thegreatbeyond

I don't think you have to put the url tags in with the links

http://www.thegreatbeyond.net

http://www.thegreatbeyond.net

Why are the types of forum games we have addictive to many of the usual forum-goers?

You know I won't be able to provide the right answer, since it depends on each person. I like doing the word game since it increases my vocabulary (did you know pion was a word?) and challenges others to do the same.

I tend not to like the other games, though, since they don't require any skill (The House that Pez-Man Built, Ongoing Story) or require wit (Comic Contest, Caption Contest) which is something I don't have.

Why not make a poll and find out?

How is intelligence rated?

in php, is it possible for a form to submit an array of variables into a database in a single query?

and, what exactly are "variable variables"?

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

where's the creme filling?

how do you eat yours?


(You knew it would happen, Chromus. You couldn't expect me to visit the link, read the archives, &c without posing a question or three)

chromus wrote:
Why not make a poll and find out?

But this is the "Ask chromus" thread... this is the first time you asked a question :O

Before we can measure intelligence, we need to know what it is. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, intelligence is "the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge [or] the faculty of thought and reason." Such a broad definition makes it hard to accurately measure intelligence, though many have tried.

The most popular way to measure intelligence is to take an intelligence test and get an IQ, meaning Intelligence Quotient. Your IQ doesn't directly measure how intelligent you are, but how intelligent you are as compared to how intelligent others of the same are. The most popular test for measuring this is the Stanford-Binet, though others exist. (WISC-R and Raven's Progressive Matrices) These tests have been validated to measure general intelligence though rigorous statistical evaluation. Though many have complaints that these tests only measure certain kinds of intelligence or include the bias of the test creator, there is little support for these claims.

For more information, check my sources and the associated links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_%28trait%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ
http://dictionary.com

Zornak, sorry about taking so long to get back to you, but I don't understand what you're asking about. HTML forms themselves can't interact with databases, but server-side programs (like those written in PHP, Perl, or ASP) can bridge the gap by connecting to the database and reading or writing information. If you get a lot of data from a form that you need to put into a database, you can write a program to receive the data, put it into an array, connect to a database, and write the data.

I'm also unsure as to what you mean by "variable" variables. Can you provide a link or explanation as to what you mean?

Depending on who you ask, the average number of licks can be as little as 144 or as many as 1656. Apparently this question has generated quite a lot of study, as engineering students from many schools have built artificial "lickers" and measured the mean number of licks required to get to the center. Elementary school children study it too by averaging the number of licks each classmate needed. They even came to the conclusion that boys need fewer licks than girls do. Sources:
http://www.tootsie.com/memoriesLicksMachine.html
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/9528/report.html

In Hostess brand snack foods, of course!

I eat it straight out of the wrapper.

While this is the first time I've suggested we get an answer by other means, it's certainly not the first time I've asked a question. Usually, whenever I get stumped by what someone is asking me, or I can't answer it enough to satisfy everyone, I ask for more details. Check though the history to find some of my other questions.

As per a recent episode of the Simpsons.. Can a child of Lisa Simpson's age legally take out a restraining order against her brother, a boy of Bart Simpson's age, in the real world? If so, how would the parents over come the issue of the children living in the same household?

how well do hot cakes really sell?

Why is it so painful to apply alcohol to a wound?

As Dither is wont to do,he asked one of those questions I can't find an answer to. From what I understand, minors (those under 18 years of age in the US) can't sign a contract and be legally bound by it. Only the guardians of a minor can sign a contract for them and legally bind them to something. I can't find anything to back me up on this, but I'll keep looking.

Hotcakes (another term for pancakes) used to sell incredibly well. Nowadays, they don't sell as well as burgers or pizza, but the term remains. Interestingly enough, I found an explanation for the term:
"Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from earliest times in American. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century 'to sell like hot cakes' was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)

The reason iodine, hydrogen peroxide, and rubbing alcohol all sting when you apply them to wounds is because the chemicals, while killing bacteria, are also killing healthy cells. Fortunately, our bodies have ways of neutralizing the chemicals, but they don't stop the initial death of cells. Source: http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.d ... ntId=14315 (under the cuts and scrapes part)

As it pertains to the US electoral system.. when did people/news media first refer to a state as a Red State or Blue State? Since that time.. has there been a "White State"?

Before the election in 2000, news outlets used the colors red and blue to distinguish between the two major parties of the US (republican and democrat) though there wasn't any convention of which color to use for which party. For the 2000 election, however, most major news outlets coincidently used the same convention (red for republican and blue for democrat) thereby leading to the designation of certain states as "red" or "blue". Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_state- ... ate_divide

A state is "white" when it either doesn't decide for one of the two major parties or switches back and forth between them. Iowa was called a white state up until the last minute in the 2004 election since it seemed they would not decided on either candidate. Bush won the state in the end and the state became "red". Source: http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... 60350/1001

You seem to get a lot of information from the Wikipedia. Do you contribute to that site?