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Does the mint flavoring in toothpaste make you gag? Mint or cinnamon flavored dental products (toothpaste and mouthwash) BURN my mouth! So tonight I did some research and most people say: -- to try Tom's of Maine, which has several other flavors -- to try toothpastes marketed to children -- http://www.dentist.net/mint-free-toothpaste.asp (a whole list) -- http://www.shopnewzealand.us/en/cp/Lemon_Toothpaste?currency=USD -- use plain baking...

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what are the behavior trades of the teenager? I understand FLAMIN COW's point, but they are mistaken. Teenagers DO have certain typical behaviors which are related to their hormones, their social development, and the actual physical maturity of their brains. But "typical" doesn't mean "universal" -- not EVERY teen displays these traits every day or every year. Such traits include rebelliousness, lability (look up "labile"), rage,...

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Ok im kinda getting on peoples nerves right now. im bored out of my mind and im txting people. and my friend says that he doesnt want me talking to him that much!! HELP before my life falls apart!!! You need to learn how to entertain yourself. You need to learn to be comfortable with time alone to think. You need to stop feeling like you have to be in conversation at all times and places. Seriously -- try reading a book or making some art or vacuuming or something. But no matter what, learn how to endure -- and eventually appreciate -- solitude and all the opportunities it brings for...

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How do i tell him im pregnant when he doesnt want kids right now? If you have a failure of birth control -- a missed pill, a broken condom -- you can call your local Planned Parenthood and get "Plan B," which is a brand name of the "morning after pill" which will prevent a pregnancy. It's the same stuff they give to rape survivors in the Emergency Room. You can buy it at most drugstores, too, but not Wal-mart, for example, so call the pharmacy first....

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My dog was poisoned by a farmer who put out bait chickens to kill foxes,these chickens were killed and injected with poison,cut open and left in a field.my dog started to eat one,and now is unconsious and paralysed.what action can i take against this man? I am terribly sorry for your loss. However, the farmer is not legally responsible if someone else's pet comes onto their property and eats poison. Again, I'm very sorry about your dog. My dogs used to roam loose in farm country, too, and it's hard to take that freedom away, but sometimes you have to, for their own protection.

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I NEED TO KNOW IF A PINCH COLLAR SHOULD BE USED ON GRAYHOUND THEY HAVE VERY THIN SKIN AND HAIR. I NEED THIS INFO FOR A GPA OF TN MEETING. I'm not sure this will help much, but for the first time, we are using a pinch collar on a German Shorthaired Pointer, and she's fine with it. Short hair, obviously; not sure if a greyhound's coat is finer, but I think it may be.

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A neighbor's dog killed my cat. I don't want money, or for the dog to be put down, but I want some kind of action taken. What can I do? I'm sorry about your cat. Keep your next cat inside, or take it out only on a leash, or build it a FENCED outdoor enclosure for sunbathing, etc. Don't let your cat be a free-roaming street cat. Ever.

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A friend of mines dog was poisoned in her yard, she doesnt have the proof of who did it but the vet identified the poison. But he would also not put it in writing, he said he doesnt want any thing to do with it. what legal action can she take. She can see a "personal injury" attorney -- usually, a first meeting is free -- and see if they want to take the case. Her lawyer can subpoena the vet, who will HAVE to testify. Will they dare to commit perjury and pretend they didn't identify it? Probably not, because the legal risk of perjury (lying) is greater than the inconvenience of testifying. The vet doesn't want to ruin their own...

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My dog died of eating rat poison at a cabin I just bought. The people who sold me the cabin did not tell me they had put the poison inside, but they knew we had dogs. Are they legally responsible? Heck yes, it's worth making a fuss about. What if you had brought a toddler to the house? Talk to a "personal injury" attorney about this. Usually, the first consultation is free.

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If my male dog mates with another dog and she becomes pregnant what rights do I have towards the puppies? The female dog came to my yard where my dog was on his leash. My dog is half Pom and half Pek. She is selling them as full bred Pom's. No rights to the puppies. Where is she selling them? You can call the newspaper and tell them she's lying, but how can you prove it? How can you prove it's your dog who sired the litter? This is a bad situation. You need to neuter your dog RIGHT AWAY. Accidents like this can happen, and now he's brought several puppies into the world and you have no way of making sure they are taken care...

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If my male dog mates with another dog and she becomes pregnant what rights do I have towards the puppies? The female dog came to my yard where my dog was on his leash. My dog is half Pom and half Pek. She is selling them as full bred Pom's. whoops, duplicate answer, please delete -- thanks

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Where does a parent draw the line between child abuse and child discipline? Any time you hit a child, it's abuse. ANY TIME. EVER.

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Do taking cold showers make you hair healty or is it just a myth? It's mostly a myth. However... hair is made of keratin, and the keratin has a surface called the "cuticle" -- (yes, same word as for the tissue at the base of your fingernails). A cool or cold rinse supposedly makes the cuticle lie flat, all in one direction, and supposedly this makes the hair less brittle and perhaps more shiny. But that's two uses of "supposedly" and one "perhaps" all in...

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It has been proven that children who receive abstinence only sex ed ultimately end up with a higher percentage of unwanted pregnancies and STDs because they are clueless as how to prevent them. Isn't this enough to prove abstinence only doesn't work? Yes, it proves abstinence-only education doesn't work -- but it proves it to SANE people, not all people. :(

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abstinence....Doesn't sex cause more harm than good? For a little pleasure,brings a lot of suffering: Well, you certainly were prejudiced in the way you set up the poll. But most of the misery you associate with sex is caused not by the sex, but by: == a lack of education ABOUT sex == a lack of education about birth control == a lack of access to birth control == a lack of judgement about the right time and the right partner You may sex sound like it's leprosy or something. Your religion...

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Why do so many people seem to take such pleasure in speculating about Obama's hypothetical failures and labeling him? Racism. They were complaining before he even took office. ALSO --- Partisanship. The Party of No (that's the Republicans) care more about trashing Democrats than they care about helping the country, which was left in ruins by the Republican team of oil barons, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Obama's working overtime to put back the pieces of a shattered nation, and he's doing it COMPLETELY...

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When President Obama got in office for President, He wasted no time to support abortions for overseas, Hows your views on this? Pretty lousy question. I was thrilled when Obama lifted the restrictions on family planning overseas. Women were dying for your stupid rule. Not only did they not have access to abortion, they didn't have access to birth control, either, because of this rule. The rule killed people. ACTUAL people, not fetuses. People who had children already, children who needed their mothers, children...

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My parents made/are making my life hell. Do I have the right to deny them seeing their grandchildren in Nova Scotia Canada? I don't know Canadian law. In the U.S., different states have different laws and all of those laws are being questioned (from both sides). In the U.S., the right to parent is a "fundamental right" -- meaning one which gets the highest level of judicial scrutiny -- and state laws really have to have extreme justification before interfering with it. In other words, you, the parent, get to...

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If your teen daughter got pregnant by a boy who got several other girls pregnant at the same time what would you do? In the U.S., he owes child support for EVERY child he begets, even if they are all from different women. How much money could this guy reasonably provide to your daughter's child? How much LOVE and TIME could this guy reasonably provide to your daughter's child? I would encourage my daughter to have an abortion or do an open adoption (if the boy is willing to give up his parental rights)....

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Recentley I had and ectopic pregnancy. An ER doctor where i live had burst my right fallopian tube so i had surgery and had to get it removed, so now i only have the one. Is it possible that i can still get pregnant and still have a healthy pregnancy? You have two excellent answers already, but I wanted to chime in too. You can indeed get pregnant with only one healthy, intact tube. And if you don't have a good tube on your left side, if your ovaries are still functioning, a doctor can harvest your eggs, fertilize them with your partner's semen "in vitro" (meaning "in glass," that is, a small glass Petri dish or test tube), and then...

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I had unprotected sex 11 days before my period is SUPPOSED to start but think I'm showing signs of a pregnancy.. Is it possible? YES, absolutely, you may be pregnant. There are semen present in the fluid a man leaks before his orgasm. It doesn't matter that it was "only three minutes" and it doesn't matter that he didn't ejaculate inside you. It DOES matter if you are on birth control. Get to a doc and find out what's going on. If you ARE pregnant and you're still taking oral contraceptives (the pill), you can mess...

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What is the Christian meaning of the name Morgan? I agree with ALYSSA's research. However, if a "Christian" name s important to you, you may wish to skip Morgan. Morgan, Morgana, Morgaine, and similar names are related to the pre-Christian Welsh & Celtic goddess called The Morrigan. The best-known uses of these names in English literature are Morgan le Fay, a fairy or witch Morgaine / Morgana, King Arthur's half-sister, a...

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A woman is pregnant in their tubes & the baby must be removed. Shortly afterward the woman says that the doctor found another baby that was not in the tubes that they missed when the one in the tubes was removed. She is pregnant now. Is this possible? I vouch for INDIGO BLUE's answer. She or he is correct.

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Im scared that i wont be able to get pregnant again. I recentley had one of my tubes removed, and the chances of me getting pregnant are slim... has this happened to anyone? and if so please send hope my way!! I can't believe no one answered you for a year and a half! Anyway, calm down -- you can indeed get pregnant with only one tube. You should have plenty of hope if you have one healthy, intact tube. And if you don't, if your ovaries are still functioning, a doctor can harvest your eggs, fertilize them with your partner's semen "in vitro" (meaning "in glass," that is, a small glass Petri dish...

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When are you most able to get pregnant? When you are having sex. There is NO "safe time" in a woman's menstrual cycle when conception cannot occur. There is NO method 100% effective for detecting when a woman is fertile.

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Is it bad to have to much self confidence;[?] Look up these terms and then decide. :) narcissistic megalomania

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Has the oil spill caused you to lose faith in America? Nah, haven't lost faith in America. It's added to my contempt and disgust for George Bush, the oil baron who turned the federal permitting section for oil drilling into a party zone where oil companies were providing regulators with prostitutes, and they were snorting coke and crystal meth right off of the office machines. They took bribes left and right and didn't regulate or inspect...

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How Much Does an Abortion Cost? Good gravy. How on earth can a doc justify charging so much for a medication abortion? Amazing.

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My fiance aborted against my wishes and now suggests we don't have kids but also says it is a possibility in the "future". Am I a fool? You two are on different life schedules. Don't try to force yourself to fit hers; don't try to force her to fit yours. There are MANY women who would like to marry and have children right away. You can have your choice of those women. It's good that this got out in the open BEFORE the marriage.

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Should "her body her choice" apply to married women? And men? Should wives be able to control what their husbands do with their bodies? He MARRIED her. He didn't BUY her. Her body. Her choice. But in a good marriage, they will talk about this a lot -- ideally, before the situation ever comes up -- and will come to a loving agreement on whatever decision is made.

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I know that having an abortion would be the best to do right now, but I can't stop crying. I'm torn. Do I have this one now when I can hardly provide for the child I have now? Or do I end it so that I can better myself for the child I already have? You asked this question two years ago. Do you mind saying what you decided, and how you feel about it? I hope things worked out well.

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I'm pregnant by someone I hardly know that lives 3 hours away in another state. I thought about abortion at first but now I'm having second thoughts. He wants me to have an abortion. If I don't then I'm having a kid against his wishes, right? Right, you're having a kid against his will, but it is YOUR body and YOUR decision. If you bear the child, even against his will, he has to pay child support. This is true in every state of the U.S. So... you asked this question three years ago. How did things turn out? Hope all is well with you now.

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Why doesn't parents pay and deal for there responsibility's? I watch a child 11 hours of the day, i feed a 3 course meal and even give baths.. I ask her all the time why she is so late and why she can't pay on time... she acts clueless.. Why? Everyone has given you good advice. 1. Don't sit for her until all the money she owes you is paid. 2. Payment IN ADVANCE before each date. 3. A frank discussion of what should happen if she's late. Ask her, does she want to pay double after midnight? Or would she rather you took the child to the police station? I'm not being mean, I'm being serious. What does she WANT to happen when...

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My antidepressant seems to kill my sex drive. Any women have the same problem & how did you solve it? See the answers here: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2049905

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My sex drive seems to be really low when I'm on antidepressants. I'm female. How can I get my sex drive back to normal? See the answers here: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2055050

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I am currently on Prozac, and would like to switch to Wellbutrin. Do I have to stop taking prozac for awhile before I start Wellbutrin, or can I just stop one and start the other right away. Dear heaven, PLEASE follow your doc's instructions on this, and if you don't trust her or him, ask the pharmacist for their advice as well. These are strong drugs and you need to be careful. I know someone on Wellbutrin, and if he misses even ONE dose, it messes him up -- cranky, sleepy -- for a whole day. Prozac usually requires tapering off, as several people have told you. You have to...

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My female cousin is 24 and im 16. Is it okay to have sex with her? All the other answers are wrong so far. Whether sex with her is LEGAL depends on which state you live in. The age of consent varies from state to state. Also, some states have "Romeo & Juliet" laws, in which it's legal for, say, an 18 y.o. to have sex with a 16 y.o., but NOT okay for a 20 y.o. to have sex with the 16 y.o. Legally, it does not matter whether the male is the older partner...

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What would my moms cousin be to me? Because it doesnt make sense that it would be my second cousin because my second cousin would be MY cousins kid. Your mom's cousin is her "first cousin." Because you are one generation younger, your mom's cousin is your "first cousin, once removed." It's easiest to understand if you draw a chart: Your Mom --------- Her First Cousin . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . | . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . | . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . | You . . . . . . . . . . Your Second Cousin . . | . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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I want to tell my cousin I like him... I love him... But I don't know if he feels the same way. I don't know what to tell him, and I'm really scared... First off, the first answer is wrong. Cousins can marry in several U.S. states, including my own state, Virginia. That doesn't mean it's a good idea, and you'd need to do genetic screening before having children together. Yep, your families would flip out. What I'd like to know is how old the two of you are. This is a decision best made in your middle twenties, not before then. Before that...

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is it wrong to want to date your cousin? Circumstances: He is 27, im 13. We both love each other ALOT! But besides the age difference. NO 13-year-old can "date" a 27-year-old, whether he is her cousin or not. It is not just inappropriate, it's illegal. If you love him, don't ruin his life. When you are twenty and he is 34, then you can reconsider the situation. Meanwhile, forget it. Forget it completely. It's okay to have a crush on a sweet older guy who is part of your own family and therefore not as scary as a...

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I went to baby shower for cousin yesterday, and I learnt that another cousin was expecting, I felt SO left out, everyone's having a baby but me, can anyone say anything to make me feel better, or should I just feel good cus my time IS coming? You should fall on your knees and thank whatever god(s) you believe in that you aren't pregnant right now. The answer above which starts out, "Yes, you do not have the following..." is perfect. But let me bluntly add to it. Your current child-free life means you can go anywhere you want to, whenever you want to. You can spend money on yourself or on anyone you want to without feeling...

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Dominos or Pizza Hut? Pizza Hut. The guy who owned Domino's and still profits from the chain donates huge sums of money to anti-woman causes. He says he's "pro-life" but he instituted the 30-minute guarantee that gets his employees killed as they race through traffic.

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True or false - You are measured by your accomplishments? Socially, no, you are measured first by looks and then by wealth (whether you earned it or inherited it). But philosophically, yes, you are measured by your accomplishments, whether those are material, military, scientific, culinary, spiritual, progeny, or whatever.

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Do you think you could date just about any man or woman? No. I can't date a racist, sexist, or someone who hates people for their orientation or religion or national heritage. And I can't date Republicans, but that's pretty much saying the same thing.

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Would a metric time system be possible? Sure... there is nothing magical about our current system and we could change it if we wanted to. I don't think many people want to, though. :)

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I never hear from the occult people. Where are the Satan Worshippers,Wiccans, and Pagans. I am really interested in hearing if there are any out there. No joking. What do you mean, "hear from" ? There are plenty of various kinds of Pagans, Wiccans, and so on on Answerbag. Not so many Satanists, as far as I can tell, except for teenage wannabes.

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What's your number one priority in life? Making my spouse happy. Seriously.

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If you could trade jobs with one of your friends, which job would you want? One of my friends is a great lawyer who represents people in employment discrimination suits -- like the people who are cheated of their fair pay for working at chicken slaughterhouses, or working at Wal-Mart. I would like to be her. She does so much good in the world! And she does it for people who would have no hope without her.

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No one says ____________ anymore! (Fill in the blank please:) No one says "it makes no nevermind" any more. No one says "madder than a wet hen" any more. No one says "I love you a bushel and a peck" any more. No one says, "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride" any more.

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Frank McCourt was a really great writer and an Irishman.What shouldbe said at his wake? I think you just said it: that he was a really great writer and an Irishman. I'm not sure he'd want any more than that.

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What would your last words like to be before you die? Thank you, honey; I hope you remarry and are as happy as you made me.

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Are there any surgeons who do pro bono Mastectomys? I am a ftm (female to male) transgender and live in Wake Forest, North Carolina. I doubt it, but you could try contacting local medical schools and ask. I think they will hesitate because this kind of surgery is usually done as part of a long process which is monitored very intensively by a psychotherapist. Maybe your therapist could make the contact with the med schools for you? North Carolina has very high-quality medical schools. Your local reference librarian...

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Would most men rather have a women with big fake boobs or smaller natural ones? A man -- a mature adult male -- prefers natural breasts that don't put his lover at risk of cancer (or put her through the pain, expense, and deformity of surgery.) A male person who has not matured, no matter what his age, might prefer to interact with two lumps of plastic and wouldn't care about the risks and pain for his partner. Depends on the guy.

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Is it ever to late to right a wrong? Yes, it is often too late to right a wrong. But it is NEVER too late to try.

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Did Nazi Germany have a moral leg to stand on? Is morality relative, or must there be a universal Standard? Morals are derived from values. The Nazi party had horrible values, and therefore, horrible morals. I think the question needs to go back a step, and ask instead whether there are universal values -- universal standards of goodness. I also disagree with the statement "drugs are bad" in the answer above. Penicillin is a great drug for most people -- unless you're allergic...

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Atheists: If someone says God Bless you, do you get offended? I always say if you're a believer God Bless you but someone so very nice & sweet on here said What do you mean if. I just try to respect all beliefs or lack there of. What's politically right? I'm not sure I understand your question. If you mean "I always say 'if you're a believer God Bless you ' " then I think you have a problem. The problem is, people listening will take it to mean, "I want my god to bless you only if you believe the way I do, and if you don't, then I DON'T want my god to bless you." Couldn't you just...

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Do you think someone who didn't believe in god could run the USA better ,worse or not at all? We can't know. We know that every president so far has CLAIMED to believe in a god, but many of them have not acted like it. For instance, George Bush had people tortured to death, even though this is against national, international, and religious law. He ordered a war which even the Pope said was immoral, and so far, it has caused the death of over 4,000 Americans and an unknown...

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Do you comb or brush your hair? Brush. Hair is 3' long. A comb would rip out too much.

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Can someone help me find where to look for the employment law info that says if a civil rights claim is of an ongoing nature, the normal time-limit no longer holds, and the investigation can be taken back all the way to the beginning of the problems? (TX) You're in big trouble. The ultra-corporate U.S. Supreme Court has recently reversed the long-standing policy of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a decision widely known as LEDBETTER. That decision cheats workers, even those who were kept in the dark about salary levels, of the chance to sue. However, the good news is that the Democrats in Congress and President...

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I believe in a God, do you? Comment placed here in error - Administrator, please delete - thanks.

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Me and my mum isnt speaking how do you think we could make it up she is being very stubern help please! If you are still living with her, just walk into the room and say, "I'm sorry we aren't getting along. I hope we get past this soon." If you don't live with her, it may be harder to pick up the phone to say that, but maybe you are ready to try.

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What hurts more being lonely or being broken hearted? People have killed themselves for both reasons. I think I agree with most of the people here who have experienced both: a broken heart is worse. But someone who has never been in love at all might disagree, and might think "it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." I think, for the lonely people, it's not just about loving someone....

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If you could cancel one TV show, what would it be? Hard to choose, but probably "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News. It's presented as a news show, but it isn't. Lying to the American public is okay if you are doing it as a comedy satire, as Stephen Colbert does. Lying to whip up division and to make money is not okay. And calling it "news" makes it worse.

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Do you like the anonymity of AB? I know it's for security reasons. But do you wish people would be a little more open about who they are and what they look like? Yes, I like the anonymity. No, I don't want to know what people look like. I am not here to judge people on their looks. No, I don't need people to be more open about who they are. All I care about is that they give accurate answers and are kind to the people who ask the questions. :)

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How do people know what the Holy Grail looks like? We don't. We can only imagine. But this very question is addressed by the final scenes of the Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: http://en.wikipedia.org/.../..._the_Last_Crusade In it, the character Jones is presented with a large quantity of cups and chalices (a chalice is a cup with a stem, kind of like a wineglass) and told he must choose the real one, the cup...

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Can Jehovah's Witnesses be medical lab technicians where human blood is processed? I do not know if this is ALLOWED, but I know that when I was in the hospital for a transplant and getting blood donations, the medical aide who pushed the wheelchair for me to all the places in the hospital that I had to go was a Jehovah's Witness. I asked him about it, and he said he felt that as long as HE was not receiving blood, it was okay. I do not know if this is an accurate...

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Christians only please: My brother in law (atheist) doesnt want to take his kids to church, should I intervene so they know the love of christ at an early age? (I'm not a Christian, but I'm shocked at your inquiry about whether trampling Christian beliefs in the name of Christ is okay, so answering anyway.) In the religious world, as a Christian, do you believe in "Honor thy father and thy mother"? If so, how dare you interfere with those children, to tell them NOT to honor their father's beliefs? Are you seriously...

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What EXACTLY is a douché It is a French word meaning rinse or shower. In English, the literal meaning is of a rinse that women use vaginally. This used to be promoted "for good health" and "for internal cleanliness" and so on. However, douching has gone out of fashion with most doctors as it is actually UNhealthy. It disturbs the pH balance (acidity) of the vagina and can set off vaginal...

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Do you own an hour glass or something similar? Yes, an inexpensive wooden one I keep on the mantel. We don't use it for much. We switched to a digital timer for our oh-so-slow Scrabble games. :)

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If your child or spouse was kidnapped and you were told, by the kidnappers not to tell anyone and just follow their instructions, would you tell someone? If so, who? I'd go right to the FBI, which handles all kidnappings. I might skip the local police to reduce chances of it leaking out (not the the FBI is immune to leaks, either, but still!)

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If you adopted a child, would you tell that child that he/she was adopted? if not, why? if yes, how, when and why? Just interested in peoples views! Sure. I think it's bad policy to lie to your kids about something important, and REALLY bad to lie to them when you know they're going to find out eventually. Also, for the sake of their health, they may need to know someday.

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Petsmart has a policy that if your fish dies within two weeks, you can get your money back -- if you save your dead fish and return it to the store as "proof". What do you think about this? Stick the dead fish in the freezer in a small plastic bag and you'll be fine until you can get to PetSmart. They need some kind of proof so that they don't get defrauded by people making claims which aren't true. I think they are being generous and fair.

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Do you hold all of the answers there in that noggen of yours? YES! N-o-g-g-i-n. See? :)

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Are you willing to listen to people trying to convert you? No. How dare they assume that there is something wrong or missing in my life. How dare they assume that their sense of judgment and their sense of morality is better than my mine. How dare they assume that they are entitled to take up my time with their goofy superstitious fantasies. Having a religious discussion with a friend is one thing. People coming out of nowhere on a mission to...

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Some people leave out the "o" in God and spell it G-d...why? The people who write out God as G-d are doing so as an act of respect, believing it is prideful to spell it out; believing it is impertinent to use God's full name that way. Jews in particular do this as a way of being extra-respectful. (Note: early languages from that area, such as ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, just didn't have vowels. The vowels were understood in a culture in...

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Have I gone crazy if i can't stop thinking about a certain guy (exbf) we broke up 2 months ago & keep thinking of him with other girls, and just can't get him out of my head? I'm only 15, is this what you would call love? It hurts in ways not explainable? No, I'm sorry, that's not what we call love. That's a crush or an obsession. It's NOT just because you are fifteen; a lot of grown women have this problem too (and grown men as well). You can tell it's not love because: 1) you're not thinking of him -- you're thinking of him WITH OTHER PEOPLE. This kind of thinking is about possession, and wounded...

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Do your pets do any stupid tricks? (like on Letterman) I'm hoping I'll be able to train one to live forever, but no luck so far. :(

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Is it true that eye color can be changed by Laser? No, I am sorry, as far as I know, this is not possible. However, soft contact lenses are now so advanced that you can make your eyes appear any color you want, even like golden cat's eyes with vertical pupils.

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I need information regarding where the procedure for changing the eye color by laser is preformed , I am willing to pay $1000 for any one who can provide me with detailed information, Thanks! I am very sorry, but so far as I know, there is no such procedure yet. However, colored contact lenses are very advanced now and even someone whose eyes are naturally dark can have any color they want, even light grey, green, or blue.

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Dark haired people can often have blue eyes. Is it possible for a really fair haired person with light skin to have brown eyes? Oh, sure, it's just not as common as the brown-brown or blonde-blue combination. Genetics is a mathematical science, and the rules of probability apply. My mother has brown eyes. My father had brown eyes. My brother has brown eyes. Brown is a dominant gene. But I have blue eyes, because my father's mother did, and because my mother's father did. Though my parents'...

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Why aren't you dead yet? Because my partner loves me and is keeping me alive, even though it is expensive and hard work.

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I've highlighted my hair blonde, and I have brown eyes. I usually wear brown or a natural eyeshadow but now it looks to dark on me. What color eyeshadow would suit my new hair color? I'm going to go along with both of the first two answers. Try a soft beige-pink, or a soft mauve, and you'll be surprised at how pretty it is. No, you won't look like a red-eyed rabbit, I promise!

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I have brown eyes. is is possible to wear color contacts to change them to very light green even if they are naturally dark?? if so.. which contacts? Oh, yes. In the old days, you couldn't, but now you can. There are several brands of soft lenses that will give a brown-eyed person lovely natural-looking green eyes, even light or bright green. Go for it!

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How is it that not all australian aborigines are dark? some have tanned skin and light eyes and almost brown hair. how is that possible? soem r naturally this way, not from breeding with whites. how? American blacks whose families have been here for many generations are usually far lighter than black people from Africa. In fact, being close to a pure black color was sometimes a selling point in slave days, with brokers advertising "lustre noir" (shiny black luster) to indicate that the human beings they were selling were still close to their original (presumably strong and...

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If someone super hot came up to you and started groping you, how would you react? Slug them hard in the face and scream like a banshee. Depending on their reaction, maybe call the cops, too. Sexual assault is sexual assault, no matter what the perpetrator looks like.

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I believe in a God, do you? Back to threats again! "If we like it or not." I think we're done here, Humane. :)

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If God had an answering machine for missed prayers what do you suppose it would say? "Thank you for calling on God. It's nice to be wanted. Please leave a message at the beep explaining which of My aspects you are trying to reach, and why you think you are entitled to magical advantage in your particular situation. Please be brief. Just because I am Eternal doesn't mean I enjoy endless repetition (no matter what your pastor, rabbi, imam, guru, or similar told...

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I believe in a God, do you? "You will have to answer for it" is a threat, and trying to go back and pretend it wasn't because you were criticized for saying it is bearing false witness. There's no point in interacting with you if you think that fantasy ("six sense") and fibbing are the way to persuade people. You're not only proving my point, you're making deists look WORSE than I...

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Why would you live on mars I always DREAMED of being part of the first Martian colony! I'm too old now, but I still wish I could. I think it would be great to be a part of such a huge expansion of scientific knowledge, and maybe to have children on an outpost of humanity. I wanted to go! I thought it would be a great life, to live and raise children among other scientists and researchers and astronauts. And...

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Is the email about GENERAL EISENHOWER WARNED US about the holocust true? Whenever you're wondering if some piece of netlore is true or not, your first stop should be snopes.com which debunks or proves all kinds of folklore, myth, and urban legend. I searched it for you, and here are the results. http://tinyurl.com/snopes-eisenhower http://tinyurl.com/snopes-holocaust I didn't find one about Eisenhower and the Holocaust together, but you can ask...

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Do you think that the Government thinks everyone is a criminal? Which government? State, local, or federal? I'm going to assume you mean federal, since the feds are the ones in the news these days for the remarkable changes in our rights under the law. Since the so-called "Patriot" Act, yes, this current federal government under George W. Bush does treat all Americans as criminals. Whether they actually think people are criminals,...

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Is an e-mail flyer a good medium for promoting a product or a service? If you mean spam - and I don't see any other way to read your question - the answer is NO. Spam irritates everyone who receives it. Most people won't open spam. And, in some circumstances, sending out spam is a federal or state crime. Buy an ad on any popular site that matches the demographics for your product or service. You'll be targeting your market, presenting...

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What is something that it NOT very fun to do naked? Build an igloo.

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Does anyone find it really annoying the way people assume you are emo if you cut yourself, even if you did it before "emo" was invented? No one "invented" emo. Emo has been with us always, long before it was called "emo." Emo people used to be called sensitive, or high-strung, or melodramatic, or melancholy, or - sometimes - disturbed. Cutting yourself indicates a serious emotional problem or mental illness. Some people grow out of it without help, but most find it a lot easier if they have a...

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Would you rather go camping outdoors in a tent, or spend a night in a fancy hotel room? When I was younger, definitely the tent! But now... well, I am celebrating my 20th anniversary and had to choose between a tent and the fancy hotel room. The fancy hotel room with the in-room jacuzzi tub won. :)

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Did you like the game show "Hollywood Squares" - and if so, any favorite celebrities over the many years of the show? I liked center square Paul Lynde, who voiced the rat Templeton in the 1973 version of "Charlotte's Web" and who helped mainstream America get used to gay people. Charles Nelson Reilly also helped with that during his time on Hollywood Squares, and I liked him too. I was too young to appreciate Phyllis Diller when she was on the show; she scared me. I think I would have...

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What is the earliest TV program you can remember watching? I remember watching the casket of John F. Kennedy in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in black and white for the days that he lay in state there. I was four years old, it was in black and white, and that's truly my first memory of a specific TV show. I remember watching cartoons before that, but I don't remember which cartoons, or what any of them were about.

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What is the greatest show on TV right now? Outside of documentaries and news shows, the remake of "Battlestar Galactica" is the best show on TV now, in terms of writing, acting, and production values.

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How many other animal breeds can you see in just one extinct hybrid animal. http://www.flickr.com/photos/harold2 I looked at your photos but don't know which animal you're referring to there. The link doesn't specify one particular photo. I'm guessing you mean your photo of the painting of macrauchenia? They're apparently some kind of proto-antelope, but the long flexible snout reminds me a bit of a tapir.

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Have you ever lied to get someone in to bed? No.

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Do you think porn is bad? Why? Well, what kind of porn? Yes, I think kiddie porn with live children (or dead children!) is bad. I think kiddie porn that comes out of someone's imagination and is pen-and-ink or other media not involving actual children is none of my business. I also think it's none of the government's business, either - we aren't supposed to do thought control in this country. As...

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George W. Bush is our country's worst president! Why would anyone want to be one of the 27% of voters who think George W. Bush is doing a good job? Well, there's conscious racism. That's one possible explanation. Then there's unconscious racism, see here: http://tinyurl.com/TimWiseWhitePrivilege2008 There's religious bigotry, the willingness to believe that the Republican crew of adulterers, closeted gay guys, and multiple divorcees are, somehow, the right people to enforce an anti-sex, anti-gay, anti-choice...

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My daughter caught a butterfly today and was pondering whether or not she could fly if she took all of the "Magic Dust" off its wings. I had to explain that it didn't work that way. What kind of "Magic" did you believe in when you were a kid? I was a Christian when I was a kid, but had figured out by the time I was eleven or twelve that dead people don't grow wings and fly around; that bushes don't catch fire and talk; that dead is dead; and that prayers are exactly like what are called "spells" if done by people from other religions. I'm glad you told her it didn't work that way! I hope you...

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When I find out a guy likes me, for some reason, my guard goes up instantly, and I can't treat them the same way, instead I get really irritated and am bitchy towards them, I hate it and I don’t understand why, can anyone give me advice? You're defensive, so the real question is, what are you afraid of? - that he will try to hurt you sexually? - that he will try to force you to go out with him, and make your life difficult if you don't? - that he likes you now, but that if you let him get close to you, he'll stop liking you and you will feel rejected? It's very good that you are self-aware and...

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Can anyone think of a reason that a mother could be so cruel as to keep her son away from his father, because it hurts her feelings to let him go not because the father is unfit. He is married with 3 other kids 1 is not even biologically his son!!!!!!!!! I don't understand the question. Isn't "because it hurts her feelings to let him go" the answer? Putting her own feelings over what is better for her son is pretty selfish and cruel. Any child has a legal right to get to know a non-abusive parent. Not only will her son be angry with her all his life, so will a judge if either the son or the father takes this issue to...

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What are the nicknames for Jocelyn? Jo or Joss (sometimes spelled Joce). I suppose you could use Sally (for the "celyn" part) or Lynn, but I haven't known anyone who did that.

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Why are kids so cruel? We are primates. All primates are social species with very rigid social hierarchies. Your place in the hierarchy determines whether you will get food and mates and food for your offspring. Kids are rotten cruel because they haven't learned to moderate their attempts to climb up in the hierarchy with common sense or common kindness. They haven't learned altruism - being kind to...

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WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD BE A BETTER U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH, HITLER, SADAM, OR OSAMA? I despise George Bush and believe he is a war criminal who should be held personally responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians as well as the torture of prisoners and the deaths of the over four thousand U.S. military personnel. But I still think you're just trying to be provocative when you compare him to the other three.

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How do you give an online spankin? Is this a question about "disciplining children" -- the category the question is in -- or about adults engaging in fetish chat?

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Another school shooting today! Parents, does it make you afraid to send your kids to school, or afraid for your kids who are away at college -- or do you think "It will never happen to us"? I live in the region where a pair of sharpshooters terrorized Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland a few years ago. We have over-reacted in a big way. We now close schools down for days any time there is just a rumor that someone might have a gun, or someone outside the school may have used a gun to rob a nearby store. Everyone who loves their kids worries about them, but at this point,...

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Why should the government be involved in school shootings I'm not sure what you're asking. Of course, government gets involved after the shootings, because the shootings are crimes and have to be investigated and prosecuted. Were you asking something else?

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If Cho Sheng hui the virginia tech culprit would have been alive ,what punishment would you have recommended for him? Seung-Hui Cho was so tremendously mentally ill that I'm not sure "punishment" would have meant anything to him, or would be appropriate for us to inflict on someone so mentally disabled. I would have wanted him committed to a maximum security mental health facility, probably for life, because I don't think that we have a cure for what ailed him. He may, or may not,...

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What does light candles upside down mean? Candles are often lit upside down to make it easier to get rid of excess wax on the wick before setting them upright. No one burns candles upside down for long; they will not stay lit, because the dripping wax puts out the flames sooner or later.

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What does it mean if someone sends you a feather in the mail? A white feather was traditionally given by British women to men they considered cowards in time of war. However, in the U.S., the white feather is the mark of a highly skilled military marksman and not about cowardice at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather Without knowing more about the feather and the circumstances, I can't tell whether this was a voodoo gesture or...

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What is the interior cargo length of a Honda Element (front seat folded, length from dash to rear door)? Wikipedia will tell you some of the vehicle's dimensions, but for this, I think you're stuck going to a dealer to measure -- unless you find an online Element owners club and ask them. Someone in a group like that might be happy to help you out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Element

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A man in his late 40's is "disabled" from a back injury from a car accident. Can't work. I see his wife's Honda Element, two moutain bikes on top, when I see his Mitsubishi Montero, two kyacks on top. Can't work but can engage in active sports? Why? The answers you've gotten so far are not entirely accurate. I don't know what Penny means by "you can't go to court for the same thing twice." Of course you can. A person cannot be tried for the same crime twice, but criminal trials and civil cases are very different things. In civil matters, such as adjudicating disability, you may go to court any number of...

