Curiosity Killed The Chicken

[Klucky]

I just have a few questions I thought somebody here may be able to answer.

1. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. :lol: )

2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?

3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

I'll probably think up more later.

-Klucky

[dragonkin]

1. Don't peel the potatoes, eat them with the skin on. It's where all the vitamins are at.
2. In general it is done to compact all the tobacco tightly so the cigarette burns slower.
3. There have been rare occasions where restaurants have been caught using other meat or products(we had a restaurant closed in town 10 years ago for using the nuggets from Skippy's Dog Food on Pizza) but mostly I think that is an urban myth.
4. Cats have a scent producing gland in their cheeks and when they rub it leaves a subtle scent mark behind saying whatever it is is theirs. Yes they mark their people. I also think it stimulates them like a massage does for us.
The others I'm not sure so I'll leave to others.

[Arkanin]

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

You don't know why!??!? :D all I can say is it's an abstract which must be experienced to be understood. Snuggling feels good so I understand the cat ;)

Although one of my old girlfriends used to say I was her puppy. I like to have my head scritched. :)

[dragonkin]

Klucky I posted my answers in the other one. Go see.

[Boogins]

Now, I hate math though I was really good at it... I think higher math is good for supplying people who take it with jobs as professors in universities to teach it to others.

Cats have scent glands in their cheeks and down their necks that leave "friendly" pheromones behind on things they want to declare they like or are theirs. There are actually products made to mimic these pheromones to reduce stress levels in cats by making their environment feel friendlier. They work, too!

Last month an Edmonton restaurant was closed down by health inspectors after four skinned coyotes were found in the freezer they kept their meat for consumption in. No one ever found any evidence that the restaurant ever served anybody coyote, though, and it reopened... very briefly. Somehow they couldn't get an customers...

[Klucky]

*checks* Thank you! I'd figured I'd never find these answers! :) But, there is one problem. I HATE potato skins! :lol:

-Klucky

[Kalika]

I can answer 2 and 4.

People tap their cigarettes to pack the tobacco more tightly.

and

Cats actually rub their cheeks against things because its a way of "markiing their territory". AND because it feels good. :)

[Klucky]

I've heard all kinds of answers about the cat thing. To mark territory, because they're always itchy there, because they've got nothing better to do, because they want attention...

Cats are too difficult to figure out. I'm planning on reading "Cat Speak".

-Klucky

[docdoo]

hehe Klucky Im game...let me give it a go

1. Actually raw potato skins can be fed to chickens (and you being a chicken and all geesh!) They're also good for the compost pile!

2. I smoke...I dont tap my smokes but those who do normally do it out of forced habit...it will also tap off any loose tobacco!

3. Absolutely not...rather they hunt down chickens and use them (better get flapping my dear lol)

4. My understanding is that there is a small scent gland in the cheek area of a cat...they use this as a way to transfer their smell..thus effectively 'marking' something. (Well its better than spraying on you isnt it?0

5. Higher math? Well...because we can...since we're capable of doing calculus why the heck not? hehe

6. English? Well thats so that when you go for a job interview...or even when you're ticked at your significant other you are able to argue effectively and sound really smart without having hanging participles. :lol:

7. It doesnt know you have a headache...in fact it knows nothing at all. But it doesnt just target a headache (the tv commercials would have us all believing that we are swallowing a mini sub that locks in a targets the pain hehe) it targets every muscle in your body. If you've ever had a headache...and a backache you'll see that they both go away. How does this work...hmmm ancient chinese secret! LOL

That good enough? Til next time my chicken friend.

[Sylvan]

I bet putting potato skins in with your potted plants would probably be a good thing. Like compost or something.

They tap to pack the tobacco tighter. Umm... This makes the cig burn for longer?

It's possible. I haven't heard of any actual cat-as-food cases though..

The scent gland in the cheeks thing. They are always saying "Mine!" "My boy!" "My box!" "My chair!"

