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  1. Personal hygiene a recent invention
  2. Heinz 57 varities
  3. heartless socialists
  4. Was Naploean's Penis removed after death?
  5. Political silliness..
  6. Does "the zombie virus" or any type of zombie virus exist? And if so, what would it be like ?
  7. The cost of cigarettes
  8. What's the origin of "English," the kind you put on a ball?
  9. Arm & Hammer
  10. La Cucaracha origin
  11. What's new in black hole theory?
  12. Roid Rage
  13. micrometeors
  14. New theories about the likelyhood of meteor impact.
  15. Yes, the mummy man was finally buried.
  16. Bullet Speed
  17. Tickling
  18. How to Kill a cockroach
  19. Is it possible for someone to be tickled to death?
  20. The dangers of corn
  21. i CAN tickle myself
  22. Synthetic car names
  23. "Wrist Slashers" classic column
  24. CFR, etc.
  25. Cameras add 10 pounds?
  26. Need anal information quiiick!!
  27. Spontaneous Human Combustion
  28. Broadcast power
  29. INCORRECT: can-a-90-lb-chimp-clobber-a-full-grown-man
  30. So what did happen to the settlers at Roanoke?
  31. States and Straight Lines
  32. proof of pigeon babies existance.
  33. I'm in love
  34. About Drowning (goin down 3 times)
  35. Animal Disease
  36. Hemp as alternative to cotton: less water
  37. A 10 billion light year wide Black Hole? Huh?
  38. Straight lines on the Earth
  39. Effects of LSD
  40. Babies in microwaves
  41. Boats sailing faster than the wind
  42. Loud Car Stereo
  43. King Herod's Loathsome Disease...
  44. dear cecil
  45. cyanogenic, not cyanogenetic
  46. Reason for A paper size width/height ratio
  47. hunky dory
  48. In a coon's age
  49. Aluminum Alzheimers
  50. Decapitated Heads Remain Conscience?
  51. large numbers of 2
  52. Black Holes, Spaghettification, and Quarks
  53. How Public Libraries Got Started
  54. What is the opposite of FIRE ?
  55. The Holy Grail
  56. elovultion question for dummies
  57. Guantanamo Base
  58. What's the purpose of the pitcher's mound in baseball?
  59. Surviving the electric chair
  60. Whizzing on the third (electrified) rail
  61. Klan Membership
  62. Smoke a Cigar without dropping the ashes
  63. Secret Service and a plotzed prez
  64. Truth and Goat Staring
  65. Nuke chicago?
  66. Truth Serums
  67. Whole (Full) Nine Yards ?
  68. what do deaf people dream?
  69. A nitpick
  70. Propylene glycol alginate
  71. Does Zinc Cure Colds
  72. Fox Slam
  73. Washington, Jefferson & hemp
  74. 'wave gaily' at the facts indeed
  75. Pogo's Twelve Days of Crispness
  76. Nuke under the desk..nitpick
  77. penny dropped from Empire state building
  78. Are there twice as many terrorist incidents in the U.S. as in Italy?
  79. nuclear sub breach
  80. Jesus "H" Christ
  81. Can I mail a brick back to a junk-mail firm using the business reply envelope?
  82. Nostalgia propter se
  83. Kane Kramer
  84. Multiple questions per column is better
  85. can humans eat meat naturally?
  86. can you really send a brick "no postage necessary"?
