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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 1

1. Lost my iPod
2. Federal Refund Checks
3. True Magazene
4. Sunflower seeds harmful?
5. may 2nd again
6. Legal?
7. Mastodon
8. Crappy old movie filter effects
9. superbowl gambling
10. significance of flags outside hotels or inns
11. What is the point of Coke Zero?
12. What is paper shredder oil?
13. Eating/drinking with headphones -- different taste?
14. The Big Tall Wish
15. 'Ethical' Behaviour?
16. mary jane research question
17. what is the name of this building?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 2

1. Is there a unique kind of paper?
2. What is the point of the stock market?
3. Can I put my thoughts on to Wikipedia?
4. Latin auto-translator
5. Jumping into Sulfuric Acid
6. I literate ?
7. Hay
8. Slaughterhouses
9. World Tour
10. Dogs
11. Spike Lester vs. Chuck Palumbo
12. Hand powered railway thingie
13. The songs featured in Dame Chocolate

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 3

1. Why isn't basketball big in Britain?
2. Formula 1 - length of race
3. Tallest Cricketer
4. Two Questions:
5. Printing USPS customs forms
6. "Travel stickers"
7. police chase
8. I know that the following text is a reference to some video game.
9. City lights
10. Mailing Coins to Canada
11. boy or girl name
12. Bovril/Marmite drink
13. Snow on beaches
14. 18 to buy a lighter?
15. Recruiting
16. My height, and predicting it
17. Birth year of Maryam Nemazee
18. Silly taxes in Twilight Zone episode?
19. What is a Carper ?
20. Why has the Internet died?

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 4

1. Where is this music from?
2. OPEN DOOR
3. Bikini Atom bomb tests Julu 1946
4. Can a person be........
5. Body Piercing
6. Why is international business law so uttlerly Anglo-American?
7. Background music for a Teeny Digipc Disk?
8. Mezcal de gusano
9. Searching for a picture
10. Why is everyone greedy?
11. CVFs HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales
12. A Thing About Machine
13. A Question about Venevision International
14. roofing standards
15. BBC
16. the legendary Swedish and Norweign welfare states
17. Phoebe Holcroft Watson?British ranked Tennis player
18. you shud see, whit i kin see, wen em cleanin windaes
19. "Everything's bigger in Texas"

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 5

1. Bread
2. Biggest Internet forum/message board?
3. Immigration law: Canadian
4. Help me
5. Pictures
6. Tip on tips
7. Air Shocks for 2008 Toyota Camry Hybrid
8. Mobile phone technologies in US/Europe/Asia etc.
9. Yellow Paper
10. Hair Removal
11. marco polo
12. Is it true that if you dont use it you lose it?
13. calculator games
14. "What's wrong here?"

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 6

1. Is it Weird?
2. Present Value of Depreciation
3. Hillary Clinton's coin?
4. Best religion and science?
5. K-2 tremors
6. barrass - what is it?
7. Sticky ideas?
8. may 2nd holidays
9. Throbbing Gristle
10. Waking Up
11. An oft-used laughing baby noise
12. Telenovelas filming in Florida
13. plz help me
14. Challis, ID
15. Cash
16. Knighthood
17. Life's a beach
18. Skin
19. DVD recorder not working - help

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 7

1. Torque Creep
2. Avaya Stock
3. Advanced method of starting uphill
4. busses to/from NYC airports
5. What is this?
6. The intro for Donkey Kong Country for SNES
7. Virgin Mobile Voicemail Message
8. Time travel
9. fire + thunder
10. mothering sunday
11. If one were to own land...
12. What are those things you see in cartoons?
13. Pear Sorbet Recipes
14. Voting
15. Romney delegates
16. Pennsylvania driver's licenses
17. Supermassive Black Hole
18. How do lute players play the lute without accidentely moving the frets?
19. United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 8

1. What is the recipe for Gordo's Beans or Gordo's Beans with Cheese?
2. Operating a motorized boat
3. Las Vegas: 299 miles
4. Why are there so many special operation units in the US?
5. Jeopardy
6. John Appleby, inventor of the "knotter"
7. shares
8. ABS in snow/ice
9. Constructive Dismisal
10. Earth
11. Drain cover type identification...
12. The Stoned Age
13. Pumped up stomach
14. kevin trudeaus birthdate
15. Repeating Chess Matches?

