# More questions you have that you don't want to clutter up GQ with. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610 "2006-06-29T04:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/21 "2006-06-29T19:59:51Z")
> [@Draax](#): > > As to the crossbow question. The simple answer is that a bolt _ain’t_ an arrow. They look similar in shape but are quite different in almost every other way. So I imagine that they’re just like every other weapon; they have a specific name. From the Online Etymolgy Dictionary: \*O.E. bolt, from P.Gmc. \*bultas (cf. Dan. bolt, Ger. Bolzen), perhaps from PIE base _bheld- “to knock, strike” (cf. Lith. beldu “I knock,” baldas “pole for striking”). Originally a short, stout arrow with a heavy head._ The heavy head seems to be the key in the naming thereof. Thanks, all, for addressing the \*JGHG \* question. I was, like, 13 or 14 when I last saw it, and I just couldn’t be sure. What disturbing imagery! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/22 "2006-06-29T20:05:22Z")
In areas of the country where they say “warsh” for “wash”, do they also sing the song like this: “Camptown ladies sing this song, doo dar, doo dar…”? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/23 "2006-06-29T20:35:35Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > In areas of the country where they say “warsh” for “wash”, do they also sing the song like this: “Camptown ladies sing this song, doo dar, doo dar…”? Not around here, no. I know quite a few folks who “warsh” clothes, and some who then “rench” them. They don’t sing “doo dar,” though. I have heard somebody adding the r, but I can’t remember where. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/24 "2006-06-29T20:40:24Z")
What is meant by a long or short upper lip? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/25 "2006-06-29T20:45:33Z")
If you eat some _endnotes, errata, or addenda_, they’ll end up in your **appendix.** If you are a legislator, and you have some _footnotes_, don’t eat them yourself. Give 'em to your page to eat, and they’ll go to his bottom. Some dog urine kills grass, and some dogs can be trained to sniff out drugs, truffles, or explosives. Can a dog be trained to find, and pee on, crabgrass? ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/26 "2006-06-29T22:24:36Z")
I’ve always wondered why we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. And, it costs about a million bucks a mile to build, so why do we call it a freeway? Also, if your husband has the delusion that he is in fact a refrigerator…and he sleeps with his mouth open…does the little light keep you awake at night? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/27 "2006-06-30T02:08:18Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > OK, I’ve got one that’s been niggling at me for a while: Anyone see the film _Johnny Got his Gun_? I saw it years and years ago, and I seem to remember a scene where a nurse tearfully gives Joe a handjob. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I saw it in the theater, and that’s definitely what happened. As I recall, she was praying for forgiveness while she was doing it. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/28 "2006-06-30T02:43:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And did 18th century Americans smoke marijuana? You’re always reading that they grew hemp, but that’s used in making rope and cloth and other products- did they actually smoke what we would consider pot? (i.e. did George and Martha Washington really put on some mellow harpsichord and chill?) There’s an entry in Washington’s diary that reads, “Began to separate the Male from the Female hemp–rather too late.” I can’t imagine why you’d do that if you wanted rope, but that is how you make sinsemilla. Besides, we’re talking about people with no Internet, no TV, no electricity, maybe one or two books, and acres and acres of weed. People desperate enough for stimulation that one of them was willing to try applejack for the first time. (“Shit, Prudence, we’re all out of cider! Hey, wait. Here’s a barrel of slush under some hay that’s been freezing and thawing since September.” ::Pause:: “Y’know, this is pretty good. Let’s tell the neighbors!”) I know what I’d do. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/29 "2006-06-30T11:02:44Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Not around here, no. I know quite a few folks who “warsh” clothes, and some who then “rench” them. They don’t sing “doo dar,” though. I have heard somebody adding the r, but I can’t remember where. That would be my grandma on my fathers side. She’s from Indianapolis, Indiana. She also used to talk about watching the Grand Pricks car race. She does not sing “do dar” as far as i can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/30 "2006-06-30T11:58:15Z")
I forgot to ask my question. If a 220 volt stove occasionally shocks you, could it potentially seriously injure or kill someone with a pace maker or other medical device/condition? I’m moving out of an apartment with this problem. The landlord won’t fix it and I’m concerned about the future tennant. I live in Florida and mostly likely the next person who lives here will be over 65. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/31 "2006-06-30T12:06:20Z")
Can I really make lots of money working from home in my spare time? ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/32 "2006-06-30T12:52:09Z")
1. Why do they call it “cutting the cheese?” Does cheese smell like farts? No one I ever met had farts like that. 2. Do non-humans animals ever engage in anal sex? ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/33 "2006-06-30T12:59:20Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > 1. Do non-humans animals ever engage in anal sex? Wait… are you asking if animals that aren’t domesticated ever have anal sex, or if animals that are _not_ related to humans (primates) have anal sex? Either way, that’s a bizarre question. \>\_\> And, since I’m stupid and not sure what it is you’re asking, alls I can say is that I know my friends dogs do it. They’re both male. It’s a dominance thing. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/34 "2006-06-30T13:13:03Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Pop’s military hat, his overall uniform is more specifically that of a musician in a marching band. (This does not rule out “military,” of course.) Crackle is there merely respond to Pop’s line, “But what if I were no musician?” with, “I knew it directly I heard you play!” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/35 "2006-06-30T17:25:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Never saw the film but I know she does it in the book. i must have read that when I was too young to know what was up, because I don’t remember that part. I guess I also assumed his penis went away with the rest of his bottom half. I heard on these boards that the whole book is a dream sequence of someone stuck on the battlefield. And he has time for a sexual fantasy within his overall fantasy?? My question: is there an adjective for “yawning all the time”, besides “yawny” which I don’t even think is a word? ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/36 "2006-06-30T18:07:16Z")
> [@Clockwork And Candy](#): > > Either way, that’s a bizarre question. A pair of cats have recently taken to fucking outside my bedroom window. I joked last night that it sounded like Mr. Cat was using the wrong hole, which touched off speculation as to whether animals ever actually did anal. I’m still kind of curious, but you’ve provided a partial answer so I guess I can return home without shame. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/37 "2006-06-30T18:11:05Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > A pair of cats have recently taken to fucking outside my bedroom window. I joked last night that it sounded like Mr. Cat was using the wrong hole, A male cat’s penis has dozens of barbs covering it. When he penetrates the queen (female cat) the pain induces her to ovulate. A very efficient way to make kittens. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/38 "2006-06-30T18:15:40Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > I thought Crackle was a “fool”. I think it’s pretty clear that Crackle works down at the RenFair selling gargoyles and swords. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/39 "2006-06-30T19:18:33Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > A male cat’s penis has dozens of barbs covering it. When he penetrates the queen (female cat) the pain induces her to ovulate. A very efficient way to make kittens. Well that explains the yowling. And I always thought Crackle had the look of a Napoleonic Wars-era British sailor. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610/40 "2006-06-30T19:38:32Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > 1. Do non-humans animals ever engage in anal sex? \*\*THIS IS A NON-WORK-SAFE LINK \*\* (at least if your workplace doesn’t like pics of animals making the beast with one back), but the answer to your question is [yes](http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/homosexuality/animal-homosexuality/) (many different species and including hetero, homo and full penetration with bio-lube). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-you-have-that-you-dont-want-to-clutter-up-gq-with/362610.md?page=3)