# "Need answer fast" threads that would make you raise an eyebrow.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 26, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986 "2012-10-26T23:53:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author: ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/41 "2012-10-28T18:17:04Z")

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How important are the biocontainment procedures in the laboratory?

Is it bad for your positive pressure suit to deflate?

How to clean up spilled _filoviridae_?

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### Author: ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/42 "2012-10-28T18:18:53Z")

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How much should I tip a stripper? Need answer fast.

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### Author: ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/43 "2012-10-28T18:38:32Z")

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How deep do you have to bury a, let’s say a _dog_, to keep anyone from noticing the smell? Need answer fast.

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### Author: ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/44 "2012-10-28T19:33:58Z")

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Long ago I started a thread offering to make arbitrary decisions for people. I got questions like “Chinese or Mexican for dinner?”, “brown or black shoes with these pants?”, etc.  
**Coldfire** posted “Liberty or death?”, and I responded “How quickly do you need to know?”

So, yeah. “Liberty or death? Need answer fast.”

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### Author: ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/45 "2012-10-28T20:11:24Z")

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> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#):
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> “Missed my last 9 periods, and now I’m having really bad cramps! Need answer fast.”

Apparently reading the above briefly put The Fear into my boyfriend (especially as we’ve only known each other for 5 months) 😉

That’ll teach him to read posts out of context!

> [@AK84](#):
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> :eek:I know people who would ask such a question.

Abstinence only education has a lot to answer for ☹

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### Author: ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/46 "2012-10-28T20:53:03Z")

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Is a tetanus shot really necessary?

What’s this thing I pulled out of the dumpster?

If the police come to your house and tell you to come out with your hands up, do you really have to do it?

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### Author: ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/47 "2012-10-28T21:01:37Z")

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> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> Howlongcanthumbsremainseveredandstillbeabletobere-attached?(Needanswerfast!)

There, fixed that for you.

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### Author: ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/48 "2012-10-28T21:11:26Z")

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Hostage 1 or Hostage 2? (need answer fast)

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### 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: [October 28, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/49 "2012-10-28T21:31:41Z")

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I’m a contestant on a game show and the host offered me my choice of three doors. I chose Door A, then he opened Door C to show me there was no prize there and asked me if I wanted to change my choice to Door B. What should I do?

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### Author: ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/50 "2012-10-28T22:31:20Z")

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My, uh, hypothetical girlfriend’s having a baby. Should I be there where the baby comes out? Need answer fast!

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### Author: ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-answer-fast-threads-that-would-make-you-raise-an-eyebrow/638986/51 "2012-10-29T00:40:49Z")

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> [@Szlater](#):
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> ‘Ask the guy who has just taken cyanide’

I totally love that !

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