# What Is This???

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/6788>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/6788 "2000-02-04T06:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**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/6788/1 "2000-02-04T06:20:00Z")

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Fe++ ----O----- Fe++  
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Fe++\_\_\_\_Fe++

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Sue from El Paso

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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**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/6788/2 "2000-02-04T06:27:00Z")

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A ferrous wheel?

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**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/6788/3 "2000-02-04T07:01:00Z")

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Haw! That’s too rich!

-David

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**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/6788/4 "2000-02-04T07:06:00Z")

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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

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**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/6788/5 "2000-02-04T07:17:00Z")

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Ellis, dear? . . .

WHOOSH!

-Melin

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Siamese attack puppet – California

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**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/6788/6 "2000-02-04T07:24:00Z")

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Well, that didn’t take long! Congrats to aseymayo.

Maybe if I post this very late, it’ll last 'til morning:

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M.D.- O - Ph.D.  
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**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/6788/7 "2000-02-04T08:11:00Z")

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Sorry - this seems only to look right on IE or AOL’s IE.

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**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/6788/8 "2000-02-04T09:41:00Z")

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Paradox 🙂

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**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/6788/9 "2000-02-04T10:05:00Z")

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More More More !

-David

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**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/6788/10 "2000-02-04T14:19:00Z")

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Ok. Try this:

Us All Us

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  Now

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or this one:

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    BB
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TRI tious FLES

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   Standing
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is the mark of a mean

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-Dragwyr  
“If God had meant for man to eat waffles,  
he would have given him lips like snowshoes”  
-Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

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**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/6788/11 "2000-02-04T15:05:00Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> What Is This???

This is an MPSIMS thread.

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Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine