pick something up so your hands are full, why
> does your nose of someplace else on your face start to
> itch?

****it's your body's way of saying, "i'd rather be in the hammock in the
backyard, than picking up stuff".

> Do fish ever sneeze?

***nope. they don't have noses. they have gills.

> Could leap year be switched from February 29 t June 31?
> it would give us an extra day of summer and one less day
> of winter?

***sure it could, but it wouldn't give us an extra day of summer. summer is
as long as summer decides to be in any given year. same goes for winter.

> Why do people like to pop bubble wrap so much?

****tension release.

> Suppose the hokey-poley is what it's all about?

****ok. then what?

> Can you please explain gravity in plain English? I have
> tried to do some research on the subject, but it always
> jumps right into mathematics that is way over my head.

***sure i can---if you jump off the top of a skyscraper (or any very high
place), with no deceleration aids or impact preventatives, gravity is what
will make your landing final (or very physiologically unpleasant if you
survive the jump).

kate

> ... Your secrets are safe with me and my friends.

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