# Questions Only thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667>\
**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\
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**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 17, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5022 "2023-01-17T00:20:33Z")

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Would you rather I call you Darwin Henchman?

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**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 17, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5023 "2023-01-17T18:51:08Z")

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Where did _that_ come from?

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**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 17, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5024 "2023-01-17T19:01:49Z")

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Wasn’t he that guy in the Beagles?

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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:** [January 17, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5025 "2023-01-17T19:12:48Z")

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The Beagles? Did Snoopy belong to the Beagles?

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**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 17, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5026 "2023-01-17T19:15:07Z")

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Where Snoopy is concerned, would you be willing to rule anything out?

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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:** [January 17, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5027 "2023-01-17T19:19:15Z")

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Why, is Snoopy particularly well known as being unpredictable? I mean do you ever hear Charlie Brown say "_where’s that unpredictable dog of mine and his curious and mysterious bird friend?"_

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**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 17, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5028 "2023-01-17T19:22:25Z")

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Don’t you think his strange ability to regularly find himself in the midst of World War I aerial dogfights (ahem) speaks to some kind of preternatural goings-on?

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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:** [January 17, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5029 "2023-01-17T19:27:43Z")

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Did you have a straight face as you typed “_Snoopy_” and “_preternatural goings-on_” in the same sentence?

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**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 17, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5030 "2023-01-17T19:29:38Z")

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Well, I mean, how could I pass up the opportunity to type out the words _preternatural goings-on_ and post them for the whole world to see?

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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:** [January 17, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5031 "2023-01-17T19:35:16Z")

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I guess you didn’t actually type “Snoopy” in that sentence, did you?

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**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 17, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5032 "2023-01-17T19:41:16Z")

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Technically no, but why get hung up on technicalities?

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**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 17, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5033 "2023-01-17T19:42:42Z")

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Peppermint Patty never does, does she?

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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:** [January 17, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5034 "2023-01-17T19:56:13Z")

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I forget, what does Peppermint Patty refer to Snoopy as? Wasn’t it ‘kid with the big nose’ or something like that?

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**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 17, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5035 "2023-01-17T20:22:37Z")

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That sounds about right, doesn’t it?

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**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 19, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5036 "2023-01-19T07:09:16Z")

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Wasn’t Peppermint Paddy an Irishman?

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**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 19, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5037 "2023-01-19T18:07:15Z")

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Would Paddy O’Furniture ever rust if you left him out in the rain?

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5038 "2023-01-20T22:23:04Z")

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Isn’t it about time that the word Sierra, representing the letter S in the NATO phonetic  
alphabet, was replaced by the word Stoat ?

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**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 20, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5039 "2023-01-20T22:25:09Z")

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You mean it’s not ALREADY stoat???

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**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 21, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5040 "2023-01-21T20:06:40Z")

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Well, it’s obviously long overdue, innit?

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**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 23, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/5041 "2023-01-23T04:36:27Z")

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You mean “slut” was wrong all this time?

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