# Exceptions to the rule: "On the Dope: For every possible question there is a person..
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218 "2008-05-13T23:48:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/21 "2008-05-14T03:55:15Z")
I asked about fans of [librivox.org](http://librivox.org), knowing there are a gazillion audiobook-listening Dopers, ten gazillion readers, and at least two Librivox reader/Dopers; not one of them came crawling out of the woodwork.
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### Author:  [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/22 "2008-05-14T04:49:04Z")
I once asked the “proper” way to cite articles in which you are professionally quoted/interviewed/cited when trying to cite such things on a resume or cover letter.
I don’t believe I ever received a response.
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### Author:  [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/23 "2008-05-14T07:49:47Z")
[QUOTE=IncompletIdiot]
Not yet… but then again, this is my first ever post.
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Best First Post, EVAR.
14 k of g in a f p d… pretty sure the consensus was that this was made up. The OP claimed it came from a quiz with many similar puzzles, and many such quizzes existed all over the net. Yet, no one could ever find this particular puzzle, and the OP disappeared with no explanation. Case closed, if you ask me.
But what I wanna know is, when did man visit the deepest part of the world’s oceans, and for how long?
And, most importantly, how many times?
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/24 "2008-05-14T08:02:27Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
The 14kofpd thing may be a mystery for the ages, though.
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What about the person who wrote the original riddle? Hasn’t he or she disclosed the answer since no one has been able to solve it?
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/25 "2008-05-14T09:06:45Z")
A lot of technical questions never get asked here because this would be a relatively bad place for them. For example, I doubt anyone here has first-hand experience with any Lisp machines, or would know much about CLOS, or would have a great deal of insight about plug-board computers, or would know why the Unibus turned out that way. The best the SDMB could do would be to point the querent to a more specialized reference or forum. That might qualify as a success by the definition the OP has in mind, though.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/26 "2008-05-14T09:19:45Z")
In two separate threads, nobody was able to answer my question of whether a navy or merchant vessel would legally be able to hang or shoot pirates while in international waters.
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/27 "2008-05-14T10:41:17Z")
I’ve had two threads bomb completely (no responses), both in Cafe Society. Admittedly one was about a British show that a lot of people wouldn’t have the opportunity to see or even know about but another was asking if anyone had seen a particular Cirque du Soleil show that has been touring in a lot of different locations over the last two years. I would have (at least) have expected someone to say “I’ve not seen that show but I’ve been to see Cirque and it was great/crap/something else”. Instead I got tumbleweed.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/28 "2008-05-14T10:55:01Z")
[QUOTE=CoG888]
But what I wanna know is, when did man visit the deepest part of the world’s oceans, and for how long?
And, most importantly, how many times?
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Once, in the 1920s, with a stylish death ray.
Nobody managed to answer a question I had in Cafe Society (about the name of the mysterious Fourth Motorette on _The Hoobs_. So, not exactly earth-shaking, but I would still like to know … )
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/29 "2008-05-14T11:16:47Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer]
You need to take them out of the tin first.
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They were in a paper tray, wiseacre. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/30 "2008-05-14T11:18:26Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang]
… who knows the answer".
In other words - If you ask a question on the dope about the obscurest of topics - there is bound to be a doper who happens to be an expert on that topic.
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And a half-dozen or so who are not experts, but seldom let that stop them from posting their mis-information anyway.
It’s alway a brief, blissfull moment when that happens and then a few posts later, someone who doesn’t post in every other thread provides a concise, accurate answer to the original question. _That’s_ why I love this place.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/31 "2008-05-14T11:26:19Z")
I once asked a question about spider solitaire and got no answers.
I can understand that though 🙂
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/32 "2008-05-14T11:51:48Z")
Spooky, I’ve just downloaded some software for my dad to play spider solitaire on his new laptop!
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/33 "2008-05-14T13:19:26Z")
What makes native Taiwanese harmony singing sound so distinctively Polynesian? (Thread too old to find in search.)
[Was anyone ever executed for exporting a sheep?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=381187)
[Why is my Panettone not stale?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=178948) (FWIW, this experiment is now ended due to withdrawal of spousal support.)
[Why does the Jade Cabbage have such prosaic company?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=126248)
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### Author:  [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/34 "2008-05-14T13:41:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero]
I once asked a question about spider solitaire and got no answers.
I can understand that though 🙂
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Hey, I love spider solitaire! I learned it from one of those el-cheapo game disks with about a hundred versions. I picked up a few that I still play, but spider is my favorite.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/35 "2008-05-14T13:46:51Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne]
What makes native Taiwanese harmony singing sound so distinctively Polynesian? (Thread too old to find in search.)
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[Because Polynesians originated from Taiwan?](http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0713-rhett_butler.html) If by “native Taiwanese” you mean the aboriginal people, I’d guess that might answer your question.
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/36 "2008-05-14T14:42:28Z")
Thanks **Koxinga**. I’m after why it sounds _musically_ the same. I knew about the shared ancestry. I think I’ll start a new thread in Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/37 "2008-05-14T14:56:11Z")
Nobody could ever tell me for sure who had the first vanity phone number. I suspect it was [this guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=368020).
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/38 "2008-05-14T15:00:35Z")
[QUOTE=hawthorne]
Thanks **Koxinga**. I’m after why it sounds _musically_ the same. I knew about the shared ancestry. I think I’ll start a new thread in Cafe Society.
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:head scratching smiley: I guess I don’t get your point then. I thought indications of a common cultural background would be as much answer as you’d be likely to get.
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/39 "2008-05-14T15:20:21Z")
I’ve yet to see an “Ask the Quaker” thread.
And no one here has actually prepared and dined on human flesh.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exceptions-to-the-rule-on-the-dope-for-every-possible-question-there-is-a-person/449218/40 "2008-05-14T15:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefScott]
And no one here has actually prepared and dined on human flesh.
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[We’ve come pretty close.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=174724)
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