# Things we just don't know **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017 "2002-12-16T04:20:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/21 "2002-12-16T10:41:11Z")
Where the hell did I put the remote control? ---
**Author:** ![GoldenGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@GoldenGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoldenGael)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/22 "2002-12-16T12:01:42Z")
**What do women want?** and **Why am I not on that list?** ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/23 "2002-12-16T13:43:04Z")
What is dark matter? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/24 "2002-12-16T14:23:13Z")
What is the nature of **Cecil Adams**? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/25 "2002-12-16T14:43:47Z")
Do parallel universes exist? Creation or evolution? Is there such a thing as reincarnation? If time travel is invented in the future, has anyone from the future come back to their past (our “present”) to alter history? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/26 "2002-12-16T15:29:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andy\_fl \* > \*\*Is everything knowable ? \*\* We do know this one. The answer is “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/27 "2002-12-16T15:34:28Z")
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/28 "2002-12-16T17:00:30Z")
How many pins can you stick in the head of an angel? ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/29 "2002-12-16T17:08:07Z")
Do we really have free will? What killed the dinosaurs? Is there such a thing as spirit (and, no, not the vodka kind!)? What’ll we do when the oil runs out? ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/30 "2002-12-16T17:20:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bluecanary \* > \*\*What’ll we do when the oil runs out? \*\* We know that one too. We’ll use hydrogen, ethenol and other fuels that we should have started using already. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/31 "2002-12-16T17:24:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dwc1970 \* > **Creation or evolution?** This is also not as unknown as you might think. See [this](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/). ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/32 "2002-12-16T20:01:25Z")
Mankind everywhere aspires to create societies in which life is fair, honest, loving and fulfilling. Mankind everywhere creates societies in which none of these things are true. Why? Especially given that we’ve had an awful lot of time to get it right. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/33 "2002-12-16T20:05:43Z")
What’s the weather going to be next Tuesday? ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/34 "2002-12-16T20:44:47Z")
What did happen to Jimmy Hoffa? ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/35 "2002-12-16T21:08:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cainxinth \* > **Things we just don’t know** The answer to this question. Oh, wait… oops… ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/36 "2002-12-16T21:39:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NE Texan \* > \*\*The answer to this question. > > Oh, wait… oops… \*\* 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/2bfe46/32.png) [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/37 "2002-12-16T22:00:09Z")
Who was Jack the Ripper? How high is “up”? Are you beautiful? Is Leroy Nimod funny? Who are tougher, the English or the Scots? Why is Liv Tyler so hot? Who is the Momma of us all? Could God create a rock that was so heavy that even He couldn’t lift it? Who made these shoes I’m wearing? Why is that girl staring at me like that? How did it come to be I’m wearing no trousers? Why am I in this girls bed? Why does she have a computer next to it? Why is she wearing WWWE underpants? Are they in fact my WWWE underpants? Is she calling the police? Have I broke into her apartment? Am I wearing a Rex Harrison hat? Why is Jimmy Hoffa’s naked body lying on the floor? Is she a waiter? Did I forget to put the cat out? ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/38 "2002-12-17T03:10:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cainxinth \* > \*\*😕 \*\* Well, they say if you have to explain a joke, it’s no longer a joke (\*), but here goes… You asked for “Things we just don’t know”, and I replied with: “The answer to this question.” which then answers the question, so it isn’t a “thing we just don’t know”, thus the “oops”. OK, so it was lame, sorry. \*\*\*\*\* or more likely, never was ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/39 "2002-12-17T03:44:46Z")
How to fix the spinal cord. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/40 "2002-12-17T04:34:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\*Why are there 8 buns to a package and 10 hotdogs to a package? 😕 \*\* I can answer that one. Because every once in a while someone will think they’re being clever and actually buy 10 packages of buns and eight packages of hotdogs.huge conspiracy… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=3)