Ask a Stupid Quetion Get a Stupid Answer

[firefly]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
When I was in London, last year, the runners of the 25th annual Shakespearian 20K marathon pinned me up againt Big Ben for ten minutes while they huffed past. What do you do when you are caught between a clock and a bard race?

This is a trick quetion because a Zooby has yet to be caught... anywhere.

If you fly in the face of fire will you alight on the wings of a dove?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by firefly
If you fly in the face of fire will you alight on the wings of a dove?

Sure. Why not?Since questions are a symptom of ignorance is there any such thing as a smart question?

 

[firefly]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
Since questions are a symptom of ignorance is there any such thing as a smart question?

Sure, ignorance smarts, sooner or later.

If ignorance is bliss, then is attention hit-and-miss?

 

[kuengb]

This is a smart question.

Last year, when I was just about to finish the 25th annual Shakespearian 20K marathon I saw someone (believe it or not) pinned up against Big Ben, must've been for about ten minutes or so. Anyway, I completely forgot to run. What do you do in such a situation if you don't have a camera with you?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by kuengb
Last year, when I was just about to finish the 25th annual Shakespearian 20K marathon I saw someone (believe it or not) pinned up against Big Ben, must've been for about ten minutes or so. Anyway, I completely forgot to run. What do you do in such a situation if you don't have a camera with you?

Just remember that person as per their inabiltiy to spell "agains[/color]t" Thusly you will be able to find said "Pressed against time" person, without fail...

As Originally mispelt by one ZOOBYSHOE!(SNIP)[/color]
Shakespearian 20K marathon pinned me up againt[/color] Big Ben for ten (SNoP)[/color]

Is being held against the Clockface of Big Ben by a hoarding flock of voracious Titmouse Chickadee's really just being "Pressed for time"?

 

[kuengb]

Since I'm not familiar with this English idiomatic expression I don't know a proper response.

What, my dear friend, is the difference between left and right?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by kuengb
What, my dear friend, is the difference between left and right?

Their respective viewpoint of the Center...

How is it that being "unfamiliar with, well, English" somehow allows you to preclude the quetions of others, especailly when all of the quetions are written in, well, it is english, isn't it?

 

[kuengb]

It is a right that is unequivocly given to me in the preface to the "Oxford Dictionarry of Distinguishèd and Aristocratic English".

When we pair a black and a white sheep, what will we get?

 

[motai]

A Grayish-Brown sheep!

Do you think the original person with a rocket in his pocket is dead by now because it might have accidently went off?

 

[firefly]

Originally posted by motai
Do you think the original person with a rocket in his pocket is dead by now because it might have accidently went off?

Unlikely - if his pocket rocket went off I think it would have been anything but accidental.

Does a pocketful of posies imply explosive originality?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by firefly
Does a pocketful of posies imply explosive originality?

Yes but apparently it leaves a "Ring around the Rosie"...

Is a "Ring Around the Rosie" the same as a "Ring around the Porcelain Bowl"??

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
Is a "Ring Around the Rosie" the same as a "Ring around the Porcelain Bowl"??

I could tell you, but I don't trust you to use the information wisely.Recently I had the misfortune, while mowing the lawn, of discovering to my horror, that I had run over a leprechaun. This seemed like a bad thing under any circumstances but what with St. Patrick's Day being so near it seemed like some particularly bad piece of luck. I put the remains in a shoebox and mailed it to St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC, USA, in the hope they would know what to do with it. I didn't include a cover letter, and now I'm worried that they are going to mistake it for the corpse of a very short Amish gentleman - same beard and all. Anyway, the incident got me thinking: I have never seen a picture of a female leprechaun. How do they reproduce?

 

[kuengb]

Photosynthesis.

Why don't let we let cows, sheep, chicken etc. live in freedom and instead breed game on our farms? I mean, let's face it, a lazy ruminating cow is a much lighter target for a hunter than, say, a stag or even a quick little rabbit. That would be a timesaver wouldn't it?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by kuengb
Why don't let we let cows, sheep, chicken etc. live in freedom and instead breed game on our farms? I mean, let's face it, a lazy ruminating cow is a much lighter target for a hunter than, say, a stag or even a quick little rabbit. That would be a timesaver wouldn't it?

