# Things that Q.E.D. knows nothing about
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 16, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016 "2005-01-16T11:10:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/1 "2005-01-16T11:10:37Z")
I’m going to guess that **Q.E.D.** knows nothing about knitting.
Anybody else have a guess?
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/2 "2005-01-16T11:14:39Z")
**Q.E.D.** knows nothing about manually masturbating caged animals for artificial insemination.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/3 "2005-01-16T12:03:56Z")
**Q.E.D** knows nothing about polka!
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### Author:  [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/4 "2005-01-16T12:09:14Z")
Come on guys, we all know that QED knows how to use google.
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/5 "2005-01-16T12:58:50Z")
I knew this would be a very short thread.
But the polka one… that’s good.
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### Author:  [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/6 "2005-01-16T13:20:04Z")
I would guess that **Q.E.D** knows very little Klingon.
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### Author:  [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/7 "2005-01-16T13:26:13Z")
Q.E.D. knows very little that will not be demonstrated. Did that say what I really meant to say, or not?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/8 "2005-01-16T15:41:03Z")
I can guarantee that he has no clue as to why a raven is like a writing desk.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/9 "2005-01-16T17:18:55Z")
> [@Askia](#):
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> **Q.E.D.** knows nothing about manually masturbating caged animals for artificial insemination.
And I don’t want to, either!
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/10 "2005-01-16T17:52:58Z")
Hey, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, **QED**
I’m willing to bet QED knows nothing about crosspicking techniques on the mandolin.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/11 "2005-01-16T18:14:59Z")
QED doesn’t necessarily know much of anything beyond how to use Google…
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/12 "2005-01-16T18:32:13Z")
He doesn’t know what I’ve got in my pocket.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/13 "2005-01-16T18:38:34Z")
**Q.E.D.** doesn’t know the technique used by Thom Yorke to record the vocal track for Radiohead’s “Like Spinning Plates”…so I will enlighten him. Yorke recorded himself singing the lyrics normally, reversed that recording, memorized the resulting sounds, recorded himself singing an attempted reproduction of _that_, reversed the result, and used that as the vocal track.
And now, he knows.
(By the way, **Q.E.D.** , I’ll be in Richmond over the next few days, so if I see you and psychically determine your identity as I have no idea what you look like, I’ll be sure to say “hi”.)
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/14 "2005-01-16T18:43:05Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#):
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> (By the way, **Q.E.D.** , I’ll be in Richmond over the next few days, so if I see you and psychically determine your identity as I have no idea what you look like, I’ll be sure to say “hi”.)
Hey, cool! I’ll be the one with the glasses and the goatee wearing a green shirt. 😃
**’Punha** , smile when you say that, pardner. 😛
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/15 "2005-01-16T18:51:45Z")
Well, this is a new one: not quite a poll, not quite a warm-fuzzy, not quite a flame.
I know it doesn’t fit here but damned if I can figure out where it _would_ fit. Offhand my guess is MPSIMS. I guess.
::scratches head, even while moving thread::
TVeblen
IMHO mod
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/16 "2005-01-16T18:54:47Z")
It’s a poll! Jeesh!
Hey but this is my first moved thread, so that’s cool.
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/17 "2005-01-16T18:56:24Z")
> [@A Voice From On High](#):
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> Well, this is a new one: not quite a poll, not quite a warm-fuzzy, not quite a flame.
So how many of you think that that no good rat-bastard **QED** is just the cutest, most knowledgeable guy around?
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/18 "2005-01-16T18:59:05Z")
> [@picker](#):
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> So how many of you think that that no good rat-bastard **QED** is just the cutest, most knowledgeable guy around?
Do _I_ count? 😃
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/19 "2005-01-16T19:00:24Z")
Come to think of it, I’ve never researched any of his answers. For all I know he’s making it all up!
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-q-e-d-knows-nothing-about/285016/20 "2005-01-16T19:03:36Z")
**Roland Orzabal**
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Q.E.D. doesn’t know the technique used by Thom Yorke to record the vocal track for Radiohead’s "Like Spinning Plates.\*
Oh really? And who do you think _gave_ that idea to Thom Yorke?
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