# Pure random silliness thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306 "2014-04-17T02:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/1 "2014-04-17T02:29:28Z")
Anyone interested in a thread devoted to pure babbling? For some reason, a random train of thought led me to the phrase “Hark, ye motherfuckers!”, which is now stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/2 "2014-04-17T02:40:44Z")
Is silliness thread used to sew clown costumes? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/3 "2014-04-17T03:58:54Z")
Sounds like you’ve been watching _Deadwood_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/4 "2014-04-17T04:05:47Z")
I saw a bluebird eating from a dog food bowl one time does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/5 "2014-04-17T20:17:33Z")
No, I don’t think bluebirds can count. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/6 "2014-04-17T20:25:30Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Sounds like you’ve been watching _Deadwood_. I’ve been staring down at it for hours…it just hangs there. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/7 "2014-04-17T20:29:39Z")
On the bright side, tomorrow you can say you were, well, hung. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/8 "2014-04-17T21:28:57Z")
I used to say, “In a world with so many train-wrecks, how come you never see a train junkyard?”. But recently I saw one! In Roseville, Ca. So, there’s that I guess. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/9 "2014-04-17T22:03:56Z")
I wondered how many 7-letter words there could be. so I googled 26^7. The first answer was 8,031,810,176, But there were about 25-billion more hits that I didn’t look at, an average of three for each possible answer. I wonder how many of them were wrong, or if the first one was? Actually, almost all of the 25-billion hits, based on a random sample, turned out to be quotations from the 26th chapter, 7th verse of one biblical book or another. There are four web references to biblical quotations from those verses alone, for every human on earth. It took Google 0.35 seconds to find and count them all. But I did find out that every person on earth could have a unique seven-letter name. I googled a random one (dpkwhyt) and got 89,000 hits. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/10 "2014-04-22T06:59:24Z")
Yeah, but were you With Cat at the time? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/11 "2014-04-22T16:20:26Z")
This silly thread has lasted six (6) days … now that is silly. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/12 "2014-04-22T16:23:44Z")
Groin-grabbingly transcendent! ---
**Author:** ![delsina363](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/13 "2014-04-22T16:43:04Z")
I love my two girls, ages 12 and 13. They enjoy silliness, but I see the day coming soon, where they will not. They are my little pranksters. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/14 "2014-04-22T23:00:15Z")
The way I tell when a sinus infection is finally gone: I can go falsetto and say, “Ooooo, Puddy, you a weck!” just like Tweety Bird. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/15 "2014-05-15T03:23:52Z")
There ought to be a _ **Popeye** _ cartoon where in the end Bluto gets lobotomized or has his brain fried with electroshock. That way it can end with Olive saying “Popeye, he’s a vegetable!” and Popeye replies “Yeah, and it ain’t spinach neither!” ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/16 "2014-05-15T03:37:33Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > On the bright side, tomorrow you can say you were, well, hung. So much for the “men are hanged, pictures are hung” grammar reminder. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > I used to say, “In a world with so many train-wrecks, how come you never see a train junkyard?”. > > But recently I saw one! In Roseville, Ca. > > So, there’s that I guess. I once saw the Origin of All School Buses. I can’t remember where just now, but I believe it was somewhere in Arkansas. There were acres and acres of school buses, as far as the eye could see. > [@delsina363](#): > > I love my two girls, ages 12 and 13. They enjoy silliness, but I see the day coming soon, where they will not. They are my little pranksters. Mine are 21 and 25 now, and they still get a huge kick out of watching the video we made of the school bus discovery, so there’s hope. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/17 "2014-05-15T06:34:48Z")
You want silliness? Let me give you a contemporary example: A few days ago, a bottle-shop (liquor outlet) here in Melbourne was raided, and $700 worth of nuts were seized. Reason? Apparently the shop didn’t have signs near the nuts that the packets of nuts contained nuts. :smack: Yes, the world has gone mad. Fuck me dead. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/18 "2014-05-15T07:01:01Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > […] I once saw the Origin of All School Buses. I can’t remember where just now, but I believe it was somewhere in Arkansas. There were acres and acres of school buses, as far as the eye could see. > […]. [IC Bus Co](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_Bus), plants in Conway, AR and here in Tulsa, OK. I also have seen acres and acres of school buses. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/19 "2014-05-15T09:36:36Z")
Right! Stop that! It’s SILLY. Very SILLY indeed! I had a discussion with a friend yesterday about what porn stars would do in heaven, and she said “Scrabble”. That was a rather amusingly silly conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/20 "2014-05-15T09:48:14Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Anyone interested in a thread devoted to pure babbling? I already do that in every other thread I post to. Seriously, go check the one about the cat who saved a boy from a dog attack. I haven’t been able to get my babbling under 140 characters, so you’re still stuck with me here. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The way I tell when a sinus infection is finally gone: I can go falsetto and say, “Ooooo, Puddy, you a weck!” just like Tweety Bird. When I sit down in a very cold car in the winter, I make a sound just like Scooby Doo. And that’s the only time I can make that sound. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306.md?page=2)