Dr. Bob's Skeptical Quiz

Quiz Results - January 2004

There can be only one WINNER for January - who was inspired to read the whole of Njal’s Saga - and owns the book and has read it before anyway - thus not only getting the right answer to Q10, but a brilliant identical one Q11 as well. Yes it’s our diabolical Dutchman -

Joost Verduin

Sorry the answers were late this month. And they will be even later next month, around March 15th as I’ll be on holiday from late Feb. No, not Iceland - somewhere even worse!

• All persons been born of virgin women must be female as no Y chromosome can exist without a male being involved which is the case with a virgin mother.
• Not much, except they all seem to be wholly holy blokes.
• Well, lots CAN be said, but it's better not to speak those things aloud. The sex of a person born to a virgin would be female, but whether her gender identity matches that, well, anything can happen.
• They're virgins too.
• Very little.
• Nothing as virgin births are impossible (and a very implausible excuse as seen in "The Life of Brian").
• Absolutely anything. To demonstrate, I just said out loud "The gender of persons born of virgins is whale hubcap radiator". QED.
• 1 male if you believe the bible - otherwise sex is verging on the ridiculous [Only when a nun and a clown do it]
• Ahhhh, MITE they all be males?
• Aren't they, like, sons of God or angels or something? I think they must be hermaphrodites.
• Gender? gender?!! Dr Bob, I would have picked you last for a victim of politicalcorrectspeakthink. If you mean the sex of the result of an apomictic gestation: female every time. Yes, Jesus was a male impersonator. But gender: a person can be any bloody gender they chose these days. Hence the joke of transexuals being elected to the board of womens' colleges.
• Genderwise they would be female. Having no opportunity to gain the male chromosome. However many a so called "virgin" seems to have had a male child. One famous one who's birthday it was recently comes to mind.
• How long is a length of string? I would have expected all "virgin births" to produce a female child. The one claimed virgin birth commonly discussed produced a male child. Isnt it a funny old world we live in.
• I don't think their gender is based on the virginity of their parents - after all aren't all sperm donors virgins?
• I suppose, with artificial insemination, it is possible for someone to be born unto a virgin. However, I have no idea what can be said about the genders of said persons. Jesus Christ was male. That's as much as I can figure.
• If they are female, they are the offspring of a liar. If they are male, they can simply claim to be the son of god.
• Instead of the gender of that person, i would concentrate on the whole existence of the person in question.
• Isn't birth a little early to start imposing gender stereotypes on all these "boys"?
• It has only happened once, and that was a boy. But you might think the offspring is a clone of the mother, and therefore must be female. Therefore, Jesus was a woman.
• Lets see - Jesus (male), erm that is if mary was telling the truth. Don't know of any other persons being born to virgins, because of the obvious reasons so therefore i can state that 100% of persons i have known to be born to virgins are male.
• Male virgins or female virgins? Not that it really matters, since in these days of IVF, egg donors, sperm donors, test-tubes, surrogate mothers and clones, virginity isn't the obstacle to reproduction that it used to be. Persons having only one parent would either have the same genes as that parent, in which case they'd be the same sex as their parent, or they'd have one or two copies of half their parent's genes, so if the parent was female the child would be too, and if the parent was male the child would be female or unviable due to missing X-chromosome genes. I suppose in theory one of the rare sufferers of extreme Klinefelter's syndrome, having XXXY chromosomes, might manage to produce a viable gamete with 46 chromosomes leading to a child of either sex. But the best answer comes from a technical paper published by Robert Heinlein and entitled 'All you zombies' - and I should point out that sociologically you can't lose your virginity by having sex with yourself - is "both".
• Not much, apart from it would be awfully hard for a person with non-sexual status to conceive a child. I wonder what gender that makes Jesus?
• Technically they should be female as there are no Y chromosomes present in females.
• That it isn't consistant across the animal kingdom. Lizards born of virgins are female, honeybees born of virgins are male.
• That they are either male or female
• the baby will be either male, female or otherwise
• The one supposedly historically documented case was male. But, I suspect Jesus is a fairy story designed to scare children like the Bogeyman, or Michael Jackson.
• their obvious masculine tendencies will result in the formation of a new religion.
• There's three of them, I'm not checking their pants.
• They are always female. It's called parthenogenesis.
• They are slightly more likely to be girls, because most virgins who give birth would be lesbians who have undergone IVF treatment, and they are more likely to choose female embryos.
• They miss that Y-gene. But who needs them anyway?
• They must be female. Genetically, its bloody difficult to fuse two X-chromosomes and get one X and one Y - in fact, a bloody miracle is required.
• They should be 'female'- assuming the virgin birth results from parthenogenesis- the genetic makeup can only come from the virgin mother. Although they would only have one sex chromosome (X), if they survived they would display female sexual characteristics and be much closer to female than male.
• They will be either male or female. But my gut feeling is that they would be imaginary..unless artificial insemination doesn't count as deflowering a virgin..in that case I go back to my first statement.
• They would probably be Turner's-syndrome females, since the gender is determined by the father's genetic input. (Hence the H. in the expression "Jesus H. Christ!" - it stands for "Haploid".) In the case of divine intervention, however, anything is possible.
• They're female. (That's right, young Yesh ben Yosef was in fact a daughter named Cheryl, but the focus group trying to get christianity up and running knew from marketing research that they'd have buckley's of floating the whole idea if they didn't have a male figurehead.)
• This question is so artificial, Dr. Bob...
• Throughout history, those born of virgins were all male, so all those born of virgins are to be male and that celibacy is not hereditary
• Uhh, the most famous example was a male. Wot are you getting at, Dr Bob?
• Whichever, they come from an immaculate mother
• Why? [Why not?]
• Yeah right, they will be very confused about who their father is?
• You must be a man if you can believe your mother never slept with another man
• Jesus Christ, that's a difficult one.

