# Ask the Amish guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209 "2003-10-18T16:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/1 "2003-10-18T16:54:30Z")
It’s the “Ask the Amish Guy” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/2 "2003-10-18T17:59:53Z")
Why are you using a computer? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/3 "2003-10-18T18:10:18Z")
Shouldn’t you be out pulling in the fall harvest? What are you…some slacker Menonite? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/4 "2003-10-18T18:51:59Z")
what kind of Amish guy are you? Are you on that “vacation from Amishhood” that young Amish folk take or what? ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/5 "2003-10-18T19:16:26Z")
What’s with the crazy beard with no mustache, Amish guy? Have you ever bowled? ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/6 "2003-10-18T20:38:34Z")
Is your particular group more liberal than the average? Doesn’t it usually depend on what your local elder(bishop?) says? How old are you? Do you have a trade? Were you rebellious at an early age? Have the_English_ corrupted you? Have you read “The Riddle of Amish Culture” by Donald Kraybill? Got any good buys on a quilt? How the heck do ANY Amish teenagers manage to stay in the fold, after being exposed to the world at large? ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/7 "2003-10-18T20:41:55Z")
What Jenaroph said: If you are Amish then why are you using the internet and a PC? ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/8 "2003-10-18T21:48:45Z")
Where do I get a set of spinners for my buggy? I have a Hasidim hat without the fur; can I use that as an Amish hat? Is it bad form to wear my Amish hat backwards? ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/9 "2003-10-19T18:38:58Z")
Hey, folks, you can _ask_ the Amish Guy. Just don’t expect an answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/10 "2003-10-19T19:10:25Z")
:smack: Walked headfirst into that one. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/11 "2003-10-19T20:56:50Z")
Well, Andy, good joke. In the future, please address all your posts to my hand. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/12 "2003-10-19T21:23:56Z")
I don’t get it. He isn’t Amish, and he isn’t going to answer any questions. Why is this funny? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/13 "2003-10-19T21:38:51Z")
Herge, we aren’t here to understand. Merely to bear witness. Scylla, explain it to him. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/14 "2003-10-19T22:18:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Herge \* > \*\*I don’t get it. He isn’t Amish, and he isn’t going to answer any questions. Why is this funny? \*\* Andy’s not Amish? Lyin’ bastid. I _knew_ you couldn’t trust the Amish. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/15 "2003-10-20T02:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious \* > \*\*Hey, folks, you can _ask_ the Amish Guy. > > Just don’t expect an answer. > > 😃 \*\* _Hi-yooooh!_ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-amish-guy/208209/16 "2003-10-20T03:35:16Z")
This is _so_ closed. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator