# Thank You

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 3, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674 "2007-12-03T17:13:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/41 "2007-12-06T06:09:01Z")

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[QUOTE=picunurse]  
Sorry, but oxygen makes blood _brighter red_ dark red blood is venous.

To prove that blood is, indeed, red inside the body, watch as blood is drawn into a vacuum tube… red, no blue.  
[/QUOTE]

For criminy sake, all I was trying to say is that it is not fricken BLUE. I don’t know which is darker which is lighter but it is not fricken blue. This is like a bad dream…

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/42 "2007-12-06T09:05:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]  
You want brilliantly, profoundly, impressively red blood? OD on carbon monoxide sometime. It makes ordinary old fully oxygenated hemoglobin look positively dull.  
[/QUOTE]  
We want piccies!

As for horseshoe crab blood, I thought it was green, as it’s copper-based. Am I sliding off the mark?

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/43 "2007-12-06T12:24:41Z")

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\> TWEET!!! \< ::: Moderator blows whistle for attention :::

Hey, whoa, gang. No need for insults or snarkiness towards each other when you’re all on the same side here. Let’s drop the anger, hostility and crabbiness (heh) before it crosses that fuzzy grey line into personal insults.

Yeah, Cecil can be snarky in his column, but that’s Cecil. It doesn’t apply to us mere red-blooded human beans when making comments about other posters. (Blue-blooded human beans, such as the aforementioned Queen, rarely post here. We have, on occasion, had posts from creatures that probably are horseshoe crabs…

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**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/44 "2007-12-06T15:47:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Priceguy]  
As for horseshoe crab blood, I thought it was green, as it’s copper-based. Am I sliding off the mark?  
[/QUOTE]  
It’s a rather disconcerting [milky blue](http://www.chemicalconnection.org.uk/chemistry/topics/view.php?topic=2&headingno=5) color, far too like the stuff Luke drinks in Star Wars and totally unlike the always red blood of most humans.

Although this is off-topic and I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for derailing a thread, since I brought it …

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/45 "2007-12-07T03:37:03Z")

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Vulcan blood is green.

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/46 "2007-12-07T06:06:25Z")

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Vulcanized blood bounces.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/47 "2007-12-07T09:48:10Z")

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Andros! Where ya been!? Welcome back! 🙂

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/48 "2007-12-07T19:05:43Z")

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Living the dream, man. Good to see you.  
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/49 "2007-12-13T21:29:01Z")

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[QUOTE=dogbutler]  
I was born in Milwaukee!  
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Yeah, and look where it got you: you wait on dogs, fer cripes sake.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/50 "2007-12-14T00:27:24Z")

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\<sniffily\> well, all I can say is that MY blood is blue. \<checks family tree–yep, blue-blooded ancestors still there\> Lizzie and I share certain um, azure qualities, which ARE obvious to the public of our friends.

Perhaps the OP meant the public “peoles” and not all people.  
😃

(did Elves eat Vegemite? I need a cite for that). 🙂

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/51 "2007-12-14T02:55:32Z")

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I usually don’t come in here. Looks like I missed a chance to get all pissed off about a slight towards the Midwest. Aww…

::Shuffles back to MPSIMS::

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/52 "2007-12-14T14:45:22Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]  
(did Elves eat Vegemite? I need a cite for that). 🙂  
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**elfbabe** has. Cite: [On Vegemite](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=254028). See post #42

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/53 "2007-12-14T15:15:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Jfeldman17]  
p.s. People in the midwest aren’t the smartest bunch, thank god i came from the east coast.  
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Cecil’s from Chicago, you know.

And a pretty large proportion of the TM is midwestern.

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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:** [December 14, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/54 "2007-12-14T18:50:55Z")

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All the Andorians I know have blue blood.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/55 "2007-12-14T18:59:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> OD on carbon monoxide sometime.

Hey, I thought we weren’t supposed to give medical advice!

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**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/56 "2007-12-14T19:00:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
All the Andorians I know have blue blood.  
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Its red inside their bodies. It only turns blue when it comes in contact with oxygen.

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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:** [December 14, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/57 "2007-12-14T19:07:36Z")

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[QUOTE=RedSwinglineOne]  
Its red inside their bodies. It only turns blue when it comes in contact with oxygen.  
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Shows how much _you_ know about xenomedicine.

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**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/58 "2007-12-14T19:24:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Shows how much _you_ know about xenomedicine.  
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I flunked out of school because I refused to dissect a Tribble. 😉

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/59 "2007-12-14T19:34:38Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I flunked out of school because I refused to dissect a Tribble

But would you declaw it?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you/428674/60 "2007-12-14T20:20:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Shoshana]  
But would you declaw it?  
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Silly girl, they have no claws, the are more like fuzzy Sea Stars, the just extend their stomachs around their food sources and digest.

BTW: What color is a tribble’s blood, I suspect it is the same color as a Muppet.

Jim

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