# Questions Only **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/81 "2012-12-12T16:23:21Z")
Is using semicolons to make statements connected to a final questioning clause really kosher? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/82 "2012-12-12T16:24:58Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > No cheating by using semicolons. Well shit, l wonder who should have read the rules more closely? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/83 "2012-12-12T16:43:13Z")
What kind of a sucker wants to read all the rules anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/84 "2012-12-12T16:44:53Z")
Are they the ones with the indian shooting the star on the wrapper? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/85 "2012-12-12T18:33:37Z")
What’s an Indian shooting star? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/86 "2012-12-12T18:43:37Z")
Didn’t you eat tootsie pops growing up? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/87 "2012-12-12T19:22:27Z")
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/88 "2012-12-12T19:39:47Z")
Did you hear about the group of engineering students from Purdue University building a licking machine, modeled after a human tongue,and recording that it took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/89 "2012-12-12T19:42:04Z")
I forbade myself from posting in this thread as punishment for using semicolons, but can I come back now? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/90 "2012-12-12T19:52:38Z")
Do you think you’ve earned your right to return? ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/91 "2012-12-12T19:54:40Z")
Can someone please anwer my question? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/92 "2012-12-12T19:55:36Z")
Does anyone want to know what I think?? ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/93 "2012-12-12T19:55:56Z")
Do you think you deserve an answer? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/94 "2012-12-12T21:47:10Z")
Can you handle the truth? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/95 "2012-12-12T21:58:56Z")
Can _anyone_ really handle the truth? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/96 "2012-12-12T22:07:51Z")
Are we not truth handlers? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/97 "2012-12-12T22:14:13Z")
Or are we modern day Harry Trumans, never giving them hell, but rather telling the truth and they’re thinking it’s hell?. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/98 "2012-12-12T22:27:36Z")
Why not both? ---
**Author:** ![bot3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@bot3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bot3)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/99 "2012-12-13T12:32:08Z")
Is a bear Catholic? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/100 "2012-12-13T13:48:33Z")
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