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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by pickles which are a

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pretty big dill in the sandwich community.. deal, dill.. whatever here's our [sandwich chomping at a pickle and the pickle runs off]

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question.. Bill thinks pickles taste awful ..which of the following is

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responsible and here the potential answers... well while it

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might seem like we're dealing with someone who can't see reason but since [Boy blindfolded attempting to hit a pinata]

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we're actually dealing with is taste Bill's sense of taste in particular

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bearing that in mind we should probably eliminate any answers that have nothing

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to do with it starting with three that sound a lot like they don't.. See what we did

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there rather hear what we did there all right look the incus is one of three [diagram of the ear's incus]

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small bones in the ear that make up the ossicles they transmit vibrations from

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the eardrum or tympanic membrane into the inner ear ending up in the cochlea

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a snail shaped structure that houses the organ of corti which is a tiny little [man playing the organ in the inner ear]

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organ that a man in corti plays in your ear.. yeah na, na, na, na, naa..

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as cool as that would be we're just pulling your leg on the organ playing guy there.. It

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actually produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations.. Good vibr-

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okay stop.. So unless Bill somehow connects the taste of pickles to the [man eating a pickle]

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sound they make while being eaten these can't be our answers so that leaves us [Bill distressed at a man eating a pickle loudly]

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which is B and C immediately one of these should be standing out as

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incorrect hint it's the one with the word olfactory in it, okay maybe that

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name is obvious olfactory refers to your sense of smell and the olfactory bulbs [image of an olfactory bulbs]

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of a first place where scents entering your nose get transduced into neural [smell being transduced in the nose]

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information sure smell and taste are closely related that's why you can't

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taste anything when a cold wreaks havoc on your sinuses. Bill this isn't quite [Bill with a cold attempting to eat a pickle]

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what we're looking for but we're actually looking for is B..papillae

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which are the bumps on the tongue each containing about 50 taste buds that's a [a microscope image of papillae of the tongue]

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lot of buds, even if we don't have that many buds and we're super popular when

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these bumps are messed with your sense of taste gets messed up that's really [a drop of coffee lands on a tongue]

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the only explanation we have for Bill not liking pickles he must recently have

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burned his tongue on something hot right? that's got to be it so yeah the answer

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is definitely B.. B as in Bill what's wrong with you pickles are freaking

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great really [Bill looking disgruntled sitting next to a pickle]

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