# Interesting Questions.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509 "2000-10-11T05:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/21 "2000-10-11T19:26:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Pipeliner \* > > \*\*That’s a good point, **Crunchy** , but don’t forget Superman is Superman. \*\* > > No, Michael Stipe from REM is. He even says so in one of the songs he sings. Plus, he can do anything. \*\* Actually, while they do sound a lot alike, I’m pretty sure it’s Mike Mills singing on R.E.M.'s cover of “Superman”. Not to be pedantic about it or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/22 "2000-10-11T19:56:12Z")
Yeah… Who in the hell named John Connor in Terminator? Sarah Connor met the guy that traveled back in time… did him… he told her about her son John. Then she gave birth and, since she knew that was his name already, evidently named him John… But she was told that was his name… Who in the hell came up with the name? (This is why I hate time-travel movies. I always get stuck on the paradox and forget the actual plot of the movie!) ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/23 "2000-10-11T20:22:19Z")
Dogzilla - John Conner’s father named him. He could’ve changed the name after he met Sarah, but he decided to keep the name John. Don’t think about it too long. I’ve already given myself a headache. ---
**Author:** ![Jedi\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jedi\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jedi_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/24 "2000-10-12T01:32:22Z")
· Which character from Sesame Street would you be? · If you were going to have an affair with a cartoon character, who would it be and why? · If you had to be any cartoon character, who would it be and why? Jedi Girl ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/25 "2000-10-12T02:00:18Z")
I would be Grover just because he was energetic and cool. I would have an affair with the guy from Mulan because he could sing, he was yummy, and he was sweet. If I had to be a cartoon character I would want to be Anastasia, I love the songs from that movie! Cartoon Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Shaelar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Shaelar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaelar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/26 "2000-10-12T02:12:40Z")
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but there is an entire book of “What if. . .” questions. The title of the book is well “What if. . .” (duh). It has lots of hilarious questions to ask people. My question to add to this thread is. . .“What if you were stranded on an island with all of the SDMB posters. . .which doper would you eat first?” ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/27 "2000-10-12T03:35:36Z")
What is more important to you, sex or love? Do you believe in destiny? Do you judge and treat people different based on their looks? What is your favorite part of the female anatomy? Is any of you Cecil? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/28 "2000-10-12T05:27:02Z")
What are the three (?) words that end in “-gry”? :fleeing: ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/29 "2000-10-12T05:56:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shaelar \* > \*\* > My question to add to this thread is. . .“What if you were stranded on an island with all of the SDMB posters. . .which doper would you eat first?” \*\* Oh, God! It’s another flirting hijack! ::ducks and runs:: ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/30 "2000-10-12T06:40:33Z")
Dijon! Bad Personal Saint! Here’s one… If you were guaranteed great sex for the rest of your life but had to have a goofy grin on your face permanently would you do it? Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/31 "2000-10-12T06:53:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*Dijon! Bad Personal Saint! > > Here’s one… > > If you were guaranteed great sex for the rest of your life but had to have a goofy grin on your face permanently would you do it? > > Kitty \*\* [sub]Me sorry.[/sub] Answer to your question: Yes, yes, and yes. Because I don’t see how great sex for the rest of one’s life could _fail_ to produce a permanent goofy grin. It seems to be a given. ☹ \<–Notice no goofy grin for Dijon. If you could reincarnate as any animal, which would you choose? Why did the passengers on the Minnow pack so much luggage for a 3-hour tour? ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/32 "2000-10-12T16:15:24Z")
**A question for JediGirl in particular and all female dopers in general** Who would you rather be, Leia Or Amidala? **For the dudes** Han Solo, Luke, young Anakin, Lando, Bobba Fett, Qui won,young Obi Wan or Darth Maul? **On another topic** Between a unicorn and Pegasus, which one would you select? Why did my spell checker tell me to write a unicorn instead of an unicorn? ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/33 "2000-10-12T19:01:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty \* > \*\*If you were guaranteed great sex for the rest of your life but had to have a goofy grin on your face permanently would you do it? > > Kitty \*\* Where can I get this goofy grin? I want one now. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/34 "2000-10-12T19:17:14Z")
- - - If you could have sex with a really ugly live person or a really good-looking dead person who had a brain hemmorage, , , ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/35 "2000-10-12T22:34:00Z")
My friend Martin and I used to amuse ourselves for hours with goofy questions. What would you do if I punched you in the groin? What would you do if you woke up one morning and your nose was missing? What would you do if I started flying around the room? What would you do if I hit you with a meat tenderizer/mallet/icepick/shovel? What would you do if I chopped off your hand/foot/genitals? We were weird kids 🙂 Rose ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/36 "2000-10-12T22:53:16Z")
Sort of related to one of Wrath’s questions: If you could pick one era besides the current one to live in, which would it be and why? Future times as depicted in sci-fi are eligible, since much they’d be theoretical anyway. A good friend and I once had this conversation-- I picked the fanciful version of the Middle Ages as reflected in, well, fantasy novels, while she pointed out that there was much mud and plague back then. Kill joy… ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/37 "2000-10-12T22:55:12Z")
And, what would you change if you remembered to hit “preview” before posting? That should be, “since they’d be theoretical anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/38 "2000-10-12T23:26:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wrath \* > > Q. When we have the genetic ability to create any creature, which extinct animal should be brought back first? Not that the question is without merit, but it will shortly become moot. The first animal to be (hopefully) saved from extinction via cloning is the gaur, a Central Asian ox. It is using the method that could be accomplished via cloning extinct animals, since there is one gestating in a cow (it is not mated with the cow, the cow is simply a surrogate). The first extinct animal expected to be cloned is a species of Spanish mountain goat. Look for Jurassic Park to open near you soon. Feel free to go to GD if you’d like to discuss. **Dogzilla** mentioned time-travel paradoxes in movies … Where did the genetic material for the apes in Planet of the Apes come from? The events in the first two movies (culminating in the destruction of earth) take place 3000 years in the future. In the third or fourth, we find that Cornelius and Xira have traveled back in time, given birth to Caesar, who then mates with regular chimpanzees, etc. to breed the first highly intelligent apes. But where does the intelligence come from? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/39 "2000-10-13T02:42:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jedi Girl \* > **i hate citing exactly who said what and when, etc. ::shudders:: reminds me too much of school. But I’ll change it just for you, okay? feel special? 😃** Then why quote someone incorrectly? Yes, I feel special, because I am special. Right, **Anniz**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jedi\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jedi\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jedi_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509/40 "2000-10-13T06:09:10Z")
I’d choose to be leia. Don’t really know why (except maybe that the friend I started this thread for tells me i remind him of leia - and he’s a star wars person, so it’s a compliment) 🙂 The problem with both of them is that at certain points they had REALLY weird hair styles…but leia was just so much cooler…😃 What about you quasar? Jedi Girl [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-questions/36509.md?page=3)