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 9

1. Is it okay to type this e-mail to a bodybuilder?
2. Are there such things as easy wish spells?
3. mp3 music collection
4. marketing (customer communication)
5. Travel in Norway
6. Political Ads
7. Length of Lolita

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 10

1. Claims of Evidence for Other Religions as One True Religion
2. Deep deep discounts
3. Drought
4. Drought II
5. How exactly does a nuke kill you?
6. Exploding cesium
7. Counties
8. literature
9. Basketball Strategery
10. "Claim for fame"
11. Difference between acronym and abbreviation?
12. Cities that twin - any tourist benefits???
13. Do we have an article on the game "Tumbling tower"
14. Travelling question
15. sports players wages
16. Micromanagement companies

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 11

1. Strep Throat
2. Chevrolet 2.8 liter V6 information please.
3. Matrixism
4. Stripping
5. The Stock Market Doesn't Make Sense to Me II
6. Were there people in space (other than a quick "hello" and back) before the moon landings?
7. Writing checks/cheques - okay to put 1/2 instead of 50/100?
8. Do supplements go bad?
9. Noctifer
10. Letter tails on olde scriptes
11. Swimming Pool Stage Mist
12. Three Russian astronauts dead and in space
13. Vote on the creation of Israel
14. A place that starts with 'X'
15. US Census figures

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 12

1. student loans and tax return
2. what does this word mean in slang?
3. construction
4. The NIE and US diplomacy towards Iran
5. Game code!
6. Lost car keys
7. sports
8. //////.G00GIE.C0//
9. fact or myth
10. performing rights
11. Female Enhancement Supplement
12. Where to find videos

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 13

1. Vitreous China different than Percelain?
2. National Debt (U.S.)
3. Is it legal?
4. developing countries
5. Maratha Clan System
6. Pet Stores, History of?
7. 3some
8. LEGAL HELP
9. Snakes
10. cock
11. asscrack
12. What is the Maori Belief Mana all about ?
13. Fork etiquette
14. dagga
15. What do you call them?
16. Tab question
17. 9
18. What motivates terrorists
19. Maturity

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 14

1. Nupedia
2. God and Omnipotence
3. Wheres Tupac grow up?
4. its an animal
5. Hypo -- Taking advantage of a modern day political machine in the US
6. Serious question
7. Lute
8. Private military contractors and ranks
9. To the riffiest of the American raff, i.e. regular RD contributors
10. PRESIDENTs LETTER FOR 100TH birthday
11. Laughing matter

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 15

1. Stretching tattoo?
2. Dollar value of virginity
3. Average sizes for flutes and clarinets
4. The Balkans and conflicts
5. Geography
6. Who kills the most Americans by gunfire?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 16

1. Text message from unknown source
2. eiggnr
3. error with corn article
4. Two questions
5. Lethal injection needles
6. Can't find the article: "What the #$%@ Fridays "article.
7. Meaning of dreams
8. Pouch Envy
9. dedicated refdesk site?
10. Hair growth after cutting
11. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 16#|]]
12. Lawnmower car
13. Another Tornado Outbreak

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 17

1. hump in the back
2. Canadian government lost a document and everyone had to spring clean to find it
3. British sex case
4. Question about Milwaukee, WI
5. Itchy
6. "Walking machines of death"
7. Why would near death experiences becaused by a lack of oxygen to the brain?
8. Has anyone tried to calculate the American homicide rate under other circumstances?

