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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 1

  1. advis
  2. Important/Historic Master's Theses
  3. Pigs in the mud
  4. Alcohol
  5. Sex song
  6. Unfair competition in interpersonal relationships
  7. Locked Inside the Cabinet
  8. bill gate's house
  9. Volunteering in Iran
  10. Turkish pepper
  11. United Airlines Flight 93 - entry question

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 2

  1. Social interaction and money
  2. Who Wants to be a Millionare?
  3. Anzac
  4. the "ladies"
  5. Public Transport
  6. Feminism and childrens' surnames
  7. other countries
  8. The US Vice President's title
  9. crystal skull
  10. service charges for food and beverage
  11. Avril Lavigne b-sides
  12. Chilling soft boiled eggs

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 3

  1. adding a totally new article
  2. Is There Anybody Out There
  3. New Project
  4. Access to electronic texts in library
  5. Economies of oil-producing countries: Saudi Arabia and Norway
  6. Menopause website
  7. Swarm Photographers
  8. Chicken Feed
  9. Dialogue between Merry and Pippin
  10. ZOOM H2 question

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 4

  1. HOW ?
  2. Digitigrade bipeds
  3. Cookies or bars
  4. I need this question answered ASAP.......thanks
  5. God Being an Angel
  6. Why does it cost Ford a billion dollars to develop a car but Tesla Motors can pop one out on $40 mil startup?
  7. TENZE
  8. Storing Meat
  9. Maintenance Ration
  10. Rx
  11. Crop Yield
  12. How does the pitcher beat the baserunner to first?
  13. World War II English spy: Code Name, Christopher Robin
  14. how many books in the series?
  15. For the "Did You know that....." section of Wikipedia

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 5

  1. Do living people fall under public domain?
  2. Cat dreadlocks
  3. Air Hockey Table
  4. Largest tram network in the world
  5. Peanuts.
  6. Stabilized Compressed Earth Block Technology
  7. Selling Crops

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 6

  1. The voice of President George W.Bush
  2. foreign business operation in the Philippines
  3. State Defense Forces
  4. Next Generation Dumber or Smarter
  5. A dangerous world
  6. limptes
  7. Queen Ants
  8. Women as witness
  9. famous african americans
  10. the best for reverse phone look up
  11. diesel automobile power brakes
  12. How does it called?
  13. Finding scientific studies to participate in
  14. Turn number algorithm question
  15. Human Hamster Balls
  16. Where Magneto (band) got their band name

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 7

  1. Finger Gestures
  2. Light Rail Transit
  3. mens pants zipper
  4. JVS Chicago
  5. orgasm without stimulation of the sex organs
  6. The 'Flat' of a sword
  7. ETERNAL YOUTH?
  8. Couple mortgage refinancing questions
  9. Distribution of crime victims by class in SA compared to US
  10. 'Local Market' Feasibility
  11. please remove pornographic images from your site (eg: homosexual sex & fluffer)
  12. Why do some companies - like software companies - have offices?
  13. Beatles on iTunes

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 8

  1. Government of 1984
  2. One ear of earbuds is crackling
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 8#Ear, nose<.2Fs> and throat|Ear, nose and throat]]
  4. Hello
  5. Expanding security council
  6. wikipedia photos GNU licence
  7. investigating
  8. LRT Excluding Trams
  9. 5
  10. Our Lady of Fatima
  11. Gum
  12. Avril Lavigne a scientist?
  13. Stride
  14. Automobile Painting
  15. Narcotics
  16. Opposite Attracts
  17. Lunatic
  18. Why does Wikipedia have a video of a man ejaculating...
  19. Swords of the highest quality

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 9

  1. Finding a girl
  2. Use of wikis for posting library reference question answers
  3. Gini of China and Inida
  4. Rhythm
  5. Could Not Live Our Lives?
  6. Car Dealerships
  7. Background Recording Software
  8. Bulova watches and 1st Tv commercial
  9. Regions that begin with "X"
  10. Julius Caesar's letters

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 10

  1. Picture salling.
  2. car value percentage of net worth
  3. How the heck does Todd do this!?!?!
  4. Soil Moisture Measurement
  5. Avril Lavigne hairstyle
  6. Bird
  7. Pint-sized Midget
  8. Bank payments
  9. Summer Olympics
  10. Remote control
  11. Rabbits
  12. Is this covered in the rulebook?
  13. what can we do for Burma?
  14. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 10#|]]
  15. O2
  16. What is it about termites that bite instead of sting?
  17. Different culture = different personality?
  18. Is Mount Edna active?

