# Can YOU answer the questions that Marilyn Vos Savant says "need no answers"?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 29, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985 "2005-05-29T14:17:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985/21 "2005-05-30T17:11:31Z")

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> [@ktest](#):
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> I read about an actuary who calculated that the odds of a man’s trousers falling down if he was wearing both a belt and suspenders was about 35,000 to one. What would be the odds of a man’s trousers falling down while wearing only a belt? What about only suspenders?

The odds are zero, because he’s not wearing any trousers.

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985/22 "2005-05-30T17:40:58Z")

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> [@borschevsky](#):
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> The odds are zero, because he’s not wearing any trousers.

**borschevsky** wins #6.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985/23 "2005-05-30T18:17:57Z")

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> [@Marilyn Vos Savant](#):
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> Mulberry bush aside, would a monkey really chase a weasel?

More important that that, how exactly does a weasel go “pop?” Is there some glut of monkey-activated weasel spontatneous combustion that I haven’t been informed of?

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985/24 "2005-05-30T18:33:49Z")

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> [@mobo85](#):
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> More important that that, how exactly does a weasel go “pop?” Is there some glut of monkey-activated weasel spontatneous combustion that I haven’t been informed of?

I think the monkey just goosed the weasel, that’s all. 😉

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-answer-the-questions-that-marilyn-vos-savant-says-need-no-answers/305985/25 "2005-05-30T22:13:25Z")

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> [@DesertGeezer](#):
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> #2: I’ve seen some real gas bags in Congress. If it had the expected effect, how come Tom DeLay (or fill in another name of your choice here) isn’t tethered to his chair?

Because the handcuffs keep him from floating away already? 🙂

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