# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1781 "2021-05-18T02:06:51Z")
Who knew there were so many districts? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1782 "2021-05-18T08:53:38Z")
And who knew how many of them are distinct? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1783 "2021-05-18T14:03:35Z")
Does that make you distraught? ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1784 "2021-05-18T15:31:39Z")
And were you even traught in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1785 "2021-05-18T18:45:34Z")
Is that better than being tinct? ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1786 "2021-05-18T21:16:48Z")
Is it possible for somebody who used to be tinct to say anything to us about how good it was? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1787 "2021-05-19T13:30:00Z")
Maybe they’re just too combobulated, couth and gruntled to talk? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1788 "2021-05-19T14:28:17Z")
Or could they be too cussed, torted and tended? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1789 "2021-05-19T14:35:24Z")
Or perhaps even chalant, consolate and descript? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1790 "2021-05-19T14:45:59Z")
Could they be eating some pareils while playing, stop, in an et? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1791 "2021-05-19T16:29:29Z")
What’s an “et”? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1792 "2021-05-19T21:44:18Z")
Couldn’t you have [Googled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonet_(music)) it? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1793 "2021-05-20T02:42:52Z")
Is there anything that Google cannot help with? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1794 "2021-05-20T03:01:57Z")
Can it darn socks? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1795 "2021-05-20T09:48:19Z")
Have you ever darned a sock? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1796 "2021-05-20T13:32:23Z")
Darn your socks to heck, and how would Googling “et” have led me to “nonet”? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1797 "2021-05-20T14:36:21Z")
Has _anyone_ ever darned a sock, in the last hundred years or so? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1798 "2021-05-20T14:36:52Z")
Would you like me to ask around? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1799 "2021-05-20T16:46:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Darn your socks to heck, and how would Googling “et” have led me to “nonet”? In the context of the rest of my “non” question, was it really that hard? > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Has _anyone_ ever darned a sock, in the last hundred years or so? Would you believe, my mom darned my socks when I was a kid? And would you believe that was (barely) in the last 100 years? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1800 "2021-05-20T20:24:21Z")
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