• "On the sixth day he did look down and see much glumness. Whereupon with a wave of his hand he gave forth the genitals. And he did instruct in their use (tab A into slot B). Verily did they get rubbed together. And the glumness did fade utterly. And still he did wonder at those who failed to read his instructions, tab with tab, and slot with slot -- but they too seemed to be happy." Here endeth the lesson.
• How come is Santa an anagram of Satan? 2. How come are mute and mutiny two different things? 3. How come you can be ruthless but not Ruth? 4. How come the Australian media - both written and televised like to spell the word gaol the unfashionable yanky-way? 5. How come there is no sexth question in my reply? [OK, and speaking of sex: 6. How come?]
• 69, need I say more? Okay, it's because so many languages are derived from Latin, and in Latin, the word for 6 is sex (VI at the time), and the word for sex was sexus, which apparently derived from secare, which means to divide. Just like lots of words that sound alike, it doesn't have to mean anything.
• ALL words resemble one or other words for sex. One just needs a superior command of language.
• because 6 is a romantic number
• Because humans were a little slow when inventing words for the numbers, and by the time they got to the sixth number their minds had strayed to other matters. This is reflected in the extraordinary similarity between the words for six and sex. Support is also provided by the well known and scientifically proven fact that men can't keep their minds off sex and further that all men think alike, hence the similarity across languages.
• Because in many languages the word for '9' so strongly resembles the word for 'tongue'.
• Because it's one letter off [Groannnn]
• Because men can only count to five without their minds wandering onto other topics.
• Because on the 7th day we're not allowed to, we must rest!
• Because the numeral 6 looks like an upright flaccid penis, the end result of sexual intercourse. [That’d be why 9 comes later than 6 then]
• beyond 6, people having group sex tend to get disorientated
• Does it really, or is this just a subconscious joining of six and sex in your mind because you're worried about your lack of six?
• Easy one! We all know that 666 is the sign of the devil and sex is evil. The real question is about these supermarkets in New Zealand. If selling sex for $5.00 is routine business there, I think I may need to plan a trip to New Zealand very soon.
• Elementary Bob, the spelling of these words in most European languages is similar & hence they sound alike. However in Swahili ...
• Heaps but only causes confusion in New Zealand
• Historically those countries that had similar sounding words for numerical VI and carnal relations would actually have sex at 6 in the morning if they wanted their offspring to be male and 6 at night if they wanted their offspring to be female. Indeed all nouns in french have an alternate meaning of sex
• Homonym, or more interestingly perhaps the digit 9 should be added. Hope you are very happy with your Swede, in England we used to feed them to the pigs and cattle.
• I can think of 69 reasons. (Sorry for the cliched answer, Dr. Bob, I thought I should at least give some answer).
• I guess in 69 it looks the same no matter which way you look at it. If I were in New Zealand and someone was offering 'sex for $5' I'd call the RSPCA ...
• I havent read my bible very well, but my quess is that on the 6th day the God created a human being (a man and a woman). Nowadays we think that in order to create new life we have to have sex. So there would be the connection between these two words.
• I married a turnip. I know nothing about sex.
• I think people are often under the (mistaken) apprehension that all the languages of the world developed completely in isolation. Surely, groups throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa had traded with each other since the stone age. Of course if there's a quirk like the words "six" and "sex" sounding similar it may appear in other languages also, just like how the word for mother seems to start with an "m" sound in most languages. I think Noam Chomsky would have a different rationale, however.
• If that's the only question you came up with after your little adventure you need your head - or your sperm count - examined. Do working girls normally ply for hire in supermarkets? Have I got the euro-NZ$ exchange rate correct? What time is the next flight to Wellington? Is your wife a Scandinavian or a turnip, and if the latter, is your dislike for coconuts caused by the lack of hair or the requirement for a stronger drill-bit, and what's wrong with watermelons anyway? And of course, why are all your quiz questions sex-based? The boring answer to your question is that the Proto-indo-european roots for both words were similar, and the words have remained similar as different languages have evolved. The interesting answer involves counting appendages but you'll have to excuse me I've just thought of something more interesting to do... [And so have I ..]
• I'm trying to think of an obscene answer involving a 6 and its natural partner, the 9.
• In Latin, six and sex are variant spellings. They were often confused (deliberately?) by debauched Romans. A lot of languages still retain this ambiguity.
• It's a Freudian slep.
• it's just the accents.
• It's quite obvious. 666, the Devil's number, is linked with original sin.
• It's the real reason people are urged to count to 10 when they're angry...by the time they get to sex, ur uh secs, um six, they forget all about why they were angry because they're now thinking of sex.
• Let me guess, has something to do with Creation in 6 days? But the boring answer would have to be, that many languages originated from Latin, which has the same word for both: sex and six.
• man-six-sex / woman-nine-nein!
• Men can only count to 5 before thinking of sex, this phenomenon is world wide
• Not in Finnish. The word for six in my language, 'kuusi' is exactly same as for spruce, the coniferous tree of the genus Picea, growing in a distinctive conical shape with fragrant, prickly and dense foliage. Personally, I don't mind coconuts [surely an academic question, owing to the relative scarcity of coconut tress in Finland?].
• On the seventh day he rested...
• Only to the sexually perverse.
• Originally, it was supposed to stop men getting confused about coconuts, but apparently it hasn't worked <sigh> sometimes, ladies, I wonder why we even bother.....
• That's the age at which children first begin to ask embarrassing questions about reproduction.
• That's the average duration of the act (in minutes)
• The Latin for the numeral 6 is 'sex'. Since most modern European languages derive largely from Latin, there's your answer. Now, the Latin for 'sex' is 'fruitbat', but that's another story.
• the word for 'six' has cognate forms in all of the Indo-European languages. It reveals its roots so to speak. Hence six English, sex Swedish, hex Greek, six French, sechs German, zes Nederlands and so on. Even the latin 'sex' is for six. Scholars have proposed some ancient mother word for it which sounds, like all of its derivatives, like 'sex'. There are a lot of Indo-European languages, so there are a lot of 'sex' homophones for the number six. It has nothing to do with the origins of the modern word for the quality of being male or female. It's root is in the latin 'sextus', meaning to divide.
• They both have the same Indo-European root, sweks, seks, which in later languages for 6 became Sas, Sex, Six, Hex. The etymological meaning of the word "sex" relates to the division of living things into two sections for the purposes of reproduction (L. sexus). Personally I have heard that the confusion set in soon after the invention of wine. A toast to "seks" confused the act itself and the number of times a year the average Indo-European drinker got any.
• This comes from the earliest civilisation - Atlantis. There was no distinction between 6 and sex, so every time a batsman hoisted one over the fence he was given a "quick one" by the 'keeper’s nanna. [No wonder nobody noticed when the island sank]
• This probably has a lot to do with why 69 is considered 'naughty', not just for the appearance of the two numbers. In relation to your New Zealander, their vowels are rotated through their mouth [The mind boggles at this prospect. As do other parts of the body]. .This gets very linguistical [yes I’m sure it does] and my husband would be able to explain it in greater detail [yes I’m sure he could, if only he were here...].
• Your question should actually be why does sex sound so much like six since 'six' has been in use for a lot longer than sex. [Strange, I thought sex had been around longer. Could Adam & Eve count?]
• Well, I'm 37 now and I only had sex six times (that is with somebody else) (who actively participated, that is). [So I’d be 18 then]
• Well, in Latin sexus means sex, from secare, to cut and sex, from the Greek hex, means sex. And of course, as any fule kno, the greek six was the digamma, which looks a bit phallic anyway.
• Yay for Google [but I prefer sex.]
• You have a dirty mind.

