# How Many of the Questions Here Actually Get Answered?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 1999, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-questions-here-actually-get-answered/4890 "1999-11-19T08:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-questions-here-actually-get-answered/4890/21 "1999-11-23T06:50:00Z")

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Love is backward **evol** -ution.

Does that get it above 80%? 😉

But I remember that there was dissatisfaction about an acceptable answer regarding the source of the designation **street ell**. And no one seemed to come up with the source of the tune of “duh-dih DUH DUH DUH, duh-dih DUH-di duh-di duh”. There appear still to be some weeping souls remaining out there.

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> But I broke down way out in the boonies. you ever try to by parts for a tangent in a small town?

Reminds me of the time I was tooling around out on a dirt back road in an eastern part of the Southern California desert, when I came up missing a U-bolt on my tail pipe. A few minutes pass. . . Up comes a pick-up truck. Never was too fond of the typical pick-up driver. . . . But this one hands me the proper size U-bolt and goes on his way. Ya just never know. Maybe U-bolts grow on Joshua trees. I dunno.

Ray (Tangent, you say? How about an arcsecant in Hilbert space?)

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