# Burning questions of our time **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476 "2014-07-06T14:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/21 "2014-07-07T08:51:14Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > If they make olive oil by crushing olives, then how do they make baby oil? Don’t even ask what Girl Scout cookies are made of. Just. Don’t. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/22 "2014-07-07T09:44:19Z")
If vegetarians eat only vegetables, then what do humanitarians eat? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/23 "2014-07-07T14:54:11Z")
If pro- is the opposite of con-, what’s the opposite of Progress? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/24 "2014-07-07T20:28:23Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > This has been around for quite a while and no one has answered it yet. > > Why do we drive on parkways, but park on driveways? Ahem. The Master [speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/410/why-do-we-drive-on-the-parkway-and-park-on-the-driveway). ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/25 "2014-07-07T21:07:32Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > While I frequently hear of people being disgruntled, I am yet to come across anyone who is gruntled. Why is that? And why is no one ever kempt, shevled, traut, tressed, or whelmed? Why do flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/26 "2014-07-07T21:13:01Z")
What happens to the space - time continuum if you play AM radio after noon? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/27 "2014-07-08T15:43:24Z")
Barber college is for people who want to becoming barbers. Engineering school is for future engineers. Are there really that many people wanting to go to [Messiah College](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_College)? Is it like those mental wards that have 3 Napoleons and 4 Jesuses? How do 175 Messiah wanna-be’s get along? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/28 "2014-07-08T15:59:57Z")
Are people from Mons, Belgium referred to as Monsters? ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/29 "2014-07-08T16:02:53Z")
What would chairs look like if our legs bent the other way? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/30 "2014-07-08T16:10:19Z")
If your camper sleeps six, how many does it eat? ---
**Author:** ![Schrade\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Schrade\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schrade_1)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/31 "2014-07-08T16:24:29Z")
If you have more than 1 goose, you have geese. If you have more than 1 moose, you have … meese? * * * A little goose is a gosling. ## But WTF is a little moose? Mosling? If you have more than one mouse, you have mice. If you have more than one house, do you have hice? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476/32 "2014-07-08T16:26:54Z")
Did the guy who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp also write the Book of Love? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-questions-of-our-time/692476.md?page=1)