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Is against the law to marry your third cousin half brother? You've already been told that in most of the U.S. states, it is legal to marry your own first cousin. First cousin: the child of one of your parents' siblings, for example, the child of your aunt. You share grandparents with them. Second cousin: a person who has some of the same great-grandparents that you do. To put it another way, your second cousins are the children of...

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The newspapers report a bust on women pretending to give massages when they are selling sex, they post their photos in the paper. When they bust a gay guy pretending to give massages but being a prostitute, there is no photo. Why not? It's a great question, but the answer isn't here -- it's in the editorial office of the paper in question. You could phone the paper's ombudsman or "public editor" if they have one. You could write a letter to the editor. And I'd ask a second question: Why, since they publish the photos of the women arrested pre-conviction, why don't they...

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Who is your favorite early Christian writer? [Comment placed here in error, moved up to conversation above attached to my actual answer]

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? The answer Jack gave you here http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2582043 is good up to 1776, but is misleading because it stops short of what happened when we adopted the U.S. Constitution in 1789. The Constitution is the basis for all American laws; even county and state law has to comply with it. At that time, as Jack notes, a couple of men wanted an official national religion. What he...

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Is your mother in law evil? No, she's wonderful and I love her very much. My own mom said the same thing about HER mother-in-law. Guess we were both pretty lucky — or nice mothers-in-law are a lot more common than the stereotype suggests.

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Several people on this site need to take pills for their mood swings. i asked a perfectly decent question and i had my head bitten off. check out my latest question on my profile and tell me HOW I'm so very wrong? This was a comment, not an answer. Whoops! And now it's a discussion.

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If you had your bf/gf password to his/her cell phone would you check it to see if someone else is calling if someone was calling what would you do? No, it would be beneath my dignity to even CONSIDER peeking into their cell phone. If I can't trust my partner enough to give them that much privacy, and that much dignity, of their own, then I have no respect for them, I have no trust in them, and I don't belong with them. I can't imagine being with someone I felt I ought to spy on.

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If your ex leaves you because you were always fighting over his alcohol addiction & gets involved with a married woman will that relationship have a chance of working out? You have now asked the same question six times. Here, as http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/557464 and these five OTHER times: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2575895 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/575096 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/646673 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/564024 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/565223

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If your ex left you & ends up 2mths later moving in with a married woman who just left her husband but, they are not really compatible what are the chances he will leave & go back with the ex who is compatible but, had some issues to work out Same question from you! For the fourth time! http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2575895 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/575096 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/646673 and now here, http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/564024 How many times did you ask this question? Why are you goofing around with the volunteers here? LATE EDIT: FIVE times! ...

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My ex is seeing a married woman but, still tries to contact me & offers to do things for me & my daughter-when he does come around I can sence he has deep feelings for me still-why not just be with her & leave us alone or dump her & work getting me back You asked the same question here! http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2575895 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/575096 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/646673 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/564024 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/565223 So I'm giving you the same answer: HE IS A BIG BABY. HE IS IMMATURE. MOVE ON. I don't find babyish men sexually attractive AT ALL. Why ask...

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What is worse? marijuana or alcohol Alcohol causes more fatalities per year than marijuana. Alcohol is far deadlier, faster, to an individual user than marijuana is. Alcohol is far more likely to lead to the deaths of innocent bystanders than marijuana is, even counting the murders related to the illegal drug trade -- which would vanish if our laws changed, just as murders related to the illegal alcohol trade vanished when...

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How come as soon as the Babylonian and Egyptian fell, christianity appeared out of nowhere Actually, the rise of Christianity had more to do with the "falling" of the traditional Greek & Roman gods than it did with the "falling" of the gods of Babylon & Egypt. The Romans conquered the Greeks, and the two societies shared the same set of goddesses and gods. The Romans then conquered Egypt (and Egypt's subject, Babylon) and their gods were either...

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Im a wicca & i just found out that my family has a history of abilitys like 1 of my grat uncles was the seventh son of the seventh son & i wonted to now if i would have anything special with me Modern Wicca doesn't generally endorse folk beliefs about having special powers because of being the seventh son of a seventh son, or being born under a caul, etc. etc. You don't say if your great-uncle was known to be a particularly spiritual person. What abilities did he have? I think you are talking about what is called foresight or prescience or Second Sight, the ability to...

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Is spellwork a form of prayer? Yes. And, to put it the other way, all prayers are a type of spell, asking a deity to come to the aid of the person making the prayer, or invoking certain events to happen (or not happen, as in prayers and spellwork against things like floods and other disasters.)

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What symbols are associated with Wicca, other than the pentacle and pentagram? Too many to count, because everyone who is Wiccan has their own symbols that mean something special to them. Here are some of the common ones: The Tree of Life (World Tree) eggs (for fertility and new life) a chalice or cup or grail, symbolizing the cauldron of Cerridwen or you might say the Cup of Life the crescent moon, full moon, and dark moon a doll or poppet made of straw a BIG...

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My husband got upset with our church soon after we tithed with them. He doesn't go anymore and would like to find another church. Is it possible to break the tithe? Of course. Your commitment to tithing is NOT a contract enforceable by law. However, if you already gave them the money, I doubt you'll have much luck getting it back. But they cannot force you to provide future sums. If they try, call your local ACLU (see aclu.org for local offices).

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2yr. ready for a bit more commitment (nothing huge or pushy). not sure his position. thoughts on nonthreatening way to bring it up/nudge him for more/find out if will ever give more? not looking for proposal just to be more significant in his life. Tell him that you want to buy a house. See if he asks if you want to buy it with him. After two years, if you don't know where you stand, it IS time to buy a house and get moving with your own life. :)

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What do you think about the US sending armed Nuclear Submarines to the Persian Gulf last Sunday? http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=48682&sectionid=351020205 I think Cheney illegally declared war on Iran last fall -- right out in public, too -- and that this is part of his plan to destablize the Middle East even more than the illegal war in Iraq has already done, in order to keep oil prices high, high, high long after he and Bush are out of the White House. This is what happens when you let two oil barons hold the Presidency and Vice-Presidency.

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Whats your favorite place to eat, what do you eat there, and if you could describe the one thing that you eat in one word, what would it be? Our kitchen, my partner's cooking, bacon!

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Whats one word that you know would not describe you? That would NOT describe me? Republican. (Meaning, NOT member of the Republican party in the USA)

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What was the greatest distance covered by a person in a wheelchair? From being bed-bound to being independent. :)

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Whats your child(ren) favorite nursery rhymes?what does she/he like An old one about how moms often give answers without really listening to the questions: "Mother, may I go swimming?" "Why yes, my darling daughter Hang your clothes on a hickory stick But don't go near the water!" Otherwise, a big favorite is "Thinbone, Shinbone" from THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien. It starts, "Troll sat alone on his seat of...

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Who would win in a fight, Laila Ali or Ivanka Trump? Laila Ali is a professional boxer. There's your answer.

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Thunder- are you scared? or do you like listening to it? Love it myself, but it has always terrified my dogs, so I can't enjoy any more it because it make them so unhappy. :(

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If you were given the choice of living alone forever with no communication or contact with the outside world, or living with your worst enemy (with no possability of ever becoming friends) for the rest of your life, which would you pick? Alone. Definitely alone. Otherwise, how could I ever sleep again?

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What is the most delicious thing you have ever eaten? The first meal my partner ever cooked for me. I was thrilled. I'm still thrilled, any time he cooks. But he's a GREAT cook, and out of all his recipes, maybe I like this meal the best: Roast pork with rum-lime juice sauce http://fat-rat.com/recipes/rumlime_pork.html and dessert, Chocolate Rum Pie http://fat-rat.com/recipes/chocrumpie.html

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How long does it take for a dog to get preggo? The two were locked for like 5 mins. Is this enough time allotted for it to take place? Had previous ? answered, but just want to make sure. Still not sure if she is preggo. Feels like she is though. Thanks! "Preggo" ???? Five minutes is sufficient time for a dog to become pregnant. Why are you letting her get pregnant if you know so little about it? Amateur breeding is almost always a cruel mistake, with a great deal of trouble finding homes for the puppies, even "purebred" puppies. I don't mean to sound mean, but I think you were wrong to start this project....

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What's your definition of a fat person? 10, 20, 30 pounds overweight? 100 pounds overweight? Just looking for an estimate of what most people mean when they say "fat." For me, I was going to say anyone who is more than 150% of their ideal weight but realized it should be even less than that. I guess I say it should be anyone who is 50 pounds over their ideal healthy weight. For instance, if you should weigh 150, and you weigh 225, you are definitely fat. (150%) Or, if you should weigh 150, and you weigh 200, you are fat. (50 pounds) Ten through...

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Male or female kittens Either one should be neutered as soon as they are old enough. It may be less expensive to neuter a male cat. A neutered male cat may interact more with humans than a female.

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When is it good to not listen or be passive? When you see an injustice being perpetrated; when you or someone else is being hurt; when there is a crime in progress.

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Isnt it ironic, that the questions that are controversial, are always, asked by "Anonymous"? Example:, I am 12 and my 28 year old, married boyfriend, got me pregnant, and I want to have an abortion, what should I do? No, it is not ironic. Irony is something else... irony is like the Governor of New York being involved in a criminal investigation of his use of prostitutes, even though he used to PROSECUTE prostitutes. Maybe you meant you are surprised these questions are anonymous? I'm not surprised at all. I don't really expect people with deeply private or controversial problems to give...

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How do i fight the desire of being touched and kissed? Anonymous, now I understand. You want to crank down your level of physical desire so that you can make sensible choices about finding a partner. It is very hard to do that, but first off, stop thinking about it -- when you start obsessing on it, think about what kind of person you want your partner to be, and then figure out where that kind of person hangs out. And then go there! Or, if...

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How do i fight the desire of being touched and kissed? Why would you fight this desire, which is natural to all healthy humans? I don't understand the question.

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Has anyone experienced sleep paralysis? I had it once & freaked me out for ages. Yes, about six times in my long life, and yes, it was straight-out terrifying. I understand that this is an instinct that primates developed so they wouldn't fall out of trees while moving in their dreams, but YIKES. It's very scary when you wake up and still cannot move for a little while. Feels like forever, doesn't it?

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Who is your favorite mystery writer? Susan Conant's excellent series of dog trainer mysteries. Character: "Holly Winter." Susan Wittig Albert's wonderful series of herbal mysteries. Character: "China Bayles." Dana Stabenow has a wonderful series (well, two of them) set in Alaska. My favorite series is the one with the character "Kate Shugak." My very best favorite is hard to...

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Who is your favorite early Christian writer? "The Showings of Dame Julian of Norwich" Is that early enough?

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I have been seeing a great guy, and we spent last night together. Today I found out I had cancer and I told him about it and said that I was falling in love with him. His response was "I don't know what to tell you. I'm speechless. What does this mean? Fear makes people selfish. It's instinct, to help us survive, so it's not your fault that you FELT this way. It is kind of your fault that you SAID you felt this way. It was selfish of you to dump both issues on him at once. How do you think he felt? "I love you, and therefore you should love me back because I'm really sick and might die and you will have to take...

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A 22 year old girl has a cool 32 year old guy friend she parties with and hangs out with him all the time. Then the 32 year old guy sleeps with the 22 year old girl`s 18 year old little sister. What would you think of him? Should she talk to him again? A 32 y o man is ALMOST too old to date a 22 y o woman. He is MUCH TOO OLD to date an 18 y o woman. TOO OLD. And he's a sneak and a creep, too. No, NEITHER sister should ever speak to him again. (Maybe their mother or father would like his phone number, though!) The sisters have to talk to each other and try to rebuild a very broken relationship. Either that, or the older...

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What do you think of this age difference; guy is 20 and the girl is 24? Is he too young for me? No, he's not too young for you, but don't go drinking with him or YOU can be charged with providing alcohol to a "minor." Even though he's over 18, he's a minor for the purpose of liquor laws in most jurisdictions. Otherwise, the age difference is not worth worrying about at all.

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Had you ever been slapped in face by your parents in the childhood? Did you forget it (them)? Yes, my sibling and I were struck in the face by our parents, at least once hard enough to be knocked unconscious, and no, I will never forget it or forgive it. Even though it was over thirty years ago. Violence against children is inexcusable, including your own children. It is a disgrace that the adults (neighbors, teachers, relatives) who knew what was going on failed to call...

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What waist size (in inches) is considered small for men and women? It depends on what country you're in. Standards in Japan are much different than standards in the U.S. Sixty percent of Americans are considered "overweight or obese," so the medical definition of "small" would be a lot different from the fashion industry's definition. For fashion, I mostly agree with the answer by Nuttsky: probably 30" for men and --...

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I would like to get back with my ex- he is right now seeing a married woman who is cheating on her husband but, supposedly getting a divorce to be with my ex. Should I just sit back & do nothing in hopes that he will come back or should I fight for him? Why fight for a guy you know is so sleazy? By taking up with a married woman, he has shown you EXACTLY how little he thinks of the bond of marriage. Usually, if a partner has cheated once, they will cheat again. Why put yourself through this? Besides, what kind of diseases has he picked up while he was doing this? He doesn't sound like you could trust him to actually take an HIV test...

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If your ex leaves you & starts up with a married woman & then claims to love her but, once she gets caught by her husband comes running back to you really love her like he claimed You know that he is an unfaithful man. Apparently he's not loyal to you OR to his married mistress. By taking up with a married woman, he has shown you EXACTLY how little he thinks of the bond of marriage. Usually, if a partner has cheated once, they will cheat again. Why put yourself through this? Besides, what kind of diseases has he picked up while he was doing this? He...

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My dog (german shepard/labrador cross) has no problem when it comes to running about in the park everyday. However once she gets settled at home after being out and about she really struggles badly to get up off the ground back onto her I'm sorry she's having trouble, and I hope it's not hip dysplasia. You do not tell us her age. Because it seems to ease up as she moves around, it sounds as though she has the beginnings of arthritis. This can strike at any age. Your vet may have medication to offer, but you may want to give over-the-counter glucosamine first. It takes a couple of weeks to kick in. Our...

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I just stopped depo yesterday and started daily pill today, when will my period get back to normal? i was always on it with the depo. I'm sorry the Depo didn't work out for you. Did your doctor not tell you when to expect your normal cycles to return? You can call your doctor's office and ask to speak to a nurse. You can call your pharmacist and ask him or her; maybe they will tell you, maybe not. I have no medical background but I would say if your bleeding does not stop in the next fifteen days,...

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Is this administration (Bush) the worst America's ever had, or are they just doing their job? Absolutely the worst we've ever had. More Americans have died on George W. Bush's orders than on Osama bin Laden's. * We have lost our civil rights and civil liberties; * the Great Writ, habeas corpus, has been illegally "suspended"; * we are being criminally spied upon by our own government; * Dick Cheney got drunk and shot a man in the face and then used...

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Do all men like to look at naked women? Almost all heterosexual men like to look at naked women. Some feel guilty about it, and so don't enjoy it. Some feel sympathy for the naked woman, especially if she looks uncomfortable or if it looks like she didn't know her photos were going to be published. That makes it hard for them to enjoy her nakedness. Some already have a real-life woman they like so much in their...

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What do you think of using shock collars to train a dog in the case of aggression towards other dogs? I once thought that shock collars were entirely monstrous and cruel -- until I fostered a dog who was an amazing escape artist. The only way she could be kept off the fence was by the use of a shock collar. I tried it on myself first to make sure that it was set to just a low weird tickling sensation. She hated that, and it worked. But even after that positive experience, I feel that...

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How do i find out if i can get pregnant without actually trying to get pregnant? Before Princess Diana was permitted to marry Prince Charles, the poor woman was forced to agree to an extensive gynecological exam "to make sure she could bear children." Of course, no such exam can be SURE, but they probably did routine tests such as X-rays and MRI's (magnetic resonance imaging) to make sure that her reproductive organs existed in healthy condition and...

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If santa could bring you anything in the world what would you ask for? For my husband to live and be healthy at least until he's 100 years old, and to never lack for money the whole time.

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Could America survive a full scale war at home? [Comment recorded as answer in error, please delete]

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Why are people's characters judged as dubious if they have tattoos, nose piercings, lip piercings, but not if they have one or two ear piercings? Ear piercing is pretty common, and multiple piercings in our culture (modern U.S.) have been fashionable since the 1970's. But tattoos, unusual piercings, facial piercings, and so on — to a lot of people, those look like self-mutilation and/or a rebellious political statement instead of beauty enhancement, and that might make those people "dubious" about you.

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Did you wake up this morning with someone lying next to you? I don't think so; he's usually pretty honest. ;)

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What if my blood group is o+ and my husbands blood group is also o+;will there be any problems in pregnancy? You may have problems -- hardly any pregnancy goes perfectly -- but they won't be related to the blood types. If you're expecting, congratulations! And if you're just thinking about it, good luck!

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Can you still get phen phen? No, not in the U.S. The drug makers pulled it off the market because it was killing people and they were getting sued about it. The FDA stepped in, too. For the whole story, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen-phen Answerbag has two REALLY GOOD answers here, also: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/52043

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Does anybody know the price of Ultraviolet perfume in the US (30ml)? You can get a really fast answer by going to www.froogle.com Hope this helps!

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Could America survive a full scale war at home? Assuming you mean 'right now' -- absolutely not. Our National Guard is not home, for one thing: they are scattered all over Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon Iran, too. Our regular military also is not available, for the same reason. We don't even have enough recruits to maintain those two (or soon three) wars. We certainly don't have enough to defend our home territory....

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My bf has asked me to have a 3some with him, i have never had a 3some and it sounds ok but then i am 100% straight, and another girl might just be wierd what should i tell him? Tell him no. You're a woman, a human being, not a sex toy or a circus animal doing tricks for his amusement. Get away from this guy. If you're not bisexual, you're not, and he should accept that without any pressure for you to "try it once just to see." Bull. I assume he's not bisexual, right? Do you think he would be willing to have sex with a man for...

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Do you remember life without cellphones? Yes. The big change that DOES get talked about it how much harder it is now to have privacy and "get away from it all" -- as long as you're in reach of a cell tower, people can call you up (including your boss and other people you'd prefer to avoid). The big change that DOESN'T get talked about is how life was more dangerous then. If you were stranded at...

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Are you a fursecutor? No. Furries don't bother me at all.

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What makes a man a God and a woman a Goddess? In my opinion? If they can cook, and are willing to cook for me.

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God made man, woman and love. How then did man make war and terrorism? There are no gods except for the mythology that all human cultures adopt. Other primates make war. Ants make war. All territorial animals will defend their turf, and most will try to expand their turf eventually. "Terrorism" is a part of war. It refers to a tactic of war, not something different from war. It is an illegal tactic under most treaties.

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Why is the pope german but is roman catholic? The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church can be of any nationality. "Roman" only means that Rome is where the church is based. You do not need to be Roman, or even Italian, to be a Roman Catholic.

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My live-in boyfriend of 3 years. He uses MY computer while I'm at work. No problem, but he won't stop looking at porn. I've given him every chance to stop and even threatened him with our relationship. What can I do? Im very open. I'm sick of pop-ups. Leach, you said: "I always end up taking if off because he has to use my computer for is college courses, and I can't always be around to watch him. And, no the pop-ups are the least of the problem....[he put $500 on our debit card buying porn]. Leach, I'm going to give you an outsider's advice. You have lost all sense of perspective about this. You are NOT his mother....

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I discovered that my husband of 17 years has for the past 8-9 months been looking at porn because he wanted to hurt me. I now feel so many different emotions. How can I get over these feelings?? He said he wanted me to find out so I would be hurt. Sketchy Mess's answer is the right one. Your husband decided he wanted to look at porn, and decided to blame it on you because he's (on some level) ashamed of looking at it. Who cares about whether a man wants to play with paper dolls? The porn is not an issue. Don't be hurt by that; be hurt by his desire to cause you pain. Treating you badly is the ONLY issue, and it...

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Two years ago I was raped by a boyfriend, and I've been insecure ever since. My new boyfriend of 1 year looks at porn which makes me feel even more insecure. I can't trust him to stop, though he said he would. What can I do? There are a lot of issues here: 1. You need counseling about the rape. Insecure... do you mean you feel unsafe? Or unattractive? 2. Porn: my mother taught me not to care if men like to look at paper dolls. She was right; it doesn't bother me at all and it has never damaged a relationship I've been in. Porn doesn't mean your man doesn't love you. It doesn't...

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I chopped down a locust tree two years ago. new trees are growing from the roots all over the yard. how can i prevent them from growing? I'd ask the question here: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/trees/ Put a good caption on it, like "Stop locust saplings in lawn -- how?" I love gardenweb. People there are always very helpful.

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Is is possible to be abused as a child but be so young that you cant remember it? and how do you deal with that? Unless you think that you were abused by someone who still has access to children, be glad you don't really remember it and move on. If they still have access to kids, decide how much you REALLY think the abuse happened. Then approach them about it, and your judgment of how they react should guide your next actions. DO NOT PUT MUCH FAITH IN "RECOVERED" MEMORIES. A lot...

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Can anyone direct me to good sites with credible information on soil ammendment? Thanks. Absolutely! Go to http://www.gardenweb.com and sign up for a free account. You don't HAVE to, but it makes it easier to leave comments and thank-you notes. Anyway, whether you get the free account or not, click on the tab that says "Forums" -> "Garden Forums" -> and then look for soil amendment. If you don't see it, use the search blank to try these...

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Do you have someone cut your lawn, ? what do you pay them for this? how big is your yard? We only pay for the front, which is about a quarter-acre and costs $40 outside of Washington, DC, an area where the cost of living for everyone (including the guys who actually do the mowing) is very, very high.

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If you could name a Rose what would it be called? I would give it the first and last names of my grandmother, and her first name was Rosalie, so that would sound really good. My SECOND rose would be named for my mother-in-law, whom I love very much. First name, last name. And my THIRD would be named for my husband (first name, last name, and he'll understand about the ladies coming first) and my FOURTH for my dog (first name,...

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If an Army members father-in-law dies, who do I send the sympathy card to? You send it to the couple at their U.S. address: --Corporal Ann Jones and John Jones --home address (not overseas address unless they are both overseas on a base in Europe, for example) Assuming it was John's father in this example, if you know them well enough, you open the note with "Dear John and Ann, I was so sorry to hear of Mr. Jones' passing last week. Etc. etc....

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Which is the biggest NFL rivalry? I agree with Barcaluv, it's the Chicago Bears v. the Green Bay Packers. However, I know that the Philadelphia Eagles v. the Dallas Cowboys is a dispute that has gone on for quite a while, and having Terrell Owens leave the Eagles to go to the Cowboys has not made the teams like each other any better.

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What's your favorite Brad Pitt film? "Thelma & Louise" -- this is the movie where he really made it big for the first time, and led to all of his later successes. He was amazing in this. PS: Coming back to this a day later, I'm surprised that there are almost no duplications (except two for "Troy") on this list. His body of work is broader than I thought of offhand. Yay for Brad. And I like the...

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When humans stop living, people say they passed away or died. What do you call it when a tree stops living? People just say it died. You can say it fell, but that usually happens long after it has died, unless it was uprooted by a mudslide, tornado, etc.

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What are the origins of the phrase "clawing your way to the top"? I suppose "your" could be switched to his, her, their, or one's... It could have come from simply climbing to the top, as a mountain climber does -- using pitons, their hands as claws, etc. It could also have originated from watching animals in a pen claw their way to the top; for example, observe lobsters in a pot. It's a natural struggle reaction. When there are too many animals and not enough space, the stronger ones claw their way to the top....

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Without looking, do you know what your name means? Yes. Oh, you want me to tell you? "Oath of God" "Bitter" "Sentimental" So, a bitter and sentimental oath of God... like what, "Curse you, dear sweet mortal!" ??

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When you see trash in your path do you pick it up or ignore it? You mean garbage on the street, right, not some bad guy in a bar? Garbage on the street: pick it up, throw it out. Bad guy in a bar: run away! run away! DON'T pick up THAT trash!

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Why do most made-up alien languages on tv and in movies sound like a blender full of moon rocks? Do you know of any that resemble a romance language? I don't know of any that sound like a Romance language. I think the "moon rock blender" effect is based on two things: 1. Science fiction written in English came into full flower at a time when major English-speaking countries in the West considered the U.S.S.R. (Russia, etc.) and certain other Eastern European countries to be "the enemy." Their languages, with...

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What does a guy mean when he says he needs space? We live together. I moved in not too long after we got together. He says he loves me and wants to be with me but wants me to move out because he needs his space. Is it something else? It may mean he's tired of the responsibility of being with someone every night after work, every day of the weekend. It could be that, or any of the other answers. What it means to you, though, is you two need to communicate a lot more clearly and maybe get couples counseling -- or you need to decide how you are going to deal with his departure, willingly? nicely? unwillingly?...

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When a guy says he needs to 'unload his ball juice', what does that mean? It means he has no manners at all and no respect for his own sexuality and his partner... they are just a place to "unload"?? Or it means he's just goofing around and trying to be funny, not trying to be insulting.

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What does it mean when a guy says he has blue balls? It's not from the "backup" of seminal fluid. There is no such thing. The semen itself doesn't show up until orgasm, and the pre-ejaculate leaks out -- it doesn't "back up." The pain is caused because of the way the penile tissue is engorged with blood during arousal, and the testicles tightened up against the body. If this goes on for a long while...

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Is there a reason that a guy has very sensitive balls? Yes. As far as Nature is concerned, all life exists only to create more life. Nature's highest purpose for all living things is reproduction. You can't reproduce without gonads (testicles for male mammals, ovaries for female mammals). Gonadal tissue is identical (females to males, males to females) in fetuses until a certain stage of development. Before that stage, the nerves...

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Does breastmilk really prevent prostate cancer? I have never heard that suggested, and I cannot see any reason why it would. Prostate cancer is generally a very slow-growing cancer and in many older men, they and their doctors just choose to leave it alone because they are sure to die of something else before the prostate cancer becomes serious. There is nothing in breast milk that has ever been shown to have palliative effects as far...

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"I think its good to be ___, while many others disagree with this". -fill in the blank regarding you and/or your life :-) .. Atheist.

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Have you found that moment at which you were most happy in life? (Mine is this: I got to say, "I love you, Bella"...I'll always remember that.) Yes. Oh, you want me to tell you what it was? It was when I woke up one night, warm and dry and cozy, and listened to my partner and my dog snoring in counterpoint. First him, then her, then him, then her. Nothing will ever be better than that.

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If you were a grape, would you rather ascend to become a wine, raisin, or brandy? A raisin. I'd rather lie out in the sun for a few weeks than be squished, stomped on, and dumped in a dirty, dark, smelly barrel for months.

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When was the last time you accidentally hurt yourself? Got a fine and dandy splinter in my finger a few hours ago... new fence, splintery new wood.

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Does black magic exist? There is no magic (unless you mean the magic tricks practiced by illusionists). There are plenty of people out there who HOPE they can do magic, and try to do so with spells/prayers and so on. Some of those people believe there is such a thing as "black" magic, meaning dangerous or evil magic. Nope. No good magic, no bad magic, no magic. Just people who want to believe...

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Do you ever go out of your way to offend somebody? Why? No, no time.

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In the far distant future, if the equivalent to a historical movie was made about our own time, what details about our society and day to day lives can you imagine that the makers would get wrong? How long we are willing to sit in stinky and expensive traffic jams! That we don't have medical care and advanced education for everyone without cost. I'm sure that this will be very hard for future generations to believe and remember. It's a great question and deserves a better answer, but this is the best I can do for now. :)

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True or False: Prophets are never recognised in their own lifetimes? False. Prophets are often recognized in their own lifetimes. Do you mean religious prophets, or scientific prophets, or political prophets? Do you mean only people who predicted things accurately, or all people who gathered a following who CONSIDERED them a prophet, even if the followers turned out to be wrong? Anyway, people in all three categories have been considered prophets in...

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Who likes the song COME ON ILENE by Diexie's Midnight Runners? Hate that song. Hate it. It's such an earworm. Earworm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

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What chain restaurants serve Pepsi? (Fast food chains included) You can call up the public relations office at Pepsi-Cola's corporate office and ask. They get questions like this all the time.

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Is there a way u can tell if somebody is gay without asking them? i think my friend is, but i dont want to offend them if they arent!! No, you really can't tell without asking, unless 1. they ask YOU for a date, or you see them being physically romantic with someone of their own sex; or 2. they have a rainbow flag bumpersticker or other gay symbol that they wear or display. It's very nice of you to be so tactful about this. You'll just have to be patient and see if they want to confide in you at some...

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If I take my herbs in the house for winter will they keep growing or will they get sick and die? Most rosemary plants (but not all) can make it through most winters, especially if there is a lot of snow, because the snow insulates them. Your other herbs will probably be fine in the house but they need BRIGHT sunlight, good watering, and, as Egico noted, pinch back the basil when it starts to flower so it doesn't go to seed. Some will eventually die of old age, even in the house....

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How do I get my nocturnal 8 week old kitten to realize that daytime is for playtime, and night time is for sleeping? I work all day, and am not there to monitor his sleep. All cats are nocturnal all their lives, and you cannot change it. Consider re-homing this kitten, because this is never going to change. You must have just gotten it -- kittens need to be with their mothers the first eight weeks of life -- perhaps the person you got it from will take it back? I'm sorry I don't have better news for you.

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Do you think there should be a "delete comment" option? I've messed up on way too many comments and couldn't take them back! Yes, there should be. You can edit your comment to say nothing, but the editing option only lasts for a few minutes or so. Once the edit window is over, you're stuck. I wish there were a way we could delete our own remarks at any time.

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So his god a man or a women LOL! Well, if it's "his god," you're almost guaranteed the god is a man. Pretty much the only exceptions are Wiccans, pagans, and Mormons who believe in a Mother and Father god; and of course Hindus, who have a large pantheon of goddesses and gods. If it's "her god," you have a slightly better chance of finding out a woman believes in a female god....

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This is sick, but I was told once that if a girl puts their blood from their period in chili or some food and gives it to a guy, that guy will fall in love with them. They supposedly do this in Louisiana? Menstrual blood has been assumed by most human societies back to the dawn of time to have magical properties. For most societies, blood in general and menstrual blood in particular still does. Some believe it is particularly unclean or cursed; some believe it is lucky; some believe stories like the story you've heard. Some modern practitioners of magic might rub their menstrual...

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What can you smell? Supposedly, I CANNOT smell civet cats any more. Men supposedly never can, and women after menopause or before menarche supposedly cannot. Something about the hormone levels in fertile-age women permits them to smell civet cats, but the rest of humanity cannot. I don't mean civet cat poop! :) Or the general smell of their fur, cat breath, or whatever. I mean the special pheromone...

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Why is it that caucasian people have blonde hair, brunette hair, red hair and their eyes range from blue to green to brown. While black, asain and chineese people have basically just black/dark brown hair and dark/light brown eyes? The mutations you describe turned out to be advantageous for humans who migrated to regions and climates where the angle of the sun was less direct than it was across equatorial Africa (where all humans originated). Humans create Vitamin D by absorbing sunlight through the skin. Lighter skin and lighter eyes absorb more sunlight. This is good when you're in Ireland or Scandanavia, not...

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I have Blue eye's and RED hair what color's of eye shadow will look best on me, and what order should you apply it? Dark/then light or Light/dark first? I agree with the other writers -- browns and grays are best for you. You can find a nice warm brown, not too dark, which will make your eyes seem even bluer in contrast. If you go with a gray, make sure it's a slate gray (with a suggestion of dull blue in it) rather than a very blackish gray (which looks too goth and too heavy for your coloring). I would do the light first, dark...

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If you were elected President, what would be your first priority for the betterment of common people? (Excluding Iraq war) Excluding the war? 1. Restore our civil liberties (privacy, habeas corpus, etc.) and abide by the Geneva convention (no more holding people for years without charges or trial, as at Gauntanemo Bay or our formerly-secret prisons in Europe). 2. Set up an honest election process with a paper trail, so the corruption of the elections of 2000 and 2004 could never happen again. 3. Address...

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What is first on your list of priorities? 1. My husband. Always. 2. Electing a decent president and getting rid of the crazed crook we have right now.

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What looks best Black, white, dark wood or light wood furniture in a dining room that's painted red with tan carpet? You have some really good answers already. Here's what I think. You don't have to have EVERY piece matching. Your chairs don't have to match the table; if you have a sideboard, it could be in a different wood too. But I wouldn't go with too many woods. Maybe the chairs and sideboard (buffet, china cabinet) match each other, but the table is different. Or maybe the...

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How much does it cost for a horse drawn funeral carriage with plumes??In uk? I don't know, but here's how you can find out. 1. Call a bunch of wedding planners and ask them if they know of a service who provides horse-drawn carriages for weddings. 2. Then call the services themselves and ask. 3. Another method would be to try to find "carriage rides" listed in your business telephone directory. Good luck! Thanks for specifying UK; in...

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Why does the one-two combo of corporate greed and organized religion always seem to beat out reason, sanity, and compassion? Money & power are of more interest to most people than reason, sanity, and compassion.

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If you could ask AB-Joel for one thing, what would it be? Why he bothers with this. Hope he's getting paid, because adminstering Answerbag is certainly a thankless job. He's on the receiving end of a constant barrage of bad manners and ingratitude.

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I emailed an AB user directly and asked for their advice telling them about my secret. No reply. I'm worried now that my secret is known by somebody out there and that they would post my story on the internet. Would anybody do such thing? Don't call this woman. She may not have even seen the email you're worried about (if it got caught in a spam filter and automatically deleted). It sounds like she wasn't expecting email from you. A phone call from you might really freak her out. If you do anything, just do another email, very short, asking her to delete the first one. Put "ANSWERBAG follow-up"...

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What do you think of pornography as a whole? [entered comment here accidentally as if it were an answer, please delete -- thanks -- Ankh]

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What do you think of pornography as a whole? 1. Everyone in the porn business is in it to make money. Oddly enough, in a capitalist society, everyone is in EVERY business to make money. Yes, everyone who makes a living is selling themselves. This should not come as a surprise. It is the foundation of a wage-based economy. 2. The woman is being used. Or the man. Yes, they are, for money. Just like you at your job and me at mine....

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What would be a good comeback after someone says your gay Well, if you AREN'T gay or bi, and the person who's asking is the same sex you are, try, "If you're looking for a date, you're going to have to look somewhere else; I can't help you." OR -- "I don't know what you need, but you're not going to find it here." OR -- "What's bugging you? Something to hide? You pulling a Larry...

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What's a good comeback when someone says to you "Why are you so stupid?" "I'm smart enough to know there's no point in trying to educate an ill-mannered fool like you."

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I would like to get along better with my mother-in-law. Does anyone know where one might purchase a voodoo doll? That's not going to help. Next Mother's Day, send her a card just from you and thank her for raising such a wonderful son. Tell her you will always be grateful. THAT might help. :)

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Does your mother-in-law like you? My mother-in-law loves me and treats me like a queen, and I feel the same way about her. I'm really, really lucky. My mom loved her mother-in-law better than her own mom; and her mother-in-law certainly loved her better than her own mom did.

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Do you like your in-laws, do you not care for them, or do you just put up with them? Love my mother-in-law and father-in-law. After nine years, still kind of uncomfortable around my sis-in-law and bro-in-law. They are 20 years younger than me, but I don't think that's the problem. Even though one is very prickly, I love both my grandmothers-in-law and also my two great-uncles-in-law. I love having a family.

