# 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:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5082 "2014-02-06T01:44:38Z")

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Aren’t your own attachments usually committed?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5083 "2014-02-06T01:49:49Z")

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Do you know, I’d rather think Madame Pepperwinkle would insist on that?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5084 "2014-02-06T04:21:22Z")

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Would that classify as a sticky wicket?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5085 "2014-02-06T04:35:41Z")

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Maybe if it was Pepperwicket?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5086 "2014-02-06T15:51:34Z")

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Is that anything like gettin’ jiggy wit it?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5087 "2014-02-06T16:27:05Z")

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Well, can I say I like the way the Madame jiggles?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5088 "2014-02-06T16:31:40Z")

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Is that like the way the cookie crumbles?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5089 "2014-02-06T16:35:57Z")

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Do you know the Madame knows her cookies?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5090 "2014-02-06T16:49:21Z")

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Is she just a scone’s throw away?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5091 "2014-02-06T17:22:57Z")

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Doesn’t she know what side of the bread her butter’s on?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5092 "2014-02-06T17:49:30Z")

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Who is the breadwinner in your house?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5093 "2014-02-06T17:53:12Z")

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Well, wouldn’t that be my roll?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5094 "2014-02-06T18:13:29Z")

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Does this have anything to do with the Buttered Cat Paradox?

> **[Buttered cat paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox)**
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> The buttered cat paradox is a common joke based on the combination of two adages:
> The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. The buttered cat paradox, submitted by artist John Frazee of Kingston, New York, won a 1993 Omni magazine competition about paradoxes. The basic premise, stating the conditions of the cat and bread and posed as a question, was presented in...

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5095 "2014-02-06T18:30:59Z")

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Would it work with margarine and a margay?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5096 "2014-02-06T19:23:58Z")

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Hmm, that’s a poser, innit?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5097 "2014-02-06T20:02:02Z")

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Is it a rebus wrapped in a riddle, ensconced in a subtility, manacled to a mystery, enabled by an enigma and couched in a conundrum, or is it just another freakin’ question?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5098 "2014-02-06T22:12:37Z")

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Huh?

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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:** [February 6, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5099 "2014-02-06T22:15:40Z")

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Well, is it a pentacled puzzle tangled in a tangram, ornamented by an oracle, surrounded by suspense and bedecked with bewilderment, or not?

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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:** [February 7, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5100 "2014-02-07T02:06:50Z")

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How could I possibly answer that?

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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:** [February 7, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/5101 "2014-02-07T03:05:23Z")

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Maybe after seeking an attorney’s advice?

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