There's probably some high-up jobs that require you to know fancy math, but dang if I can name any.

Basic English is a must so you can communicate effectively. I'm happy with what I learned in 8th grade as far as grammar goes.

Magic. :D

[Arkanin]

Cats have scent glands in their cheeks and down their necks that leave "friendly" pheromones behind on things they want to declare they like or are theirs.

I did not know this till now.. very interesting :)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:V9Wz4QV6zeUJ:www.railwayshop.com/daylight/cat.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:iAUyLYJw48kJ:www.stat.purdue.edu/people/chong/img/cat.hammock.gif

[Lady Jade]

I just have a few questions I thought somebody here may be able to answer.

1. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. :lol: )

2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?

3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

I'll probably think up more later.

-Klucky

I have made potato peel soup

tap before lighting to get a longer burn out of them

dunno

cat rubs the cheek to leave his scent on people, allowing you to rub that spot is very special to the cat

[Klucky]

I bet putting potato skins in with your potted plants would probably be a good thing. Like compost or something.

They tap to pack the tobacco tighter. Umm... This makes the cig burn for longer?

It's possible. I haven't heard of any actual cat-as-food cases though..

The scent gland in the cheeks thing. They are always saying "Mine!" "My boy!" "My box!" "My chair!"

There's probably some high-up jobs that require you to know fancy math, but dang if I can name any.

Basic English is a must so you can communicate effectively. I'm happy with what I learned in 8th grade as far as grammar goes.

Magic. :D

:lol: But as far as the skins go, should I chop that up into little bits or put it in a blender or what? (Sorry, I must sound really stupid.)

-Klucky

[Klucky]

You know what? I'm going to start rubbing MY face on the CATS! See how they like it!

-Klucky

[Sylvan]

I wouldn't blend the skins. I'd leave them as is. You don't want to have to deal with a mush... :sick:

[Klucky]

I wouldn't blend the skins. I'd leave them as is. You don't want to have to deal with a mush... :sick:

Ewwww...

-Klucky

[SpikesPet5150]

I pack my cigarettes before I light them because I'm a realllly strong ash flicker. LOL If I don't pack it, the tobacco is all loose and the cherry goes flying off and lights random things on fire, like my coworkers.

You can bake potato skins and make em into yummy chips, but you need alot of spices. My mom had a recipe, I'll see if I can find it online. I wouldn't recommend using them as compost in your house cause they smell and attract bugs after awhile.

Higher math is needed for big jobs like architecture. Thats what my math teacher kept telling me, anyways. And when I brought up the fact that I won't be an architect, he got all quiet and red.

As far as the weird english stuff goes... as long as you can intelligently communicate your thoughts, I think you're doing ok.

And I don't like thinking of chinese food places using kitties cause eww.
~Bree

[eneurian]

1 re: potato skins:
while they're fresh...boil the skins in your stock pot (if you keep one going) they will eventually boil down into little bits of whatever color potato they were and will thicken the stock. deep fried and salted with or with out chilli powder they make a crunchy snack. tied up in a cheese cloth they're handy if you get too much salt in something. the cheesecloth makes them removeable.
not fresh enough for human consumption, but not yet rotten? birds of all sort wille at them as will most small furry things, squirrel, rabbits, rats, racoons, skunks, etc. also deer, moose, and bear. depending of course on the indigenous wildlife of your locale.
or you could start a compost heap?

4 cat question has been answered sufficiently. scent glands and all.

5 higher math? how high? i use algebra and calculus in designing patterns for clothes and craft projecs then calculating amounts of materials to purchase. physics and chemistry come in handy creating recipes for both food and crafts ie. home made play-doh, silly putty, bath crayons for the kids etc.

6 considering the quality of language i endure daily it is obvious that the rules of English grammer no longer pertain to whatever it is that is spoken in America today. when did then and than become interchangeable?

