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- Can trees get cancer?
- What do I need to "watch" my computer on TV?
- Laptop keyboard repair
- Army Air Medal—learning why it was awarded
- How is wildfire containment measured?
- How do songs get stuck in one's head?
- What's the point of Celsius?
- Is this a real psychological disorder? (Copying of another person's movements)
- could someone possibly be hacking into my livejournal?
- Is vinegar a mollusc?
- Questions about DVD formats.
- Temperature Gradient in the Oceans
- If I dig a tunnel...
- Ancient greek question ("plaza of virtue")
- Dirka! Dirka!
- Are actors prostitutes when they have sex?
- Braintree. What what.
- Sirius Satellite Radio question
- Help me find Airfare Search Websites that are more detailed, please
- San Quentin's gas chamber built for two
- Why cant you tickle yourself?
- Gnarled trees of North America
- Doing violence to a corpse -- illegal?
- Web Admins : Apache 1.3 SSL ?
- GAH! "Microsft Word cannot use Auto Correction. This function..."
- Broadcasting in widescreen
- "Butt Squirters...Why?" And Other Songs
- Organ donation in the UK
- Whither "wild" hairs?
- How to pronounce "Dirichlet"
- Which is more energy-efficient: drip coffeemaker or microwave?
- Are all ungulants ruminants?
- Why is a banana clip curved? -- guns, not hair
- Car/broken cigarette lighter question
- CAPS TO smallcase
- Consuela or Consuelo?
- Babies spitting up
- Were/are there such things as real walking papers?
- Computer question regarding hardware ID
- Will ripping DVD picture + putting it on a poster look decent?
- How does a free-lancer get press credentials?
- Why do clothes cling to you when you're wet/underwater?
- Whatever happened to Quaaludes?
- Proconsul still considered likely last common ancestor of human, chimp, gorilla?
- What's wrong with my fax/printer/scanner?
- Dog-training question (breed-specific)
- NYC: What are they building diagonally from Bryant Park?
- Home Theater Replacement Receiver
- This should be easy, shouldn't it? (re: use of Excel file for mail from Word)
- Does this book exist (about dictionaries)?
- Happy Thanksgiving--who were the pilgrims?
- Our Enemy the Finns
- wand- or cassette-type demagnetiser for 4-track recorder
- What are these glasses?
- Weird liquor license situation--only one kind of booze served
- Two software firewalls overkill?
- How far would I fall in 1 second?
- Can i bury Cat5 plenum underground outside?
- Why is HCI so popular?
- What's this mean?
- Typefaces and fonts in other alphabets?
- The smell of gayness
- Why isn't there metric time?
- Can you go to this church if....
- Help with a "Secret Santa" script
- Question for lawyers re: Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Why is my computer constantly disconnecting from the internet?
- Dumb Question
- Excel question - displaying a plus sign
- McAfee and VB script
- Was there an ancient civilisation which social structure resembles modern days'?
- Documented Conspiracies of This Type?
- What's a good and inexpensive Windows video editing software?
- With What Crime Can Kara Borden Be Charged?
- Software to control access to PC
- Questions about the flu virus
- Car Question: Heater Core replacement
- What person has verifiably killed the most other people?
- Subject/Verb agreement for Labia
- Are the buckles on pilgrim's hats and shoes functional?
- Office Keeps trying to Load Speech Recognition Files
- What is the weight of reular business cards?
- How would you go about solving these math problems?
- DC Rush Hour: am vs. pm
- Do nuts cause diarrhea?
- Upright piano with cracked case
- Topology I grok not
- Nitrocellulose crib toy?
- Is this Illegal? Lying by Omission
- Nitrocellulose crib toy?
- Is this for real? What are the odds of this happening?
- More Questions about Adobe Acrobat 4.0
- What are the consequences of excess insulin sensitivity
- Spanish speakers: What does "carlismo" mean?
- Quality of Nobel Prize work over time and Technological Progress
- EM Wave Propagation
- "Down and Out" Origin/Literal Meaning
- Flu Vaccine
- Etymology of "range" for oven
- Hey! That was my f'in idea!! (A writing thread)
- Shortcut Icons in XP – Remove Lower Left Arrow
- Was French ever really the "language of diplomacy?'
- Janet Reno
- Is this (spam) email I got re how to identify a stroke victim accurate?
- Field-marshal's baton
- Norton Anti-Virus question
- How do you parse "al Qaeda"? (as variously spelt)
- Repricing a purchased airline ticket
- are there examples of things evolving backwards?
- Legal - Time limit on registering criminal charges?
- UK Dopers, help me with a postcode/address problem
- Broadcasting Movies
- Convicted of mass murder but later exhonorated?
- Dental x-rays
- What is equivalent to corn bread mix
- Why did the Angstrom fall out of favor as a unit of measurement?
- Question about files on a shared drive.
- Please explain wireless networking in laymen's terms
- What Caused the American Real Estate Boom in Recent Years?
- Why are browser cookies always set to expire 100 years after the end of the Universe?
- How does Satellite Decoder Authentication work?
- Miscellaneous NHL & NFL questions
- on motherboards and large hard drives....
- What is this dream thing I get?
- What happened to my desktop Icons??
