Unanswered questions on the Dope

Debated wheter this was a GQ or MPSIMS.
This is a board where someone could ask about the original toilets in St. James Palace and within 15 minutes there would be 2 answers, one from a Doper that did their Ph.D thesis on the subject and another from a Doper’s FIL who was a plumber that worked on the original piping in 1973.

So are there any questions that you have asked on the Dope that were never answered? I think there are only 2 types for non-answers. One where there are no replies except for bumps and ones that were answered but the answers were all wrong.

For me there is one about a song in the 80’s, popular for a couple of weeks, one-hit wonders, etc. Every answer was wrong.

I don’t hold out much hope that my current question about the Cold Song will get answered but this being the Dope, there may be an answer tomorrow from someone who saw it while studying boroque opera in school.

Technically this is probably a question for ATMB, but I think it will get more traffic in MPSIMS.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

On any forum page, set it to show threads “from the beginning” and sorted by number of replies, ascending. You’ll see oodles of threads that never got any replies.

Sorting GQ threads by:
Number of Replies
Ascending Sort
From the Beginning

Yields 35 pages and part of (89) another page of threads with 0 replies
Not counting stickies, there’s 150 threads per page (including threads the mods moved elsewhere)
36 * 150 + 89 = 5489 threads, presumably questions, without answers.

That’s out of 1236 pages of threads or roughly 185400 questions.

A minimum of 3% of GQ questions do not get answered.

Sounds like we need to get cracking. We’ve got a 5400 thread backlog to clear.

Just kidding.

Here’s one I asked a while back, that never received a proper answer:

I wrote an undergraduate thesis on St. James Palace…not on the plumbing, though.

We still don’t know the outcome of the “14 k of g in an f p d” question, other than it likely being a typo of some kind. But we can never know for sure.

not on the plumbing???
and it took you longer than 15 minutes to post…

Could it be…The Dope has failed!!!

Say it ain’t so, somebody.

The origin of the original Toynbee plaques found mysteriously embedded in city streets across the country and the world was one notable question. To be fair, it was an unsolved mystery at the time and still may be. We made progress on who was behind it but there wasn’t a true breakthrough.

There was also that superhard question that appeared as a contest somewhere else. The U.S. states were listed in a certain order and the goal was to find out what that order was. Nobody could figure it out but at least at that time either. I still don’t know what the answer was.

If it’s the one i’m thinking of someone got it in the end, one of the mods IIRC.

I asked a factual question that I was certain would get a factual answer, but no one (or at least the 5 or 6 Dopers who responded) ever seemed to know for certain.

In California (or any other state with legalized prescription marijuana) can a police officer who has a 'script for pot from his doctor smoke with the blessing of the state police officials?

I suppose that it would vary by state and even by specific jurisdiction, but most states have a board that oversees law enforcement officials, and I would like to know how it works where you are at…

Any Dopers in the know on this one?

Can a cop who has a medical marijuana prescription smoke and still keep his badge?

At least we have that God question all sorted out. Not so sure about tipping though.

I didn’t get a reply on a couple of old children’s scifi books I was trying to identify. But I really didn’t expect one.

Here’s mine… and I did expect an answer. Again, I suck a searching but this was a major radio market. And at the time I was there this song was very popular and received a lot of air play. I find it unfathomable that isn’t a trace of it on the web. Especially since this is the kind of stuff the 'net crowd just loves to beat to death.

Standard tips for deities are 15% for forgiving your venial sins, 20% for mortal sins and 30% if He performs a miracle on your behalf.

I asked why the Willy ‘n’ Ethel comic strip always has a big blank space in the second panel.

I think it didn’t get answered mainly because nobody gives a crap about the Willy ‘n’ Ethel comic strip…

10% just for being there. That’s why they call it tithing.

Just to toot my own horn, 46 threads I’ve started with no replies. A couple I would still like answers to:

Is silo grain humanly edible as is?

Anything new about the “superbaby”?

Long-necked tyrannosaurs??

My very first thread on the Dope was a GQ that never got answered: How long does it take the newly blind to develop an unfocused stare?