# Hmmmm. Good question! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741 "2002-10-31T19:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/1 "2002-10-31T19:47:13Z")
I’m wondering… and it feels kinda good. Some thoughts are nice to wrap your grey matter around. I really don’t necessarily want to know the answers, I just want to turn the possibilities over in my mind. Please don’t tell the answer, just give something worth consideration. Here’s one to start… Did Sodom have a petting zoo? ---
**Author:** ![dreamlab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dreamlab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamlab)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/2 "2002-10-31T21:14:15Z")
One that crosses my mind every so often… Has a baseball catcher ever walked to the mound to talk to the pitcher and then forgot what he was going to say? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/3 "2002-10-31T22:11:28Z")
One of the most brilliant questions I’ve seen posed here was… Do farts contain DNA? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/4 "2002-11-01T03:24:43Z")
what was a rock before the word ‘rock’ was invented? ---
**Author:** ![Kaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Kaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaya)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/5 "2002-11-01T03:29:39Z")
when i look at my dog panting i often wonder why does his tongue so clean (pinkish/red) while they sell tongue scapers for ppl ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/6 "2002-11-01T10:28:51Z")
Are all y’all just figments of my imagination? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/7 "2002-11-01T10:44:47Z")
What is a colour? What do colours share in common that we put them all in the same category? Is the colour you see the same as the one I see? ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/8 "2002-11-01T11:53:29Z")
If only it hadn’t died in the purge, but “Did Jesus eat pie?” must be the deepest, most interesting and important ever posed in the history of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/9 "2002-11-01T11:56:42Z")
I can’t help but wonder what amount of water in my glass was once dinosaur pee. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/10 "2002-11-01T13:16:54Z")
If it takes half a chicken half a day to lay half an egg, then how long does it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/11 "2002-11-01T16:20:19Z")
The letter “E”. Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/12 "2002-11-01T17:26:52Z")
Is it inappropriate to smile when the Mobile Mammography Van pulls into your company parking lot wearing a hood bra? [What the…](http://www.sportsimportsltd.com/fortrucvanan.html) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/13 "2002-11-01T17:34:09Z")
Why are there so many squished squirrels in the road? Are they really that dumb? Why are there no squished crows? Are they really that smart? Is black a color, or the absence of color? ---
**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:** [November 1, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/14 "2002-11-01T18:05:28Z")
What goes in the mind of a woman? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/15 "2002-11-01T18:45:16Z")
Why was Little Red _Ridinghood_ WALKING to Grandma’s house? When something is broken they put up a sign that reads ‘Out of Order’. So when it is fixed why don’t they put up a sign that reads ‘Out of Chaos’? ---
**Author:** ![deadparrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@deadparrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deadparrot)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/16 "2002-11-01T19:42:19Z")
Have you ever just looked at your hands…I mean ever really LOOKED at your hands? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/17 "2002-11-02T01:25:26Z")
If johny travels for 40 minutes on a train going at 85mph and then travels from the train station at 25mph, what colour is his hat? ---
**Author:** ![Global\_Citizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Global\_Citizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Global_Citizen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/18 "2002-11-02T02:18:43Z")
If I can’t get a sales job because I don’t have any sales experience, then how can I gain sales experience if my company won’t give me an inside sales rep position??? Global Citizen ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/19 "2002-11-02T03:08:45Z")
If you accidentally ate some plastic fruit, when you threw up, would it be that wacky fake vomit? ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741/20 "2002-11-02T04:43:51Z")
why isn’t there apple or grape ice cream? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmmm-good-question/134741.md?page=2)