# Things we just don't know

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/101 "2002-12-23T14:28:32Z")

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Why haven`t I had a vasectomy yet?

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/102 "2002-12-23T16:57:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \*  
> \*\*Why does my 16 year old think her life will not be complete if she doesn’t get a tattoo, a nose ring and purple hair? \*\*

Well, how would **you** like to slog through your long life and end up in your grave at the end, never knowing what it was like to have a tattoo, or a nose ring, or purple hair? “What if I had gotten that tattoo?” you’d be saying to yourself on your deathbed. “But, no! Now I’ll never know what it’s like to have an underpaid, unsanitary artist inject dye into my skin with a buzzing needle stylus that’s probably never been sterilized! Nor will I ever experience the thrill of having a circular chunk of metal hanging down from my nose and bumping awkwardly into people’s faces when I kiss them, or the unimaginable ecstasy of hair that looks like it could set off a Geiger counter!”

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**Author:** ![ranwashingt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@ranwashingt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ranwashingt)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/103 "2002-12-24T15:25:43Z")

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Does my tapeworm benifit from the antibiotics I’ve been taking?  
I sure hope so because I hate to think of the intestinal ramifications of a 12 foot head cold.

And judging by the noise coming out of my gut this morning, he ain’t too fond of Wheatina neither…Rand

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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-just-dont-know/143017/104 "2002-12-25T18:50:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ranwashingt \*  
> \*\*Does my tapeworm benifit from the antibiotics I’ve been taking?  
> I sure hope so because I hate to think of the intestinal ramifications of a 12 foot head cold.
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> And judging by the noise coming out of my gut this morning, he ain’t too fond of Wheatina neither…Rand \*\*

:pushes lunch aside:

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