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What question should we ask for “On the Street”?

Asked at Massachusetts Street on July 16, 2011

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“Do you floss?”

— Ashlee Rhea, dental hygenist, Topeka

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“What’s your favorite YouTube video?”

— Phillip Robino, Kansas University student, Lawrence

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“Should the United States be the global police force of the world?”

— Rodney Odom, map maker, Lenexa

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“If you could have any magical power, what would it be?”

— Beverly McPherson, dental assistant, Overbrook

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jackpot 5 years, 11 months ago

Why is it sunny at midnight?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

What color is your underwear?

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Liberty275 5 years, 11 months ago

What colour panties are you wearing? What colour panties are you wearing? What colour panties are you wearing? And how long have you been wearing them?

-The Cramps

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

Should there be a larger redhead presence in the LJworld?

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classclown 5 years, 11 months ago

labmonkey (anonymous) says…

What color is your underwear?

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Sometimes that depends on what I've had to eat and how far I have to travel.

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H_Lecter 5 years, 11 months ago

Do you have a safe word?

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riverdrifter 5 years, 11 months ago

Which is better: caipirinhas or mojitos?

Leblon is hard to beat...

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

How do you deal with sleepless nights?

Oh, that would be going to the LJW OTS . . .

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

What is your most used computer password?

Never mind, I already know . . .

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

One term or two?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

"labmonkey (anonymous) says… What color is your underwear?"

With this water, the older the greyer. Some are almost black.

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

What do you think will happen December 21,2012? 1. Asteroid 2. Comet 3. War 4. Other 5. A light dusting of snow with temperatures in the low 20's

Oops, guess this would be the poll question . . .

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Do you think console mounted joystick controls operable from either side of the car will ever replace steering wheel/ foot pedal controls?

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squarepusher 5 years, 11 months ago

"What is Lawrence thinks redundancy is thinking?"

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Mustard or ketchup?

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Flap Doodle 5 years, 11 months ago

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

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ResQd 5 years, 11 months ago

Did you vote for the library expansion? If so, were you drunk or insane?

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roadwarrior 5 years, 11 months ago

I would really like to see the answers to that. especially the extended section. Huzzah !!

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

Who is your favorite LJW commenter or who is your least favorite LJW commenter?

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

We were suppose to learn in religion classes. They held a special sex ed class for us. The boys had a nun for an instructor and the girls had a priest. Needless to say, when the question and answer part came, nobody had any questions.

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

Hang? Just set it on the back of the toilet.

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looza 5 years, 11 months ago

shoelaces or velcro?

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Maddy Griffin 5 years, 11 months ago

What's the dumbest question you have ever answered for "OTS"?

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Bill Lee 5 years, 11 months ago

What do you wish you had known/done earlier in life?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Why ask why?

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Liberty275 5 years, 11 months ago

Everything is legal if you aren't convicted.

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Gandalf (anonymous) says… "How did you learn about the birds and the bees."

"Weeds" Greenleaf bought some of the first Playboy mags with money he earned from mowing lawns. He claims to have invented the first "weedwhacker". When he started talking "leafblower" the rest of us quit hanging round the treehouse . . .

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Liberty275 5 years, 11 months ago

"why are you still in Lawrence?"

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Do you prefer a real cashier or an automated pay station?

( LJW, this is a real answer to your ots question) ;-)

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true_patriot 5 years, 11 months ago

What qualities does Lawrence have that distinguish it from other towns in general?

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Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago

Oh, man, these are great questions. I hope some of them actually turn up in the OTS from time to time.

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

FMK game... Rosie O'donnel, Oprah, Whoppi Goldberg?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

FMK game... Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Bachmann?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

FMK game... Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Kathy Sabelius?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

F... another word for fornicate. Marry, or Kill. You have to choose one for each.

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

When doing laundary, do you seperate your whites from your colors? And if you do, why are you a laundary racist?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

****, Marry or Kill?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

How many people have you slept with?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

What is your favorite Charles Bronson movie? And if you don't have one, why do you have America?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Would you rent a room to Casey Anthony?

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Rent a room to Casey Anthony? Sure. She qualifies, since my only rule is "no kids allowed."

(Now that is some dark, sick humor right there)

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mae 5 years, 11 months ago

best memory from the final 4 night. favorite restaurant (el mezcal outdoors for me) encounter with a ku player offhand and unknowing.

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mae 5 years, 11 months ago

pollard and his family at home depot. he was cleaned up with a haircut and polite as a gentleman could be.

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publicschoolsupporter 5 years, 11 months ago

Nothing - please give us a break from these silly inane questions.

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Frederic Gutknecht IV 5 years, 11 months ago

Hot enough f'r y'?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Where's the beef?

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Tony Kisner 5 years, 11 months ago

Is your mother still drinking?

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kernal 5 years, 11 months ago

Why can't I stop laughing?

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

publicschoolsupporter (anonymous) says… Nothing - please give us a break from these silly inane questions.

And yet he keeps reading them. You don't have to read them, unlike public school taxes that you have to pay whether you like it or not.

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SofaKing 5 years, 11 months ago

Should people like HollisBrown be banned from comments due to his hatred/fear of women?

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gl0ck0wn3r 5 years, 11 months ago

"Are you Merrill?"

We'll know if it is him if the response is a long-winded article from 1996.

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

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schula 5 years, 11 months ago

Whatever happened to sgt. wolverwine?

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Does this stink?

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Can you name your legislators?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

Hollis... you are missing the point of FMK. You HAVE to F one, Marry one, and Kill one of the choices. I.e Rosie, Oprah and Whoopi. Marry Oprah so you get a chunk of her fortune. F Whoopi because you can make believe you are having sex with Guinan (then again, I am a Star Trek geek), and of course, kill Rosie because she is just a worthless waste of organic matter.

