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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 1

  1. How to be a YouTuber's friend when s/he denied me to be her/his friend on YouTube?
  2. Tunnel of love
  3. Painting a guitar
  4. Wikipedia Main Page Graphics
  5. Work shifts and breaks
  6. The Man with One Name
  7. FCC ruling on cable company deals with apartment complexes?

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 2

  1. Best colleges in Minnesota for foreign studies?
  2. Relationship advice
  3. desire
  4. budget day
  5. Days holiday
  6. Licensing on Flickr
  7. Recycable?
  8. Relationship Advice
  9. Eating Rudolph
  10. Sugar Based Oil

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 3

  1. Cotton in medicine bottles
  2. free antivirus
  3. Skin turning red
  4. Football club sizes
  5. fastest hair growth
  6. Eazy-E's height
  7. Cat Urinating on Bed
  8. ravioli
  9. Am I making a fool of myself?
  10. Why so many nail salons run by Vietnamese?
  11. Cape Verde

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 4

  1. Soccer
  2. Another Old Wives' Tale?
  3. Dance Dance Revolution workout
  4. US Customs didn't search me
  5. Muslim
  6. A way eliminate poverty?
  7. Profit sharing
  8. structural steel detailer
  9. Republic of Lakotah

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 5

  1. Ummm
  2. creatine
  3. Petting My Dog
  4. Points to consider before buying a house with sibling
  5. Independent cities in Virginia

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 6

  1. DIY electric quadricycle
  2. couches at Coffman Memorial Union
  3. Cost cutting or something else...?
  4. Learning to speak Spanish.
  5. Game Boy Advance SP
  6. Wikipedia's Dick is Small?
  7. Six Questions To Norman Mailer
  8. Driver of Princess Elizabeth
  9. Economic status discrimination
  10. PhD admission in the States/UK/Europe

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 7

  1. Trademarking animals
  2. Greyhound Bus/ American Indian History
  3. Avocado
  4. El Paso, Arkansas
  5. VoIP adapters - How many phones can they drive?
  6. Sample papers solutions
  7. Make Some Money
  8. Microscope
  9. fencing
  10. Postnominals
  11. Vintage Knives
  12. Is the British Education system banning teaching of 'the Holocaust'?
  13. long lost cereal...
  14. Washing Tee's
  15. toaster boners
  16. Jail (TV series)'s theme song
  17. Canada article is inapropriate

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 8

  1. Walking into the Soviet embassy in DC
  2. Contacting wikinfo
  3. Dimmu Borgir
  4. Poland
  5. Furniture manufacturing firms
  6. Chest hair

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 9

  1. Virgin
  2. War movie cliché
  3. paper pattern of dresses of america paris milan india
  4. Travel to Volgograd
  5. Wiki convention
  6. limewire
  7. Russia
  8. information about house sharing/room renting
  9. Real Zombies!?
  10. SYSTEM DYNAMICS FOR FRESHERS
  11. David Blaine
  12. Sto-Rev Co. Productions
  13. His Dark Materials -Meaning of the Title
  14. What exactly is the connection between the band Rush and Objectivism?

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 10

  1. Something I heard...
  2. Saddest movie...EVER!
  3. TDSB Transportation
  4. TDSB Transportation 2
  5. Stock Information Offine
  6. Whom is more famious?
  7. Connecting to LimeWire
  8. Book Collection Advice
  9. Standard subject descriptors for tagging IT-related documents
  10. DVD Player
  11. Meaning of "DZ" in Chinese/Taiwanese/Asian products
  12. Housecleaner Etiquette
  13. Trustee Savings Bank
  14. geography
  15. wisdom teeth
  16. Certified Nursing Assistants in Europe

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 11

  1. food imports restrictions + health
  2. Internet Explorer
  3. Australian Senator being Prime Minister?
  4. Championship Belts
  5. getting drunk faster?
  6. Food left out overnight
  7. Long socks and shorts
  8. Best -Free- Music Download Software
  9. Fun Quote
  10. Another question about Jail (TV series)
  11. Another "fun" quote
  12. Nintendo64 fan games
  13. Ailsa Craig Engines
  14. Vote for the crook, not the Nazi
  15. wagyu where in the uk can i get it
  16. Pottery
  17. FastCupid
  18. Dinosaurs in Bible
  19. Hanging/aging meat

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 12

  1. Smell
  2. cupcake with a bit taken from each one
  3. Alternative search engine
  4. Question
  5. Where can I find this commercial...?
  6. Acting principal (school)
  7. coffee
  8. Sauna
  9. Wizards of Oz
  10. Catfish
  11. Why are poor people fat?
  12. US Commercial mail-receiving agencies
  13. LazyTown advanced studio?

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 13

  1. Changing gear ratios in cars
  2. Wikipedia Credibility
  3. Automatic Center Punch
  4. Hashbrowns
  5. The study of self esteem in children aged 6-10
  6. AXE Shock
  7. Not looking for legal advice - curious about Squatters rights?