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If Britney Spears hired you as her manager, what would you do to repair her career? If she really wanted her career back, a full year in rehab with a physical trainer thrown in. Parenting classes, and vacations with her kids. I'd have her explain nudism, or quit walking around nude. Lots of families practice in-home nudism; I don't know why her defenders haven't talked about this more. I'd try something really special to get the paparazzi off of...

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Ladies: If you had a Manservant, what would you make him do? Rose Jetpacker's answer is best (set him free) but... I admit, I would make my manservant: 1. open the pickle jars 2. kill the spiders or take them outside 3. paint my house 4. mow my lawn And if he was the intimate kind, I'd make him: 5. rub my back 6. rub my feet and so on. :)

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If you really were what you eat... what would you most likely be? Baaaacon. Bacon bacon bacon! BACON!

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How do you feel about Men who don't wear underwear in public? If he's wearing a kilt, I don't want him sitting on my furniture. If he's got pants on, I don't care. If he's totally naked in public, that's okay too if it's at a nudist resort or some similar setting.

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Does anyone have anything positive to say about president Bush? Sorry, not me.

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Which breed of horse tend to have the longest life expectancy? It's a great question, and I don't know the answer. I'd suggest you check on whether pony breeds live longer than full-size breeds, and on the Przewalski Wild Horse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przewalski%27s_Horse which has two more chromosomes than domesticated horses. See also the (extinct) Tarpan (and its modern descendant, the Hucul pony): ...

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Is being downrated the end of the world? I know it's not very nice, but do the trolls really think it's going to affect us outside the site? ("Oh my, I've been downrated by a troll, my life has no meaning...") Yes, that's exactly what they hope. :) Trolls are powerless people in real life, and are desperate to FEEL powerful by engaging in nonsense like this. They attack nice people because they, themselves, don't have any internal niceness and are jealous of what they can't be; jealous of what they can't even understand. So they troll. Ignore 'em.

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How do I cook for a vegetarian? With love, and patience, and help from any of the great vegetarian cookbooks that are out there. Don't spend money until you've borrowed a few from the public library. Just asking and trying shows a lot of love. :)

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Im 20 and im already getting some grey hair!!!Is it too early to dye my hair??? Can dying my hair cause any other issues such as baldness by chance? No, dying your hair will not cause baldness. Gray hair is not linked to baldness. To figure out if you might have baldness issues in the future, look at your mother's brothers, her father, and her mother's brothers. (Your father doesn't count. Baldness has been linked to the mother's line only, so far as I know.) My brother (Irish heritage) started getting gray at...

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Does a fruitarian diet fuflil the body's nutritional needs? If the body belongs to a fruit bat. :) I'm sorry to tease you, I just had to say it. I think you'd do best by hitting the library and looking at books on nutrition. Several of them will describe and analyze a fruitarian diet. Best wishes with this. I know it's not easy.

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Are there any fat vegetarians? Yes. I have a friend who was a dedicated vegetarian for twenty years. All that rice and beer and bread made him very pudgy. Finally, he developed a "pre-diabetic condition" which meant he was right on the edge of diabetes. He lost the weight -- but he went back to eating lean meat. Peanuts, which replace the protein vegetarians don't get from meat, are extremely...

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Can a person survive on a diet of soda, fries, burgers, chocolate shakes and chips? I did, for a while, and oh boy am I sorry now. Such a person needs to worry about more than obesity. They need to worry about heart attacks and diabetes, which can cause impotence, nerve damage, blindness, chronic fatigue, and death.

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Why is the word c*nt so offensive, besides it being a term of anger? That's pretty much it, actually. It's a term used almost always and exclusively to express rage and fear and contempt. It is denigrating because it reduces a whole woman to just her genitals; as if her personality and her intellect don't exist, and all she is is a single body part. Because that body part goes by many names, choosing the one which has the lowest social...

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I have met a Russian female on the internet.She has aquired visa to travel here where i live, USA. Q)If we make a good connection, is marriage the only option if she wants to stay here, or can she just apply for citizenship and defect here?-a male citizen "Defecting" is fleeing a regime which is enemies with the U.S. Russia is not officially a U.S. enemy. She can apply for a work visa, or she can come back to visit several times on tourist visas. Marriage is NOT the only option. Do not let anyone trick you into thinking that it is. If you two are serious about getting her to live here, go see an immigration lawyer, not a...

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When my ex left me she told me she love me, but then two weeks later she sleeping with the guy I known many yrs. should I take her back? She left you. After you two separated, she had the right to sleep anywhere she wanted to. She used that right. YOU have the right to go be sincerely happy with someone else. You do NOT have the right to sleep with innocent bystanders because you hope sleeping around will somehow magically hurt your ex's feelings.

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I want to get my ex gf back bc she is being a bitch? You want her back BECAUSE she is being a bitch? Either the question doesn't make sense, or you're a glutton for punishment. Why hang out with a bitch? Go find someone nice!

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I've got over 10 negative ratings, did I do anything to offend any of you? Huckapoo, by "troll" people mean the kind of creep who logs on just to drop negative ratings on everyone, or on everyone who disagrees with them on a political issue. Trolls can't be taken seriously. They are just vandals by another name. Don't let their downratings bother you. Sometimes, you get downrated by people who aren't usually trolls, but who 1) feel you...

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Did anyone (besides my friend and me) that was a kid in the 60s used to cut coupons out of magazines and exchange them for money to buy candy? No, the coupons I saw didn't work that way. You mean your parents would give you money for clipping the coupons?

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What would you do if a stranger came up behind you and pinched your bottom? At work, report it. Other circumstances, you have to decide if whapping them across the face is worth what might happen next.

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I want to make a couple extra name badges for employees that forget to wear theirs, what are the most outragous male and female names that you can think of to put on them? Well, nothing sexual at all, or you're in (justified) trouble. I like "Madge Badgeless" the best. I don't have any clever idea to offer for a guy's name... "Brad Badgeless" ?? "Remember Me?" might work, since the answer is, clearly the forgetful person did NOT remember their tag... and it will make onlookers say, "Yes, you're Fred...

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We have glass and a railing surrounding our front deck. Twice now, innocent birds flew into the glass and fell 20ft to the ground. They perished. As an animal lover this sickens me. Is there an aesthetically pleasing way to darken the glass? Mud? Help plz In a comment above I said, "Frost spray is very inexpensive at hobby/craft shops like Michael's. You can also buy it at some hardware stores. You can also check auto detailing shops and ask them about applying a film; they sell kits for that." I want to add to that. I have heard about putting stickers on glass (as of birds flying) but the prettiest I heard of was putting up...

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What would you think if a local "adult novelty shop" was selling a video called "Suburban Moms Vol. 1" which features moms from your county in action? I'd think they were lying through their teeth to get you to buy the video.

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Do you think if a guy saves a girl's life, at the very least she should give him a bj? No. Only prostitutes "pay" for goods or services with sex. Only a complete pig would expect to be "paid" with sex, or anything else, for saving the life of a girl, boy, baby, woman, man, household pet, or livestock. Just curious — why didn't you ask, "Do you think if a guy saves a guy's life, at the very least he should give him a bj?" ...

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The last time i took my rottie to the vets the vet asked me if i 'clean' my dogs anal glands, this is something i have never heard of before or even read in any of the books i own, could someone please tell me, how to do this, how important it is etc, etc I agree with LippyCow and BryInLanza. I had large dogs for over twenty years, and NEVER cleaned their anal glands. This is also called "expressing the anal glands" because you express the stinky fluid. Unless there is an infection, or your breed (or individual dog) is particularly liable to anal gland impaction, there's no reason to fiddle around with what Mother Nature has...

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What benefits have come from Americas prohibition of drugs? I agree with everyone who has said "none." We have addicts who don't dare seek treatment. We have a corrupt police force (at all levels, local, state, federal) and a corrupt judiciary, driven wild by the profits of payoffs and confiscations. We have corrupt politicians, who stand up and lie about being tough on drugs, while making exceptions for Jeb Bush's...

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What do you think is the top reason to have sex with a person? If by "top," you mean "most common," my answer is: proximity. If by "top," you mean "best," my answer is: passionate, generous, committed love.

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What's the most horrible cold you've ever had to endure? Oh! THAT kind of cold! Sorry, being sick changed the way I looked at the question. (I finally got better on March 12, isn't that awful?) Anyway, your original question about cold: the worst was when I lived in Chicago, right on the lakeshore, in the winter of 1978-79. The wind chill was hitting thirty and forty below zero, Farenheit. Actual temps were about twenty below. I...

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If Jesus is God did he ask people not to use his prayer which he taught “Our Father which art in heaven…” until he got back up there or did he advise them to temporarily say “Our Father which art with us…”? Jesus would not have called --himself-- the Father; he referred to himself as the Son of Man. So the answer to your question is no.

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Would you put a boyfriend or a girlfriend as the beneficiary on your life insurance policy? Yes. Domestic partners have to do this since they aren't covered automatically by the protections of marriage. I saw you asked this in response to a real-life murder presented on TV. If someone is willing to murder for money, a marriage certificate won't stop them. Best to choose your (married or unmarried) mate wisely first, and then worrying about being killed for your...

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Are there reasons why people don't like george bush besides iraq? Comment entered here in error, Administrator, please delete -- sorry. :(

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Are there reasons why people don't like george bush besides iraq? (Edited to remove comment accidentally entered as answer -- Administrator, please delete)

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Should a guy feel bad if he never got to be a woman's "first time"? It makes me feel like nobody ever thought I was special enough to give her virginity to. I'd really appreciate women's perspectives that can help me not feel like a "second choice." You need to stop thinking that. First off, most women's "firsts" are very young, and they tend to pick partners close to their own age or just a little older (unless they are molested). By very young, I mean thirteen to sixteen! So part of your sorrow is misplaced. "Women" aren't choosing; teen girls are. And teen boys very often are not in the kind of...

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How do i make my boyfriend propose to me? i mean i know i can force anyone.. but surely there's something i can do to speed up the proccess!? i know that he wants to get married Administrator, please delete, placed here in error. Thank you! -- Ankh

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What do you do when your friend won't listen to you about being a drug addict? You can say, "I can't help you. Your addiction is hurting me. I am telling your family, so that you don't have to break the news to them yourself. Maybe they can help you, but I can't. You are not my responsibility. You are not even their responsibility. Your health is your own responsibility, but you can ask your family for help. You can't ask me any more. I am...

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What do you think of pornography as a whole? Pornography has been with us always, and it will be with us always. I am a feminist, and believe that most porn is degrading to women -- but that makes it political speech, which has First Amendment protection in the United States. The remedy for bad speech is more speech -- in other words, if we don't like the porn that is out there, we are free to produce porn that we DO like...

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Men look at women's breasts. Do women check out guys' crotches? Adult women, hardly ever. First, men's clothes aren't designed to show it off the way women's clothes emphasize breasts. Second, the package he walks around with isn't the package he brings to bed. Really, there's not much to see if he's fully dressed and not thinking about sex. Third, most of us don't care that much. Most women focus on a good smile,...

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Hey , listen shes turning 15 and im turning 24 , do people really look harshly upon that? Harshly enough to put you in prison. A ten-year age difference wouldn't matter if one of you were 20 and the other 30. So wait five years. If you have sex with her now, you're going to wait those five years in jail. GET AWAY FROM HER RIGHT NOW.

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I cheated on my bf of 5 years b/c he got sent away and i was told he would be there for 4 yrs. he called me, i brought him back home but i had to tell him i cheated so i did. he said he could get ov "He got sent away" where? To Iraq? To prison? And he said he could get over your unfaithfulness, and now he can't? YOU "brought him back home"? You mean you paid for his transportation? If he's an adult, that's totally inappropriate. A grown up manages to pay their own way. Obviously, this relationship is not satisfying to either one of you....

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How do you turn a guy on? Pay attention to him. That's pretty much all it takes.

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My boyfriend and I are planning to get married here at our home with just our two best friends as witnesses. How do we tell our families in a way that they don't get all pissy that no one is invited? Should we just wait till after to tell them? If you want to tell them "we decided to elope in our own home to save money," they will have to live with it. If that is really, truly, what you want, then wait until it's over with, so you only have to put up with the tears and bad feelings afterwards, and not for the weeks before, too. You two need to think about why you don't want your families present. Are you...

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I am 17 and my boyfriend proposed. I luv him but shuld i wait to get married? Yes. You should wait until you have finished your college education and saved enough money for a downpayment on a house. Until then, you can't afford kids anyway, so why rush into marriage?

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What is the most random, pointless fact you know? Male wombats have a bifurcated penis (or penii, sort of) and female sheep have bicornate uteri. But the wombats aren't doing it with the sheep.

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Why would the F.B.I. be after you? Because I'm smart, hardworking, and honest, and they need me.

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What's the most utterly random thing a person has ever said to you? "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

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Whats the most inappropriate thing you have said or heard in church? Hearing a priest make specific political recommendations regarding which candidates to vote for, which is ILLEGAL for a church which wants to keep its tax-exempt status. Hearing another priest take the funeral of a man he didn't know and turn it into a raging rant about abortion, while the family -- none of whom, including the deceased, have anything to do with that issue -- sat there...

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What crosses your mind when you look at pictures of yourself as a young child? Where were the police?

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What is the first name the person you miss the most? My grandmother Rosalie. My dear, dear Sophie. My beloved partner — going to withhold that name, though. And I miss Luellen, who has died, and Sharon, who is so far away. It's hard to answer this question, because I don't know if you mean only people who have died, or people who are still here, but not close (nearby).

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If everyone had to switch genders for a day, who do you think would have a harder time adjusting, guys or girls? I think men would be miserable. Suddenly a second-class citizen, being constantly reminded it's your job to be 1. beautiful (or worthless) 2. afraid 3. submissive 4. subordinate 1. If you ARE beautiful, you're a target every time you leave the house, every time you interact with a male with power over you. If you AREN'T, you're either picked on (for your...

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In the last month, several "superbaggers" have left AB. They seem to be predominantly adults. That may be irrelevant. They have found the discourse "disappointing." Any theories on why the exodus? Has AB become "insensitive or hurful" to you? It's become *irritating* to me. The level of religious hatred, insult, and misinformation is shocking to me. That the administrators won't delete answers containing direct religious slurs (even when sent to dictionary.com and other neutral sources for definitions) shocks me, and disappoints me more than I can say. That was the last straw for me (although creeps using this site...

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After you shower which body part do you usually dry first? First my face, and I use that towel to wrap up my hair. Then my feet, so I can put dry sandals on. Then everything else, with my back last, because I get someone else to dry that! :)

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What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become? Sad but proud. I have always kept faith with her.

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If you were the last person left on Earth, what would you do? Get a dog, a can opener, and some transportation. Drive around happily from zoo to zoo, trying to let the animals out. Yes, maybe even the carnivores.

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Do you think the bar exam is too easy? Missmezzo is right, it depends on the state. Pennsylvania USED to be so easy, they called it "the candy bar" but about five years ago, they made it really tough. California and New York are supposedly the toughest. California is so mean, when a guy had a heart attack during the exam about ten years ago and a doc and a nurse who were taking the exam helped him, they wouldn't...

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How long is a 'normal' grieving period after a pet dies? Forever. Pets die, but the love doesn't. Ever.

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Is my dog going to get sad when we sell her puppies? Please consider neutering your dog now so that she, and you, don't have to go through this again. There are too many puppies waiting in rescue leagues for adoption, including purebred puppies, to justify breeding additional litters. Every home your puppies get is a home some puppy on Death Row CAN'T get.

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How old were you when you found out that Santa isn't real? Who told you? An absolutely vicious fourth-grade teacher named Nancy Vanderwall (presumably originally Van der Wall) in Riverdale, Illinois, may she burn forever. This woman was rotten to the core and never should have been allowed near children at all. Killing Santa for a bunch of eight- and nine-year-olds was the least of her sins.

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Are there any AnswerBaggers besides me that have a DeviantArt account? Yes, and nothing. I just go to enjoy the work of others.

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Is it ok to put my 14 yr old pomerian to sleep. He has a ruptured criucal ligament and 2 bad knee patellas. Skin problems,bumps from old age,breathing problems,still eats but cant stay on the f Maybe; maybe you are doing your poor old boy the last kindness he needs from you if you help him to leave this pain behind. Unless a vet tells you otherwise, the patellas and cruciate ligament sound like a life of surgery and pain to me. His "old age" warts are just cosmetic and don't enter into the decision. I'm sorry for him and for you; it's a hard decision....

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If you were on an barren island with your love and your favourite celebrity and you find a boat which can only accomodate 2 persons,whom will you take with you? Absolutely my love. The celeb will probably appreciate the time alone, until we can send help back. But if it's a little boat and a big rough ocean, we'd all stay put. If the celebrity is newsy enough, they'll attract search parties fairly soon.

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Nintendo Wii: So many accessories. Is it all worth buying? I'm not sure. I had a great time with just the basic unit, and haven't played with all the accessories yet. I know the boxing accessory is a huge hit with some of my family members.

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When making an appointment to see a doctor, what time of day do you prefer to be seen? Their first time slot after lunch, before they get all backed up and when I can use my own lunch hour to cover some of thhe time lost from work. This strategy is useless if the doc decides to take a long lunch. :(

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Does it irritate you when people come to your home and try and sell you stuff or ask for donations? Would you rather them leave something in your mailbox, so when you have the time, you can check it over and decide if you want to buy or donate? -- It's an irritant; they weren't invited, they aren't welcome. -- It's a hazard; I don't want kids, or frail elderly folks, opening the door to strangers. *I* won't open the door to strangers. -- It's physically painful for many people I know who are home in the daytime because of their disabilities or age-related impairments. For people with mobility...

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Should immigrants that are trying to obtain US citizenship be required to learn English? "Should immigrants that are trying to obtain US citizenship be required to learn English?" How good would their English need to be? "Should immigrants WHO are trying to obtain US citizenship be required to learn English?" ;)

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What is the most powerful handgun in the world? The one that is aimed at you.

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Should immigrants that are trying to obtain US citizenship be required to learn English? No. My German grandparents were not forced to do so. In fact, Chicago's PUBLIC schools set up regular classes (math, etc.) taught IN GERMAN for their convenience. This fuss about immigrants comes along every time there is a major wave from one area or another -- right now, Asia, Russia, and Central/South America. There will always be demagogues (Bill O'Reilly, for example) who...

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I'm getting my tongue pierced in May. Does it hurts more then getting your nose pierced? And how much would it cost (approximately)? Okay, my answer is going to be no fun at all, but "how much would it cost" is a tricky question. From other answers, you know it falls in the range of about $55 - $100+ (US). But that doesn't include antibiotics for if it gets infected, or the cost of having the eventual damage to your teeth repaired. You need to consider these costs too.

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Why do we have blazers grey shirts and grey jumpers to school when other kids can wear polo shirts and get away with wearing trainers Because your school feels that uniforms are a good idea, for any of these reasons: -- they prevent competition among the kids for who is most fashionable -- they make it hard to tell the rich kids from the poor ones -- they give kids a group identity, something they can be proud of -- they give kids the sensation of formally dressing for "work" (although the "work" is...

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I HAVE A LARGE ROTTI. SHE LOVES CHEWING ON A NYLABONE, IS IT OK FOR HER? IT IS THE ONLY TOY I HAVE FOUND THAT SHE CAN'T DESTROY IN A MATTER OF MINUTES OTHER THAN THE KONG WHICH SHE IS BORED WITH. I've always thought Nylabones were okay, but take a look — they are NOT as safe as I thought according to these very negative reviews: http://www.benderplace.com/allcreaturesgreatandsmall/product_alerts.htm#Nylabone http://www.purelypets.com/healthalert/nylabonewarning.htm http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/pets-and-animals/nylabone-dental-chew-toys/437978/ Are you using the black...

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I don't think I care what rank I am...but isn't professor considered a "male" label? Absolutely not. Whether in modern universities or the ancient academies of Europe, "Professor" was the title used for a person of either gender who was teaching at a high level (equivalent to our college or university positions). Some languages, like German, require femininized endings for words referring to females, so you would hear "Professorin" instead of...

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Why do we "touch wood" if we have tempted fate? "Touch wood" and "knock on wood" are both superstitions that have their origin in the medieval practice of touching "holy relics" for luck. These relics were (real or fake) bones of saints, clothing of saints, shreds of the robe Jesus wore on the Cross -- and most popular, splinters of "the True Cross" itself. Of course, most of these were totally...

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Which would you choose: A trip into space or $140 000 if you were offered one or the other for free? I have wanted to be an astronaut since 1963 -- but right now, I need the money. :( If I could give the trip away, I would, to the woman who was qualified to be an astronaut in the 1960's but whom NASA refused to send... just because she is a woman. Her name is Jerrie Cobb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Cobb

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Do you think that John Paul II should be canonised? No, but I am certain that he will be. I expect him to be beatified by summer at the earliest, but definitely by Christmas.

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Navy-trained dolphins can attach leg cuffs to enemies and set off alert beacons. Do you think it is right to use dolphins to fight human wars? No. I think it is a sin beyond measure. And I feel this way about horses, dogs, carrier pigeons, bats, or any other living thing humans try to put to service in our wars. (Yes, there was a plan to tie small bombs to bats in WW II.)

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The United Nations agency said it was concerned about a rise in cases where people in countries such as Pakistan, Egypt and the Philippines were persuaded to sell their body parts to outsiders, because of a shortage in the West. What are your thoughts? A terribly tough question. 1. Right now, EVERYONE except the donor profits from donation: the doctors, the labs, and the person who gets the organ in the end. Why should the donor be the only one who gets no profit at all? 2. BUT, doesn't this mean that the rich will exploit the poor? How can there be true consent when someone is under terrible financial pressure, and organ...

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What is the origin of "waited on hand and foot"? I've wondered about this too. Does it have something to do with having handmaids and footmen? Does it have something to do with have servants to run your errands (footmen) as well as servants to do the work you'd normally do with your own hands if you weren't rich (handmaids washing dishes, cooking, cleaning house? taking care of the kids, washing your hair?) Those are...

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Why do we call goose-bumps,goose-bumps? We call them goosebumps now, but they used to be called gooseflesh or goose-flesh or goose flesh. The reason is pretty icky: that's what a dead goose looks like after his feathers have been pulled out prior to cooking. Looking at a dead chicken from the grocery store can give you the general idea, but goose feathers are larger, so the bumps where they have been pulled out are larger...

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I love my boyfriend but our relationship seems hopeless! My main problem is my uncertainity of decisions I need to make; his is anger both verbal and physical. Can we make it? If he refuses counseling, NO. Run like a bunny. Go find a decent guy, who doesn't need to be taught how to act like an adult or behave like a human. And if he hits you, CALL THE POLICE. You'll be doing his next girlfriend a huge favor.

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An ad with a female jazz singer,maybe AfricanAmerican brilliant, don't recall lyrics heard 2007 fervent wish for response Okay, we need much more than this. Heard on TV? or radio? What was the product being sold? When in 2007? Where? (what region of what country)? I hope, with more info (try editing your question if you can, or just put a comment here), we can help you, but this is not enough.

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I'm a black female and I have skin discolorations on every area of my body including my back and buttocks. The doctor said that it is acne and that there was nothing he could do. I have had them now f I'm sorry you ran out of space for your question. You meantion "a doctor" -- I would strongly encourage you to consult a dermatologist, and if you don't get a good, clear answer from one dermatologist, find a another one and get a second opinion. "Acne" doesn't usually hit women on the back or buttocks; and "acne" doesn't usually hit...

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How long after your period ends does it take to get pregnant? You can get pregant DURING your period, especially if you are still a fairly young woman whose ovulation cycles are still a little skippy, or a woman approaching menopause whose ovulation has become irregular. THERE IS NO "SAFE" TIME OF THE MONTH, although many, many people try to determine this by "natural" birth control which may involve examining vaginal mucous and...

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I had sex with a guy but he swears he didn't cum, and I got my period in the process. Could I be pregnant? It's been three months since you asked this question, so you surely know by now if you are pregnant or not. However, I wanted to warn you that the first answer you got is not exactly correct. "Pre-cum," the clear fluid that leaks from a man's penis during foreplay, DOES contain sperm and CAN get you pregnant, whether the man actually has an orgasm or not. Please get...

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Why do we have to learn math? Things like algebra are only usefull when you have a job... It's not your employer's responsibility to teach you basic skills. That responsibility belongs to your parents and to your school. And of course, most importantly, to yourself. YOU are responsible for getting yourself ready to handle life; to support yourself and the family you may choose to have someday. If you plan to ever get a job, you need to be job-ready, and that means...

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Should reperations be paid to black American? Yes. The "Forty Acres and a Mule" that were promised were never actually given. Reparations should be paid directly to every Black American, without fooling around with having to prove slave ancestry, or even harder, PERCENTAGE of slave ancestry. It's too expensive to review all those claims; better to just pay reparations to any Black citizen who was a citizen by, say, 1964...

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I have a suspicion that I may have a long lost sibling but I can't come out and ask my dad about it because he lies about everything. How would I go about finding this information? Is there anyway I can find it on the internet? Thank-you! Try now to get a history of all the places your father has lived; that will let you know what counties to research. The problem is, because of identity theft, most counties lock up their birth records for 70 years. I assume you don't want to wait that long. Who gave you the idea? Can they give you more info? What about your own mom? Do you think your dad might have told HER...

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How did you guys choose where to go to college? and are you/were you happy with your choice? No one in my immediate family had gone. No one could give me advice. My mother's sister had gone to a college, so I at least knew its name, and I liked that it was mostly an all-women's school (though men COULD attend, because of its prior history as women-only, few did, except for the business classes at night and on the weekends). I didn't even apply anywhere else; I...

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I love Jesus yes I do!! I love Jesus, How about you? Not the one you're talking about, the way you're talking about. BTW, have you ever read the Bible? Specifically, Matthew 6:5-7? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:5-7;&version=9;

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Tell me what is on your bed? (Stuff like: books, scanner, clothes, etc.) Three extra pillows (to cushion an arm injury) A drug diary, to keep track of what I took and when (not recreational drugs) and to remind me to take them on time A mystery book from the library One furry throw (to cover my back & shoulders while I read; spring isn't QUITE here YET!) Three remote controls for the TV/DVD The laundry I just folded Sometimes, a laptop...

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Is it normal to tell others that they're ugly, that is, if you think they are ugly? Not unless they ASKED for your opinion. Running around telling people hurtful things is pointless and arrogant. What makes a person like that think their opinion is right? Or that their opinion matters? Or that their opinion will change things? Being nasty (even if you call it "honest" because it's your genuine opinion) is just sadistic power-gaming, meant to make the...

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Why do some people, especially girls seem to put two letters at the end of a word or in the middle when its not neccesary? Like heyy, or byye. Do you like it or does it kinda annoy you? They do it to try to mimic verbal speech, and stretching words out is a teenage affectation not limited to girls. Girls may do "byyyyye" but boys tend to say things like "dooooood." It's just something they'll grow out of, so I ignore it. Doesn't bug me.

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Why do some people enjoy making others feel miserable? It's a power trip, used by sadistic, destructive freaks who are incapable of a getting power any legitimate way (such as by being experts at something, attaining geniune authority, having personal charisma, doing hard work, etc.) As Osama bin Laden will tell you, it's MUCH easier to destroy than to build.

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About how many shots are in a mickey of alcohol? Disquietus gave you the right answer. To "slip someone a mickey" meant to put a drug in their drink, and that drug was usually chloral hydrate. It's short for Mickey Finn, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Finn_%28drugs%29 and here for chloral hydrate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_Hydrate These days, the mickey is usually a "roofy" or...

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Are you related to a famous person? Like two of the other people who have answered, I have connections to Salem, Massachusetts or the Salem Witch Trials. My 13x Great Grandma Ann Greenslit Pudeator was executed in September, 1692 by hanging. There were 18 hangings, one torture death by "pressing" (crushing with stones to try to extract a confession), and several deaths in prison. (Plus everyone in prison, even...

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What whould happen when the sun dies? so we die or will we make a sun? I see we have some religious and scientific squabbles on this question. I'll throw in my view because I don't think anyone else has mentioned it. Most prognosticators and science fiction writers assume that the human race will have migrated to other planets (in other solar systems, not our own) long before our sun explodes and goes nova (or implodes and becomes a black hole...

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Who made world I think what you're looking for is information about comparative cosmologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology There's a lot to review; enjoy! :)

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Is it a genetic deficiency to be allergic to dairy? I wouldn't call it a "deficiency," but you could call it an anomaly, meaning it doesn't happen all that often. It is usually genetic, as far as I know (but I'm not an allergist or a reproductive genetics expert.) Allergies to dairy in people of European heritage were found to be linked to good genes that provided resistance to certain plagues common in...

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My parents signed over their home to me 15 years ago. We sold their home in 2006 I also sold my home in 2006 and reinvested in a new home with an inlaw setup. Accountant says we have to pay $30+K cap gains. Is this correct? Gosh, Jimbru, I can't answer that but I have a suggestion. Why don't you ask one of the inexpensive services that prep taxes for a second opinion? H&R Block or some similar firm? Thirty thousand dollars is a LOT of money, and might be worth a $30 second opinion to you. Choose one of the services that agrees to go WITH you to the IRS if you get audited. I was on a site a...

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Corporal punishment, yea or nay? Reasoning? Nay. It's assault, no matter how good your intentions are. When applied to a nude or semi-nude child, it verges on a sexual assault. Why the keen interest in maximum humiliation and pain? What's really going on in such a parent's head? And don't parents understand that inflicting pain on the child and then "kissing away their tears" is a good way to warp...

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Got any ideas for a completely original idea for a photoshoot, please be detailed. Wow, this question stumps me. If we give you ideas, your work won't be "completely original." Original ideas are ideas that YOU come up with. I don't know how to help you on this one.

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Do you get annoyed when well paid sports stars talk about striking? No. If it's a team sport, their owners are making more money than they are -- they're just labor, with the owners as bosses. But more than that, I don't object because sports stars have VERY SHORT careers and need to make money while they can, before injury or age destroys their ability to earn money this way. Any soccer or U.S.-type football player goes out on the field not...

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If my friend was on birth control pills for two months and stop after her last cycle, what are the chances of her getting pregnant in the three month and would it take time for her cycle to get back to normal? Her chances of getting pregnant in the third month are excellent. Keep in mind that if you miss only TWO pills during a month when you are using the pill as contraception, the pill makers advise you to use additional birth control, because missing just two creates a risk of pregnancy. Unless she wants to be pregnant, she'd better use some other form of birth control immediately. How...

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How many civilians approxiamately have lost their lives in Iraq since the war started in 2003? This site: http://lisasmall.livejournal.com/ has an entry dated March 26, 2007, which tries to add up the deaths of civilian contractors in Iraq (translators, cooks, truckers, mercenaries, etc. in the employ of the U.S. government). That should be added to the Lancet's count of Iraqi civilians,which is also in the March 26 entry. The numbers are horrifying. The annual civilian...

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Other than hanging up, what lines or techniques do you use to get rid of a telemarketer? I don't make fun of them. Their lives are horrible enough already or they wouldn't be doing that kind of job. :( I know every second they spend talking to me is a second wasted for them, so I usually say, "No thank you" and disconnect before they have to launch into the script their employer forces them to use when the victim says no.

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How do i make my boyfriend propose to me? i mean i know i can force anyone.. but surely there's something i can do to speed up the proccess!? i know that he wants to get married DO NOT GET PREGNANT. Why not just be a grownup about it? Something like sitting down after a nice meal (not during) at your house, or his house, in private, and just telling him, "Fred, I need to know where this relationship is going." Don't be melodramatic about it. Don't warn him in advance that "Saturday, come over and we'll Have A Talk." Ask your...

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In which parts of the world is slavery still a part of everyday life? Whoops, coding error, administrator please delete -- sorry.

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In which parts of the world is slavery still a part of everyday life? The United States and Europe are well-known destinations for slaves meant for the sex trade or for low-wage agricultural or "sweatshop" labor. Africa has open slavery in several locations, particularly the use of young boys as slave soldiers. The presence of Philippino women as slaves is endemic in the Middle East nations such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others. Someone already...

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Do you think make-up is a waste of time? Yes. Well, unless you're going to be on camera in a television studio, and then you need makeup or you'll look like a pale green glowstick (if you're light-skinned) or moldy roast beef (if you're dark-skinned).

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As a Wiccan when is is ok to fight back in the case of throwing a curse? If a person is going after you to destroy your life what does a Wiccan do? Rockme, you've gotten all kinds of different answers about what a Wiccan would do. I'll tell you what I know some very intelligent Wiccans have done: ignored it, and moved on. Your spiritual energy can be spent in better ways, ways that are more fulfilling than concentrating on someone who wishes you ill. They do not deserve your interest and attention. And for...

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Amy boyfriend and I are buying a home .It is going in his name .The mortgage company told him it cant go in my name . Can the deed go in my name?It is because i have an outstanding loan and they said my credit was no goosk a question about Buying & Sellin What's this "and I" part of the question? Are you committing money to this? Do NOT put money into this without your name going on the deed. Why isn't the mortgage going in BOTH names? If his credit is good, your credit shouldn't matter much. This isn't legal advice, but you need some. Call your county and find out if they have any kind of programs to...

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I have actually moved out of the house over 6 months now. But my husband has been accusing my neighbours of being responsible for my moving out. Sometimes he will call me on the phone but I dont respond. He has been spoiling my name over the place. I agree with StrongHart's answer. I just wanted to add that you can get "call block" on your phone -- see the first few pages of the phone book, or call your telephone provider. However, if you think that will make him angry enough to come after you, just stick with caller i.d. and ignoring his calls. Move on. There are wonderful men out there, and this guy has wasted...

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Who is the picture of in Auntie Em's avatar? http://www.kansasoz.com/infoauntieem.htm Clara Blandick, d. 1962, a suicide at age 81 due to her constant pain and advancing blindness. It's very sad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Blandick#Death

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Do you pay attention to ABers avatar or username. A little bit, especially if they are a cute or clever match like yours. :)

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What would you do if you found out one of your parents or family members had accounts on this site, were trolls and were trolling you either by accident or on purpose? If a parent is trolling a child on purpose, there's something really freakishly wrong in that family. I'd start saving my money to get the heck out as soon as possible.

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Do you read Woman’s Erotica Like Black Lace? No. I noticed you've gotten no answers so far, so I hope adding my answer bumps your question up again, so that people familiar with your subject matter get another opportunity to respond.

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Is Carlos Mencia the best comedian ever? Nope, he's not even the best comic now. Chris Rock does a lot of race-relations comedy that is much better. :)

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When ever I try to reply to someone's e-mail my computer goes bonkers. What could this madness be? It may be a problem in your email software. Instead of replying to email through your usual program, go create a yahoo.com account and do a few test replies there. If you are using Microsoft Outlook Express, you may have an email virus. Outlook gets targeted for that kind of vandalism because it is the most common email software.

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Who is your favourite Tolkien character and why? I'd have to say the Rider of Rohan, Eowyn, who thought she was riding to her death and went anyway in defense of her country, despite the "out" her gender gave her. She knew her duty, and she had courage in the face of despair, and strength enough to go on despite her battle injuries and emotional turmoil. E: ""All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and...

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Do you think the recent celebrity adoptions has shed some negative light on the idea of adopting a child? Yes, I do. The celebrities are doing a good, loving thing, and the press is treating them SAVAGELY because of it. I think this is going to intimidate people who are trying to adopt, especially people who might be prominent in their local communities -- like a mayor and her husband, for example. They have to worry about the loss of privacy, the attack on their motives, and constant...

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Does you State/Country suffer from Nanny State syndrome? No.

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If you are Wiccan or Pagan, what types of offerings do you present to your God(s)? I'm not a Wiccan or Pagan, but I can answer this if you like. The answer depends on the time of year, and what you're trying to accomplish. At the spring equinox, which just happened, usually eggs are offered as a sign of returning life. (This is where the Christian Easter egg custom comes from). Spring flowers are appropriate too, for the spring equinox and for Beltane (usually...

