# Question and Answer thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722 "2003-04-14T20:17:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 20

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/381 "2003-04-30T03:53:58Z")

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Q: Why do all Canadians, repeatedly, “stand on guard for thee”?

A: the Eumenides and the Hekatoncheires

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/382 "2003-04-30T04:30:57Z")

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(Wow, **Poly** , talk about some obscure mythological references)

Q: What are the names of Greece’s women’s and men’s national basketball teams, respectively?

A: Eight year olds, Dude.

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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/383 "2003-04-30T06:42:02Z")

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Q: Who ok’s the scripts for the Star Wars prequels?

A: A freak lava lamp accident

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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/384 "2003-04-30T12:20:53Z")

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Q: Dude, why are you walking like that?

A: Tom Petty and Scooby Doo.

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/385 "2003-04-30T12:41:52Z")

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Q: Name two people that hang out with stoners.

A: Well, the left right is a little low.

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/386 "2003-04-30T14:16:51Z")

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Q: What is considered a major insult by goosesteppers?

A: Thomas Kyd stole my bacon.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/387 "2003-04-30T14:18:01Z")

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Q: What’s **december** ’s opinion of the moral value of the freedom claimed by Liberals?

A: The Bald Soprano and the Exhibitionist

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/388 "2003-04-30T15:10:46Z")

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Q: **Poly** what makes you think this film was directed by Peter Greenaway?

A: Just give me the whole Monty.  
– **Poly** you started the summoning spell 😉

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**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/389 "2003-04-30T15:43:12Z")

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Q: Your Honor, what can I do to convince you to set my client free?

A: You should have seen what they pulled out of my other nostril!

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**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/390 "2003-04-30T16:02:04Z")

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Q: How do Cyrano and Durante do oneupmanship?

A: Ze answer, ma cherie, eez zat I am een…'ow dyou say?..in lurv with you!

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/391 "2003-04-30T17:12:05Z")

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Q: Monseur **aasna** quelle raison pour le grande batton dans vous pantaloons?

A: Miss Scarlet, in the Library, with the cnadle stick.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/392 "2003-04-30T17:25:51Z")

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Q: What did the latest book on the Kennedy assassination conclude?

A: Cream of Broccoli

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**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/393 "2003-04-30T17:30:27Z")

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Q: What would the Mocking Turtle not approve of?

A: Candi will strip for you.  
( **Bippy** , sex change on the Monsieur, please…)

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/394 "2003-04-30T17:39:44Z")

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Q: Lets see… I need to strip **AND** refinish this chest-of-drawers… will Candi help?

A:somewhere in the distance

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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/395 "2003-04-30T18:10:32Z")

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Q: Do you remember where I put the horizon?

A: A tumor the size of a basketball

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/396 "2003-04-30T19:52:55Z")

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Q: what was on the appetizer tray at the Monsters Ball?  
A: a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

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**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/397 "2003-04-30T20:09:56Z")

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Q. What’s first prize in the Dick Shawn lookalike contest?

A. Because Chuck D left The Osmonds in 1987.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/398 "2003-04-30T21:01:44Z")

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Q: Why don’t I know who Chuck D is?

A: Charlize Theron and a bagel.

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/399 "2003-04-30T21:11:05Z")

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Q: **lieu** what do you like to wake up to on a Sunday morning?

A: Walking on the Moon.

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/400 "2003-05-01T00:26:14Z")

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Q: What, under no circumstances, should be confused with the moonwalk?

A: Fehr, Herson, Barris, and Larkin, Attorneys at Law.

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