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 18

1. GagaLive-like IRC client
2. How many men in USA are circumcised?
3. Stephenville, Texas
4. Sending mail without an address
5. Swords through cheek
6. Is there a system to ensure answers on ref desks get integrated into articles?
7. Earnings
8. Calculator Games
9. Financial Investment
10. a foot, a foot, my kingdom for a foot!
11. Free image for McFly (band) & licensing question

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 19

1. Digital Tv for Handheld TVs?
2. How Asylum Smackdowns Start
3. ipod repair
4. its a dragon
5. macro economics help
6. Early statue of Oliver Cromwell
7. whey protein (yes, it's me again)
8. Water
9. WWII
10. Terrorism
11. Pakistan Politics
12. Blondi
13. Xbox 360 in 1080p
14. Embargo

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 20

1. Personally Built Robot
2. Socialist newspaper
3. Elections(politics)
4. websites
5. Internationa Business & Trade
6. Help with a song
7. Advertising on cars
8. Lost Jobs, In the US
9. ACT score
10. Advertisements with self-comparisons

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 21

1. Driving during hangover
2. circle number 53
3. Map of Ethiopia
4. Cats in Downing Street
5. Registering a death
6. Domestic plumbing question
7. Banning from a state
8. PETA scam ?!
9. Cost of Ownership for PHEV
10. Lemon for sinuses
11. "Military" lingo.

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 22

1. House Arrest
2. Original TMNT being 80s
3. Sleep schedule
4. british standards institute
5. Bluestocking
6. LSD
7. Cookbook
8. Scanning Problems on my Epson Stylus Photo RX 520

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 23

1. Female-dominated occupations
2. Soul Reaver
3. Welfare
4. nokia cheat code!
5. transcribers
6. Memory
7. social science
8. Modern dockers
9. Pronounciation
10. Heliolithic
11. Measuring TV viewership
12. Second-hand smoke and pets
13. Google earth etc and governments

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 24

1. Mind maps
2. What is the second largest ethnic group?
3. Bicentennial Quarter Mint Marks
4. transcriber
5. United Nations resolutions and policy statements
6. The Boys' in Blue
7. Marquesites
8. can you teach a cat to kill?
9. Japanese versus western cars, philosophies
10. Linkedin
11. Honduran Tribe
12. english assignment
13. Ocean Water
14. Undiscovered Land

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 25

1. Dropping gun in movies
2. Working on a stock car in NASCAR during a Red Flag
3. G Edward Griffin
4. Where can I get copies of photos of George Naipier and sons?
5. Source of Green Label for Food Imported From South Africa
6. WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ON MUSHROOMS IN POPULAR CULTURE
7. Snapped string
8. PhD and book publishing
9. Human cannonballs
10. Tae Kwon Do
11. Profesional Athletes mom who was supposed to be on september 11th plane

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 26

1. Crip gang members
2. Miscellaneous: Nasogastric tubes in the 1930s
3. atomic mushroom cap
4. What to wear in Nice - Cote d'Azur in mid-March
5. Led Zeppelin DVD
6. Fibromyalgia
7. Castiglione
8. Ecosse bumper stickers
9. DNA Testing
10. Is that all there is?
11. Interior Decoration with Books
12. Wheat flour
13. Petz 5
14. Wikipedia Down!
15. Where is Pechüle?

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 27

1. How many roses are sprinkled with dew?
2. Thesis on soild waste management
3. D.A.N.C.E. T SHIRTS!
4. german tax
5. german
6. Ratio of homosexuality and bisexuality among males
7. Home advantage in sports
8. Jain
9. What's this font?
10. Normal for spread to leak polyester?
11. obesity in the nursing and physician field
12. People forced to fight in armies
13. Violence in Video Games causing violence in people?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 28

1. Ted Bundy Philsopher?
2. York Memorial Collegiate Institute yearbook
3. UK newspaper reader demographics
4. Castle Hudemühlen
5. Tim Cahill
6. Boomtowns in the English-Speaking World (especially the Anglosphere)
7. Currency exchange?
8. Tim Cahill
9. OK, last German location question, I swear!
10. TRITON T80xr Shower problem.
11. Life is.....
12. Canada
13. New York rush-hour traffic
14. God and his all powerfulness
15. players
16. NY Strip steak

February 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 29

1. Insects
2. Yahoo Maps
3. Edward Lear
4. Blimpin' ain't easy
5. Crooked words
6. "Antipodal Mirror"
7. U.S. High School "artificial culture" ?
8. The Drudge Report
9. Coins
10. In 1893
11. Auto-Tune
12. Rolling Stone
13. unusual rock
14. Zoo License
15. madison ave