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More of the straight dope

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Ballantine Books, Jun 12, 1988 - Humor - 502 pages
"Smart, saucy answers...the kind of book you'd buy as a goofy present for your wackiest friend--and then keep."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Since 1973, the redoubtable Cecil Adams has collected, corrected, inspected, and dissected thousands of reader's questions, reporting his sagacious findings in the popular weekly column, THE STRAIGHT DOPE. His first book amazed millions. Now he returns with another incomparable compendium of fantastic facts, insouciant information, and delicious data on every subject of import to personkind: Is it true Thanksgiving was invented by the editor of HARPER'S BIZARRE...? Why do your fingers wrinkle in the bathtub...? and hundreds more burning questions explained at last!

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I love this kind of thing. Before there was the internet, there was an amusing section of books that served to answer one's random questions. Before that, I read outdated Encyclopedia Britannicas, which were not nearly as entertaining or as amusing. Read full review

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Food Stuff
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Urban Studies Revisited
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Copyright

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The Straight Dope: "More of the Straight Dope" Index
Index to More of the Straight Dope, by Cecil Adams.
www.straightdope.com/ otheroutlets/ motsdindex.html

Gerbil Stuffing
This is reproduced completely without permission from More of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams. It's the second book in a series which includes The Straight ...
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Articles and Books
Cecil has written five books (that I am aware of): The Straight Dope, More of the Straight Dope, Return of the Straight Dope, and The Straight Dope Tells ...
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[Rich Kulawiec: GSP Digest #295]
(More of The Straight Dope) The Straight Dope By Cecil Adams Los Angelos Reader November 23, 1990 Is there such a thing as cow tipping? I have two friends, ...
homes.cerias.purdue.edu/ ~spaf/ Yucks/ V0/ msg00203.html

The straight dope tells all by Ed Zotti | librarything
The straight dope : a compendium of human knowledge by Cecil Adams · More of the straight dope by Cecil Adams · Triumph of the straight dope by Ed Zotti ...
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The Woman Who Vomited Frogs
For a more comprehensive list of objects people have voluntarily placed inside themselves, see Cecil Adams's More of The Straight Dope. (reference 4) ...
sprott.physics.wisc.edu/ Pickover/ vomit.html

Cecil Adams
"Straight Dope" columns have been compiled into several books, such as The Straight Dope, More of the Straight Dope, Return of the Straight Dope, ...
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Moon Phases and the Crime Rate
variety) covers topics such as this in his books The Straight Dope or More of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams. The gist of his answer (from More of the ...
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ docs/ ask_astro/ answers/ 970103b.html

Why do fingers and toes wrinkle in the bathtub?
Excerpt from More of The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams. Can you please tell me why your fingers and toes wrinkle in the bathtub, but the rest of your body ...
www.discovergames.com/ wrinkle.html

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About the author (1988)

Adams, one of the world's legendary recluses, has never been photographed or interviewed. In fact, only a handful of people have ever met him, giving rise to his reputation as the Howard Hughes of American journalism.

Zotti is the editor and confidant of Cecil Adams, one of the world's legendary recluses.

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