* The Straight Dope: How come February has only 28 days?

Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends.

Punk rock continued to make strides in the musical community ; it gave birth to many sub-genres like hardcore, which has continued to be moderately successful, giving birth in turn to a few counterculture movements, most notably the Straight Edge movement which began in the early era of this decade.

"" (, or ), meaning to smarten up, style or improve something, has become commonplace more recently, having been used on the TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and What Not to Wear.

The 3. 15: 1 ratio differential was introduced in 2005 to be used at Bathurst-cars with this ratio can now exceed 300 km / h ( 186 mph ) on Conrod Straight ( this has yet to be demonstrated, although Perkins Engineering claims to have exceeded this speed multiple times in the 2005 event ).

Also, the media has somewhat made the gay community included and publicly accepted with television shows such as " Will and Grace " or " Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ".

The three-mile ( 5 km ) £ 7. 1m dual-carriageway A47 bypass opened in March 1989 ; local campaigners are still pressing for the dualling of the Acle Straight, the portion of the A47 running from Acle to Great Yarmouth, which has a relatively high accident rate.

" The " Big Stone Gap " refers to the valley which has been created on the Appalachia Straight, located between Big Stone Gap and Appalachia.

The complete commentary on the Pentateuch, which, as has already been mentioned, was finished by Ibn Ezra shortly before his death, was called Sefer ha-Yashar (" Book of the Straight ").

* Straight whiskey, pure whiskey distilled at no higher than 80 % alcohol content that has been aged at least two years

On rare occasions, Adams has made appearances on the Straight Dope's Message Board.

Adams has published five collections of his The Straight Dope columns, and Zotti has published a children's collection in The Straight Dope style entitled Know It All.

Slug Signorino, in addition to a successful commercial art career, has been the regular illustrator for The Straight Dope for the past twenty years.

Straight stitch geometry is produced when the needle has no sideways movements and when the feed dogs are following only in the normal forward " four motion " movement.

In the time since, Warner Bros. has often elevated the stature of Reprise to the rank of secondary parent label, as many of its subsidiary labels ( such as Straight and Kinetic ) have had their records released in conjunction with Reprise.

' Alexander Varty, reviewing When TISH Happens for The Georgia Straight, writes that it is possible ' that TISH ’ s emphasis ' on the self as a consciousness in process rather than a stable persona ' has become the norm in Canadian poetry and indeed in much Canadian fiction – a significant contribution, and one that ’ s worth celebrating.

In his text On the Necessity of the Straight Path ( kitab iqtida al-sirat al-mustaqim ) he preached that the beginning of Muslim life was the point at which " a perfect dissimilarity with the non-Muslims has been achieved.

# A Straight Blade (" S-Blade ") which is short and has no lateral curve, no side wings, and can be used for fine grading.

The Straight has long been condemned for this practice by the major health groups and, more recently, by Vancouver businessman and political candidate Dale Jackaman in a series of Google attack ads.

The Straight Course has generally addressed the problems of unfairness: for example, between 1975 and 1984, 50. 52 % of races were won on Bucks and 49. 31 % on Berks ( with the remainder dead heats ).

In 1967, the Georgia Strait inspired the name of Vancouver's alternative newspaper, < cite > The Georgia Straight </ cite >, which has published continuously since.

The world that had been flat was now spherical, and Aman was only open to Elves, who could still find the Straight Road.

An intensely private person, he was upset at having been involuntarily " outed " as gay in 1995 in the publicity surrounding the Academy Awards, but he did attend the ceremony with his long-time partner Trevor Bentham, speaking openly about being gay in interviews and his autobiography, Straight Face, which was published posthumously.

It is located on U. S. Highway 2 about 22 miles west of Stevens Pass, along a very flat and straight three-mile section of highway that's been dubbed the Baring Straight since U. S. 2 is otherwise hilly and curvy through the mountains.

:“ ... our men had each of them three cups of wine in signe of ioy for our good hap ... the naming of the Straights of Le Maire, although by good right it should rather have been called Willem Schouten Straight, after our Masters Name, by whose wise conduction and skill in sayling, the same was found .”.

Straight keys have been made in numerous variations for over 150 years and in numerous countries.

In the summer of 2007, it was announced that he had been hired as a consultant by Scout Productions, the team of David Collins and Michael Williams, who produced Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, for their next project with Showtime entitled The Beard.

Straight blackthorn stems have traditionally been made into walking sticks or clubs ( known in Ireland as a shillelagh ).

Straight also told investigators that the Apostle John Peter Astbury had been recruited for Soviet intelligence by either Blunt or Burgess.

It has historically been a Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey ( 80 Proof ).

Some titles such as Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen and Straight Outta Lynwood by " Weird Al " Yankovic have been released in the United States on DualDisc only.

Straight Outta Cashville has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America with over 1. 1 million sales in the U. S. and 2. 3 million Worldwide.

Straight over the top of long-off, one of the most difficult shots in the book and umpire Tony Crafter's arms are growing heavy, he's been putting them above his head so often he's getting tired!

He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur but also claims to have been a lifelong watcher of Orient during the Porridge film which is also referenced in Going Straight episode 3 Going Sour.

He appeared in the first episode of spin-off series Going Straight, having been retired out of the prison service.

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set.

Unsubstantiated rumors have been made that since the early 1990s the ownership of some Straight Records recordings has become unclear.

He then wont to become a sound engineer for ABC " Classic FM " and ABC " Radio National " Costa has been a member of the management committee of Q Music, the Queensland music industry organisation since April 2004, and is also involved with Straight Out of Brisbane, an annual arts and culture festival in Brisbane.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

Straight hey for four-dancers face alternately, the two in the middle facing out.

Straight hey for three-the first dancer faces the other two and passes right shoulders with the second dancer, left shoulder with the third-the other dancers moving and passing the indicated shoulder.

* Straight razor: A reusable knife blade used for shaving hair.

* 1989: Straight From the Underground Tour ( opened for Ice Cube, Too $ hort, D Nice and Yo-Yo )

Straight hands of five cards are sometimes used as a final showdown, but poker is almost always played in a more complex form to allow for additional strategy.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

Straight or flush with Ace-face or pair for the top: Always play as straight or flush with an ace-face or pair top, except if two pairs Aces with 8 ’ s or better can be played, and when the straight or flush does not have a pair.

Straight or flush with full house: Play as split up full house if a pair of aces can be put up as the two-card side when the flush or straight cannot, else play the straight or flush if a pair can be put up for the two-card side, else play as a split up full house.

Straight lines represent straight fingers ( these may be at an angle to indicate that they are not in line with the palm ; if they point toward or away from the signer, they have a diamond shape at the tip ); curved lines for curved ( cupped ) fingers ; hooked lines for hooked fingers ; right-angle lines, for fingers bent at only one joint ; and crossed lines, for crossed fingers, as shown in the chart at right.

Straight movements are in one of eight directions for either plane, as in the eight principal directions of a compass.

From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre / Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

He actually took the role out of admiration for Alvin Straight, and astonished his co-workers with his tenacity during production.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.