# Because the Straight Dope tells me so - things learned from the Dope. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851 "2011-05-31T14:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/21 "2011-06-02T16:17:38Z")
Too many things in GQ to list, but the one that really stands out for some reason is that I thought astronauts were weightless when orbiting the earth because gravity was so weak out there. No - they’re weightless because of their angular momentum offsets the force of gravity. If they weren’t moving so fast around the Earth, they’d plummet to the surface. (I think Chronos may have put it this way - they are falling to the Earth, but are moving so fast sideways that they keep missing!) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/22 "2011-06-02T16:21:02Z")
That my wedding ring fits up my nose! ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/23 "2011-06-02T16:54:28Z")
As a relative newby to the SDMB I feel like a grasshopper from all the stuff I’ve learned. In fact I’ll just hit refresh all day and start a tally! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/24 "2011-06-02T17:15:17Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > That my wedding ring fits up my nose! If you think about it, your finger fits up your nose, and your ring fits around your finger. Ipso ergito cogita sum, or something like that. (I’ve learned that I never have to look anything up - just post something close, and the anal nitpickers will do my work for me. 🙂 But I’ve probably said too much…) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/25 "2011-06-02T17:58:32Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I just drag the dry razor across my dry face and jump in the shower. Many Dopers spoke of shaving while showering. Wait, what? I mean to say, what? No shaving cream or even soap? What in the Honeybaked hell are people up to these days? Joe ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/26 "2011-06-02T18:47:11Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If you think about it, your finger fits up your nose, and your ring fits around your finger. Ipso ergito cogita sum, or something like that. . . . I’ve never put my finger that FAR up my nose. And I’ll take everyone’s word on the ring thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/27 "2011-06-02T19:09:37Z")
Haven’t you ever wanted to tickle your brain? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/28 "2011-06-02T19:12:17Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > Not to use shampoo. I have been poo free for 6 months and my hair and scalp look and feel amazingly healthy. Wait, what? Just use water? I have not heard this, and must hear more! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/29 "2011-06-02T20:30:53Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I’ve never put my finger that FAR up my nose. And I’ll take everyone’s word on the ring thing. You don’t have to.[Read about it here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=209087) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/30 "2011-06-02T20:46:04Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > I have been poo free for 6 months… They got a pill for that. > [@SylverOne](#): > > It’s sherbet. Not sherbert. I argued about this with my daughter, who was convinced it is sherbert. I told her to Google sherbert. She did. The screen said, “Did you mean sherbet?” The one that stays with me is that ponies are not young horses. Who knew? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/31 "2011-06-02T21:03:45Z")
> [@SylverOne](#): > > It’s sherbet. > > Not sherbert. Merriam-Webster says that both are acceptable, in fact. I myself have learned nothing from the Dope, not because I am omniscient but because I am so dense. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/32 "2011-06-02T21:06:43Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > The one that stays with me is that ponies are not young horses. Who knew? > mmm Everybody but you, I’m afraid. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/33 "2011-06-02T21:28:23Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Still the best thing I ever learned here was that you can sing most of Emily Dickinson’s poems to the Gillgan’s Isle theme. Thanks Drain Bead! It works with ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’, too. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/34 "2011-06-02T21:35:25Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Wait, what? Just use water? I have not heard this, and must hear more! just search for threads with " going no poo" or shampoo in the thread title. Due to those threads, I haven’t washed my sons hair with shampoo since his birth and he always gets compliments on his hair. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/35 "2011-06-02T21:47:01Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > just search for threads with " going no poo" or shampoo in the thread title. > Due to those threads, I haven’t washed my sons hair with shampoo since his birth and he always gets compliments on his hair. A couple of decades ago I spent a couple of years “no poo” - I shaved my head bald then just scrubbed my hair in water every day. Never cut it, never shampooed it. It grew out long and lustrous and glossy. Really amazing. But back then I was a smelly hippy. I didn’t care about my odor. I used to hide half-smoked joints in my hair, for goodness’ sake. Now I have short hair and work in a corporate environment where people are sensitive to natural odors - if I were to try this again (particularly because I smoke), is there anything I could do to keep it at least smelling neutral? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/36 "2011-06-02T21:51:17Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > It is directly due to you people that I have a gazillion pairs of shoes since this is where I learned about a discount site, [6pm.com](http://6pm.com). Okay, I hate you. Not really but this is going to consume the rest of my evening and/or paycheck. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/37 "2011-06-03T00:04:33Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > - if I were to try this again (particularly because I smoke), is there anything I could do to keep it at least smelling neutral? Sure. The idea is washing your hair just as often as you would with shampoo, but leaving out the shampoo and conditioner. Just use water. There is also [a school](http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Go-No-Poo/) which recommends using a little baking soda (a known de-odorant) as “soap” and a bit of apple vinegar as rinse. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/38 "2011-06-03T05:25:38Z")
Command-space for Spotlight, and using it as a calculator - I’m doing it! I learned that nachos really is a plural of nacho and rhymes with chose, and not a mass noun that rhymes with joss. And so all those times I corrected the ignorami, I was they. One of them. > [@Cicero](#): > > I was told of a guy who was shaving in the shower using an old razor with a blade- he dropped it and gashed his cock. He showered with a chicken? :eek: That’s just sick. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/39 "2011-06-03T05:44:03Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Command-space for Spotlight, and using it as a calculator - I’m doing it! OK, now that’s cool. You just saved me about 15 trips to widget-land per day. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851/40 "2011-06-03T05:50:28Z")
> [@](#): > > The one that stays with me is that ponies are not young horses. Who knew? Well, I was absolutely horse crazy when I was a girl, and I’d still love to be able to have a horse. At any rate, I devoured all sorts of horsy knowledge, and I can tell you the difference between hotbloods, warmbloods, and coldbloods, and give you examples of each. I know that horses and donkeys and ponies and zebras are all different species. I know the difference between a mule and a hinny. I think that pretty much any woman who was moderately horse crazy, and also has at least a moderate amount of intellectual curiousity, would know that ponies are NOT young horses. Apparently, though, the writers of the Beyond Zork computer game didn’t know, because a unicorn is described as being “just a pony”, apparently referring to her size or youth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-the-straight-dope-tells-me-so-things-learned-from-the-dope/583851.md?page=3)