• I saw Leni's propaganda masterpiece in England about 30 years ago. Terrific (and terrifying - almost had me doing a Dr Strangelove salute right there and then). But I digress; the answer is Leni Riefenstahl and she said it about 'Triumph of the Will'. (Hooray, finally got one right without having to invent the usual crap.)

• Leni Riefenstahl, and anyone in the audience of 'Triumph of the Will' [or in the audience of what followed]
• Leni Riefenstahl, re Triumph des Willens, her film documentary of Hitler's Nuremberg Rally, which has inspired hatred, ostracism and several even worse spin-offs starring Keiko.
• John Travolta, of the film 'Battlefield Earth'
• Dr Bob, in reference to his monthly quiz.
• Either Leni Riefenstahl on her cinematic legacy, or Madonna on her cinematic legacy.
• Hélène Bertha Amelia 'Leni' Riefenstahl of Triumph des Willens in discussion with Ray Muller who was making a movie about her life. After reading her biography, she lived a tragic life. [Must have been a very depressing book then]
• Hey I know one!! Leni Riefenstahl. Re: Triumph des Willens
• Guy de Maupassant, the bloke who so despised the Eiffel Tower.
• Leni Riefenstahl about her film "Triumph des Willens" (1934), the infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. Starred all her favourites: Adolf and his band of hapless halfwits
• Leni Riefenstahl about Triumph of the Will. I guess she's happy now.
• Leni Riefenstahl refering to her film Triumph des Willens. Out, caught and bowled at 101.
• Leni Riefenstahl, of her film "The Triumph of the Will" in the biographical film "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl"
• Leni Riefenstahl, speaking about her decision to buy a beta-format video machine instead of a VHS.
• Leni Rienfenstal(sp) about her film titled 'Triumph of the Spirit' which was all about Nazi Ubermensch..sieg heil..sieg heil...herr Doktor Bob.
• Leonard Jacobson, of the piano he had just noticed moving downwards toward him at an alarming speed.
• Me, when I saw the latest stack of paperwork from centrelink
• My first husband: of me, usually, with good reason, all occasions. Poor dear I think he is still alive, but my shadow is only a penumbra now.
• Oh, that pathetic old "I was only following orders and didn't know nothing" Leni Riefenstahl talking about "Triumph of the Will" which is a work of pure genius, IMHO. Hitler descending from heaven like J.C. himself was brilliant. Magnificent use of light.
• Riefenstahl . . . only it wasn't about Nazi propaganda . . . it was about her little known collaboration with Microsoft on Windows ME. [With more success this time. The Germans lost]
• Sheep, cows, turkeys, pigs and chickens are all said to believe this about living into middle age and that is why humans have the right to kill them when they are still young.
• Stephen Hawking (or at least something sounding very much like him) when my computer read a web page concerning Leni Riefenstahl's description of her film "Triumph des Willens" to me.
• Steve Irwin describing the feedback he received from US media regarding the "Michael Jackson" he did to his son.
• The first man ever to get married back in the Pliocene
• The guy across the road from me who has been trying to get the council to cut down a diseased elm out the front of his house for about five months.
• The Oklahoma bomber, handed down the death penalty on a day which would coincide with a solar eclipse.
• Trevor Chappell. Did you know that he is now the Fielding Coach for the Sri Lankan cricket team. Underarm throws will now be perfected.
• Trying to inspire pity with your anecdotes again dr bob? Shame on you!
• Winston Churchill of his depression?
• Oh, come off it. How about some Stalin questions?
• But who was "Will" anyway?

• An open back door in a Melbourne art location is bad luck. Melbournites believe that warm air (of which there is little in Melbourne) flows through the front door, and the closed back door will catch it and retain it.
• As the name implies the art gallery is like a mountain and it is very steep. If the back door was open everything would fall out.
• Because the draft rips the artworks from the walls. See Melbourne weather forcast for any day of the year.
• Because the sign tells you to.
• Since the main building was apparently built from old timber and rubble salvaged from excavations and wrecker's yards, I suspect it's because the door is now vital for load-bearing and if it was ever opened the wall would fall down.
• To stop you Aussies from sneaking in the backdoor.
• Strewth, any red blooded bloke would keep the back door closed at or near any bloody art gallery, what with all them arty-farty types around. Cripes, Dr Bob, can't you get away from all this sex, sex, sex?

• Because the Montsalvatians (Melbournians) keep trying to sneak paintings out the back door.
• Fear of losing a groom or two?
• It opens to a step into thin air.
• because otherwise the airconditioning doesnt work properly, and the wax sculptures melt
• It's my job and it's all they pay me to do.
• So nobody steals any of the art being displayed
• Is that the Barn gallery Dr Bob? To stop the horse from bolting? Or to keep the possums out?
• To keep the chooks out.
• Otherwise they aren't covered for theft and the insurance fraud they are planning will not come off.
• because it leads directly into the sea
• To keep the draught out????
• To stop the elephants from eating the happiness
• Because otherwise it floods with drunken itinerants looking for their old hostel.
• To keep the flys out.
• Stop the cat from getting in.
• If I was in a Melbourne art gallery I would not be opening my back door I tell you..I've met a few Melbourne arty types!!
• Kangaroos kept breaking in looking for the Monets.
• It's supposed to keep the wildlife out. It doesn't work though, they just go round to the front door, then come in and start wandering around saying pretentious things like "it's the voice of the pigments that gives this one such an intense aura of raucous sound", and wearing sunglasses indoors. They oughtta chase away all that wildlife, and just let the native animals in, although Sister Wendy should be allowed to visit, just make sure there are no statues with enormous penises because she seems to gravitate towards them.
• The back door leads to the stables...and therefore....
• To prevent art lovers escaping
• Most likely to maintain the humidity or to keep the possums and the birds out of the kitchen.
• otherwise the rhinoceri on exhibit panic due to the overabundance of fresh air
• That door is only for deliveries. Yup, they got new paintings of European nobility on horseback comin' in every couple weeks, plus a few paintings from modern guys of some funny-looking stuff that's supposed to be women or birds or stuff.
• Keeps the seagulls out
• The visitors escape out the back unless the door is locked and we don't want them leaving before they buy something.
• There is water outside and the salty sea air would ruin the artcrafts? (only thing I think I know for relatively sure (how sure is that then) is that Melbourne is by sea)
• To stop the patrons getting out with the art work.
• To keep those pesky art-eating alleycats out.
• I saw a picture. The building appears to be built on a hill. A little known fact is the hill was built after the building. The door is underground. (Sorry if this is right I was trying to be a smart ass).
• To keep bloody possums out?
• To keep the riff-raff out
• because it's the rules and you'd get in trouble if you didn't.
• To keep the sheep out? Come on, Dr Bob, there are no art galleries in Australia.
• So people don't steal any more than they already have.
• Well, Dr. Bob, that's all a matter of personal preference, now isn't it? I'm sure it's something fairly boring, like it lets in too much humidity or heat or pollution from passing cars in the street.
• I don't, but the owners do, presumably so someone can’t nick the paintings.
• To keep out the scorpions and kangaroos, mate!
• It's next door to a brothel and the customers keep going into the wrong entrance.
• I DON'T have to, it's not in my job description.
• A google search uncovered the fact that the Realm of the White Knight had a winter solstice banquet at Montsalvat (vegans catered for). I would have closed the front and back doors for several years! I have visited Monsalvat, living nearby. Does it have a back door?
• Because you don't want to let the unwashed masses in.
• Because the flies would get in. That's what my mum always said when I left the back door open.
• If you don’t, you get publicly whipped.
• Wear trousers, keep your legs together and don't bend over.

