# Ask the Generic Person Anything **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836 "2024-10-15T16:53:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/21 "2024-10-15T21:40:45Z")
If your arm was a hot dog, would you eat it? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/22 "2024-10-15T22:07:35Z")
For Halloween, are you dressing in all white with black text on the shirtfront that says “COSTUME”? (I saw this IRL back in the early 80’s.) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/23 "2024-10-15T22:15:34Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > If you were a food, what kind of food would you be?. [![](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C1KG26/generic-canned-food-C1KG26.jpg) ](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C1KG26/generic-canned-food-C1KG26.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/24 "2024-10-15T22:29:08Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > What sort of pronunciation do you use for the word “generic”? Do you start it with a hard G, a soft j-sounding G, a soft z-sounding G, or something else? Is the first e hard or soft? If it’s soft, in pronunciation, is it said with a drawl? Are there further ways to elaborate on the different ways to enunciate the word “generic”? Is the ‘C’ pronounced as a K, as a CH as in “loch”, as a TS as in some eastern European languages, or as an S? Is the second ‘E’ pronounced as a long A as in Eric, as a schwa, or as a long E as in Erie? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/25 "2024-10-15T22:33:12Z")
My cousin is generic, so I consider myself an ally and boldly wave the grey flag. What kind of mayo do you use on white bread sandwiches? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/26 "2024-10-15T22:33:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > How many children do you have? What color and type is your front yard fence? Do you have a front yard fence? What colour and type are your children? ---
**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 15, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/27 "2024-10-15T22:43:11Z")
How do you feel about Cheerios? Can you abide Generios? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/28 "2024-10-15T22:46:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > How do you feel about Cheerios They are fine as long as they leave out the cooked rat bones. > [@I've got a bone to pick with Cheerios.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-bone-to-pick-with-cheerios/842536): > > So I had a box of Cheerios and scooped out a handful and found something weird, possibly a twig with a bud on the end. Experimenting, I snapped the “twig” in two, then took a closer look at it. Nope, not a twig, but [a glazed and cooked shard of bone](https://imgur.com/a/rD9aEmw). So, General Mills, be thankful that it wasn’t swallowed by someone and I’m too lazy to bother trying for a lawsuit–you dodged a bullet. ---
**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 15, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/29 "2024-10-15T22:46:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Would generic people have sex organs? I’m not sure about generic people, but on average, people have one testicle, one ovary, half of a penis, and half of a vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/30 "2024-10-15T23:17:47Z")
Did you ever think Bugs Bunny was attractive when he’d put on a dress and play a girl bunny? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/31 "2024-10-15T23:50:00Z")
“Lady fingers, they taste just like lady fingers!” ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/32 "2024-10-15T23:52:06Z")
“If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy, now would it?” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/33 "2024-10-15T23:56:14Z")
Is your favorite color red or blue? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/34 "2024-10-16T04:59:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Acme Doper, Inc. Add the ™ and that’d be the thread winner so far! ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/35 "2024-10-16T11:45:33Z")
@purplehorseshoe Meh. “Acme” is now spelled “Amazon.” If new Road Runner cartoons were generated today, Wile E. Coyote would be buying all of his stuff from Amazon. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/36 "2024-10-16T11:48:43Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > If new Road Runner cartoons were generated today … they’d no doubt be generated by AI. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/37 "2024-10-16T16:56:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > but on average, people have one testicle, one ovary, half of a penis, and half of a vagina. Actually the average person has less than one testicle and ovary. They also have an average of less than two arms and legs. Damn statistics! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/38 "2024-10-16T20:04:42Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They also have an average of less than two arms and legs. But how many fingers do they have? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/39 "2024-10-16T20:27:46Z")
So, um, how 'bout that, errm, thing? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836/40 "2024-10-16T21:18:54Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > But how many fingers do they have? On average? Fewer than me. I am above average in finger numbers. But those polydactyl folk, they bring the average back closer to 10. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-generic-person-anything/1008836.md?page=3)