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  1. Where are the cool laser photos?
  2. Non-lethal laser weapons
  3. astrology
  4. How much flatulence would it take to become airborne?
  5. sources for "Which is taller, Mt. Everest or K2?"?
  6. live organ trafficking in US
  7. Champagne preservation with a spoon
  8. Does Acupuncture really work (Article
  9. Are flamingos Pink Because They Eat Shrimps?
  10. Why are UFO sightings always at night?
  11. Cow Carcass as shelter
  12. No Humping/rail shipments
  13. Astrology in My Opinion
  14. WTF??????
  15. What’s the best animal to slice open and crawl inside to stay warm?
  16. Blue states smarter than red states?
  17. What was the average of the purple states?
  18. Small nitpick about astrology...
  19. With 40 years of enlightenment, has Cecil...
  20. Ketchup, it's what's for breakfast!
  21. Superheating water
  22. Rise of Nations is obsolete
  23. Are video games good for you?
  24. Dec, 1988 column on AIDS
  25. partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils
  26. meaning of Yellowbellies
  27. Eyeballs melted by atom bomb explosion's heat
  28. on the raisins in rasin bran
  29. Conservatives hate ambiguity?
  30. Cecil - you posted a question back in 2006
  31. Straight Dope now the same age as Jack Benny (39)
  32. incandescent bulbs
  33. Wilhelm Reich
  34. omni-, heba-, carni- vours
  35. Peanut Shell Eschewers
  36. Cloning a Woolly Mammoth
  37. (Un)Lucky 13
  38. Large Animals In Alaska You Could Survive Inside Of!
  39. Loose lips sink ships - Falklands?
  40. Why can’t we use lasers as ray guns?
  41. Spinach
  42. Did Eskimos put their elderly on ice floes to die?
  43. Tecumseh's Curse
  44. Could a super-bright light cause blindness?
  45. Is Nutmeg Hallucinogenic?
  46. Re: Malt Liquor
  47. where-does-that-1492-ocean-blue-thing-about-columbus-come-from
  48. Where is Podunk?
  49. Comments on Cecil's reply about red and blue states - btw there is not a good way to comment directl
  50. Rescuing cats from trees
  51. Interstate highways in Alaska and Hawaii
  52. Why Heinz "57" exists even though they have around 70 products
  53. The oldest profession
  54. About time for Cecil to retire, who is he grooming to take over?
  55. Name-brand drugs vs. generics
  56. Deaths in sauna
  57. Who are us?
  58. Airplane O2 bags
  59. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre based on Gein?
  60. Is excess American body fat a potential energy resource?
  61. Mercator projection
  62. Better light-bulbs do exist!
  63. Lost Column on Defenestration of Prague
  64. Jevon and a Better Light Bulb
  65. Will using expired drugs kill you?
  66. What's so great about the Dewey Decimal System?
  67. interstate highways ... in Hawaii?
  68. Vacuum of Space
  69. Re: Remove shells before Eating peanuts.
  70. Melting wood
  71. E=mc^2 does not apply to chemical reactions
  72. Explosive decompression
  73. Origin of "OK"
  74. The demise of sugar cubes
  75. Above-it-all pussies at the New Yorker
  76. side note on color blindness
  77. Boiled frogs
  78. Why is it called a restroom, anyway?
  79. Bribing the North Vietnamese
  80. RE: Do "push to walk" buttons at intersections ever actually work?
  81. donating blood to loose weight
  82. Okay, so why does banking "float" still exist?
  83. Re: "Boondock Banking" in Lake Lillian
  84. How to conduct a hanging
  85. Kidneys
  86. Tontines
  87. Where is Lake Lillian Anyway?
  88. expired meds
  89. Tea in China
  90. Why do prices end in .99?
  91. Do tax cuts stimulate job growth?
  92. Strobe effect in lighting
  93. The Exception that Proves the Rule
  94. The "c" in the cent symbol?
  95. Animals transmitting VD's
  96. Mathematical error in static electricity column (03/30/2012)
  97. Buck, meaning a dollar
  98. static electricity and helicopter blades
  99. Stink
  100. Hot topic of the day: ancient Rome
  101. In Britain, what's the difference between a pound and a guinea?
  102. What is the unit of charge [ref: column about static electricity?]
  103. How do Porcupines have sex
  104. When" life" began
  105. Balding women
  106. Una! Boiling Frogs!
  107. Allergic to sex?
  108. The Conqueror and cancer
  109. How do Humans get VD?
  110. response to: Prehistoric, It's whats for dinner: Have explorers had feasts of Wooly Mammoth?