Oh Look Out:

• Not anything by Jonsi & Co, I hope? [Sorry...]
• It has to be a Sigur Ros CD, because otherwise Dr Bob wouldn't have asked, and there probably wasn't any nose flute music on it at all. (I got told off at primary school for playing the Australian nose descant recorder, with two recorders (left nostril playing counterpoint) as a special encore - perhaps I should make an album?)

• Bjond Bjlief, by Bjork.
• Bjork Salutes Jimmy Durante
• Eliminator by ZZ Top. He had sadly confused the nose flute with the drums.
• Lament of the Orcs by Sauron and his Saucy Servants
• A data CD by Gates and Riefenstahl of the Windows 95 to Windows ME upgrade.
• A mix-up with the musical and medical instructional CDs caused the actor to purchase "Beginning rhinoplasty techniques" because of the picture of a nose on the cover.
• According to the Is Righters on the Divvy Dole, The Urchins "We're Weird La"
• An album by Bjork - and not too far off the mark either.
• back in black, by ac/dc
• Billy Boyd, the sexiest hobbit to walk the earth. Dominic Monahan recommended it apparently, but I wouldn't be surprised if the two of them made it up because they thought it was funny.
• Bjork. But that doesn't explain why an internet search for "nose-flute lord rings make-up" returns both Krishna and Isaiah 3.
• bjork's debut album
• Bob Dylan's, Blonde on Blonde.
• Debbie Gibson's greatest hits
• Dr Bob Sings The Chipmunks
• Elijah Wood has a massive collection of CD, but I can't name the exact one, or even if it was him who had the nose flute CD.
• 'Farting machine' by Noiseworks
• Gregorian chants ?
• I don't know, but after all the above questions, I read "make-up" as "make-out". It gives an entirely different meaning to the question.
• I dont want to know. Some books should never be made into films. LotR is three of them!
• Jimmy Durante does the Icelandic Shuffle
• Kenny G's Greatest Hits.
• Led Zepplin?
• life is a pelican- the world party years
• LOTR? noses, sniffing, blowing, actors - nose flute, nose candy, eewwww
• Now, I have heard of a jews harp played with lips and tongue but a nose flute? Please give me a tissue while I await the answer with bated nasal passages.
• Office 2000 Professional
• Orations by John Howard
• Orlando Bloom bought the "Icelandic Nose Flautists Symphony" CD. He was disappointed to learn that the majority of the performers were, in fact, from Sweden.
• Reykavik Snout Etudes
• Richard Clayderman's haunting Kazoo and Bogey Sonata No.3
• Snot.
• Something by Bob Dylan. He always sounds very nasal.
• Something by John Lennon, with Yoko playing the flute "unnaturally."
• The Best of Barry Manilow
• There is a musical instrument like that? [No, actually]
• There is no such thing as the Icelandic nose flute... They were listening to the kiwi fun flute that was greased with lanolin ... hehehehehe
• Thick as a Brick And so is anyone searching for answers.
• Tubular Bells. Maybe.
• Was it by that ugly hobbit who won middle-earth idol?
• Who nose?

• "Because I'm the goddamn President and I'll goddamn refuse assent if I goddamn feel like it!" (Or words to that effect, in Icelandic.)
• Because it made purchase of Icelandic nose flute CDs compulsory.
• Because it was applied to the President's frontent instead of his assent.
• Because it would have sent the president to jail
• Because it would limit the powers of the president.
• because penguins are cute, and should never be made into windchimes
• because some bloke thought it was unneccessary or silly
• because the law involved chicken feathers, tar and a very very depraved walrus, for those who attempted to use dvds as a coaster or contraceptive device
• Because the law stipulated that the President would have to leave office after 2 years or 50,000km traveled, whichever came first.
• Because the petitioner forgot to say "May I?"
• Because there was no he was going to agree to a law that would have seen men having to walk around in drag every Wednesday even though most of his cabinet ministers were bang up for it. [Well there is no television on Thursdays - damn, there goes another good trivia question - so I suppose anything is possible in Iceland. Hey - no "TV" ... this answer was only one day out!]
• Difficult to rub noses while playing the flute.
• El Presidente was otherwise occupied rubbing coconuts with a close NZ friend. You’ve asked this question in the past?
• He didn't subscribe to the sentiment - Althings bright and beautiful, all creatures... [groannnn]
• I don't know and I don't care [and neither did the President]
• I suspect it was the law requiring at least one Islandic bloke to be elected for public office every now and then. She considered it chauvinistic.
• It changed the national anthem to something by Bjork.
• It probably had something to do with lemmings. Lemmings are fun to blow up but that isn't very humane. I do like to hear them scream "Armageddon" though.
• It was a dumb law.
• It was a leap year
• It was one giving him a pay rise. He felt he was getting enough.
• It was the application for naturalization of one Dr Bob. In the common interest of the good people of Iceland this application didn't get the presidential OK. Broken in body and spirit, Dr Bob fled to Oz.
• It was the 'Behead the President if He Stuffs Up' Law
• It was the law that removed the requirement for the President to give assent to new laws.
• It's a girl thing. Feminists together and all that. In 1985, the Icelandic Women's Liberation Movement called a nationwide strike of women in Iceland, asking them to boycott their jobs or housework to protest against unequal wages for women, as well as other forms of discrimination. Women flight attendants for Icelandic Air wanted to join in the boycott, but the Althing passed a bill forbidding it. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir resisted signing this bill, but ultimately was argued into doing so. The flight attendants joined the boycott anyway.
• Maybe it had something to do about sex and six being similar in pronunciation
• No president was available at the time.
• Not interested in the Thingy since it opened Iceland up to Alcoa. Renewable power developers who then use it on fucking clean river systems as quickly as Iceland is proposing are supremely ignorable.
• Otherwise something bad would happen [as it usually does in Iceland - the weather for example]
• Parliament passed a law forbidding women to join a boycott of their jobs or housework to protest unequal pay.
• The law stated that the President of Iceland should conduct all public business in the nude. It is a nice idea, but just too cold in Iceland to be practical.
• The law was to get rid of the President
• The President was a communist.
• The president was sick
• The ratio of vowels to consonants was greater than 1:34
• The words "whale blubber" were misspelt
• They don't have a president?
• They wanted to ban nose flutes, a step that will be taken by all sensible governments before the decade is out.
• To allow emigration to warmer countries - why was this refused? Mr President was not looking forward to talking to red walls...
• To recognise Bjork as a national treasure - for reasons obvious.
• Uhh, trying to get Rowan Atkinson exiled to Italy, perhaps?
• Whaling seems controversial there. So I think it was a law banning Waling. But, I'd think they'd have a bigger beef with Denmark than Wales.
• You mean they have LAWS in Iceland? And PRESIDENTS? Bloody hell, Dr Bob, I thought it was just a lonely rock where buxom dottirs flitted among glaciers and volcanoes for the amusement of no-one in particular.
• The Kyoto treaty. They want it to get colder.