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 11

  1. Current Affairs
  2. Will the Feds shut down Wikipedia?
  3. platinum
  4. Joseph Fritzl's statements
  5. I need help, sorry.
  6. Radio in the US like BBC channel 4
  7. What type of bird is this?
  8. Will there ever be peace on earth?
  9. Name all the songs
  10. What is this?
  11. Breach of trust?
  12. No clothes
  13. Birth of a calf
  14. living expenses
  15. Pokerstars account
  16. What to do now (any advice?)
  17. Etiquette
  18. Suicide
  19. Is this real - Read first BEFORE clicking the link!
  20. Avril's New Album
  21. Style changes
  22. Longest wikipedia article
  23. Goatse
  24. Racism

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 12

  1. Getting to Greenbelt, Md., on a Sunday
  2. Coleman Propane Bottles
  3. Can any of these be used?
  4. South-East Asian politician who went missing in Sydney in the 1960s
  5. girl problem
  6. Age of consent
  7. Evan Taubenfeld
  8. IT-industry
  9. Wolves
  10. Avril Lavigne the geek?
  11. What is this phone?
  12. Maps
  13. Maps (part II)
  14. Yet another Avril question
  15. What Age did Avril Lavigne start singing
  16. Avril the Chef
  17. What to call this addiction?
  18. average GPA's of universities
  19. Mountains
  20. Breeds of dog
  21. Cell phone
  22. Cell phone underwater
  23. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 12#|]]
  24. Trisection
  25. Bookmarks
  26. Buying Viagra Tabs in Tenerife?
  27. Artistic Hitler
  28. Deaths p/a
  29. Temperatures under glass-lid frying pans
  30. "Detergent suicides" in Japan?
  31. What's with the 'common' electronic sound effects?
  32. Setting of Othello
  33. iTunes

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 13

  1. Bacardi's old buildings in Cuba
  2. Query on South African Passport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_passport)
  3. Silver cloth
  4. Olympic Games
  5. Avoiding questions
  6. I can write a song a day
  7. Most bought & sold item
  8. Sock it to me, baby
  9. Carp ponds
  10. Dragons
  11. Homemade Dog Food

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 14

  1. Lexington, Kentucky and suburbs
  2. What's Best
  3. Long-term document storage
  4. Non Surgery Tumour Removal
  5. Plane Crash
  6. Why fire is used as a classical element other then magma??
  7. During emergency landing, why blow air in life jacket only after getting out of airplane?
  8. Sten gun
  9. Textbook repair
  10. sufism
  11. What type of plane might this be
  12. DAYS OF BIRTHS
  13. Composite images
  14. Why?
  15. Wooden Coffee Stick Stirrers
  16. Human skull
  17. Soft drink shouldn't be banned from schools
  18. Leisure
  19. SHWEDAGON PADODA-MYANMAR
  20. Musical Stadium
  21. A question about chef's hats
  22. 211 crisis number
  23. Buying London Theatre Tickets
  24. Help (with starting in football)

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 15

  1. Hand exercise games
  2. Content of IV Drip
  3. Measuring cups
  4. Cartridge names
  5. A riddle
  6. Stride
  7. Discrimination, accent and racism
  8. War
  9. Black Suits in Australia
  10. Summer in Ireland
  11. Dividends, Ownership
  12. pornographic animated image within "penis" entry
  13. Facebook novice
  14. Maximum temperature
  15. Chairs tipping
  16. A Rovin' I Will Go
  17. Drinkable tap water
  18. Worms
  19. Hailey Williams
  20. captain picard's bald head
  21. Zebras
  22. Fish patterns
  23. Tip-of-the-tongue
  24. Turn signal lights on pick-up trucks
  25. Globe
  26. Dissing in Country Music
  27. Hand dryers or paper towels
  28. Neural network
  29. Sit dog, good boy
  30. Driving licenses
  31. Drinking
  32. How many wood chips to use
  33. Seasonal Question

