# Why can't Fox be easily detected?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 3, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584 "2013-07-03T21:11:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584/21 "2013-07-20T21:16:56Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> Were they your wife’s favorite flowers? Even if so, you’d not want to trade places with [this guy, who wishes docks were easily detected](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQcoCM-pU-8).

An expensive inability to detect, indeed

Then there’s the guy who returned to the local deli to complain he could detect no lox on his sandwich. And he was a Protestant. That seems like a paradox but I can’t detect whether it is or not.

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**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584/22 "2013-07-26T13:04:56Z")

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Every time I pass by a woman with big lips, occasionally I will wonder why it is in style to inject poison into your skin. I wish there were something, ideally in the lower left hand corner of her mouth, that would let me know how much toxin she contains.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584/23 "2013-07-31T08:00:47Z")

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Wow, so this makes two parodies of my original thread. Should I feel proud or ashamed? 😃

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-fox-be-easily-detected/662584/24 "2013-08-31T20:31:12Z")

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> [@Shakes](#):
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> Wow, so this makes two parodies of my original thread. Should I feel proud or ashamed? 😃

I detect these are shocks to you.

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