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What is the sign in a church that the Blessed Sacrament is reserved there? In Roman Catholic tradition, a candle in red glass (to give a red light) on the altar is what's used to indicate that there are consecrated Hosts present -- you may want to check this, but that should give you enough to go on for a Google search or asking a priest. Any priest will be happy to answer you.

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DO YOU HAVE IO?I DO.I'VE HAD IT FOR 5 YEARS. I'm sorry, I think we need more info. What do you mean by "IO" ?

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Is there a punishment between petty and grand larceny Usually not, unless the jurisdiction where you live allows for different DEGREES of petty larceny ("petit larceny") and different DEGREES grand larceny. You see the same language used about juries: a grand jury is the big jury that decides whether you have to go to trial at all (usually 24 people) and the petit jury (petty jury) is the jury of 12 people or fewer who hear the...

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Who are the last person named a Docter of the chucrh? John Paul II named Theresa of Avila, but I can't swear that she's the last one named.

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Does anyone here have a malinut (melonhead) also know as malinois? did you think it was ugly when you first saw it, do you feel differently now? I do not own a Belgian Malinois, but they and their related breeds are what are used for bomb detection by the Secret Service where I live, and they seem to be absolutely beautiful dogs. Is the dog breed what you mean?

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What is some good music that involves layers of African-style drumming and loud rhythms? The work of Babatunde Olatunji is widely available in the U.S., and he was considered absolutely great: http://africanmusic.org/artists/olatunji.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatunde_Olatunji What about Ladysmith Black Mambazo, also available in the U.S., or Paul Simon's album with them, "The Rhythm of the Saints" ? Also, don't miss former Grateful Dead...

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Have you ever been on a flight with a female pilot? Yes, about 20% of the time, sometimes even a female pilot AND co-pilot.

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Do you think China is responsible for poisoning Wheat Gluten in Pet Food that caused several animal fatalities? Intentionally? No. China wants good access to U.S. and Canadian markets for their goods, and would not sabotage themselves this way.

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Which gender typically limits the rate of growth of a species population, and why is this the case? Females, always. One male of any mammalian species can fertilize multiple females. Imagine a population of 100 women and one man. In a year, in theory, you could have 100 babies. Imagine one woman and 100 men. In a year, usually (except for twins, etc.) you will have one baby. See the extensive writings of sociologist Marvin Harris on female infanticide, which -- no matter what the...

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HELP!!!! what can i do? i have been at home and not met anyone my own age since age 11 and i'm now 19. i can't remember who i am anymore and have no past!!! what can i do?? please help me!!! Call your local public library, and ask for the reference librarian. Ask her or him to help you find the social services phone number for your county. Call them. If you have computer access, you probably have phone access, right? Tell them what has happened to you, and ask for help. You write very well for someone who has been self-educated since age 11; you can get through this.

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Is another major war in the world may happen soon? Yes. The U.S. has already expanded its illegal aggression in Iraq to Somalia, and the White House is talking openly about an intention/desire to invade Iran. The war between the U.S. and Afghanistan is legal under international law, but is destabilizing Pakistan. And when you destabilize Pakistan, you destabilize India. As far as I'm concerned, yes, we are this|close to having...

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On AB, Whats the weirdest word you've seen with the green underline? "digestive system" -- oddly, it's not underlining it right now. Gosh, I hate this. Make it go away!

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I hate the green underlined links recently added to answerbag answers that sport advertisements from Microsoft Live. Anyone agree? This is awful and I wish it would stop!!!! I'll think about quitting AnswerBag if it keeps up. I appreciate that Joel & all do this work for free... but so do I. I almost always answer questions, not ask them (and I was really shocked at how poorly my first question was treated). I'm on here to fulfill my need to "pass it on" from people who helped me when I...

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Is Hebrew the language of God? If you believe your god is Hebrew, sure. But if you believe Buddha speaks Hebrew... or Kali speaks Hebrew... I don't know. It is widely believed that Jesus spoke Aramaic. That's why Mel Gibson had all the actors in "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" speak Aramaic. However, Gibson has said that, as a Roman Catholic, he thinks tha the Catholic Mass should still be said in...

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What was the hardest part about being pregnant for you? This is not QUITE the question you asked, but I'll tell you what's awful: most ob/gyns use cute baby pics all over their offices, even in the exam rooms. They have NO REGARD for how this affects women who are there for miscarriages, fertility problems, or cancer. Bad enough that these women are stranded in the same waiting room as the pregnant women; but putting baby art in...

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Why does my stomach keep rumbling? I'm not hungry and I don't feel sick. Do you drink a lot of carbonated soda? Sometimes, that can cause rumbling and bubbling. Otherwise, I favor ChrisDG's answer.

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In Islam, when a man dies for g-d, he get's 72 virgins. I was just wondering why 72? why such a random number? It's possibly raisins, not virgins, and the 72 is part of oral tradition and written commentary ABOUT the Koran, not in the Koran itself. A recent translation of the Koran published in Germany argues that the word for the benefit was mistranslated, and instead of "virgins" or "dark-eyed houris," the sura (verse) is actually referring to raisins, and/or chilled drink...

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Tantra rupiah generator The search box at the upper right -- you can enter tantra rupiah and you will see this question has been asked here many times before. I did not find an answered version of the question, but I didn't look through all seven or eight of them. :(

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Do you have a blog? If so, care to share it? :] Yes. No. :)

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If your life is an hourglass, how fast is the sand falling? Racing.

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Is it true that the Kellogs Frosties boy who sang "They're gonna taste great" killed himself? or is it just an urban legend? You might try looking this up at Snopes.Com, an excellent urban myth debunking site. I'd do it for you, but it's dinnertime! Must dash! :)

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Do you refer to yourself as Mommy or Daddy when talking to your pet? Mama. Partner is Daddy.

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What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the name "Hunter Thompson"? "As your attorney, I advise you..." I love saying that.

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Would you ever run away to mexico? Thelma and I DID. And we're gonna live forever, with our teal-turquoise drop-top t-bird!

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Can u guess my favorite color? Yes. I might not guess CORRECTLY, but I CAN guess! :)

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What category do you visit most in answerbag? I start by hitting "Unanswered Questions" at the main page. I feel bad for people who ask but never get a response. On the other hand, I'm not good at that much, so I can't answer that many! :)

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What aren't you wearing right now:):)? Socks, and my feet are cold, so... thanks for making me remember they're missing, and I should go put them on! :)

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What is your dream car, that isn't normally seen as one? Someone at the high school down the street -- teacher? student? I don't know -- had a wonderful IRIDESCENT PURPLE shiny shiny shiny traditional-shape Volkswagen Beetle. I LONGED for that car! I see it about once a year now, outside a pizza joint or a theater. Whoever owns it must have graduated or changed jobs about 2004 or so. But I still want that car.

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Do you want to die? Explain why? From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. --Swinburne

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If you were a shape, which one would best represent you? A spiral. Downward in the winter, upward in the spring. :) Or...rather obviously... an ankh!

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How many names start with the letter r? First names? Surnames? Brand names? Which language? I think this question is a little broad for a specific, accurate answer. :) If you just want lists, check "baby names" in www.google.com and you'll find numerous alphabetical lists of names in a wide selection of ethnicities, but weighted towards ethnic groups with a large presence in the U.S.

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Can you describe your parents in one word? Unready.

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Stick pretzels, bow pretzels, or no pretzels? 1. Soft, warm, SALTY pretzels 2. skinny little SALTY stick pretzels 3. yogurt-covered pretzels (mini-bows) 4. the small chocolate covered SALTY pretzels my mother-out-law* makes for me every valentine's day (mini-bows) 5. big fat pretzel sticks, dipped in port wine cheese Ooooh, pretzels.... I guess out of all of these I like #4 best, because she makes them specially for me,...

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Does anyone in your family have a serious addiction? My brother and both our parents have been spared (except that both parents smoked tobacco), but I do family genealogy and you can see a sad pattern of alcoholism in some of our lines. We look at that, and we know it's just our good luck to have missed out on the genes that make a person more vulnerable to addiction. So far, even our extended family has been lucky enough not to have...

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For those currently with their "true love," did you fall for them instantly, or over time, how long? It took time. I was astonished when they asked me for a date, and it took a long while to understand that they wanted more than that. It took a long time to trust them (not their fault, prior experience!) Nine years now... :)

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Why is it easier to share your deepest secret with a stranger and not someone you know? Same thing as everyone else says: no consequences in your real life, unless by some coincidence you run into them again. Also, they can't really question your version of events. BUT, even so, they may be able to give you an outsider's view that makes you look at your actions and the actions of others in a completely new way.

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Im 15 and he is 19 turning 20 in May, he says wait till im 18 and hes 22 cuz it sounds better, we promised to not be with anyone else till then..i think its a good point...would you wait? Yes, absolutely, wait. It's a good test of your relationship, and it gives your body and your heart a chance to catch up to your plans. It's a really good plan. Just hold off; this spares both of you so much worry about contraception and other choices you really don't have the resources to make right now. :)

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In the last 50 years, which decade had the worst fashion? Wow, hard to answer. 1960's -- the beginning of the fashion for frail, twig-like women which eventually led to the "heroin chic" of the 1990's and a still-ongoing epidemic of eating disorders and deaths. 1970's -- fashions were dreadfully ugly, cheap fabrics in hideous prints; and the equally hideous return of these fashions in the early 2000's. A conscious,...

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Common law marriage not recognized in Florida. (17yrs) nothing in each name. What are the legal rights of the female? You need to speak with an attorney licensed in Florida. I am not. The legal rights of both parties, in the absence of marriage, usually wind up being litigated as oral contracts. Some states (and some judges) are more hostile to this than others. A local attorney will know more about the local personalities. One thing I CAN tell you: the children, if any, get child support no matter...

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What is fingering? Fingering is like intercourse, but your partner uses a finger instead of a penis. If you have a hymen (the piece of skin that blocks the vagina until intercourse, usually considered proof of virginity), fingering will almost always break it, which is painful and bloody. (Also remember that any time you are bleeding or have a cut, it's easier to catch certain sexually transmitted...

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In the old days when Teletype machines were used, they used to write "-30-" at the end of the story. Does anyone know why? Actually, even after teletype machines fell out of favor, reporters and press agents still used the -30- code at the end of their stories. I was still doing it in the early 1980's. It meant "end of transmission" or simply "end of copy" (where "copy" meant the written text, not photocopy as we use the word today). Here's a grouchy answer from someone...

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Jesus said "the father is greater than I" doesn't this prove that the trinity is not a blble teaching? Trinitarianism has always been one of the most controversial, and bitterly disputed, concepts in Christian theology. I don't have a dog in this fight, so I offer no personal opinion. If you want to read about the history of trinitarian and anti-trinitarian thought, give this a try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitarianism

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Does it bother you when people insult your intelligence on AB and their spelling is full of errors? "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich von Schiller And I don't have NEARLY the energy or interest a deity would use to attempt to cure stupidity and bad manners! http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26271.html

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What's your birthday? Two-squared three-cubed. It looks cuter when you can use proper mathematical superscripts. 2² 3³ Hmm, that doesn't seem to work here. AHA! On my browser, this works: 2 ² 3 ³

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Would you visit Auschwitz if you had the chance? Yes. I would hate it and feel overwhelmed, but if I had the chance, I would consider it my duty as a human to go, to witness, to mourn and honor the dead, and to bring the story to others.

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If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles and submarines be shaped differently? No. Missiles and subs are designed for maximum aerodynamic efficiency (for missiles) and hydrodynamic efficiency (for subs), meaning that there are as few protrusions or blunt leading surfaces as possible to ease swift passage through the medium of air (or water) with the least amount of friction attainable. As Freud almost said, sometimes a missile is just a missle.

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What is something, other than sugar or cream, that you put in your coffee? Not me personally, but I've watched other people put donuts in their coffee.

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Can you get evicted and be forced to sell your home if you do not follow the rules? If you signed an HOA (Homeowners Agreement) during the purchase of your home, and the HOA allows for or requires eviction in certain circumstances, indeed you can be forced out. Read your HOA and title to the property carefully, and then call an attorney licensed in your state with a background in condo or real estate law.

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What was your reason for getting up this morning? Bathroom! Bathroom! BATHROOM NOW!!!! :)

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Which ABer do you count on to give the weirdest answers? There are several who don't really read the questions, or answer the questions, but just USE the questions to launch into religious diatribes. Aside from being rude, this seems pretty weird to me. Do they really think they're convincing anyone when they do that? And when they are doing it to a young person whose family beliefs are different from theirs, don't they...

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Im a 16 yr old girl and im dating a 24 yr old. we share the same interests and he gives me a lot of good advice now were dating and i know its wrong but hes given me this amazing i mean undescribable feeling. Should i keep seeing him? No. That amazing feeling is probably combined of pride in being able to attract an older man, and feeling flattered that he likes you. However, both the pride and the flattery are misplaced. Your relationship has to be covert because the two of you can't make it public without expecting a lot of social condemnation and, in some states, criminal charges against him. There is a...

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I AM 14 WHEN AM I SUPPPOSE TO GET SPERM You have it already. You are already capable of causing a pregnancy, so be careful. A general explanation of human semen (containing sperm) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen#Composition_of_human_semen "The ability to ejaculate is a fairly early event in puberty compared to the other characteristics. However, in parallel to the irregularity of the first few periods of a girl, for...

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Why do some guys prefer oral sex over intercourse? 1. Laziness 2. Actual physical preference for the feeling of fellatio more than intercourse 3. No fear of pregnancy 4. Reduced fear of sexually transmitted disease (even though they should still be afraid). Here's some info about HIV/AIDS transmission from fellatio: ----Oral Sex by TheBody.Com http://www.thebody.com/cdc/oralsex.html ----Canadian Study (see right sidebar for...

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When i fingered my girl-friend she said it kinda hurt. Is it going to hurt next time i do it? It might, depending on a lot of things. -- your nails need to be super-clean and super-short -- she needs to be ready for penetration, emotionally and physically -- she may need you to lubricate your finger, to go slowly, and to be gentle (at least at first) If it hurt the first time, her body will remember and may tighten up a little subconsciously (or she will remember it...

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Can having a threesome be dangerous to a relationship? I'm scared that having a threesome is just an excuse to have sex with this girl that we are friends with. Yes, it's dangerous. It's likely to ruin your friendship with "this girl" (your friendship with her and your partner's friendship with her; and her friendship with either or both of you). It devalues "this girl." She deserves to have a whole partner all to herself, not half of yours. YOU deserve a whole partner to yourself, too -- so this devalues...

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Who else has felt religious experiances from marijuana, and explain them You may want to check out the books of Carlos Casteneda, which are still in most public libraries. I don't know what-all he used; I remember peyote playing a major role, but can't be certain after all this time whether he writes about marijuana, too. Anyway, I can't answer your question out of my personal life, but maybe, if you are interested in drug-assisted...

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From ? earlier, can dmv suspend my license for unpaid ticket due to driving anothers car with expired tabs and recieved ticket intheir car I'm not sure I understand your question, but yes, if YOU are driving a car with expired tags, YOU get the ticket, no matter to whom the car belongs. And that ticket will be added to your others when DMV decides about pulling your license. Probably not what you wanted to hear; sorry. :(

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I have this crush on a guy and then he tells me that im hot & he wants to have sex and that... but i mean we have slept together 2wic and notthin has happned!! & then i find out that he is backstabbin me to his mate and his m8 tells me.. does he like me? No, he doesn't like you. He may not DISlike you, but if he liked you, he'd value you, and this guy clearly does not like OR value you. If he liked you, you two would be having a normal courtship instead of this weird "sleep together but no sex and no actual dates" business. If he liked you, he wouldn't try to ruin your reputation by talking to his mates. Try...

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Why are the churches so hot and bothered about homosexuality? My suspicion is that it is rampant within them and would expose their inner workings. Substitute "cheating" for this and see what reaction you get. Wow,some unhappy people downrated your question. I uprated it, and will try to give a short answer. There are MANY places where the Bible condemns adultery, and very few that address homosexuality - in fact, the verses only talk about men, not lesbians. However, I think that churches are happier condemning homosexuality than adultery, because for 90% of the world, and maybe even a higher...

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They say that you can't pick your family, but if you could, who would you choose? Well, when you grow up, you CAN choose your family at least a little, and I'm very happy with the partner I have chosen (and who has chosen me). For my family of origin -- that question is too hard for me! :)

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Can someone please give me some words that bear the deity hades name? I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you are just talking about names for the god(s) of the underworld, here's a short, incomplete list: Hades Lucifer Satan Beelzebub (a king of demons, might not be what you want) Baal (the earlier deity on whom Beelzebub is based) Belial You can look up each of these names at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more...

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Why is it that my dog always dries himself off on the furniture after a bath? He's not trying to get dry the way a human would; he's trying to get the scent of the furniture on his newly-cleaned fur. He wants to smell like home. :) Be glad it's just the furniture. My dog, and many dogs, respond to baths by look to roll in the smelliest, stinkiest thing outside that they can find.

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How do i tighten a pulley clothesline? Look at the part which stores the clothesline. Do you see a piece that looks something like a foot (not a human foot!) at the bottom? See illustration here: http://www.improvementscatalog.com/HanoverAssets/Improvements/large_images/212493zz.jpg You tighten the clothesline by retracting as much as you can into the storage part. THEN you loop a small portion of the line BACKWARDS around...

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Why Does Goerge W. Bush try to make us poorer by not using his freggin oil? Wow, you got heavy downrates on this question but no answer -- I think you're being penalized for your language. Now, MY answer to your question is that Bush and Cheney -- both men who made their fortunes as oil barons -- do not mind a bit if oil prices skyrocket because of phony or real shortages. (Phony is when OPEC intentionally cuts back production to raise prices; to assist Bush...

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Can some one give me a link where I can find animated spider man avatars I found several sites by going to http://google.com and entering this phrase: .gif spiderman I knew it would have to be a .gif because those are the easiest to animate. I found several sites right away, including a cool one in Spanish. You'll be able to understand it; just kill the pop-up ads and the gifs are underneath. Here's a sample: ...

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Can anyone suggest gift basket theme ideas? like wine, chocolate etc...its for my boyfriends birthday...(im making my own basket)what would be some interesting things to put into a gift basket? What does HE like? Wine & chocolate? Or would he think it would be more fun to have a selection of foreign beers or unusual ales, with some Slim Jims or pepperoni snacks? Some unusual cheeses with fancy crackers? What kind of books or magazines does he like? I don't want to stereotype him, but would he like a paperback book or two about a favorite sports hero, or actor, or history?

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My potted amaryllis blooms once or twice a year. Is the pot filling up with bulbs that will eventually have to be dug out and separated? How long can I neglect doing this? Let me send you over to gardenweb.com, specifically to http://search.gardenweb.com/search/nph-ind.cgi?term=repot+amaryllis They're very nice people over there, very helpful.

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How do you compute "dollar value LIFO?" LIFO means "Last In, First Out" and is the opposite of FIFO when counting the value of inventory. (FIFO=First In, First Out). If you had twenty indentical model cars and you bought the first ten for $10 each, and the second ten for $100 each, and you sold ten of them, under FIFO your remaining dollar value would be 10 x 100 = 1000. Under LIFO, it would be 10 x 10 = 100. PS:...

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I have this annoying problem that when I'm talking to someone, when the simple conversation is over, I analyze it to death. I think to myself "Oh shoot, I shouldn't have said that, now the person probably thinks the conversation was stupid." Help! Three things might happen: 1. You'll grow out of it. 2. You'll grow more confident and less self-critical. 3. You'll get too busy (with school, work, dating, family) to spend so much time on this. You'll get to the point where you're having so many conversations in a day, there's just not time to deconstruct each one afterwards. It will go away, I...

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What punctuation do you tend to over use alot? (eg. a ? or a !...) The semi-colon, I think; I tend to use it the way I am using it right now, to splice independent sentences together. :(

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Favorite disney star? Grumpy. Of course. (Although I always admired Tinkerbell's looks).

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Is being tall for my age make me unattractive?by the way im just 12. No! I was very tall for my age and, as a girl, found this very helpful. Everyone remembers you. You can dominate a room if you want to. Clothes look better on you. And, in ten years, you will be taller than your boss, and that is an extremely good thing. They are less likely to push you around if they have to look up at you to do it. :)

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Is there any meaning to my life if the girl i love is gone? Yes. Life is making room for the girl who loves YOU.

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Is it harmful to blow marijuana smoke in a dog's face? Yes, it is. The dog is getting second-hand smoke just as a human would, with identical damage to their lungs. Does the dog get high? I don't know. I don't know if tetrahydracannibol works on a dog's brain chemistry the way it does on ours. If it does, it's pretty cruel, because the dog will get disoriented and not know why, which is EXTREMELY stressful for them. It...

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I am going to Paris. What do I HAVE to do while I am there? Fall in love! You HAVE to fall in love! It doesn't have to be with a person. You can fall in love with the food, the art, the weather, the landmarks, the culture, the language, the scenery, the wine, the night life... anything, but it's Paris... you MUST fall in love! :)

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Where does the words "Cracker" and "Nigger" come from? I answered the "Cracker" question at some length here: http://www2.answerbag.com/a_view/523258 As others have explained, "nigger" comes from the Latin-based languages like Italian and Spanish, "negro" merely meaning black. "Negro" was used as a polite word here in the U.S. by most people for hundreds of years. However, "nigra" was...

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Not in any offensive way but, descripe what a redneck is to you? "Redneck" is a term, usually an insult but used with pride by some people, which refers to the sunburned neck farmers used to get between the end of the shadow of their hat and the beginning of the coverage of their shirt on the back of the neck. A farmer bending over plants would get no coverage from their hat at all. The term is exclusively applied to Anglo-heritage whites....

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About 70 years ago in England, a distant relative melted down gold coins with the king's head on. He was caught and imprisoned for 'coinage' (?) Can we claim the gold? Almost certainly not. I would expect the gold was confiscated. "Coinage" means they were suspecting him of planning to use the gold to make counterfeit money -- either the coins of another nation, or British coins with much less gold content than they should have had.

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Do you wash your hands after using the restroom? (Be honest) Definitely. And without being compulsive about it, I wash my hands every chance I get, especially in the winter, to try to prevent myself from transferring germs from, say, a doorknob or a shared keyboard to my own face / lungs / etc. Washing your hands cuts down on colds in addition to all the food-borne illnesses the restaurant signs warn employees about. :)

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Women: Do you wear your bra at night when you go to bed? My sister and I both do and our mother says it is weird. Is it weird? No comment on what I personally do, but you know they sell bras MADE for sleeping, right? See http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=sleep+bra&btnG=Search+Froogle Also, nursing women, some large-bosomed women, some pre-menstrual women and women who have just had breast surgery often feel better with a bra on at night. As long as it's decorative, your eventual partner probably...

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Do you support the Day of Silence/Gay Pride? Yes or no. The "Day of Silence" is not aimed at my age group, so no comment on that one. Gay Pride rallies and such -- sure. It has nothing to do with whether you're personally gay or not. There's always the PFLAG contingent, or contingents from other activist groups like NOW which bring along non-gay supporters. http://www.pflag.org/ http://www.now.org/ or specifically ...

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Do you cook for your yourself/family? or do you spend a lot of money dining out/fast food? Which would you prefer? My family begs me not to cook and has banned me from the kitchen. However, my partner LOVES to cook and so we rarely eat out. We never buy fast food except, sometimes, in a hurried desperation, we'll pick up some Popeye's chicken. I didn't cook when I lived alone, either. I still didn't buy fast food, but I bought a lot of junk food. Now, we don't keep junk food...

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Does anyone know if a Brazilian Mastiff is like an Italian Mastiff (Cane Corso)? What are the differences if any? Well, all the mastiffs are similar to a degree. My particular favorite is the Neapolitan Mastiff from Italy. All of them need a great deal of exercise, especially when they are young. The best exercise for them is long walks with an adult. They are expensive to feed and vet; they are difficult and costly to board (if you have to leave town for the holidays, for example); they are a lot...

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Can you use a palm tree to create a bonzi plant? Yes, you can. You would probably enjoy GardenWeb, which is free. I asked the question for you there, and this is what I got: http://search.gardenweb.com/search/?term=bonsai+palm&x=0&y=0 Good luck! When using search engines, you'll want to spell it 'bonsai' because that's the most common spelling and will get you the most answers.

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I have a sun/jenday conure and he is only 7 months old and from head to end of his tail he is 11' long...Who big do sun or jenday conures get? Oh, I'm envious!! I want one! Your Sun/Jenday is probably about as big as he's going to get. You could call him a Sunday as a joke. :) Congratulations on such a fine pet. They are SO pretty, and sociable. Remember to keep him around people a lot of the day, without the cage cover on, so that his social cravings are satisfied.

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What does your name mean? Both of mine are European names that go back to Hebrew; traditional New Testament names. "Oath of God." I'm really not sure how to interpret that. Is God swearing at me? :) It's a bad name for an atheist, that's for sure. My middle name, which is extremely common, means "bitter." I hope that one doesn't fit, either. :)

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Should I cut back the dead leaves and branches on my jasmine vine? I saw you asked a couple of questions about this, and so I'm sharing my FAVORITE gardening site: www.gardenweb.com This is a list of questions that came up when I searched "jasmine." You should glance through, but you might prefer to change the search to "jasmine pruning" or "jasmine prune" : ...

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What are your opinions about the Minuet Men? Given what's going on with our borders, do you feel their services are greatly needed? H, Sherilane! You made a great typo in here -- the Minuet Men would be guys in pantaloons who dance to classical music, right? :) It gave me a much-needed smile. As to the Minute Men, I'm troubled about their role. I am very sympathetic to the people whose land is being used against their will as a footpath-highway to get over the border. That's dangerous on a lot of levels,...

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What is the name emma in thai because i m getting a tattoo of my wifes name I don't speak Thai, but I have some ideas anyway. http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Emma.html "A borrowing from the German, Emma would be derived from Germanic ermen meaning 'whole' or 'universal,' 'all embracing.' Emma might also be is a form of Erma, a short form of various names which begin with the element Erm(en), Irm(en) which can also...

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Do you believe that Jesus had children? I agree with DavidHume and AntigoneRising. It would have been strange if he hadn't had children, especially since he didn't become so politically active until he was over 30. In a region where manhood arrives at 13, that would be 17 long years between adulthood and the start of his ministry. However, given what happened to him, there could have been excellent reasons to downplay...

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Why do LDS celebrate Christmas? Put comment here in error, have moved it to right place -- AnswerbagAdmin, please delete this if you can. Thanks! :)

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I have 9 birdfeeders with hundrends of birds until I put up a large windchime in the tree about 20 feet high. Are birds sensitive to the pitch of windchimes? Not really, no. They'll get used to the sound soon. What may be harder for them to get accustomed to is any flashing from the metal or glass that might be in your chimes. Give it about a week, and see if things improve. :) BTW, I had a small set of mirrored windchimes about 7' from my feeders. The birds got used to them very quickly.

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I heard there a lot of fees involved in being a real estate agent, like around 25,000 a year! Is this true and what fees do you have to pay while being an agent? I don't know how high the fees go, but I know that a family member of mine had to give up her license because, as a beginner, she just could not cover the cost of the fees! I think it's a way established real estate agents limit the amount of new real estate agents -- suppressing the competition. :(

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Why is my husband such an annoying arse? (my wife asked me to type that) Ahhh, the only possible answer is "because that's your taste in men!" :)

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What is your favourite song that you would never get sick of hearing? "Brick House" by The Commodores. "Canon" by Pachelbel. A little bit of a range there! :)

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Which books would Answerbag users recommend? "Mists of Avalon," Marion Zimmer Bradley. Any of the St. Germain series by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; combines suspense with fantasy. Have fun!

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Do you have tatoos,what are they and do you regret it? No, I don't have any tattoos, and I don't regret it at all. Well, maybe a little. I wanted a small tattoo for luck on some scar tissue on the sole of my foot and I even knew who I wanted to do it (some really great artists just west of Chicago) but they talked it over with me and they felt it was too dangerous. They thought that it wouldn't heal well in that site, and that...

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If you found someone's diary, would you be tempted to read it? Depends. If it were an historic document, you betcha -- like a journal found in the back of an antique dresser bought at a flea market. A politician's diary? You bet. A suspect in a criminal case? Sure, if it was my job (prosecutor, cop, forensic psychiatrist). A stranger's diary, even a movie star's? No, only enough to find out who they are and return it. But a...

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After many disscusions in the boozer how many current lonsdale belt holders are there Sorry, OldManUk, it looks we are all "knocked out" by this one! :) I gave both Google and Wikipedia a tickle and got no laughs. :( A reference librarian at your local public library might have resources we don't that would give the answer. Most libraries will even take questions by phone, without a visit. I'm really sorry we didn't do better for you. :(

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Should we continue leasing our Public Lands to private land owners or should we use them for wildlife buffer zones to improve wildlife habitat? Sign me up for the buffer zone option. Not only can we not afford to lose the wildlife habitat, private owners are getting grazing, lumber, and mining rights at "sweetheart" prices: the taxpayers are being ripped off on a huge scale.

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Goodbye to my AB friends. I prefer not to be censured by AB, I will find another place which is not so intent on covering up atrocities. I thought your question was fine, and when I wrote to you before, I suggested your Jackson question got nailed by mistake, with (the example I gave you) a perfectly harmless question about the boxing trophies known as Lonsdale Belts. I have not been pleased with some of the vicious religious slurs AnswerBag has chosen to publish even after they were flagged as offensive, but I haven't...

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Why do we hurt the ones we love? Because they're handy.

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Would you be most inclined to fight for your rights or give up rights to feel safe? Ben Franklin said it best in 1755: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." http://www.bartleby.com/73/1056.html

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When someone passionately emphasizes that pedophilia is bad, does it creep you out a little, like maybe they're trying too hard to appear morally against it? Napoleon, it creeps me out but for different reasons for different people. With some people, you get the strong impression that they were molested and haven't gotten help for it. With others, it's creepy because you start to wonder if they think YOU are a pedophile; otherwise, why do they keep bringing it up? With some, it's what you said: if they obsess and rage about it...

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Where do you want to be right now? Sound asleep dreaming good dreams in my own bed; good night! :)

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Which US city would you say has the best public transportation? Chicago. The trains and buses in DC don't run NEARLY long enough, and the trains don't go far enough. Also, Chicago has a mix of electric and traditional rail systems that goes back over 100 years and reaches nearly all the suburbs. To be a really good transit system, it has to serve people around the clock. Restaurant workers and hotel cooks might need to be at work at 5 a.m....

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Can I get a ticket dismissed because the officer was hidden and observed me speeding because I was trying to pass someone who was apparently braking because they saw the cop before me? You'd have to be able to convince the judge that you were doing the speed limit BEFORE the person in front of you started braking, and that their sudden braking made it impossible for you not to smack into them unless you swerved. Then you'd have to be able to argue convincingly that after the swerve, the safest thing to do was to speed up to get out of the lane that belonged to...

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Are you crazy in the coconut? No, I put the lime in the coconut and mix them both together, the lime in the coconut made me feel better. With thanks to Harry Nilsson. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilsson_Schmilsson

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Have you ever needed to use Tylenol 3's? If so, did you suffer from the side effects they cause? Like several of the other people who have answered, I can't stand codeine. It makes me really sick (woozy, confused, nauseated) and it doesn't provide that much pain relief. What really works on me is plain old over-the-counter Aleve (naproxen sodium) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin). Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is really bad for your liver if you take too much (it's in Nyquil,...

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Me and My boyfriend are in love, im 17 and hes 18 and we want to have sex but were not sure if it'd be legal, do we have to wait a year? Is it illeagal You certainly have to wait until you have birth control, and you are old enough to do that. Call Planned Parenthood if you are afraid to use your own doctor; or you can use barrier contraception like condoms if you trust yourselves to put them on correctly, and put one on every time. Otherwise, check the age limits in the answer Cosimo gave you: http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm Until...

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If you could change your past only ONCE, what age would it be that you'd make the change at? Conception.

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DO you know anyone who has autism? Are they your friend? Is it your brother/sister? DO you have autism? WHats it liek to be their firend or sibling, or whatever you are to them? Yes, on my block, three people have autism. Two are young teen boys, one adult woman (but I've never met her). I'm friends with the mom of the boys. It hurts. I know they're in there. One boy is verbal and one boy is not. The verbal boy is clearly very smart, but he can't really interact with people and that's tragic. The younger boy is unable to speak, but I...

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What did you do today that you know is harmful to you? Short answer: I did my Sisyphus imitation. Long answer: "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." I got in a discussion with some stupid people, and I know better... but I can't give up thinking even the crankiest, most obtuse and contrary soul is educable *somehow* if only I can find the magic words that they'll actually *hear.* This wasn't on...

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Explain: "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride." In medieval England, horses used to be vastly expensive, something only the richest people could afford, especially just for riding (instead of plowing, cartage, etc.) Hardly anyone could afford a horse, and beggars certainly could not. Wishing for a horse meant wishing for something vastly far out of the reach of most people, and a completely unrealistic fantasy for beggars. But if...

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Have nude photos of you ever been leaked onto the internet? Nope. No such photos exist, and boy, am I glad about that.

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Is AB prejudiced? I posted a question which shewed a bad image of an American Icon, Andrew Jackson. It was removed as nonsense. I wonder if it was posted towards someone who had persecuted another minority if it would have been removed. I don't know if this helps, but another man's question was flagged as nonsense in the past couple of days for no reason I can figure out at all. He was asking a very simple, reasonable question about British boxing trophies. I answered, and at some point after that, the query got flagged as nonsense. I have NO idea what that was about; maybe a whole bunch of questions got...

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SCOTTISH LAW QUESTION: My friend is having some problems with an ex-partner threatening to send revealing photos from when they were together to his parents in order to blackmail him back into the relationship. What legal courses can he take? Your friend is male. I notice you don't specify whether the partner is male or female, so let's just call them Friend and Blackmailer for now. Friend can ask Blackmailer if they really believe blackmail will make Friend love them again. It's absurd; what on earth does Blackmailer think this is going to accomplish? What kind of relationship could possibly come after a thing...

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What is difference in girls / ladies / women? Girl: a female who is not physically mature, so about 14 or under. Some people use "girl" for any teenager; other people refer to "teen women" when they want to talk about teens who are physically capable of being pregnant. Woman: Any female over 18, and, as noted, some people use "teen woman" to cover biologically mature girls under 18. Lady: it used to...

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My 14 year old daughter is smoking and yet I am a smoker too, what do I tell her? 1. That you're an addict, and you want a better life for her than being an addict, so she should quit before the habit is long-established. 2. Sit her down with a piece of paper on which you've calculated, for your own life so far: how many packs per day x 365 x number of years you've been smoking = total packs. Ask her to think about that: at 20 (?) cigarettes per...

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What's the worst thing someone has/could have said to "comfort" you during a break up? "Oh, nevermind, I had sex with [him/her] too, and it wasn't that great." It's never happened to me, but I hope I would laugh if it did!

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How do you turn down people in your office whose children are selling Girl Scout Cookies or really ugly wrapping paper nicely? If you are willing to lie, say, "Oh no! I just placed an order for the exact same thing with (my neighbor's little girl; my niece; my own child's school; my church group)." I don't encourage lying but some people won't take a hint and will punish you for a simple "No." I had a co-worker who wanted me to donate to the Lions Club and I would not do so...

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Why can't you eat meat on Fridays during Lent? I'm sorry to have to contradict most of the answers so far except for Singwell's. As to the rest of the points of confusion: 1. It has nothing to do with what Jesus did, or did not, eat at the Last Supper. 2. It IS on Fridays because of the belief that Jesus was executed on a Friday. However, in earlier times, meat was forbidden all through Lent, not just on Fridays. 3....

