# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/21 "2012-01-08T04:00:01Z")
Camels are good - with the humps. But elephants are also good - with the long nose. Which one’s better - camels or elephants? I can’t decide ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/22 "2012-01-08T04:40:34Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > 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! What do you have against [these](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391621) [two](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556325) threads? Seriously. That’s my question. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/23 "2012-01-08T11:37:04Z")
What answer was never given in any ‘ask the’-thread? ---
**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, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/24 "2012-01-08T23:11:03Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Should I buy a Chrysler? > > No, wait. Let me rephrase that as an ethical question > > Is it right to buy a Chrysler? Alas, there were no Ask the Simpsons Character threads. So, instead, let’s ask the Jewish settler: > [@ask the Jewish settler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-jewish-settler/180618/18): > > I don’t drive (I don’t actually have a driver’s license, but that’s another thread - a leftover from my days in America.) When there were a number of shootings on the road to Jerusalem, I tried to be careful to take the bulletproof bus (which I’m sure my mother thinks I still do, so shhhh…), but the roads have been quiet for the past year, so now I mostly hitchhike (much more common in Israel than America.) There you go. Chryslers are OK, so long as they’re bulletproof. > [@mutantmoose](#): > > Camels are good - with the humps. But elephants are also good - with the long nose. > > Which one’s better - camels or elephants? I can’t decide For my money, they’re both better. But you’re not asking my opinion. And I have no money to give you. And even if I had money, I wouldn’t give it to you. Which I guess is basically the same thing. So instead, let’s ask the guy who spent a week surviving in the desert with no food: > [@Ask the guy who spent a week surviving in the desert with no food.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-spent-a-week-surviving-in-the-desert-with-no-food/501487/7): > > I kept a field journal where I chronicled everything from a new plant or bird or flower, to the way I was feeling or what I was thinking about a certain issue in my life. I am enjoying reading through the journal now, lets me remember where I’ve been and where I really want to go. The only critters I saw were ground squirrels, toads and the occasional tree frog. In years past in the same canyon a family of bear have wandered through and several mountain lion sightings…there is not a lot of big game in there to hunt so I think the big predators stay away by in large. Saw some Big Horn Sheep on the high cliffs…that was cool! True fact\* sheep are a known cousin to camels. So I think we can count them as winners in this debate. \*facts have a margin of error of +/- one species. > [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > What do you have against [these](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391621) [two](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556325) threads? > Seriously. That’s my question. > > -D/a Well, I could say that it wouldn’t be fair, two threads against one, to start quoting the masons. Or I could say that this isn’t a debate thread where I pull in and quote every relevant person to answer. But instead, I think I’ll just say that I’ve learned my “find” capability on this computer has a very limiting factor where it only looks from the start of words and I missed the freemasons completely. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/25 "2012-01-10T02:19:10Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > What answer was never given in any ‘ask the’-thread? A trickster. A Loki. A Sphinxy Riddler. Well, let’s just ask the [blank], blank being defined as every “ask the” thread, therefore included in it is the “Ask the question whose answer was never given in any ‘ask the’-thread” So what answer was that? > [@Ask the \[blank\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-blank/419004/26): > > That’s for me to know and you to find out. You’re welcome. ---
**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 10, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/26 "2012-01-10T18:19:14Z")
Let’s try a question which comes back every few months. Can you provide a definitive answer for “Why don’t girls like ‘nice guys’?” ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/27 "2012-01-10T18:55:23Z")
Who is this \*\*Enderw24 \*\*guy? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/28 "2012-01-11T02:30:30Z")
I want to reduce my plastic waste. I currently use disposable razors. I’d like to switch to disposable blades on a standard razor. I’d like one that is small-sish so I’m not pulling a tractor across my skin, and I’d prefer to be able to control the angle it is at, instead of it rotating on a random pivot. What color razor should I get? And while we’re at it, what brand? -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642/29 "2012-01-11T03:31:35Z")
Where did the giraffe get the hovercraft, anyway, and why is the color orange currently circulating that petition? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642.md?page=1)