- Why is my fish tank cloudy?
- Where was this photo taken? (domed buildings)
- Xbox 360 "core system"?
- Which is more likely...
- Latin word for arrest warrant
- Mac users - anyone using webcam with chat/VOIP programmes?
- Who the heck is Nick Gorski
- Do dogs have periods?
- Incongruity in Online versions of Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
- Can my friend take a bite out of a lacrosse ball?
- Quantum mechanics question (bordering on philosophy)
- Will the Firearm Owners' Protection Act Sunset?
- The mayor's cool sash
- Barn color...
- OppenOffice-compatible with download?
- Is Samarium radioactive?
- Who were those nuke guys at the airport?
- Is there a generic step by step method of dealing with disaster
- Did a "gylanic" civilization exist in pre-Indo-European Europe/the Mediterranean?
- We know gamma radiation is dangerous, but what about alpha and beta "rays"?
- Infrared photography and imaging.
- Recommendations for an on-line TESL course?
- Using coffee stirrers - the right way
- Against what are they testing Zarqawi's DNA?
- MSN Messenger in a Corporate Environment
- Exotic Matter and Tachyons
- Help! My Original Picture Files Have All Been Shrunk
- Non-lead flashing (roofing etc)
- Why do doctors move from room to room?
- Linux Equiv of MSFT Media Server
- Video Out- Laptop to TV?
- Is there a connection between Edison's Maszda brand and the car company?
- Why is unsafe drinking water still such a problem
- Mouse glue traps: Cause of Death?
- Birds on one leg
- The Emerald is soft when mined, are any other gems the same?
- How much do publishers pay to mail magazines?
- What is that smell in old people's homes?
- What do bat bites look like?
- Need some computer hardware help
- To-day and to-morrow
- Pro Bono Dentists?
- "Usa, Japan" - a scam to get Americans to buy Japanese stuff?
- Why won't Google work for me?
- Men being weeded out?
- Month, Day, Year ????
- How do those machines scan money?
- Does leaving a turkey in a salt solution defy the laws of science?
- If he doesn't tell you, is it entrapment?
- If belief could affect the outcome of something, how could you scientifically test it
- Whatever happened to Buck Barrow's children?
- Your horse breaks into the neighbor's truck garden. What does he choose to eat?
- How are mine shafts started?
- Does Michael Jackson really own the rights to the South Carolina state anthem?
- The most "outs" possible to win in Hold 'Em on the river
- Why is my guitar making a humming sound?
- webmaster@straightdope.com ????
- How dangerous is oxygen
- Mathematical induction over the reals?
- Advisability of using hotkeys and keymaps for online poker
- Why do dogs sniff each other's butt's?
- Neurofeedback for ADHD=Quackery?
- Texas Dopers Please help me find this giant bunny!!
- SAP PM Fleet elements
- HELP! "Personal Bathtub Analogy"?
- Single-CPU Supercomputers?
- Question about MSN messenger
- Why do citrus fruits sometimes have more seeds than others?
- Curse words.
- What's up with this card trick?
- Anyone have a wood burning Heatilator fireplace?
- How quickly does Altace (Ramipril) work?
- keyboard and mouse freezes
- Converting personality (brain) to data
- Seemingly indestructable trojan/malware problem
- Lowest pro sports attendance
- Can You House Train a Hyena?
- Cruise control questions
- Does this software license exist?
- Why is my thingie crooked?
- Bird on a wire
- Using a GPU for non-graphical processing... possible?
- Identify this insect
- Tech question: What makes your system regress to a prior state? And can you prevent ?
- Know any good secret handshakes?
- Why is cold mud so sticky?
- What to use for sidewalk ice melt?
- Diet drinks=weight gain? Relationship at stake.
- where do termites get the wood digesting bacteria in their stomachs?
- The garbled words on spam e-mails
- Using Standard ML's imperative features.
- What is menstruation for
- Global Mindshift - what is this about?
- On the 407ETR who pays for snow removal/salting?
- Algebra problem...help!
- No Refills For My Coke Zero
- If I stop using iodized salt am I going to get goiters?
- Football coaches' headsets
- What kind of plant is this?
- Quick business question
- Digital settings for 4x6 photos
- What is the Square root of minus 1?
- Skating on ice - how do you know when it's safe?
- The Dangers of Benzene
- If a Vegan was forced to eat a lb of rare prime rib would they get sick?
- Why do some senior citizens whistle a lot?
- Drinking the Deceased?
- Any CSS gurus out there?
- Breathing out smoke when it's cold - Explanation?
- When do stamps go up to 39 cents?
- Can you measure something without changing it?
- Has Anyone Ever Spoken from a Soapbox?
- Snorting Listerine: Bad Idea?
- The Education of the Bush Twins
- Cat started peeing on carpet
- blacking out from pain
- Dental question (probably slightly gross but not TMI)
- Intelligence officials supporting the war in Iraq?
- Treating the Captured with Consideration - Effective Means of Subversion?
- Skunks
- Siamese twins and the law
- CSS to modify <img> SRC parameter ??
- Are the "good bacteria" in our guts really necessary? What about bubble boys?
- Can CD/DVD's be recycled?
- In Outlook, how do I inspect the headers?
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