# Was my dad full of it? A story he used to tell

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-my-dad-full-of-it-a-story-he-used-to-tell/949583 "2021-08-26T20:41:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-my-dad-full-of-it-a-story-he-used-to-tell/949583/17 "2021-08-27T02:11:42Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> I guess you missed mine upthread.

You casually use the answer to the toughest question this board has ever faced (including the Mystery of Al Traina) as a commentary! I didn’t even know that had been solved. I still thought that scene was from the Berenstein Bears universe. I guess I missed the thread where it was found.

> [@The mind-boggling movie quote?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mind-boggling-movie-quote/304608):
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> I don’t know if SDMB’s ever had a post about where the darned thing came from, but I’ve seen it brought up on about 10 different message boards without a definitive answer. If it has been brought up, please link me because I didn’t find it when I did a search. So, I pose it to you: “What does it do?” “That’s the beauty of it. It doesn’t \<i\>do\</i\> anything.”

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