# 20 Questions 7.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324 "2002-04-12T21:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/41 "2002-04-14T19:28:45Z")
Is it crap? ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/42 "2002-04-14T20:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yo La Tengo \* > \*\*Hint 2: It can exist without humans, but not without life itself. I can tell you this because I use to have a dog. \*\* Did your dog die? What does it have in its pockets, we wonders… Death!, or nothing at all! he said, cleverly working in two guesses at once… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/43 "2002-04-14T20:20:27Z")
Oh, no. That would be 21 and 22, wouldn’t it? Ah, well… ☹ Please tell me, so I can begin banging my head on the desk. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/44 "2002-04-14T21:22:54Z")
I vote that we do what we’ve done with some of the past games. Why don’t y’all talk amongst yourselves and come up with a suitable final guess that you can agree on as a group, and submit that to **YLT** as #20. So ‘crap’ and ‘death’ and ‘nothing’ won’t count as questions, just as suggestions for questions. Sound good? ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/45 "2002-04-14T22:05:17Z")
Works for me, since I’ve taken more than my share of guesses already. I’m still scratching my head about the dog, anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/46 "2002-04-14T23:14:43Z")
I think it’s poop. ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/47 "2002-04-14T23:26:25Z")
Not unless you’re one of those folks whose poop don’t stink. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/48 "2002-04-14T23:38:31Z")
Okay, **Blue** , it’s not poop, crap, or a monkey. Don’t take the dog thing too far, **Hugs** , but yes, she did die ☹ . The death part has nothing to do with the ‘it,’ though. Good luck, and talk it over. You should beable to figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/49 "2002-04-14T23:48:58Z")
In hindsight, that did sound rather insensitive of me. Sorry about that. ☹ But you know where I was going with it… ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/50 "2002-04-15T00:13:22Z")
Now that I’m free to comment, doodoo is obviously not the answer. Either it’s a material object (ruled out by the first question), or it’s the act of pooping, which would be a bodily function (ruled out by question 11, given that the answer is not ‘yes’). I agree with **Yo La Tengo**. You guys have done a good job of narrowing it down, and it’s very gettable at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/51 "2002-04-15T00:35:28Z")
My poop doesn’t stink, it smells like roses **Hu**. 🙂 And **Yogurt Lingo** , one day the answer \*will \*be monkey. Oh yes, one day it will, and then who’ll be laughing? ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/52 "2002-04-15T01:15:40Z")
**WL** , if it’s so very gettable, WHY can’t I GET it?!? ARRGGGGHHHHH!!! Another suggestion to toss around: ‘Mind’? Seems to fit most of the clues (with a bit of stretching): 1 syllable, dogs have minds, most 3 year olds ‘mind’ (sometimes), and though I haven’t been here long, the general intelligence level would seem to suggest that it’s often discussed. Of course the obvious exception would be the ‘nothing to do with sex’ part, but I guess for some folks… Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/53 "2002-04-15T01:22:28Z")
I keep thinking sleep, except that’s a bodily function. Maybe dream then? ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/54 "2002-04-15T01:22:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wicked Blue \* > \*\*My poop doesn’t stink, it smells like roses **Hu**. 🙂 We have a can of that too, which my wife is forever reminding me to use. I don’t get it – which is worse, the smell of shiite, or the smell of shiite and flowers? 'Course I don’t understand scented TP, either – like my butt can smell the difference… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/55 "2002-04-15T01:32:37Z")
I’ll jump in here… **Hugs now** , (regarding dog thing) not a problem. **Blue** , hmmmm… What will I do with you? 😃 **Hugs now** (again), wouldn’t “mind” clarify as material? Mind/Brain seem to go together in my book. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/56 "2002-04-15T03:21:36Z")
I’m guessing it’s “dream.” Anyone else have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Hu\_Gnows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Hu\_Gnows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hu_Gnows)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/57 "2002-04-15T04:35:38Z")
**YLT** , I should have guessed that if it wasn’t ‘thought’, it probably wasn’t ‘mind’ either. I think **peepthis** has it. I’ll go with dream, too. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/58 "2002-04-15T05:45:01Z")
I’d argue that a brain would be material while the concept of a ‘mind’ would not be. I just wanted to pop in and say I totally missed **Hugs now** ’s comment about the poo not stinking – which made me laugh out loud when I got it. Duh. Oh, and that I agree with you about the coverup spray. When I was a kid I stayed at this place that had this weird strawberry scented bathroom spray, and now whenever I smell that artificial candy strawberry smell it makes me gag because it automatically calls to mind the odor of feces. Blecch. So we still have ‘death,’ ‘mind,’ and now ‘dream’ to work with. Unfortunately, ‘a monkey’ has been ruled out. I would also like to point out that **Blue** ’s devious and cunning ways have effectively gained you guys a free question in every subsequent game. **YLT** ( **Yogurt Lingo** – heh) and I can now never pick ‘a monkey’ as the ‘it’ because we know he’d get it right away. So no one ever has to ask _Is it a monkey?_ Because you already know the answer is **no**. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/59 "2002-04-15T09:39:53Z")
This is leaving myself open to all sorts of things, but how do people feel about sex? As an answer that is. CJ ---
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324/60 "2002-04-15T10:37:40Z")
OK, it’s not a material object and it can’t be sensed by the five senses. It’s a thoughtful **hmmm** when considering if it’s a bodily function, it requires no physical effort but it’s not an emotion or a charactor trait. Everyone can be said to ‘have’ it, therefore they encounter it daily. It’s not a soul, snot, breathing, thought, growth, a soul, any of the five senses, it has nothing to do with sex or **Coldfire** and an inflatable sheep. That covers the offical 19 questions gone so far. It’s also not a monkey. People are thinking ‘death’, ‘mind’ and ‘dream’. With ‘mind’ being discouraged from the answers above but I’ll avoid plunging into the whole mind/body duality thing. **cjhoworth** I’m afraid we’ve already discounted sex, and I’ll leave someone else to provide the sillier answer to your post. ‘Dream’ seems to fit all of the answers and there are many threads about dreams around here. Therefore this post is completely pointless and serves just to agree with everyone else. Everyone else: I agree. Since I’ve only just jumped into this game I’ll let someone else pull the trigger and ask the question. SpaceDog [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-questions-7-0/103324.md?page=4)