# (don't) Ask Joe Cool anything!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 29, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567 "2000-03-29T23:21:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/21 "2000-03-31T06:12:00Z")
Joe, why is it that my hubby always has lint in his bellybutton, and I never do?
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You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life.
L.L.
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### Author:  [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/22 "2000-03-31T07:15:00Z")
Joe, do you like iced lattes, aka Cool Joes?
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/23 "2000-03-31T16:00:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Ophanim:
> \*\*Have you heard MDFMK? Is it cool? Should I go out and buy it?
> \*\*
I’ve only heard one song (Rabble Rouser) and it’s pretty good. Sounds pretty much like what you’d expect. Heavy guitar, heavy beat track, standard fare for KMFDMDFMK. I haven’t bought it yet, but I’m going to.
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> MrKnowItAll:
> **Does Snoopy know you’re using his pseudonym?**
No, snoopy uses MY pseudonym, dammit! I sued that stupid dog. Wanna hear what happened? They said he owned the name just because he thought of it before I was born. What a bunch of crap. can you believe it?
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> jti:
> **what does a kid eat the middle of first?**
Isn’t that some hotdog commercial from the 70’s? Where the kid couldn’t decide which end of the hotdog to start on, so he bit the middle out? I don’t remember the brand.
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> Anti Pro:
> **Joe, I don’t want to ask a question, okay?**
Ok.
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> purplebear:
> **Joe, why is it that my hubby always has lint in his bellybutton, and I never do?**
Excellent question!
Next question?
[quote]
billehunt:
**Joe, do you like iced lattes, aka Cool Joes?**
Yes. But only on the third tuesday and the second monday of every month.
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## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes
Joe Cool
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### Author:  [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/24 "2000-03-31T21:53:00Z")
Boxers or briefs?
What’s sexier on women, cotton or silk? I kinda lean toward cotton. It’s much more hospitable.
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/25 "2000-03-31T23:28:00Z")
Is it safe?
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Any similarity between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
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### Author:  [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/26 "2000-03-31T23:40:00Z")
How do you contain several quotes within one posted answer to them all, as opposed to having to _reply separately_ to each one? Thanks, ahead, forthe answer.
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### Author:  [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/27 "2000-03-31T23:42:00Z")
[QUOTE]
Originally posted by ASPA:
I mean, _reply separately_
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/28 "2000-04-01T00:23:00Z")
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> Originally posted by psycat90:
> \*\*Is it safe?
> \*\*
YES. It’s perfectly safe. But it’s prohibited in Arizona, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. of course, that depends on what your definition of “it” is. 😉
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> inertia:
> \*\*Boxers or briefs? What’s sexier on women, cotton or silk?
> \*\*
Boxers at the moment. Either, both, or neither, depending on what I feel like wearing at the moment.
On women, anything can be sexy. It depends on what else she’s wearing. If she’s dressed all trampy, silk is better. If she’s dressed demurely, cotton is better. On some women, even plastic or a potato sack can look sexy.
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> ASPA:
> **How do you contain several quotes within one posted answer to them all, as opposed to having to _reply separately_ to each one?**
I’m just using the
[quote]
tag each time and copy/paste to put in the text I want.
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## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes
Joe Cool
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### Author:  [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/29 "2000-04-01T02:13:00Z")
[quote]
Originally posted by Joe\_Cool:
I’m just using the
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> tag each time and copy/paste to put in the text I want.
_I have trouble pasting, must be doing it wrong: When I click paste (using the standard toolbar) nothing pastes. Is there some “inhouse” copy/paste thing I should be using? I appreciate the reply; it’s more interactive and directly helpful than searching the faq. Thankx again._
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### Author:  [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/30 "2000-04-01T02:42:00Z")
Plastic? You can get 'em in plastic? That sounds so disposable. I’m not even going for it.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/31 "2000-04-01T13:49:00Z")
Joe, what is the meaning of Life? Of Time? Of “Model Railroader Newsletter & Gazetteer”?
And if your cool, why don’t you put on a sweater, instead of turning up the heat all the time?
