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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 1

1. earrings
2. steel threaded rods for finding soil depth, name of apparatus? (repeat,repeat question)
3. stingrays
4. Children's television laws
5. Missing posts
6. UK Special Representative for Trade and Investment
7. Vegetarian sausages/burgers
8. Juggling Props
9. Where does a total noob start to learn about cars?
10. American Gods quote
11. Sonic Adventure DX: Action Replay downloads
12. weird
13. Private Equity Performance
14. How to reference this cite..
15. A very hard question to ask

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 2

1. Liscenses
2. Einstein's Math
3. Maximizing expected utility
4. nautical wood and shell charts
5. Emotional abuse
6. people who "aren't good at tests"
7. Road that runs both north and south
8. Development of Man/Woman
9. List of rich neighborhoods
10. World's biggest spliff?
11. reservoir dogs suits
12. academy award nominee
13. Bishop Eamon O'Casey
14. SIC codes.
15. Optygen
16. i have a hangnail
17. someone help me!!!!
18. Piano playing- its becoming automatic
19. Death?
20. Dumping Bodies
21. The things that you put in drinks so that the drinking person becomes rapeable
22. Auto - what car is this? (brand/model)
23. Counter-Strike

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 3

1. Cooking for the complete idiot?
2. Indoor Plants
3. phantasmagoria
4. Adjusted for inflation and population growth, what is the highest grossing movie in U.S. history?
5. Boston census tracts from 1960
6. City with the greatest number of large buildings
7. Fire water
8. What is the poorest county/locale in the USA?
9. 3-word hebrew translation
10. fire
11. BBC & Daily Mail lift Amish Wiki text
12. Incident at Neshabur
13. Reference material for financial aid to North Korea
14. Dark Angel(Arundel High)
15. Febreze
16. Saddest Moment of your Life
17. Smash Bros. glitch?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 4

1. Faked X and Y Chromosomes
2. Grand Mufti
3. grudge
4. Rome Total War
5. The female House Representative (?) who made statements against women's right to vote
6. payment on non traditional services
7. Information on media and superstitions
8. Before there were 'moist towelettes' -
9. Minnesota No Waste Law
10. emergency exit sign design
11. Fedor Baikov.
12. ORID
13. Airport runway staff's light wand thingies
14. Germany
15. The development and changes in industry in the world today.
16. Mythology
17. Can cats be allergic to humans?
18. Chocolate
19. Nasty MSN bug
20. Template:Award2

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 5

1. cows
2. "Exposure" meaning in Risk Assessment/ Management
3. Frowning when Eating Delicious Food
4. CPH in relation to wages
5. mlb playoff
6. English :A few pronuncation problems
7. Obsolete oscilloscope
8. ASVAB in HS
9. Clearing house in New York
10. Dido album anytime soon?
11. Prize Court Question (Old Maritime Law)
12. what's this moviie
13. my notes
14. Ginger
15. Amount of oxygen used
16. Removing Smoke Smell
17. History of Taboo
18. black people & "haunted house"
19. Wood Integrity
20. Basil Leaves - Tearing or chopping?
21. Rawlins, Oxfordshire
22. Paper lampshade safe from heat of lightbulb?
23. hacking laws

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 6

1. I can't find something I found a year ago
2. moe.
3. Is It Illegal to drink unroasted coffee?
4. Does Wikipedia have pictures?
5. Economics of World War II
6. Pacific Aero Products, Inc.
7. Queen
8. Not a question, but a thank you
9. the coloured boxes
10. Planting something in winter
11. Eye proctection
12. Names and their meaning
13. Swallows
14. Who am I?
15. Lighters at Concerts
16. Gardening.
17. Music downloads
18. depression

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 7

1. snl
2. 'Cloning' Oil
3. just curious
   1. new question
4. Enough!
5. FAQ
6. missing question
7. historical curiosity
8. Diva, Sixth Sense?
9. Manga questions
10. Loud Harleys
11. Anti-Terrorist Options on Aeroplanes.
12. Adding a photo to an existing file
13. Alternatives to Cetaphil?
14. Why is volume so high?
15. Behind the scenes of Survivor
16. Survivor
17. Name this song & artist
18. Help making friends
19. Cleaning up apartment

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 8

1. dry erase
2. An intriguing question
3. When & Why Did Matthias Paul Change His Name To Paul Van Dyk?
4. Time management
5. Jesus / Mohammed and the different ways to approach God
6. Are There Any Wikipedia Articles That Discuss The Mistranlastion Of Homosexuality In The Bible?
7. Audie Murphy versus Matt Urban
8. analyst and users problem in stationary shop
9. How to not ask for...
10. naked bbq
11. Perception of middle level workers in any Organisation
12. Thin Paper
13. artillery equipment used in iraq
14. Israel
15. Warhammer SOHA
16. question about saving images
17. For Wikipedia administrators or people who spend much time on it
18. The BlockView
19. moe. part 2
20. didgeree doo
21. help me