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Me and my girlfreind have had a online relationship for near 4 years now but when i asked her why dont i know her last name and can i know it she got all defensive about it please tell me why she wont tell me why she wont tell me her last name? I saw in one of your comments on this that you deny being a distraction for "her." You're a great distraction. You're a guy who has been giving "her" attention for four years at no cost to "herself" at all. You have given four years of your life to a phantom; stop it. Open your heart to meeting real women in real life. Get out of the house and...

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Do you think that fashions as seen on the European catwalks are realistic, and could be worn in public? Not in any neighborhood I've ever lived in, and that includes big cities such as Chicago and Washington, DC. Many of the haute couture fashions shown for women on the catwalks would get a person arrested for prostitution.

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Does anyone know free and good application to convert bin or mpeg1 to mpeg4 files? I don't personally, but have you tried searching tucows.com?

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How do you tell some one you've cheated and want to split up without it killing them? You have to sit down with them in a private place, preferably their home so they don't have to drive while they are upset. You have to tell the person that, although you still like them and think they are attractive, you have realized that they are not the right person for you to settle down with; or that you are not ready to settle down at all. Once you get that part over with, you...

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Who are the current holders of the Lonsdale Belts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdale_Belts not much info on current holders! I really struck out on this one. I hope that one of the other answerers can do better for you. :(

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Does maternal instinct "kick in"? I think so. A woman I know planned to give up her child for adoption and stuck to that plan right up to the moment that the doctor put her new baby in her arms -- and that was the end of the adoption idea. She had been very logical and very determined and had everything set up in advance, but holding the infant changed all that. In my own experience, I thought I had zero maternal...

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My "shin muscles" hurt when I walk and they started hurting a day ago whats wrong and how do i make them stop? You may have shin splints. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_splints You make them stop in any of a number of ways: --whatever you did before they started hurting, stop doing it, or at least cut back (jogging, maybe? dancing on a hard floor? etc.) --get better running / walking shoes --get an orthotic for inside your shoes (expensive!) --get cheap inserts at the drugstore, etc. for...

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What's the going price for a human soul? Fifteen minutes of fame. The price has come down a lot between Faust and Warhol; between Satan and "Fear Factor."

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What is your least favorite holiday??? Why? Right now, Christmas, because 1. it's been commercialized far beyond reason or piety and 2. I am really disgusted by the way vicious politicians and talk-show hosts have tried to turn the holiday into a hatefest, driving people apart and insulting anyone outside of their own tiny group of extremists. They've turned the season of love and happiness at year's end into a...

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What is a solipsist? Mr. Logic gave you the right answer, but for a lot more detail, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipism or go to dictionary.com if you just want the short definition.

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Do you need a liscense to carry a real sword that is for a costume if you are under 18 in the U.S. This is a tough question because it depends on: 1. where you live 2. where you will be wearing the sword Most schools have adopted "zero tolerance" policies on "weapons," even the small knives Sikh kids have to carry for religious reasons. It's really frustrating. Anyway, you would need to check the rules in advance before bringing it into a school. Other...

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What is a good name for a type of dragon that can sence good future Riders for an unhatched dragon and brings them to the eggs when they hatch? Claire, a play on clairvoyant, meaning "sees the future" or "sees far away." You could spell it Clare if you wanted. Usually a female name. Or maybe you like the back half best: Voyant. (voy-AHNT or VOY-ahnt; it's your story, you choose). That just means traveler. You could use Voyance for a female. VOY-ahns or voy-AHNS. Go to dictionary.com and look up...

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Is there anyway to know if my land line phone is being tapped? You can hire a private investigation firm to "sweep" your phones, but I don't know how reliable there are (how can you check their work?) and I DO know they're very expensive. :( By the way, if your "land line" is a cordless phone -- YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY. The police do not need a warrant to record conversations from a cordless phone. Just so you know. As...

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White oval with 146 stamped Take a look here: http://www.muschealth.com/cds/CPDrugIdentifier.results.aspx Or take it to your pharmacist. They will help you. ANY pharmacist will help, it doesn't have to be yours.

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I have Macho "Kimberly Queen" ferns. I have transplanted them into larger baskets. Because of the size of the fern, quite a few of the leaves have broken. Do I trim those off? If they bother you, yes, go ahead. If they don't bother you AND they stay green, you can leave them. If they are brown, they're not helping the fern. I love my Macho Fern! :)

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I found a white oblong coated pill with H2 on one side, what is this pill? You can use the drug identifier here: http://www.muschealth.com/cds/CPDrugIdentifier.aspx As someone else noted, that comes up as Naproxen Sodium. The over-the-counter name for this is Aleve. You can always show a pill to your pharmacist for more info.

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Should the government allow prayer in school? It depends on where you live. If you live in a nation with an official religion, such as Vatican City or Britain or Saudi Arabia, the law there may force prayer in all schools. Whether they "should" is another question; they can if they want to. However, if you live in the United States, the government permits silent prayer any time a student feels like it, and also permits...

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Why do people always say that God is a guy? What if God is a girl? Whoa! An answer you received erroneously stated "Anyhow, the only God who has a continuous record going back to the beginning of time has always used masculine pronouns to describe Himself..." No. For instance -- just one instance among many -- the Eygptian, Greek, and Roman pantheons all pre-date Christianity and Judaism, and their deities include females and males. Even...

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What is your favorite song that is a non-english international song? The "Internationale." :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale Oh, okay. I also like "La Bamba" and any German Christmas carol, such as "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). Until he changed his name and started supporting the subjugation of little girls and women, I liked "O Caritas" by Cat Stephens, sung in Latin, enough to...

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Do you find skeletons beautiful? Sure, on several levels. As an example of nature, they're just amazing. Comparing skeletons of several species is awe-inspiring. As a motif in Medieval and Renaissance art, they're a spiritual commentary on the brevity of life. As a motif in "Day of the Dead" art in Mexico (for example, the works of Diego Rivera or any of the small sculptures), they're just...

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Have you fired a real gun before? If so, which one? Yes. It was a black one. At a range at the state Department of Corrections.

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Does a no-pets policy apply to pets that never leave the dwelling? You need to tell us whether you're talking about an aquarium/cage pet, like a hamster or fish or small lizard, or a cat / dog / ferret. Check your lease to see if there are exceptions for cage pets. Whether there's a "no pet" policy or not, if you have a physician's prescription for a companion animal to deal with a disability, like blindness or anxiety, the...

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Who wants my dog he is pissing me off? A Siberian Husky is a very high energy dog. You would need to be walking and running with this dog for at least an hour a day to get their energy level to drop. When you are ready to give him up, please consider contacting these people instead of taking this dog to the pound: http://www.siberianrescue.com/sibrescu.htm click on the white box which corresponds to where you live. They...

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A lot of people make fun of the way i talk. i was in a serouis car accident and had serouis head injuries and almost died. but nobody knows that. it breaks my heart everytime they tell me that i talk funny. what should i do to the people that do that? You have a choice: 1. if they are nasty, ask "Do you understand me?" and if they say yes, then say, "Oh, good, you hear funny." (If they say no, say, "Well, then you should be talking with someone else.") 2. if they are nice, say it's a disability. You don't have to explain any further than that. They aren't entitled to your whole medical...

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In all honesty, How many of you have MORE than one Avatar/account/profile on answerbag? No, one AnswerBag account is all the fun I can stand.

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Is there any way I can find free religious resources for a deaf person - like a video of a sign language Bible? Excellent question! Try here: http://www.deafmissions.com/?PageID=29 You can get part of it for free, and probably any church would sponsor the cost of the rest. Here are a few verses, but it looks like a lot of finger-spelling to me, not a video: http://cyberjer.com/signbibl/ There are more. Go to www.google.com and enter (without quotes) sign language bible. You'll get...

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What was your most creative tatoo you got? Maybe you could show some pictures if you can? I don't have any tattoos, but a creative one I saw was a guy who was going bald. He had a little stick man pushing a lawn mower on his scalp along his hairline! Very funny. I have seen photos of women with this tattoo elsewhere on their bodies.

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Is your wife or GF a good cook? If you have a partner is he;/she a good cook? Is it important to you? My partner is a FAAAAABULOUS cook. I wouldn't love him any less if he weren't, but oh my gosh, he's a good cook. Cooking is important to him, and anything important to him is important to me -- but otherwise, nah, I don't care.

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If you were an item on a cannibal's dinner menu,what would the name of your own dish? Hamster a lá Smart. :)

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Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you can. You’re watching television. Suddenly you realize there’s a wasp crawling on your arm. What do you do? I whack it firmly with my copy of "Blade Runner" (a/k/a "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"), which I happen to have right here on my desk. Really. I do. Right here. A battered 1982 paperback. I love the movie and wanted to read the original, so I got it from the library a week ago and here it is, ready to go back. :)

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What do you think would happen if we could read each other's minds? We'd have to develop thicker skins and kinder hearts.

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Do you consider Ayn Rand to be a legitimate philosopher? No. She had some unusual personal needs and grandiose delusions, and worked them into a philosophy about economic and political dominance and submission that boils down to an excuse for unlimited anti-social narcissism. Most of her fans are in their late teens or twenties, and grow out of it. Although Rand is vastly more intellectual, substantive, and substantial, she reminds me a bit...

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Every time my boyfriend puts his arm around me i move away and every time he goes to kiss me i move away its like i hate him but i dont i dont no weather to stay with him HELP ME PLEASE!!!! I think maybe you're just not ready to get physical with a boy yet. Tell him that, and tell him you'll understand if he wants to go out with someone who is more ready for this kind of closeness than you are right now. Don't rush yourself, and don't let anyone rush you. :)

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What word do you spell wrong over and over and over? embarrass embarass? embarras? And it's so embarrassing/embarassing/embarrasing when I do it!

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Does anyone here know or has met a famous person? If yes, who? Stephen Jay Gould, at two lectures he gave; once, we not only shook hands but he held my hand! Oooo! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at a play Attorney General Janet Reno, at a lunch Shirley Chisholm, at a feminist meeting Betty Ford, but not to shake hands with (I was helping secure the stage) Hillary Clinton, in the White House Carol Moseley Braun, several times, when she was...

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Do you have any thoughts or ramblings you would like to share about Sylvia Plath? I appreciate her more as I get older. I used to think she was narcissistic to a fault, and not a happy narcissist, obviously. You're familiar with her poem "Daddy"? There is an absolutely riotous parody of it called "Mommy" written in the voice of Sadie the dachshund by Jill Ciment. It's in the poetry collection "Unleashed: Poems by Writers'...

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Have you ever faced any natural calamity? Tornadoes. Floods. Blizzards. Fortunately, I have never been anywhere near a forest fire, major earthquake, mudslide, avalanche, or epidemic (not counting the HIV and obesity epidemics we're facing now. I mean fast-acting epidemics like influenza or Ebola).

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Who made our great ancestors if there was no god? You've answered your own question. :) Your ancestors made you, their ancestors made them. Alllll the way back to one-celled life forms.

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Have you ever told a lie on AB? Nope, unless you count being polite to some people I think are really awful. Maybe it's a lie of omission to be nice instead of saying, "You're a dreadful trolling ignoramus, and a lying hypocrite besides. Your father was a wombat, and your mother smelt of elderberries." Naaaah. It's not lying to withhold a harsh opinion, it's just good manners. :)

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I am seriously thinking if i should marry my fiance or not.over the past yr and a half, i have noticed major differences in our way of thinking. what are some red flags to watch out for besides cheating, or physical abuse? I agree with the other answers so far. You might want to try doing a "pre-Cana" questionnaire together, if you are Catholics; or finding something similar if you aren't. It's a questionnaire designed to get couples talking about things that are important to them that might not have come up in the usual course of courtship. Sometimes this is called a "premarital...

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Does life have a meaning or do we live because we are just to live for no reason? Biologically, the only meaning life has is to go out and make more life. But as humans, we can expand the meaning of our lives far beyond that if we want to. You can decide what you want your life to mean: service to your family, your country, your local Little League or a religion; contributions to art or science or history; and so on. Maybe you can decide that the meaning of your...

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I walk under ladders and break mirrors whenever possibe, am I in trouble? As long as you can afford to pay for the mirrors and for any harm done by knocking over the ladders, not really. If you're completely obsessed by seeking out ladders and mirrors, you might have a problem, but I wouldn't say you're in trouble. :)

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Ladies, would you cook for your husbands if they asked you to? Say u never knew how to cook, and u always had a feminist point of view on cooking that "only women should not cook" but it meant alot to your husband. Would you do it? Why or Why not? Hi -- your question contains a confusing error. It is NOT the feminist point of view that "only women should not cook." The feminist point of view is that women and men should share household work. Maybe that means sharing cooking duties 50/50 or some other breakdown. Maybe that means one of them cooks while the other one does the laundry, or one of them cooks but the other one...

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Ok, for all you guys, I'm sorry you have to read this but girls: Is there any way to get your boobs to get bigger naturally? Well, have a baby, but DavidHume already said that and you said nooo... Or do exercises to increase the size of the pectoral muscles, but this has limits, and if you become a serious female bodybuilder, your breasts look like afterthoughts attached to giant slabs of muscle. And I suppose an underwire bra is an unnatural method... hmmm... OH!! I KNOW!! A large-bosomed friend of mine went...

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How would you make an Asian product's packaging (design on the package) look more North American? If the palette is red and gold and black, I'd change it to red and white and black; maybe red and white and navy blue, unless you think that would annoy Canadians. I'd make sure that it was translated WELL and ACCURATELY into English and French (and maybe Spanish also, to be thorough, especially if it is a product that carries risks, like paint stripper, electrical equipment,...

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I have a 1 yr old female rott and a 3 yr old male rott.. we just got 7 week old bulldogs and my female is always barking and snapping at them..the male loves them..HOw do i get her to stop..she did not do this when we brought the 3 yr old home 3 mo ago I'd get in touch with your local Rottie club via email and ask them about this. Someone in the club surely has experience dealing with introducing new pups to a mature female Rott. Go to Google and enter the name of your state, along with the words Rottweiler Kennel Club, and that should get you where you need to go. Good luck! They are both good, sweet breeds if properly handled,...

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In what ways did the cold war influence faulkner's speech Your teacher is probably looking for a multi-part answer: 1. Your thesis statement: "The Cold War affected Faulkner's speech by __________." 2. A brief recap of the Cold War. 3. An explanation of who Faulkner was, and why he was affected by the Cold War. 4. An explanation of why this particular speech was important. 5. Show HOW the speech reflected or reacted against...

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I had my first sexual experience with my boyfriend. Now I'm still bleeding. It's been about 7 days. Is this normal? how long is something like this supose to last? and what cant it lead to? I assume you mean how long is the bleeding supposed to last, not the boyfriend, or the relationship. Unless you think you've started your period, seven days strikes me as rather a long time to bleed from a torn hymen -- unless you are having sex often enough to make it bleed before it really heals up? In most women, at least part of the hymen remains for life, but usually it's...

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What is something that you do while you are alone that would embarrass you if someone else found out? I sing in octaves which are NOT in my range! :)

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Are you cold right now? It's COLD here but I'm in the toastiest room in the house, where three computers and a server run hot all the time, and now there's a dehumidifier in here that's cranking out heat like a sauna. Yippee!

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Is karma or 'paying it forward' a selfish or altruistic act? Surely the deed is its own reward, and expecting something in return negates the act... or does it? If you "pay forward" just to get rid of the guilt you may feel for having gotten an unexpected gift or help, that may be selfish; or if you do it in a way that everyone (or even just the recipient) will admire you for it, that's selfish. If you do it because you were raised that way (part of good manner to help people when you can, like giving a seat on a bus to an old person...

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Do you think education should be free? Education is never free. For instance, answering questions on AnswerBag costs people their time, which they could have spent doing something for pay. If by "free," you mean do I think the government should bear the cost of educating people, the answer is YES. We are a democracy (here in the U.S.)(supposedly) and we cannot be an EFFECTIVE democracy without an educated public. ...

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Does anyone know when the American photographer Amy Arbus was born? I think the date is unknown because it didn't say when she was born on winkepida, but i'm not sure. You can try using Google.com for "Amy Arbus" but you can also try using wikipedia or other online resources for her mother, Diane Arbus, and see if it mentions when her daughter was born. Good luck, happy hunting!

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What factors form a person's sense of style? -- the style of their family members (but often they define their style by wearing/doing the exact OPPOSITE of their family's wishes and habits) -- what their culture requires. In Afghanistan right now, you're wearing a burka or you're dead. -- what their peers are wearing -- how they think of themselves; some people go for a Goth look, some want to look like...

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What defines the point where a river meets the sea? Are you looking for the word "estuary" ? wikipedia.org and dictionary.com may get you where you want to go, if that is it. Good luck!

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If i had sex with my girlfriend and might of cummed in her while she had a tampon in, could she still get pregnant? Munchkin, I'm glad the IVF worked for you, congratulations! :) However, though you may use it as shorthand for "assisted conception" (covering all kinds of methods), IVF is a specific reference to *In *Vitro *Fertilization. You began your answers assuming the female was menstruating and that that was why the tampon was present. We don't know that. Maybe she was, maybe she...

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Who do you think will be on the Presidential ballot for 2008, for the Democrats and the Republican? (Include Vice President choice) I agree with SteelHamster that a Clinton-Obama ticket would be a possible winner -- IF the two of them can get along, and I'm not sure they can. Both want the top spot pretty badly. If McCain had not destroyed his own reputation as a Republican with an independent streak by kissing up to the far far right all winter, I might have expected something really novel -- like an Obama-McCain...

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What does it mean to "swear blind"? I hadn't heard this and needed to look it up. Warning: it is NOT the same as "blindly swear" -- for that, see bottom of my answer here: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/swear+blind swear up and down (American & Australian, British & Australian, Australian): to say that something is completely true, especially when someone does not believe you. He swore up and...

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Did you have a nickname at school? If so was it flattering or derogatory? Look at my icon! I'm dying to know how you got the name "Steel Hamster." :)

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Can the "war" on drugs, be won? No. We're not even trying. Everyone in law enforcement and in medicine knows that the answer to reducing the number of addicts is medical treatment, not criminal punishment. The laws against drugs are more dangerous than the drugs are. They only serve vicious politicians who want to pretend to be tough guys, and corrupt police departments who are permitted BY LAW to keep the...

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What is a snood? Okay, I don't know anything about the game, but I can talk about women's snoods. These are rarely worn now, but they are easy to describe. You know that giant paper hairnet thing doctors & surgical staff wear? Okay. Imagine that made in black silk or black netting, and pushed back off the forehead a little bit past the very top of your head. It was an early hairnet,...

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I've been with the same partner for 4 years now and he claims he's been faithful. I've been sleeping with him less and less due to the fact that each time I now sleep with him, my scent changes (and not for the better). What gives? Justnormal is right, you need to see your gynecologist. Here are some POSSIBLE explanations: -- he has an STD and has given it to you. This is clearly on your mind, but it might not be true. If it IS true, you need to be treated quickly before things get worse, and you two need to have A Long Talk. -- you have become allergic to his semen. Yes, some women are allergic to all semen,...

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Do you like Puppies/dogs? For me, I like dogs much better than puppies. Puppies are very lovable and cute, but they get sick more frequently, they are totally untrained, they eat everything they see and widdle on everything else, and... well, you get the idea. I know most people prefer puppies. When I get a grown dog from the rescue league, I know I am saving a life because a lot of people won't adopt an older...

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Do you like your country? I love the U.S.'s land and ecology; I love the U.S.'s Constitution; I love the sight of the U.S. flag; I love the military who are so brave and loyal; AND I absolutely despise the leaders of the U.S. government, who have abused the ecology, ignored the Constitution, and dishonored the flag by starting wars on the basis of lies, and misusing the lives and labor of our soldiers.

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What is an avatar An avatar is an icon (small picture) used to represent you on the internet. Originally, an avatar meant two things: -- a god (specifically in Hinduism) coming to earth in human form; but this behavior is not limited to Hindu gods. For instance, the ancient Roman god Zeus often appeared on earth as a bull or a swan, etc. In Judaism and Christianity, two men who seemed human when they...

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Aproximately how much does a Havanese weigh as an adult? The American Rare Breed Association says for a Havanese, "The weight ranges from 7 to 13 pounds, the ideal being 8 to 11 pounds. Any dog whose weight deviates greatly from the stated range is a major fault." http://www.arba.org/Breed%20Standards/havanese_Standard.htm You might like these articles, though none of them gives a weight!: ...

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Anyone else think that the immature-sounding "What's this pill?" question-askers might just be looking for a high? Yes, and I don't care. Better that they know what they are taking than not. That way, their friends can tell the emergency room doctors WHAT the sick person took that made them sick. I also think that a lot of "what's this pill" questions come from parents.

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What we be the most fun way to die? When I am 110, sleeping in the arms of the person I love, and drifting quietly into death without feeling any pain. Just so long as I know that they expect it, and it won't freak them out.

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Do you measure a horse's height from the bottom of its hoof to the top of its head, or how? From the ground to the top of the shoulder, right where it joins the neck. :)

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Why do albino creatures have red eyes, isn't red a pigment? The red in blood is due to the presence of iron in the blood. It's not a skin pigment, it's just the natural color of the oxygenated red blood cells. The regular pigments of eye color (brown, blue, hazel, green) are missing, and that's why you see the color of the blood.

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I had what I thought was a scar at first, until it slowly spread, and it turned out to be ringworm. So I'm supposed to apply a cream until it disappears and then a week more. But it's gradually faded, still barely visible; when do I start the 1 week clock Sandor, ringworm is a real pest and it spreads. I'd keep going until I was out of the cream, unless you have gallons and gallons of it. Otherwise, "barely visible" doesn't mean "gone." Wait until it is GONE, no shadow, and then start the 7-day clock.

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If someone is second cousins with a second cousin of yours, are they related to you? There is only a 50% chance that they are. If, for example, you are second cousin to Jane because you both have the same great-grandpa, Joe, and Jane has another second cousin, Jenny, who ALSO has Joe for a great-grandpa, then yes. BUT if you and Jane both share Joe as a great-grandpa, and she and Bob are second cousins because they are both related to their great-grandpa Bert, then unless...

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What do you find to be the oddest story in the bible? 1. The one where God sends two "she-bears" to eat up 42 children because they made fun of a man for being bald. 2 Kings 2:23,24 2. The way Lot is described as being a virtuous man because he offered up his female servants and his virgin daughters to gang rape, rather than risk having his healthy, strong, adult male guests be abused by the same gang. Genesis 19 3. Any of the...

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If the Earth could speak ,what would it say to mankind? "Mankind" ?? Probably, "Quit writing in my nice clean snow!" But to humanity as a whole, maybe something like, "Where's my flea collar? You're making me ITCH!"

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If you had to chose a job that makes less money than you are making now, what would it be? I wish I could work with zoo animals. I'd be happy to clean up after the elephants or the anteaters or whatever. I have always wanted to work in a zoological park, or on an expedition like Jane Goodall's or Dian Fossey's.

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Whats your favorite type of pie (apple, pumpkin, cherry, etc)? Key lime first, banana cream second, coconut cream third. :)

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Have you ever dreamed that you were being chased by peasants with pitchforks and torches? Yes, and I was wide awake both times, listening to the Republican Conventions of 2000 and 2004.

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Do you think boxing is too violent a sport? Yes. I saw Muhammed Ali when he was a young man, healthy and strong, and I see what boxing has done to him, and it makes me ill. Hiring people to accept brain damage to entertain us is disgusting to me; it's as wicked as having gladiators fight wild animals in the arenas of ancient Rome. The explicit purpose of such "entertainment" is to watch people getting hurt --...

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Christians: If the body they found (See link below), was some how proven to be Jesus, would you still be a Christian? http://www.dakotavoice.com/200702/20070223_1.html I have no answer for you re my own belief, but CNN had several experts on tonight who said that Christians can (or do) argue that Jesus was *spiritually* taken up to heaven, leaving his body behind. This contradicts those sects which have taken the position that Jesus was "bodily assumed into Heaven," meaning his actual corporeal body was taken to Heaven. Roman Catholic doctrine...

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BF and I broke up after huge argumnt n he acted psycho and then got mad cuz I caled his parnts,we have a lease 2gethr,all his stuff except clothes is here,been 2wks,wont talk 2 me at all or come get his things,how do I move on,what do i do? Explain to your landlord that your co-signer has abandoned the lease, and ask if he will let you out of it. He may demand "damages" -- an extra month's rent or something like that. Pay it and get out. Be very nice, because the landlord COULD force YOU to pay the whole rent by yourself -- check the terms of your lease and you'll see that's what it says. Then remove...

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I got drunk and ended up having sex with my boyfriend's best friend. He asked me if I wanted to and I said yes, but I would not have otherwise. He was less drunk and knew what he was doing. Is this rape even though I said yes? I am sorry that you asked a legal question and have gotten many moral, philosophical, or insulting answers in response, and very little information about the law. Under the law, in some jurisdictions this would be sexual assault, and in others, it would not. Some states have chosen to respond to the problem of getting women intoxicated (on alcohol, or on "date-rape" or...

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How many bones have you broken in your life? My nose twice, but maybe you don't count that as a bone. Two fingers at different times. Two toes at different times. My heelbone (calcaneous). My left clavicle (collarbone). MAYBE two cracked ribs (at the same time). LATE EDIT: Oh! In case you mean "how many bones have you broken [on other people] in your life," the answer is one that I know of.

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Does anyone know a bianca? The most famous Bianca in recent history is Bianca Jagger, but I can't say that I *know* her the way you'd know a relative or a drinking buddy! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Jagger

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Is it normal for a 13 year old to have saggy balls. Yep, sure, especially on hot days or in warm or hot water. The scrotum reacts to temperature, to sexual excitement, to practically anything -- especially in your teens, when sexual excitement is particularly pervasive and hard to control. In fact, in hospital emergency rooms, when they are trying to determine if a man paralyzed, they test his "Cremaster reflex." If it...

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Critics of activist courts suggest that the courts have adopted a legislative role and enforce broad social policies. Does our system of justice put too much power in the hands of unelected officials? Please give an example thanks Flaw in the question: plenty of jurisdictions still elect their judges. Some even elect their state Supreme Court justices! This feels a lot like a homework question. It also feels like the teacher phrased it to suggest the answer they want is "Oh, yes, MUCH too powerful, because..." I wonder if any of your classmates will have the guts to say no -- if so, please let us know...

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My bf and i have been going out for 6 months.he cheated a month ago.he was drunk hooked up&got head from her.he didnt do anything else to her.he came and told me but he did it while he was away at college.i love him.hes so sorry.now i dont know what to do Leave him. Wait to love somebody who is ready to be loved exclusively. OR -- get used to the idea that this is not a committed relationship, but rather, a relationship in which you can never be sure where he's been or what diseases he's picked up; never be sure if he values you, or values sex whether it's with you or someone else. 1. He is obviously not ready to be in...

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How can I stop my sports bra from cutting into the areas on top of and below my breasts when I run? Someone suggested powder, and I'd like to suggest a specific brand: Gold Bond medicated powder. Many grocery stores and drug chains sell a generic version that's even cheaper on the shelf right next to the brand name. This kind of powder helps with chafing, AND prevents "hot spot" rashes. I agree that a bigger bra probably won't help; a sports bra needs to be...

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What does the saying, "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" mean? It's "cut off your nose to spite your face." To "spite your face" means "to punish your face." It means a person who is so angry about something, they will take action that is actually self-destructive in the long run -- like telling your boss how much you hate her perfume the week before she does your annual performance review. "Bite" is an...

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Is it annoying to pump your own gas? (I live in Jersey and it's illegal) I am glad that New Jersey has that law -- that attendants must pump the gas and you can't pump your own. Here's why: -- in pump-your-own states, all people are at risk of being robbed, sexually assaulted, and/or killed late at night when there is no one in the gas station but the pumps are still on. A cousin of mine, a strong and healthy man in his early 30's, was murdered...

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Are there any books out there about an extrememly dull person leading an extremely dull life? Something that will make me feel less dull about my dull self and my dull life? "Death of a Salesman," Arthur Miller. Pretty grim. It will certainly make your life feel less dull. I like the "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber idea too. Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" is just TOO grim.

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What work of non-fiction has affected you the most? "Why I Am Not A Christian," by Bertrand Russell. I also learned a whole new worldview from two authors: --- Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series, with its concept of "psychohistory" --- Marvin Harris' sociology books, such as "Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches" and "Cannibals and Kings" and "Good to Eat."

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Who was your first boyfriend or girlfriend? Where is that person now? Bobby Williams of Logan County, Illinois. We promised to marry each other in kindergarten. I moved at the end of the school year and never saw him again. Bobby -- I'm sorry -- I have been untrue! :)

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Have you ever dived into a busy swimming pool and lost your bikini top or bottoms? Yup, the top, at a fancy party where most people were still in evening wear around a swimming pool that only eight of us were using. I didn't know hardly any of them, and I'm SO glad about that. And I'm glad I was young and gorgeous then -- it would be much worse now!!! :) And it was only off of me for a second, I dropped right back into the water and got it back where it...

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If you had to wear a necklace with an emblem on it, what would it be? Right now, the peace sign.

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What was the biggest secret ever cept from you? That there WERE NOT weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that Bush and his advisers knew it but chose to lie about it. That's the biggest.

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What is the most random, pointless fact you know? Sheep have bicornate uteri.

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Is there any nation that have public unisex bathrooms. Im not talking about the 1 person bathrooms, but larger that allows both sexes to use at the same time? Seems strange to me if it exsists but Im still curious if it does. I don't know of any modernized nation which permits both genders to use a single multi-stall bathroom at the same time. Cubicles do not provide perfect privacy, as a rule - anyone can look in at the hinges, or over the top. (I personally know a woman who was sexually assaulted by a man crawling over the stall wall in a public women's bathroom). Furthermore, women are...

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Are we made from the dust of the stars? Yes. Here is an excerpt from a 1999 article explaining NASA's Stardust missions located here -- http://www.ishipress.com/stardust.htm (short version) and here: -- http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/020299sci-stardust.html (long version of same article as it originally appeared in the New York Times) BEGIN EXCERPT===== Over generations of stars, a mix of gas and dust...

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Does anyone know whether a young boys intelligence comes from his fathers DNA or his mothers DNA? 1. A child's anatomical sex is ---always--- determined by the father's contribution to the child's DNA, not the mother. 2. A male child's intelligence comes from the same places a female child's comes from: ---the genetic contribution from both parents ---instinct (about falling, for example) ---health (fetuses and children exposed to lead or to alcohol, for...

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What is the origin and/or meaning of the last name Gushina? It is a Russian surname, and unfortunately, I do not know what it means. First names I found associated with this surname are Anatoly, Marina, Nina (possibly a nickname for Marina), Anna, Nikolai, Sergei (pronounced surrGUY), Yelena, Irina, Ludmila, and Olga. There are very few GUSHINA individuals living in the United States at present -- or ever, for that matter. I checked U.S. Census...

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I'm writing an essay on World War 1. This essay has to be college material, what essay format should I follow, and what 3 topics on the WW1 should I write about? You'll have to decide on your own format from books at the library which give examples -- any "how to get into college" type book will have a few. Your reference librarian will help you find these books at your public or high school library. Topics I'd recommend: 1. The use of chemical weapons, specifically mustard gas 2. The use of an entirely new weapon: the...

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What is the first sign to tell if your dog is pregnant and when do you start counting 60 -63 days? My rottweiler "locked" with my male 8 days ago is that when i start counting or after her second week of her heat cycle? Start counting the day of the mating, because if fertilization has occurred, that's when it happened. Keep in mind some dogs can have false pregnancies, and some have genuine pregnancies that end prematurely, and the fetuses are "resorbed" by the mother -- without leaving her body at all. This is a very good site that explains how a vet can tell at 30 days, just by feeling...

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In church im an altar server and when im standing up there during mass i usually feel weak and i feel like I need to faint and sit down. what can i do to help me feel better? There is a common syndrome in soldiers standing at attention in which their blood pools in their legs and does return to their heart properly to get re-oxygenated. Eventually, your blood becomes so oxygen-poor that your brain isn't getting enough oxygen, and you faint. The "cure" is to not lock your knees when you are standing for long periods. I hope this is helpful; here are...

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Are donuts baked or fried? I worked at Dunkin Donuts as a kid, and the standard donuts are fried in big vats of oil. If you have a Krispy Kreme Donuts in your neighborhood, they will let you watch. Some of the fancy donuts Dunkin' Donuts used to sell, like cheese Danish, were baked, but that was a very small proportion of their business.

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Why do people write 20+c+m+v+07 above their door at home and what does it mean? I had never heard of the custom Sian described in the other answer you have received, so I looked it up and found this additional resource which confirms and expands Sian's answer: http://www.catholicculture.org/lit/prayers/view.cfm?id=49 The site notes that the C M B may be ' "Christus mansionem benedicat" which means "Christ bless this house" '. ...

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In St. John's Gospel who is called the "Word of God"? As far as I know, there is no Gospel of Joseph in the New Testament, nor in the Apocrypha (early scriptures that were rejected when the official New Testament was put together). LATE EDIT: You edited your question to refer to the Gospel of John. You have many answers on that already, so I won't get into it. Thanks for clarifying what you were asking. I wonder why you were asking.

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What Saint does a person pray to if he needs help overcoming a particular sin? I'm sorry you didn't get a real answer before this. The answer you got before was from a non-Catholic who opposes the Catholic belief in saintly intercession. They were trying to convert you, rather than answer the question as you asked it. Again, I'm sorry you didn't get an answer to the question you actually asked. In Roman Catholic practice, saints are frequently...

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Canine Leg problems: 8 month old Saint puppy. He has UAP on a front leg. Both of his rear legs have either torn or ruptured cruxiate ligaments. I adviced against surgery, due to 3 legs being effected and suggested euthanaisa. What is your opinion? Thanks I don't know enough about St. Bernards to offer an opinion, so what I recommend is that you contact local or national St. Bernard clubs and just email their presidents, asking what their advice is based on their deep knowledge of the breed. http://www.saintbernardclub.org/ http://www.gtcsbc.org/ http://www.barkbytes.com/rescue/stbern.htm Good luck to you and your poor puppy. I...

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Bodies of many Popes, Saints, etc. never decay long after they die, so if a body festers, does it indicate that s/he went to Hell? In terms of Roman Catholic belief, the fact that a body decays does not prove anything bad about the dead person at all. Roman Catholic doctrine does consider "incorruptibility" of the body after death as a sign of divine favor and it is a factor which may be considered during the process of canonization (recognizing someone as a Roman Catholic saint). However, as noted in one...

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To be "competent" about christianity (in theory, NOT spiritually), I should - read the bible - know about the saints - know about the history of the church, with the shismas etc and - the organisation of the different churches today. anything else? You are asking about how to attain academic competence in the history and theory of Christianity. You specifically said you did NOT want answers about spiritual competence as a Christian. I am sorry no one has tried so far to give you the answer you asked for. To answer what you asked, these are the basics: 1. Read the New Testament of the Christian scriptures for a start, particularly...

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Who do you think the Count Of Saint Germain really was? Are you asking about the fictional character in the Marian Zimmer Bradley novels? He was based on a real man, which she explains in detail in a postscript to one of the early novels in the series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Saint-Germain_%28vampire%29 This article explains her fictional character, and leads you to links on the real man.

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Are there college funds for poor white people? Poor whites are eligible for the same standard state and federal loan & grant programs as people of any color or ethnic backgrounds. If you are asking if there are scholarships targeted specifically to whites, yes. For instance, a scholarship might be granted by an Irish heritage group to a student with an Irish ancestry (although of course, you can be of part Irish ancestry and not be...

