# Yet to be answered trivia questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030 "2011-07-06T14:11:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/41 "2011-07-10T10:33:20Z")

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Who killed the deputy?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/42 "2011-07-10T10:48:15Z")

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I hate to spoil the thread with a serious response, but for me, the trivial question I would like answered is the meaning of the phrase “Roxell Roxell Bowshot”, which I found neatly handwritten on a small square of green notepaper when I was young.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/43 "2011-07-10T14:02:07Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I hate to spoil the thread with a serious response, but for me, the trivial question I would like answered is the meaning of the phrase “Roxell Roxell Bowshot”, which I found neatly handwritten on a small square of green notepaper when I was young.

Damn! I sure wish I could help. Is that “bow” as in “bow and arrow” or as in the front of a boat? Or is it “bows” and “hot”?

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/44 "2011-07-10T14:38:44Z")

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> [@SleepyDuck](#):
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> Back in junior high, I stole a book out of some nerd’s book bag while he was staring at something in the sky. Scrawled in it was a cryptic formula – BD + JT = TLF. I have been losing sleep over that for about thirty years.

Seriously? Bob Doe (for example) + Jackie Tripp (for example) = True Love Forever

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/45 "2011-07-10T14:47:51Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I hate to spoil the thread with a serious response, but for me, the trivial question I would like answered is the meaning of the phrase “Roxell Roxell Bowshot”, which I found neatly handwritten on a small square of green notepaper when I was young.

I see that this is not a new issue with you! Just on a whim I did a Yahoo! Search on your phrase and found (in addition to this very thread) a reference to [The Anonymous Message Server](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=281680) from 10-18-2004, 11:11 PM.

On behalf of the other participants in this thread, I wish you godspeed in finding a sufficient answer. It’s the very least we can do!

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**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/46 "2011-07-11T04:41:50Z")

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> [@PlainJain](#):
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> Seriously?

Ummm, no.

Hint #1: Re-read post 18

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/47 "2011-07-11T05:49:13Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> [The answer to this Rebus, which is up there with 14 K of G in a F P D.](http://www.fofer.com/sharedimages//183924_498260422756_617742756_6554216_1921112_n-1-20110220-075454.jpg)
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> [From this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599610)

Clearly, it’s “Russia’s Best® Seedless Fly Paper.”

You’re welcome.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/48 "2011-07-11T06:09:54Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I’ll rephrase…top end to bottom end or front end to rear end?

I’ve done that. Every other person gets a stiff neck, and the others get a lower back spasm.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/49 "2011-07-11T07:31:12Z")

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WTF? I mean WTFF? Eh?

Answer me _that_!

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-to-be-answered-trivia-questions/588030/50 "2011-07-11T13:24:33Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> No, it was “what do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

Aw, that’s just when he ran out of Scrabble pieces.

If he’d had more, it would’ve been _ **“what do you get if you multiply six by nine IN A RESTAURANT”** _ – which reveals bistromathics, the most powerful computational force known to parascience – at which point you’ll start in with _“interactive subjectivity frameworks”_ this and _“the universe is only a figment of its own imagination”_ that – and you’ll realize that time and distance are one, that mind and universe are one, that perception and reality are one – and problems that seem impossible on paper can be solved when numbers dance on a waiter’s bill pad: reality and unreality collide such that each becomes the other and anything is possible – a phenomenon which you must have encountered, and which can at any moment impress a young girl sitting on her own (so long as she’s, y’know, in a small cafe in Rickmansworth).

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