• Amazingly, the hut was filled with ice.
• Ice, ice, baby! It was full of ice.
• Because it was filled with ice. Which isn't surprising given that it had been abandoned and is in a country called Iceland.
• Filled with ice...imagine that, in Iceland...hmmmmmmmm? I shed a tear imagining their disappointment...
• It was too full of ice, and "unpractical". So instead they bought an old disused swimming pool and made that into a studio. Much less "unpractical".

• Because it was not suitable for the purposes
• Because NATO is hiding crashed flying saucers there and wished to continue the cover up.
• Because the hut was a secret love nest for trysts involving Bjork and Bill Clinton, and Sigur Ros (who, incidentally, later changed name to the anagrammatic 'Gross Uri' when one of their number learned to bend metal drumsticks while simultaneously picking his nose) were too gentlemanly to interrupt.
• Because they all went mad
• Extension cord was too short.
• Forgot the words and music ?
• Forgot to take the alternative power source. (idiots, wouldn't you abandon a cabin on top of a mountain with no power, no water and no internet connection?)
• It didn't exist. Neither did the mountain, and when the band decided to walk back they too discovered they had disappeared from existence. Shame really
• It was "too unpractical"
• It was a sunday, so it was closed, they went back the next day and all systems were "go"
• It was either there was no power to plug all the crap into or the old hermit who lived in the hut didn't like their bloody music.
• It was full of ice. However I do wonder what they were going to do for electricity. But maybe it had power before it froze.
• It was inhabited by Santa and a bunch of surly elves
• It was occupied by NATO soldiers who thought the cold war was still raging and they refused the band access to the hut.
• It was occupied by the entire Icelandic Bjork fanclub and he wasn't getting up for no one!!
• It wasn't actually abandoned.
• I've never heard a Sigur Ros sample unplugged so they probably had no power.
• No electricity Watson
• No electricity, did not take a generator and / or batteries flat (depends on what your etc includes.
• No power supply, and Sigur Ros are like Jez Torrance - "Acoustic guitar is for cissies!" (Al from the alley reckons that it's because they got too involved in a lesbian love-fest - so say farewell for me)
• Oh sure, isolated, abandoned NATO huts on top of a mountain are attached to the power grid! If in fact it did have power, then there were insufficient groupies and alcohol.
• Someone forgot to defrost it for them.
• Thats classified information, and there is no proof a ufo just landed there
• The door was locked, & no one thought to bring a key.
• The door was locked.
• The extension lead was too short.
• The idiots forgot a portable electric generator
• The last thoughtless GI to leave the base forgot to put the key under the mat where it usually goes, so they couldn't get in. Oh, and they forgot to bring the nose flute.
• The real question is: why did they bother?
• Their efforts to jimmy open the door with a bent coat hanger were unsuccessful. (They had brought along rocks to smash the windows and allow them entrance, but there were no windows.)
• There was no electricity?
• They did not bring their electricity generators? They were too exhausted from climbing? The hut had a bad acoustics? The noise they would make could cause the avalanche?
• They forgot one KEY thing.
• They forgot the double adaptor.
• They learned it wasn't abandoned.
• They were too Phatt like governor Phatt from a classic Adventure Game featuring the likes of 3-headed monkeys.
• It was full of Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Q8 - What is the derivation of the new Icelandic word for 'computer'?

Actual Answer Which Nobody Appears to Have Got Fully:

• The new word "tölva" is derived from "tala" = number and "völva" = prophetess.
• Tölva: it's the "prophetess of numbers". They make new words from those found in the sagas so as not to sully Icelandic with funny foreign words. They tell you all this stuff when you visit Iceland. It's a jolly nice place.
• Digit prophetess was the old word. Digit middle is the new one. Directed at Bill Gates for not making an Icelandic version of Windows. BTW does the middle finger have the same meaning in Australia as in the USA? [Oh yes]
• http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/structure/about/about_is.html

• Andskotinn-hafi-thad, meaning "May the devil keep it".

• "Conjsputter" meaning "over-priced, unreliable piece of shit"
• Bastard-arsehole-file-swallowing-data-mashing-box-of-incomprehensible-electronic-spaghetti-which-can-copulate-with-my-father-who-is-dead.
• Coldpack
• Dr. Bob, I am having trouble caring about this question.
• Dunno, but their word for computer virus, "smitskekkja", produces some wonderful images.
• Dunno, so I suppose the Jokull's on me this time.
• Fireandiceputer.
• I know personal computer is "fartölva" (fart or far meaning personal??) and computer graphics is "tölvugrafík" (grafik I suspect meaning graphics as opposed to computer), so I suspect computer is tölvu, whose derivation I can only guess at. Sounds like it could come from Devil
• It is from a word meaning, bothersome and unneccessary
• It is from two separate words, one meaning "barely legal Asian teens" and another meaning "surefire weight loss program", with a suffix meaning "to get".
• It's a trick question, you really wanted me to spell "syzygy".
• Little brown box that reminds us that connects us to a world that doesn't revolve around puffy jackets and lamingtons - spelt "Iflvgne", pronounced "kompooter"
• No idea. In Finnish the word is 'tietokone', literally 'knowledge machine'. But Icelandic is one of those boring Indo-European languages...
• 'Puvulictab' - derives from 'Puffin-Volcano-Iceberg-Tabulator'.
• Sorry, you got me there
• The Icelandic word for 'Frustrating piece of shit'
• 'Tis a derivation devoutly to be wished.
• toelva aka digit prophetess... goes back to Ms Cassandra Phalanges. Young Billy Gates had a crush on her long ago when he was still in school.
• Toelva, the prophetess of digits speaks for the volumes of data seen on the skjar...the amniotic window sac.
• Tölva - Nordic God of wisdom and foresight
• Tolva sews it up.
• Tolva which was created using the word "tala" (number) and "simi", meaning telephone. It's an old icelandic word meanting "thread".
• Who cares?
• Who knows? Who cares? I don't know any icelandic computer geeks so boo hoo hoo.
• You don't mean the good old "Number Telephone" do you?

