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- Little kids mischief - Straight Dope
I used to have a yard customer with a toddler who, early one morning, wandered into the kitchen, took a bowl of chocolate pudding out of the refrigerator, smeared the pudding all over himself, and then went into his parents’ room and got in bed with them! My younger brother wanted to do his part of household chores, even before his 4th birthday He sprinkled kitchen cleanser (Comet, I think
- Characters Brought Back to Life - Cafe Society - Straight Dope
A companion to the thread about non-aging characters What happens when a character is so popular they have to bring him or her back, but they’ve very definitely been killed? Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes, to his great satisfaction, but the public still wanted him So he brought out the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, which took place before his precipitation into the Reichenbach
- How did Yogurt change since the 1970s? - Straight Dope
It was founded only eighteen years ago by a Turkish immigrant and is now one of the largest brands in the country I remember when Dannon was dominant, with advertising about how people in Soviet Georgia ate yogurt and lived to over a hundred years old
- How David Weber orders a pizza - Cafe Society - Straight Dope
The telephone rang Jason Wilkins roused himself out of his dough-and-flour-addled stupor, and gazed at the ringing noise emanating from the receiver He was tall, even for an American, this despite his father’s very average height and his mother’s petite build Some had suggested – in hushed tones and never to his face, of course – that it was because his mother had long ago taken an
- The law for people born on leap days - Straight Dope
Someone born on March 2, 2000 at 8pm will complete eighteen years of age on March 1, 2018 at 7:59pm; they haven’t completed the eighteenth year in the morning of March 1, 2018 So arguing that the person becomes of age on March 2, 2000 at 12:01am ensures that the eighteenth year really has been completed without having to deal with intraday
- Gunpowder, Treason and Plot in the MMP - Straight Dope
Either someone ran over t (with an eighteen wheeler?), or since it was Chinese, made from leftover steel from The Great Leap Forward And Peak Season hasn’t started yet
- What specific body-type are you most attracted to?
I realized this morning that for me, it’s women with long torsos but (comparatively) short legs Kind of hard to describe, but something about that proportion just DOES it for me
- Exodus 22:18: Witch or Poisoner? - Straight Dope
I’ve spent quite a bit of time at Shantell Powell’s site The Witching Hours: Medieval Through Enlightenment Period European Witch History and have found it very educational, except I have a question about a piece of information she presents as fact: According to this page, Exodus 22:18 originally said “Thou shall not suffer a poisoner to live,” but King James I, because of his phobia
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