Hmm. I don't suppose I could quite say I love the questions that are posed merely to stump me, but I make do with what I have and I make a vast kingdom of goodness from it. Like the noble squirrel!

Now, to answer your questions in sequence...

1) A dragon fruit, otherwise known as "king of the fruits" by those who are very funny when they're not trying to be, is a cactus fruit hailing from Vietnam. It is hailed by enthusiasts (they really exist, I'm not lying) as a "priceless treasure," and can be used as fruit, flower, or for medicinal purposes. The few information sources I could find on this particular King of the Fruits (tee hee!) were obviously written by people who did not speak English as a first language, and thus we find that the dragon fruit has "high nutrition, low heat, [and] rich Vitamin C." I can only presume "low heat" is a sloppy translation for "low calories."

Only slightly less appetizing to look at than a dead cow's ass

As for finding the darn things, I'd check your local exotic food markets, but tough luck finding it at any farmer's markets. Apparently Vietnam is the sole land this plant flourishes in, and there are few places with a similar environment in America. Who knows, you may luck out in Tigerland.

2) The fourth dimension has long been established, so I can answer this question easily: the fourth dimension is time. Weathermen used to get off on saying they had "four-dimensional radar maps," which simply means their maps show progress of cloud cover over a brief span of time.

3) There is no definitive process on getting a word into "the dictionary," since there is no one dictionary, and there is no governmental body that makes all rulings pertaining to what words make it in. Besides the Slang Dictionaries in existence, the answer of this can vary from dictionary to dictionary. For our purposes, we'll stick to Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary published in America.

And their site says it all.

In short hand, Merriam-Webster editors browse through all kinds of publications and periodicals -- from books to web sites (hire me, M-W! I would be the greatest lexicographer ever, for I am rich in word wisdom!) -- and enter citations in their massive word database of new words. When the editors get together to analyze this database for new entries, they pick only those words that come up often enough and have practical use in the public at large.

In very short hand, if the word gets used a lot and not just by niche groups (engineer jargon, for instance), then it's going to make it in. The latest M-W, for instance, includes the definitions for "hypertext" and "factoid."

4) Stuff like that only explodes in movies directed by Rob Cohen. Assuming the four fans are of uniform make and model, and assuming we rule out any discrepancies in atmosphere and that all fans are blowing at the same speed, I can safely say that nothing very exciting happens. The result, I'm afraid, would be air coming out of the final fan at a speed perhaps a fractional bit faster than the norm.

The reason is this: Fan velocity does not multiply. If air passes through the first fan at 10 MPH, and the second fan is set at the same speed, the air projects into the second fan at 10 MPH... and does not slow down, or speed up. The air simply keeps going 10 MPH, propelled a further distance, but at the same speed nonetheless.

	5) The short answer is that there are nine rankings in Sumo, and they are (in order of ascendance): Maezumo, Niban Shusse, Ichiban Schusse, Jonokuchi, Jonidan, Sandanme, Makushita, Juryo (or Jumaeme), and Makuuchi (or Makunouchi). Some of these rankings have their own subrankings, but that may be picking nits.
Dohyoiri or Oprah Fan Club roll call?

Sumo tournaments are held six months out of the year (January, March, May, July, September, and November) and are structured much like wrestling cards here in America: the Maezumo ("pre-sumo") fight first in the morning, all the way up to the main event around 4pm, capped off by a bow-twirling ritual by a junior sumo wrestler ("rikishi").

I don't know, either.

My western mind apparently has problems wrapping itself around the rules of Sumo, so I'll just let the fine folks at japan-zone.com speak for me, since they have better firsthand experience with the topic.

That's it for today, friends and neighbors. Tune in next friday for yet another barrel of wisdom right here on LethalDeath.com!

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- Dr. Goofypants