Because there is "No Challenge" in shooting a cow, from thirty paces, much more of a challenge to face a Raging Buck in rut, from 100 yards, with your scope, and laser sighting, and protective gear, and dogs, and live backup support via internet, and all the rest...

Why do people read all of this thread, then post quetions that are not following the spirit of the thread? (like this one?)

 

[firefly]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
Why do people read all of this thread, then post quetions that are not following the spirit of the thread? (like this one?)

Sounds like Fawlty Premises to me. Doubtful people read all of this thread, so they'd not have the ghost of a chance of following its spirit.

As I was pondering the anser to your free-spirited quetion, it occurred to me that there was an odd recursion about it such that, were one not careful, the line of reasoning brought about by such pondering could spiral into a dangerous vortex, rendering the stream of consciousness comparable to a class 5 rapids. Having caught this dangerous train of thought, and so trapped in the simple but savage mathematical machinations of your Whirlpool, however did I manage to reach the end of the line, and pose a new quetion?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by firefly
As I was pondering the anser to your free-spirited quetion, it occurred to me that there was an odd recursion about it such that, were one not careful, the line of reasoning brought about by such pondering could spiral into a dangerous vortex, rendering the stream of consciousness comparable to a class 5 rapids. Having caught this dangerous train of thought, and so trapped in the simple but savage mathematical machinations of your Whirlpool, however did I manage to reach the end of the line, and pose a new quetion?

From a similar vantage point one would see the same thing, so NO...or maybe Yes...don't know, kinda, perhaps, sorta, maybe, it could be possible that perhaps a chance of it to be thought of as thunked out thoughts of the potential possibilities of a responce...

If beauty is in the eye of the Be-holder, does it help that the "Be" Holder' is also beautiful on the outside?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
If beauty is in the eye of the Be-holder, does it help that the "Be" Holder' is also beautiful on the outside?

This quetion reminds me of an amusing anecdote concerning a beautiful bee keeper who once tried to hold a bee. She wanted to put lipstick and a French maid's costume on the bee, so it would be beautiful to behold, but the bee balked and bit her butt. Anyone with half a mind can see the moral of the story. Those with a whole mind, though, will remain baffled.March 17th. Paddy walks into an Italian bar and announces that, in honor of the holiday he'll buy a free bottle for any man present who'll admit that Ireland is the greatest nation on earth. A Roman, a Sicilian, and a Corsican at a table imediately jump up and cry: "Ireland is the greatest nation on the face of the earth!"
Paddy is amazed. He is a man of honor, though, and he orders three bottles of their favorite grappa to be brought to them. Curiosity gets the better of him and he ambles over to the table and asks: "How is it you're so willing to put your country's honor second to a bottle of booze?" The Sicilian slowly removes his mask revealing that he is, in fact, a gray space alien, and replies:"ç&9((^ #@ç®® †¥ƒ¼5••²¢ º¬ð¸œ¢4$½½7!" When participating in St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun hunts, is it better to collect them in an old pillow case or do those cheap, plastic toy Leprechaun collecting baskets they make for kids really suffice?

 

[Math Is Hard]

When participating in St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun hunts, is it better to collect them in an old pillow case or do those cheap, plastic toy Leprechaun collecting baskets they make for kids really suffice?

Best not to do either since Leprechauns are now a protected species. Do you really want to get PETL after you?

Why doesn't cat food come in flavors like "savory mouse" and "hummingbird hash"?

 

[firefly]

Originally posted by Math Is Hard
Why doesn't cat food come in flavors like "savory mouse" and "hummingbird hash"?

That's quiet a mouseful of a quetion there... hummmm... I'm afraid I can't quite hash it out.

Why do hummingbirds, in the presence of sharp! pointy! teeth! turn on those reverse rockets full thrust but always seem to land beak deep in nectar, while whales, of noticeably greater size often land beached and therefore rather far from the deep, regardless of the presence of sharp pointy teeth such as might penetrate skin deep when playing with a mouse, unless it is attached to a computer?

