# From the "point and laugh" department **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626 "2013-09-25T05:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/21 "2013-09-25T17:53:10Z")
> [@PacifistPorcupine](#): > > He just proved that anal sex is best. Well, both sexes are equipped for it. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/22 "2013-09-25T19:07:16Z")
Magnets, huh. I cite the much earlier philosophical research conducted at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where the final thesis ran “Why man, ye canna mek a hot dog with twa buns and nee sossij”. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/23 "2013-09-25T19:17:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Then horseshoe magnets are supportive of bestiality? autofellatio ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/24 "2013-09-25T19:27:26Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Magnets, huh. I cite the much earlier philosophical research conducted at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where the final thesis ran “Why man, ye canna mek a hot dog with twa buns and nee sossij”. Really, Newcastle? I would have pegged that as a Scottish accent, not Geordie. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/25 "2013-09-25T19:32:30Z")
Is _Mad_ magazine an international journal? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/26 "2013-09-25T21:19:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Is _Mad_ magazine an international journal? There’s always the [Journal of Irreproducible Results](http://www.jir.com/). ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/27 "2013-09-25T21:22:36Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Really, Newcastle? I would have pegged that as a Scottish accent, not Geordie. I think a more accurate vernacular would be “Why-I man, ye cannae mek an ‘ot dog wit’ tay buns and nee sossie”." but maybe that’s a Bratford/Geordie cross ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/28 "2013-09-25T22:19:45Z")
It’s like this. When a mommy magnet and a daddy magnet love each other very much, they have a very special way of hugging… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/29 "2013-09-25T23:15:11Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > autofellatio Allow the tailpipe to cool first. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/30 "2013-09-26T00:01:43Z")
Reminds me of an episode of “Tosh.0”… ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/31 "2013-09-26T00:23:07Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s like this. When a mommy magnet and a daddy magnet love each other very much, they have a very special way of hugging… magnetic coupling. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/32 "2013-09-26T02:14:28Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > magnetic coupling. Hush up! Children can be reading this! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/33 "2013-09-26T02:45:46Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Hush up! Children can be reading this! :smack: What, do you want then to grow up to be monopoles? ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/34 "2013-09-26T04:32:32Z")
In the interest of science I tried to replicate these finding with a couple of magnets at my house and apparently my magnets are really into 69. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/35 "2013-09-26T10:35:27Z")
But currents flowing in the same direction in parallel wires will cause the wires to move together. Like attracts. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/36 "2013-09-26T14:07:26Z")
Wait, can’t you create a magnet with moving electrical charge? How does this fit into the whole theory? ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/37 "2013-09-26T14:11:05Z")
I think the Right Hand Rule is applicable in that case. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/38 "2013-09-26T14:12:28Z")
Outside of external forces, two objects will be drawn together due to gravitational forces. Therefore, anything goes between two people if nobody else is getting in the way. Where’s my doctorate? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/39 "2013-09-26T14:50:50Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > But currents flowing in the same direction in parallel wires will cause the wires to move together. Like attracts. Hence the euphemism AC/DC. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/40 "2013-09-26T15:03:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I wonder what he thinks of gravity? > > Oh, and there’s also the minor detail that every magnet has both a north pole and a south pole. Try to break them apart, and you get two new poles, so both pieces still have a north and a south. I guess we’re all hermaphrodites, eh? I’d say bisexual instead of intersex, since he’s [del]obsessed with[/del] focused on sexual attraction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626.md?page=3)