# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/41 "2002-12-17T04:43:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tony Montana \* > \*\*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… \*\* Not very clever, considering they could get away with half that. ---
**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, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/42 "2002-12-17T04:54:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*Not very clever, considering they could get away with half that. \*\* emkay, I should’ve wrote it this way: I can answer that one. Because every once in a while someone will think they’re being clever and actually buy 40 packages of buns and 32 packages of hotdogs,_huge_ conspiracy:D … ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/43 "2002-12-17T04:59:44Z")
That’s more like it! ---
**Author:** ![0rbytal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/65b543/32.png) [@0rbytal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/0rbytal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/44 "2002-12-17T05:54:41Z")
Try these… •How can we have free will if time travel were possible? •How could I prove that I am truly awake right now? •Why does my nose run, but my feet smell? •Why do atheists do good if they believe there is no reward, or punishment for doing bad? ---
**Author:** ![NotBob13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@NotBob13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotBob13)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/45 "2002-12-17T07:48:27Z")
Quote: DarrenS originally posted: please refrain from posting the corney and ancient one-liners, like “Why do birds sing” etc. - and the whole parkway/driveway thing (aargh!) and all its related ones that have been discussed ad nauseum. We all know you drive parkways and park on driveways because otherwise you’d ruin the grass. \>:) ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/46 "2002-12-17T15:16:27Z")
What’s the third word that end in -gry? OW! Hey, quit throwin’ stuff!!! ---
**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 17, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/47 "2002-12-17T15:20:09Z")
What happened to D.B. Cooper? ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/48 "2002-12-18T03:50:00Z")
Where is the Holy Grail? ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/49 "2002-12-18T04:54:41Z")
How DO the telemarketers know that I’m just about to put dinner on the table? If a tree falls in the forest … never mind. Who shot down Flight 800? What is the average flight velocity of a fully laden swallow? (OK, TVGuy, it’s obviously been a long day. Box up the “wise ass” and go to bed now, 'K?) ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/50 "2002-12-18T05:19:01Z")
What hand did Binky the Magic Space Clown play in the creation of the universe? ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/51 "2002-12-18T05:38:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? \*\* one…two…three…[CRUNCH] THREEE! ---
**Author:** ![knock\_knock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/52 "2002-12-18T15:41:04Z")
Why is there something, rather than nothing? Candy 'if’s and 'but’s were candy and nuts, would we all have a merry Christmas? How is it that we _experience_ our lives? Will the Cubs ever win another World Series? ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/53 "2002-12-18T16:55:32Z")
How to predict the weather 100% accurately for my potential ski trip in early 2003. What John Milton meant when he used the word “spare” in [this](http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/sonnets/sonnet_20/index.shtml) poem. Why we dream the precise images that we dream. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/54 "2002-12-18T17:32:31Z")
What ever happened to the other half of \*Wham! \*? Where are all my missing socks? Who put the ram in the ram a lama ding dong? Why are the best things in life free? If we have to pay for our sins, can we use a credit card? > [@](#): > > Could God create a rock that was so heavy that even He couldn’t lift it? George Carlin, is dat you? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/55 "2002-12-18T17:33:40Z")
Are we really living in the Matrix? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/56 "2002-12-18T17:35:52Z")
Whatever happened to the Fireball XL-5 toy rocket I had when I was 4 years old? One second there, next second…_vanished forever…_ Oooooh! Spookey! :eek ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/57 "2002-12-18T17:36:53Z")
Are Cecil and Ed Zotti the same person? Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/58 "2002-12-20T10:49:34Z")
Did J.S. Bach intend for the pieces contained in the Musical Offering to be played in any particular order? (I’ve been intensely studying this piece for weeks now. What can I say? It’s on my mind) What would a subatomic partical look like if you could make it macroscopic? (this one’s been buggin me for years). Why do things get bad the moment I acknowledge that they are good? What is a thought? (somehow “neural code” just doesn’t seem to be the whole story) How now brown cow? ---
**Author:** ![stpalli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@stpalli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpalli)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/59 "2002-12-20T10:52:39Z")
Why do we have so many questions? ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/60 "2002-12-20T11:09:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 0rbytal \* > \*\*Why do atheists do good if they believe there is no reward, or punishment for doing bad? \*\* I know there is reward for doing good and punishment for doing bad, and I’m an athiest. Back to Op: Hmmm… Why do I hate phones so much? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017.md?page=4)