# Ask the guy who uses answers using other "ask the" threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642 "2012-01-06T17:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/1 "2012-01-06T17:44:23Z")
Got a question? I’ll let other people attempt to answer it! [sub]With thanks to Idle Thoughts for cobbling together a semi-definitive list for me to peruse[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/2 "2012-01-06T18:03:47Z")
Okay, let’s start with the basics. What is the meaning of life? ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/3 "2012-01-06T18:24:37Z")
What happened to my car on New Years eve? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/4 "2012-01-06T18:29:10Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Okay, let’s start with the basics. > > What is the meaning of life? Wow. Starting with a rather large one there. Well, let’s ask the guy with all the answers! > [@Ask the guy with all the answers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-all-the-answers/367273/12): > > I could answer that question easily. But instead, I choose to ask: Do you _really_ want to know that? > > . > . > . > > And to answer myself: No. You don’t. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/5 "2012-01-06T18:35:20Z")
Does she or doesn’t she? And what if her hairdresser has no clue? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/6 "2012-01-06T18:38:59Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > What happened to my car on New Years eve? Well that seems to be a more localized question. Let’s ask the guy who is hiding in your bushes. > [@Ask the guy who is hiding in your bushes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-hiding-in-your-bushes/552168/9): > > You left the keys in the freezer. They were in your hand when you reached in there for that peperoni hot pocket and you dropped them. The soda was taken by a drunken Lindsey Lohan. You can’t let that chick anywhere near coke. I have no idea why you were partying with Lindsey Lohan on NYE, but I hope you two had a blast! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/7 "2012-01-06T18:44:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Does she or doesn’t she? And what if her hairdresser has no clue? The answer is that she does. But don’t take my word for it. Let’s ask about my Brazilian Blowout on The Hair From Hell (aka THFH) > [@Ask me about my Brazilian Blowout on The Hair From Hell (aka THFH)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-about-my-brazilian-blowout-on-the-hair-from-hell-aka-thfh/585727/19): > > second BB complete and i do notice a difference. > > Bridget, Hairdresser Extraordinaire, said the effects are cumulative, and i do see a change. the second application has definitely relaxed the hair shaft even more than before. this is probably the last BB until next spring/summer. For the record, I’ve read through it and still have absolutely no clue what that thread was about. But there you go! ---
**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:** [January 7, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/8 "2012-01-07T05:51:03Z")
Where are my car keys? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/9 "2012-01-07T05:56:40Z")
What’s all this I hear about airplanes and treadmills? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/10 "2012-01-07T06:38:13Z")
Would I be better off joining the Masons or a militia? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/11 "2012-01-07T12:38:14Z")
Who sang that mid-1990s song featuring a young woman’s spoken voice describing blue sky and clouds, set to trancy-dreamy music? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/12 "2012-01-07T14:31:28Z")
Should I stay or should I go? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/13 "2012-01-07T14:38:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Where are my car keys? Well now, it would be easy to just requote the answer above. But we’ve already asked the guy in the bushes, so let’s move on. Instead, I think we need to ask the psychic! > [@Ask the Psychic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychic/354953/34): > > Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answers? Now Psychic, that’s not very helpful at all. Try again. > [@Ask the Psychic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-psychic/354953/65): > > Please remember, that psychic =! omniscient. I’m not much of a reader yet, but my belief is that they aren’t supposed to give you direct answers about the future so much as tell you what you need to hear. Think of it as a guide. I still believe that you make your own destiny. Yeah, I think you’re going to have to find your keys on your own, Elendil’s Heir. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/14 "2012-01-07T14:51:44Z")
Ginger or Mary Ann? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/15 "2012-01-07T22:55:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What’s all this I hear about airplanes and treadmills? Hmm…let’s ask the guy currently on an airplane! Or was, back in 2009 anyway. > [@Ask a guy currently on an airplane!