# Things that make you go "hmmmm" **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/21 "2009-03-28T04:40:40Z")
Every molecule in our bodies was once part of an exploding star. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/22 "2009-03-28T04:42:42Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > They may make us give up clothes. Not if they meet Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/23 "2009-03-28T04:44:42Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Every molecule in our bodies was once part of an exploding star. My point exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/24 "2009-03-28T04:54:26Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Every molecule in our bodies was once part of an exploding star. You beat me to it so I’ll just add a quote from the other Rush: “_I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins._” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/25 "2009-03-28T05:17:07Z")
> [@Litoris](#): > > Eggs are a chicken’s menstrual cycle. In other words, bodily waste. Thank you for showing me something else to add to my “Things I want to un-know” list. > [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](#): > > My milk comes from cow tits. I often thought this. What pervert did this begin with? Why? Why did we copy him? How many balloons have you seen, that have been filled with Oxygen? (Really think about it for a second.) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/26 "2009-03-28T05:25:56Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > How many balloons have you seen, that have been filled with Oxygen? I’ve seen a balloon filled with **acetylene.** --But not for long. Spiders have transparent blood. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils and green blood, because it has copper instead of iron. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/27 "2009-03-28T08:00:59Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Spiders have transparent blood. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils and green blood, because it has copper instead of iron. I had read that bit about the spiders before. The Cuttlefish thing? That’s, very interesting. That almost made me forget about what hen eggs are. almost. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/28 "2009-03-28T15:26:29Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Spiders have transparent blood. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils and green blood, because it has copper instead of iron. Horseshoe crabs also have greenish blue blood, and are often “milked” for their blood for scientific research because of it’s unique properties. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/29 "2009-03-28T17:05:04Z")
Particularly timely for this time of year: That pollen all over your car? It’s plant spooje. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/30 "2009-03-28T17:20:56Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Every molecule in our bodies was once part of an exploding star. Not really. You’d be more accurate if you said “Every **atom** in our bodies was once part of an exploding star”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/31 "2009-03-28T17:35:55Z")
> [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](#): > > My milk comes from cow tits. Edith Bunker: Archie, how would you like a tongue sandwich for your lunch today? Archie: No! I won’t eat anything that came out of a cow’s mouth! Edith: How about a hard-boiled egg, then? Archie: Much better! ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/32 "2009-03-29T00:03:45Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Edith Bunker: Archie, how would you like a tongue sandwich for your lunch today? > > Archie: No! I won’t eat anything that came out of a cow’s mouth! > > Edith: How about a hard-boiled egg, then? > > Archie: Much better! This reminded me of a quote from, iirc, The Cosby Show, where they were serving cow’s tongue; “I don’t want to taste something that can taste me back!!” S^G ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/33 "2009-03-29T00:52:00Z")
Many men call their penises _cocks,_ after male birds, yet male birds do not have penises. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/34 "2009-03-29T05:59:44Z")
You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you? A Sentence palindrome. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/35 "2009-03-29T06:40:42Z")
My family is 100 percent Jewish - yet I don’t remotely look like someone from the Middle East (I had light blond hair until I was 5; I have relatives with light brown, blonde and red hair and with blue and green eyes and small pointed noses.) The only reasonable explanation for this is that there were a lot of Jewish women who were raped. Hundreds and hundreds of years of European rapists diluting the bloodline, which was originally Semitic. This means that I am the descendant of dozens and dozens of various warlike rapists from all over Europe. (They must have been handsome rapists, too.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/36 "2009-03-29T14:11:40Z")
Not to cast aspersions on your ancestors, but I presume you’re coming to that conclusion because Jewish women are somehow biologically incapable of having extra-marital affairs? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/37 "2009-03-29T14:48:06Z")
It’s possible but I highly doubt it. In most of Europe, Jews lived in villages or ghettos that were separate from everyone else. The social difference between Jews and Christians would have made it unlikely for a Gentile man to cross paths with a Jewish woman in that way. And the widespread rape of Jews during the Crusades and many other times throughout history is well documented. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/38 "2009-03-29T16:39:55Z")
Cheese is rotten milk. That’s not the part that makes me goes “hmm”, just “yuck”. The “hmmm” part is : how did we get into eating it ? Who was the first guy who, seeing a tub of congealed rot thought : “That’s what’s for dinner !”, and how did that guy reproduce/spread the idea ? Times must have been hella lean, back then. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/39 "2009-03-29T22:06:32Z")
Yeah, you could say the same thing about [lutefisk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk). Fish soaked in lye! ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/40 "2009-03-30T02:31:00Z")
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