[2967] in Humor
HUMOR: The Ultimate Ask Marilyn Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Bennett)
Thu Oct 7 12:04:29 1999
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:58:59 -0400
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: Drew Bennett <dbennett@isr.com>
>> > As you may know, Marilyn Vos Savant supposedly has one of
>> > the highest, if not the highest, IQs in the world. She writes a
>> > regular column called, Ask Marilyn. In September 1998 she
>> > published a list of questions readers had asked her that, in her
>> > words, "I love too much to answer"
>> >
>> > Here are a selection:
>> >
>> > Is there an implied time limit on fortune cookie predictions? If so,
>> > how long is it?
>> >
>> > Nature shows on television say that when two bull moose compete for a
>> > lady moose, the one with the smaller antlers concedes to the other
>> > one.
>> > I can see how a moose can tell the size of his opponent's antlers, but
>> > how does he know how big his own are?
>> >
>> > How did people trim their toenails before the invention of tools with
>> > sharp metal edges?
>> >
>> > Must one always begin at the beginning? Much time could be saved
>> > if we could begin at the end.
>> >
>> > I like to watch major league baseball and I'm wondering if you could
>> > calculate something. Over the past 70 years of the existence of
>> > Yankee Stadium, how deep would the spit be if none had ever
>> > evaporated or been absorbed into the soil?
>> >
>> > How can any deoderant have a scent of its own? Why doesn't it wipe
>> > itself out?
>> >
>> > Could we stop a hurricane on the East Coast if everyone on the coast
>> > turned a fan outside that was pointed east?
>> >
>> > Is it true that there is not one single square inch of dirt anywhere
>> > on the face of this planet that has not, at one time or another,
>> > passed through an earthworm?
>> >
>> > Has all this evolution been worth it?
>> >
>> > I want to start eating wood again, but my appendix was taken out a
>> > few years ago. What can I do?
>> >
>> > If you're a man and have a sex-change operation, will your car
>> > insurance rates go down?
>> >
>> > I find it curious that there are many individuals whose surname is
>> > Brown, Green, White, Black, Gray or Gold, but there are virtually none
>> > whose surname is Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple or Pink. Is there a
>> > logical reason for this?
>> >
>> > And the Topper:
>> >
>> > I am 37 and have been washing my own clothes since I was 10. When I
>> > throw my underpants into the machine, they come back inside out. But
>> > if I put them in inside out, they still come back inside out. Can you
>> > explain this?
