# (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:** 16
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### Author:  [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/41 "2000-04-01T23:48:00Z")
isn’t pi also the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s area or something like that?
alright Joe, here’s my question:
Why do they put hot dogs in packages of eight and buns in packages of six?
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"Elmo knows where you live! – Elmo, after Homer stiffed PBS for $10,000
If you need a graphic solution, [http:\ alk.to\Piglet](http://talk.to%5CPiglet)
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/42 "2000-04-02T00:43:00Z")
Why?
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### Author:  [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/43 "2000-04-02T00:46:00Z")
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> foolsguinea: **Why?**
Because, silly.
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"Elmo knows where you live! – Elmo, after Homer stiffed PBS for $10,000
If you need a graphic solution, [http:\ alk.to\Piglet](http://talk.to%5CPiglet)
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/44 "2000-04-02T02:13:00Z")
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> Originally posted by BigRoryG:
> **isn’t pi also the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s area or something like that?**
yes.
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> \*\*Why do they put hot dogs in packages of eight and buns in packages of six?
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They don’t. They put hot dogs in packs of 10 and buns in packs of 8.
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> foolsguinea:
> **why?**
Why, indeed. Why not?
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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:  [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/45 "2000-04-02T02:14:00Z")
Thank you so much, Joe. I was really wondering about the lint. hehehe. I love your explanation! Oh, and it wasn’t quite behind the faucet, it was next to it, behind my ceramic box(it holds hair stuff). But, you put me on the right track, so thank you very much. 🙂
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You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life.
L.L.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/46 "2000-04-02T05:35:00Z")
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> Originally posted by purplebear:
> \*\*Thank you so much, Joe. I was really wondering about the lint. hehehe. I love your explanation! Oh, and it wasn’t quite behind the faucet, it was next to it, behind my ceramic box(it holds hair stuff). But, you put me on the right track, so thank you very much. 🙂
> \*\*
Glad to be of service!
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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:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/47 "2000-04-02T21:25:00Z")
Well, you “don’t need no education”.
Just another brick in the wall… 😃
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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:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/48 "2000-04-02T22:10:00Z")
Why did they stop making Graham Chex? Those things were _good._
Did the Coyote ever catch & eat the Road Runner?
Cage match: Elmo or Blue?
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This is my new sig. Thank Wally. It was his idea.
“I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday.”
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/49 "2000-04-02T23:11:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Cristi:
> \*\*Why did they stop making Graham Chex? Those things were _good._
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> Did the Coyote ever catch & eat the Road Runner?
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> Cage match: Elmo or Blue?
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They stopped making those because I didn’t like 'em! haha
Yes, the coyote _did_ catch the roadrunner once, and he felt bad and couldn’t eat him. So he let him go. What a loser. I always wanted somebody to kill that stupid bird. And the tweety bird too. I hate those things.
Blue? the color? I think elmo would lose because he’d use up all his energy trying to fight a trancendental concept such as “blue” which doesn’t really exist except in our perceptions. And he’d die of exhaustion.
Or is there a muppet named blue? If so, the winner would be whoever has less “gratuitous cuteness”.
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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:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/50 "2000-04-02T23:29:00Z")
Joe: Blue is the puppy from Blue’s Clues, a pre-k show on Nickelodeon. As for gratuitous cuteness, I’d call them equal. My three year old daughter likes them both equally well.
Thanks for the answers to the other two, though! And how much to talk you in to getting Graham Chex back on the market? They really are good. 🙂
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This is my new sig. Thank Wally. It was his idea.
“I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday.”
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/51 "2000-04-04T18:35:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Ophanim:
> \*\*Have you heard MDFMK? Is it cool? Should I go out and buy it?
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I just heard the whole album finally. It’s pretty damn cool. It sounds good in my car, too. 🙂
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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:  [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/52 "2000-04-04T18:53:00Z")
Are you just doing this to pad your post?? 'Cause if you are…What a good idea! 😃
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/53 "2000-04-04T19:06:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Bast:
> \*\*Are you just doing this to pad your post?? 'Cause if you are…What a good idea! 😃
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no I’m doing it because I’m really really really really bored at work, and I want to share my razor sharp wit and burning sarcasm with the world, because I would hate for you all to have to go through life deprived.
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## Joe Cool
I don’t make sense but I’ve got my pride
I need no meaning, I feel no shame
I will not believe that I’ve got no choice
I’m out of control, and I love it
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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 4, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/54 "2000-04-04T19:09:00Z")
grumble grumble grumble…deleting the old profile after adding the new one…
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/55 "2000-04-05T01:00:00Z")
Okay, here’s a puzzle for you:
If Kat has empty beverage cans on her TV tray table in four stacks of three, how many Pepsi cans on on her TV tray table?
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-ask-joe-cool-anything/15567/56 "2000-04-05T16:09:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Kat:
> **Okay, here’s a puzzle for you:
> If Kat has empty beverage cans on her TV tray table in four stacks of three, how many Pepsi cans on on her TV tray table?**
zero, because kat doesn’t drink that tasteless crap. 🙂
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## Joe Cool
I don’t make sense but I’ve got my pride
I need no meaning, I feel no shame
I won’t believe that I’ve got no choice
I’m out of control…and I love it
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