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Just wondering if anyone can explain why hacker types still think its cool to type things in numbers. You know like using a '3' in place of an 'e'?? I hate to break it to you but we have deciphered your ingenious code!

Another mystery: Why is it that when you go to buy gas and pay with a debit card you still try to pump in an exact even dollar amount. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

[ December 27, 2002, 22:20: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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How are crop circles created?
Do they really have aliens and flying saucers in a secret base in Area 51?
Can Uri Geller really bend spoons with his mind?
Does remote viewing really work?
Is there really a Loch Ness monster?
Is global warming really happening?
What long distance company gives you the best deal?
How do they fit all that warm air into a blow dryer, and why does it never run out?
Who killed John F. Kennedy?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Couple guys with a board and a rope, No, No, No, No, Yes, All of them apparantly, Now that is a mystery!!, Lee Harvey Oswald. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Practice.

Or because its a challenge and nobody likes to lose a challenge http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ December 22, 2002, 17:12: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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how many licks does it (really) take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I knew this question was asked before somewhere, so I looked in the Name Changing Thread, and here is the answer!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That has been solved...by an owl! Let me check on the result -
(lick,lick,lick,Crunch...)
Yes, the answer is THREE http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">More mysteries:

How do they get the caramel into Caramilk chocolates?
Did NASA fake the moon landings?
Are Darth Sidius and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine the same person?
What happened to Nikola Tesla's death ray invention?
If 42 is the answer, what is the question?
Why are bananas crooked?
Why did Bruce Lee die?
Why do ships and planes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?
Where do all my pens and erasers go? I never use them up, they just vanish somehow and I have to keep buying new ones.

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How do they get chocolate milk out of a cow? Is the cow brown and black instead of white and black?

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How many cows can fit into a jar? 47?
How many austrailians can fit into a clown car? 37?

[ May 05, 2003, 15:56: Message edited by: Iggiboo ]

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where do all the missing socks go that disappear from the dryer?
why is the sky blue?
which is the first star on the right?
how come it never rains but it pours?
chicken or egg?
the next thing i say will be true!
the Last thing i said was false!

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Is the answer in the question?
Is 2Pac dead?
Where the party at?

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Why does guys have nipples?

[ December 23, 2002, 01:05: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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so they can get twisted by other malicious guys

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What is "adoo", and why dont we need any further of it?

What is the opposite of disgruntled?

If it was only a three hour tour, why did they pack so many clothes?

And how come the Professor could turn a coconut into a radio, but he couldn't patch a hole in the boat?

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">A woodchuck would chuck how much wood a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood!!

[ December 23, 2002, 01:33: Message edited by: Gandalph ]

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When will time end, and what happens an hour later?

Where is the end of the universe, and what happens if you go another light year past that?

Why do birds sing?

Why do great looking women chose dorky boyfriends?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I wish...

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People always say; "Be Alert".

What is a 'lert'?

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So it would seem! I was really hoping for an answer for the very fist question. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif I guess maybe it really is unaswerable.

Ow well back to silly:

Why do some guys put a rear wing on a pickup truck. (yes I have seen this!)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you were stuck on a tropical island with Mary Anne and Ginger, would you fix the boat?

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Posted by DavidG
Why do some guys put a rear wing on a pickup truck. (yes I have seen this!)

Well in my area it is because they are Hispanic. Most Hispanic people in my town put low riding tires on and lower the car 2 inchs and have the tires sticking out from the wheel another 4 inchs more the normal.
Then on trucks they trick out. Same thing with tires, put wing on the back, put little V (don't know what it is called) thing on top. So on and so forth. Some of the trucks they have done are pretty sweet looking though. But it takes away from being a truck.
Oh, they also do the tire thing to vans too.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you were stuck on a tropical island with Mary Anne and Ginger, would you fix the boat?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL Good One!!!!

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Did a flying saucer really crash in Roswell?
What really happened with the Philadelphia Experiment?
Are there aliens living on Earth, disguised as humans?
How is fleet experience determined?
Why do we have dreams?
Are there really abominable snowmen up in the Himalayas?
Why do some people pay so much money for modern art?
Do clams ever get bored, and how can you tell?
How many shades of green are there?

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If you farted and belched at the same time, would you implode?
If you were driving a car at the speed of light, and turned on the headlights, what would happen?
Why do women go to public restrooms only in Groups?

The truth is out there....