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 9

1. Gay People
   1. Should we correct this imbalance if its possible?
2. care of lace
3. My dog
4. Wikipedia Copyright?
5. Gala Records
6. Magazine says PARASITES make people FAT
7. Alternate words for Communication or Dialogue
8. USMC War Memorial
9. Interest rates
10. Wikipedia Copyright?
11. Olive Stones
12. Constitution of India
13. Reduced Salt Area
14. re: California Proposition 13 (1978)
15. George Washington
16. Catholic Mass Question
17. Daily Death rates of US soldiers
18. Death of a President
19. Wikipedians-cum-Celebrities!
20. President Bush's dates in August 2001
21. Loony Laws

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 10

1. ツ
2. Flavor to Coffee Beans
3. Atheistic, skeptical organisations
4. Referencing a Morning Radio Show
5. permission to copy images only
6. Symbols for the left wing
7. Copyright......again!
8. personal property
9. doctors
10. extracurricular activities
11. can't control it
12. Lost Time Injury Frequence Rate
13. french-French Dicitonary
14. lyrics
15. Dub One Piece Movies
16. Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2 PSP

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 11

1. Drinking Red Bull while exercising
2. Speed of Human Brain
3. Could Google BUY Wikipedia?
4. Kid's satellite TV channels
5. East Timor National Flower
6. Titles Of All Articles
7. Values of the paintings of recently deceased artist Charles E. Barnes
8. Steroids in Bodybuilding
9. MRI or CAT-scans knocking
10. Charge off information relating to lender
11. Purchasing Skulls
12. Musician
13. English Cities
14. Maybe I'm just stupid.
15. Help!!!
16. movies or dvds
17. typing up a resolution
18. Closed vocational/technical colleges
19. Those big Motorola things
20. Kinf Edward boys and Family Coats of arms
21. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
22. Has anybody here seen the movie "Gay Niggers from Outer Space"?
23. Phrase origin - I can tell you but then I'd have to kill you
24. English homework help--parts of speech
25. lenny kravitz video

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 12

1. Pictures of Smoker's Lungs
2. boxing information
3. Work Cited
4. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
5. Collections
6. Copyright
7. Publishing
8. WP and alien contact
9. Masking Water Works?
10. After ejaculation pain

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 13

1. TV commercial credits
2. Lactic Acid Pain
3. Most embarassing way to die?
4. Mining claims
5. Miss Washington Pic
6. High quality video website?
7. How to post our question into mediawiki site
8. Are There Bachelor Degrees In Landscape Architecture?
9. Distribution Centers
10. historical item
11. coughing and weezing? asap
12. Willy on Wheels
13. Credit Card Offers
14. Problems trying to goatse
15. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
16. Chess - must say check?
17. Quotation mark usage
18. Tom Monagahan
19. October 14th
20. dewey decimal system
21. How many countries are poor and consistently getting poorer?
22. Colonization
23. Health Symbols
24. The Goatse Man
25. Simplified baseball rules
26. The Green Green Grass (BBC 1)

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 14

1. HOFFSTEDE STUDY
2. news headlines in present continuous
3. What's the Average Weight?
4. What is the Meaning of Life?
5. a band with no original members
6. riddle
7. Car's main shaft producing power
8. scarborough
9. space, empty?
10. Is this illegal?
11. fastest spring
12. Vandalism
13. Longest Professional Wrestling Match
14. girl in whale rider.
15. Lost
16. Two rugby union questions from an American

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 15

1. Is it illegal?
2. A letter
3. Legal in US?
4. Roaches and cold
5. History Channel's Mega Disasters
6. DOF Glass
7. A game I can't find
8. Linking to Wiktionary
9. Musical by Janov???
10. Anyone with the DVD of The Rules of Attraction?
11. Can you buy The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask in any store in Orlando,Florida?
12. Setting up a company in UK
13. Homework
14. Maori Legend
15. Hedge mazes
16. Potatoes

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 October 16

1. college basketball
2. Doléen
3. CSI Miami Commercial
4. Notable Siblings Marrying Siblings
5. Truck sales in Antananarivo?
6. suicide
7. Ecopave
8. Starbucks
9. news
10. 'edit' tag
11. how to open up a restaraunt
12. no more ghosts? ASAP Please
13. My kitten is sick
14. How to contact David Gilmour of Pink floyd?
15. A little confused?
16. Brochure Templates
17. Reccomendations
18. God or god
19. Weird looking dog
20. Light blue uniforms
21. Terrorists
22. Marijuana