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

In a scratching my head trying to know what makes him tick kind of way, but I'll have to go with like. We can't always be politically correct, and sometimes humor can be ugly and sexist. Doesn't mean it comes from hatred, however.

Like

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Would you rent a room to HollisBrown?

You betcha, in a heartbeat!

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

I'd be afraid he might accidentally light something on fire.

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SofaKing 5 years, 11 months ago

HollisBrown fears/hates women, especially successful, intelligent, heroic women. They make him feel small. He wants to feel large, but all these great women continue to do great things, making him feel even more insecure, until finally he has to play the big boy game of FMK.

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

I thought trying to belittle one another on these boards is what made us large.

Sorry sofa, but if the silly FMK game (you pigs) was based on people you actually know -- Sally down the block, Patty in accounting, and Jane with the missing tooth at the gas station -- others wouldn't know who you were talking about. To be universal to all the pigs who want to play such a game, the women have to be famous and powerful. Yes, it is crude and sexist and not the thing you would just toss into the room in the middle of a dinner party, but again, I don't see it as coming from fear or hatred.

I can see why some might want to K Ann Coulter rather than M her.

What if the choices were Anthony Weiner, John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenager?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

bea called us pigs . . .

;-)

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Name calling. Drat, I broke my own rule.

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persevering_gal 5 years, 11 months ago

What do you think of when you hear the name, "Brownback"?

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

Hollis, I agree with you on the left one I presented, but on the right I would have to F Palin, Marry Anne Coulter, and Kill Bachmann. If Anne Coulter even halfway acts as she suggest women act, I would take her as a wife over Bachmann.

Bea...

FMK... Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh.

FMK... Bill Maher, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews.

FMK... The three you suggested. See... you can play too, and BTW, my wife and I live dangerously and play the game using people we both know.

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Makes me think of the happy hour question, "Name three people in the office you would ... like to have relations with."

To avoid any awkwardness or hurt feelings, I quickly replied "I'm trying to think of three I haven't ... had relations with."

(Yes, I was joking.)

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labmonkey 5 years, 11 months ago

Should humorless trolls whose handle is a childish play-on words such as sofaking be banned?

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wmathews 5 years, 11 months ago

Who is your daddy and what does he do?

who is your daddy and what does he do? by AlanI19941

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

Tacos or burritos?

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Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago

soft shell or hard shell? bee,f chicken, or fish? mild, sweet, or hot sauce?

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Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago

eleven: eleven 11:11 is my favorite time of day

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

gerbils or guinea pigs?

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

Should LJWOnline ♣Free The Blog♣ ?

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Terry Sexton 5 years, 11 months ago

I wish I knew more about this topic. :-/

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RoeDapple 5 years, 11 months ago

The ♣Free The Blog♣ I refer to is one by Multidisciplinary about HWMNBN that went over one thousand posts before being shut down. Afterward it stayed on the most discussed list, primarily because certain posters were able to find a 'back door' and continue posting. It is well under wraps now, very little likelihood it will ever see the light of day again.

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eotw33 5 years, 11 months ago

How much marijuana have you donated to the good will?

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Scott Morgan 5 years, 11 months ago

what favorite secret television show do you watch while others think you would never like it?

Family Guy here.

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Richard Heckler 5 years, 11 months ago

Would you support mandatory voter approval of all new road,retail and housing projects considering all increase our taxes?

Would you consider mandatory voter approval of all USD 497 spending projects over $100,000?

Provide this on the street and a poll.

Thanks

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Blessed4x 5 years, 11 months ago

Is there a way we could make the LJWorld OTS reporter's job any easier?

...wait, is that an OTS question or a comment to this article? Oh well, I guess both.

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uncleandyt 5 years, 11 months ago

What's it called when government is controlled by big business ? or, Have you seen anything in the paper about a new nuclear weapons plant in Kansas City ? or , How many countries are we currently dropping bombs on ?

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lunacydetector 5 years, 11 months ago

poll: did you vote for the new library?.....

after the results come in, call kris

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pace 5 years, 11 months ago

What tow company do you want us to call?

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Liberty275 5 years, 11 months ago

"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

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beatrice 5 years, 11 months ago

Actually, it is probably Franklin Pierce.

But why look at history when you can just remember things in your own lifetime?

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yourworstnightmare 5 years, 11 months ago

"What is the frequency, Kenneth?"

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Richard Heckler 5 years, 11 months ago

Who is the most COMPETENT US President ever?

A) Carter

His energy policy was remarkable....

WHO was the most incompetent president ever? The Bush familiy...

  1. TABOR is Coming by Grover Norquist and Koch Bros. http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0705rebne.html

  2. The Reagan/Bush Savings and Loan Heist(Cost taxpayers $1.4 trillion) http://rationalrevolution0.tripod.com/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm

  3. Wall Street Bank Fraud on Consumers under Bush/Cheney http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2009/0709macewan.html

  4. Bush and Henry Paulson blew the $700 billion of bail out money? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/10/good_billions_after_bad_one_year

And that tax cuts do nothing to make an economy strong or produce jobs.

  1. Still A Bad Idea – Bush Tax Cuts - The ENTITLEMENT program for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2001/0301miller.html
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Flap Doodle 5 years, 11 months ago

How many times have you posted this same stuff in the last two weeks, merrill? 15 times? 20 times? 50 times? Do you even keep track any more? Are you hoping that some new reader who doesn't know your history will be influenced by this obsessive copy/pasting of the same sets of links over and over and over?

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LadyJ 5 years, 11 months ago

What do you like on your pizza?

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kernal 5 years, 10 months ago

Do you believe global warming is a hoax?

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