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What are the pre requisites for Law School? Vesper, in the U.S., you have to take the LSAT test, and I strongly encourage you to take an LSAT preparation course FIRST. Your LSAT score is tremendously important: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSAT Law schools also care about your college GPA (grade-point average) and the reputation of the college you went to. However, don't be discouraged if you went to a small college and want...

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What does the merchant marine do? Staffie gave you a good answer, but you might want to take a look at this article, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_marine It explains that saying "the merchant marine" is a way of referring to the merchant marine fleet -- that is, all ships at sea which are not military ships and not pleasure boats, but rather the boats and ships which transport products for sale...

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Which saint is petioned in order to find lost objects? Usually St. Anthony, but sometimes people appeal to St. Jude, also, who is the patron of hopeless causes.

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Does anyone know which companies and their nationality are exploiting offshore D R Congo oil at the moment? Does any one know about their activities for the local people? A good way to handle questions like this is to start by going to http://www.google.com Then click NEWS above the blank for the search form. Then enter your terms, something like this: oil companies congo protest or oil companies congo workers or other terms, depending on what you specifically want to find out about.

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Who is the patron saint of television? The answer you were given before is correct. The more common spelling for her name is Clare, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Clare You can buy a small statue of her at archiemcphee.com in her role as television patroness: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11636.html

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Who is St. Valentine? Darn, it's probably too late to help you now, but here's an article with as much as is known about the three men who might have been St. Valentine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine

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What is the penalty for Accesory after the fact level 2? No one can answer your question without knowing where this crime was charged, and accessory to what -- murder? conspiracy? fraud? etc. UPDATE Feb 25: You updated the query to be Accessory After The Fact to Robbery in North Carolina; and perhaps there's a possession of stolen goods charge as well? Okay, I can't give you legal advice; I'm not licensed in NC, and you and I...

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I want to find out if my granfather ever married again i never new him i no his name town were he lived any ides how i can do this it is very imortant to me he lived in shilton oxford he died in dec 2006 Shilton, Oxford? Do you mean in Britain? You can look at the newspapers for the days right after he died and see if anyone placed an obituary for him. That would probably show the names of his current family. Also, his death certificate would probably list his nearest relative. I hope this helps. I am more familiar with U.S. records than U.K. records. Good luck.

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A List of websites or places that assist a person with finding a Job with a felony in Pontiac, Mi. I'd email the Safer Foundation through their "contact us" button on the far right of their webpage: http://www.saferfoundation.org/viewpage.asp?id=4 They work in Illinois, but maybe they can tell you who does what they do for people in Michigan. Put "Attention: Ms. Diane Williams" in your email. (She is their president). Good luck, Mike. Wish I had a better...

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What are some Christian colleges i can go to for courses to be a marine mammal trainer? The best way to narrow this down is to find out which schools offer the marine mammal classes you want, and then decide for yourself which of those schools are Christian enough for you. Your high school counselor or the reference librarian at your local public library can help you figure out which schools have training in marine biology. However, you might want to look for classes in...

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I want to know the difference between human resource management and personnel management. Zero difference; it just depends on what the company wants to call it.

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Im 16 and i use to read point horror books i told my techer my english is really weak when it comes to understanding she said poin horror books are not suitable they are for 11 yr olds. i need help, name me books for 16yrs old My own super-favorite: Watchers by Dean Koontz (horror fiction with great animal & human characters) The Diary of Anne Frank (real-life horror story about World War II; maybe not the kind of horror you were looking for, but give it a try anyway) Pet Sematary by Stephen King (fictional horror story) That's a start. Happy reading! :)

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Dould anyone please name me some books that i can get from my library that will be suitable to read at the age of 16? I'm working on your other question about horror books, but for this question, I agree with Indigo. "Mists of Avalon" is a great book, but it deals with adult themes and religion and your parents might not like it. It's also very long. "1984" also deals with very adult themes, but at 16, you're probably old enough that your parents won't object to...

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What is shagging is it like sex or...... "Shagging" is a synonym for "having sexual intercourse." To "shag" someone means to have sexual intercourse with them. It is slightly vulgar but not considered bad enough to be forbidden for use on U.S. television and radio. It comes from British slang, and did not become common in the United States until it was made popular in the Austin Powers movies: ...

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When rub your virgina aggainst the sofa or something you get this nice feling ?...is this called shagging No. "Shagging" is slang for actual sexual intercourse. You've got a couple of errors in your question that are going to cause you confusion down the line. There is no such thing as a "virgina." Here are some related words, though: virgin = a woman or man who has not had sex vagina = the hollow tube in a woman's body which leads from outside up to the...

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I heard that a new season of Buffy the Vampier Slayer was coming out in comic book form. I was just wondering if that was true and if any one knows when? Yes, the creator of the series, Joss Whedon, says he'll do an 8th season for the comic books though the TV series only had seven seasons: http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/default.aspx?posting=%7B0C084F89-5673-43B9-9FFC-022578DAA927%7D That interview is from December, 2006. The comic books will start coming out in March, 2007 and will come out for about two...

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I have an unclaimed insurance policy from 1896 the person named on the policy shares the same last name as I do. With being a decendent of the deceased do I legal rights to this policy?failed to mention this policy was found in my family bible. I'd be amazed if the insurance company on the policy still exists. Have you tried to find out? And can you prove descent? Can you prove you are the ONLY descendant? Your chances of collection are, in my opinion, zero, but this is not legal advice from me to you and does not establish an attorney-client relationship between us. For that, you need an attorney licensed in your own...

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In my ongoing attempts to chose to be gay, I spent the entire weekend around my lesbian friend. I kept trying to breathe the same air, or otherwise catch the "gay vibes". Nothing happened, and I'm still not attracted to women. What am I doing wrong? You're just not wearing enough lavender clothing. Wear more, lots more, and maybe it will rub off on you. (Seriously -- what's up with all the weird questions, AR? Especially those we know you know the answer to, such as the athame query?)

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Have your comments ever been rejected when they asked for comments on a UPI story or other news story, and you stuck to the topic and did not disobey any rules? Why does this often happen to me? Don't take it personally. They only look at the first twenty or thirty submitted, out of the thousands and thousands they get. The editors also tend to choose a few letters that are "provocative" -- meaning likely to irritate people or cause controversy -- rather than just letters which are sensible. Just keep writing. If you want to see your opinion in print,...

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What is Voodoo? Do the spells work? or is it just stealing ur money and a waste of time? Voodoo, hoodoo, voudoo, and Voudoun are all spellings for the same thing: a variant of the original religion of the Africans (mostly Yorubans) kidnapped and brought to the U.S. and Haiti and other Caribbean islands for the slave trade. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voudoun The spells and prayers of Voudoun work just as well as the spells and prayers of any other religion. As an...

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How many gods and goddess's, are there in the pagan / wicca beliefs ? are the same for every pagan? Wicca is a specific religion with only two deities. Pagan beliefs come in many varieties, and each pagan pretty much decides for herself or himself which ones, and how many of them, she or he believes in.

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Am I wrong for making my fiance choose between me and her male friend? I see no other choice. She won't introduce us and they are very very close. She made over 200 calls from my house phone in 2 months. Most of them before 6am when I wake up. Life is too short for you to spend any more time worrying about what the truth is about her, and about this. Move on. Don't go for the drama of asking her to choose. You know in your heart you don't trust her now, and you'll never be able to trust her later. YOU choose -- choose to move on and look for a woman who is ready for marriage, open, honest, and whom you can...

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The other night my girlfriend had a work christmas party at her house. i started worrying about a coworker who has a crush on her. i arrived unannounce and found my girlfriend and him to be the only ones there. she was acting weird. think anything was up? Life is too short for you to spend any more time worrying about what the truth is about her, and about this. Move on. You don't have to make a big scene or a dramatic announcement, just politely drift off and start seeing someone who doesn't creat these weird situations. Bail quietly, but bail.

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Do you believe the u.s. government and businesses are catering to illegal immigrants? whats happening to our country? Our country is suffering from a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria. The U.S. government caters to businesses -- especially agricultural businesses -- which hire illegal aliens rather than legal residents so that they can cheat the workers of fair pay, and there's nothing the workers can do about it. The government looks the other way while crops are getting picked, and then deports the...

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I got my bf a shirt, a devil, and candy for V-Day: is that too much? Yes, especially if you've been together less than a year. Skip the candy for sure. Give him the devil. Decide for yourself if the shirt is too much. You don't want to give him so much more than he's giving you that he'll be embarrassed; on the other hand, it's nice for guys to get gifts as big as the women get on Valentine's Day.

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I think my husband has had an affair,we moved out of state to get away from the situation,now its back in my face with mysterious text messages.what should i do? Megan, I read your financial explanation (kids, no job for a year, just hired for restaurant job, just out of hospital for suicide attempt, not even on his checking account) and here are some things you can do to protect yourself: 1. Stop sleeping with him before he gives you a disease or another pregnancy. 2. Talk to a lawyer -- the first consultation is usually free -- and ask if they...

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Would you rather have good health or wealth? Give me the health, and I'll go make the wealth.

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What is your favorite flower to receive as a gift? Tulips, especially this time of year when they are a promise that spring is coming.

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If you could change anything or run this world?what would you change?or how would you make it a better place? Do we only get to pick one thing? I like a lot of the ideas so far, especially Gideon's truth serum, but my favorite is still going to be that no one gets pregnant unless they really WANT to be pregnant. I think that will help with a lot of things, ranging from food distribution to child abuse. If I could choose more things, in addition to what everyone else has said, I'd...

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If you could change anything or run this world?what would you change?or how would you make it a better place? Ooop, this was a mistake -- webmaster, please delete if possible. Sorry. :(

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Should New Orleans be rebuilt? The parts that are on high ground (which didn't take that much damage in the first place), yes -- like the French Quarter, for example. The rest of it, no. The federal government should buy the land (because I don't trust the state to buy it without re-selling it later on) and condemn it against any future building. Make it a federally protected wetlands preservation area, and...

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If you were in a permanent, irreversible vegetative state, would you want your loved ones to "pull the plug"? Yes, absolutely, and I have a Living Will that says so. The Living Will also specifically refuses artificial nutrition and hydration in those circumstances, and it permits "comfort care" via painkilling drugs until life ends. I also have a Durable Medical Power of Attorney which says who gets to make the decision. My Living Will also SPECIFICALLY mentions the Terri Schiavo case,...

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On Saturday monings (I believe it was ABC; the channel with "Bump in The Night") they sometimes had music. I want to know who sang "It doesn't matter if you're black or white or green with polka dots on your skin"... (sorry it isn't more clear).? I tried several variations on those lyrics in google.com, but couldn't come up with the rest of the song, so I couldn't find the singer for you. Sorry. :( If you can remember more phrases from the song, just enter them in Google and maybe what you you're looking for will come up.

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What is the best way to immigrate to US for a small canadian business? Several agencies will help you, once you have chosen your location: --the state's department of commerce or business will assist; they are always eager to bring in investment and jobs --the town or county you have chosen may have an economic development department which will assist for the same reason --the town may have a Chamber of Commerce, which is not a government agency --...

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Ist jemand zu einem Octoberfest gewesen? (Has anyone been to an Octoberfest)? Sure; there are numerous Oktoberfests in the U.S. and I've gone to several. Never made it to one in Germany, though. :(

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Is it a requirement that you be a judge or lawyer before being appointed to the US Supreme Court? No, it is not. When Ronald Reagan was planning to appoint the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, many pundits noted that he had the ability to appoint notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, even though she was not an attorney and had never gone to law school. (He chose Sandra Day O'Connor instead). In the old days, many lawyers, even Abraham Lincoln, did not go...

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How many gods and goddess's, are there in the pagan / wicca beliefs ? are the same for every pagan? Most standard Wiccans believe in a goddess and a god. Wiccans may choose to honor their deities by many names -- for instance, the Goddess may be referred to as Isis, Astarte, Inanna all in one line of a single prayer -- but Wiccans understand each of these names to be the name by which their goddess (always the same in herself) was honored by various cultures; likewise with their god. Now,...

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Why is it that America fails to focus more money on public education? Because most lawmakers, especially at the federal level, put their kids in private schools and feel that they have no personal stake in whether the public schools are any good. They are selfish about not wanting to fund a school system their own children don't use. Federal and local officials tend to be satisfied with the current system of local taxation for local schools, which...

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Bank of America has gone crazy. today, they announced credit cards and mortgages to illegal immigrants, without a social security number. is this violating our civil rights? Violating your civil rights? The bank's relations with non-citizens has no impact on your civil rights whatsoever. Unless Bank of America denies YOU some service they grant the rest of the public on the grounds of your religion, race, ethnic or national origin, gender, marital status, pregnancy status, illegitimate birth, disability, or (in a few jurisdictions) sexual orientation,...

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Why put into law the rules of your religion? If people who break those rules go to hell, like someone who marries someone of the same sex, isn't it satisfaction enough for you that they are going to hell? Why punish them on earth? Why not let god judge? Hi, Kabuki. I respectfully disagree with Farino's answer. Religious laws came first, then secular laws, and in the United States, religions have been trying to get the power to make and enforce laws back ever since. This answer begins with the establishment of religious law in the U.S., its replacement by secular law, and the motives of the people who attempt to use secular law to...

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What is the best way for me to do my family geneaology work online?? I am trying to find more members of my family and work on my family geneaology. Unfortunately, the best way is to buy a subscription at Ancestry.Com. It has the best records. SOME of the site is free, so go take a look. Ancestry owns genealogy.com, and you can look at SOME things there for free also -- but the sites are not alike, have different resources, have different message boards, and genealogy.com is a big pain in the neck to use. Also check out...

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In this modern society, women tends to fight equality level with men . Having so much to say and argue, when comes to compulsory Military Service, women will always fight back saying that's a men's issue nothing to do with them. Why is that so? If you are talking about women's advocates in the United States, your premise is inaccurate. Women have been arguing for equality in the draft, in draft registration, and for equality in combat positions at least since the Second Wave of feminism began in the 1960's. Furthermore, women CAN BE, and HAVE BEEN, drafted into military service in the United States as part of the medical...

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What uses has the pentagram had in Christianity? I assume you mean the star made with a single unbroken line which crosses itself, as in a pentacle? In Catholicism, a pentagram either hollow or filled, but not with the lines, is an iconic reference to Mary, mother of Jesus. The Pennsylvania Dutch -- Amish or Mennonites of German origin -- use the pentagram in their art, not just in the so-called "hex" signs but also in...

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Is it true that the older you get, the less sleep you get? I think a lot of adults get less sleep than they did earlier in their lives because they are up in the night taking care of babies, or rising earlier than they normally would for work because they have to get kids ready for school or day care. Scientifically, it has been proven that teens need more sleep than younger children or adults. I don't know if they GET more sleep, but the...

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Does the orthodontist that puts on your braces have to be the one who takes them off? No, any orthodontist CAN do it but many of them will hesitate. They'll want to know why the original ortho isn't doing it, and they'll be especially alert to payment disputes. But it happens all the time, especially if someone with braces moves far away from their origial orthodontist.

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What does it mean? Wash with Enzyme. There are detergents which contain enzymes which can break down protein stains (like blood) and other natural stains (like grass stains). All grocery stores carry them, and they will say "WITH ENZYMES" prominently on the label. Hope this helps!

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Is it true that American kids have to sing their national anthem each day in school before class starts? No, it's not true. Many school districts try to force children to say the Pledge of Allegiance every day, but kids who do not want to do not have to. See my answer here: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/32161 Almost all school districts will teach kids the words to the national anthem, as well as other patriotic songs. Our national anthem is "The Star-Spangled Banner."...

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What is your favorite prayer? The Prayer of St. Francis is my favorite Christian prayer: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy; O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be...

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If a man has only one testicle (the right one), can he have babies? Oh, yes, he'll have no trouble making babies. One functioning testicle is plenty enough to get the job done. The reason is, each ejaculation produces 40 million to 600 million sperm, averaging about 250 million. There's only one egg (unless there are fraternal twins happening, or fertility treatment producing multiple eggs). Statistically speaking, it is totally irrelevant if...

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Theres a movie based on you, who would you get to act as you in the movie? Meryl Streep! Meryl Streep! It would be such an honor to have Meryl Streep. :)

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What is the best way to celebrate Valentine's Day? Not the answer you were looking for, but I'd say by being as loving and kind as you can to everyone you meet that day. (This is something single people can do, too.) For people who are partnered, my preference is for a quiet dinner at home and spending the evening thinking about, talking about, and demonstrating how much we cherish each other. I'm not into the big gifts or...

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Do you feel a sense of pride in knowing that out of about six billion sperm all racing to the finsh line you were the strongest and fastest? LOL! I uprated your question because it's such a novel point of view. :) But no, I am not a sperm, I am me, a combination of a sperm and an egg that is something altogether new. I don't really identify with either the sperm or the egg. They were them, and I am me. In terms of the sperm who won that race so many years ago, I am pleased that the little guy who was the...

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Is it true that it takes two to fight? Have you ever been told that while in a fight? How did it make you feel? Yes, I have, and it depends on the circumstances. Adults having arguments: yes, it takes two to fight. Kids getting beaten up at school: nope, only takes one to fight. I suppose this applies to adults being beaten up, too. In the case of a kid being beaten on who is told that it takes two to fight, of course it makes me furious. What's really going on is that some lazy adult...

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Swimwear has been getting progressively skimpier ever since the sixties. Will, one day, all beaches end up being nude beaches (I'm not saying that's a bad thing)? In the United States? No, the political climate won't permit it, at least not for the next fifty years (ask me again in fifty years and we'll see if things have changed!) Men's bathing suits are usually still pretty modest (except for the "sling" styles) but suits meant for young women (think Fort Lauderdale at Spring Break, if your heart can stand the strain) are...

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Who is your favorite late night talk show host? Jon Stewart in the Daily Show and Stephen Colbert in its sister production, The Colbert Report.

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Is it more advantageous to be the oldest, youngest or middle child? Sociological research says that the oldest children are more likely to have leadership positions and higher incomes later in life than their younger siblings. Many people I know say that the youngest child has it easiest, because by that time the parents are no longer novices and hyper-nervous about everything the child does; but at the same time, I've seen families where the parents...

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Have I ever tried to convert you to Wicca? (I am asking because I've been accused of such.) Nope. Not you, not any other Wiccan. Wiccans don't proselytize. In fact, in some Wiccan traditions, there's strong encouragment to not be public about being Wiccan AT ALL, much less go out and recruit. (I know you know all that, AR, just putting it here for the non-Wiccans who don't.)

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What are some of the phrases that Hippies used to say? I don't know if you're looking for slogans, or for vocabulary phrases, so here are some of each: Power to the people (Say it loud) I'm Black And I'm Proud (from the famous James Brown song; before the hippie era, calling a black person "black" instead of "negro" was considered somewhat insulting) Free abortion on demand (at a time when abortion...

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Can I file a real estate lawsuit in Washington against the past owners who moved to Idaho? I was told that I might have to file the case on their turf. No, you file where you and the property are. A real estate attorney can tell you more about what may need to be done to chase them down in Idaho. It may be expensive to get them served with the necessary paperwork if they don't accept service by mail, or if there is some other reason service by mail is not allowed. However, it is possible that if they choose not to show up in...

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Barack Obama is running for President of USA as African-American. Do you agree that he is African-American? His white Amer mother divorced his black Kenyan father when he was 2 years. He was raised in a white middle class family in Hawaii and Indonesia. He identifies himself as "a black guy" and African-American. Last week I heard author Debra Dickerson ("The End of Blackness") claim that he's not authentically "African-American" because she says that should mean only slave descendants, and he's the son of an African student who was here temporarily. She said he should be called an "African...

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Is it true that Goerge Bush was shot and killed? I havn't been following up on the news at all lately. No. Neither ex-President George H.W. Bush nor his son, George W. Bush, has been shot, nor killed by other means. Vice-President Dick Cheney shot a man in the face and chest a year ago (February 11, 2006) but did not kill him; could that be the story you are thinking about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_cheney#Hunting_incident LATE UPDATE: As I mentioned before, President George...

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Would you let your child go door to door selling something? Not in a million years, not for anything, not to anyone, unless I was monitoring what was happening from the sidewalk. No way. We have two registered child molesters in my neighborhood. There are probably some in every neighborhood, registered or not. Parents who send their kids door-to-door without adult supervision are crazy, or naive to the point of incompetence. I also have concerns...

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What is your favorite dog breed? Whatever dog is in my lap at the time is my favorite, from dachshunds and chihuahuas on up to Newfoundlands and Great Danes. They are all lapdogs when I'm around. And All-American Happy Dogs are welcome too; otherwise called mutts or random-bred! I have never met one in person, but I think I could really fall in love with a Neapolitan Mastiff (except for the drooling): ...

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If you resurrect one president. Who would it be? It's hard to choose, but I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, father of Social Security and the "New Deal" that pulled the U.S. out of a depression and financed the Works Progress Administration, which built a lot of the public infrastructure we are still using today. FDR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR WPA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration Against...

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What are your thoughts on the Fox News controversy, alleging that Barack Obama went to a madrassa in Indonesia as a child? My thoughts? Fox is trying to play on racism, fear, and religious bigotry to damage a candidate they do not support. Fox was being deceptive, as usual. And as usual, they will get away with it for people who don't have the time or the resources to get the real story. "Madrassa" is a word for "school" and that's all. It doesn't even mean "religious...

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How did the animal icons of the Republicans and Democrats originate? A cartoonist named Thomas Nast popularized them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast He assigned the elephant to Republicans in 1874, and the donkey to the Democrats in 1870. He was following up on the use of the donkey for Democrats which was first made common in the 1830's: http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/kicking_lion.htm Here is C-Span's very comprehensive answer to your...

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I found a blue pill that has a V on one side and 2684 on the other side - what is it? You've already gotten a specific answer. Retroglide is right, it's one of the benzodiazepine drugs. The one you've got is called diazepam and is sold under many trade names, including Valium. http://www.mentalhealth.com/drug/p30-v01.html In the future, you can go to the reference desk of your library and ask to see "The Physician's Desk Reference." The PDR is...

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What can we do to stop trolling and poor moderation on AnswerBag? 1. Prevent people from leaving more than one negative feedback on questions or on answers in any five-minute period. Being forced to wait five minutes will slow down the speed-trollers to the point that they'll probably go away. Making the period 30 minutes works even better. 2. Add to the software so that when you downrate someone, a window appears that says: "Downrating is to...

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Why do people smoke even when they know its bad for them? My mother is dying of smoking-associated diseases. She says she could not quit smoking because the power of addiction was so strong. She also feared gaining weight. She didn't quit even though she knew she was harming her children, both of whom have lung damage from being exposed to her second-hand smoke and one of whom suffered from excruciating earaches due to her smoking: ...

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Is it wrong to take the life of a very sick or old pet? Old? Old doesn't have anything to do with it. Mortally ill or severely disabled & in pain is what matters. My heart is still broken about the loss of my dog, but I will always be grateful that the law let me limit her suffering at the end. If there is no hope; if there is nothing but suffering and pain ahead for your pet; then it's not just right, it's an...

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Why does the state pay for a public defender and also the prosecution of a defendant? It is part of our Constitutional guarantee of a fair trial. When the U.S. was a British colony, Americans saw for themselves how unjust it was to have regular people with no legal training go up against the British prosecutors. They decided we wouldn't do that here, and so the Constitution has a couple of references to fair trials. In time, U.S. courts decided that the trial could NOT...

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Would you send answer of:is "FREE LOTTO",a legitimate site:to my email,please. T.Y. Anything claiming to be a "free lotto" or "free lottery" is a hoax. Don't get involved with them. Also, some websites like this try to attract people SOLELY to get information from them, like email addresses or street address that they can sell to advertisers. Stay away!

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Why do people type LOL all the time? Why not go the extra letter and write ha ha? Four reasons: 1. LOL is three keystrokes, plus the caps key. 2. ha ha is five keystrokes. 3. LOL is an abbreviation for an internet phrase that was popular *before* LOL was popular: ROTFLOL or ROTFLOLPIMP. Rolling on the floor LOL, or rolling on the floor LOL peeing in my pants. 4. At this point, LOL is internet tradition. It's one of the first abbreviations newbies...

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Do you know the TRUTH about pitt bulls? look below Hey Staffie -- is your name short for Staffordshire, perhaps? :)

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What would be your first reaction if you found out that one of your immediate family members was writing rather smutty "Romance Novels"? Congratulations, hope you sell zillions!

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Why is their a increase in divorce over the years? I limit my answer to the United States. 1. In the late 1950's, Hugh Hefner (followed soon by the James Bond movies) made the "Playboy Philosophy" very, very, very popular. Hefner's Playboy magazine mocked men who wanted to be husbands and fathers, mocked marriage, and said that all men should avoid commitment and seek out many young, pretty (no stretch marks from...

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What would your porn star name be? (It's the name of your first pet + the street you grew up on.) Snoopy DeBruyler. Snoopy? Just doesn't work for a female, male, or anything between, porn-star wise. Sounds like a detective dog in a Canadian cartoon or something.

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What is your FAVORITE breakfast? Good for me: grapefruit with artificial sweetener. I really like grapefruit. Bad for me: bacon, eggs, bacon, toast, bacon. :) Hard to find where I live: Hardee's breakfast bacon and egg biscuit, out of this WORLD, better than all the other chains!

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I've been looking at some beautiful Akita dogs. Why do you think dogs/puppies so expensive to buy? Well, responsible breeders spend a lot on vetrinary care and genetic screening, plus they want a profit. IRRESPONSIBLE breeders pretend to spend that kind of money on producing a quality pup, but they don't -- they just rob you blind. I guess you are in the UK -- here in the U.S., you can contact a purebred rescue league and get a purebred dog for very little cost at all. You have...

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Do you think it is okay for a woman to be a preacher/priest? Why or why not? Are you asking about Christian preachers & priests, or some other group? For Christians, yes, I do. The early Christian church had a tradition of female priests and preachers. Christian scriptures include passages that specify that there should be no distinctions of rank between women and men: Galatians 3:28 http://bible.cc/galatians/3-28.htm KING JAMES VERSION: There is neither...

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Why for some it is “fatherland” and for some “motherland”? Wikipedia has some pretty good articles on this, which include which countries use which term: Motherland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherland Fatherland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland Homeland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland If you enter "motherland versus fatherland" in www.google.com (without the quotes), you'll get a list of sites where this...

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Does a life insurance policy made after a will was made, supercede the will? Life insurance policies are usually handled OUTSIDE the terms of a will. You will notice, when you fill one out, that it makes you specify who your beneficiary will be. A life insurance policy is a contract between you & the company. If you contract with them to give the money to the Save The Spiders Fund, that's what happens, regardless of what you have said in your will. ...

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Was J. Edgar Hoover really a transvestite? According to a single witness, Susan Rosenstiel, interviewed by one of his major biographers, yes. Much more widely accepted and supported is that Hoover was a closeted homosexual. However, not all gay men are transvestites, and not all transvestites are gay men, so his gayness does not prove anything about his possible transvestite activities. "In his 1993 biography Official and...

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Atheists: Would you like the U.S dollar bill better, if it said, "In Nothing We Trust"? Because I actually think that would be funny. It might be funny, but it doesn't belong on our currency. U.S. currency should not contain ANY statement of faith. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Forcing people to agree to a statement of faith, like "In God We Trust" or...

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Religious people believe that God created humans. They can't prove it,it is a matter of faith. Atheists believe that humans created God. They can't prove it, it is just a belief like any other one. Are Agnosticists the really smart ones? .... Actually, atheists can prove that humans created gods. Each culture has created the god or gods that suit its needs best, and the proof of that is the thousands of different religions which have been created around the world. Also, by "religious people," do you mean only monotheists? Because polytheists believe that gods, plural, created humans. Even religious people do not...

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According to Christianity, must one be Christian to go to heaven? If so, are you telling me Buddha went to hell? If not, will a nice, kindhearted, honest, hard-working atheist have a better chance of getting into heaven than an aggressive, mean Christian? John 10:14-16 are verses from Christian scripture which suggest that even people who were not Christians in life will go to the same Heaven Christians do, if they were good people. You have to decide for yourself what the verses mean, and how that would affect Buddha, if you think Buddha will be judged by Christian standards: KING JAMES VERSION 14 -- I am the good shepherd, and know my...

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What are the differences in the argument used in support of Female Genital Mutilation (circumcision) and Male Genital Mutilation (circumcision)? To me, both should be banned. If a male wants this done later in life, to protect his partner and possibly himself from transmission of diseases, that's fine, but he should make that decision as an adult, without pressure (and WITH anesthesia!) However, the argument that condemns FGM and permits MGM goes something like this: --- FGM is done to attempt to prevent women from feeling...

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Does it matter if your significant other proposes to you without a ring? Well, that depends on the two of you. This answer assumes that you are female and your significant other is male; if that's wrong, please just adjust the pronouns as needed. :) 1. You may have let him know that you want to help choose the ring. 2. You may have made a decision that the money spent on a ring is better saved for a down payment on a home, or maternity expenses, or to...

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Why is tithing not required of Christians? You didn't say whether yours was a legal question or a spiritual question, so I have answered it both ways. In the United States, the government does not get involved (yet) in collecting money from the people and turning it over to churches. However, in some other nations -- for example, Germany -- the government requires you to register which church you belong to, and forcible takes a...

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If you had to chose one for U.S. President, McCain or Guilinani? Both men have serious character flaws, but probably, out of respect for his suffering in the Vietnam War, McCain. I can only say this because McCain's first public position on abortion rights back in 2000 was pro-choice; he said he would support whatever decision his daughter made. He was forced to take it back three days later and claim to be anti-choice, but I like to think...

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Would they execute Osama Bin Laden the same way as Saddam if they found him? I hope not, since the execution of Saddam Hussein was handled VERY poorly. (See link below) Bin Laden should be put on trial by the U.S. or the International Court of Human Rights. If he gets a death sentence, it should be carried out as an act of justice, and not a religious pep rally. This is what I mean by Hussein's execution being handled very badly: ...

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How would you feel if one of your dearest friends was executed on the basis of false charges? Would you make a replica of the instrument of execution? Would you cherish it, or would you rather shun it? You may have gotten too wrapped up in the "trap" nature of this question to see that there is more than one group which uses a depiction of the means of death as a commemoration of the death of a loved one, or a commemoration of an unjust death. The question appears to be a setup regarding Christian churches and individual Christians who use the cross (Protestants) or the crucifix...

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Why did it take Saddam a really short time to receive the death penalty but for other criminals it takes more than 20 years? In the United States, a death penalty conviction may be appealed for a long time, and appealed more than once if new evidence (such as the DNA evidence that cleared 13 of the 26 men on Illinois' death row) comes up. Hussein was not executed in or by the United States. He was executed by a U.S.-supported Shi'ite Moslem government in Iraq (Hussein was a Sunni Moslem), and was not...

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What is the most unusual or interesting name for a small town that you've ever heard? Bone Gap, Illinois. Almost everyone will mention Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Here's a long, funny list: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/wackytowns.html

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Do you trust the pull and pray method? No. There's a name for men who use this method. The name is "Daddy."

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Im 29 and never had a period naturally. i waas put on birth control when i was young but i went off of them a few years ago and have not had a period. what could be wrong. i reallyreally want a baby? Everybody has given you really good advice about getting to an ob/gyn. The only thing I can add is that in some athletic or underweight women, their periods are being suppressed because of a lack of body fat. I hope things work out for you soon.

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What is your natural reaction when a girl scout comes to your door selling cookies? To look for her parents. If they aren't following her, waiting down by the sidewalk, I think they are INSANE. We have two registered child molesters in this neighborhood. There are probably some in every neighborhood, registered or not. Parents who send their kids door-to-door without adult supervision are crazy, or naive to the point of incompetence. I always buy the cookies....

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I am fourteen and have never had a girlfriend in my life. Is this okay? No, Anonymous, that's pretty much the way things ought to be. Take it easy on yourself, and don't be in a rush. The most important thing I can say to you is, it's better to have NO boyfriend than a BAD boyfriend. Keep your standards high. If a boy does not treat you with respect -- and I don't mean just sexual respect, I mean all of it, concern about your feelings and...

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What do you think of George W. Bush? --Whites (not meaning all whites; meaning relatively few of his supporters are anything BUT white) --Wealthy people --men more than women, but no longer even a majority of men --Diebold, and other manufacturers of electronic voting machines which do not work, are easily tampered with, cannot be audited, and do not leave a paper trail of evidence of what votes were REALLY cast ...

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Why do so many black women head up the households in America? [empty message filed in error, please delete if possible]

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Why do so many black women head up the households in America? Tabithap, I think maybe the other answerers misunderstood the question. If I understand you correctly, you want to know why the proportion of "female heads of household" is greater in Census data than "male heads of household" within the black community. First of, the Census language is sexist. It does not recognize a category of "couple as head of household."...

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Why do i keep getting water infections every month?And why doesnt cranberry tablets make it go away?Dont want to keep using antibiotics? Are you female? If so, you might be getting recurrent urinary tract infections from using a diaphragm for birth control. The stiff rim of the diaphragm compresses the urethra, causing (briefly) retention of urine, and this has been linked to the development of bacterial infections in the bladder & urethra. I suppose some tampons could have the same effect. You say "every...

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Can you describe in one word how the person/s you love most makes you feel? Safe

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If they had a fast food restaurant aimed toward your pets, would you take your pets there to eat No, I don't think so. Dogs in a dog park get along without much fighting over toys. I'm not sure that dogs in a dog restaurant would get along without fighting over the food. I'd be afraid of putting my dog at risk. I don't have any other pets, so I can only answer about dogs. :)

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If you could give 1 million dollars to some charity, which one would you give it to and why? The ACLU, because I want my country back. The Republicans in Congress and George Bush in the White House have done horrific things to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution itself, damaging religious freedom, the separation of powers, Congress' exclusive ability to declare war, privacy rights, reproductive rights, equal rights under the law, and so on. I'd be here all night if...

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If a deity is all-powerful, can a deity create an object so heavy that the deity cannot lift it? This question is part of an old George Carlin comedy routine from the early 1970's, about how Catholic school kids used to try to stump their priests in religion classes. For more on George Carlin and his extremely strong views on religion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin Religious questions like this are part of what is called the "omnipotence paradox."...

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Why do some people say they dont believe in christmas/god, and demand that god be taken out of the pledge of alligance, and that stores do not say "merry christmas" and so on, yet they have a christmas tree at home, and still open presents? If you are serious about wanting to know why, here's an answer with some reference links that will tell you. Plenty of people who do not believe in the Christian faith have holidays that fall in the same time of year, and in the northern hemisphere, where December is a time of winter, most of those holidays also involve greenery, trees, lights, and gifts. These holidays existed...

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It's a little late, but what are your views on the United States adapting a policy to allow Spanish-speaking students to recite the pledge in Spanish? This is not a federal question; the United States does not set any policy regarding saying the Pledge of Allegiance in local public schools. It's up to the local school board. I am a minority opinion here, but I think it's great. It's a great way for kids learning Spanish to practice; it's a great way for kids whose native language is Spanish but who are U.S. citizens...

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How is a student punished when s/he refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance if the state requires it? The answer which said students not saying the Pledge must rise and put their hands on their hearts silently is mistaken. In public schools, students who are not reciting the Pledge CANNOT be forced to stand for the Pledge, nor can they be forced to put their hands over their hearts. They can if they WANT to, but they cannot be forced to. If a student is punished for not wanting to recite...

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Do you want "under God" out of our pledge? Absolutely. It wasn't in there until 1954, for one thing, and then it was put in as part of the anti-Communist hysteria that swept the country. The U.S.S.R. was officially atheist; demagogues in the U.S. wanted to show how different we are. So we are stuck with this in the Pledge, creating unnecessary divisiveness and litigation, as our most lasting souvenir of the McCarthy days. ...

