# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/61 "2009-03-30T18:12:39Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I had always heard it was closer to sweat. > > If that helps you any. woosh. :eek: ---
**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:** [March 30, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/62 "2009-03-30T18:20:04Z")
Beer – smells like piss. Taste familiar? ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/63 "2009-03-30T19:25:18Z")
But, if you take a piss after drinking lots and lots of beer - it has no smell. Figure that one out! I always thought of eggs as chicken embryos. But, I guess that’s technically not true as they are unfertilized. That would be a good realization - if it didn’t come with the whole chicken mestration thing. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/64 "2009-03-30T19:42:20Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > But, if you take a piss after drinking lots and lots of beer - it has no smell. Figure that one out! > > I always thought of eggs as chicken embryos. But, I guess that’s technically not true as they are unfertilized. That would be a good realization - if it didn’t come with the whole chicken mestration thing. Yeah, the only thing grosser than eating a chicken’s menses waste IMO is eating a chicken embryo (“bloody eggs”). At one point, I had gotten like 4 or 5 fertilised (bloody) eggs in the same number of weeks and began cracking them into a bowl before cooking them for my family, so I wouldn’t have to throw out everything. Bleargh…don’t get me wrong, eggs serve a purpose as a binder, but honestly, eating eggs is one of the most disgusting things I can think of off-hand that everyone else seems to think is A-OK. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/65 "2009-03-30T19:53:31Z")
Lesbian sheep are either non-existent or the most frustrated creatures on the planet. When a female sheep wants sex they indicate this to other sheep by _standing still_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/66 "2009-03-30T20:05:13Z")
Cheese, if I understand correctly, is not sour milk. It is solidified milk that has been introduced to specific bacteria that prevent souring bacteria from taking root. They’re sort of like little anti-sour soldiers protecting the cheese-fort. Maybe that’s where “roquefort” comes from! 😃 Are ostrich eggs the largest cells? I thought that caulerpa taxifolia was bigger, in some cases growing over 9 feet in length. We think of Middle Earth as a fictional place. But that’s exactly what Mediterranean means. ---
**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 30, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/67 "2009-03-30T20:36:03Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Lesbian sheep are either non-existent or the most frustrated creatures on the planet. When a female sheep wants sex they indicate this to other sheep by _standing still_. There’s a Scotsman joke in there somewhere, I know there is. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/68 "2009-03-30T20:51:29Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > IIRC, mammary glands evolved from sweat glands! Female platypusses have mammary glands but no teats; they just “sweat” milk. Also male playtupusses have venomous spurs. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/69 "2009-03-30T22:47:40Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I’m wooshed here, I don’t “get” this one. Elaborate please? I have a minor cut on my ankle that’s been infected - while the immune system’s fighting the infection, my body is reacting poorly to the waste products of the bacteria that got under the skin. And when I think about it that way it skeeves me out in a way that thinking “that hurts because it’s infected” doesn’t. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you don’t put disinfectant and a band-aid on cuts below the shoe line. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/70 "2009-03-31T15:25:52Z")
> [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](#): > > My milk comes from cow tits. Someone, thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, looked at a cow and said to themselves, “I think I’ll squeeze that pink dangly thing and drink whatever comes out of it.” ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/71 "2009-03-31T16:33:54Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Someone, thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, looked at a cow and said to themselves, “I think I’ll squeeze that pink dangly thing and drink whatever comes out of it.” Think of the guy, posed with the great question - do I eat the chicken or its droppings? ---
**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 31, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035/72 "2009-03-31T16:59:47Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you? > > A Sentence palindrome. Maybe Nicholas Cage’s sweetie can.😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmm/491035.md?page=3)