# 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:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6662 "2014-04-16T10:15:17Z")

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Are they rabbit ears, or the kind that grow in Iowa?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6663 "2014-04-16T13:39:18Z")

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Are those ears burning?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6664 "2014-04-16T13:53:55Z")

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If ears of corn are burning in Iowa, would that result in a flood of popcorn?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6665 "2014-04-16T13:58:05Z")

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Don’t you need a liquid for a flood?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6666 "2014-04-16T14:02:50Z")

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Have you never experienced the primordial chaos incipient in an overcrowded kitchen terrorized by a single manic JiffyPop?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6667 "2014-04-16T14:08:38Z")

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No, have you?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6668 "2014-04-16T14:14:16Z")

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How could I ever forget that evening in mid-November when my formerly faithful Pepperpopper perplexingly opted to optimize the pops of the Kettle Corn by superpressurizing the purposeful pan into a seething, savage stream of salty snack food, inundating the domicile with dry, crunchy kernels of white waves of unbuttered flotsam and jetsam, sweeping away the furniture and pets, smashing through the supporting walls, uprooting the septic system and crushing the neighbor’s Porsche in a mad flurry of fiber-gone-wild?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6669 "2014-04-16T14:29:21Z")

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I don’t know, but have you?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6670 "2014-04-16T14:32:04Z")

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Have I what?

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6671 "2014-04-16T14:37:21Z")

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Having read the results of using the dramatic Pepperpopper, may I suggest you refrain from using the Pressure Pepper Pot?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6672 "2014-04-16T14:40:39Z")

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Wasn’t Val Kilmer in that one?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6673 "2014-04-16T14:53:00Z")

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Didn’t he play the gauge?

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6674 "2014-04-16T15:02:58Z")

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Who’s engaged?

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6675 "2014-04-16T15:47:38Z")

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Who’s on first?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6676 "2014-04-16T16:08:41Z")

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Isn’t Cecil first?

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6677 "2014-04-16T16:30:36Z")

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Aren’t we relying on you and those drones to advise us on the tough questions?

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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:** [April 16, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6678 "2014-04-16T16:42:13Z")

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Do you have a high enough level clearance for me to answer that?

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6679 "2014-04-16T16:47:19Z")

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Can’t you determine this from the drone information?

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**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6680 "2014-04-16T16:49:02Z")

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Isn’t Cecil capable of leaping over buildings in a single bound?

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6681 "2014-04-16T17:17:49Z")

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Waitaminute…Cecil’s the one who ordered the drones to go on strike?

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