Wednesday Riddles
ey, we found some WMD! — The good news is we’ve found plenty of WMD. The bad news is the weapons are ours and we found them dumped in the sea.
Pharyngula writes about quackery in our university-run hospitals. Look, people. I’m already jaded, cynical, and hate the human race because of our abject stupidity and rampant, willful ignorance. You are not helping by teaching bullshit to doctors in universities. Knock it off right now, or so help me, I’m coming over there.
Ladies and gentlemen, one more time for the cheap seats, there is no fucking autism/vaccine link! Fucking A, people, the science is back on this one, and the teeny, tiny trace amount of a form of mercury that used to be in vaccines, that was taken out of vaccines like, five years ago, wasn’t hurting anyone, or causing autism. The reason why the autism stats for the US are going up is because, like with the obesity numbers in the US, they changed the definition of and benchmarks for autism. Repeat after me: There is no autism epidemic. Mercury does not cause autism. Autism is a horrible thing to have happen to your child, and I know it’s frustrating and difficult to deal with, but your fucking measles vaccines didn’t cause it, okay? Orac has more. (More here, also.)
And now, because I’m off to go watch Spidey III at the movies, finally, here are your riddles.
- Hi! Ma and Pa told me I’d better say that all the two-letter words in this paragraph have something in common . . . or else! What’s the common factor here?
- Part carbon, part water, I am poison to the fishes. Many falsely claim my name, I am the pause that refreshes. What am I?
- What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls?
- In olden days you are a clever thief charged with treason against the king, and sentenced to death. But the king decided to be a little lenient, and lets you choose your own way to die. What way should you choose? Remember, you’re clever!
- What has no content yet you are still able to see it?
Answers are below the fold:
- All the two-letter combinations are abbreviations of U.S. States. Hi: Hawaii, MA: Massachusetts, PA: Pennsylvania, me: Maine, in: Indiana, I’d: Idaho, or: Oregon.
- I’m Soda.
- Night and Day!
- I think I would have chosen to die of old age. Did you?
- A Hole!
(Riddles from RiddleNut.com)
