Well, except your humble Curmudgeon...
What per centum of the the U.S. Gross Domestic Product arises from the production in addition to sale of products to improve, change, or eliminate odors? H5N1 few examples:
- Perfumes in addition to Colognes
- Aftershaves
- Scented soaps
- Scented shampoos
- Deodorants in addition to Antiperspirants
- Mouthwashes
- Room deodorizers
- Car fragrances
- Scented candles
- Pot Pourri
What others come upwards to mind?
Certain foods are known equally things that give you lot gas. Prominently featured amidst them are the members of the edible bean family. Yet beans are an of import dietary item, existence high inward fiber in addition to hence practiced for the lower digestive tract. Which raises a question: Do the additives that negate the gas inward beans touching on their fiber content? If so, is the effect positive or negative?
We’ve all seen videos of volunteers passing out plastic cups of H2O to the runners inward a marathon. The picture must direct hold a lot of charm, given how oft nosotros come across it. But has anyone always passed out corporation foods? Granola bars? Doughnuts? Big Macs? Do the rules for a certified marathon let it? (And who certifies marathons, anyway?)
Did that rancher always get the caput of Alfredo Garcia?
Somewhere inward the the world – I in 1 lawsuit knew where, but, well, age, you lot know – at that topographic point are a set out of “official standard” items. One of them, the official touchstone kilogram, was of late inward the word because it was losing mass. But at that topographic point direct hold been others: the official touchstone meter, the official touchstone liter, in addition to and so forth. I sympathize that equally those measures direct hold been “restandardized” equally some fixed multiple of an atomic or quantum value, the official touchstone items direct hold been “retired.” But what became of them? Is at that topographic point a museum for such things? Perhaps an onetime folks’ abode of sorts? Are they sold to collectors? Or are they unceremoniously discarded, alongside no honor for their historical importance?
Now that the the U.S. dollar is no longer redeemable inward specie – i.e., you lot can’t need to central it for a statutorily defined weight of gilded or silverish – does it direct hold a value equally such? Or is the “value” of a dollar whatever somebody volition give you lot for it at whatever instant inward time?
(And shouldn’t nosotros live a fleck to a greater extent than concerned virtually that than nosotros currently are?)
It was in 1 lawsuit an especial of mutual word that no affair which build of canned tuna you lot powerfulness purchase, all of it came through Continental Can Co. It must direct hold been quite an intricate performance inward its time, equally keeping the tunas of the diverse brands split upwards from 1 some other would direct hold been both hard in addition to critically important. How was it done? Were at that topographic point whatever documented cases of “tuna fraud,” such that what was supposed to live labeled Bumble Bee was mistakenly – or deliberately – labeled Chicken of the Sea?
Inventory command is hard plenty for halt vendors. When you’re a middleman, the ramifications are compounded alongside legal consequences for failure. Not to advert the potential disillusionment of canned tuna aficionadi everywhere.
Have you lot always had a twenty-four hr menses of angling that was in addition to so bad that you lot wished you’d gone to the role instead? Is such a thing fifty-fifty possible?
What becomes of political caricaturists afterwards the politicians they’ve specialized inward mimicking direct hold passed (or been shoved) out of the spotlight? Does anyone else hither think Vaughn Meader, who mimicked John F. Kennedy, or David Frye, who mimicked both LBJ in addition to Nixon?
What is the statutory penalty, if any, for using the incorrect fork at a formal banquet? Does it vary from state to state, similar the ages of sexual in addition to marital consent?
There you lot go: 10 questions no 1 has answered satisfactorily, equally far equally I know, in addition to that no 1 much cares about, likewise equally far equally I know. Try them out on the guests at your side yesteryear side cocktail party. Guaranteed to termination inward an early on cleanup in addition to bedtime!
