# 7 items I ask myself during a weird time in my life **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392 "2024-10-03T00:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/21 "2024-10-03T19:10:23Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What are baby turtles called? Hey, with a little aid from google I can answer that! (Though I see that someone else already has, possibly even without having to look it up first.) Hatchlings. Which I at least think is kind of cute. And so are baby turtles. (Full grown snappers, maybe less so.) > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Do I really need to wash my bananas? I do. But do I need to? Probably not. I never have, and I’m 73. On the other hand, I routinely eat produce straight out of the fields without washing it. So maybe it’s just that my immune system’s used to it. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > When you’re watching crappy TV and these ads to help the Elephants, the St. Jude kids, the poor Jewish people in Russia, ASPCA, whichever it always asks for $19 bucks a month. If they’re asking for help from/for the Jewish people, they ought to ask for $18. L’chaim! > [@kayaker](#): > > Our dog Ella (RIP) loved to chase squirrels. If we said the word (squirrel) she would go bonkers, so we called them S.Q.s. Now if we refer to squirrels in the yard we still call them S.Q.s even though Ella is gone and the dogs we have do not know the word, I have known dogs who learned how to spell “biscuit”. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/22 "2024-10-03T22:36:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Plus I could use a hug. 🤗 🫂 🤗 🫂 🤗 🫂 🤗 🫂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/23 "2024-10-04T01:28:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oh you don’t match your undies with your outsides? How come superheros wear their [undies](https://boundingintocomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022.10.24-03.44-boundingintocomics-63560a031fdf7.jpg) on the [outside](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d1121d6-54a6-4e36-ab6b-9a5e849b5f81_640x960.jpeg)? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/24 "2024-10-04T02:54:40Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > How come superheros wear their [undies](https://boundingintocomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022.10.24-03.44-boundingintocomics-63560a031fdf7.jpg) on the [outside](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d1121d6-54a6-4e36-ab6b-9a5e849b5f81_640x960.jpeg)? That’s an easy one. It’s to keep the crotch of their tights up where it belongs. As a tall woman, I had troubles with one-size-fits-all hose and would wear something over them to keep them from slowly sliding down my legs and impeding my walk. If you aren’t tall or have never worn tights or leggings, you would not know the problem. And Beck, I haven’t been around much, but this here is for you {{{{{Becky}}}}}. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/25 "2024-10-04T03:01:01Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > That’s an easy one. It’s to keep the crotch of their tights up where it belongs. And, because early superhero costume designs (which still live on in the costume designs of older superheroes like Superman, Batman, etc.) were often borrowed from the style of costumes worn by circus strongmen and acrobats. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/26 "2024-10-04T03:12:52Z")
…which were worn that way to keep the crotch up at the human crotch where it belonged. Seriously, keeping the tights up has been a problem ever since knitted leggings were created. Go look at the knotted ropes and ribbons (garters) they used in the Middle Ages. And that was just to keep them up on the legs, not up at the waist. Also, “memory yarn” aka spandex, had yet to be invented. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/27 "2024-10-04T03:18:21Z")
So that bullet-proof, untearable, unburnable Kryptonian fabric still stretches uncontrollably like ordinary Terran fabric? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/28 "2024-10-04T03:19:35Z")
Have you tried wearing it? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/29 "2024-10-04T03:22:51Z")
I couldn’t find one in my size. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/30 "2024-10-04T03:25:44Z")
You have to know where to shop. But the Kryptonian fabric is outrageously expensive anyway. The bonus is that they never run or snag. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/31 "2024-10-04T03:30:50Z")
Omg! They solved the cheap tights tights issue? I thought it was impossible. I always knew outer space would come into it. Somehow. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/32 "2024-10-04T03:40:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I always knew outer space would come into it. Somehow. While filming _Star Wars_, George Lucas told Carrie Fisher that she wasn’t to wear a bra under her Princess Leia gown, because “there’s no underwear in space.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/33 "2024-10-04T05:26:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If I can’t speak and I taught my dog to speak using buttons is he less handicapped than me, even tho’ he’s a lower order mammal than me. Have I lost ground? If you can’t speak, how could you teach your dog to do so? You could press buttons, and teach your dog to press buttons, but that could only bring the dog up to your level of competence. Having done so, I suppose it’s possible that your dog may find his own voice (metaphorically speaking) and began to express himself with greater eloquence than you had instilled in him. Personally, I think dog poetry fail to achieve any lasting artistic merits just because of the inate limitations of the medium. There just aren’t that many words that rhyme with “woof”. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > **Beck** , you are the female version of Steven Wright. I have an identical twin brother. Other people can tell us apart, but I can’t. When we were kids, he used to pretend to be me and I got _really_ confused. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/34 "2024-10-04T12:11:21Z")
Yay ! Bexbak ! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/35 "2024-10-04T16:09:01Z")
Ha! Love that. Thx. ❤ ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/36 "2024-10-04T16:09:44Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If you can’t speak, how could you teach your dog to do so? You could press buttons, and teach your dog to press buttons, but that could only bring the dog up to your level of competence. Maybe, maybe not, [bitch](https://www.tiktok.com/@sapphie_the_pomsky/video/7145293631782522154?lang=en) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/37 "2024-10-04T18:23:28Z")
Hey, is no one concerned about my red panties? They are gone. My laundry has been done since this occurrence. No red dainties. My favorites. Jerks there stole 'em. Now, can someone just tell me what these skeevy people want with my red panties? I was robbed. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/38 "2024-10-04T18:32:19Z")
" Why is my chair an arm-chair but it can’t hug me? Ok, I know, the arms of a chair are for my arms to sit on. But arms don’t really “sit”, now do they?" Well, your chair has at least 2 legs doesn’t it? So it needs arms for balance. Otherwise it would be a paraplegic chair. \*“When you get to the end, are you necessarily at the beginning of what’s next?” That’s very liminal. [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/liminalspaces/) \*“When you’re watching crappy TV and these ads to help the Elephants, the St. Jude kids, the poor Jewish people in Russia, ASPCA, whichever it always asks for $19 bucks a month. Who came up with that amount?” Ron Popeil. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/39 "2024-10-04T19:29:48Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > \*“When you’re watching crappy TV and these ads to help the Elephants, the St. Jude kids, the poor Jewish people in Russia, ASPCA, whichever it always asks for $19 bucks a month. Who came up with that amount?” I called them up and asked how I could get in that program where they send me all the food I need for a month for 19 bucks but they acted liked I was trying to scam them. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392/40 "2024-10-04T20:23:21Z")
Another thing It’s national Taco Day. Go buy your tortillas folks. Take a bite for me. 🌮 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-items-i-ask-myself-during-a-weird-time-in-my-life/1008392.md?page=3)