• A cod-fishing boat somewhere off Greenland
• Antarctica
• Australia
• Battery Point, Tasmania.
• Being closely tied linguistically, ethnically and culturally with Scandanavia, I'm guessing it would be there.
• Canada has a community of 10,000 (40% of the entire Canadien population) on Lake Winnepeg. [What happens in the summer?]
• Copenhagen.
• Denmark.
• Dr. Bob's house, naturally. They all dress as Philip Glass & gayly play guitar & nose flutes to the tune of "Pickle Chugger Paradise."
• Dunno, I thought you had it?
• Goa desert
• Helsinki
• Hmm, isn't culture found in yoghurt? And cheese? So the answer must be the place that imports the most Icelandic yoghurt and cheese. And where's that? Must be Australia because logic says that a TV program called 'Sons and Daughters' would be best sponsored by products from a country that has made an international art form of its own ssons and dottirs. QED.
• hmmm... the ice-sk... no... wait... hmmm..... let's see in the amaz... no..... maybe it was, erm..... oh that's right it was north over... no wait that's not it, sorry it must have.... let's see.... oh... hmmmm... it could have... no wait it was .... just let me see now.... I think maybe it would be.... I'd better wait 'till I'm sure just let me take a deep breath..................... .. ...... ................ .. . ahh that's better, now where were we, sorry what was the question? ......... .. .......... Ah yess about that. The thing is.. erm, well ... you see if... no nevermind I just.... wait yes now I have it, it's so simple it's I just.... hmmm wait.... no sorry I don't know.
• I guess they have pretty strong links with Denmark, they all have to learn Danish (I like Danish too, yum!).
• Icelandic "culture"!!!! It would have to be the MCG
• I's either the US or Canada. From what I know of Bjork's manners, I'd say the Canadians would be too polite, so I guess the US.
• It's on the set of the new Lord of the Rings movies, where one of the local Icelanders suggested that a naive young actor go out and listen to some nose flute music.
• Just around the corner from my house
• Manitoba, Canada
• Minnesota, where Sigur Ros plays for packed houses [and sometimes they win]
• New York - but no where near where Bjork lives
• Northern Territory, Australia.
• Norway
• outside of?????????? The centre of any thing is a point. A point is dimensionless. There is no measurable Icelandic culture outside Iceland.
• phoenix, arizona
• San Francisco
• Somewhere cold like Saskatchewan, Canada [But I knew someone who had been there who assured me there is nowhere "cold like Saskatchewan, Canada"]
• There is one?? Ok, wild guess time. I guess..... Tahiti!
• This space deliberately left blank.
• This web page?
• Trick question--there isn't any.
• Turkmenistan..there is nothin those Turmenistanis love more than dressing in reindeer skins and dancing around a roaring fire and telling Njal's saga to their children in Icelandic.
• UK
• Westing House
• Wherever Bjork happens to be touring at the time.
• Woolloomooloo.

Dr Bob Elucidates: The full text of Njal’s Saga and Chapter 76 in particular can be found from http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL and search on "njal". I see this site is appropriately managed by someone called Douglas B Killings. The Penguin Classics translation is much more readable: here it is "When the attackers approached the house they were not sure whether Gunnar was at home, and wanted someone to go up to the house to find out. They sat down on the ground, while Thorgrim the Easterner climbed on to the roof. Gunnar caught sight of a red tunic at the window. He lunged out with his halberd and struck Thorgrim in the belly. Thorgrim dropped his shield, lost his footing, and toppled down from the roof. He strode over to where Gizur and the others were sitting. Gizur looked up at him and asked, "Is Gunnar at home?" "That’s for you to find out", replied Thorgrim. "But I know that his halberd certainly is." And with that he fell dead.

• All the lights were on, but there was no-one there!
• At first sight this question comes down to a 50/50 choice - until you realise that there are at least two potential viewpoints to consider. From the viewpoint of Gunnar, he was in, but since he hid from the man climbing on the roof (which incidentally raises some doubts about the functional efficiency of Icelandic windows technology - smit with kekkja indeed) the beseigers' subjective opinion was that Gunnar was out. Thus the correct answer is both 'Yes' and 'No'.
• At home . . . I guess . . . in home . . . no . . .he was above all that.
• He was outside rolling in a fit of laughter as the dolt on the roof fell through and got himself impaled on the cunning booby trap. [He was inside and the dolt got impaled before falling, otherwise this is pretty accurate]
• Gunnar is at home where ever Gunnar is.
• He was gunnar be at home but he left early.
• He was hiding on the roof planning to drop down the chimney and surprise the attackers.
• He was, but the scout couldn't see through his special opaque roof shingles, so they left.
• I'm not privy to that information.
• Just at this point Gunnar leapt onto the roof from a nearby tree and beat the scout insensate! (At least that's how they would have done it if it were a movie.)
• Just one question? Who.. was.... Gunnar?
• Never mind that, what was he Gunnar do next?
• No - he was out having adventures which would later be adapted into the funloving movie "Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail".
• No but his ammo feeder was
• No but his old lady was. Beat the crap out of hubby's enemies.
• No he was off with the King somewhere dreaming about wolves attacking him or something. I do know that Njal's saga is long and has a lot of weird scandinavian names in it.
• No, he was on the roof, hoping the enemies would think he was out and not beseige him.
• No. He was in the outhouse
• Nope, but bloody Bjork and Bill Clinton were...
• Of course not. He was at a mates place watching it all on TV
• Yes - he was sobbing quietly over his computer, which had crashed again for no apparent reason (after he'd switched to broadband and everything) so they felt so sorry for him that they all stood around looking embarrassed for a bit, then went home. Scholars do not report on whether there was nose flute involvement.
• Yes, but he was Gunnar go out soon. Sorry, that's the best I could do.
• Yes. Its a very long Saga, which is probably where the whole 'saga' thing came from. Its an interesting story that I'll have to read more of later.
• You've got to be kidding Dr Bob! There's 158 sections of Njal's Saga. I'd look pretty stupid if I started to read the lot. [No, on the contrary - you would look very intellectual and brainy, and it just might help to pull some of the women ... Hey, I’ll dust off my copy and get out there and try it]
• Why didn't they just knock on his door and ask to speak with him. [Because he would have slaughtered the lot of them, that’s why]

• "That’s for you to find out. But I know that his halberd certainly is."
• "..then it floated upwards and disappeared into the sky ... and that was the last time I ever saw that speech bubble..."
• "Cricket, a game played on a grass pitch with two teams of 11 players taking turns to bowl at a wicket defended by a batting player of the other team, is the most boring sport in the universe."
• "Look I am not Dennis Puffet and if you two don't take your hands off my bum I'll have to slap you both!!"