7 medicine doesn't know where to go you just don't notice it in the parts that don't ache :)

[Vanessa TPD]

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

I can't imagine not knowing calculus - or some aspects of multivar. I mean, they just seem to solve everything - you can't do a single thing in physics - you can't understand the world - without understanding math. I'm starting linear algebra this semester, though, and I think I could live without it. Perhaps because I'm just beginning, and perhaps because I have the most horrible teacher ever and am therefore not getting much out of it.

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

Because people can understand you better if you have good grammar. I HAVEN'T learned grammar in school for more than a couple months at a stretch since eighth grade. Maybe if I had, that previous sentence would have made more sense :).

[Valkie]

You know what? I'm going to start rubbing MY face on the CATS! See how they like it!

-Klucky

Actually... I do that with my cats. *little embarrassed to admit this* They love it. it's almost like it's the kitty equivilent to petting. It got so bad with my litter (I had 6 cats at one time) that they would wake me up in the middle of the night just so they could pet me.... after a while it make you wonder who is keeping who as the pet.
Valerie

[Antoninus]

I just have a few questions I thought somebody here may be able to answer.

1. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. :lol: )

2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?

3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

I'll probably think up more later.

-Klucky
1. The skins have tons of nutrients in them, they make good plant food.

2. Its supposed to push the tobacco towards the front of the ciggarette so you get a bigger nicotine hit sooner.

3. Some of the specialty ones do, they clearly mark it on the menu though.

4. It has scent glands in its cheeks that it uses to mark things that it believes to be its territory or property

5. For the most part, we dont.

6. See previous answer.

7. Medication Tripple A?

[LeftToWonder]

I just have a few questions I thought somebody here may be able to answer.

1. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. :lol: )

2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?

3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

I'll probably think up more later.

-Klucky
I have ALL the answers! Well most of them are probably wrong but...:)

1. Compost pile?
2. I don't smoke, but I think it is to shake them lose so it is easier to get the first one out.
3. Simple answer... NO, the lawsuits would GREATLY outweigh the benefit.
4. Marking its territory.
5. Higher math is VERY useful in higher level sciences, phyics needed calculus!
6. It gives us rules to follow when we are writing, and it lets us talk about our writings more precisely(or its useless.:))
7. Humm, stumped me!

[Juniecat]

Potato skins would work as an outdoor compost if you have a pile...just make sure you do something else with the "eyes" unless you want to be growing potatoes outside...

and as for the medicine...many medicines don't effect your body at all. Muscle relaxants to actually directly affect the muscles, but many medicines actually work on the brain. I know when my back goes out my doc gives me Percocet, and that works specifically by shutting off the part of your brain that registers pain. (It must shut off some other parts too, 'cause I always feel drunk when I take it).

[Eldric_Dragonsblood]

Most "painkillers" are nuerochemical inhibitors. They work by blocking the ports of nerve cells for certian chemicals which transmit the unwanted effect to the brain. In the case of muscle relaxers, they stop the signals which cause the muscles to contract. In the case of pain blockers, well that's kinda obvious. Now, some of these chemicals also are used for other singals, or the inhibitor doesn't ONLY effect the site on the neuron (nerve cell) which accepts the specific chemical in question. Thus, the "drunken" effect of many pain killers. Why don't you notice the fact this is going on in the entire body? You would if you have pain in another area. If you have a headache and a sore ankle, if you take a pain inhibitor, then both are affect to a degree.

There are also other effects which medicine uses to get rid of a headache. One of them is a decongestant , in the case of sinus headaches (caused by pressure in the head from mucus). These work by shutting off the signals for certain glands to produce mucus (blocking hisamine). Another is asprin, it works by thinning the blood (making it less dense). This works when blood pressure is so high that pain receptors within the head are being stimulated by the excessive pressure in the blood vessels which feed them.