  87. Once undesireable fish served in fine restaurants.
  88. An Infinite Question
  89. The Cheshire Cat Grin
  90. Why is Satan often shown as having Goatlike features?
  91. How do non english speakers make animal noises
  92. Who Is CF Frost? I knew him
  93. No blue or green hair
  94. Why no blue human hair?
  95. Psst! Hey Buddy- wanna buy a Manhattan Rolex?
  96. Year Zero
  97. Cecil omits the main environmental problem with farmed salmon
  98. best place to avoid getting killed in a nuclear war
  99. Hey, thanks!
  100. can a bullet fired into the air kill someone when it comes down
  101. Radiation hormesis
  102. Slug and Smokey Stover
  103. What's up with compostable plastics?
  104. Is my household smoke detector emitting radioactive rays?
  105. Recycling
  106. Brain Freeze in Adults
  107. Anti Radiation Pills
  108. About Cats rescued by Fire Brigade
  109. Do ptocopy machines emit radiationh
  110. Is your dog a racist? Do tell!
  111. On Stolen Kidneys, & something lower down
  112. glow-in-the-dark materials safety
  113. What do Scotsmen wear under their kilts?
  114. How come you never see midget animals?
  115. Is mass transit a waste of energy?
  116. To save energy, should you turn lights off or leave them on?
  117. Police Psychics
  118. What altitude = triple point of H20 on Earth?
  119. Penile Fracture
  120. Has anybody's question been published in Cecil's column?
  121. Boys and Girls, there's lies, damn lies, and statistics. From the Monty Hall Problem olumn
  122. On consciousness after beheading
  123. Firefighter Variety
  124. Why do men have nipples?
  125. On the origins of QWERTY
  126. "Pact with the devil" column
  127. Round Manhole Covers
  128. How do I tell which plants are poisonous?
  129. Corporate personhood
  130. "Protocal"Anti-Semetic by Cains lineage
  131. Water water rvery where, and the dowsing rods still don't twitch
  132. Poison sumac doesn't have just three leaves
  133. Invention of the wheel
  134. QWERTY vs. DVORAK . . .
  135. Left-handed catchers
  136. Heinz 57 varieties
  137. Could we conserve gasoline by putting more air in our tires?
  138. Sugar highs
  139. Urinals in women's restrooms
  140. Steel Implants And Airport Security.
  141. How Phony Are Our Fish
  142. Possible cause for PCMS"
  143. Fending off attackers using martial arts
  144. Rolling big airplanes
  145. feng shui
  146. Invention of tampons
  147. 37th Anniversary of first Straight Dope column
  148. Copyright Traps revisited
  149. What gets the better gas mileage: windows up, AC on, or windows down, AC off?
  150. Voluntary nystagmus
  151. frozen humans shattering
  152. Liquid Nitrogen
  153. the whole nine yards
  154. Question about freezing dead bodies in liquid nitrogen
  155. Green fish farming
  156. Democracy - The example of Switzerland
  157. Anti Aircraft Installations in 1950's Chicago
  158. Nose Picking: Possibly Deadly
  159. What is Grog
  160. Are there more balding women these days?
  161. Dowsing - does it work? To Cecil's reply
  162. About the Psych tests.
  163. Can you lose weight by keeping the thermostat turned down? May 2, 1986
  164. I can't gain weight - is my metabolism too fast?
  165. Vitamin C
  166. piggy bank
  167. Why does hair turn gray comment
  168. Selling your hair
  169. Replacing brain volume
  170. Gaining Weight
  171. Is paying attention to the air quality index crazy?
  172. i have a question...
  173. Calling African-American dog owners
  174. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/238/if-you-eat-too-many-carrots-will-you-turn-orange
  175. Nazi lampshades
  176. Cigarettes and the environment...
  177. Do "corona discharge" devices alleviate asthma?
  178. Is there a way to sleep less?
  179. the shape of the earth?
  180. Subsonic Sound and Hitler
  181. When the zombies take over, how long till the internet fails?
  182. Adults teeth too.
  183. Attributing a pediatric fever to teething
  184. Who's Trippin' Down the Streets of That [Windy] City
  185. alcoholism
  186. Catching fish mislabelling
  187. Plane on Conveyor Belt
  188. Hypercarotenemia...
  189. Theory of flight
  190. Let's get with the program?
  191. Comment on Can Coconut Juice be used as Plasma?
  192. Why is a raven like a writing desk?
  193. More Data for "Flush Effect"...
  194. Pigeons beat Monty Hall problem
  195. Animal/word 'droppings'.
  196. Mileage
  197. Animal Droppings and Whale Vomit
  198. You horny?
  199. Sodomy = "Vile and Despicable"?
  200. Caesarean Section and Julius
  201. Can you look at your own eyeball?
  202. Is exposure to small amounts of radiation beneficial?
  203. Smoking and Alzheimer's
  204. Error in "Were Adam and Eve vegetarians?"
  205. Stoned (and roach and joint)
  206. Are oil space heaters more efficient?
  207. It aint over till the fat lady sings
  208. "86" that answer
  209. Bee poop?
  210. "If blue, red, and yellow are primary colors, why do color TVs use blue, red, and green?"
  211. New world ahead. No Fed. No IRS.
  212. Definition of Runcible
  213. Staff Report from the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board What's the origin of "Rock, Paper, Scisso
  214. Largest city parks
  215. Why is Greenland considered an island but not Eurasia?
  216. olives in glass jars
  217. What's correct, "he had GOT some" or "he had GOTTEN some"?
  218. Concern about phosphorus depletion
  219. What does the G in G-string stand for?
  220. Ear candling does not remove ear wax
  221. etymology = ready made word
  222. Question on an old question about galactic distances
  223. Hoisting oneself by petard... Literally...
  224. Faulkner and typos
  225. "Cardiac Arrest" is NOT a cause of death...
  226. Bohemian Grove "owl" on the $1 bill
  227. mary and jesus
  228. You are wrong Cecil
  229. Sorry didn't include link
  230. Indented wine bottles
  231. On the Etymology of "Horny"
  232. Five ways to first base
  233. Did They Mean Cajun When They Said Creole?
  234. Dark roof/light roof... heating/cooling...Best of both worlds!
  235. Fan killed by foul ball in 1970
  236. Worldwide diamond sales $100, 000
  237. military budget
  238. Whence "Shortstop"
  239. Getting hit by a baseball
  240. Lowering the pitcher's mound
  241. How did bedbugs make a comeback?
  242. Are some dogs racist?
  243. Why is Cecil surprised about exponential SPF?
  244. Why is Baseball Sock Obsessed?
  245. Would wearing white clothing on the outside and black on the inside be cooler than wearing black?
  246. Ok,anyone here interested in Cattle Mutes
  247. Is the GPS satellite system collapsing?
  248. Hey, Admins, YOU'RE A FUCKIN HOLDOUT!
  249. 72 Virgins in Islam Paradise
  250. Classics should not be updated without prominent notice