# Questions Only

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [December 9, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491 "2012-12-09T05:40:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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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:** [July 4, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2661 "2013-07-04T05:18:45Z")

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What, she served on a submarine?

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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:** [July 4, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2662 "2013-07-04T13:19:09Z")

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Speaking of cramped quarters, did you know that when she shared an office with Robert Benchley at _Vanity Fair_, she said “He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery”?

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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:** [July 4, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2663 "2013-07-04T15:01:43Z")

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Did that take some balls?

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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:** [July 4, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2664 "2013-07-04T15:51:11Z")

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Have you heard her saying, “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue”?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2665 "2013-07-05T02:31:09Z")

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Or vice versa?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2666 "2013-07-05T02:45:06Z")

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Do you know she wasn’t as adversa to most vices?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2667 "2013-07-05T02:57:45Z")

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So she never met a sin she didn’t like?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2668 "2013-07-05T05:13:37Z")

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Is it true that she suggested her tombstone read, “Pardon my dust”?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2669 "2013-07-05T10:50:21Z")

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Wasn’t she quoted as saying: “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”?

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2670 "2013-07-05T11:43:15Z")

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Wasn’t she the one who reviewed a book with the words “Tonstant weader fwoed up?”

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2671 "2013-07-05T11:44:29Z")

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Doesn’t that answer the question: “Who doesn’t like Winnie the Pooh?”

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2672 "2013-07-05T11:48:38Z")

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Well, who doesn’t like Winnie the Pooh?

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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:** [July 5, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2673 "2013-07-05T11:54:28Z")

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Have you heard: “Hush, hush, nobody cares, Christopher Robin has fallen downstairs”?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2674 "2013-07-06T14:19:11Z")

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Didn’t they make that into _Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ (1964)?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2675 "2013-07-06T14:27:04Z")

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Wasn’t that the “sequel” to _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?_

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2676 "2013-07-06T14:50:03Z")

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Didn’t she take up with Tarzan?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2677 "2013-07-06T15:06:28Z")

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Did she get Greystoked?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2678 "2013-07-06T15:22:45Z")

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Is that where their furry little son came from?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2679 "2013-07-06T16:05:20Z")

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Aren’t all kids monkeys at heart?

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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:** [July 6, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2680 "2013-07-06T16:51:14Z")

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Surely you mean they have monkey brains?

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