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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:58 PM
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Unanswerable questions...Post them here!
Maybe somebody out there will have an answer (maybe not the answer...)

- How do they get the salt inside of a roasted-in-the-shell peanut?
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:01 PM
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1. Why Are They Called "Grapenuts"?
There's no grapes and there's no nuts... :+
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:11 PM
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7. How much wood could a woodchuck
oh nevermind
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:05 PM
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2. How does Bush read his speaches?
Does he have someone read it to him and memorize it? Cause I know damn well he can't read
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:31 PM
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10. No, he uses an earpiece. Listen for the speech patterns. They're
on track with someone saying the lines in his ear, him listening, then repeating.

Do it with him sometime. Repeat the words as he's repeated them. You'll see. Rove is whispering into his manchurian candidate's ear.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:07 PM
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3. Actually
The salt get into the peanut's shell by osmosis; they are boiled in salt water.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:08 PM
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4. Why don't frogs...
... have either wings, or cushions on their little green butts?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:10 PM
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5. here's how they get the salt in
They boil/soak the peanuts in brine.
Then they roast them.
VIOLA!
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:11 PM
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6. See #3
Hehehe! :hi:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:15 PM
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9. incomplete explanation
If you just soak them you get wet peanuts.
If you boil them, you get boiled peanuts (quite tasty).
You have to roast them afterwards to get dry, roasted, salted peanuts.
p.s.
If you boil them in crab boil you get Cajun Boiled Peanuts.
VERY TASTY!
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:40 PM
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12. If you give them
to Tricia you do not get any back.

Ed
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woofless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:49 PM
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14. Yummm
One of the few things I miss about living in FL is buying boiled peanuts from the old Black gentleman who sold them out of a 55 gal. drum alongside SR 84 in Alachua county. Absolutely one of the most addictive substances known to mankind.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:13 PM
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8. Why don't
they make cheese out of people milk? :shrug:
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:32 PM
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17. Actually, you can
I used to know a few earthy birthy folks and once upon a time had some recipes for various foods to make with human milk. Not sure about cheese, but there was a cheesecake recipe. Never made any of them (pumping was always too much work) though, but I still have some stuff in the back of my freezer that would work that I have yet to clean out. Hhhhmmm, clean out the fridge or boobie cheesecake?
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:29 PM
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36. It takes many gallons of milk...
to make a pound of cheese, (depending on the type).

I would suppose...it could be done, but would there be a market?
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kcwayne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:36 PM
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11. Every material in the universe
contracts when it is chilled except water which expands. Why is that?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:18 PM
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32. Actually there is another one...
Liquid Antimony has the exceptional property, when cooling, of expanding as it solidifies (yeah, just like water), thus filling in the crevices of a mold and yielding castings of exceptionally sharp detail. For this reason, it is used in small amounts in making printers' type metal.
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:19 PM
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33. Let me see if I get this right...
Water expands when it freezes because the molecules become a lattice like patern, as opposed to a random pattern when in liquid form, this makes the molecules water expand as it moves towards the freezing point. Water floats as a solid because it has lost some of its density.

Damn......I think I got it..been a long time since the old school days!

:bounce:
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:42 PM
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13. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear
Joseph Heller
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:00 PM
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15. Who put the Bop in the Bop Shoo Bop Shoo Bop?
Who put the Wham in the Whamma Lamma Ding Dong? Seriously.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:32 PM
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28. Who was that man?
I'd like to shake his hand.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:38 PM
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37. He made my baby fall in love
with me!
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bratcatinok Donating Member (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:25 PM
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16. If they have the kick-off in football
Why don't they have a puck-off in hockey?
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:35 PM
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18. How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center ....
Of a Tootsie Pop?


The world will never know.
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MsChiff Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:45 PM
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30. One..... Two.....
Three. It takes three. :)
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:22 PM
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19. Why Do We Park In A Drive Way
And Drive on a parkway?
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:34 PM
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20. ummm, the ULTIMATE here... Chicken or egg first?
well?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:38 PM
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21. unless you specify
"chicken egg," the question is painfully simple to answer. Reptile eggs were around long before chickens.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:49 PM
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22. Oh picky, picky... you know what I mean... did a reptile egg one
day just turn into a chicken?

I bloody doubt it, mate.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:57 PM
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23. You obviously
have never been behind the counter at yer local KFC...

;-)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:06 PM
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25. hmmmm, no, can't say that I have
But I did take an oxycontin today.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:08 PM
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26. legit, or "Limbaughed?"
and yes, this is gonna be my new term for scoring one's fix extra-legally...
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:16 PM
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27. Limbaughed, always Limbaughed
Is there any other way, short of being in chronic pain?

Ouch.

Pain sucks.
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foreigncorrespondent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:59 PM
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24. Why do all minority groups have a section of...
....people who continue to vote for the repukes?

I am going through a little crisis because of the gay people who choose to vote for the repukes time and time again. I just don't understand it.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:38 PM
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29. What's the meaning of life???
Does anyone know??? Is anyone here a modern-day prophet???
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:24 PM
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34. I guess if you want to be technical about it...
The meaning of life, is waiting for death.

Philosophically.....Abillion points have been made, but ultimately, the meaning of life, is what you make of it.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:11 AM
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38. The meaning of life is to find....
your gift. The purpose of life is to give the gift away....
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:17 PM
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31. Where Do The Monsters Under My Bed Go
When I turn on the lights?
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:27 PM
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35. Right back into...
those little niche's in your mind, where you know you can never get rid of them.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:26 AM
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39. Is there a god?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:31 AM
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40. Every known human culture has music
(in the sense of deliberate patterns of pitch and rhythm) and decorative art. Why? What lower-order traits evolved into appreciation for visual and aural beauty?
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:13 PM
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41. What A Great Question!
Did you know there's a set progression of colors that different culture's recoginize and have words for.

Example, the most "primitive" of cultures will only recognize and have words for red, black and yellow.

If a culture sees and names FOUR colors they will always be red, black, yellow and BLUE.

If a culture sees and names FIVE colors they will always be red, black, yellow, blue and WHITE.

Little bits of info from my days as an Anthropology major. :)
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mlawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 05:46 PM
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45. What is infinity, minus ONE???? n/t
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:29 PM
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42. Why?
The Professor
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:31 PM
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43. what do blind people see?
Edited on Fri Oct-03-03 02:36 PM by Kamika
And if they dont see anything what does it look like.?


If nothing would exist, not even the universe.. how would it look?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 02:32 PM
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44. Soaked in saltwater for a fortnight?
n/t
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