• "All I said was that bit of halibut was good enough for Jehovah" (sorry, I paraphrased that from Monty Python)
• "And then he said "Moses, I can see your house from up here!"".
• "I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT ! ! !"
• "I just can't work out the answer to question 11 in Dr Bob's January quiz."
• "I used to listen to your Science show on the radio. It came on right after the Goon Show".
• "If that bastard Dr Bob puts a speech bubble above my head for one of his crap quizzes, I'll kill him!"
• "Less of the stupid thank you, just think of the odds you'll get next time!"
• "So, what DID the invitation say about bloody neckwear?"
• "Thanks, Dr. Bob, for choosing a completely unfunny photograph for the caption contest!"
• "Then in Iceland the sound of one hand clapping is more like this"
• "Then the penguin said to the Eskimo Mechanic 'no it's only ice cream'"
• "These Icelandic quizzes have to stop or we will give Dr Bob the arse"
• "Would you please tell the bloke to my right to stop looking at the camera and to act like we're naturally conversing, like we are."
• (anticipating the number sex, Robyn leans in while Barry babbles on point five) "...and five, I really was intending to shave..."
• "....And this little piggy cried "wee wee wee" all the way home'"
• "Dr. Bob's 6000 dollar trip to Iceland this summer was a good use of the membership dues."
• "Good God, I'd kill for Richard Saunders to be dead."
• "Have you noticed that the man sitting to my right is way too happy for a Skeptic?"
• "I am such a big dummy that I need two ventriloquists to operate me. Richard moves my arms while Robyn makes me speak."
• "I tell you, there's dark forces at work here. People are being possessed and the only way you know is by the silly grins on their faces."
• "I'm not a ventriloquist's dummy, really, i'm not"
• "In all my years at Aust Skeptics the biggest lesson I've learnt is that proving something doesn't exist doesn't stop people believing it, a change must take place in the heart, eg. just try tell my grandkids I'm NOT Santa Claus."
• "I've already given the other kid a new novelty bow tie for christmas and he seems excited about it. What would you like for Christmas, remembering that little boys cannot fit in Santa's sack?"
• "Just put your hands behind me, hold me up and keep smiling."
• "No, really, I know she's only 19, but she loves me for me, not what I can give her."
• "Now watch me make him talk while I drink a glass of water."
• "Red is not my favourite colour. Oh! Sorry!"
• "Richard will be fine when the medication wears off."
• "Robyn, I loved your work on Mork and Mindy"
• "Robyn, I must say that Richard's really getting good at this ventriloqism caper, it looks like I'm talking and not him."
• "Robyn, if you hold it like so and wiggle, you end up grinning like the bloke to my right."
• "So I held it like this and said gagagoogoo!"
• "The guy to my right is good looking - I bet Uncle Bob wants to know what we are saying."
• "This bloke beside me says that the alien is 25 centimetres tall, is very shy and has one ear shaped like a toby jug handle. If you believe that you'll believe anything."
• "We never get interrupted by reporters since we bought that cardboard cut-out."
• "What's this bloody twirp grinning about???"
• "While I am talking to red walls, I may as well have an empty speech bubble over my head"
• "Who invited all these idiots?"
• "You know that guy on the left looks like this guy I used to know. See he was... wait well he looks recognizable or something, maybe he give me the privilege of watching his performance in a silent... no wait I've never seen a silent film, well then it makes sense that he... well that he's in my memory for some obscure or arbitrary reason, and there was this time when I was thinking about what it means to be arbitrary and I concluded that the definition must simply be that the events were chosen ill respective of any relevant information or ... you know whatever. So that is what makes it arbitrary - the fact that there's nothing to base why it's there or why it was chosen ... so like a snowflake falling may seem to land on an arbitrarily chosen piece of land but really it was just by the wind and the air pressure and the heat, whoigan. On the other hand if I was to throw a basketball up behind me, because I can't see where I am throwing it it will land arbitrarily ..... "
• "I'm still waiting for the new Sigur Ros album." [So am I. My copy of ( ) has been played so much it has gone transparent. Of course it was pretty featureless to start with. I particularly like the song "eel sigh"]
• "You're Robin Williams? I thought you were supposed to be funny."

