# 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:** 12
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/221 "2014-07-28T05:04:45Z")
TWELVE STINKING POINTS? :eek: Shit and two is eight! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/222 "2014-07-28T07:24:42Z")
(I was calling you _old_: points in the Death Pool are accounted by 100 - [the person’s age]; of course, it is the Celebrity Death Pool: are you famous?) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/223 "2014-07-28T17:23:55Z")
Not famous, not THAT old; you would still get 40+ points IF I expired before January. Some would call that “motive.” Got my eyes on you, and I just got brand-new glasses. BTW: Betty White would be no help to you, huh? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/224 "2014-07-28T23:22:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > (I was calling you _old_: points in the Death Pool are accounted by 100 - [the person’s age]; of course, it is the Celebrity Death Pool: are you famous?) Does that mean I can score 100+ points by correctly predicting that a celebrity couple will have an abortion or suffer a miscarriage? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/225 "2014-07-29T16:08:47Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > “-intome”? Since I actually wasted time looking this up I have to tell you that you are closer than you think; it’s entomy. In other news; I believe The Dope should go on Metric time just to make everyone’s life that much more interesting. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/226 "2014-07-29T16:15:41Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Since I actually wasted time looking this up I have to tell you that you are closer than you think; it’s entomy. > > In other news; I believe The Dope should go on Metric time just to make everyone’s life that much more interesting. But you wasted Metric Time, so you still have some left over. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/227 "2014-07-29T16:17:07Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > In other news; I believe The Dope should go on Metric time just to make everyone’s life that much more interesting. Dibs on being the Metric Gnome! ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/228 "2014-07-29T16:18:47Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Dibs on being the Metric Gnome! Oh, beat it! 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/229 "2014-07-29T18:33:22Z")
True, I still have 2 M [hrs](http://bijlmakers.com/metric-time/) to go before I can go home and do something productive! or should that be hrs(m)? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/230 "2014-07-29T21:10:23Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I believe The Dope should go on Metric time just to make everyone’s life that much more interesting. Remember this moment, people: Eighty past two on April 47th. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/231 "2014-07-29T21:57:13Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > True, I still have 2 M [hrs](http://bijlmakers.com/metric-time/) to go before I can go home and do something productive! > > or should that be hrs(m)? “mhours”, which takes the Celtic pronounciation, so it sounds a bit like “wahrs”. And there are 100 of them in a day, so each mhour is 14:24 old-style minutes, and there are ten metric minutes in a mhour. This means that the metric second is just ever so slightly shorter than the old-style second. Really, getting 34 mhours of sleep a night sounds like a _good_ thing to me. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/232 "2014-07-29T22:07:53Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Remember this moment, people: Eighty past two on April 47th. Oh good! I was born on April 48th. I want a big party and a pony. Thank you. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/233 "2014-07-29T22:21:09Z")
Next we should adopt (forgive me) Trinidad & Tobago money: one dollar T&T is 15.7 cents USD. We’d all be millionaires. Rich as Croesus, I tells ya. I think it should be “mours” of 100 “meconds.” Nah, ferget it. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/234 "2014-07-30T15:31:28Z")
I encountered a mystical creature in the foothills near Macchu Pichu, a strange furry hooved beast with a long neck and a single twisted horn growing out of its head. It touched my head with its magic horn, curing me of all my delusions and hallucinations. Not sure, but I think it was a llamacorn. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/235 "2014-07-30T15:35:01Z")
I met a creature at the foot of my bed this morning, a strange puffy barbarian who tried to eat my toes through the covers, curing me of oversleeping. I didn’t need curing. ☹ ---
**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:** [July 30, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/236 "2014-07-30T15:38:35Z")
My alarm clock(s) bark each morning at 7:29 (breakfast is 7:30). However, my nighttime alarm (on the iPhone, for pills) “Quacks.” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/237 "2014-07-30T15:44:11Z")
“quacks”? are you sure the pills work? check the label to see if they contain placebinol. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/238 "2014-07-30T15:47:43Z")
Oh, that does it! Here, listen for yourself: “Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.” See? ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/239 "2014-07-30T15:55:07Z")
I love the sound of ducks laughing. QUACK wack wack wack wack wack I always picture Daffy Duck. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/240 "2014-07-30T16:11:10Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Oh, that does it! Here, listen for yourself: “Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.” Ah, but does your iPhone echo? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306.md?page=13)