# Things that make you go "hmmmm"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035 "2009-03-27T21:22:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/1 "2009-03-27T21:22:09Z")
Honey is bee vomit.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/2 "2009-03-27T21:22:57Z")
Under my clothes, I’m naked.
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### Author:  [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/3 "2009-03-27T21:30:12Z")
Eggs are a chicken’s menstrual cycle. In other words, bodily waste.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/4 "2009-03-27T21:49:32Z")
> [@Litoris](#):
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> Eggs are a chicken’s menstrual cycle. In other words, bodily waste.
Not only that, but they are a single cell. An ostrich egg is a 1.5kg _cell._ The largest single cell in the world (and dinosaurs had even _bigger_ eggs!)
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/5 "2009-03-27T22:12:17Z")
> [@Deeg](#):
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> Honey is bee vomit.
Not quite. [Cecil wrote about it a long time ago](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1072/is-honey-really-bee-vomit).
Eating an apple is kind of like eating an ovary.
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### Author:  [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/6 "2009-03-27T23:22:58Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> Under my clothes, I’m naked.
If we meet intelligent aliens and they don’t wear clothes, will we force them to?
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/7 "2009-03-28T00:33:50Z")
The white cream in Oreo’s is sugar mixed with lard.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/8 "2009-03-28T00:51:36Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#):
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> If we meet intelligent aliens and they don’t wear clothes, will we force them to?
Not if they’re hot.
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/9 "2009-03-28T00:55:48Z")
Alcohol is yeast piss.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/10 "2009-03-28T01:20:36Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#):
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> If we meet intelligent aliens and they don’t wear clothes, will we force them to?
They may make us give up clothes.
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### Author:  [@imfloating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imfloating)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/11 "2009-03-28T01:31:23Z")
Parmesan cheese and vomit kinda taste the same.
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### Author:  [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/12 "2009-03-28T01:42:40Z")
A man won’t mind if he is groped by a good looking woman, but the reverse isn’t true for women.
Someone once told me that he doesn’t like outgoing people and that he would rather hangout with introverts. Yet he is an introvert himself and doesn’t actively pursue other introverts. I wonder how makes new friends.
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### Author:  [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/13 "2009-03-28T02:29:48Z")
> [@Nobody](#):
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> The white cream in Oreo’s is sugar mixed with lard.
Not anymore; they use canola, palm, and/or soybean oil now.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/14 "2009-03-28T02:59:54Z")
> [@Stealth\_Potato](#):
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> Not anymore; they use canola, palm, and/or soybean oil now.
Good to know. I buy a lot of sugar free Oreo’s for my wife (she’s diabetic).
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/15 "2009-03-28T03:02:57Z")
The thought of all the billions of other organisms riding around on or inside me makes me a bit woozy.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/16 "2009-03-28T03:26:36Z")
Flowers are plant genitalia. How would you like to have yours cut off and put in a bowl?
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### Author:  [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/17 "2009-03-28T03:31:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> The thought of all the billions of other organisms riding around on or inside me makes me a bit woozy.
I have once seen a cite that the number of other living organisms in your body outnumber your own cells? Can anyone confirm (or deny)?
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### Author:  [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fake_Tales_of_San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/18 "2009-03-28T03:33:56Z")
Black pudding is made from congealed blood.
My milk comes from cow tits.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/19 "2009-03-28T04:16:59Z")
> [@keturah](#):
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> I have once seen a cite that the number of other living organisms in your body outnumber your own cells? Can anyone confirm (or deny)?
[Humans carry 10 times more bacterial cells than human ones](http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones).
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### Author:  [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/20 "2009-03-28T04:38:08Z")
> [@Lakai](#):
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> A man won’t mind if he is groped by a good looking woman, but the reverse isn’t true for women.
A woman will mind if she is groped by a bad looking man. Well I don’t blame her.
We’re all light.
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