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 16

  1. Juliet and Paris
  2. Capital Punishment
  3. How to reduce seat size?
  4. world's youngest Phd
  5. Understanding
  6. Bragging, showing off, legit self-marketing
  7. What if, Stocks
  8. Central Europe
  9. Stick Shift
  10. Commercial flight paths
  11. "digital camo" artwork nightmare
  12. Does anyone know?
  13. Macintosh commercial
  14. Redeeming Air Miles
  15. The Dark Ages
  16. Clean after you dog
  17. Engine oil for Lawnmover
  18. Obama

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 17

  1. Anal Sex
  2. Air Trafic Control
  3. Citing a film in MLA
  4. All the President's Men, and their passports
  5. Donation links on wikis
  6. Mexican Webpage
  7. pubic hygiene
  8. Body temperature
  9. Spongebob
  10. Environment
  11. Pretty Little Dutch Girl picture
  12. ear buds
  13. Classics
  14. the name of the islands off the coast of North Carolina
  15. Anonymous charitable giving

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 18

  1. How can I be a Birdwatcher?
  2. Transatlantic liners ticket costs in 1913
  3. Farming in poor countries
  4. Which country uses the most energy each day?
  5. Whatever happened to yodeling?
  6. Ref desk with guaranteed correct answers
  7. Human penis design
  8. wet Keeshond
  9. Goldfish Brain Sizes
  10. Rollercoaster
  11. I can't remember this quote.
  12. Incest
  13. What's the name of the hat?
  14. How do you spell postal worker backwards
  15. Olympic eligibility

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 19

  1. Tailoring a suit jacket
  2. Is there a place on this earth that men never stepped on
  3. Blue Mountains Nation Park, Australia
  4. Eric Winter
  5. IQ Tests
  6. Cuban cigars
  7. Weather
  8. Laws
  9. I want to know scouting skills
  10. Cigarettes
  11. Automotive engine problem:
  12. Tool
  13. bank a fire
  14. Just me?
  15. Coll'ottava?
  16. Custom Love Potion Requests?
  17. What is it with Canadians and their unspeakably brutal public service announcements?

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 20

  1. air medal recipients
  2. Opposite Places
  3. managerial accounting
  4. Cost of a euphonium
  5. Shrimp Ecosystem
  6. Socks!
  7. Star Wars
  8. Private information on the net
  9. Wiccans
  10. bajork a dork?
  11. Team building, team schmuilding
  12. I Need A Bit of Help
  13. How does this work/not work?
  14. Fuel efficiency when burning regular gas in vehicles that prefer high-octane
  15. Pizza Temperature
  16. London transportation
  17. What are those sacs in the trees?

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 21

  1. The Human Body
  2. London (and other UK) museums, tourist attractions, etc.
  3. Unused political campaign contributions in the US
  4. Who are you?
  5. St John the Apostle
  6. St Johns?
  7. St John the Apostle
  8. St John the Apostle
  9. News channel
  10. MYLAR BALLOON
  11. black suit combinations
  12. Work as a librarian
  13. Who discovered that the liver has four lobes?
  14. Scars
  15. My first Kiss
  16. DTS
  17. Can't stop having Conservative thoughts
  18. Suggestions for an itinerary in Great Britain
  19. Shopping Embarassment
  20. Screen shots
  21. Anatomy of the Penis (This is a good question!)
  22. Fuel economy and opening car windows (This question is better)
  23. How can i get my first car trick my ride

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 22

  1. I have two questions - a linguistic one and general one
  2. Swearing
  3. Article Creation by IPs nullified?!
  4. Restless mind
  5. How do i challenge inaccurate information?
  6. How to change voicemail
  7. Logo: ?!
  8. Rally the troops
  9. Where to buy casual cravat?
  10. Life Insurance Beneficiary
  11. Would it make sense that...?

