Whats the stupidest question ever asked?

[jayburner]

i'm curious is all

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I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar

[Alphagene]

If only all questions answered themselves...

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Gypsy: Tom, I don't get you.
Tom Servo: Nobody does. I'm the wind, baby.

[BoBettie]

Alpha- you beat me to it!
Zette

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Voted "Most Empathetic"- can you believe that?

[jaydabee]

Who was GOD's father? ;> )

[justwannano]

See SDMB GQ 03-03-2000 256 PM :)

[Soup]

Here's a recent contender: Who wants to marry a multi-millionaire?

[A girl]

the only stupid question is the one that doesn't get asked... :p

A girl

[Gilligan]

Is that your final answer?

[Beadalin]

Does SIZE really matter?

[Max Torque]

Where's Phaedrus?

[jayburner]

all legitimate posts...but come on peeps..dig deep now..whats the stupidest question ever asked?

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I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar

[andros]

whats the stupidest question ever asked?

[andros]

Max, please don't make me hurt you.

[handy]

Are you asleep?

[sunbear]

The one amusing, but stupid, question that Cecil once aswered was: Why are manhole covers round?

[WallyM7]

Jaywalker, don't call us peeps.

[BigRoryG]

It's been almost 7 hours now and no one has brought this up yet...

...but seriously, what IS the third word that ends with -gry?



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[HeyHomie]

I have a legitimate one:

I was at a convenience store in Butler, MO (about 70 miles south of Kansas City on US 71) on a Sunday morning in November. A van with a Kansas City Chiefs flag pulls up. Four guys wearing KC Chiefs sweaters, Jerseys, hats, watches, shirts, and assorted other regalia get out and walk into the store. One guy's got a portable radio up against his ear.

The convenience store clerk looks at them and says, "You fellas goin' to the game?"

--------------------------------------------- Here's your sign.

[GuanoLad]

How is it that, when I'm on a train and we go over a crossing, the bells are always ringing? Yet when I'm in a car on the street, the bells hardly ever ring!

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[Lexicon]

In the interest of hi-jacking this thread so it is moved to it's proper locale, MPSIMS, I propose that we all start relating stupid questions we've run into.
I'll start.
My brother and I are driving along one day and BAM!flap!flap!flap!flap!flap!flap! we get a flat tire.
We manage to limp to a nearby gas-station and this idiot says
"Tire go flat?"
I had to say
"No, we wuz just a drivin' along and the other 3 just blew right up on us!" I thought I was clever, but the ol' boy turned out to be not so dumb after all. Without missing a beat he says
"Well, the heat'll do that."
I nearly crapped my pants I laughed so hard.

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how did it start? well i don't know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it's just there for the taking...
VvvV
"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots."

[Dandmb50]

actually I think my signature line says it all, but then your question was very near the top.

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[Soup]

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

[Kat]

Lexicon, you forgot to add "Here's your sign." at the end.

[Lexicon]

Nah, I figured it would be obvious, but now that you mention it...
I guess I should've put quotes around that section so that it didn't look like I was plagiarizing...which it does.
I feel so sheepish.
BAAAA-AAAH!
Thanks Kat!

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how did it start? well i don't know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it's just there for the taking...
VvvV
"Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots."

[jayburner]

everyone just skirts around my question...but it seems to intimidate you for some reason..its an honest question...can't some of you guys answer it for me please..its not exactly a brainbuster i'm asking here...sheesh

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I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar

[MrKnowItAll]

Ya'know, Michael Masterson over in MPSIMS is putting up quite a few good contenders. Jayburner is going to have to try harder.

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Now with 1000 posts of pure wisdom!
(or something)

[justwannano]

How about:

If The Color Purple plays the blues will they turn red

[sunbear]

How does a thermos bottle know whether to keep the drink cold or hot?

[BuddyG]

I'll see if the gas tank is empty,
ya' gotta match?

[mega the roo]

oh no, it definitly has to be one that my friend asked me when we were fifteen.

"if i dropped this candle in the water, would the whole lake start on fire?"

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"If anybody wants a sheep, that is proof that he exists."

[justwannano]

To son who came home late again

"Have you been drinking?"

Ask Michael Masterson>

[SoMoMom]

Originally posted by rastahomie:

The convenience store clerk looks at them and says, "You fellas goin' to the game?"