  111. Earliest usage of "dollar"?
  112. Baseball injuries and cricket
  113. Baseballs crush a skull?
  114. The wonder and glory of merkins!
  115. douser
  116. New info on "piss shiver"
  117. Four common English words ending in "-dous"
  118. Domestication of animals
  119. What's happened to the podcast?
  120. Gruesome baseball injuries
  121. Brinstone
  122. The opera ain't over ...
  123. menstrual synchronization is not a myth
  124. Sex = babies
  125. Replacing power cord
  126. About Don Juanism
  127. Tipping (waiters not cows)
  128. Sex before athletic events
  129. Ramadan beyond arctic circle
  130. Hip Hip Hurrah
  131. Why is the "missionary position" called that?
  132. Is marijuana stronger now?
  133. Siphons
  134. autoerotic asphyxiation
  135. SD cite sighting today
  136. allergic to sex
  137. Sucking, and I don't mean through a straw
  138. RE: In the song "Hotel California," what does "colitas" mean?
  139. Regarding Your article About Ben Franklin
  140. Saltpeter
  141. What's the deal with angels?
  142. Turnpike
  143. Artificial Insemination
  144. Extra cost of being overweight
  145. Humans as Carnivores ?
  146. Smedley Butler
  147. Hip Hip Hurray
  148. Artificial Insemination of Animals
  149. Origin of the Birds and the Bees
  150. Re:Is there a gender neutral substitute for his or her
  151. Why do many people repeat the urban legend myth that Hitler was part Jewish?
  152. Comment on "head over heels:.
  153. Was Hitler Jewish?
  154. The environmental cost of chubbies
  155. Sangry! [...and words ending in -gry]
  156. Schmidt Sting Pain Index
  157. Has a 200 mpg carburetor been suppressed by the oil industry?
  158. ditch nukes
  159. Word with vowels in sequence
  160. Why is "Fido" a common name for a dog?
  161. Doomsday Scenarios: Solar Flares Should Not Be Blown Off
  162. Difference between a "ship" and a "boat"
  163. Re: Are poor spellers stupid?
  164. Honky
  165. Re: Should you not throw rice at weddings because birds swallow it and explode?
  166. Potato in the tailpipe
  167. Correction to Straight Dope Article: Cat Poop/Birth Defects/LSD
  168. Water fountains and momentum cancellation
  169. Re: Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret?
  170. Another Potential Doomsday Scenario
  171. Jesus Copied from Horus?
  172. Why are pound and ounce abbreviated "lb." and "oz."?
  173. Why you can't start all the train cars at once
  174. Area codes
  175. Aged Angus Beef
  176. 5.1 sound and the middle channel
  177. Red Balloon things on power lines.
  178. Mind Your P's and Q's
  179. What is first decade of 21st century called?
  180. Why do they call them station wagons?
  181. Phillips Screwdriver
  182. Prions
  183. Do microwave ovens kill bacteria?
  184. Cruising vs. Assisted Living/Nursing Home
  185. Why did cosmonauts land on land while astronauts landed on water?
  186. Jeane Dixon
  187. Is there a gender-neutral substitute for "his or her"?
  188. What's the difference between fruits and vegetables?
  189. Why Don't Trains Have Cabooses Any More?
  190. Cecil Adams Quinine
  191. Re: Supreme Court Interpretation of the 14th Amendment
  192. Ghost Rings
  193. Thank you for dying: Did 250
  194. Corporations declared to be people? Huh?
  195. Commonwealth vs. State
  196. Water and the Wicked Witch of the West
  197. Borax and Cockroaches
  198. Can alien beings listen in on TV and radio broadcasts from earth?
  199. Why red?
  200. What ever happened to Planet X?
  201. College Students
  202. Green lights under escalators
  203. Why do they play bagpipes at police funerals?
  204. Is the Bilderberg Group the Center of the One-World Conspiracy?
  205. Can human growth hormone slow aging?
  206. E=mc^2
  207. Anti-persperants & Breast Cancer
  208. Lincoln Gay
  209. Paying tax, UK
  210. thou, thee, thine
  211. EMP, power systems and fuses
  212. regarding revolving doors
  213. What's up with Dianetics/Scientology?
  214. Does anyone have all the podcast episodes?
  215. Re: Are dogs unable to see 2-D images (mirrors, photos, TV)?
  216. Is Wikipedia more reliable ...?
  217. Vocabulary Article
  218. Is this the real deal?
  219. Is it true there has never been a war between two democracies?
  220. Who else decreed layman's value(s) for pi?
  221. My tongue most decidedly DID stick to a popsickle!
  222. Roaches/Water Bugs
  223. Exploding Mosquitoes
  224. Treating kidney stones with high explosives
  225. How come archaeological ruins are always underground?
  226. Not quite definitive column on legislating pi
  227. Re: Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?
  228. Size of the Universe
  229. Herr Hitler.
  230. What's so bad about that ozone hole anyway?
  231. Re: Lt Gen vs. Maj Gen
  232. Article on "Would a gun fire in space"
  233. Zero gravity fire
  234. Evolutionary fitness and attractiveness
  235. Is there a God? I'm still not sure, Cecil.
  236. What, exactly, are star dates?
  237. EMP
  238. where do the solids go?
  239. Neil Armstrong and the meaning of brackets in quotes
  240. Is head-butting for real?
  241. Breaking glass with human voice
  242. Was Walt Disney a fascist? (April 12, 2005)
  243. Was the Apollo moon landing a hoax? (March 31, 2000)
  244. Cow tipping verdict?
  245. Slow vs Fast Boat to china
  246. Is the earth getting heavier or lighter?
  247. Decompression
  248. Coke, asparagus and kidney stones
  249. Wasting water
  250. How come archaeological ruins are always underground?