# Is Chalk Like Doom? -or- Weird questions Fom Your Child. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953 "2013-03-04T00:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/41 "2013-03-05T08:44:22Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > As to the OP: > > Maybe the sentence was supposed to be > > Is chalk, like, doomed? It is doomed to die. 😃 This probably belongs more in one of the regular “cute things yr kidz sez” threads, but the Smaller Girl has recently developed a habit of fixing her steely gaze upon her food and saying “Sandwich! It Is Your Day … TO DIE!” _cue maniacal cackle_. And yes, she cackles very well. Bit of a worry, really… ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/42 "2013-03-05T09:59:30Z")
Sounds like a line she’s picked up from a movie or something to me. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/43 "2013-03-05T11:46:41Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Sell me your children! No idea how highly **Aspidistra** values hers, but my mother always used to say “Wouldn’t buy for a penny, wouldn’t sell for a million” about us. ---
**Author:** ![axel66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@axel66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/axel66)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/44 "2013-03-05T11:57:45Z")
Yes, chalk is like doom. Obviously your child is very smart. He realizes that everything turns to dust (chalk). By doom it is meant the end. Once again correct. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/45 "2013-03-05T12:10:22Z")
How meta would it have been if later the same day an obviously psychotic street person approached the OP, glared, and muttered, “Is chalk like DOOM???” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/46 "2013-03-06T02:54:01Z")
I’m gonna sing the doom song now!.. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/47 "2013-03-06T21:19:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > My daughter, having found out that the earth rotates, once asked “so when we’re driving, could we be staying still while the world turns underneath us?”. I can remember pondering that very thought! And trying to work out in my mind the mechanics, given that various cars were going in different directions at the same time. A real brain teaser when I was younger. One of my earliest memories is the following conversation with my dad while he was driving: Me, observing the other vehicles on the road: Dad, all these people didn’t leave home at the same time, did they? Dad: Um, no. Me, proudly: I KNEW it! Cause if they did, all the cars would be side by side on the road! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/48 "2013-03-06T21:37:34Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I suspect \*\*Mangetout \*\*would have been taking into account the fact that he doesn’t have a car that will do 600mph or so which would be about the speed of the surface of the Earth in the UK. That’s completely irrelevant to the choice of frame of reference. You’re thinking about the car being still in reference to a point that’s neither on Earth’s surface nor in the car and to which the Earth itself counts as still (so, say, the center of the Earth); I’m talking about the car being still with reference to itself, which it is - always. As I told my parents one time that they accused me of getting lost (age 9): “no I didn’t! I knew where _I_ was! I didn’t know where _you_ were, but that’s different!” ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/49 "2013-03-06T22:45:49Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > You’re thinking about the car being still in reference to a point that’s neither on Earth’s surface nor in the car and to which the Earth itself counts as still (so, say, the center of the Earth); I’m talking about the car being still with reference to itself, which it is - always. I understand that. However, which of these possibilies was \*\*Mangetout’s \*\*daughter thinking about? ---
**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:** [March 7, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953/50 "2013-03-07T02:01:39Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I understand that. However, which of these possibilies was \*\*Mangetout’s \*\*daughter thinking about? Never mind her, she’s always been a troublemaker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chalk-like-doom-or-weird-questions-fom-your-child/651953.md?page=2)