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How exactly does one 'excite' an electron?
By telling it nasty stories about the nucleus. They get a real charge out of that…


Should a woman always be given what she wants?
 
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What is the plural of mongoose?

What does rhetorical mean?
 
Originally asked by Chemicalsuperfreak

What does rhetorical mean?

Why didn't you bother asking, then I could have answered!

What was/is it that I would have answered?
 
Mr. Robin Parsons asked:
What was/is it that I would have answered?
Probably something to do with 42 sheep jumping in and out of a puddle of muddy slush.

Why did everyone ignore BoulderHead's question?
 
Because they are cowards! Cowards!

When is someone actually going to answer Boulderhead's question?
 
Originally posted by FZ+
Because they are cowards! Cowards!

When is someone actually going to answer Boulderhead's question?
haha, I thought I had become invisible for a while.


Someone take a chance and answer please.

...and watch the women descend upon us.
 
Originally posted by FZ+
Because they are cowards! Cowards!

When is someone actually going to answer Boulderhead's question?

Answer to Boulderhead's question:

Within reason (believe me, that is a very stupid answer (*hopes there are no women reading this*)).

Why were women every considered the "weaker vessel"?
 
Originally posted by Mentat
Answer to Boulderhead's question:

Within reason (believe me, that is a very stupid answer (*hopes there are no women reading this*)).

Why were women every considered the "weaker vessel"?
Because we men were and are completely mistaken about nearly everything.
*ducks head down into shoulders and cuts eyes left and right.*


I think women are fantastical. Could they be the center of the Universe and what life is all about?
 
Originally posted by BoulderHead
Because we men were and are completely mistaken about nearly everything.
*ducks head down into shoulders and cuts eyes left and right.*


I think women are fantastical. Could they be the center of the Universe and what life is all about?

One "stupid quetion" at a time, boulderhead.

The stupid answer to your quetions are (in the order of there having been asked):

1) Yes.
2) Women.
 
Well, depends on how massive they are. If they are indeed of sufficient girth to act as a center for the universe, (as some studies suggest <insert disreputable science website here> ) then we would have no alternative but to accept that conclusion.

As this would logically cause a variety of relativistic effects, how does these connations manifest themselves?
 
Originally posted by FZ+
As this would logically cause a variety of relativistic effects, how does these connations manifest themselves?
I'd be afraid to express it in polite society but surely the angle of the dangle would be equal to something...



Are perturbations from large asteroids a part of these computations?
 
The largest known asteroid (ca. 932 km diameter) is Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, grain and the maternal love. Since it is maternal love it can't be focused on the audience who've long since left their motherly concerns. Viewed computationally, the effects are large enough to outweigh Europa's burning love and you know

"Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's going to check out all your girlfriends for you
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through
Mama's going to wait until you get in
Mama will always find out where you've been
Mama's going to keep baby healthy and clean
Oh baby! Oh baby! Oh baby!
You'll always be baby to me"


Has anyone on PF seen Aphrodite's golden apples?
 
Originally Asked by Manuel_Silvio

Has anyone on PF seen Aphrodite's golden apples?

No haven't seen them, but I suspect that that is what we were all fed at the soup kitchen, sometime last week.

If Xazen (Zah-zen) means 'beyond zen', and my e-mail address is Xazen13, does your fear of e-mailing me make you Xazen13aphobic?
 
Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
No haven't seen them, but I suspect that that is what we were all fed at the soup kitchen, sometime last week.

If Xazen (Zah-zen) means 'beyond zen', and my e-mail address is Xazen13, does your fear of e-mailing me make you Xazen13aphobic?

Of course it does, what kind of a stuid quetion was that?
(In point of fact, a phobia is an unbased fear, but that would be the smart answer...)

How many different kinds of stupid quetion are there?
 
Negative three.

Where do cowboys in Texas buy the cell-phones that they all seem to be carrying?
 
At their local Texas-Cowboy-suitable-cell-phone-seller-o-matic.

How could Zeus love both Europa and Ganymede?
 
Originally posted by Manuel_Silvio
At their local Texas-Cowboy-suitable-cell-phone-seller-o-matic.

How could Zeus love both Europa and Ganymede?
One at a time.


Which size floppy do you prefer to have; the 3.5 or the 5.25?
 
The 3.5 will fit into either slot...

Will the next-smaller floppy be a 1.75 or a 2+1/3?
 
Neither. First we had 5 + 1/4 and then 3 + 1/2 so the next must be either 1 + 1/1 which makes 2 that will surely fit in all slots.

Are we going wild rude?
 
Originally Asked by Manuel_Silvio

Are we going wild rude?

Tarnation, By Golly, heck, and wildfire, jumping Ge-hos-efats, gosh, darn, jeeeeepers, YES!

When you curse, do you become cursed?
 
Depends on whom you curse, usually curses find their way along with philosophical statements. If that isn't the case, you'll go curved instead of cursed.

Why did the thread lose its audience for the past 48 hours?
 
Originally asked by Manuel_Silvio

Why did the thread lose its audience for the past 48 hours?

Becasue the stupid quentions were soooooo stupid, that no one, and I mean NO ONE, could come up with anything, even seemingly close, to a stuuuuupid responce, or the answer is 42! (I not all that certain, heh heh heh hee!)


If you fear fear, are you not a Phobiaphobic?
 
No, you would be a phobophobic.

What do alligator tears taste like?
 
Beeeeh

Let me try, ... Aaarghhh!

Why does the wolf slaughter all the sheep in the barn, when he could be satiated with only one?
 


Originally posted by vacuum
Let me try, ... Aaarghhh!

Why does the wolf slaughter all the sheep in the barn, when he could be satiated with only one?
He may be driven by instinct to never pass up an opportunity.


Why is there a ‘re’ in refrigerator, does it get things cold more than once or something?
 
It's a philosophical comment on the cyclic nature of spacetime, duh.

What is the point of the saying "wolf in sheep's clothing", considering that neither wolves nor sheep wear any clothing?
 
Originally posted by FZ+
It's a philosophical comment on the cyclic nature of spacetime, duh.

What is the point of the saying "wolf in sheep's clothing", considering that neither wolves nor sheep wear any clothing?

I know it has something to do with mama wolves' making sweaters for their pups...

What does it really mean to "cry wolf"?
 
According to the latest version conspiracy theory, that's a way a to get hold of somewhere you don't belong.

Why do wolves come in herds?
 
Become they most certainly do not come in peace.

Why do sci-fi aliens never say hello, only "we come in peace" or "DIE DIE DIE"?
 
For the one decipherable SETI@home message for them was some politician (don't know who) shouting "we come in peace, otherwise, DIE DIE DIE" at some poor microphone.

Why do Sci-Fi aliens use glittering means of transport instead of a decent Mercedes Benz A-Class?