June 1999
Infrequently
Asked
Questions
1. Should I be careful when purchasing ceramic tableware and clay pottery while overseas?
God golly, yes! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that there are dangerous levels of lead found in the glazes of some ceramic dinnerware and pottery sold abroad. Because there is no way of knowing whether a particular item is safe, the Food and Drug Administration recommends that you use such wares for decorative purposes only.
2.What's the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool?
Well, the term mushroom is properly restricted to the fungus's above-ground portion, which is the reproductive organ. Once a delicacy for the elite, edible mushrooms are now grown commercially, especially strains of the meadow mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Although mushrooms contain some protein and minerals, they are largely water and hence of limited nutritive value. Inedible, or poisonous, species are often popularly referred to as toadstools; one of the best-known poisonous mushrooms is the death angel (genus Amanita). 
3.Why are so many band names so stupid?
While there is no clear answer to this question, there are literally thousands of stupid band names. From the Canonical List of Stupid Band Names, here are the entries for the letter �A� only:
A Blind Dog Stares, A Box of Fish with Tartar Sauce, A Boy Named Gomer, Above Average Weight Band, Abracadaver, Abstract Evil Barbie, A Cat Born In An Oven Isn't a Cake, Accidental Goat Sodomy, Adickdid, Admiral Poopy Pants and His Dancing Teeth, Adult Children of Heterosexuals, Adventures in Shrubbery, The Advil Monkeys, Affordable Floors, Afghanistan Banana Stand, Aggressive Crotch Display, Agnes Morehead, Aha, the Attack of the Green Slime Beast, Albino Toilet Boys, Alcoholocaust, Alcoholics Unanimous, Alien Nymphos from Uranus, Alien Sex Fiend, All You Can Eat, The Amazing Embarrasonic Human Karaoke Machine, Amberham Lincoln, Amputatoe, Amputee and the Eunichs, Anal Babes, Anal Beard Barbers, Anal Cunt, Anal Genocide, Anal Sadist, Anal Sausage, Ancient Chinese Penis, An Emotional Fish, Angry Samoans, Anus the Menace, Appalachian Death Ride, Apocolypse Hoboken, The Archbishop's Enema Fetish, Are These My Pants?, The Armadildoes, Armageddon Dildos, Armpit, Arm the Homeless, Army of Prawns, Arthur Loves Plastic, Ashtray Babyhead, Ashtray Boy, The Ass Baboons of Venus, Ass Ponys, Assrash, Ass Solvent, Assuck, Asylum Street Spankers, Attila The Stockbroker 
3.What are the Captain and Tennille up to these days?
The Captain and Tennille were a 1970s vocal pop duo featuring husband-and-wife Daryl �Captain� Dragon (so called because he wore a ship's captain's hat) and Toni Tennille. After scoring their final No. 1 hit, �Do That to Me One More Time,� in 1979, the Captain and Tennille slid onto the oldies circuit. This year, Daryl and Toni have agreed that it's time for Toni to do what she was born to do. Toni has just committed to a 40 week tour covering almost the entire USA, where she'll be starring in the direct-from-Broadway, first national tour of VICTOR/VICTORIA, taking the role originated on Broadway by Julie Andrews. The tour is scheduled to launch on the first week in Sept. of '98, and continue, at least through the end of June, '99. After VICTOR/VICTORIA, Captain and Tennille will be back on tour. Toni and Daryl are already making plans for The Captain & Tennille's 25th anniversary tour in the year 2000.
4.How can I make submissions to The EXIT?
Now there's a question we don't hear very often. Just send them along to 
[email protected] sometime before the middle of the month. All submissions will be edited for appropriateness, content and length. 
5. How do we fight evil?
With good, of course! To that end here's a Christian cartoon we stole off the web along with just about everything else on this page except for that snarky bit about submissions: