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This thread explores a variety of whimsical and humorous questions and answers, often playing with language and absurdity. The discussion includes light-hearted inquiries about posting habits, the nature of questions, and fantastical concepts like superpowers and the universe's expansion.

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  • Participants humorously speculate on how long it might take to reach 1000 posts in the thread.
  • There is a playful exchange about the misspelling of "question," with some participants embracing the humor in it.
  • Questions about the existence of old forums and their accessibility are raised, with some participants suggesting they exist only in dreams.
  • Various superpowers are proposed, including self-levitation and the ability to pass through solid objects, with humorous implications about their practicality.
  • Participants engage in absurd reasoning, such as attributing the universe's expansion to flatulence or a "Big Bean Burrito."
  • There are whimsical inquiries about why planets orbit stars and the nature of the sun's light, leading to playful responses.
  • Some participants reflect on the nature of belief and reality, with humorous takes on philosophical questions.

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The discussion remains largely playful and humorous, with no clear consensus or serious disagreement. Participants engage in a light-hearted manner, often building on each other's absurdities.

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The thread is characterized by a lack of serious inquiry, focusing instead on humor and playful banter. Many questions posed are intentionally nonsensical or absurd, reflecting a light-hearted atmosphere.

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  • #3,031
madcat11 said:
Where did the yellow fin tuna go wrong - i mean, he's not on the can and is probably nearly extinct by now, to boot?

He allowed himself to be captured by Tiny-Tim.

What is the average number of letters in an intro physics book?
 
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  • #3,032
In English 26, they just get used multiple times.


Who wants to live forever, who dares to love forever, when love must die?

(Bonus cookie for getting the reference.)
 
  • #3,033
GleefulNihilism said:
Who wants to live forever, who dares to love forever, when love must die?

(Bonus cookie for getting the reference.)

Queen.
How much chuck could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
 
  • #3,034
undrcvrbro said:
Queen.
How much chuck could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Woodchuck would chuck as much chuck as the woodchuck could chuck.

Is a zebra white with black stripes or white with black stripes.
 
  • #3,035
undrcvrbro said:
Queen.
How much chuck could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

My friend used that for her security question on a the university's website. Her answer (which oddly enough she could not remember) was... Platypus.

_Mayday_ said:
Is a zebra white with black stripes or white with black stripes.

Both reference systems are equally valid, but the math is a lot easier if you take a zebra to be white with black stripes. (Imagine integrating over an entire white stomach if your reference system is black!)

If a cat says meow and a dog says woof, then what does a PFer say?
(to speakers of different languages/dialects: please note the antecedent)
 
  • #3,036
"I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight."

Do chickens make good physicists?
 
  • #3,037
Why is this thread a weird thread?
 
  • #3,038
Because I'm here.

Does dynamite belong in a weird thread?
 
  • #3,039
Yes, because it explodes randomly.

Will I go from old person to a baby (back in time) if the fate of the universe is the 'closed universe'?
 
  • #3,040
Secretblend said:
Why is this thread a weird thread?
Please do not post if you do not understand the game.

The rule is that you answer the last person's question, hopefully with a clever and witty response, then you ask a question.
 
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  • #3,041
Air said:
Will I go from old person to a baby (back in time) if the fate of the universe is the 'closed universe'?

No, you will shrink until you're a human prune.

Did a table delete Evo's question?
 
  • #3,042
Tables can do anything these days. I recently saw one drive a car.

What can you tell me about the biology of my computer?
 
  • #3,043
Obviously software-ology and hardware-ology is double-ology.

Who stole Atlantis?
 
  • #3,044
Someone from Atlanta.

Where will the 2008 Physlympics be held?
 
  • #3,045
On the square root of the nineth rock from Sol this year.

But when is the train leaving?
 
  • #3,046
it already left 5 thousand years ago, but you have to drink the blue cool aid to board it as it goes by on the 6th hour of the summer equinox. Which universe will you be representing?
 
  • #3,047
That hell of a good one next door Cummings likes so much.

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
 
  • #3,048
Broccoli.

What will our mascot be at the PhysLympics?
 
  • #3,049
A dwarf, though there are some tensions about whether the dwarf should be white or black.

What famous coaches are going to be at the Physlympics?
 
  • #3,050
Dr. Lymphysic will probably be there, which will be interesting because he hates dwarfs and can only see in color.

Will you be bringing any gifts?
 
  • #3,051
I will bring some Martian Turtles and an Australian Polar Bear from New Zealand.

What will be the PlysLympic Flame and what physicsforums members will be performing at the opening ceremony?
 
  • #3,052
The flame will be green so that we don't contribute to global cooling, I would perform a demo of my perpetual motion machine, but I might have to call in sick because I've recently been diagnosed with that one disease, you know.

By the way, what inventions will you show off?
 
  • #3,053
My dead thread resuscitator.Why can't some people just let an old thread die?
 
  • #3,054
Nevermind let this one die
 
  • #3,055
tribdog said:
My dead thread resuscitator.
Why can't some people just let an old thread die?

You have to by law if you know CPR. :D
 
  • #3,056
sandinmyears said:
You have to by law if you know CPR. :D

Some people don't know CPR.

What are they supposed to do with the thread? Kick it like an old tribdog?
 
  • #3,057
no, u keep it going until the creater wans to kick it aside.

if old threads are to be kicked,old clocks kicked aside, nerds get kicked around by gangsters, then do old people have to be kicked too?
 
  • #3,058
kaisxuans said:
if old threads are to be kicked,old clocks kicked aside, nerds get kicked around by gangsters, then do old people have to be kicked too?

naw, they just go to the old people place promised pre-programmed for them.

Does a pre-program have to run prior to a program or can it run concurrently, after or never at all, time-wise (speaking quantum-ly, of course)?
 
  • #3,059
how about having a concurrent program running pior to a time wasting schedule while quantum-ly having to answer your question with what i do not know about? ok I am writing crap.

so how did the word CRAP come about? can't people just say DAMN...wait how did that come up too??
?
 
  • #3,060
Because John Crapper invented the first flush toilet (and I think you may have committed a foul by asking a legitimate question with a real answer).

Why do birds suddenly appear?
 

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