A similar happened to my husband. He had a soccer referee clinic before a Blue's game was going to be on. (He's got this superstition that that they are winning on the road because he wears his Blues stuff while they play.) So, he's all decked out in his authentic jersey and his brand new Blues hat with his fancy Blues hat pins. A fellow referee says, "You a Blues fan?"

[Cardinal]

It was very hard to believe, but a who just came in to our tutoring business and scored a 1460 on a practice SAT had to have me explain the relationship of "locomotive" to "train" *and* "tractor" to "plow." It seemed she had just no idea of what a locomotive was, or a plow. I know we're in a sprawling urban area, but puhleeze.

[aha]

Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway?

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[NanoByte]

Why are there gays on the Straight Dope MB?

What is the third name in this series: 1. John, 2. John Quincy 3. ?

If rain fell up, would we need clouds?

Why hasn't this thread gone to MPSIMS yet?

Ans.: Because manhattan was waiting for me to post to it.

Ray (Moi?)

[matt_mcl]

Picture this. I'm in bed with my boyfriend, having wild sex, going at it hot and heavy. (OK, you don't actually have to picture it if you don't want.)

Suddenly, my father bursts in. What does he yell?

"What the hell are you doing???!!!"

Seems pretty obvious to me!

[AzRaek]

"Don't you love me anymore?"

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I'm not a fallen angel, I'm a risen demon.

[Breckinshire]

"Is she prettier than me?"

OR

"Do these [pants] make my butt look big?"

Perhaps not the stupidest questions, but certainly the most dangerous. ;)

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A hush fell over the courtroom, killing six.

Handy/Matt Mcl: You two have made me cry, from laughing so hard. Thank you, really.

I think the dumbest questions are the ones in which the person knows the answer. It just irritates me to no end.

E.g. I sit down to eat a donut, and a cup of coffee. My friend says, "So, you're having a cup of coffee with your donut?"

Or, I'm talking on the phone, and the person sees me on the phone, and they still ask, "Oh, I'm sorry, are you using the phone?"

I'm sure you can all relate.

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"Life is hard...but God is good"

[sunbear]

The "are you back from vcation?" question.

[salinqmind]

From me - Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night: "Did you do/finish your homework yet?"

[Wood Thrush]

Hmm.....What's the stupedist question ever asked? Well, I don't know, but its probably one that someone repeated before giving a reply.

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he is young, and Nature
is in her spring;
whenever he hears it, it
is a new world and a free
country, and the gates of
heaven are not shut
against him"
–Thoreau, on
the song of the wood thrush

[Edward J Cunningham]

oh no, it definitly has to be one that my friend asked me when we were fifteen.

"if i dropped this candle in the water, would the whole lake start on fire?"



Good think you didn't do that in Lake Erie!

[Girl Next Door]

What is the third name in this series: 1. John, 2. John Quincy 3. ?

Gomez?



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[Edward J Cunningham]

How about this one? A local reporter asked this to some Redskin during a Super Bowl press conference.

[quote]If you were a tree, what type of tree would you be?[/would]

Maybe it isn't the stupidest question ever asked, but it was definitely the stupidest question ever asked during a Super Bowl.

(Note: Some people would claim that question would be one said to Doug Williams: "How long have you been a black quarterback" , but that was a misquote. The actual question is smarter. "Doug, it's obvious you've been a black quarterback all your life. When did it start to matter?")

[Edward J Cunningham]

How about this one? A local reporter asked this to some Redskin during a Super Bowl press conference.

If you were a tree, what type of tree would you be?

Maybe it isn't the stupidest question ever asked, but it was definitely the stupidest question ever asked during a Super Bowl.

(Note: Some people would claim that question would be one said to Doug Williams: "How long have you been a black quarterback" , but that was a misquote. The actual question is smarter. "Doug, it's obvious you've been a black quarterback all your life. When did it start to matter?")

[Kyla]

That's a Barbara Walters question! Not some local reporter. She's famous for having asked someone that, but I certainly have no idea who was being questioned. I don't think I was born at the time.

I once heard Bob Costas ask that, but he was joking.



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~Harborina

"Don't Do It."

[Pooch]

Do you want fries with that?

No, okay, then this question to me from a Japanese in a Tokyo pub:

Do you eat chicken in America?

My answer: Yeah, when we can catch 'em.

[Nickrz]

Argh.