Pandora's Box

[bleusun]

What was in Pandora's Box?

[tartanwiz]

A worldful of troubles and a little bit of hope.

[Quizmonster]

That is a wonderfully succinct answer from Tartan! If you click here, that will link you to a web-page which explains in a bit more detail, if you need it.

[bossuk]

it was wdiely believed that when the box was opened all the evil that existed would be unleashed into the world, and evrything would be reversed. ie inside would become outside, order would become chaos.

[firefly]

Technically it was a jar and not a box.

[bossuk]

surely if it was a jar and not a box, pandora would have seen what was in it, therefore taking away the curiosity and need to open it?

[trilobite]

Not an earthenware jar.

[Hippy]

I think Pandora did know what was inside, but being a curious female she couldn't resist the temptation to peek inside. Had she actually resisted and not opened the box, she would have spent the rest of eternity nagging some poor man to do it for her!

[IndieSinger]

If it had have been a jar, she
a) Would have had to ask the nearest man to open it;
b) Probably would have opened the gherkins by accident; but
c) Wouldn't have been able to reach it from the cupboard in the first place.

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Oh no, you have released all the gherkins of the world...

[nknickers]

jam

[IanPat]

Wasn't that the one that Adrian Mole glued to the end of his nose?.

[Jamie Lewis]

I with Indiesinger on this one. Women get the joys of being able to bring life into the world but at least we can open our own jars. Or boxes.

[lambsbell]

nothing the box was empty

[stick0102]

a vase full of pain,famin,plague,and all those"good things",but it also had hope so that what ever hapens man will always know of better times.

[trilobite]

It's all entirely safe, unless someone  is viewing the question in "Most Recently Answered" mode in, say, October 2005.

In which case - WASH YOUR HANDS - NOW