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 17

1. ji,iok,okl
2. first college football game
3. "Grangsvild joke article"
4. Venom
5. loosening elastic waistbands
6. edison
7. Sticking your hand in a Venus Flytrap
8. Stock exchanges in India
9. Maps
10. Who profits from meteorites?
11. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
12. Women Surgeons
13. Rope bridge
14. Latin meaning for confidence
15. Tuna Fishing
16. Crash test marker
17. financials
18. FOOTBALL
19. What is the longest answer to a question asked at the reference desk ever?
20. A closed circuit where I can actively determine the amount of Hz
21. Dragon page problem
22. naked baking
23. Shelf life
24. Schmoo cake origin
25. Intelligence and wealth
26. Grey teeth?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 18

1. chess rice?
2. Are The Songs '8th World Wonder' & 'Wrong' By Kimberley Locke Covers?
3. Geese
4. qiuz using letters and numbers
5. Easyjet Baggage/Box
6. Dung Spreader
7. Question on animal horns
8. shau en lai
9. In Country Music...
10. Who are the characters in Cate Tiernan books?
11. Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream- Birthdys and death dates
12. who would win the jaguar or the corvette?
13. chandler woodcock?
14. when will cars fly?
15. do you know the average land speed for a mini cooper?
16. what is the smallest inamnate object? asap
17. God real or not?
18. whats your favorite eat out? around ny asap

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 19

1. White Wednesday
2. cheapest international $$$ transfer
3. Sexual harassment in high school
4. blue gene
5. Name of essay by Mark Twain criticizing humans
6. Alcholics Anonymous and religion.
7. bad newspapering
8. why does bbc allow false reports ?
9. QUESTION: The business world: Ocean/container shipping
10. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Magazine 2006
11. NY Times archived article.
12. Trio Mafuà
13. best calzone?
14. what if you drank draino?
15. Pancakes
16. homicide
17. Shazra syed amir ali
18. Public Assistance
19. Which nation would best survive a nuclear war?
20. You just have to help please please please!!!!
21. Praying Mantis in Greece
22. The great Gadsby
23. looking to start a small business
24. Forgetting how to breathe
25. Sewing Machine Problems
26. average rent that a high-end retailer pays for space at the Galleria Mall in Houston
27. Contacting people who post
28. Choking and joking
29. Hunger right after waking up
30. What is the least number of edits that makes me an administrator?
31. Geography
32. Mercedes 1994 SL500
33. Who wrote Bible?
34. help!!!

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 20

1. Use of your image
2. Legality?
3. Malaysian coordinates
4. Wikilyrics?
5. MARKET SYSTEM
6. benefits package
7. paris hilton sex tapes
8. kuma ?
9. determining relevance score
10. Interaction with a dog.
11. What do you know about the moscow coup attempt?
12. Which is lighter, a feather or a moth's wing ?
13. black bull stickers on cars
14. Student with concern
15. weird question
16. Legality 2: The Fellowship of the Law

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 21

1. Games on the TI-84?
2. Military Corpmen
3. manual information on Technics Compact Disc Changer SL-MC 50
4. soviet union breakdown
5. Replacement cap for flash drive
6. more french riots
7. Nation of Islam dress
8. WATS THIS SONG???
9. GOOGLE EARTH
10. JESUS
11. AV club
12. Freedom Passes in London
13. Through rain, through sleet...through employees' apartments?
14. Who is this guy from - Sky News - British TV - 11pm Friday 20th October - Last Night
15. european borders
16. Rucum or Rucuum Hill
17. Post-suicide-attempt care?
18. skin cancer
19. Why is British?
20. Origin of a name
21. Schengen_treaty
22. swiss banks
23. Diversity
24. List of PS3 Games
25. Game-show buzzers
26. Loop-hole to Schrodinger's Cat Box

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 22

1. ford mazda motors
2. Football
3. radio code
4. please tell me which fossil is this .
5. cost to play one song over the radio?
6. How do I get a job as a caretaker of a sexily luxurious hotel?
7. Investing
8. Rush Hour 2
9. Micronation website
10. Real-life CTU equivalent
11. Salary of secret service
12. Average Temperature
13. Drunk Driving Laws
14. NFL
15. Jews
16. Computer Games

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 23

1. artemis fowl-the book after the lost colony
2. ship a car
3. ford focus hatchback
4. Micro marketing
5. powdered doughnuts
6. Chocolate bars
7. USA place name
8. Looking for 70s Board game
9. Purple streaks
10. airport luggage checking
11. Morrisville, North Carolina
12. Black Marked Book
13. What color are tigers?
14. Alternative name for fins
15. how do proofreaders miss the blatant error in the headline
16. Ah the little kids!