As for math? Sorry, but we wouldn't have nearly as many of the conveinences we enjoy on a daily basis if it wasn't for higher math. Without Higher math, we (humanity) wouldn't have made it into space. If it wasn't for the space programs, then most of our modern conveinences would have never been invented. In addition to this, engineering is just application of higher mathmatics. Without engineering, nothing would get invented. (Yes, even the inventions of the past are engineering. No, the engineers in question didn't nessecarily have high math training.)

[Xander67]

wow!!! this man knows his stuff lol

[Boogins]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Do I have to like math?

[Yvonne Belisle]

1. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. )

Fried skins are great.

2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?

Packing them makes them burn longer.

3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

Only a few and thankfully they get caught by the health department sooner or later.

4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this on this.

I have no clue.

5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?

It helps determine how much patience you have :)

6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

I have no clue that part of english is not my forte.

7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

It just does. lol

[Calzaer]

Fortunately for you, I am the master of completely and utterly useless trivia.


. Can you do anything with raw potato skins? I mean, after the potatoes are peeled and all, there's that mass of raw skin. I feel terrible wasting it. Could I throw it out to the birds or something? Anything will do. I just don't want to throw it out. (And right now the house reeks of the stuff because I just left it there. )

Eat 'em. They're tasty and nutritious. Also, if you live on a farm, you could feed them to the pigs (in the slop) or chickens (in tiny pieces). You could also make sculptures out of them like I used to as a kid, but I got in trouble for playing with my food.



2. Why do people tap their cigarettes before lighting them?


Helps get rid of the air pockets between the tobbacco bits, which helps the cigarette light cleaner.


3. Do Chinese food restaurants in America really use cat meat?

Not that they'll ever admit to. IIRC, it's illegal to actually eat cats in America. On the other hand, there's a place around here where the chicken doesn't actually seem to taste like chicken... :2G:


4. Why does a cat rub its cheeks up against things? I've been given a variety of answers on this one.

Cats have scent glands just behind their ears that they use to mark their possessions, including their humans. It's the subtle version of "spraying", which male cats (particularly unneutered ones) use to delinneate the boundaries of their territory.


5. Why do we really need to know higher math? How does it contribute to life?


WE, as a society, need folks to know higher math because otherwise we wouldn't have nifty things like computers and Quantum Physics and space exploration (among other things). WE, as folks who post on MW, probably don't need to worry too much about higher math ("higher" defined as calculus and onward) unless we are or plan to become computer scientists, rocket scientists, physicists, chemists, theoretical physicists, astronomers (and maybe even astrologers, but I don't know enough about that), or anything in a hard science field.


6. Same questions pertaining English. (Gerunds, predicate nominatives, etc.)

It makes your writing sound nifty. If you're a songwriter without at least an intutive grasp of obstruents and sonorants, your songs will probably be a real bitch to actually sing. I suppose only linguists really need to be able to NAME and ANALYZE all the phenomes and morphemes and what-have-you that go into speech, and for teachers-in-training (like me) it helps to know this stuff so we can tell where the kids are having problems in learning to read or speak, AND I've noticed that it tends to help quite a bit when studying other languages (if your professor says "this word acts as a resultative compliment", you'll know wtf he's going on about). Otherwise, tho, don't worry about it.


7. How does medicine know where to go? Like, if I have a headache, how does Advil know to target that spot and not somewhere in my knee?

[edit: DUDE! Read Eldric's answer, ignore mine. I'm just a trivia slut, he actually knows all the terminology and stuff (which means he's cool, and he knows what he's talking about to a greater degree than I do)!]

It doesn't. In terms of general painkillers like Asprin and Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, etc), the chemicals simply inhibit all pain receptors. Pain in your knee, pain in your elbow, pain in your back, pain in your head, it all goes to the same place in the brain for processing.

