# Well it's one for the money **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 25, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306 "2017-09-25T22:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/101 "2017-10-09T12:02:06Z")
There must be 101 ways to leave your lover. “Just fly into the void, Floyd…” ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/102 "2017-10-09T12:31:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > There must be 101 ways to leave your lover. > > “Just fly into the void, Floyd…” Just hijack a truck, Chuck [iPhone smuggler caught with 102 phones strapped to her body](https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/19/15995424/iphone-smuggling-china- **102** -phones) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/103 "2017-10-09T12:52:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > There must be 101 ways to leave your lover. What? No Dalmatians? No greatest fear? Fer shame, Prof… As for this number, [Lockerbie would rather not be reminded.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/104 "2017-10-09T13:04:42Z")
Hey, y’know, I march to the beat of a different flautist. If your temperature reaches 105 degrees, call a mortician. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/105 "2017-10-09T22:56:32Z")
If your temperature reaches 105 degrees, call a mortician. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/106 "2017-10-10T02:23:22Z")
Don’t bother me, I’m 10-6. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/107 "2017-10-10T18:13:04Z")
Shakespeare’s Sonnet CVII Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time, My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I’ll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o’er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/108 "2017-10-10T19:59:12Z")
108 degrees is the measure of each angle of a pentagon. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/109 "2017-10-10T23:38:22Z")
109: the number of licks it takes to get the center of a Tootsie Pop. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/110 "2017-10-11T00:29:05Z")
[Across 110th Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4) is a killer tune by Bobby Womack. I find that he always gives 110%. mmm ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/111 "2017-10-11T00:36:45Z")
All Saint’s Day is 11/1 (or 1/11 if you’re European). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/112 "2017-10-11T01:19:06Z")
1-Adam-12, a 211 in progress, handle code 3! (backwards and forwards) ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/113 "2017-10-11T05:59:42Z")
The number 113, unlike #13, is not unlucky but slightly ominous. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/114 "2017-10-11T10:33:31Z")
The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of critical radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from hearing the recall code that would stop them from dropping their atomic bombs on the Soviet Union. (From Wikipedia) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/115 "2017-10-11T12:20:35Z")
In Call of Duty, Element 115 was discovered to reanimate dead cells, leading the Germans to create zombie super soldiers. After creating them, the Germans realized that they were uncontrollable and would lead to mankind’s destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/116 "2017-10-11T14:08:37Z")
This [Hundred Years’ War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War), how long did it \*actually \*last? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/117 "2017-10-11T14:48:11Z")
[Source](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros117.html) The periodicity and recurrence of solar eclipses is governed by the Saros cycle, a period of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours). When two eclipses are separated by a period of one Saros, they share a very similar geometry. The two eclipses occur at the same node with the Moon at nearly the same distance from Earth and at the same time of year. Thus, the Saros is useful for organizing eclipses into families or series. Each series typically lasts 12 to 13 centuries and contains 70 or more eclipses. Solar eclipses of **Saros 117** all occur at the Moon’s ascending node and the Moon moves southward with each eclipse. The total duration of Saros series 117 is 1262.11 years. ``` First Eclipse = 0792 Jun 24 06:42:26 TD Last Eclipse = 2054 Aug 03 18:04:02 TD ``` ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/118 "2017-10-11T15:24:51Z")
CA 118 in Los Angeles is officially named The Ronald Reagan Freeway, but nobody calls it that. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/119 "2017-10-11T15:45:49Z")
What’s the number for “911” again? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-its-one-for-the-money/797306/120 "2017-10-11T18:06:16Z")
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