Quikngruvn

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How do we know abominable snowman are really abominable? Maybe they're actually quite nice and friendly, once you get past all the fur.

What happens when you put a humidifier and a de-humidifier in a room?

How did Macgyver end up as a leader on Stargate, yet he never comes up with the solutions in any episode? The man could CREATE a stargate with bubblegum, paperclips, some string and a battery...now he has the highest tech equipment and unlimited funding but he's a complete idiot.

If you pour spot-remover on a dog, will he disappear?

Can pop rocks and soda be combined to create some super weapon?

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Where is the Man in the Moon?

And, who is he?

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Why do they put locks on stores open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

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Why do they put instructions in braille at drive-thru's?!?!?!? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">42.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The locks come standard on the doors. And, stores do close sometimes for one reason or another, so it is good to be able to lock the doors when necessary.

[ December 24, 2002, 20:45: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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Why doesn't Fyron have an answer to every post here! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because it took him that long just to figure out those two questions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, some Sasquatches are supposed to be nice, so

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[quote]Originally posted by Dralasite:
[QB]<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I hear what the scientists claim that no two snowflakes are alike. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

But I wonder if they are not talking on a microscopic level.

Or maybe on a molecular level.

But with all the trillions of snowflakes deposited over earth's 4 billion year history, I find it difficult to believe that there are not 2 snowflakes that appear identical to the unaided eye. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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What? Why are we missing many pages of Posts?
What happened??

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmmm, that is really odd. We are down to 3 pages for this thread. Another great mystery of the universe I guess.

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WTF? This is now at least the second thread I know about that has suddenly lost a whole mess of Posts!!!

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At this point I think we have to discard the "moderator delete" and move into the pottentially more troubling "message board problem"..

Phoenix-D

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It seems the whole January has been lost. Is it posssible the alleged 2000 year bug iss in fact 2003 problem ??

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I hope that this problem doesn't keep happening. There were a lot of interesting discussions in the Posts that disappeared. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

The same thing happened in the "OT: Rating the President" thread.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, for example how to get into the car' trunk when you locked the key there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I agree with Ragnarok, the missing Posts are just an unexplainable mystery of the universe.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, for example how to get into the car' trunk when you locked the key there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I missed that one! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

How do you get into your car trunck?

Use your spare key? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Call CAA?
Use your handy crowbar which you use on night missions (break and entry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

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some cars will actually let you pull out the back of the rear seats and gain entry into the trunk. or you could learn how to pick locks. "no really officer this is my car. i just locked my keys in the trunk. honestly." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, exactly ! I had to puff for half an hour disassembling rear seats. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

We do have a spare key but that key is good only for opening car and starting the engine, not for trunk. As it was explained to me on this forum, it is called "valet key". To tal insanity, IMHO.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's funny...It took me a bit to figure out what that meant. I'm just so used to "Call Triple-A?" that I completely missed it.

Option 3: Use a cutting torch to remove a small portion of the trunk lid.

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I think the valet key won't open the glove compartment, either (assuming you have a lock on it).

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What do you call a male ladybug?

What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?

When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it?

Which is the other side of the street?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Why don't they call mustaches "mouthbrows?"

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thats a queerbug http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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What do you call a male ladybug?
A: A Bug-her

What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
A: Transparent!

When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
A: The Chef!

When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it?
A: They looked over at the sundial!

Which is the other side of the street?
A: The Opposite one!

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
A: Because he didn't know they were there!

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
A: To be sure you don't die of complications!

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Good Question!

Why don't they call mustaches "mouthbrows?"
A: Because it's a NoseBeard!

I hope this sets your mind clear! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ February 14, 2003, 18:51: Message edited by: Day-Vid ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's funny...It took me a bit to figure out what that meant. I'm just so used to "Call Triple-A?" that I completely missed it.

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeh, here we call it the Canadian Automotive Association. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I once I locked my keys in my car. Called my brother-in-law who called a friend who brought a flexible shim with a slight hook on the end. Within 1o seconds, the door was open. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Even though I saw this happen in the movies many times, I just didn't realize they could do it so quick.

Anyways, I do belong to CAA and wonder if CAA or AAA have a locksmith on staff or on call? I just assumed they did.

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AAA, at least, just calls someone to come fix your problem/tow your vehicle. If they're not there in ~30 minutes, you can call someone else, and AAA will foot that bill instead. At least, that's how the premium plan works.