# 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:** 19
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/361 "2014-08-20T00:52:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Squirrel, huh?..excuse me one second… > > DIE, you little bastard! > If I see you in my yard again > it’s hay-baler time! I MEAN IT! Here’s my former dog’s reaction to a squirrel, or possum, or burglar, or anyone else who entered the yard: OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY! LET’S PLAY! OH BOY! OH BOY! LET’S PLAY! OH BOY! LET’S PLAY! OH BOY! OH BOY! LET’S PLAY! OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/362 "2014-08-20T00:56:30Z")
And don’t forget this favorite dog-after-squirrel thought process… I CAN CLIMB THE TREE, TOO, SEE? UP I GO…ALMOST GOT IT…MAYBE IF I LEAP HIGHER?..MAYBE IF I RUN IN A CIRCLE FIRST, THEN LEAP? MAYBE IF I BARK AND JUMP AT THE SAME TIME? ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/363 "2014-08-20T01:32:22Z")
Why exactly is it that chipmunks are so much smarter than squirrels? I mean, we were on the road to Tres Piedras, the one through the mountains, and all along the shoulder, there were chipmunks standing near the fogline alertly watching for an opportunity to cross the highway. Not once did we see any sign of a chipmunk having failed to make it across. By contrast, [squirrels make stupid moves like this](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1j9LZlr3Ooc/UZzwmvR_bHI/AAAAAAAAsPE/yTJzffnbVF4/s1600/squirrel.jpg), almost like they are deliberately suicidal. (Admittedly, even on a fairly low-traffic road like we were on, evidence of chipmunk failures would be gone rather quickly – two cars pass and there is not even a stain on the asphalt.) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/364 "2014-08-20T22:04:08Z")
Watch “Jeopardy!”, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game! Joaquin Phoenix was gazed by MTV for luck. Fax back Jim’s Gwyneth Paltrow video quiz? Why shouldn’t a quixotic Kazakh vampire jog barefoot? A wizard’s job is to vex chumps quickly in fog… ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/365 "2014-08-20T23:05:25Z")
Ooo! Ooo! Mr. Kotter, Mr. Kot-ter! What is a pangram? ::happy Horshack dance:: ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/366 "2014-08-20T23:09:08Z")
The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/367 "2014-08-20T23:19:22Z")
Coco-drupe? You must be a BLAST on a date! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/368 "2014-08-20T23:19:52Z")
Into which of those do you put the lime? ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/369 "2014-08-20T23:21:01Z")
That reminds me, I have to call the doctor. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/370 "2014-08-20T23:28:02Z")
He’ll say the same as I do - ten little monkeys, jumping on the bed. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/371 "2014-08-20T23:42:38Z")
You’re such a silly woman! ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/372 "2014-08-21T14:05:11Z")
T-shirt idea: I DRINK TO FORGET that I’m an alcoholic ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/373 "2014-08-21T14:09:19Z")
Jim’ll Paint It [http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/](http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/) takes requests for painting silly ideas- and many of them are quite silly indeed. (UK celebrities seem to be over-represented; he’s British?). ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/374 "2014-08-21T14:14:51Z")
I have gotten a phrase stuck in my head too sometimes. But I can’t remember it now. However, I also get this name stuck and find myself repeating it several times every day. It is: Yamaguchi! (pronounced Yamagoochee). I have no idea why. But I believe it is the last name of some Olympic figure skater. Let me know if anyone finds it contagious? **YAMAGOOCHI!** There is also a French Canadian swear word that is quite well known to most everyone who has ever lived in Quebec. Everytime I drop something or break something, I find myself repeating out loud: **TABERNAC!** I have no idea what it means. But most French Canadian men will shout that out anytime they hit their thumb with a hammer or anything like that. Would anyone here know what that means? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/375 "2014-08-21T14:21:07Z")
I seem to have picked up a few Britishisms myself, including lift, thumping, and bloody Frogs. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/376 "2014-08-21T15:22:34Z")
Like a lot of Quebecois curse words, Tabernac is based on taking elements of the Catholic church in vain. Literally, it means tabernacle en anglais. Calice is a chalice. Maudites Anglais, is just “You Bloody English Bastards ruined New France, and here, have some poutine to block up your arteries and die …” although I may be reading more into it. **CW** , I feel for you. I had the name “AlecIssigonis” all one word, stuck in my head in a continuous loop for two weeks once. Why I had the name of the inventor of the Mini stuck in there is a mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/377 "2014-08-21T15:33:13Z")
Somewhat amusing story; does it fit here? I’m posting it. So…part of my job involves accepting packages from FedEx and distributing them throughout the building. I was pushing my cart along an empty hallway when I realized it was the same height as a grocery cart. I was suddenly seized by the impulse to play Stepford wife (because we all do stuff like that right? Shut up). So I slowed waaaay down, tilted my head to one side, smiled vacantly, and sashayed gently down the hall at a snail’s pace, occasionally brushing the wall with my hand and listening to the imaginary Muzak… Of course, this is the point at which I realized I was no longer alone. Em-BARE-ASS-ing! :o ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/378 "2014-08-21T15:36:08Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Like a lot of Quebecois curse words, Tabernac is based on taking elements of the Catholic church in vain. Literally, it means tabernacle en anglais. Calice is a chalice. Maudites Anglais, is just “You Bloody English Bastards ruined New France, and here, have some poutine to block up your arteries and die …” although I may be reading more into it. > > **CW** , I feel for you. I had the name “AlecIssigonis” all one word, stuck in my head in a continuous loop for two weeks once. Why I had the name of the inventor of the Mini stuck in there is a mystery. OMG! I can’t tell you how happy you have made me. I first heard the expression, “Maudites Anglais” and “Maudites Tabernac” when I was 10 years old. That was a long, long time ago. But I never knew how to spell, “Maudites” and it was pronounced as “Mudzee” so I could never look it up to find it’s meaning. But I must have wondered what it meant thousands of times since I first heard it and so I’m very grateful to you for explaining that to me. Thank you so much! ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/379 "2014-08-21T16:27:03Z")
Hey, **Charlie Wayne** , if you click your heels together once and say (Kristy) “Yamaguchi” three times, she just MIGHT appear before you (and, believe me, that’s something you really, really want. Oh, those skaters’ thighs). **Dung Beetle** , this is for you–::raucous applause::. Not only does that story fit here like a glove, you may have won today’s prize. Let me check with the judges and I’ll get back to you. Oh, Lumpy… ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306/380 "2014-08-21T16:51:26Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Hey, **Charlie Wayne** , if you click your heels together once and say (Kristy) “Yamaguchi” three times, she just MIGHT appear before you (and, believe me, that’s something you really, really want. Oh, those skaters’ thighs). > > **Dung Beetle** , this is for you–::raucous applause::. Not only does that story fit here like a glove, you may have won today’s prize. Let me check with the judges and I’ll get back to you. Oh, Lumpy… Hey Burpo. In the past, all the advice you have given me was always spot on. So, I will try to click my heels and if Kristy should appear, I’ll be certain to let you know. Or maybe, you would prefer to join us in a group hug? Or maybe something else? Just let me know and I will check with her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pure-random-silliness-thread/686306.md?page=20)