# What Am I Talking About?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 17, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304 "2001-04-17T17:10:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304/1 "2001-04-17T17:10:22Z")

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If you answer one correctly, you get to offer ones of your own:

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[li]a dormant global twist, induced by random movement, encountering a metastable knot-antiknot pair, causing an abrupt change in torsional energy[/li][li]226.4 chirps per minute by a snowy tree cricket[/li][li]a capsicum with a mean percentage level of 18.36 percent oxygen and 1.15 percent carbon dioxide[/li][li]widely spaced grooves around the cannon shots, and clearly visible — almost right-angle turns — in the grooves of the shots themselves[/li][li]a rattling of a randomly magnetized color mask and other ferous metalwork caused by a strong surge of current through a large demagnetizing coil[/li][/list]

Answers can be found [here](http://www.last-word.com), but you’ll have to dig…

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304/2 "2001-04-17T19:00:36Z")

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A. Why does my telephone cord twist so much?  
B. I’m going to say ‘body temperature’  
C. Apparently, its the hollow of a green pepper  
D. How to identify the LP of the 1812 Overture (Lou! Lou! Lou!)  
E. how to find landmines with bullets?

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304/3 "2001-04-17T19:16:19Z")

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Connor:

You got 3 right. Not bad.

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**Author:** ![smaft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@smaft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaft)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-talking-about/62304/4 "2001-04-17T21:09:20Z")

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As I apparently have an issue leaving things uncompleted-

C. air inside a **red** pepper  
E. hum from deGaussing of a TV or monitor on startup

My work here is done.