# Page 56 - Game on **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508 "2011-03-30T14:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/1 "2011-03-30T14:10:34Z")
It’s National Book Week. Grab the closest book. Turn to pg. 56. Copy the 5th sentence to your post. Don’t mention the book. " The other connection is for data modifications such as updates, inserts, deletes, and server-side cursors. " ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/2 "2011-03-30T14:24:32Z")
Make high-pressure connections between BSPT, BSPP, NPTF, and metric threads with these fittings. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/3 "2011-03-30T14:28:29Z")
Geologically, it is not really a canyon, but a series of ampitheaters or natural bowls carved into the edge of the 9,000-foot-high Paunsaugnut Plateau, one of a string of high plateaus (Zion National Park occupies another) that rise above the slickrock desert of southwestern Utah. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/4 "2011-03-30T14:57:09Z")
She walked into my office wearing a body that would make a man write bad checks, but in this paperless age you would first have to obtain her ABA Routing Transit Number and Account Number and then disable your own Overdraft Protection in order to do so. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/5 "2011-03-30T15:37:30Z")
It is positively true that there are many to whom the sight of suffering causes genuine pleasure , and in whom the passion to kill or torture is as strong as any other passion. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/6 "2011-03-30T15:46:38Z")
It is less elastic than stockinette; any application in which stretch is required could cause this fabric to distort around its designs. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/7 "2011-03-30T16:06:04Z")
“Now can you see a balding bloke waving manically at you?” ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/8 "2011-03-30T16:26:49Z")
And as the particle size increases, the scattering cross section becomes less sensitive to the wavelength; the radiation scattered from white light becomes “whiter” as the particle size increases. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/9 "2011-03-30T16:43:45Z")
“The hijab has also become a symbol of Islamic identity, not unlike the kippah (head covering) for Jewish men.” ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/10 "2011-03-30T16:57:57Z")
The conclusion of all of this is that (1) in some games it may take a lifetime to find out exactly how well you play, and (2) just because you have had a good run does not mean that you have become an expert player. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/11 "2011-03-30T17:19:58Z")
_She was learning to read_, Tyrion thought, absurdly. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/12 "2011-03-30T17:23:02Z")
“Drudges five-four?” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/13 "2011-03-30T18:39:43Z")
Mallory-Weiss tears: Superficial esophageal erosions that can cause a GI bleed. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/14 "2011-03-30T18:52:02Z")
The payment of principal and premium, if any, and interest on the senior notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on an unsecured senior basis, jointly and severally, by (Company)'s material wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries that guarantee any of its other indebtedness. **Moidalize** : That sounds like something **Boyo Jim** might have written. ---
**Author:** ![Crackrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Crackrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crackrat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/15 "2011-03-30T18:58:51Z")
A promise to accept payment, by its very terms, must necessarily become binding, if at all, not later than when a present offer to pay is made. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/16 "2011-03-30T19:00:29Z")
**Crackrat** , I think our books are in the same series. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/17 "2011-03-30T19:20:30Z")
The fact that an employee may have someone at home who is reliable and has more time to care for an ill parent or child does not enter at all into FMLA consideration. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/18 "2011-03-30T21:09:42Z")
It is interesting and important to investigate the behavior of a Markov chain over a long period of time. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/19 "2011-03-30T21:25:54Z")
“I’ll be glad to show it to you.” ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508/20 "2011-03-30T21:39:58Z")
If gram quantaties of a copper salt are ingested, usually with suicidal intent, or if compresses saturated with a solution of copper salt are applied to large areas of burned skin the resulting copper-induced hemolytic anemia and anuria are generally fatal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-56-game-on/576508.md?page=2)