# Questions Only thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667 "2020-06-22T15:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 247
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4922 "2022-12-31T21:40:02Z")
Wouldn’t that depend on the brand and flavor? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4923 "2022-12-31T21:41:10Z")
This is getting kinda complicated so we should have someone else do the math to figure out how much gum to give, but who could we get to do that? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4924 "2022-12-31T22:18:13Z")
Do you know any gum experts? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4925 "2023-01-01T00:15:20Z")
What if I told you my wife used to work for Wrigley? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4926 "2023-01-01T00:20:04Z")
If _she_’s not an expert, then who is??? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4927 "2023-01-01T01:31:47Z")
How much will we have to pay an expert? ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4928 "2023-01-01T04:37:00Z")
Can I, as your penniless intern, turn down the happy meal and the gum (so friggin complicated) and suggest a mere Pulitzer nomination for whatever you decide my task is (Dimly Himley hits notwithstanding)?? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4929 "2023-01-01T05:52:52Z")
Wouldn’t that require your first task to be finding out how to submit a Pulitzer nomination? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4930 "2023-01-01T06:31:09Z")
So are my wife’s services as a gum expert no longer needed, then? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4931 "2023-01-01T07:25:28Z")
Depends, does she know any other Russian department stores? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4932 "2023-01-01T16:55:29Z")
Am I the only one getting a little impatient to know about the Don Henley (n.b.) results? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4933 "2023-01-01T17:15:39Z")
Do you think it would be possible to get **Wheelz** ’s wife to work something up on the Henley question while we get **boson** ’s situation sorted out? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4934 "2023-01-02T02:31:50Z")
Did you think I offered my wife’s services for anything other than determining the value of a stick of gum? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4935 "2023-01-02T02:34:42Z")
Will you accept my humblest apology if i overstepped? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4936 "2023-01-02T04:05:32Z")
Well, isn’t the gum a moot point now that our intern has expressed no interest? Now how will we ever find out how many hits Dimley Wimley had? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4937 "2023-01-02T08:44:26Z")
But if the gum question comes up again, don’t you think we’ll want to have an answer ready to go? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4938 "2023-01-02T15:39:14Z")
Don’t you think finding someone who’s willing to be paid in gum is kind of a long shot? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4939 "2023-01-02T15:49:01Z")
Don’t you remember the gum commercials where the people wanted to get paid in gum? Did those commercials **LIE** to me??? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4940 "2023-01-02T16:26:14Z")
Madison Avenue would never do _that,_ would it? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4941 "2023-01-02T17:15:18Z")
Well, you can understand my confusion, can’t you? At this point, do you think that maybe I should also question whether Skittles are a communicable skin disease? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=246) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=248)