And why haven’t you eaten all your meat? HOW CAN YOU GET DESSERT IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED ALL YOUR MEAT? DO YOU WANT TO BREAK YOUR MOTHER’S HEART?
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You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment."-Bill Hicks
“You should tell the lies, live the truth and expose yourself.” - Bill Clinton
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### Author:  [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/32 "2000-04-01T14:08:00Z")
Can I ask the next question?
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inconceivable? i don’t think that word means what you think it does
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/33 "2000-04-01T17:49:00Z")
[humming] A kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and save the chocolate cookie outside for last. [/humming]
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and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe
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### Author:  [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/34 "2000-04-02T06:17:00Z")
[QUOTE]
Originally posted by Joe\_Cool:
\*\* Excellent question!
Next question?
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Hey! No fair!! Everyone else got an answer to their question! Whassa matta, too hard for ya?
Okay, 'nother one for you. Where did my amethyst earring get to?
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You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life.
L.L.
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### Author:  [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/35 "2000-04-02T06:29:00Z")
EXACT value of pi please.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/36 "2000-04-01T23:22:00Z")
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> Originally posted by smug:
> **EXACT value of pi please.**
it’s equal to precisely 1.0 (in base pi)
or 2.0 in base (pi/2)
it’s also equal to precisely 4\*arctan(1), or
```
00
____
\ 1
```
4\* \> (-1^(n-1))( ------ )
/\_\_\_ 2n-1
n=1
How’s that?
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> purplebear:
> \*\*Hey! No fair!! Everyone else got an answer to their question! Whassa matta, too hard for ya?
>
> Okay, 'nother one for you. Where did my amethyst earring get to?\*\*
Dammit purplebear, you’re supposed to ask me easy questions! You’re making me look bad here. Check behind the faucet in your bathroom for the amethyst earrings. And you have a positive EPG (electrical potential gradient) with respect to the environment which causes your body to repel lint. Your husband is positively charged (opposites attract, see how that works out?) and all the lint flows down the gradient towards him.
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> Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor:
> \*\*Joe, what is the meaning of Life? Of Time? Of “Model Railroader Newsletter & Gazetteer”?
>
> And if your cool, why don’t you put on a sweater, instead of turning up the heat all the time? And why haven’t you eaten all your meat? HOW CAN YOU GET DESSERT IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED ALL YOUR MEAT? DO YOU WANT TO BREAK YOUR MOTHER’S HEART?\*\*
The meaning of both time and life is purchase by, followed by subservience to america online. MRN&G is a front for the IRA and also for various alien expeditionary forces preparing to invade earth (just goes to show, you can’t trust the damn irish! haha). Its purpose is for laundering money and covertly gaining support here in the states.
“IF YOU DON’T EAT YER MEAT, YOU CAN’T HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON’T EAT YER MEAT?!”
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> jti:
> **[humming] A kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and save the chocolate cookie outside for last. [/humming]**
Never heard that one before. I could have sworn there was a hotdog commercial like that back in the 70s.
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## There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes
Joe Cool
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/37 "2000-04-01T23:26:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Joe\_Cool:
> \*\*00
>
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> \ 1
> 4\* \> (-1^(n-1))( ------ )
> /\_\_\_ 2n-1
> n=1
> \*\*
crap. that should have been this:
\\code:\\\
00
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\ 1
4\* \> (-1^(n-1))( ------ )
/\_\_\_ 2n-1
n=1
```auto
and the 00 is supposed to be infinity. not the green square on a roulette wheel.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/38 "2000-04-01T23:30:00Z")
Ok, last try:
pi= 4 times the sum (as n goes from 1 to infinity) of the terms (-1^(n-1))(1/(2n-1))
or 4\*pi = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9…
I want my HTML.
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### Author:  [@GoSensGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoSensGo)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/39 "2000-04-01T23:31:00Z")
What makes a question a question, if by the act of questioning we mean a mere interrogation, but not a rhetorical device, other than the question mark at the end of the sentence, and the interrogative pronoun at the start of the sentence?
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/40 "2000-04-01T23:31:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Joe\_Cool:
> \*\*4\*pi = \*\*
make that pi/4. I’m going to lie down now.
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