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If... If someone happened to see everything in inverted coulours, would there be any way of finding out? I don't know. The example of pointing to something green and calling it red wouldn't happen in your example, right? Because the inverted person, who might SEE red where we see green, would not know it; would call the color of the grass "green" because tehy would have learned that name for that color. I've wondered about this myself. Sorry I can't do better...

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Do you believe that in Saddam Hussien's case, death was a just penalty for his crimes? No, for many reasons. -- the death penalty is wrong, in my opinion, for any crime other than a murder committed while in prison. -- it made him a martyr to Sunni Moslems. -- it was done in haste, poorly, surrounded by his political enemies (Shi'ite Moslems) who sang and danced around the body. This is not the way justice is carried out; this is the way political assassinations are...

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Are you for or against the death penalty? I think it is beneath us, and we should abandon it. I am opposed to the death penalty except in ONE circumstance. SUPPORT: --IF a person in prison commits another murder IN prison, THEN I would support the death penalty because otherwise, wardens have no hope of trying to prevent murders within the prison walls. Threatening a life prisoner with more prison time isn't much of a...

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Ive just broke up with a partner of three months and we used the natural method only. Her period has not come as usual. Shes is 42. What are the chances she is pregnant given that we made love on one day that was not safe in the cycle? At 42, she may be either perimenopausal or actually in menopause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perimenopause The good news is, that means she's not releasing eggs on her usual schedule. Maybe the day you thought wasn't safe actually WAS safe. And the bad news is exactly the same: she's not releasing eggs on her usual schedule. Maybe the days you two thought you were...

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What are estimated annual taxes on a $175000 home in North Carolina(new construction)? The only way to know that is to call the County Assessor in the county where the building is to be located, and ask what the assessment would be. Then get the tax rate (they will tell you where), and multiply the assessment by the tax rate, and there you go!

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Is coke good for health? Did you mean Coca-Cola, or did you mean cocaine? If you meant the drink, Tripwire's answer is the best I've ever seen.

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When you first joined, did you find the existing answerbaggers welcoming or not? Not.

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I just joined today, and... how many points in a day is good? I'm already level 4, is that good? Sounds good to me. Some nasty troll downrated your question, so I uprated it to try to get you back to even. That's an annoying problem with AnswerBag; folks who log on and downrate questions or answers at random, or downrate answers for political or personal reasons, not because the answer is incomplete or wrong.

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Can you forgive me for absolutly hating this dreadful "holiday" ment for nothing else then making people in relationships feel good at the expense of putting single people into a soul crushing depression? Forgive you? It's no sin to be unhappy or annoyed about this. Also, please keep in mind that for most people, the day is not the big deal that companies which sell roses, trinkets, and chocolates would like you to think. What you see in the commercials & window displays has only a remote relationship to reality for most couples and families.

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EWWW I have seen porn videos, and ALOT of the girls vagina from the inside was BLACK which is so nasty. I'm a little confused. First, I don't know what you mean -- do you mean it was dark in there, or are you talking about skin color? Second, what's your question?

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Any thoughts on John Bolton? Loathesome bully. National embarrassment. Chosen for the job BECAUSE he wasn't qualified for it, by a White House which despises the United Nations and wanted to show it. Ugh.

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Do amoeba die? Or do they just carry on dividing indefinitely? Well, they are definitely not immortal, because they can be killed (with Lysol, for example) but honestly, I don't know the rest of the answer to your question. I don't know if they get old and die at the end of a specific lifespan. I thought it was a good question, and gave you points for it.

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I had a condo furnished for rent. People ask for a short term lease, but our HOA rules state lease has to initiate for one year. What are the legal consequences if I break this rule? INITIATE for one year? Hmmm... does the HOA state what kind of provisions you must have for people who want to break their leases? For instance, could you put in a provision that if the lease is "broken" at the six-month point, there will be no penalty? Six months, or whatever months work for you & your tenant... if the HOA didn't cover this, they left a giant loophole....

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Is there another purpose of prenatal vitamins even if you arent pregnant. I heard it was good for hair, skin and nails. Is that true? I'm not a doctor, so I can't answer for anyone but myself. I was told to take pre-natal vitamins after a severe illness made half my hair fall out and I lost some of my nails. The pre-natals definitely helped everything get back to normal.

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My 37 yo son had a major psychotic episode last night after he'd been drinking. I called the police, they took him away in handcuffs. What happens now? Gosh, Romelang, very sorry this is happening. First, before anything else -- whenever he is picked up, call the jail and let the warden or administrator know that Son is bipolar and needs medication. I saw you write that he's out now, so this is advice for the future. Also tell the arresting officers, so it's in their first report. And go to his hearing next week, and tell the...

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How can I find the address or phone number of www.topdresserdrawer.com, I sent them money and they haven't contacted me back yet. 1. Use this form at bravenet.com -- topdresserdrawer is a bravenet site -- and tell them what's going on. Ask for the street address & phone of topdresserdrawer. http://www.bravenet.com/global/abuse.php 2. Ask your reference librarian (public or school library) to help you find the street address of your State Attorney General's Consumer Fraud Division. Tell them...

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In what ways is it the males fault/resposiblity when a teenage girl gets pregnant? Fifty percent. Both of them should have been using birth control. Legally, if the man is a certain number of years older than the teen girl is, and she is still under the "age of consent," he might be guilty of "statutory rape" -- in which case, the fault is 100% his, because the law deems her incapable of consent, and puts entire responsibility on the man. Age of...

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What is the worst Olympic sport? Boxing. It's a destructive sport that intentionally damages all the competitors. Look at what has happened to Muhammed Ali -- from a lifetime of being struck in the head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammed_Ali#In_retirement

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What is the very worst thing you can do in an interview? Be late, and then talk about your family's personal financial problems -- about what the employer can do for YOU instead of what you can do for the employer.

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If you were President/Prime Minister etc of a Nation and the U.S asked for your support regarding Iraq would you give them support? eg troops If I were president anywhere except for the countries closest to Iraq, absolutely not. The U.S. presence in Iraq is illegal under international law. I'd need a REALLY good reason before sending my people to die to clean up the criminal mess the U.S. has made there. However, if I were from a nearby nation, I'd put troops in to protect my own nation from an overflow of violence --...

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In YOUR opinion what causes the most wars? Money. Religion and nationalism are just excuses to get the lower classes to go fight the war; the real reason all modern wars are fought is money. Example: the wars in the Middle East to control the oil supply are about money for oil barons like the King of Saud, George Bush, and Dick Cheney. Example: the Christian Crusades were fought in order to give European merchants access to...

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Has anyone ever been named "Bupkus"? The Chicago Bears had a famous lineman named Dick Butkus in the 1960's, who wore jersey #51. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Butkus I don't think that "bupkus" or "bupkes," a Yiddish word literally meaning "beans" and idiomatically meaning "nothing" has ever been used as a formal name. Perhaps someone has used it as a nickname for...

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Do you think black people are being cheated because February as "Black History Month" is the shortest month of the year? I think black people are being cheated because when they finally get a month named to cover black history, they have to put up with high-pitched whining from whites who won't admit that white history is taught ALL the months of the school year, including February. Black history month was desperately needed when it was begun, and from the majority of the answers you've been getting...

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I can't seem to get my g/f to do anything now. We before had done everything but sex and now she says "I feel like im doing something wrong" and won't even do what we used to do. What can i do to possible get her to? You want her to do something she thinks is wrong? That's not going to work out. You should leave her alone and not try to pressure her against her conscience. There are other women in your age range who have values closer to yours as far as sex goes; you'd be more comfortable with one of them. But if your current girlfriend isn't willing -- don't try to seduce...

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How many wall clocks are hanging in your house or apt? Zero. We have a mantel clock and four alarm clocks for various family members and guests. We also have clocks built in to all the VCR's and the microwave. But no wall clocks!

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Do you brush your teeth before your appointment with a dentist? Of course. It's a simple courtesy to the dentist and her or his assistants. It also helps them identify any problems with your brushing style - any places you might be missing.

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What similarities, if any, in social organisation exist between the Mormon and the Catholic churches? There are doubtless many other comparisons to be made, but I can think of one right away: only males are permitted to be priests.

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What is the origin and meaning of "Put a Lid on It"? Putting a lid on a simmering pot quiets it down. :)

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Are there any memorials commemorating the handicapped and/or Gypsy victims of the Holocaust? The Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, has significant exhibits devoted to people with disabilities and Gypsies (Romany people) abused or wiped out by the Nazi regime.

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What do you think of Virginia U.S. Senator Webb's reply to the U.S.A. President's State of the Union address? I read it here: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Democratic_response_to_Bush_State_of_0123.html I was very pleased he pointed out that we've been in a class war for a long time: "When I graduated from college, the average corporate CEO made 20 times what the average worker did; today, it’s nearly 400 times. In other words, it takes the average worker more than a year to...

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Who do you think should be President of the US? (does not necessarily need to be a candidate) I think I might like Senator Jim Webb of Virginia (formerly Republican, now Democrat) to step up to the plate. He's a strong military man who is totally against the current wars; and he's got a sensible approach to supporting the middle and lower-income people via sensible economic policies. His most recent speech: ...

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What are the vote majority`s for the mapp vs. ohio? This U.S. Supreme Court decision about the Fourth Amendment is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapp_v_Ohio and you can develop vote totals from that.

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What do you think of U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock SEALING depositions in the Columbine High massacre for 25 years? I don't think the depositions should be sealed at all, but if they're being sealed to protect the privacy of teen witnesses, ten years should be plenty. Twenty-five years seems much too long. Also, keeping them sealed seems like a way to protect local law enforcement from being sued (for mishandling the crisis) until it's TOO LATE to sue them. Not fair, not appropriate.

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How late is too late to send out thank-you cards for a wedding? It is absolutely never too late, but it's considered polite to get them out any time in the first year after the wedding itself. And you know what? Just saying "thank you" is more important than explaining why you were late, so only explain if you want to. What means more to people is to know that their gift is being used and appreciated, so mention that if you can.

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What color of shoes should my bridesmaids wear with a pale green tea-length dress? Ivory, cream, khaki/tan/beige... or to be completely wild here, a slightly DARKER green, but not matching. I think white might be a bit harsh unless their flowers are mostly white, and it's a spring wedding.

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I live in Oregon and I want to petition the governor for a pardon. Where can I find information about requesting a pardon? Call the Governor's office and find out what name and address to use for pardon requests. You can use the form here to find out whom to write to: http://www.oregon.gov/Gov/contact_us.shtml DON'T use this form to request the pardon! Do that in a real letter, addressed to the right person.

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If someone is incarcerated for murdering his stepfather, does he still have Power of Attorney for his mother in a rest home? The mother, if she is mentally competent, can select anyone she wants to have her Power of Attorney -- it doesn't even have to be a relative. A state might try to bar a prisoner from holding Power of Attorney -- it would depend on where you live. Since murdering her husband was very much against the mother's interests, it's not likely he'd be allowed to continue to...

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Can you eliminate your juvenile record? It is causing problems with me joining the Army. You asked this in June, 2006. The armed forces in the United States have lowered their recruitment standards significantly since then, so just contact your local recruiting office and try again. Don't lie, because you'll get caught, and that WILL bar you from service for sure.

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I was caught shoplifting a couple of years ago, but my record downtown is clean. However, I was recently fired from my job with they did a random background check. Why did I get fired? If you were fired because of the conviction, it wouldn't matter if it was shoplifting downtown or out in the suburbs or anywhere else: a conviction is a conviction. Are you sure that the conviction is why you were fired? Did they give you a reason in writing? You can always call them and ask; maybe they will tell you.

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If my ex is convicted for a criminal case outside the US can i report that to the immigration to hold his petition for a fiancee visa ?he has a PRO in US I don't understand your question -- PRO in the U.S.? Are you trying to stop him from immigrating somewhere? Or trying to use his conviction to stop him from being eligible to get a woman a fiancee visa? But for the part I sort of understand, why not call Immigration and ask them if this is the kind of information they consider relevant? I think you haven't gotten any...

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A woman participating in a contest drinks so much water that she ends up dying. Do you think the radio station that organized this event bears responsibility in her death? I'm familiar with the story. Yes, I do think so. They intentionally offered incentives to engage in deadly activity. They're responsible. They knew or should have known about the dangers involved, and they should have informed the contestants of those dangers, and they should have put a limit on how much water could be drunk in order to avoid this kind of tragedy. Her...

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I was forced to have sex when I was 16 with a 36 year old. He told me if I told anyone he would lie, and he did once I told. I am 23 and I still think about this alot. What should I do? I know he still can't go to jail right? 1. Get counseling for yourself, totally apart from the criminal justice system. 2. Contact your local rape crisis center hotline and talk to them about this. They will know your local law, and can tell you if the statute of limitations on the assault started "tolling" (counting) from the day of the assault, or from the day you turned 18. 3. Ask them for their advice on how...

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Do you think those who download and watch child porn should get more severe punishment than the child molesters who upload and sell them? No. It's like drug dealing. People who download are like drug users. People who upload are like drug sellers. In drugs, there's "possession" and then, worse, there is "possession with intent to distribute." Your porn question fits in that framework. It is true that if there were no market for drugs, or for child porn, no one would sell drugs or distribute...

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What are some valid arguements for and against the death penalty, logically speaking? There are many valid, logical arguments out there, but these are the ones I personally rely on, because I am opposed to the death penalty except in ONE circumstance. SUPPORT: --IF a person in prison commits another murder IN prison, THEN I would support the death penalty because otherwise, wardens have no hope of trying to prevent murders within the prison walls. Threatening a life prisoner...

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My friend and his cousin had stoled brand name purses from a retail store.but they didnt know that they were being watched.well tey got caught later on.so they charged them with second degree burglary. they took 8 gran worth.HOW MUCH TIME WILL THEY GET? Gabby, this depends on where they were arrested (what state) and what their prior records were and how old they are (under 18? 16? etc.) It also depends on whether their attorneys are able to either plea-bargain them down to a lesser charge, or possibly help them defeat the charges at trial. Finally, in most jurisdictions, it also depends on the judge, and her decision can be affected...

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Are you for or against the death penalty? I am opposed to the death penalty except in ONE circumstance. SUPPORT: --IF a person in prison commits another murder IN prison, THEN I would support the death penalty because otherwise, wardens have no hope of trying to prevent murders within the prison walls. Threatening a life prisoner with more prison time isn't much of a deterrent. OPPOSED: --often imposed in error (Illinois...

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How do you fly on a broomstick The idea that witches fly on broomsticks is a very old one, and may have originated in the use of ointments which contained hallucinogens that made people imagine they were flying. The active ingredients in these ointments were usually atropine and solanine, among others, possibly including ergotamine from the toxic grain mold called "ergot." These compounds were easily...

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Is it against the Catholic religion for a white person to date a black person even if they are both Catholic? No, Roman Catholicism does not have any rules against interracial dating or marriage. In the state where I live, Virginia, and 15 other states, marrying white and black together was a crime until 1967 -- but that was because of state law, not Catholic policy. This is a short page summarizing bans on interracial marriage in U.S. history and on other "mixed" marriages in other...

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Is anyone else sick of the religious questions? I am. I don't get sick of questions that --are just looking for factual information about a particular religion or religious concept, such as "What holidays do Hindus celebrate?" or "Was there ever a Mormon on the U.S. Supreme Court?" --are someone's serious inquiry about the beliefs of others ("Do you believe in angels?") I get VERY SICK of questions...

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Will someone please explain for me the process of getting a poor-man's copyright? Make the copyright symbol, the circled "c", © and follow that by the year and your name on the work in which you are declaring copyright. Like this: © 2007 Jane Doe To make the © symbol with your keyboard, press down ALT and while it is pressed down, use your number keypad to enter 0169. Some people use parentheses around a C on a regular typewriter -- (c) or...

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What is the name of a mythological winged cat? possibly from ancient egypt, and similar to gryphon, but with a cat's head, wings, and i forget what style of body. thanks! There are two related cat goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon, but I don't think either of them are ever depicted with wings: ---Bastet or Bast, the goddess of the gentle morning sun and of a happy, contented household, usually depicted as a domestic cat ---Sekhmet, the goddess of the deadly midday sun and of war, usually depicted as a lioness These two links are interesting, but not...

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What is the most expensive thing in your closet? The color TV. We keep it in there so we can watch it in bed, without having to look at it all the time, with the cords hanging off of it and so on. A naked TV is just not romantic bedroomd decor!

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I found a pill on one side it has a 20 and on the other side it has abg can you help me with this concern father You've already gotten a specific answer. In the future, you can go to the reference desk of your library and ask to see "The Physician's Desk Reference." The PDR is an enormous book regarding prescription drugs and has a section meant to help people figure out what drug they have by looking at photos of the pills or capsules. They also have a section that lists drugs by...

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My girlfriend recently found a guy that she enjoys hanging out with. She stayed at his house last night with a bunch of people. She just told me that she slept in his bed and snuggled him cause they were cold. Oh, and she was tipsy... Is this cheating? Leave her. Either she's got a tendency towards infidelity, or she's massively stupid (drunk? snuggling? in some guy's bed?) Either way, you can find someone better, and you should.

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We have one well-trained potbellied pig, he's our only pet, and we live in California, he's legal in the city where we live. Why is it legal for an HOA to discriminate against us for owning a legal pet? I agree with Darryl and TheDaleys. You agreed to the HOA's rules; you voluntarily submitted to their authority. You're stuck, unless you can find some way to overcome the HOA rules by, for example, proving that the pig is a reasonable accomodation for some disabled family member -- not very likely, though some people have successfully used this to be able to keep dogs to accomodate...

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Is it animal cruelty to keep a dog outside in freezing weather with only a chain, dirt yard, and a non-insulated dog house? (not mine, but my neighbors' dog) Yes, in my opinion. However, under most jurisdiction's laws, the existence of the dog house might be enough to prevent them from being charged. Call your local police anyway, who will refer the call to animal control/animal cruelty officers. Call, and keep calling. Even if they cannot make an arrest, the officers may be able to persuade your neighbors to behave better just to...

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Do you think abortion is a crime? Okay, downraters, remember, this is an OPINION question, not a poll on whether abortion should be criminalized. In an opinion question, you should only rate whether the question was answered, not whether you personally agree with the answer. =============================== No, most abortions are not crimes in the U.S. right now, and no, I don't think abortion should be a crime,...

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My parents are christians and they are against wiccan severly. how can i tell them im wiccan and that im going to raise my child as a witch as well? [blank message by accident]

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When you want to report a lawyer for somthing you refer to the Bar Assc. Where do you report a judge? Or can you file a complaint againt a judge? What state are you in? It varies. Usually, however, you can call the Bar Association and ask them what the name of the state's lawyers disciplinary commission is, and for its number. Then call there, and ask them if they handle complaints about judicial misconduct (that's judges behaving badly). If they don't, they will tell you who does. Good luck!

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If you could change any ending to any movie, which would it be? In "The Mists of Avalon," I'd let the pagans win. *sigh*

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In a society where divorce has become the norm, is marriage really all that sacred? There are two kinds of marriage: 1. Civil marriage, which can be performed at a courthouse, or at some other location by a "civil celebrant" like a judge or notary, etc., depending on where you live; and 2. Religious marriage (a/k/a "sacred marriage" or "ecclesiastical marriage"), which is performed by a religious leader AND which usually, in the United...

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Is there any quicker way or more convenient way to floss with braces? I currently use 'Superfloss' which you have to thread under each bracket individually to floss between each tooth and takes around 30 mins to do. I think you're stuck with getting a Water Pic or, maybe, using the pointy end of the plastic toothpick/flossers you can buy in a big bag at any big store like Target. I saw this explanation of Superfloss http://www.northsideortho.com/hcare.html and wow, I agree with you, looks like it would take FOREVER. Here is another page which mentions several types of floss for braces but they...

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What's the most horrible cold you've ever had to endure? I am on day 34 of my second-worst cold right now. The WORST was one I had two years ago. I was very ill from about December 27, 2003 through the end of April 2004. I have bad lungs to start with, though. Both of my parents smoked, and the docs say that this has left me with permanent lung damage that makes me more vulnerable to colds settling into my lungs. By the way, I assume your...

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Is there any spanish version of the song "I can't live, if living is without you" ? PATRICK RIZZO FROM ITALY Hi, Patrick. YES!!! Harry Nilsson did it, and you can hear a sample of the Spanish version as #11, "Si No Estas Tu," here: http://www.amazon.com/Nilsson-Schmilsson-Harry/dp/B000159ELA/sr=8-2/qid=1170109904/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-7443513-9613729?ie=UTF8&s=music Nilsson didn't write the song; a group named Badfinger did it for their own album "No Dice" two...

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Who sang "I can't live if living is without you"? A group called Badfinger wrote it and performed it first on an album called "No Dice." The first person to make it famous was Harry Nilsson, who performed it on his album "Nilsson Schmilsson" in the 1970s. Anyone else who performed it since -- Mariah Carey, Air Supply, and Whitney Houston, for example -- is also doing just a "cover" of the Badfinger tune. ...

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I was on an antibiotic during my last month of pills and I've missed 3 or 4 pills this month. I am married and I'm wondering what my chances are of becoming pregnant this month. I'm still a week from my period, but I'm exhausted and moody! Everyone is telling you to get to a doctor, and I agree. However, if you cannot afford a doctor -- or just to help you make the decision to make the appointment -- you can call your pharmacist. She or he will know more about the interaction between your antibiotic and your birth control prescription than we can. If I understand you correctly, you're worried that the month before...

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My parents are christians and they are against wiccan severly. how can i tell them im wiccan and that im going to raise my child as a witch as well? I agree with most of what AntigoneRising told you, except I might disagree with her a little about raising your kids Wiccan -- I think you *do* have to raise them in your religion if you have one, so they don't feel left out of that part of your life, and then let them decide for themselves at 13 or 16 (or whenever they come to you about it) what their final religious choice will be. ...

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What do you look like? Ooops, this was a mistake, didn't mean to answer here, a comment gone astray!

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What do you look like? Horns, tail, pitchfork. :)

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What would you do if you were god for a day? I love AntigoneRising's answer to this, but I would add to it: 1. If I'm god, presumably I have the power to be sure that no more cats and dogs and horses are born than will have good homes. And I will fix it so that people do not WANT exotic pets, and will WANT to leave them and preserve them in the jungles / deserts / oceans / savannahs where they belong. 2. If I'm...

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Do you feel it is better to find faith through questioning, or to blindly believe? Question all you like, but at the end of your questioning, you are STILL left with the "leap of faith" -- the willingness to believe what cannot be proven. That is one of the dictionary definitions of faith, and the spiritual definition, too: the willingness to BELIEVE instead of KNOW. Christianity in particular favors belief without questioning: “Blessed are those who...

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What do you think of Bible Criticism? Should man be allowed to criticize the Bible? Yes, and woman, too. (And, as Journo noted, which one? There are so many translations now, and each of those can be interpreted as a criticism of the others). Any written work, whether it is some group's scripture or not, is fair game for criticism. I think that scriptures IN PARTICULAR should not be safe from criticism, since in so many cultures, groups try to make their scriptures...

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What are your thoughts on biblical vulgarities and obscenities? http://tinyurl.com/yz2kal I went to the Tiny Url you gave and I think the guy over-stated his case by labeling it "vulgarities and obscenities," which suggests it's a list of words like George Carlin's famous list of words you can't say on television. Instead, it's just a list of verses in which the Bible is either explicit (for instance, about how oaths were sworn, or foreskins removed)...

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If you're happy and you know it, clap your ____________ Thighs? ;) Not suitable for pre-school!

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Have you found your purpose? Yes. Several times. Your purpose in life changes with time. When I was little, it was to learn as much as I could about everything, and read a lot, and to try to run as fast as a horse. When I was in high school, it was to try to make money (for groceries) and earn scholarships (for college) because we were very poor. And that gave me my purpose in choosing my college major: we needed...

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Any ideas for hamster names?? [boy or girl] I wish we knew what color your hamster was! GIRL: Xena Starbuck Queenie Venus Serena Sister Marie Uhura (like Lt. U on Star Trek) BOY: Fido Rock-Rock Spock Kirk Champ Handsome Jupiter The first hamster I had was named Five, because he was left over from someone else's science experiment training 20 hamsters to lift weights. He was gold. My second hamster was...

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I have 2 (painted turtles/red eared sliders)turtles, one male and one female. Well, they keep doing this weird thing where they stick thier front legs out and kinda... shake or vibrate them at each other. What are they doing? That is mating behavior. If your tank were much larger -- as big as a pond, you'd see the male swim in front of the female and then turn to face her. He swims backwards as she continues to swim forwards. He then uses his front feet to send little currents of water onto her sensitive face and neck, and if things go well, he will eventually move up to actually stroking her face and...

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Why do some elephants have very large ears? There are two kinds of elephants: Asian elephants, with ears that are rather small and African elephants, with ears that are enormous. They are closely related, but evolved differently. I think the difference is that the climate for Asian elephants includes a lot of shady jungle, and they don't need as much surface area for cooling as the African elephants do, who spend time in the...

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Would you lie to people about being pregnant? If so what would be the reason? Not EVER. It's too important to lie about. Think of how many people are going to be seriously affected by the lie: --the man --his family --your family and of course, your own reputation will be ruined because, pretty soon, everyone will know you lied to get attention. Telling a second lie about an abortion or miscarriage only makes things worse, and you WILL get caught at it. How...

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My g/f wants a abortion, but i dont want her to get one. Can she get one, without my signature? This is my second answer to you, which I wrote for someone who was worrying about her boygriend's role in her pregnancy. It's about what men have to think about in this situation: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/91106/306432 Hope this helps. It's a tough time in your life, and I wish there were more we could do to help you figure things out, but in the end, how you feel...

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What are some really good books that you think I would like if I said that I liked pretty much anything? - And please be serious, I mean it. Okay, DogsRule, I'd recommend these books below. All of them, except for "Unleashed," are sure to be in your library, and maybe your library can borrow "Unleashed" for you via interlibrary loan. Enjoy!! 1. Any of the animal / zoo books by Gerald Durrell. He's SCREAMINGLY funny. Try: "My Family and Other Animals" "A Zoo in My Luggage"...

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My g/f wants a abortion, but i dont want her to get one. Can she get one, without my signature? I answered this question before here: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/69274/311901 In the United States, a man claiming to be the father of a fetus does not have the right to force an abortion, nor does he have the right to force a full-term pregnancy. The only exceptions are the "male abortion" cases at the end of this answer, and all of those cases involve frozen embryos that...

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What trends do you dislike? Any trend that insults the dignity of any human, or hurts any human or animal. That covers a lot of territory right now, including hip-hop and haute couture fashions that are designed to make women look like prostitutes, and move like prisoners. It's as hard to live normally in a super-short miniskirt and high heels as it is in a burqa or chador.

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What do you never want touching your skin? Mosquitoes. I HATE them. HATE them. HATE them. I don't like poison ivy, either, but at least it's not personal! :)

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So i took the pregnancy test & it turns out i'm pregnant. i CAN'T have a kid. i'm going into the service soon & i am a senior in highschool, my mom would kick me out of the house, and my x bf family hates me already ... what should i do? minus abortion I won't repeat all the great advice you've already gotten. For instance, as the answer from Blessings points out, getting thrown out is kind of irrelevant now -- you can't bring your mom to boot camp anyway. Just want to emphasize: 1. Get to a doctor, now. If it turns out that you do not choose an abortion, you need to start prenatal care EARLY because you are so young,...

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I normally file my nieces as dependents, but someone else seems to have filed them without me knowing. Is there any way i can find out who filed them as their dependents on my own without contacting someone like the IRS? Not that I know of. IRS records are private. If you feel you are entitled to claim them as dependents, why not contact the IRS to alert them to the fraud? http://www.irsrewards.com/ Take a look and see if that helps you decide. This is not legal advice; for legal advice, you would need to speak to an attorney licensed in your own jurisdiction and expert in tax law. Good luck. :)

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What is your favourite television programme? Right now? I'm in the U.S. but two of my favorites are Canadian: "DaVinci's Inquest" (crime) "Battlestar Galactica" (science fiction) "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (humor-news) "The Colbert Report" (humor-news) I like the nature & history shows, but there are too many of those to list. :) Old favorites, now in reruns only: ...

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Should rape and prostitution laws be repealed since police and the justice system basically just ignore these crimes anyway? My answer only applies to the United States, I don't know enough about other countries to speak more broadly. 1. Rape / sexual assault is taken seriously here. In the 1970's and 1980's, rape laws were expanded to cover rape of a wife, rape of men and boys, and rape with fingers or an object (because so many rapists cannot use their penis -- this way, they can be prosecuted...

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If a monkey spanks his monkey, what is that called? Yankin' the banana.

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What rhymes with orange besides door henge? "Orange" came into English from Arabic "naranj," which means the same thing, both fruit and color. Most words in English have rhymes because they came in with a great many words from the same language -- lots of French, German, Latin, Greek, Norman French, Old English, etc. It's pretty easy, within a single language family, to find words which rhyme with each other....

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How seriously should one view an engagement to marry? TOTALLY seriously, and if one can't, one shouldn't get engaged. Once upon a time in the Roman Catholic Church, an engagement was as serious as a marriage (though with fewer privileges), and required huge amounts of fuss to un-do. Breaking an engagement was almost as forbidden as divorce. Engagement is one's last chance to decide if one is prepared to make solemn vows that...

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I believe in a God, do you? No. I was very devout when I was young, but when I got to be about twelve, I noticed that every culture had a god or gods that did pretty much the same thing our culture's god/gods did, and every culture was CERTAIN that THEIR deities were the right ones. And it was downright marvelous the way each culture's deities told people to behave the way that would be most convenient for...

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Has anyone raised their children up very well, yet they turned out very bad? Yes. My best friend has three children. She & her husband raised them with love and affection and sensible limits. Two of the kids are wonderful. The third is addicted to alcohol and his life has lurched from one disaster to another. He has betrayed everyone who has ever been good to him -- even pretended, once, to be his brother in hopes of getting better treatment from the cops...

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Is "murder for hire" truely despicable? Why? Well, people would define "murder" different ways. Some pacifists believe even killing by the (paid, whether mercenary or not) military in direct defense of the country is wrong. Some, like the Catholic Church, distinguish between "just wars" and unjust wars, and believe that killing in the latter is no more than paid murder. Does it make a difference if a killer is a...

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Is there an argument against homosexual marriage that is entirely secular? Dear One & I both thought about this question all night, and here's the only thing we can think of. Back when interracial marriage was illegal (before LOVING v. VIRGINIA in 1967), a big secular argument against mixed-race couples was that people would make fun of their kids. Supposedly, it was in the best interests of the children, therefore, to have parents of the same race....

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How did the fiasco riots, at Comiskey Park in Chicago in 1979, contribute to the "death" of disco? The riot was started by a radio station promotional stunt. Because it turned out so badly, it got national news coverage -- and spawned dozens of stories nationwide asking the question, "Is Disco Dead?" And THAT led some people believe that it was unfashionable to like disco -- and so, like all fashions, it passed away for a time. There have been revivals since, and disco gets...

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Is there an argument against homosexual marriage that is entirely secular? Dear One & I both thought about this question all night, and here's the only thing we can think of. Back when interracial marriage was illegal (before LOVING v. VIRGINIA in 1967), a big secular argument against mixed-race couples was that people would make fun of their kids. Supposedly, it was in the best interests of the children, therefore, to have parents of the same race....

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Does spanking your child cause him to hit other children? I assume that "your" is abstract, and so "you" here is abstract too -- don't take the second paragraph personally. I think spanking is deeply wrong, and not only may make children violent towards others, and violent towards their own children later on, but might lead them into s/m paraphilia when they grow up, especially if you follow the pro-spanking protocols...

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What was your favorite disco tune? "Brick House" first by The Commodores--- "Awwwww, she's a BRICK.... Haaaaaawse She mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C719cRXZ9t0 "Brick House" is my all-time number-one disco fave. WAIT!!! Would you consider LaBelle's original "Lady Marmalade" disco? Then maybe that's my number-two...

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If you could have one wish, what would it be? Important one: That no woman anywhere in the world would ever again be pregnant unless she REALLY wanted to be, without any kind of social or other coercion, and even then, not until she was 24. Selfish one: That Dear One and I would live forever, forever young and healthy, and forever deeply in love with life and with each other. The one I should have chosen: Darn, until I saw...

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What is your oldies song? I love The Archies! "Time of the Season" by the Zombies. http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebigchill/timeoftheseason.htm What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich (is he rich) like me? -------OR------- "Spooky" by Dusty Springfield, or, better, by Santana http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dusty+springfield/spooky_20044015.html ...

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In the sock drawer: folded, rolled, or tucked into themselves? Tucked. Orphan socks stay in a basket on top of the dryer until they can get reunited, or at least matched up with another orphan which is similar enough to pass.

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Name your favorite black female singer of all times Aretha Franklin. http://www.aretha-franklin.com/ No, wait. Big Mama Thornton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton No, wait. Bessie Smith. http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html No, wait. Queen Latifah singing "When You're Good To Mamma." http://www.cswap.com/2002/Chicago/song/When_You're_Good_to_Mama No, wait! Marian Anderson, for her dignity...

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Would you insist on a prenuptial agreement? I myself would not, because I have chosen a life partner whom I trust absolutely. If we were ever to marry, we just don't need an agreement for each other. On the other hand, if one of us suddenly had a huge asset, it might make sense to tie it up in a pre-nup so that if the other one were in some kind of fender-bender or other lawsuit, the person suing couldn't get their hands on...

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Is it possible for a woman to urinate during an orgasm or is there such a thing as female :squirting" or "gushing"? Yes to both. ---1. Although usually the swelling of arousal and the natural closure of the urinary sphincter prevent women from urinating during sex (just like men), sometimes the sexual position might put stress on the urethra, or there might be pre-existing weakness from childbirth or a cystocele, and the woman will release urine at orgasm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystocele ---2....

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Can a hermaphrodite get themselves pregnant? Hermaphroditic flowers certainly can fertilize themselves. But assuming you mean hermaphroditic humans, the first question would be, can they get pregnant AT ALL, and the answer to that is, "usually not." This might help you with the scientific details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite#Simultaneous_hermaphrodites

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If sperm is ejaculated nere but not in the vaginal passage can u become pregant even if u are using a contaceptive pill Yes, but it's not very likely. --1. Some women have gotten pregnant while on oral contraceptives even though they took the pill exactly according to instructions. This is a tiny, tiny percentage of women on the pill. --2. Some women have gotten pregnant from sperm that were deposited outside the vagina but on wet tissues nearby, but this is very rare, too. --3. These two tiny...

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Do you ever feel like you have been cursed? Seems like lately nothing is going right. Yes, sometimes people are cursed with being born into bad circumstances, or having remarkably bad luck. But I don't think it's a "curse" as in, a witch put a curse on a person, or anything like that. It's just another way of saying, gosh, this is SOME bad luck here. Usually, thinking about things in perspective takes the feeling of being singled out for a curse...

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Is the attraction you first had with your mate still as strong as it was when you met? Every day, I cherish my life partner more -- and we've been together for over eight years. If you mean sexual attraction, yep, that grows too. I can't imagine wanting to be with anyone else. Except maybe The Rock! But Dear One knows that I'm just joking about that...mostly... :) If I were choosing between them, Dear One would win every time.

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My home mortgage is being owner financed, and they do not report to a credit agency. My automobile payment also isnt being reported. My thought is to refinance the remainder of my mortgage to get the payment history towards my credit score. Good idea? Yes, it might help with the credit score, and there's another issue. If you can refinance to consolidate the auto AND home loans, THEN you'll get to deduct the cost of interest on your new mortgage. Right now, you're paying interest on your auto loan and you can't deduct that. If you get a new mortgage that pays off your auto loan, you get to deduct the interest on...

