# Here'a a random question...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 21, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101 "2000-05-21T07:03:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/1 "2000-05-21T07:03:18Z")
If a rabid woodchuck came up to you on a stolen Harley-Davidson wielding in one hand an old toothbrush and in the other a menacing-looking book entitled “Everything You Wanted To Know About Canada’s Role In The Grand Scheme Of Things” and demanded that you read the book cover to cover or else you would recieve the name-calling of your life, what would you do?
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### Author:  [@Initial\_Entry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Initial_Entry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/2 "2000-05-21T07:09:09Z")
I would threaten to tell Wally’s wife on him if he didn’t back off.
Why do you ask?
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### Author:  [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/3 "2000-05-21T10:20:42Z")
Shoot him and keep the Harley.
Hey you can’t have vermin going around spreading Rabies, or worse yet, making me read a book about Canada.
Rid the world of rabid terrorist Marmotas.
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### Author:  [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/4 "2000-05-21T13:14:18Z")
Well, here I was…all ready to give out a wiseass answer, when that rat bastard **Initial Entry** has to pop in and post the perfect one-liner.
Dammit.
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### Author:  [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/5 "2000-05-21T14:58:11Z")
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/6 "2000-05-21T15:29:09Z")
I’d think twice before I bought weed from **that** guy again.
Dr. J
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### Author:  [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/7 "2000-05-21T15:31:57Z")
Shouldn’t this thread be moved to Great Debates?
(It’s pure Free Will, isn’t it? Nothing wrong with that. The Devil made me say it!)
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/8 "2000-05-22T03:34:22Z")
If there horrible demon hounds from the pits chasing you and they were going to tear you limb from limb and the only way to get rid of them would be to have a priest of God banish them and there happens to be one within a short distance but he’s nearly deaf and nearly blind and is chained to the wall, would you run?
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### Author:  [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/9 "2000-05-22T05:09:29Z")
I only ask because in high school when a bunch of us were studying for Academic Decathlon, I would attempt to break the tension and the crushing pressure by coming up with “Hypothetical Situations” like the OP just to get everyone to laugh. It sounded familiar.
Continue on with your lives, citizens.
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### Author:  [@It\_is\_to\_laugh-Non](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_is_to_laugh-Non)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/10 "2000-05-22T07:25:44Z")
**Six of Mom, half-a-dozen of your mother.**
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### Author:  [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/11 "2000-05-22T07:27:24Z")
i don’t know, a million?
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### Author:  [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/12 "2000-05-22T11:05:46Z")
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> If a rabid woodchuck came up to you on a stolen Harley-Davidson…
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I think this actually happened in Guy Stuff…
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/13 "2000-05-22T11:37:53Z")
hang on, Is this a rhetorical question?
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/14 "2000-05-22T14:37:23Z")
I would spawn the following thread.
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25200](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25200)
I used to do this sort of thing in High School.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herea-a-random-question/20101/15 "2000-05-23T01:36:16Z")
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> If a rabid woodchuck came up to you on a stolen Harley-Davidson wielding in one hand an old toothbrush and in the other a menacing-looking book entitled “Everything You Wanted To Know About Canada’s Role In The Grand Scheme Of Things” and demanded that you read the book cover to cover or else you would recieve the name-calling of your life, what would you do?
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Finally! Someone else this has happened to!!