Questions on the Answers.com home page Wednesday ranged from how to make a car fly in the videogame "Grand Theft Auto" to which countries are enemies with Pakistan and what shape has two pairs of parallel sides and no square corners? "Wikipedia is for specific facts like what swine flu is or details about Paris ... We are for more personal questions like how to avoid getting swine flu or whether you should go to Paris for vacation." Examples given by Rosenschein included Answers.com informing users that the phrase "wave a dead chicken" refers to the way programmers typically wave their hands at monitors after computer crashes.
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