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-a-guy-currently-on-an-airplane/489833/47): > > Nope sorry, guess I was whooshed! > > Quite a trick making something go that far over my head, when I myself am 35,000 feet up! Seriously. What are you doing with a treadmill that high up? Are you on the Jetsons? You know that’s a serious safety hazzard. > [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Would I be better off joining the Masons or a militia? I thought about asking the militia guy, but that would be too easy. Plus, since there isn’t an ask the mason thread, it would present an unfair bias in favor of one side. So instead, let’s ask the audiologist! > [@Ask the Audiologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-audiologist/416145/39): > > To me, it all depends on the case at hand. I’m aware of the controversy, but as an audiologist, it is my job to educate the parents (whether deaf or hearing) about the various options available to them. I must also support them in their decision to go whichever way they feel is best for their child. I usually have an opinion one way or another, but I keep it to myself because I feel it would be unethical and unfair to voice it, since it may unduly influence parents over what can be a very difficult and emotionally-troubling decision that only they can make. > > In short, without the facts of a case at hand, I am not necessarily pro or con either way. It really depends on the individual case. Hmmm…I hope that this helps settle the matter for you. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/16 "2012-01-07T23:41:36Z")
A passenger train leaves New York at 6:00 AM traveling to Chicago at 85 MPH. A second train, leaving from Chicago bound for New York leaves at 7:30 AM, traveling at 60 MPH. What types of truffles are being served in the cafeteria car on each train? Please list the varieties and regions of origin. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/17 "2012-01-07T23:52:42Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Who sang that mid-1990s song featuring a young woman’s spoken voice describing blue sky and clouds, set to trancy-dreamy music? > [@twickster](#): > > Should I stay or should I go? Oh, two songs eh? I have no idea. But thankfully I don’t need to know. Let’s go ask the opera singer! > [@Ask the (not quite) starving Opera Singer!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-not-quite-starving-opera-singer/15282/24): > > You may very well have heard muddy singing–I can’t say–but I would encourage you to go and hear something live if you get the chance. It’s a _completely_ different experience. I would liken the extent of the difference to that of talking to someone on the phone vs. face-to-face conversation. Not only can you hear them fully without any intervening media, but you can see them and feel their presence as well. Hope that helps! > [@campp](#): > > Ginger or Mary Ann? Oh yes, the age old question that every adolescent boy struggles with. Let’s ask the woman who’s currently PMSing! > [@Ask The Woman That's Currently PMSing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-woman-thats-currently-pmsing/530658/36): > > So you’re saying that I’m old?? Is that what you’re saying?? Hey, buddy, I’ll have you know that I have at least ten more years of this! I am NOT OLD!!! > You really think I’m old? OK, maybe more more questions from the '60s. Sheesh. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/18 "2012-01-08T01:45:18Z")
Who wrote the Book of Love? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/19 "2012-01-08T02:42:35Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > A passenger train leaves New York at 6:00 AM traveling to Chicago at 85 MPH. A second train, leaving from Chicago bound for New York leaves at 7:30 AM, traveling at 60 MPH. What types of truffles are being served in the cafeteria car on each train? Please list the varieties and regions of origin. Eek. That’s a rather technical question. You have biology, botony, spacial reasoning, the works. Time to bring out the big guns. Let’s ask the particle physicist: > [@Ask the particle physicist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-particle-physicist/522186/100): > > What we have is a rather clean description that matches reality. In this description, particles take on a simple mathematical form, and this form also happens to imply a few spooky properties, which is good since these spooky properties are indeed observed. However, IMHO, these properties are spooky only because we have been trained since birth to have a “local” intuition. But, nature didn’t ask us. This isn’t to say that particles _are_ what our description says. Indeed, we can never say what anything _is_; we can only construct descriptions that match whatever data we have and that are sufficiently useful for human use. So, apparently, your truffles can taste like anything you dream them to be if you slice them thin enough. SCIENCE! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Who wrote the Book of Love? Who indeed. Let’s ask the guy wearing a nice pair of brown wing-tips about love, life and his outfit > [@Ask the guy wearing a nice pair of brown wing-tips about love, life and his outfit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-wearing-a-nice-pair-of-brown-wing-tips-about-love-life-and-his-outfit/418929/28): > > Oh, mom’s very proud of my creative writing. Whoa! You mean you wrote the Book of Love, guy wearing a nice pair of brown wing-tips? > [@Ask the guy wearing a nice pair of brown wing-tips about love, life and his outfit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-wearing-a-nice-pair-of-brown-wing-tips-about-love-life-and-his-outfit/418929/30): > > First rule of the wingtip shoe contingent: Never talk about the wingtip shoe contingent. > haha I’m just kidding. Actually that’s the second rule. The first rule is: Wear wingtip shoes. The third rule of the wingtip shoe contingent is to joke nervously while trying to avoid questions about the wingtip shoe contingent. Question retracted then. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/20 "2012-01-08T03:05:02Z")
Should I buy a Chrysler? No, wait. Let me rephrase that as an ethical question Is it right to buy a Chrysler? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642.md?page=2)