Generally, chemicals in medcine are crafted so that they either inhibit/absorb a chemical, produce a chemical, or affect a target tissue. They dissolve in your stomach and hit your bloodstream, which carries it through your entire body (unless the chemical is crafted to latch onto a specific receptor site, which it "knows" because of the shape and composition of the molecule, in which case it stops when it finds that site). Things that inhibit a chemical will absorb it wherever it happens to find that chemical. Things that produce a chemical produce it and then the body takes that chemical like any other produced chemical to the place the body usually takes that chemical. Things that affect target tissues (hormones do this) and/or specific receptor sites "know" that they're in the right place because the makeup of their molecular structure is crafted so that it will chemically react with the intended tissue/receptor.

There's a hell of a lot more prganic chemistry involved (alot of which requires higher math skills), but that's at least a halfway workable mostly-accurate rundown.

[Heathen Dawn]

You know what? I'm going to start rubbing MY face on the CATS! See how they like it!

I do that all the time. They like it, they feel like they have an equal when someone does that.

[Klucky]

I do that all the time. They like it, they feel like they have an equal when someone does that.

I've been trying it with my kitty cats and they suddenly step back and look at me like "how DARE you?!". :lol:

-Klucky

[Xander67]

oooo you were OOC here, :T


Out of Chicken LOL (character) lol

[Old Witch]

Well lets see about the potatoe skins...If they have "eyes" tou can plant them and get more potatoes.....threw some into my compost pile a few years back and got a decent crop of potatoes......

[Xander67]

heh, you should post in the green room OW :)

[LeftToWonder]

Well lets see about the potatoe skins...If they have "eyes" tou can plant them and get more potatoes.....threw some into my compost pile a few years back and got a decent crop of potatoes......
You ate potatoes, out of a compost heap?:sick:

[WynterWynd]

You know what? I'm going to start rubbing MY face on the CATS! See how they like it!

-Klucky
I've always done that back to my fur-babies. I figure, if your gonna mark me, I'm gonna mark you!:lol:

[Nighthawk]

I tried this last night, and the kitty got very indignant, then walked away... Obviously some cats are just ...well... stuck up... and some are not

[WynterWynd]

It helps if you start that on them when they are little;)

[Avalon]

You know what? I'm going to start rubbing MY face on the CATS! See how they like it!

-Klucky
I do this to Velveeta all the time, and he loves it! :lol:

[Nighthawk]

It helps if you start that on them when they are little;)
I see.... yea, this guy is about a year and feisty...

[WynterWynd]

This may sound 'off the wall', but when we have had extremely feisty kittens, my hubby has picked them up like mamma would (with his mouth by the scruff of the neck) and carried them around.....but I don't think that little trick is going to work on a year old...you may end up with a cat hat:eek:

[Klucky]

Never think it's better to give your cat a bath...

:fpatricks

-Klucky

[WynterWynd]

Only if you have a welding maks and welders gloves!!!


....and a hard hat!:lol:

[Klucky]

I suggest not even then... :strike:

-Klucky

[WynterWynd]

You could get someone your really not that fond of to do it for you...one of those 'pesky freinds'!:deviltail.......and have the camera ready!!!

[Klucky]

Whoo! America's Funniest Home Videos, here I come!

-Klucky

[LeftToWonder]

Whoo! America's Funniest Home Videos, here I come!

-Klucky
Someone needed a cat bathed?

[Klucky]

Someone needed a cat bathed?

Don't ask.

-Klucky

[LeftToWonder]

Don't ask.

-Klucky

.... Ok, but if you do, I can't do it for you for the low low price of 10 karma pokes.:)

[Tzhebee]

I had a long hair hershey cholocate brown cat once (ingeniously named Hershey) who would crawl into the bath with you. It was harder to keep him OUT of the tub. The running water was like a can-opener is to most cats!

[WynterWynd]

I had one...my darling Wizard, that used to think bubble baths were just for his enjoyment!;)

[Klucky]

I had one...my darling Wizard, that used to think bubble baths were just for his enjoyment!;)

I have this container of catnip bubbles (you know, the kind you blow with the wand). My kitties don't like it very much, but are getting more interested.

-Klucky

[WynterWynd]

:shhhh:don't say that too loud, mine will want their bottle of those brought out next!