# Ask me anything. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2005, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175 "2005-09-30T09:29:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/41 "2005-09-30T19:09:27Z")
Okay, one more. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? E. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/42 "2005-09-30T19:10:07Z")
Why _is_ a raven like a writing desk, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/43 "2005-09-30T19:10:26Z")
1. What is the difference between a duck with both legs the same size? 2. What’s the meaning of life and how does it relate to 100% cotton socks? 3. Hi Opal? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/44 "2005-09-30T19:20:39Z")
An English cat named “One Two Three!” races a French cat (chat française), named “Un Deux Trois!” across the English Channel/la Manche. Which one wins, and why? ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/45 "2005-09-30T20:54:07Z")
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie-roll pop? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/46 "2005-09-30T20:55:41Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > What will happen if I cut this wire? Nothing at all. Go on. Try it. 😃 > [@Elza B.](#): > > Okay, one more. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? However much he damn pleased! > [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Why is a raven like a writing desk, anyway? I hardly know, sir. > [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > 1. What is the difference between a duck with both legs the same size? > > 2. What’s the meaning of life and how does it relate to 100% cotton socks? > > 3. Hi Opal? 1. I would answer, but the reply would be too fowl for the SDMBs (gotta follow the rules). 2. To live life fully, which means buy socks you’re always comfortable in. Preferribly ones that come with left and rights. 3. Never again > [@Loopydude](#): > > An English cat named “One Two Three!” races a French cat (chat française), named “Un Deux Trois!” across the English Channel/la Manche. Which one wins, and why? The English cat. Because the race starter says “Get ready, get set…GO” and the french cat, only speaking and understanding french, doesn’t realize that he should have taken off, thus the English cat gets a 3 second head start, which turns out to make all the difference. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/47 "2005-09-30T20:59:23Z")
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie-roll pop? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/48 "2005-09-30T21:05:57Z")
> [@AndyPolley](#): > > How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie-roll pop? The answer never changed from before. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/49 "2005-09-30T21:09:00Z")
how high the moon? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/50 "2005-09-30T21:13:56Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > An English cat named “One Two Three!” races a French cat (chat française), named “Un Deux Trois!” across the English Channel/la Manche. Which one wins, and why? i know that one! may i answer? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/51 "2005-09-30T21:16:03Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Nothing at all. Go on. Try it. 😃 > > However much he damn pleased! > > I hardly know, sir. > > 1. I would answer, but the reply would be too fowl for the SDMBs (gotta follow the rules). > 2. To live life fully, which means buy socks you’re always comfortable in. Preferribly ones that come with left and rights. > 3. Never again > > The English cat. Because the race starter says “Get ready, get set…GO” and the french cat, only speaking and understanding french, doesn’t realize that he should have taken off, thus the English cat gets a 3 second head start, which turns out to make all the difference. no! it’s because ‘un-deux-trois’ quatre (phonectially cat) cinq (phonetically: sank) yay me ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/52 "2005-09-30T21:22:52Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Nothing at all. Go on. Try it. 😃 > > However much he damn pleased! > > I hardly know, sir. > > 1. I would answer, but the reply would be too fowl for the SDMBs (gotta follow the rules). > 2. To live life fully, which means buy socks you’re always comfortable in. Preferribly ones that come with left and rights. > 3. Never again > > The English cat. Because the race starter says “Get ready, get set…GO” and the french cat, only speaking and understanding french, doesn’t realize that he should have taken off, thus the English cat gets a 3 second head start, which turns out to make all the difference. NO! it’s because “un-deux-trois” quatre (pronounced ‘cat’) cinq (pronounced ‘sank’) yay me ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/53 "2005-09-30T21:25:59Z")
why isn’t page two of this thread displaying?? and sorry for the double post, but since page two didn’t display, i didn’t see the first one ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/54 "2005-09-30T21:36:48Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Well, it always seems to be the left one! You put on your right sock and there you are wondering where the left one went to. > But for a serious answer…I think you actually CAN get socks that are rights and lefts…I mean, I could have sworn I’ve seen them, had them before. Isn’t it having to do with where the seam is? The L/R [socks have toes.](http://www.joyofsocks.com/toesocks1.html) Hey, you are supposed to answer, not ask! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/55 "2005-09-30T21:58:38Z")
Do you…do you love me? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/56 "2005-09-30T22:24:29Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > how high the moon? It depends on what kind of cannabis he’s been smoking. Yes, I know that was lame. > [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Do you…do you love me? Don’t tell anyone…yes. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/57 "2005-09-30T22:30:01Z")
While the alternate answer was clever, **anyrose** seems to have nailed it… ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/58 "2005-09-30T22:57:37Z")
What’s it all about, eh? I mean really. When you get right down to it? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/59 "2005-10-01T03:04:23Z")
How’s it hanging? ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175/60 "2005-10-01T03:58:20Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Don’t tell anyone…yes. Hooray! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-anything/324175.md?page=4)