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 14

  1. Silver Half Dollar Coins
  2. Life Expectancy
  3. Foods
  4. business management
  5. Basic lead guitar technique question
  6. Why does my dog keep eating cat turds?
  7. Chipped China
  8. Seinfeld George pants
  9. Three random questions
  10. I'm looking for a question

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 15

  1. olive complexioned
  2. Averge time a ref desker stays
  3. US dependant visas
  4. Why are ME oil exporting countries such staunch supporters of their dollar pegs?
  5. Super Mario Galaxy -- inaccurate title?
  6. Anyone know of Grammar Pie
  7. SVG files
  8. The Pentagon looks like a cool place to wander around
  9. First episode of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
  10. Cyclist Mickaël Pichon
  11. Helicopters in Popular Culture
  12. How would Terminators come to existence?
  13. June 27 Query
  14. Enzo Ferrari
  15. Remote Control Toys
  16. Looser of the mens marathon at the Mexico City Olympics of 1968
  17. Dissolving tiling grout in a toilet bowl
  18. Gold Mines California
  19. There should be an Economics and Business desk

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 16

  1. People in general
  2. Name this toy.
  3. Humility
  4. Messanger
  5. where can I find some gold?
  6. Dont have a heading
  7. "Jesus saves you"
  8. How many nipples does a panda have?
  9. poland day trip

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 17

  1. Bubonic plague
  2. Annoyance on YouTube/Need to develop a scrip to block (censor) these annoyances for Mozilla Firefox (Greasemonkey)
  3. All that development in Dubai
  4. Darwin's theory of evolution
  5. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Weight
  6. Strength training
  7. A site of academic documents
  8. Annoying salespeople in supermarkets
  9. What does "Toys "R" Us" mean?
  10. i will be - avril song
  11. Three random questions straight from my question-wise head
  12. Guiness stout...
  13. Questions About Magneto (band)
  14. FlashBang grenades
  15. Transatlantic travel by ship
  16. Wikipedia and Alien contact
  17. Why has my cat stopped using it's litter box
  18. Non-Desktop Publishing anywhere today?
  19. Dragons
  20. Price style

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 18

  1. How do I stop Signatures on t-shirts coming of in the Wash?
  2. His Dark Materials
  3. Freaky Friday A Teen Movie
  4. poaching baby harp seals. Help?
  5. Indicative Pricing
  6. Is it legal to sell second-hand books?
  7. Are there any MOD players?
  8. Singing voice
  9. Can't choose a DVD/VCR player
  10. Little girls -- way smarter than you'd think?
  11. Shemales in Asia
  12. Green skin
  13. Advice nedded
  14. Galice Plaster
  15. Changing hair color
  16. food concern
  17. Nike's Swoosh
  18. Chess book for someone who knows the rules of the game but needs to develop strategy?
  19. Free databases

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 19

  1. Can teeth heal themselves?
  2. Jobs in International Politics
  3. singers
  4. Stamps
  5. Using a calculator's battery
  6. The Cost of Children

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 20

  1. 2x4s
  2. Nightmares
  3. Sailing time
  4. How does the average reader read the Sun?
  5. CFL bulb crack
  6. Lobotomy -- why?!
  7. Sugar free candy bad in any way for the teeth?
  8. Why doesn't Microsoft make/license PCs?
  9. tut's mask
  10. name French letter
  11. Watch Repair

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 21

  1. Recent BA crash
  2. Poison Sumac
  3. Mob question
  4. Vandalisim detected......
  5. canned jokes
  6. Annoying adhesive strips on CD packaging
  7. Who hosts the largest Girls Hockey Tournament in Canada based on the number of teams registered?
  8. monopoly

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 22

  1. Simple automotives question
  2. Are there any GOOD translation sites?
  3. "Blue Keld" -- what's the catch?
  4. Elevator Buttons
  5. Social interactions
  6. Dayton Steele Foundry
  7. Pellet gun shooting
  8. "Dumle Cocoa" -- sugar fest 2008?
  9. trivia question
  10. Nutella vs peanut butter
  11. Amount of information
  12. Those vertical counting lines things
  13. Let's see now - did I get this right???????????
  14. Telenovelas filmed in Florida
  15. Power Stars
  16. YouTube annoyance
  17. How does this work?
  18. Alien Invasion ?!
  19. Punkrocker years

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 23

  1. Local custom - crossing fingers on the sight of a fire-engine, ambulance etc
  2. Ettitquette: Gold/silver/bronze when drawn
  3. Leapin' Lent
  4. Map creating software
  5. Toter Uhu
  6. relateed to chemical engineering.....
  7. Why do women make no sense?
  8. Sailor Moon's skirt
  9. When is it proper to use Diamond Anniversary? 60th or 75th year Anniversay?
  10. Did Hitler really watch The Great Dictator?
  11. Is cherries and milk poison?
  12. Focus Groups
  13. Do USAian schools actually metal detect search students?!
  14. Lombard Wikipedia fall
  15. Symbolism Meanings

