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I need help for a play I am writing, and would be very much obliged if you people could offer your suggestions... (because you're all so talented and full of ideas, as we already know; I've already been stared at like a loony by even my usually tolerant and understanding friends)
I need to find a seemingly trivial unexplained mystery that could potentially twist the fate of the living. (sounds complicated, isn't.)
Like: Where do my other socks go?
What is the little mystery that if explained could potentially "change the world"?
(and in honour of talk like a pirate day: "aaarrrrrr!")
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How about Where's my left shoe? Maybe some super terrorist stole EVERYBODY'S left shoes and it's winter so people can't just walk around barefoot. To cram your foot into a right shoe or walk around with your feet at different heights, that is the question.
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You see, it's like this...every clothes dryer comes equipped with either a black hole or a white hole. If your dryer has a black hole, socks occasionally disappear. They turn up, interstingly enough, in other dryers - the ones equipped with a white hole.
No one has explained yet why these cosmic anomalies prey on socks, and not on other kinds of clothing. It isn't completely certain that the holes don't sometimes swallow larger items, but if they do it is a much rarer phenomenon. We may never know; the government has quietly begun turning down grants proposed to study this phenomenon.
Those of a conspiratorial turn of mind believe that this is because government scientists have discovered a way of controlling the phenomenon and are engaged in collecting socks for some as-yet-undisclosed reason. It has been proposed that this reason is that they are endeavoring to prevent the Red Hot Chili Peppers from performing on stage only in strategically-placed socks ever again, but this theory has yet to gain a following among top researchers.
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How about "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make any sound?" The answer is, of course, yes, but then the other trees come over and help it back up Posts: 6 | Registered: Sep 2003
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I'm actually tempted to use the berry bagel thread idea now you bring it up...
Questions: so what DOES happen to all the berry bagels? And if I knew, how would that affect the life and death of the human race?
Are there no berry bagels at all? Is it a myth?
I thought of something else too: Is it only a myth that you will ever feel old (or 'grown up')? If the answer to this was discovered, that would definately change life and death...
Berry Bagels or the Adult Myth?
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I like the site about DHMO. I find it even funnier that everything they say is probably true (to a certain extent). The real question is, should we ban water?
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Julie the "ban DHMO" campaign has been going on for about 10 years now, in various forms. I used to give a copy of it to my chem students shortly after we learned about naming compounds, and wait for someone to figure it out.
As for the berry bagels, I have had some -- I know they exist.
But when I went into the local bagel place on Friday, they had none -- but lots of the other flavors . . . *cues TZ theme*
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(because you're all so talented and full of ideas, as we already know; I've already been stared at like a loony by even my usually tolerant and understanding friends)
