Random question thread

ZenGum · 06-27-2011, 08:09 AM

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

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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

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Originally Posted by SamIam

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

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Originally Posted by SamIam

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.

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.

06-27-2011, 08:09 AM	#1
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

06-27-2011, 04:31 PM	#5
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Red countries drive on right, blue on left. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

06-27-2011, 04:42 PM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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 ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-27-2011, 05:42 PM	#8
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

06-27-2011, 06:09 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	How long is my left thumbnail? The speed of dark is c. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-27-2011, 06:18 PM	#10
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	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 __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

06-27-2011, 06:22 PM	#11
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	__________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-27-2011, 06:24 PM	#12
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	thanks, I'm grooving now. Hamma Time! __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

06-27-2011, 06:42 PM	#13
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I have no answers. Only questions. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

06-27-2011, 06:52 PM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I have answers. Many of them. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-27-2011, 06:59 PM	#15
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Yes we know. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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