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 24

  1. A way to reduce crime
  2. photogenicity
  3. No beer atom?
  4. Time travel positions
  5. skipping vs jogging
  6. Semen as a name
  7. How long time alone before you "go crazy"?
  8. For it is he
  9. Thinking about thinking, desiring desire
  10. may 2nd
  11. Circumcision
  12. How do you jerk off once circumcised?
  13. VHS-C to PC?
  14. Why are there no PDO and DOM alternatives for procedural PHP?
  15. WQXR
  16. ADVICE PLEASE
  17. Movie phone number?
  18. Naming your child
  19. WII

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 25

  1. Road Gradient
  2. Constantly descending pitches
  3. Question about Return of the Jedi.
  4. Sustainable Competitive Advantage and knowledge Management
  5. David Blaine Street Magic
  6. Free chess server with ELO rating
  7. Bank security
  8. chicken
  9. Water drainage
  10. Why did my CD get corrupted?
  11. Bircham International University Claims Need Investigation But Must Speak Spanish
  12. Early NASA simulators
  13. Is anyone actually given the United States citizenship test? In what cases?
  14. Ham Spray House, at Ham, Wiltshire.
  15. HUMAN RIGHTS
  16. citizenship
  17. Bullets and guns power
  18. Poison Sumac Cure
  19. How were audio tapes mass produced?
  20. JLC rates
  21. Printer DPI resolution

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 26

  1. irish citizen
  2. world chess records?
  3. accupational health and environmental safety traineej jobs
  4. Overseas Filipino Workers
  5. Aircraft company advertising
  6. Why did my Windows share my HDD to the entire world?
  7. Electrocuting electric breakfast toasters?
  8. Laying brick
  9. How to cults begin?
  10. What kind of skull is this?

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 27

  1. Reference Desk for Entertainment Purposes
  2. 2 by 2
  3. Is "fairy liquid" ok for washing vegetables?
  4. News, Wikipedia Praise
  5. how can I use virgin mo bile
  6. How many people speak Finnish?
  7. Why only tasteless book covers?
  8. Stochastic matrix (few questions)
  9. Stochastic matrix (few questions)
  10. History of Clerical Collars
  11. Cost-of-living websites
  12. release date for "felix castor : thicker than water" by Mike Carey ?
  13. SP Artillery exploding in Iraq

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 28

  1. How did they take these pictures?
  2. Falling from the sky
  3. The media isn't doing a very good job of explaining the SocGen debacle
  4. Completed eBay auctions
  5. His Dark Materials and Claims of Evidence for Christianity as the One True Religion
  6. A little more help needed
  7. Alien robots and DuckTales
  8. Jump from platform that is falling from the sky
  9. National debts
  10. Noise Pollution
  11. What's the deal with this site?
  12. Today's Google logo
  13. Why is there no pay version of Windows Live Messenger?
  14. Washing my Face
  15. Geta
  16. Pocket Watch Care
  17. seeking info in lorraine and aaron cohen, sentenced to jail in penang for drug trafficking

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 29

  1. Freezing food
  2. Electicity from Wood
  3. Densely populated islands
  4. Joe Arpaio for US President ?!
  5. Correlation of Eyeglasses and Presidential Campaigns
  6. "Sent a wire"
  7. what's the longest toll road in the world?
  8. The spy satellite
  9. Interior volume of an MX-5
  10. cats
  11. Why not more vandalism?
  12. ebay
  13. Hi

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 30

  1. Cold packs
  2. What's wrong with my wah pedal?
  3. stereo
  4. Siamese Twins
  5. I want to be a jungle adventurer but...
  6. Bronze skin effect Photoshop
  7. About Dior
  8. How to get another Top Level Domains world wide as .com, .org, .mil, etc...
  9. "Nothing" character/string in table fields
  10. Strange tape recorder
  11. fuel economy, DIESEL or LPG
  12. 4 by 4?
  13. NHS
  14. Equal opportunity, affirmative action employer
  15. Shopping for Diamond studs
  16. De Donde Son

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 January 31

  1. Confirming boarding on airplane
  2. Soyent Green Ice Cream?
  3. Is this greatest debate performance ever audio recorded? (repost from humanities)
  4. income taxes
  5. Summer Heights High
  6. Identifying a font
  7. COLINS HRM MODEL
  8. Azim Premji
  9. diet pills
  10. Brussels changed their telephon numbers from 6 to 7 figures....WHEN?????
  11. Gmod?
  12. Period After WSJ
  13. National Cheese on Toast Day ?
  14. metroid prime 3
  15. Resources on doing a radio show
  16. Are police officers sarcastic ?
  17. Go ahead and laugh about this pizza question.