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 24

1. Jews
2. Karma
3. Headphones/Microphone on NFL
4. Powers of observation
5. Special Economy Zone
6. Illegal music download sites
7. Red masks
8. CHINA
9. Ukraine
10. WHAT DAY WAS THIS
11. Tinkering with your car
12. Simple Simon Restaurant in Grafton New South Wales
13. The most famous photographs of all time.
14. Barak Obama or Hilary Clinton? ASAP Please.
15. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
16. Peanut butter demographics
17. Friendster and MySpace
18. Freedom
19. Birth Records
20. 1960's Jeep CJ-5A and CJ-6A
21. us abbreviations
22. amygdal hipocampectomy
23. Data Entry Jobs
24. Sleepy

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 25

1. Best military commander
2. Etymology
3. Help with Ralph Lauren Model
4. citing
5. average car leases
6. Distances between shipping ports
7. What is going to replace the US standard-issue M16/M4?
8. Tongue piercings
9. irst Asian to jump 8 metres
10. McDonald's Numbers?
11. Do planes and helicopters have keys?
12. Motor manufacturing quality
13. Fall colours in Himalayas
14. Horses
15. Hand Guns
16. British Horror Film of the 1930s or 1940s
17. Navy Seals
18. Anne Geddes Project
19. Hard Candy
20. Bill Gates driving story?
21. bettas (fish)
22. What is the correct term for the state of matter that applies to semi-liquid objects?

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 26

1. Remington Electric Shavers
2. Baseball jerseys
3. outsourcing and first company
4. Hockey Jerseys
5. NFL Jerseys
6. Canadian Football League Jerseys
7. Indonesian names
8. Which football team should I support?
9. hotclaws**
10. Approximately how many active Wikipedians are there?
11. Nickname Origin
12. enquiry about animal communication.
13. gustav peter
14. riddle
15. post a joke
16. the y in citibank
17. can anyone identify this plant description?
18. Dwarf Hamsters
19. mmm
20. Terrorist
21. South american pink... stuff
22. Canadian Social Insurance Numbers
23. Gun laws/registration
24. Headlights staying on while car is off.
25. what's a round screw-like thingy called?
26. Are There Fashion HIstory Courses? And If So, Where Could I Take Them?
27. Female USMC Snipers
28. DaDa article in Art Journal

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 27

1. US Army vs USMC
2. Alien cross-signal thing
3. natraj plant?
4. Jokes about stupid people
5. Mercedes-benz
6. Common quotes
7. pontiac hood ornament-help
8. encyclopedic
9. Green Tree Frog
10. Voldo-walking
11. Salt on bricks
12. Uranium in cigarettes
13. Polonium-210
14. wtf is wrong with these gov.'s?
15. Name Meanings
16. One island animal
17. Counter-strike bullet spread
18. Works Cited
19. List of chemicals used in Tabboco related items.
20. Stickshifters!

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 28

1. Wristwatch in the movie "Jaws" (1975)
2. heaters for aquariums
3. A quick question about plants
4. Price of a Fender Strat
5. FPS in doom movie
6. Line from Broadway Musical 50's or 60's
7. concerned about educational policy
8. musical notation displayed in Wikepedia pages
9. Porsche model cars
10. Bakufuu Slash!! Kizna Arashi
11. WTF is "<>"?
12. Incomplete information
13. Is it legal
14. Clocks turning
15. F-14's and UFOs
16. Pointing or linking to diffs in the page history
17. "Cut off" sound

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 29

1. redeeming paper airline vouchers
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
3. There must be an easy answer to this
4. Managing a library of D&D PDFs
5. Prefect
6. fedex
7. The Movie SIGNS
8. uestion
9. travel
10. weightlifting
11. football(soccer)
12. Religion of These People
13. Lat + Long of Continental Divide in Yellowstone
14. canada post
15. Who stole October 27 from the Contents list here?
16. Training
17. Are There Univerisity Level Fashion History Courses? And If So, What Are They And Where Could I Take Them?
18. why are manga black an white?
19. Inserting pictures
20. Is/Are There Bachelor(s) Degree(s) In The Science Of Writing Systems Or The Studies Of Writing Systems, Or Writing Systems Science Or Writing Systems Studies?
21. Natrual instinct of a right hander
22. Sex on the movie sets
23. Gupta

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 30

1. Some doggy help!!!
2. CRAZY LENNY'S CRAZY DEALS!!!
3. Maxwell Taylor's left hand
4. Familiar pattern
5. Who invented the iconic clap?
6. Don't knock this one
7. numismatism
8. Furniture counterfeiting
9. OK Corral
10. needing help
11. acousticophilia
12. Caffeine in Cigarettes
13. Complexity of antlers
14. What is minute rice?
15. Zassenhaus mill
16. Naturally occurring monthly cycles
17. bash.org
18. Translations
19. jjtc?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2006 October 31

1. Senior Master Sergeant
2. Anti-tobacco shakespeare
3. address
4. one dollar per negative gram
5. Phenytoin sodium
6. myopia and mirrors
7. Type o negative
8. Brachet
9. arco Polo in India