Ask glenn

[StinkerBell]

I will start with the first question.



How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

[desdawg]

After seeing the first question I guess it's safe to assume this won't be like Dear Abby.

[gandalfthegrey]

One   

I could never resist taking a bite.

[StinkerBell]

You are no glenn my friend!

:

[glenn kangiser]

Stink, that depends on where the tootsie pop is.

Hmm - this could get exciting.

[StinkerBell]

glenn,

How long is a piece of string?

[glenn kangiser]

Anybody knows that one.  Twice as long as half it's length.

[muldoon]

I'm not sure I want to see where this is going... 

[glenn kangiser]

I'm only an innocent bystander -- I had no clue Stink was going to do this to me.   All I can do is try to give an honest answer.

[StinkerBell]

glenn,


When will the end of the internet be reached?


















you would think others would catch on and ask some questions......sheeeeeesh

[glenn kangiser]

This is getting very deep, Stink.

It's kind of like you think I'm one of those magic balls that you just shake and rub and turn upside down and up pops the answer.

The end of the internet. 

Currently that is classified information, Stink.  Al Gore  (inventor of the Internet) has not released that yet and Dubya has protected it for 50 years with a signing order. (Illegal and un-Constitutional I know).

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Well, I'm not Glenn, but when I was 8 I licked a tootsie roll pop and counted how long it took to get to the center, and it was 300+ licks (can't remember the exact amount.) I wrote a letter to the Tootsie Roll company telling them how many licks it took, and they sent me a whole case of Tootsie Roll candy and a big certificate saying that I was one of the few, the brave, the diligent who could actually resist just chomping down.  There were enough tootsie roll candies for our whole family and all the neighbor kids and door-to-door salesmen and the JW's that came to the door. 

[glenn kangiser]

That is a real accomplishment, Homey.  I must commend you on your sticktoitiveness.

[StinkerBell]

Egadessssssssssssss

I just got a visual of Sassy flipping you over and rubbing your belly and an answer appearing....




I AM BLINDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD...............

[glenn kangiser]

I meant the little black answer ball, Stink -- you know -- like the one you used to play with in school ....at least someone had one in the school I went to.

[StinkerBell]

They are Little? They are black? Bad circulation? Does Sassy know?

[muldoon]

you would think others would catch on and ask some questions......sheeeeeesh

ok, you want questions...

What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches? 
How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
What U.S. coin weighs five grams?
What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and protons?
What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?

[glenn kangiser]

ummm .....next question,  Stink.

Guess I'll work on muldoon's

[StinkerBell]

My husband just told me to leave you alone. That I pick on you too much.

[glenn kangiser]

you would think others would catch on and ask some questions......sheeeeeesh

ok, you want questions...

What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches?  

Sorry, muldoon.  Not enough information for an answer.  For the Priest or the choir boys?

How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?

Man there are a lot of things you want to know.  It has no arms therefore how does it really reach?


How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?

I'm afraid if I Googled these I'd really learn something.  I assume no Google.

What U.S. coin weighs five grams?  

What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and protons?
What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?

...these are very hard, muldoon.  I'm afraid I'll have to rub the black ball some more for the answers.

[glenn kangiser]

My husband just told me to leave you alone. That I pick on you too much.

Possibly he thinks you are rubbing me the wrong way. hmm

[muldoon]

googles fine.  go ahead, learn us sumpin

[Ernest T. Bass]

Aw, c'mon.... The homemade answers are so much more entertaining!

[glenn kangiser]

Sorry Andrew --- I'm just not that smart. 

OK muldoon - all googled  - I don't have this stuff in my gray matter.



What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches?  

A: Bingo.



How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
Man there are a lot of things you want to know.  It has no arms therefore how does it really reach?

The sun's light takes about 8 minutes to reach the Earth after it has been emitted from the sun's surface. The time it takes for light to reach planets in our Solar System (not the Milky Way, which is our galaxy) varies from about 3 minutes for Mercury, to about 5.3 hours for Pluto. There is nothing out in space to prevent the sun's light from going infinitely far, in principle. In practice, the sun is only 4.5 billion years old, so its light can only extend 4.5 billion light years away from us right now. But there's nothing to stop that light from expanding outwards forever, as time goes on. The sun's radius is about 100 times that of the Earth, meaning that about 1.12 million Earths could fit inside it, as could about 930 Jupiters. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=197


How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?


Free Math Trivia Questions and Answers
Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have? A: Twenty.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.triviaplaying.com%2F62_Math_.htm&ei=Li6qSKq1PILQsAPt-bXuDg&usg=AFQjCNE4Im-W0o0sAO00Www4Irm2pWiMFg&sig2=Q-V1iUBrQNXR26ldKaafOQ

What U.S. coin weighs five grams?  Nickel: 5.000 grams http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/853707

What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592? Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo invented the thermometer in 1592. http://sasalog.com/trivia/25-trivia-60679.html


Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?

74.   Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life? - Thomas Edison.  http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:PI0hvlJm8fYJ:brainist.com/trivia/index.htm+Who+averaged+one+patent+for+every+three+weeks+of+his+life%3F&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a


What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and protons?
An ion is an atom that has an unequal number of electrons and protons
Two atoms are walking down the street. The first atom says to the second atom "I think I lost an electron!" The second says "Are you sure?" To which the first states "I'm positive!" http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Electronics/Charge_and_Coulomb%27s_Law

Looks like good stuff here.  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page



What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?

The only essential vitamin not found in the white potato is Vitamin D.
See list of primary nutrients, page 2
http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/commodit...

PS
pro-vitamin A/beta-carotene content of white potato/Solanum tuberosum:
:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18044...
list of all contents incl vitamins in lower percentage:
http://www.liberherbarum.com/Pn0299.HTM

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080509072444AAmxFFl

[ScottA]

Are you still taking questions Glenn? If so:

Can you make me some steel X plates for my scissors trusses?