Random question thread

ZenGum • Jun 27, 2011 9:09 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 • Jun 27, 2011 11:48 am
wrote:
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 • Jun 27, 2011 5:19 pm
SamIam;742173 wrote:
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 • Jun 27, 2011 5:28 pm
SamIam;742173 wrote:


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 • Jun 27, 2011 5:31 pm
Red countries drive on right, blue on left.
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wolf • Jun 27, 2011 5:42 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 • Jun 27, 2011 6:37 pm
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 • Jun 27, 2011 6:42 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 • Jun 27, 2011 7:09 pm
How long is my left thumbnail?

The speed of dark is c.
jimhelm • Jun 27, 2011 7:18 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 • Jun 27, 2011 7:22 pm
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jimhelm • Jun 27, 2011 7:24 pm
thanks, I'm grooving now.


Hamma Time!
Aliantha • Jun 27, 2011 7:42 pm
I have no answers. Only questions.
monster • Jun 27, 2011 7:52 pm
I have answers. Many of them.
Aliantha • Jun 27, 2011 7:59 pm
Yes we know.
monster • Jun 27, 2011 8:07 pm
Some of them are good......
Aliantha • Jun 27, 2011 8:12 pm
yes they are.

Sorry. I shouldn't have contaminated this thread with my grumpiness. My apologies.
monster • Jun 27, 2011 8:18 pm
I'm cool, I liked your post
Aliantha • Jun 27, 2011 8:20 pm
Maybe I should post more often when I'm feeling less than good? (there's a question)
monster • Jun 27, 2011 8:23 pm
yes, you should (there's an answer)




;)
Aliantha • Jun 27, 2011 8:26 pm
Thanks, but I think I'll give it a miss. If I start blathering my shit I'll never stop, and who knows who I'll upset?

Anyway, time to depart this thread before I completely derail it.
footfootfoot • Jun 27, 2011 8:35 pm
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footfootfoot • Jun 27, 2011 8:36 pm
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monster • Jun 27, 2011 8:42 pm
The kids' swim coach wore gren hammer pants this morning
casimendocina • Jul 1, 2011 9:19 am
Aliantha;742256 wrote:


Anyway, time to depart this thread before I completely derail it.


Isn't super quick thread derailment worth a badge of honour?

My (former) car would be I think the equivalent of corn soup. Not the most dazzling colour, but solid and reliable and filling.


If someone refers to "the south end of a penguin", is that its head or its feet?
Penguin doing a headstand.
footfootfoot • Jul 1, 2011 3:06 pm
casimendocina;742955 wrote:

My (former) car would be I think the equivalent of corn soup. Not the most dazzling colour, but solid and reliable and filling.



I thought you said you hated soup?
SamIam • Jul 1, 2011 5:16 pm
You can still hate something that's solid, reliable and filling. After a while you may become bored to tears with it and yearn for something that's ephemeral, unpredictable, and always leaves you longing for more.

Why does the entire country insist on jumping in their cars, spending hours and hour in heavy traffic, getting turned away from motels and campgrounds and call all this a "holiday"?
casimendocina • Jul 3, 2011 12:33 am
SamIam;742986 wrote:
You can still hate something that's solid, reliable and filling. After a while you may become bored to tears with it and yearn for something that's ephemeral, unpredictable, and always leaves you longing for more.


YES!!

SamIam;742986 wrote:
Why does the entire country insist on jumping in their cars, spending hours and hour in heavy traffic, getting turned away from motels and campgrounds and call all this a "holiday"?


And YES again!
Sundae • Jul 3, 2011 7:33 am
I had a pair of MC Hammer pants in black cotton jersey.
I did not identify them as such - they were named for me.
I wore them until they literally fell apart,

If I could get them in my size now (they were a UK Size 10 - I was a skinny chick back then) I'd buy them.

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em.
Classic.
casimendocina • Jul 3, 2011 11:40 am
Gap are reviving the jodphur look...AGAIN.