# Answers Only Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065 "2020-06-22T21:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/101 "2020-07-03T22:15:58Z")
Good, thanks. How are you? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/102 "2020-07-03T22:26:06Z")
A shoe. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/103 "2020-07-04T02:16:07Z")
Alcohol consumption, allergies, a cold, or even your weight. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/104 "2020-07-04T02:24:01Z")
No, use an olive. Otherwise, the cocktail becomes a Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/105 "2020-07-04T02:44:43Z")
Look in the back room. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/106 "2020-07-04T03:09:24Z")
Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/107 "2020-07-04T06:25:16Z")
I don’t even know what coming back from the dead means. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/108 "2020-07-04T06:42:48Z")
I ran into him recently, at the supermarket. He’s doing okay. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/109 "2020-07-04T06:53:25Z")
I know voting is a responsibility but the choices I’m offered paralyze my civic sense. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/110 "2020-07-05T04:14:59Z")
But our sales would plummet! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/111 "2020-07-05T04:35:58Z")
It actually works pretty well, once you get the hang of it. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/112 "2020-07-05T04:42:41Z")
Yes. No. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/113 "2020-07-05T07:28:49Z")
For a second there, yeah, I kind of did. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/114 "2020-07-05T07:38:38Z")
No, the guy on the left is Jerry. The guy on the right is Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Trinary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trinary/32/3151_2.png) [@Trinary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinary)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/115 "2020-07-05T08:44:46Z")
Go down the road a piece, then take a left where that old oak tree used to be. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/116 "2020-07-05T13:42:41Z")
Insane? Quite possibly. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/117 "2020-07-05T14:23:28Z")
No, Ruprecht, she’s not our mother. :: chuckles :: ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/118 "2020-07-05T16:16:01Z")
I can’t wrap my head around hypothetical situations like that. Whenever someone asks me what if, I know I’ll have to think about combinations that never occurred and will never happen. And probably for a good reason. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/119 "2020-07-05T16:22:17Z")
And Toto, too! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answers-only-thread/912065/120 "2020-07-05T17:00:03Z")
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