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 23

  1. Boy Stuff; Girl Stuff
  2. Why do US citizens care about Israel?
  3. Need to Type Odd Character
  4. NES catapult
  5. Cognative ability
  6. You guys are great
  7. free bookseller's catalogs about latin and south america
  8. Investment a little less secure than CD
  9. Phonemes -> Sound
  10. How does Wikipedia make money?
  11. Spicy foods
  12. Does reading single side of a hand written notebook increases the concentration level of reader ?
  13. Molecular cloud, eh?
  14. Sc-AK750 Stereo
  15. Autobon in Europe
  16. Transgendered abortions
  17. Empire State Building Dedication

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 24

  1. observation
  2. Mormon Dress Code
  3. Ipod Touch Downgrading
  4. What does rooibos tea taste like?
  5. sports medicine in karate
  6. Cure the Disease Doctor
  7. Electric lawn mower

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 25

  1. Soveit Photo Manip.
  2. Whom would you call?
  3. How do I make change?
  4. Penis fantasy
  5. Knee trembling disease
  6. Help Me Figure Out Song Please
  7. Parking direction
  8. ITALIANS ASK THE TIME
  9. Religion and the US Armed Forces
  10. Dr. Vivien Thomas
  11. Pearl Harbour
  12. 10 greatest songs of all time
  13. Prestigious university that accept every student
  14. Idiotic Commercials: Market Demographic does'nt incl. intelligent people, such as those found here on Wikipedia.
  15. Protesting the US only?
  16. The English Language in Mexican telenovelas

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 26

  1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 26#|]]
  2. Snowboarder
  3. Baseball uniform
  4. What type of fly is this?
  5. Which Birds are featured on the new UK Passport?
  6. Vesna Vulović's fall duration
  7. Cyclone
  8. searching for a video clip
  9. people with problems: help or avoid?
  10. Low-pressure airports
  11. Avril F-ing lavine
  12. Time difference between Great Britain & Cape Town, South Africa
  13. Book recommendations.
  14. What's Wrong With the ABC's
  15. orange peel box

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 27

  1. Missing Monsters
  2. last will and testaments
  3. Book of stories printed on cardboard - history
  4. Passenger Car Tyres
  5. Question
  6. An environmental studies related question
  7. Hold water
  8. Chevrolet Blazer auto repair
  9. Blind the Facts
  10. bamboo
  11. Wood Burning Vehicle
  12. Loans

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 28

  1. I don't understand this
  2. college gpa
  3. Water bottle design
  4. Isn't it not Ironic?
  5. Killing and getting rids of fleas from your home- from cats and dogs.
  6. Eskimo
  7. Watch Type
  8. List of Stubs for category tree
  9. Endonym map?
  10. Which boss wrote a compassionate email immeidately after 9/11?
  11. Is a penny saved a penny lost?
  12. gasoline in diesel engine
  13. parapsychological contact
  14. book
  15. T-shirt
  16. Ball-thingies on shoes
  17. Bots

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 29

  1. Paypal and payoneer
  2. Homeroom
  3. Career
  4. Burn
  5. Small plant, suitable for an office environment
  6. child custody laws
  7. Why does this always happen?
  8. Help with psych questions
  9. BFE
  10. lost fish -- I need a more plausible story!
  11. Annals of Improbable Research, Ignoble awards
  12. Arse Numbing Seats
  13. Pollution
  14. Visual style of Dorling Kindersley books
  15. Questions, questions
  16. Hand to Balls Ratio - Contact Juggling
  17. GWB parting shot.
  18. Feel This
  19. Different Youtube players?
  20. U.S. Oil Industry

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 30

  1. Thin Condoms Vs. Regular Condoms
  2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 30#|]]
  3. indian nationality
  4. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 30#|]]
  5. Lending money
  6. Bumblebees
  7. Girl in the photograph
  8. Its Hard to Part
  9. Outstanding Young Woman of America Award

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 31

  1. Thoughts
  2. Beef Prices
  3. Blood type
  4. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 May 31#|]]
  5. Yahoo
  6. The Human Brain
  7. Two same website sources in a row
  8. Post-OP TS refractory period
  9. Capitalism 3.0?
  10. I am now not eligible for the bright futures scholarhip, what do I do?
  11. not sugary
  12. Names of Guns
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