# 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:** 654
**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:** [October 13, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13063 "2015-10-13T01:31:05Z")
How many molecules are in Avogadro’s molar? ---
**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:** [October 13, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13064 "2015-10-13T14:14:58Z")
Do you know the drill? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13065 "2015-10-14T02:16:23Z")
Was it a hard day at the orifice? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13066 "2015-10-14T02:27:35Z")
Can we just cap it? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13067 "2015-10-14T02:34:19Z")
Are you brushing us off? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13068 "2015-10-14T02:35:23Z")
Oh, spit! Canal we get to the root of the problem? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13069 "2015-10-14T02:37:44Z")
Oy! what’s e-name-l agin? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13070 "2015-10-14T02:38:39Z")
Isn’t a route canal dental care in Panama? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13071 "2015-10-15T03:45:49Z")
Suez you know anything about it? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13072 "2015-10-15T04:36:57Z")
At this juncture, I invite you all into one of the masterpieces of English, and one that us questions-only language-play types will appreciate: the Anna Livia chapter, published at first as a separate book, of Finnegans Wake. Rather than steal one of Joyce’s plays on a river name, havalook at this list and hyperlinked index to the lines of text and commentary sorted only on the names of rivers–I forget how many hundreds he weaves through it. (Let alone the additional hundreds of words associated with bodies of water, ports, etc.) It is a tour de force of concentration within this extraordinary work. None of the puns are done without a reason within the (semi)-normal narration and the purpose/point of the double/triple entendres. Anna Livia–the Liffey–is the anima of the book. This chapter is the dialogue of two washerwoman on either side of a brook talking and gossiping about her and everything else under the sun as they wash the clothes of Anna and her husband, so to speak, Finnegan (a choice among their many and fluid (heh) quondam identities.) Anyway, it’s a kick. > **[Fweets of Fin (\_C,Rivers\_)](http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep.cgi?i=1&c=1&a=1&b=1&s=_C,Rivers_)** > > Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury (Fweet), Search Results for (\_C,Rivers\_) ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13073 "2015-10-15T04:56:08Z")
Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur — nuk? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13074 "2015-10-15T05:29:24Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > At this juncture, I invite you all into one of the masterpieces of English, and one that us questions-only language-play types will appreciate: the Anna Livia chapter, published at first as a separate book, of Finnegans Wake. > > Rather than steal one of Joyce’s plays on a river name, havalook at this list and hyperlinked index to the lines of text and commentary sorted only on the names of rivers–I forget how many hundreds he weaves through it. (Let alone the additional hundreds of words associated with bodies of water, ports, etc.) It is a tour de force of concentration within this extraordinary work. None of the puns are done without a reason within the (semi)-normal narration and the purpose/point of the double/triple entendres. > > Anna Livia–the Liffey–is the anima of the book. This chapter is the dialogue of two washerwoman on either side of a brook talking and gossiping about her and everything else under the sun as they wash the clothes of Anna and her husband, so to speak, Finnegan (a choice among their many and fluid (heh) quondam identities.) > > Anyway, it’s a kick. > > [Fweets of Fin (\_C,Rivers\_)](http://www.fweet.org/cgi-bin/fw_grep.cgi?i=1&c=1&a=1&b=1&s=_C,Rivers_) So… you’re asking us to Read Joyce and Be Glad? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13075 "2015-10-15T14:02:32Z")
Why don’t you put up a passage from _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_ and say it’s Dubliners-or-nothing? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13076 "2015-10-15T17:07:55Z")
Irish I’d thought of that, don’t you? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13077 "2015-10-16T00:27:44Z")
Having a Clue, Eutychus? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13078 "2015-10-16T00:30:58Z")
Is anyone else but me getting an Éire feeling? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13079 "2015-10-16T00:31:06Z")
D’oh! Irrelevant now. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13080 "2015-10-16T00:32:21Z")
Prof. Plum, in the bedroom, with the “lead pipe”? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13081 "2015-10-16T00:35:06Z")
Have we gone off the rails? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/13082 "2015-10-16T04:50:22Z")
No, but I think we’re over the rivers. Or maybe not. Can we Liffey it up to the Shannon? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=653) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=655)