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What kind of pill is white with 7767 200 printed on it and is a capsule? You've already gotten a specific answer. In the future, you can go to the reference desk of your library and ask to see "The Physician's Desk Reference." The PDR is an enormous book regarding prescription drugs and has a section meant to help people figure out what drug they have by looking at photos of the pills or capsules. They also have a section that lists drugs by...

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How do *you* get through a bad day? I'm like DjJavy: if I can get away, I get away and sleep.

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Is it possible/legal to give a girl a boys' name or the other way around? In the United States, yes. In Germany and some other nations in Europe and Asia, often the answer is no. A lot of names we think of as being one gender or the other actually are used by both: Leslie Marion/Marian (John Wayne's real name) Jean Bobby Michael Marie (especially as a middle name in Cajun or French families) and so on. There have been legal complaints in the...

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My gf wants me to 'pop her cherry' I am also a female. I have done this to my last 2 previous gfs who had wanted the same thing. Do you consider this still me taking there virginity though I am not male? It depends on what you mean by "virginity." If you define "virginity" as merely the presence of intact hymen (the "cherry"), then removing it -- surgically, or by accident, or in an act of sex (penetration by a penis, fingers, or an object) -- means that the "virginity" is over. Most people save the word "virginity" to mean some kind of...

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If a man has only one testicle (the right one), can he have babies? Nope, one functioning testicle is plenty enough to get the job done, and having three does not increase the odds. The reason is, each ejaculation produces 40 million to 600 million sperm, averaging about 250 million. There's only one egg (unless there are fraternal twins happening, or fertility treatment producing multiple eggs). Statistically speaking, it is totally irrelevant if...

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We are a Hungarian family immagrating to the US in 1910. What are our reasons for leaving our native land? I put this phrase into http://google.com and came up with dozens of sites that would help you with this, and with your other question about what kind of occupations existed in Hungary at that time. hungarian immigration to united states There you go! If you were researching your own family, you could look them up in census records from 1930 and earlier at a site like Ancestry.Com, but...

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Is it normal to feel menstrual cramps only on my right side? Why? It may be perfectly normal for *you.* However, it is a little unusual and it would be best to have a physician check for things like: --adhesions (did you ever have abdominal surgery?) --PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) --luteal cysts --teratoma or dermoid cyst --fallopian blockage --fibroids I don't to scare you, it's possibly nothing at all, but some of these conditions...

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If you were president, what would you do to fix Iraq? Do you think it would work? Okay, here come the downrates! But remember, the person asking the question wants to know what *I* would do; if I am telling them the truth about what I would do, I shouldn't get downrated for it. A downrate is for whether I did, or didn't, answer the question; it's not for whether you agree with my personal opinion of what our foreign policy should be. And the truth is, I...

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Why is it so much more illegal to kill/harm an "officer of the law" rather than a mother or a teacher or a church official? Penalties for killing law enforcement personnel and prison guards are enhanced not because their lives are considered worth more than those of a mother or a teacher, but because their lives are more at risk. It is thought that enhancing the penalties FOR killing them helps work against the greater temptation criminals may feel TO kill them. This makes sense when you're talking about...

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Why is it everytime me and my boyfriend make love and i have an orgasm, i start to cry.its not that its sore,i love it is it because my feelings for him are so strong.its never happened with anyone else? It's pretty common, from what I hear, especially for women. Sex with someone you love can be very emotional and intimate, and being moved to tears is not all that surprising. Is it a problem? Is your lover frightened by it? If so, just explain to him. In time, maybe you'll get more accustomed to it, and it will be easier to control your response.

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What would you do if you were invisible and could get away with it? Absolutely. I'd want to sit in on the private conferences of the Supreme Court. I'd want to listen in on the crimes being planned by the White House. I'd want to be able to try on bathing suits without anyone watching! :)

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What is mean by gay In English, "gay" used to mean happy or joyous, like the French word "gai." In the late 1800's, "gay" had two meanings: happy, OR, if said of a woman, it meant she was a prostitute -- sort of like "party girl" meant prostitute in the 1950's. In the 1960's, "gay" started to mean homosexual, and it conveys that meaning so...

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Are you a defensive or offensive driver? Definitely defensive. I live in an urban area which has some of the worst traffic (and worst road rage) in the world. The only way to get home alive here is to ignore insults, accomodate bad drivers, and keep your temper -- eyes on the road, ears on the radio for traffic alerts and on the traffic for sirens (not on the phone!), and MOUTH SHUT. No chatting on the phone, no yelling insults...

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What is the hottest thing about you? I have an electric heated mattress pad and it's WONDERFUL. heh heh heh

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My gf's parents have found out that we are seeing each other, they are very pissed off, what should I do? (BTW my gf is a Jehovah's witness and they not allowed to date ppl outside, hence why her parents are pissed off, HELP ME PLZ!) You're 20, she's 21, and you've been seeing each other secretly for a year. Is it the secrecy that is irritating them, more than the difference in faiths? All churches insist that marriages within the faith are the best. That way, they can be pretty sure that children born in these marriages will be part of that particular church. They also believe that that way, there will...

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Is it true that Jesus was not actually born on December 25th, the day that is commonly celebrated as his birthday? Nope, not even close. Jesus of Nazareth was born sometime around the year 4 B.C. (or B.C.E.) and he was definitely born in the spring -- because of the timing & location of shepherds and their flocks in the Biblical stories about his birth. As somebody else noted, the Christian church picked out late December to help convert pagans who were accustomed to celebrating Yule or Winter...

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For the females, what physical feature of the male do you like? DebSmooth's "brain - size does matter" is brilliant, true, and beats anything I can say. But I'll say something anyway. While I enjoy the kind of beefcake you've got in your icon, or Mark Wahlberg's Marky-Mark days, or (ooh! ahh!) The Rock, that's kind of unreasonable to expect in guys who are working all day unless they've got a really physical job. ...

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Will America ever have a dark skinned President? Yes, but the first one -- Barack Obama, Colin Powell, or whomever else -- won't be a dark-skinned black person. Powell's son is already in politics, too, and light-skinned like his dad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Powell_%28politician%29 I do not think Condoleeza Rice has any chance at all of the presidency, and so am not including her in this discussion. Bill...

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What wouldn't you wish to your worst enemy? I try to keep my karma clean by not wishing ill to anyone. HOWEVER, if I say "I wish you all the happiness you deserve," well, there's nothing wrong with thinking they don't deserve any, is there? AND, if I say, "I hope you have a growth experience real soon now," well, as long as I don't specify what KIND of growth experience, and growth experiences are...

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If you could have a sit down, face-to-face conversation with an AB-er, who would you choose? Antigone & TaoZen.

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Ever looked out your window and saw something you wish you hadn't? Twice, I've looked out and seen people burning to death. Once, it was a train window past an oil refinery on fire. Four men died. The second time, it was a car which whipped off the expressway and slammed into a light pole and burst into flame. I hadn't thought of this for years, until I started reading the answers to this question.

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What do you think you're going to dream of? I was in a bad accident many years ago. I still dream about it.

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I feel so helpless. i just got a call from my friends mom, saying that my friend is in the hospital. he was in a car crash. i have a phobia of hospitals, and i feint every time i go in one. what should i do? I'm really scared he's going to die. Well, the good news for you is that a lot of people in the hospital don't WANT company. They're really miserable, and it's hard to be sweet and funny on command for visitors. Send your friend a note. Give it to their parents to bring along, along with a toy (even a cheap drawing pad and some pencils, or a cheap, small notebook with a pen for them to keep notes in of who...

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If a female friend asks you if she's beautiful and she's not, What will you EXACTLY say? [in quotes, please] Depends. How old is the friend? if in her teens, "It's hard to say yet if you're going to be a classic beauty, or a starlet, or more of a girl-next-door adorable type." And then compliment her best feature: "You've already got great coloring" or great bones or great hair or beautiful freckles or SOMETHING. Hope that helps, at least at little.

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Have you ever saved an animal in distress? Yes. All three of my dogs were adopted from Death Row (one for killing peacocks, one for killing cats, one because a man's new wife hated the old dog he'd had for twelve and a half years). When I was little, we rescued a three-legged stray dog and kept her for ten years. In the past two years, I have fostered two other dogs who went on to live with other people. One was on...

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If your house was set on fire and you had a choice to choose to safe SOMETHING (not someone) what would it be? If all my family were safe, and that includes pets, I'd try to get my computer, my family pictures, and especially the photo of my grandmother. I'm as bad as oluckboy -- I have SOME of the photos backed up, but I haven't left the backup copies at Dear One's brother's house yet (just in case something goes wrong at our house). (Dear One is my life partner).

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Are there reasons why people don't like george bush besides iraq? 1. He's a liar. He has lied about his military service, he has lied about his excuses for getting us into war, he has lied about his staffing decisions (he admitted he lied in a press conference before the most recent election about whether Donald Rumsfeld was being forced out or not, JUST because he didn't want Republicans to look bad before the election.) He lied last night in...

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Do people for the ethical treatment of animals have snakes as pets and what would they feed it? Most PETA members will not keep pets. Most believe that it is cruel to the animal. In the snake example, the animal is kept in a tank which is absolutely tiny in comparison to its natural range. Most tanks are so small, an adult snake can never stretch full-length. With almost any pet, the animal gets fed with and when whatever the human finds convenient, instead of choosing its own...

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Legally, does the father have any say in whether or not a woman has an abortion? In the United States, a man claiming to be the father of a fetus does not have the right to force an abortion, nor does he have the right to force a full-term pregnancy. The only exceptions are the "male abortion" cases at the end of this answer, and all of those involve frozen embryos that are not inside the woman's body. Courts have held that his opportunity to avoid...

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What kind of neighbor are you and why? We know the names of almost everyone on our block and cul-de-sac. The ones we speak to the most often, we give homemade cookies in December. I like to dogsit (at my house). My dear one will fix computers for people. In exchange, one neighbor used to give me rides to the store, and another helps us with woodwork, and one promises to give us some cucumbers. But that's all casual,...

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Who do you think is the wisest Answerbagger? Antigone Rising, StableBoy, Darryl61, Auntie Em -- but I haven't been here long.

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What do you think of the U.S.A. State of the Union address by President George Bush? I saw a short excerpt in which he was openly lying about presidential authority, and I turned it off. He claimed the war began with "agreement" among his military advisers and the public about going there, why we were there, and what our goals were. THIS is what impeachment is for: lying to drag the nation into war, a war which has no point other than maintaining high oil prices....

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When was the last time you played a board game? and what was it? I'm a fiend for Scrabble. Played last night! Other board games at our house: my spousal equivalent is mad for BLOKUS and has gotten our whole circle of friends hooked on Apples to Apples: BLOKUS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokus Apples to Apples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_to_apples Dear One goes out to Games Night on Wednesdays, at a private home where they...

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Should freedom of speech have limits? Racist speech is not, and should not, be a crime. It is illegal in certain circumstances, that is, when it creates a hostile work (or school) environment, or is done to discourage equal access to public facilities, but BEING a racist and TALKING like a racist is not, and should not, be a crime in and of itself. "Inciting to riot" generally should NOT be a crime (unless there is a...

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What are you most passionate about? Oh, my life partner, of course! *blush*

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Complete: "I came; I saw; I ______________." I came, I saw, I covered my eyes.

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What legal paperwork is required when you buy a pet? In the United States, almost every jurisdiction requires: a-- for dogs, a license, which gives you a numbered tag the pet is to wear at all times. This helps local governments return lost dogs to the right people. For cats, some jurisdictions require this and some don't. b-- a rabies vaccination certificate and tag, which proves the animal (cat or dog) cannot spread rabies. c--...

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If your partner strangled your cat to death while you were visiting your family, how would you react? 1. Call the police. Even if it happened a few days ago, they'll take the report. 2. Get a restraining order, get them OUT of the house, and change the locks. 3. Sue them in civil court for the value of the cat. 4. Let their family know what happened. YOU won't be hanging out with this person in the future, but it's important that SOMEONE close to them knows what they...

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What fad have you most enjoyed(fashion, games, etc.) do you still participate in it now that it is "out of style?" The "midi" length in skirts -- halfway between knee and ankle. It's just more graceful and more convenient for my lifestyle than anything shorter or longer. It was a fad around 1975, and has been in and out of fashion several times since then -- except with me, it's ALWAYS in fashion! :)

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How many children would you like to have? If you had a choice than in which order? If you would not like any, than why not? None. I don't have the skills to be a good parent. Or the money! :) When I was little, I thought twins would be great (one of each); or, if I was going to have only one child, a girl. But I'm older and smarter now, and realize that parenthood is not for me at all. I'm always a little shocked when someone tries to talk me out of this. It's none of their...

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OK. I have a theory..that our first female president will be assassanated do you agree? I think it's a good question and I'm sorry you've gotten downrated. I think you're right, though I would love to be wrong about this. And this is just my opinion of your theory -- other people will have other opinions about it. None of us will know if we're right or wrong until a female president survives her term -- or doesn't. I think that having a female...

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What color are your eyes? Medium-light blue, and I wish they were green. I can't wear colored contacts, but if I could, I'd get a green pair and maybe a violet pair! Light violet, nothing too weird. :) Or hazel... my life partner's eyes are hazel, and ohhhhh so beautiful, and so changeable!

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Does getting pregnant on the pill have any affect on the sex of the baby? It can. You need to speak to your obstetrician RIGHT AWAY about whether conceiving while you were on the pill is going to affect the fetus. It is not good for any fetus, female or male, to be exposed to the female & male hormones that are in the Pill, and it can cause health problems for them, possibly even making their sex unclear (for example, in a male fetus who is born with feminine...

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I may be pregnant and I want to keep the baby, but my boyfriend really doesn't want a baby. What does his reaction mean, and what should I do? His reaction means he doesn't want a baby. Believe him when he tells you this. You can have the baby anyway, and in the U.S., by law, he will be forced to pay you child support until the baby is 18, maybe all the way through college. This means he will have less money to spend on the children he has when he DOES want to have kids. This means this child will have to compete with...

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I just had a baby three weeks ago a week ago my boyfriend and i had sex is it possible that i could be pregnant again already i know they say you can get pregnant right after having a baby but how soon is two weeks too soon Breastfeeding helps reduce your fertility but it's not a perfect protection. Yes, you can get pregnant that quickly, even if you ARE breastfeeding. You should ask your obstetrician for more info and help. Good uck, and congrats on the three-week-old!

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How much do abortions mainly cost? Washu, I saw your answer in which you explained that you were asking just because you are curious. The answers you've gotten are a good lesson on why it's best to do your own research sometimes. People have told you everything from "free" up to several hundred dollars. And of course,everyone of them is probably (but not certainly) telling you the truth about what it...

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Do you think that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Christ? Why or Why not? No, it isn't. It's been proven (to me, at least!) that the image on it was made with paints not available until many hundreds of years later. Here's an article which covers all the debate about the shroud, and whether the tests performed on it are valid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_turin

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Who wrote the U.S. "Pledge of Allegiance"? This article has all you'd ever want to know about the Pledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_allegiance The short answer is, the words "under God" were stuck in there in 1954 by Congress to show how much the U.S.A. was different from the U.S.S.R., which was officially an atheist nation. The rest of the words were written by a Socialist Baptist minister named...

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I dated a guy whose ex cheated, he still had a key, she got locked out, called him for help, he left me alone to help her, didn't tell me where he went. They also shared a dog. She kept calling, he said they were just friends.Was I right to end this? If it bothers you, then yes, you made the right decision. That's all that matters here. You need to decide what your limits are. With your next boyfriend, communicate those limits in ADVANCE before you get really involved. The drama between Guy and Ex doesn't matter. What matters is how you feel about it. Maybe you're wrong to be suspicious, but that's not the...

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I took a hair folicle test 74 days after smoking last. I was a light to moderate smoker of marijuana and wonder what my chances of passing are. Just cut your hair. By the way, marijuana will show up in your hair even if YOU weren't smoking -- for instance, if you were in a party room where other people were smoking, or on a bus where a lot of people were smoking. You inhale the second-hand smoke, and it shows up on YOUR drug test. Perhaps the people you are doing the test for are not aware of this. You will probably want...

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Who do you see as the winner of the Superbowl this year? "Bear Down, Chicago Bears..." It's a question of team loyalty for me, not any actual analysis of the two teams' relative talents. :)

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What's the most utterly random thing a person has ever said to you? It didn't happen to me, but in 1986, famous news anchor Dan Rather got mugged and beaten by men who shouted, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" This line was later used in a 1994 song by R.E.M. on their "Monster" album. For more, go here: http://ask.yahoo.com/20010619.html

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Which of the Ten Commandments have you broken the most? How many have you broken in total? "I am the lord thy god, and thou shalt have no other gods before me." I'm atheist, so... Hope this answers your question. :)

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Where can i find seed for "lady godiva" pumpkins? Try going here: http://www.gardenweb.com and looking in their Hortiplex Database, which will tell you about the plant and list the vendors who have it for sale (or seeds). Also, use their search blank in the upper right -- maybe someone has already asked the question. Good luck!

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How do one prune a golden elder tree The resource I use when I have any gardening questions at all is free -- it's http://www.gardenweb.com You can put "golden elder" in the search box, OR you could visit their Tree Forum and ask the question there. Everyone there has always been kind and helpful to me. Be sure to tell them how big your tree is, and where you live (so they can figure out your frost zone,...

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What is the difference between vinyl and aluminum windows? what is a Low e for windows?is it better to replace the entire window and frame or just replace window. "Low e" means low energy -- that means less heat (or air conditioning) is lost because the glass is insulated. You can get tax credits for these windows. My experience was, I had to replace the frames as well as the windows. Much more energy efficient, AND I saved money because the installers just slapped the whole unit into the walls, without trying to fit modern new windows...

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I have a guppy, that was pregnant, so i put her in solitude, but everytime i came back to check, she had dropped and there was no fry, how can i prevent her from eating it? Hi -- have you tried putting in a refuge for the fry? Most pet shops sell this kind of thing, designed for the little ones to hide in while keeping the mother fish out. It can look like really dense weeds, or a sort of a sponge...and another device is a divider that fits into the aquarium and lets the fry escape through small holes to the side where she can't follow. Good luck!

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Is there some kind of machine that you can hurt people through a wall or floor? And cause bruises? I don't want to hurt people, my neighbor says the people who lives above her has a machine that hurts her. Hmm, this is kind of confusing. Is it possible she means that the machine hurts her ears by being too loud? Or hurts her sleep patterns, or her concentration? But none of that would cause bruising. Other "hurts through walls" kind of things would be exhaust fumes seeping into her apartment; or of course radiation, but now we're in science fiction territory. And neither of...

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What is your favorite one-hit wonder? "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum in the 1970's... I love that song. It's been remade in 1986 and 2003, but I don't know either of those versions. Or Pachelbel's Canon in D from the 1680's!! :) You can still hear that one every day on classical stations, but it's the only work of his that really hit it big.

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Do you eat beef? Yes, I do. Even though I believe it is wrong to do so. I think it is a sin and I know that the animals are harvested in pain -- I will never forget video I saw of a cow with a broken leg being forced to walk on that leg while being shipped to the slaughterhouse, and then up the slope to the killing floor. If I had to have beef to live, maybe that would be justified, but I don't....

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Why do they call people from Austrailia aussies? Is this a racial slur? No, it's not a slur, it's just an abbreviation, and Aussies themselves seem to like it. It's good that you tried to find out if it's an insult. Sometimes asking is the only way to find out. If it were a slur, you'd call it a national slur instead of a racial slur. Discrimination on the basis of national origin is just as illegal in the United States as...

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I had a miscarriage with my only pregnancy about 10 months ago and I'm still hurt and depressed about it because I wanted a baby so bad do you think that's too long to be upset about it? Hi, Amanda. I agree with everyone who has told you to take your time about grieving. I don't think ten months is too long. You will probably grieve every time you think about this, even fifty years from now. (You'll just think of it lots less often fifty years from now.) All I can add in my answers, looking at your own comments, is: ---I think seeing a doctor or counselor is a...

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My friend wants to know where you can buy a douche and how you use it...trust me...this is not me!!!! she wants to know not me!She wants to get rid of that fishy odor. 1. Pretty much everyone has warned you it could be a vaginal infection other than a yeast infection. This is true. It could be an e. coli infection, or trichinella ("trick"), or one of several others: anaerobic vaginosis, nonspecific vaginitis, Gardnerella vaginalis vaginitis, Haemophilus vaginalis vaginitis that require a doctor's prescription and cannot be taken care...

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I am 4 weeks prego. I don't exactly know who the father is. Its between my ex bf & this guy who rapped me. I don't want to have a baby with either one. I hate abortion and couldn't live with myself if i put the baby up 4 adoption. what should i do? 1. If you know who "this guy" is, you should tell the police. If he rapes one woman, he's likely to rape other women. 2. Blood & DNA tests after the birth will tell you which of them started the pregnancy. That person will be responsible for child support if you keep the child. Do you think either of them will pay it? Can you afford the child without support? You can...

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I'm 5 weeks pregnant. The father wants me to get an abortion. I don't know if that's what I want. I'm feeling pressured to make a decision without thinking it through. I'm worried I'll make the wrong choice and end up regretting it. What should I do? If you were five weeks more than four weeks ago, you are getting close to the time when a decision has to be made. I agree with everyone who said you should make this decision yourself, and not let anyone pressure you into adoption, abortion, or keeping the infant yourself. However, I *do* think you should carefully consider what the (man? boy?) who started this pregnancy thinks. It is...

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What is fear of trusting called? Roger Kovaciny's answer gave you the technical names "pistanthrophobia" and related terms, but I couldn't find them defined anywhere, and I wonder if he might have been teasing: Homonym for "pist" + anthro (people) + phobia (fear of) I checked a few medical and etymological dictionaries and couldn't find it. Doesn't mean it's not out there --...

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What's the worst thing a person can say to someone who has just lost a loved one? This has happened more than once to people I know, right at the wake or the funeral: "So will you be moving now? I'm a realtor, here's my card." "So will you be selling your mother's house? I'm a realtor, here's my card. You should do this right away, it doesn't do anyone any good just sitting there empty."

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Do you think the 4-5 day "clearing system"(while the banks alledgedly invest your money) is a form of short-term legalised robbery Yes. The delay is not for them to invest the money -- the excuse for this practice originally was that it took the bank that long to get actual cash for a deposited check from the clearinghouses they all use. However, today, there is no excuse for this. The money is not traveling by burro or oxcart or pony express. Banks now get the cash for checks within a day, and they spend the time...

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Do other boys sleep with toys or dolls to bed? I have a monkey toy.. Yes, of course! My life partner is 32 years old, and when I'm not here, he sleeps with a giant teddy bear or stuffed alligator. He still has a good collection of stuffed animals, and we add to it once in a while. When he was sick in the hospital, I brought him a stuffed raccoon like Meeko from the Disney movies. His brother, who is 30, has a pair of stuffed penguins out on his couch...

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Does space dust settle on orbiting space shuttles? I'd like to add to BAM's answer (who said that no, the dust doesn't settle because in fact the shuttle is flying at tremendous speed). Space dust doesn't "settle" on the shuttle, but it does HIT the shuttle and leave it covered with tiny pits. So far, we've been lucky and have not run into a larger piece of "space junk" that might do damage when...

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SHould convicts be sent for psychatric treatment and not to prisons? I worked in a large state prison system for several years a while back and this is what was known then: -- prisoners have a higher rate of head and brain injuries than the general population, usually from child abuse. This is known to cause epilepsy in some people, but epilepsy is not related to criminal activity. Brain injury, however, is, because it affects a person's ability to...

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How can I find out how much property taxes will be on a property I'm interested in buying? Do you mean the Shedaker street in Philadelphia? Call the county real estate tax office and ask. They'll tell you. In Philadelphia, this is called the BRT office, the Board of Revision of Taxes. If you have a real estate agent helping you, they will tell you, too. Property taxes are figured out this way: Assessed value of the home × tax rate = taxes due The assessed...

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Do you believe the quote "God doesn't give you any more than you can handle"? Why or why not? No, for two reasons: 1. the high rate of suicides; clearly, these people had more going on than they could handle; and 2. I'm an atheist, and I know that burdens or disasters come on us -- because we choose them (like choosing to have kids can be a good burden, or a hard one; and like choosing to start smoking is a health disaster) or -- because there's a natural...

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What are some of the best calming songs you know? Going to the classics, Pachelbel's "Canon" (not cannon!) is very soothing, and a lot of people like it for meditation, sleep, studying, even in the dentist's chair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel's_Canon is a website that has three versions of it for you to listen to online, down near the end of the article under the "Media" heading. Click on...

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Why are tall, dark and handsome guys so irresistible? Even lionesses prefer their guys tall, dark, and handsome, according to a study published in 2002 which showed females had a very strong preference for the darkest manes: -- the news item -- http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2002/08/22/lions_mane020822.html -- the published study -- ...

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What is the strangest phobia you've ever heard about? There is a phobia of having all your limbs. They actually want to be amputees. Well, a phobia means being afraid of something, like spiders, or the dark, or clowns. I can't pick out the strangest phobia I've ever heard of, there are so many. Mine's kind of bland: I hate to see people brushing their teeth. It gives me the creeps to see someone foaming at the mouth! The people who want to be amputees don't have a phobia about having all their...

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In a job interview, when they ask what you think is your biggest fault or weakness, what do you give as an answer? "That I can get too wrapped up in my work." or "That I'm a perfectionist, I'll do whatever it takes to make things come out right." They love hearing that! A "weakness" that works to their advantage, woohoo!

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Why are they making it such a big deal that there is two black coaches in the superbowl?who cares were all equal. It's a big deal because football has such a long history of racism. At first, black players were not allowed AT ALL, and so men would claim to be Indians (Native Americans) to be allowed to play. This was true in baseball, too. Finally, black players were accepted on teams, but not as quarterbacks. Coaches and owners thought white team members and white audiences wouldn't accept...

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If you could travel through time who would you go visit first and why? My grandma, who raised me. She died in 1979 and I still miss her every day. I will never forget her. And there's so much I wish I had asked her about, especially about her life in Europe before she came to America at age 14. :)

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Is it possible that some of us were just meant to be single all of our lives? Yes. Some of us WANT to be single all of our lives, and choose it on purpose. :) Unfortunately, there are also some people who are emotionally damaged (perhaps in their original families) and who therefore feel like they can never get close to someone. They may feel "meant to be single" without feeling that it's truly a free choice for them. It takes all kinds to make...

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Do you love an ex? How far would you be willing to go to get them back? If it was an honest relationship, then sure, it's easy to love an ex -- but as a cherished friend, not a romantic partner. If there was dishonesty, then it's impossible to love the person who lied, or misrepresented themselves or their feelings. I agree with RICSPRINCESS: when it's over, it's over, and if it didn't work the first time, there's no reason to...

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If i had sex with my girlfriend and might of cummed in her while she had a tampon in, could she still get pregnant? Yes, she could. If any of the ejaculate was close to the cervix, the tampon would absorb some, but hold the rest in place near the cervix, making pregnancy --more-- likely, not less likely. However, as noted by another answerer here, most women have low risk of fertility at that time. Usually, a new egg is not released until the uterine lining is shed (that's her period) and a new...

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Do you think you're more depressed during the winter season? Yes. It's so dark! I am only in Virginia, so we get about 9 hours of light each day no matter what. I don't know how people in Alaska, with almost no light in the winter, can stand it. I want to be outside, I want to garden, I want to sit in the sun. I DON'T want to go to work in the dark and come home in the dark and never see the sun all week long! And the winter...

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If you suddenly became filthy rich whats the first thing you would buy? Anything my life partner wants. What he wants most (we've talked about this!) is to pay off the mortgage on his parents' home, and try to fix them up so they can retire earlier. :) And then I'd love to have enough money so that he could take any job he wants (or no job at all!), instead of taking jobs he needs (for the income to support us). I'd love to be...

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How do you know if a Church is a cult religion? Strictly speaking, all churches are cults -- the literal meaning of the word is not negative. However, most of us use "cult" these days to describe a religion with unusual beliefs that tries to isolate, exploit, and even abuse its members, and prevent them from leaving if they try. You might want to compare these two definitions of the word "cult" : ...

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What happens to the DNA in sperm as men age? Scientists have long known that age effects women's eggs, because a woman is born with every egg she will ever have: all her eggs are exactly as old as she is, and that can create problems if she attempts childbearing late in life. It wasn't until recently that scientists realized men have the same problem. Men manufacture new sperm all the time; the cells are always fresh, so...

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Why do women love diamonds so much do they know where they come from? 1. Not all women love diamonds. Some don't like the look, some don't like the whole idea of expensive jewelry, and yes, some women know where they come from and reject them because of that. 2. Some men love diamonds. Take a look at most rap musicians, gamblers, or entertainers like Liberace. 3. The diamond industry works hard to try to convince people that a man...

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Who founded Judaism? Jews state that their religion was founded by Abraham when he rejected polytheism (which was his father's belief system) and began promoting monotheism through his belief in one single deity, whom Christians call God, Yaweh, or Jehovah, and to whom Jews refer without typing out the whole name. Example: G-d.

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Would you leave your whole life behind just to be happy? I am too happy in the life I have now to ever want to leave. However, when I was younger, I was in a terrible accident. It meant I had to leave the area I lived for somewhere warmer; it meant that everyone who knew me before the accident would cry when they looked at me; and everyone I knew constantly wanted to talk about my life as a "before" and "after" (with a...

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A smoke alarm may help residents get out of the house, but what if there is only one resident and s/he's deaf? Are there viable/feasible alternatives to smoke alarms for deaf people? Sure! Lots, including lights, fans, and even "bed shaker" systems. Go to google.com and enter this as your search string: ADA smoke alarm deaf You will see all kinds of answers. You can repeat your question at froogle.com to get some prices, but start with google, it's more comprehensive.

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How do you tell some one that you really dont want to be with them any more and make them believe it???Also when they are leaving you txts and messages saying how much they love you to make you feel guilty? You tell them gently but firmly. You might say things like: "(Name), if you like me, you respect me, and that means respecting this decision." And really, that's what it all boils down to. Ignore the texts and messages, and eventually, they will stop. Use the respect line a couple of times, and then just stop responding. Block their phone number and email if you can;...

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What is your favorite type of toothpaste? Sensodyne! It really works for sensitive teeth (teeth which react with pain to hot, cold, or other factors). Of course, that can be a disadvantage, because having sensitive teeth means something's wrong that needs to be fixed. But a $4 tube of toothpaste is quick, easy, and cheap compared to getting major work done. And it tastes pretty good, too.

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Is reading good exercise for your eyes or does it weaken them? I had eye surgery recently and just asked the doc the same question. He gave me a very short answer, but said yes, in some cases, doing reading or other close work while young may affect vision, but he finished the answer by saying that poor vision also has a very strong genetic component. This article says that reading can indeed damage young eyes: ...

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Should females warn us when they have their period? like that we (men) know that the attitude are just mood swings Absolutely not, unless the person is your own wife or life partner. That information is **much** too personal and much too intimate to ask about. Even your mother or your daughter would probably be embarrassed and angry if you asked them such a thing. Also, if you ask that question in the workplace or in a school setting, you are committing sexual harassment by making a degrading...

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What does a bend or bendy mean on a coat-of-arms? I'd love to help but I'm confused by the question. --Do you mean "bend or bendy"? (where "or" means gold) --Do you mean "bend" or "bendy"? (bend is one thing, bendy is another) --And are you looking for the meaning as in, "what does it look like" or "what does it symbolize"? It would also help if you could give the whole...

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My dog got sprayed by a skunk. How do you get the smell out of the dogs coat? Tomato juice is the popular & inexpensive home remedy. However, Petsmart & Petco both sell skunk-scent-removal shampoos, and according to our neighbor, they work pretty well. For him, the main question was, should he buy the big bottle, or the little one? The clerk said, "Sir, there's only two kinds of dogs. The kind who only need to get sprayed once to learn. For...

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What does your family "coat of arms" look like? I have the Irish arms for my mother, and the German arms for my father, but when it came time to have personal arms, I went a different route. This is a draft I liked a lot a few years back. The phoenix is from Chicago (born there, and reborn there). The ermine on the top is for all my beloved dogs & other furred pets. The salamanders (fire-lizards) are a reference to my...

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My girlfriend kissed three girls mouth to mouth at a party. She said she was drunk and didn't remember it. Is this considered cheating? Whether it's cheating or not depends on how you feel about it. It sounds like you feel you were cheated on. However, to be fair to her and to the relationship, what you two might need to do is have a serious sit-down talk about what kind of relationship you want to have, and how each of you feel about even minor intimacy with another person. If she had had breakfast with an old...

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Is it true that breast milk can contain harmful man-made chemicals? Yes, human breast milk may contain harmful artificial chemicals. The same is true of cow's milk (and any mammalian milk, including whale's milk, but I assume you're most interested in milks that humans consume). Of great concern are not just agricultural chemicals showing up in cow's milk (from fertilizers, etc.) but also chemicals meant to benefit the cows which...

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If you could only wear one color for the rest of your life what would it be and why? I was leaning towards black, but it's just SO black! Never a variation. I'm picking blue, because it could be denim blue, cobalt blue, sky blue, turquoise blue, ocean blue... saying blue gets me a lot of choices. :)

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What does the GSH on the Chicago Bears Football jersey stand for? George S. Halas, one of the founding members of the team -- he played for the Bears even before they were called the Bears, when they were in downstate Illinois before they moved to Chicago. He became their most famous coach and leader. Everyone called him "Papa Bear." To learn more, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Halas

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Has anyone you know ever committed or attempted suicide? Yes. I have a good friend whose family is cursed with multiple suicides. Two of her brothers and one of her sisters have killed themselves. One of her nieces has killed herself. And her own son has attempted it. The niece was in her late 20's; the others ranged from 35 to 50. If someone you know is depressed and they have a history of suicides in their family, I'd be very...

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What does a flint lock pistol mean on a coat of arms? This site http://www.heraldryclipart.com/symbolism/m.html does not address flintlock pistols, but under the definition for "musket" states that matchlock pistols in heraldry mean "readiness for battle, warden-ship; a rampart of honour." In this context, wardenship means having responsiblity for guarding someone or something. "Something" could be as small as a...

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Do you have an alter-ego? What's their name? Yep, you're looking at it. An ankhorite is a religious hermit. Hamsters are hermits, too, though I'm not sure how religious they are, other than praying for corn!

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Do really smart people study hard or does it come naturally to them? It is always really smart to study hard! Natural talent can affect all kinds of different ways of being "smart," but studying or practicing always improves your performance. Anyone who studies is smarter and wiser than someone who blows it off, no matter how their final grades compare. It is certainly is easier for some people to do well in school. The ability to concentrate, to...

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Do you say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"? I say "Happy Holidays" or "Happy New Year" unless I know for certain which holiday a person celebrates; and if I know for sure, I say "Happy Hannukah" or "Good Yule" or "Merry Christmas" or whatever. There's nothing wrong with "Happy Holidays" and to say "Merry Christmas" to someone you know doesn't celebrate...

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At what age did you lose your virginity or haven't you yet? And what age are you now? What you may find most useful is the recent study which showed that, since the 1940's, 95% (yes, that's ninety-five percent, not a typing error) of people were not virgins when they married. That's all people, women as well as men. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16287113/ longer story, with graphic http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2006/12/19/index.html summary by...

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Clarion means what on a coat-of-arms? Go to the Wikipedia entry on "clarichord," which is the alternate name for this charge in heraldry. There is a lot of confusion about it, but the explanation (and 'see also' links) there should help. Even though the whole URL isn't displayed, just click on this link to see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarichord Basically, it's either a panpipe- or...

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