# Paste your clipboard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [February 9, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659 "2020-02-09T02:09:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/41 "2020-02-13T18:46:03Z")

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> **[MS Zuiderdam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam)**
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> MS Zuiderdam /ˈzaɪdərdæm/ is a Vista-class cruise ship owned and operated by Holland America Line (HAL). It is the lead ship of the Vista-class vessels, so named for the extensive use of glass in their superstructure, and is sister to three other HAL ships, Oosterdam, Westerdam, and Noordam. The prefixes of the four ships' names represent the four directions of the compass in Dutch.
> The ship shares similar exterior dimensions with Carnival Cruise Lines' and Costa Cruises' Spirit class. Cunard...

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**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:** [February 13, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/42 "2020-02-13T19:27:18Z")

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I can’t. My clipboard currently has some sketchup piece on it.

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/43 "2020-02-13T23:20:40Z")

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Songs about the Music Industry

1. Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd
2. Love Song - Sara Bareilles
3. Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys
4. Workin’ for MCA - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. The Stroke - Billy Squier

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/44 "2020-02-13T23:54:31Z")

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Czech Prime Minister Wants to Know Who Changed His Country’s Name

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/45 "2020-02-14T01:23:46Z")

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2162944055

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/46 "2020-02-16T20:49:03Z")

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> **[50 Years Of 'The Point,' Harry Nilsson's Wonderful, Weird Musical Fable](https://www.npr.org/2020/02/15/806149966/50-years-of-the-point-harry-nilsson-s-wonderful-weird-musical-fable)**
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> 50 years after Harry Nilsson's concept album about a round-headed boy from a land of pointy heads, his son Kiefo and actor Mike Lookinland talk about a new release of the animated film from 1971.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/47 "2020-02-16T22:32:05Z")

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Rintintin

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/48 "2020-02-16T22:52:02Z")

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First pickpocket attempt: 90% chance of not being detected.  
Second attempt: 90% \* 90% = 81% chance.  
(3) Ans \* .9 = .729  
(4) .6561  
(5) .59049  
(6) .531441  
(7) .4782969

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/49 "2020-02-16T23:25:43Z")

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Clarence “Frogman” Henry

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/50 "2020-02-17T14:33:53Z")

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Albemarle, CSS  
Bismarck  
Constitution, USS  
Dreadnought HMS  
Erebus, HMS  
Forrestal, USS  
Goldenrod  
Hesperus  
Independence, USS  
Jylland  
Kanko Maru  
Lexington, USS (CV-16, aka The Blue Ghost)  
Monitor, USS  
Nautilus, USS  
Oliver Hazard Perry, USS

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**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/51 "2020-02-17T16:21:52Z")

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Girl’s names mentioned in two different songs

1. Laura – “Laura”, old standard, and “Tell Laura I Love Her”, Ray Peterson
2. Proud Mary/The Wind Cries Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Diane - Material Issue, and Diane - Trip Shakespeare, and Oh Diane - Fleetwood Mac
4. Donna The Prima Donna - Dion And The Del-Satins, and Oh Donna - Ritchie Valens
5. Oh Julie - Shakin’ Stevens and Julie with… - Brian Eno
6. Judy is a Punk - The Ramones, and Judy is Disguise by John Fred & his Playboys
7. Jennifer Juniper - Donovan, and 867-5309, Tommy Tutone
8. Sally- Long Tall Sally, Little Richard and Mustang Sally, Wilson Pickett
9. Emily - Los Lobos; Emily - Joanna Newsom

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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:** [February 17, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/52 "2020-02-17T16:35:42Z")

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> **[Howard Jarvis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jarvis)**
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> Howard Arnold Jarvis (September 22, 1903 – August 12, 1986) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.
> Jarvis was born in Magna, Utah. Although he was raised as a Mormon, he smoked cigars and drank vodka as an adult.
> He graduated from Utah State University. In Utah, he had some political involvement working with his father's campaigns and his own. His father was a state Supreme Court judge ...

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/53 "2020-02-17T16:52:11Z")

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Boogie Woogie Hanukkah

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/54 "2020-02-17T18:51:48Z")

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US Presidents with living descendants

1. John Tyler - two grandsons
2. Ronald Reagan - three surviving children and at least two grandkids
3. John F. Kennedy - one surviving daughter and three grandkids

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/55 "2020-02-18T20:39:43Z")

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Roy G. Biv. Color me impressed.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/56 "2020-02-18T21:33:07Z")

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public virtual int AnnotationTrendRecordCountMaximum =\> 24000;

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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:** [February 18, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/57 "2020-02-18T22:20:18Z")

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My coffee cup is on my desk. It is “somewhere” but if I were sitting at my desk I wouldn’t describe it as being “over yonder.” If I were on the other side of the room, I might say that it is “over yonder on my desk.” I think “over yonder” means a considerable distance away but still close enough to be perceived. What a considerable distance is varies with context. Indoors, a considerable distance might be just a few feet. In an open field it would be a much further distance. Capable of being perceived might mean capable of being

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/58 "2020-02-18T22:28:35Z")

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Agree. Also my test is a still where clip in / out is offset by kVeryLargeOffset for ‘infinite’ trimming

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**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/59 "2020-02-19T09:55:04Z")

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New theme: Photography

1. Centerfold (J. Geils Band)
2. Kodachrome (Paul Simon)

1. Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo )
2. Let Me Take Your Photo (Speedies)

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paste-your-clipboard/847659/60 "2020-02-19T10:05:34Z")

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That I’ve got to get it all to get it all to grow

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