 

[Mr. Robin Parsons]

Originally posted by firefly
[Why do hummingbirds, in the presence of sharp! pointy! teeth! turn on those reverse rockets full thrust but always seem to land beak deep in nectar, while whales, of noticeably greater size often land beached and therefore rather far from the deep, regardless of the presence of sharp pointy teeth such as might penetrate skin deep when playing with a mouse, unless it is attached to a computer?

Was biten by this amazingly sharp toothed quetion, that evoked a whale of a responce, as intiated by the mouse on the computer, activities that landed me beached in nectar, but only afflicted in a "skin depth" mannerisms...

So if you, like me, have a post on every single page of this thread, why is this one the last one?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
So if you, like me, have a post on every single page of this thread, why is this one the last one?

Well, you'll have to blame Maxwell's equations for that, or rather their integral and differential forms, because each final desinent metanoia into electric answer spawns its own magnetic get, outward forever into space. without stopage or stopple, or tampion. It's catechetical. This isn't the first last page there has been in this thread and it won't be the last last page.

If the teeth of the shark are pointy by virtue of their triangularity, and the teeth of the whale (such whales as have teeth) are pointy by virtue of tapering till there's nothing left, what geometry can account for the pointiness of the teeth of the hummingbird?

 

[Imparcticle]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
If the teeth of the shark are pointy by virtue of their triangularity, and the teeth of the whale (such whales as have teeth) are pointy by virtue of tapering till there's nothing left, what geometry can account for the pointiness of the teeth of the hummingbird? [/B]

The teeth of a hummingbird are pointy by virtue of their tendency to strain flowers of their nectar.
I hope these answers are supposed to not make sense.

If your mom's a dryer and your dad's a dishwasher, then what is the dog doing on top of the dog house while pigs don't fly?

LOL. I hope these questions aren't supposed to make sense either.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by SquareItSalamander
If your mom's a dryer and your dad's a dishwasher, then what is the dog doing on top of the dog house while pigs don't fly?

That dog would be performing the very important function of guarding against the acquisition of knowledge of flight by any porcine species since there are now so many thing that have been delegated to happen when pigs have wings that they cannot possibly be accommodated.

LOL. I hope these questions aren't supposed to make sense either.

Avoid incoherence. Try for surreal or fractured logic.

The recent news relates that several jellyfish dressed as ordinary citizens were arrested yesterday while attempting to break and enter a large, well known bank after hours, while on the other side of town several bank robbers dressed as jellyfish were arrested while trying to break and enter an aquarium. What accounts for this confusion among the criminal element, both pedestrian and aquatic?

 

[Math Is Hard]

What accounts for this confusion among the criminal element, both pedestrian and aquatic?

That's the problem with these fishy news stories - the facts are always watered down, and anyone with half a brine, who knows their salt (about Jellyfish) can see right through them.

Which is more important: to anser a quetion, or quetion an anser?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Math Is Hard
Which is more important: to anser a quetion, or quetion an anser?

A quetionable quetion. I quetion it.But is quetioning the quetion really an anser?

 

[olde drunk]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
A quetionable quetion. I quetion it.


But is quetioning the quetion really an anser?

if you do not have a quetion, is that san quetion?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by olde drunk
if you do not have a quetion, is that san quetion?

It is completely irregular to anser a quetion with a quetion, and causes me no end of zoobonic confusion, since I don't know if the quetion has ansered and settled the matter or if you simply forgot a new quetion, or if you meant to combine anser & quetion. This is just the kind of fribbleous amphigory I'd expect from an elderly compotator.

If you have been incarcerated in San Quetion for violation of the anser - quetion format, what do you use to brew your own besotting beverages?

 

[quantumdude]

Good grief, how did this thread slip to page 4?

If you have been incarcerated in San Quetion for violation of the anser - quetion format, what do you use to brew your own besotting beverages?

Anything but the bedpan!

How much further would this thread have slipped if I hadn't responded?

 

[zoobyshoe]

How much further would this thread have slipped if I hadn't responded?

We'll never know because now you have interfered with our carefully devised and sensitive test of its coefficient of friction.

Now that that's all over with, is there any way to ever actually find out which falls faster in a vacuum: a stupid quetion or a "What do you do if..." quetion?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Both have the same acceleration: 7.1 X10¹⁰ furlongs per fortnights²

We all know the dangers of the Zoobyshoe, but exactly how dangerous is a Zoobysock?