# What Is This??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437 "2000-02-04T06:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/1 "2000-02-04T06:20:00Z")
\\code:\\\ Fe++¯¯¯¯Fe++ / \ / / \ / Fe++ ----O----- Fe++ \ / \ / \ / \ / Fe++\_\_\_\_Fe++ ```auto ------------------ Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. ``` ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/2 "2000-02-04T06:27:00Z")
A ferrous wheel? ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/3 "2000-02-04T07:01:00Z")
Haw! That’s too rich! -David ---
**Author:** ![ellis555](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e36b37/32.png) [@ellis555](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ellis555)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/4 "2000-02-04T07:06:00Z")
looks like it’s possibly supposed to be hemoglobin, or some other oxygen carrying molecule. but i’m rather positive hemoglobin doesn’t have so many iron groups. -ellis ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/5 "2000-02-04T07:17:00Z")
Ellis, dear? . . . WHOOSH! -Melin * * * Siamese attack puppet – California ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/6 "2000-02-04T07:24:00Z")
Well, that didn’t take long! Congrats to aseymayo. Maybe if I post this very late, it’ll last 'til morning: \\code:\\\ \_\_\_\_\_ / M.D.- O - Ph.D. \ / ¯¯¯¯¯ ```auto ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/7 "2000-02-04T08:11:00Z")
Sorry - this seems only to look right on IE or AOL’s IE. ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/8 "2000-02-04T09:41:00Z")
Paradox 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/9 "2000-02-04T10:05:00Z")
More More More ! -David ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/10 "2000-02-04T14:19:00Z")
Ok. Try this: Us All Us * * * ``` Now ``` or this one: ``` BB aaaaaaaaaa ``` TRI tious FLES ``` Standing _________ ``` is the mark of a mean * * * -Dragwyr “If God had meant for man to eat waffles, he would have given him lips like snowshoes” -Rev. Billy C. Wirtz ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/11 "2000-02-04T15:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > What Is This??? This is an MPSIMS thread. * * * Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/12 "2000-02-05T05:17:00Z")
Paradox? Darn. I would have gotten it if the whole thing had rotated - then it would have been “spin doctors”. Dragwyr - It’s all over now between us? (I’m terribly sorry to hear that.) P.S. Thanks to the Mods for reopening this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/13 "2000-02-05T06:04:00Z")
supposedly this was the address on a letter, correctly delivered: wood john mass * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2000, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/14 "2000-02-05T08:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by jti: > \*\*supposedly this was the address on a letter, correctly delivered: > > wood > john > mass > > \*\* Ah, an easy one! John Underwood Andover, Mass Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2000, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/13437/15 "2000-02-05T08:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Dragwyr: > \*\*Ok. Try this: > BB > aaaaaaaaaa > TRI tious FLES > \*\* To be tenatious in trifles. (2 B, 10 A, ‘tious’ in TRIFLES.) * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_