Can you name one word that uses the letter "U", side by side, twice?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002

Answers

Vacuum !!!

-- Johna (in central TX) (marcnjohna@aol.com), April 05, 2002.

Let me reword this; the word has a pair of "U"'s, used twice for a total of 4 "U"'s in the same word.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

Ah Mitch, this is easy, the word you're looking for is the name of the clothes most of the women around here wear everyday as they are surfing the web. It's the baggy Hawaiian dress known as a "muumuu." What's next?

-- Cabin Fever (cabinfever_MN@yahoo.com), April 05, 2002.

OK,, take a survey,, WHOS WEARING A MUUMUU ????

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), April 05, 2002.

Correct Cab, most people spell it moomoo (incorrectly); note to self: Cab can spell muumuu but not desert, hhuuummmmmmm.....!

new question: What is the name of that little flap of skin located just in front of the human ear opening?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

. .- .-. / -.. .-. ..- -- /

-.-. .- -... .. -. / ..-. . ...- . .-.

-- Cabin Fever (cabinfever_MN@yahoo.com), April 05, 2002.

Is it the traqus?? I looked in my old anatomy book and that is the best I could find.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Tragus is correct, Bob.

New question: What is the estimated percentage of American women, between the ages of 18 and 55, whom practice pogonotrophy?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

Jeans here! How bout you Stan???

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 05, 2002.

MITCHELL!?!?!?!?! Do I have to remind you that this is a family-oriented forum! Sheesh!

-- Cabin Fever (cabinfever_MN@yahoo.com), April 05, 2002.

That is exactly what I thought when I first glanced at it!!! But I think he knows how much "euforia" I would get from deleting it...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 05, 2002.

Mitch, if this is what I think it is, I would say less than 5% of American women practice this.

-- Polly (jserg45@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Melissa?? are you wearing "daisy dukes"? or,, are you too big for that?

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), April 05, 2002.

relax people, the word is pogonotrophy; (no omphaloskepsis is intended or implied). If you have an answer, post it.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

10%...and since it is snowing here on the daffodils it is too cold!!!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 05, 2002.

My great aunt Eugenie did!!! Certainly made for interesting dinner conversation. When we were kids we thought it was hilarious....now I'm just hoping I haven't inherited her genes!!!

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Jeans here too! My legs are too pale for Daisies! I'll check back later for the answer - I don't have time to look up the definition!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), April 05, 2002.

I answered before with 5%, obviously this is not close. I posed this question to my class and they thought probably more in the neighborhood of 35%.

-- Polly (jserg45@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Polly -- 35%? Wow -- after menopause maybe?

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

If any of you have looked up the word and understand the meaning as presented in an unabridged dictionary, the answer should be very obveious. Its actually a very small amount of women, less than 1%.~~

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

I am frustrated by the fact that our big, deluxe, two-volume Websters is currently holding up a broken bed frame.

For the record, I cannot stand muumuus for myself; they make me look way too fat.

-- Cathy N. (eastern Ontario) (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), April 05, 2002.

Grow facial hair?

-- Jean in No. WI (jat@ncis.net), April 05, 2002.

Tracy, I laughed when the kids were telling me this, but then I had a person of another ethnicity in our room and with their background a number of women do have this condition.

-- Polly (jserg45@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Polly -- ouch. One of those "uncomfortable" moments?

Thanks, also, Mitch, for posting the stumpers -- they keep getting better and better!!!

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

I found it in the dictionary and I will guess the ratio of 5 out of 1000 women!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 05, 2002.

by its pureist defination, pogonothropy is the cultivation of facial hair, (i.e. a beard)into a named type or style. About 17 to a million women have this ability, 14 to 16 choose removal; 1 goes to work at a carnival as an oddity.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), April 05, 2002.

I had the defintion a little off, I thought it was just growing it period, so that is why my guess was a little high!!!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 05, 2002.