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ZenGum 06-27-2011 08:09 AM

Random question thread
 
Answer any one (or more) of the previously asked random questions. Be serious, sagacious, silly, sarcastic or smartalecious as you will.

Then throw in a random question of your own.

Repeat.


Here are a few to get you started:

If your car was a kind of soup, what kind of soup would it be?

Why do book page numbers always start with page one on the right hand side?

If someone refers to "the south end of a penguin", is that its head or its feet?

SamIam 06-27-2011 10:48 AM

Quote:

Why do book page numbers always start with page one on the right hand side?
Because the first numbered page of a book always begin with the page that lays on the right side.

Why do Americans drive on the right side of the road when the rest of the world drives on the left?

wolf 06-27-2011 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 742173)
Why do Americans drive on the right side of the road when the rest of the world drives on the left?

Despite the rest of the world blaming America for everything, it is not our fault that they are doing it wrong.

Why do hotdogs come in 10s and buns in 8? ANSI dealt with the shower hook conundum, why not this?

jimhelm 06-27-2011 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 742173)

Why do Americans drive on the right side of the road when the rest of the world drives on the left?

Because Henry Ford decided to put the steering wheel on the left.

Spexxvet 06-27-2011 04:31 PM

Red countries drive on right, blue on left.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._right.svg.png

wolf 06-27-2011 04:42 PM

Thinking about this a little more fully ... May not have a damn bit of anything to do with anything, but you mount a horse from the near (left facing the front) side, and you mount a car similarly.

Now, the Brits are all about horses, and the whole mounting from the near side comes from them, so I REALLY don't get right-hand drive cars ...

jimhelm 06-27-2011 05:37 PM

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All U.S. states and territories except the U.S. Virgin Islands drive on the right. The first keep-right law in the United States, passed in 1792, applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. New York in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813 also enacted keep-right rules. Only the formerly British thirteen colonies historically drove on the left; the historically French, Spanish, Russian and Hawaiian portions of the United States all drove on the right by the time they were annexed by the United States.

Early American motor vehicles, however, were right-hand drive, following the practice established by horse-drawn buggies. This changed in the early years of the 20th century: Ford changed to LHD production in 1908 with the Model T,[110] and Cadillac in 1916.

footfootfoot 06-27-2011 05:42 PM

If my car were a kind of soup, what kind of soup would it be?

It would be some sort of Korean soup made out of puppies, kim chee, and bok choy, and garlic of course.


What is the speed of dark? How far is up?

monster 06-27-2011 06:09 PM

How long is my left thumbnail?

The speed of dark is c.

jimhelm 06-27-2011 06:18 PM

c+1


cuz, erm... the speed of light is actually c..and if it's the same, dark would be caught up by light, and therefore no longer dark.... or something

monster 06-27-2011 06:22 PM


jimhelm 06-27-2011 06:24 PM

thanks, I'm grooving now.


Hamma Time!

Aliantha 06-27-2011 06:42 PM

I have no answers. Only questions.

monster 06-27-2011 06:52 PM

I have answers. Many of them.

Aliantha 06-27-2011 06:59 PM

Yes we know.


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