# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642)._