# question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 12, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313 "2005-09-12T20:04:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![swiftysoitiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@swiftysoitiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swiftysoitiz)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/41 "2005-09-12T21:04:26Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> Ah, I think I’m starting to get it.
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> You’ve come up with some sort of koan or philosophical question, and you want to either cash in on it or copyright it. And you want us to tell you how to do so.
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> I don’t know. I’m still thinking about mating with **Dung Beetle**.

yes thats where im coming from

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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/42 "2005-09-12T21:04:40Z")

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What do you want from us?

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/43 "2005-09-12T21:07:35Z")

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I just bookmarked this thread. I haven’t giggled out loud in a long time.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/44 "2005-09-12T21:08:25Z")

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> [@Eleusis](#):
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> What do you want from us?

He wants us to tell him how to sell an idea to a magazine. The idea being an unanswerable question that has no answer.

I guess start with the editor’s secretary. I’m guessing that they’d want to have some clue about what you’re talking about before they write you a check, though.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/45 "2005-09-12T21:09:34Z")

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> [@mr bus guy](#):
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> I just bookmarked this thread. I haven’t giggled out loud in a long time.

You obviously haven’t tried blowing a bubble bee lately.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/46 "2005-09-12T21:11:37Z")

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I’ll give you a dollar if you request that this thread be closed.

I hope that the preceeding is a satisfactory answer to your query, thus allowing the question to be forever put to rest.

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/47 "2005-09-12T21:11:56Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> You obviously haven’t tried blowing a bubble bee lately.

I’m thorry, I can’t hear too well, and my lipth are thwelling from thumthing, I think a thtupid bee thtung me.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/48 "2005-09-12T21:14:55Z")

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Wow, they ban trolls now? Who’da guessed?

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question/321313/49 "2005-09-12T21:15:21Z")

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This is closed.

- **xash**  
General Questions Moderator

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