• Famous Quote hey? Alfred Hitchcock said "casaba". After testing melons to use for the sound effect for the stabbing in the shower scene from Psycho. Is that what you meant by a missed advertising opportunity Dr Bob?
• Wasn't it casaba melons that were used to make the naked lady stabbing sound effects for 'Psycho'? So they could've had Norman Bates' 'mother' doing a testimonial for the stuff, or maybe a nice advert for daytime television.
• I didn't find anything about a famous quote, but I did find that in the movie "Psycho" the stabbing sounds dubbed into the infamous shower scene were made with a knife stabbing Casaba Melons.
• The famous quote: someone was sent out to buy melons for this purpose. And returned with dozens of melons of all sorts, shapes and sizes. These were all set out in front of Hitchcock, who sat with eyes closed. When all had been stabbed Hitch said the one word "Casaba" and walked out.
  http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/andrebalza/trivia.html
  http://www.lclark.edu/~schoen/Psych_440_syllabus.html
• Oh!! Hitchcock had a casaba melon brutally murdered to create the stabbing sound effects in that prototypical shower scene from "Psycho", but I'm not sure about any famous quotes he made about it.
• Hershey's chocolate syrup was used for blood, and a casaba melon for the sound effects in Psycho's shower scene, but I don't know if there is a quote. Although there is apparently an Arab saying that, "a woman and a melon are hard to know."
• Hmm, didn't some big-meloned actress say "Take me to ze Casaba" in an old North African movie? (Ingrid Bergman? Sabrina? Bjork?)
• "Hold on one second ... see your boots there ... the big shiny metal buckles? See these people's heads here, because they are people's heads and these aren't fucking casaba melons. Everybody, it's a beautiful thing when you lie down on top of the crowd looking like Jesus Christ. But I swear all I wanna do is crucify you when I see you smashing peoples' heads...so everybody fucking...This is our last night in London, I wanna remember it as a good experience, 'cause to be here in the first place is really pretty cool and I don't think anyone of us ever thought we would be here. And the thing that we have friends is really cool and... I just want you to stay Alive", Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam at London University, England, on February 28th, 1992.
• "President Bush has ignored the working people of America in order to rack up huge budget deficits to buy casaba melons for his rich cronies." - one of the largely indistinguishable Democratic candidates for President
• Almost everyone seems to equate Casaba melons with large breasts it seems. So I guess it was probably made by a spammer selling breast enhancement "products".
• Arsenio Hall, in Coming to America ... he said something about having a women with 'breasts the size of casaba melons'. At least I think it was that, I got distracted when the bathing assistants came on..
• Clearly someone who is quoting about the size of a woman's chest or the biceps on a man. Or both. I never really believed that Casaba melons existed, having never tasted one... I'll have to try harder.
• Dolly Parton
• Groucho Marx
• Gunnar of Hlidarend, commenting on the shapely bosom of Hallgerd Hoskuldsdottir (Njal's Saga, chapter 33)
• Hang on a minute "H20+" that’s water+ isn't it? Cosmetic companies' attempts to hide the fact that their products are placebos really aren't up to their usual standard.
• Hmmmmm. Google's not much help on this one Dr Bob. The Internet filters at work seem to dislike a lot of the casaba melon quotes and won't let me look at them. Presumably there is some quote about "breasts the size of casaba melons"
• I still don't know the answer you're looking for, but I was miffed that when I went to the StrawberryNet website, I couldn't find that particular product listed any longer. So, I suspect the real missed opportunity was to leave it up on their website so someone could buy it.
• I thought about visiting the site in the picture... then I realised you're using windows 98 and couldn't stop laughing. You have a ghastly unfashionable interface to the web open there, perhaps you would like to try "MyIE2" http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm? [Yes, thanks very much, I now use MyIE2 all the time and I find it much better. I might even pay for it]
• If this were the least bit amusing, I'm sure I could at least make something up... shower gel jokes, or the stories that precede them, are just not interesting!
• Leo Trotsky: "Oh I say, that Capitalist has some wonderful Casaba Melons for sale!' *killed by Lenin*
• Mr.Casaba. Btw: Clicking does not close the window. [Oh yes it does. I merely snap my fingers and my wife gets up and closes the window ... well sometimes ... ouch! yes dear I’ll do it]
• Omar Khayyam - "a woman for duty, a boy for pleasure but a melon for ecstasy" - and were back where we started with the infantile obsession with unreproductive acts.
• Pope Leo the Second? Oh, how I hate these melon questions .... [Meloncholy?]
• Richard III - "My kingdom for a casaba melon!"
• Sandra Bullock
• Sir Francis Drake, when he was asked if he liked them, he asked "is the bear catholic?"
• Some naked lady in the shower who said her breasts were as big as Casaba melons (and thank you very much for not showing a picture of a naked lady).
• Something in poor taste no doubt and related to female anatomy. As it's possibly not work safe, I'll leave the googling to someone else.
• The Chicago Exchange had a better quote for Casaba Melon futures than either Sydney, London, or Tokyo.
• Was it Robin as in "Holy Casaba Melons, Batman!!"
• yawn yawn some childish double entendre revolving around the size, melon, and breasts. get over it [No, no, no .... it’s a childish fantasy involving axe murderers and buckets of blood ....]

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
  Over many a strange and spurious website of 'hot chicks galore',
  While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
  And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
  "'Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my cheap hardcore!" -
  Quoth the server, "404".
• You look devilishly handsome in that photo...do you smell as good as you look? [Yes - I use Casaba Melon Shower Gel! So I smell like casaba melons ... ]
• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down.
• A toughie this month, Dr Bob. [Well that’s a pity. Have you tried boiling it in vinegar?]
• A happy new 2004 to you as well, lets hope it turns out better than the last one. [Pretty likely because I do not recall any previous 2004]
• As you can see, I stopped even trying to answer these questions halfway through (well, okay, I stopped trying long before that). I can't answer the 6 questions you usually ask, what makes you think I'm going to be able to answer twice that number? Sex and Iceland don't go well together [unlike sex and Sweden], but I hope you've at least satisfied your Icelandic urges for a really long time.
• Bob, we need less questions at holiday time, not more, that’s when the sane ones leave their computers off.
• Can you do the happy dance? first you bend your elbows, join your fists at your sternum, lift one knee up and move it sideways. then you kick out your extended leg and push the joined fists down thus extending your arms to their longest. then put your leg down, resume placement of fists to original position and repeat steps on the other side. the happy dance may include alterations such as a heel-click or can can kicks, but it is entirely up to the individual. thankyou, and hope that you enjoy the happy dance!
• Did you know that one in every four Australians has some form of mental illness [as the previous comment appears to confirm]. Think of your three best friends. If they are OK, then it’s you!
• DSL connection $40US per month - Wireless network components $200 US - Dr. Bob's quiz . . . priceless
• February can only get better than this... [Ha!!!]
• Happy New Year to you too!
• Hello Dr. Bob, give back my name! [Sorry Bob. We are both lucky though, the name "Bob" was very nearly copyrighted by Microsoft]
• Hi, Too bad you aren't a Tom who was once a major.............
• I wonder why Dr. Bob married a vegetable often confused with a turnip. That would be a good question! [Yes it would; I often wonder about it myself]. What is the difference between a turnip and a swede, and why is the letter M and the digit 1 important?
• Merry Season Of Present Acquisition Dr Bob! Hope you and your credit cards are recovering as well as can be expected.
• My computer has been broken so this is a last minute submission. Please award me my honourable zero.
• nice quiz but not what i was expecting [Well what were you expecting?]
• Q: How do you know when it's time for bed at Neverland Ranch? A: When the big hand reaches the little hand...
• Since Australia has traditionally been an exile place for convicts, would you Australians please take Saddam Hussein off our hands and let him live in exile around Botany Bay?
• So when ARE the aliens coming to take me to a better place?
• I had no idea there could be so many interesting questions about Iceland! Yeah... very, very interesting... zzzzzzzzz!
• Strewth, Bob, less of the Icelandic questions, will ya?
• What's with the Iceland obsession? [Well it is pretty hard to avoid when you set 6 questions based on Iceland]
• Iceland is uncool!
• I'm not sure if your obsession with Iceland is healthy Bob. I think you should not be so taken with one country but be a bit of a geographic tart and share it around. I'm sure Bhutan would love a piece of you. [Well, I left my heart in San Francisco]
• Oh thank you, thank you, thank you! I fall at your feet in thanks, I put my head to your ankles, I kiss your feet... AACCK! Splllltffff! Sptt sppt!