# Don't Even Ask. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150 "2006-08-17T22:39:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/1 "2006-08-17T22:39:30Z")
**Watch it! Grab that bazooka! Pull the platypus out of the pistachios! Mick Jagger! Let go of Elizabeth Dole’s olive!** ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/2 "2006-08-17T22:42:10Z")
Hal Briston? Dr. Diazepham will see you now. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/3 "2006-08-17T22:43:34Z")
\ I miss him. He’s just not the same since he came back. The aliens took him to the Planet of the Spandex-Clad Waitresses and he hasn’t been normal since. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/4 "2006-08-17T22:48:20Z")
Pass that over here, man. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/5 "2006-08-17T23:30:03Z")
But I have to ask, did you forget to lock your computer again? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/6 "2006-08-17T23:33:51Z")
If he did, Ludwig von Köchel is the one playing with it. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/7 "2006-08-17T23:38:54Z")
Dammit. Restrain that octopus now we’ve got goats around, okay? I mean, sheesh. How hard can this be? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/8 "2006-08-17T23:42:35Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] If he did, Ludwig von Köchel is the one playing with it. [/QUOTE] What is the symbol for a joke that flew completely over my head? I guess this 😕 will work. Maybe you can either spoiler tag what you meant or email me it. Jim ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/9 "2006-08-18T00:29:03Z")
Check your email. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/10 "2006-08-18T01:19:28Z")
All right, who’s on the drugs here and where can I get some? ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/11 "2006-08-18T01:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] What is the symbol for a joke that flew completely over my head? [/QUOTE] You, dear sir, have been whooshed. As I don’t get it either, I’d like to get an email as well. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/12 "2006-08-18T02:04:19Z")
For those of you who fell asleep in Music History: Good old Ludwig was the guy who assigned opus numbers to Mozart’s works. Since Hal’s quote was from Opus the Penguin in an old Bloom County strip, I thought it funny. Geez, ya try to raise the moral and intellectual tone around here, and what happens? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/13 "2006-08-18T02:06:31Z")
Gee, another blatant post count padding thread. Even though such things are supposedly frowned upon, it’s still open, too. Yay. +1 for me. Karana Bless America. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/14 "2006-08-18T02:34:37Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] [QUOTE=What Exit?] But I have to ask, did you forget to lock your computer again? [/QUOTE] If he did, Ludwig von Köchel is the one playing with it. [/QUOTE] Really? My bet was **Inigo Montoya**. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/15 "2006-08-18T02:34:41Z")
Big 'ol kudos out to **silenus** – yes, that was (not) a ['Toon For Our Times](http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/bloomcounty832.html). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/16 "2006-08-18T06:12:46Z")
So what does this have to do with the sheep? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/17 "2006-08-18T06:40:22Z")
The sheep was under the pistachios, the platypus was looking for her. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/18 "2006-08-18T12:29:20Z")
Damn the torpedos man, warp speed!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/19 "2006-08-18T12:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Big 'ol kudos out to **silenus** – yes, that was (not) a ['Toon For Our Times](http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/bloomcounty832.html). [/QUOTE] Wow. Bloom County’s been one of my all-time faves and I didn’t even remember that one. Now I gotta pull out all the books and paruse them all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-ask/369150/20 "2006-08-18T13:46:54Z")
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