# 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:** 38

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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:** [June 13, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/741 "2003-06-13T20:53:15Z")

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Q: How do you feel about Kenny Bernstein and his crew?

A: That’s going to need another coat.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/742 "2003-06-13T22:33:10Z")

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Q: What did Leonardo say halfway through painting the Mona Lisa?

A: I’ve got five dollars. I’ve got five dollars for each of you.

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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:** [June 14, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/743 "2003-06-14T17:16:45Z")

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Q: What was Lemur866 recorded on tape offering the Chicago City Council?

A: Well, the mine failed, the mill closed, and a tornado passed by…

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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:** [June 14, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/744 "2003-06-14T18:55:20Z")

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Q: Why don’t we hear anything more about “Assboink, Idaho,” which was the Dopers’ favorite generic hick town a year or so ago?

A: Six hundred yards due south of the Golden Gate Bridge

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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:** [June 15, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/745 "2003-06-15T00:56:27Z")

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Q: Where’s Sam Spade’s office?

A: We really don’t know why they behave that way, but we blame it on Minnesota.

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**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/746 "2003-06-15T05:17:12Z")

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Q: Wow, what was the deal with the movie _Fargo?_

A: A six-pack of beer and a pickup truck.

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**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/747 "2003-06-16T07:19:58Z")

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Q. Besides the dead woman, what else did they find at Chappaquiddick?

A. At a medium pace.

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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:** [June 16, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/748 "2003-06-16T15:08:44Z")

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Q. How fast do psychics walk?

A: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

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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:** [June 16, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/749 "2003-06-16T15:22:15Z")

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Q: Where do you stand politically?

A: It was bigger before the accident.

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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:** [June 16, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/750 "2003-06-16T20:09:19Z")

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Q: So, why is your rapier only 3 inches long?

A: The airships are coming! The airships are coming!

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/751 "2003-06-16T20:23:12Z")

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Q: One if by land and two if by sea and three if… oh, wait…  
A. No, dammit! Four snowmen!

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/752 "2003-06-16T21:22:21Z")

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Q. Did you just bid three hearts?

A. A little to the left.

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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:** [June 16, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/753 "2003-06-16T21:32:06Z")

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Q: How’s it hanging?

A: K-Mart sucks.

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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:** [June 16, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/754 "2003-06-16T22:05:09Z")

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Q: What are K-Mart’s new low cost ice lollies called?

A: Measuring their genitals.

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**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/755 "2003-06-16T23:49:03Z")

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Q: What are the Chippendales doing in the fitting room?  
A: I can’t think of anything.

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**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/756 "2003-06-17T06:07:52Z")

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Q: Can you give me one good reason why I shouldn’t beat the stuffing out of you?

A: An all-day _Golden Girls_ marathon.

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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:** [June 17, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/757 "2003-06-17T14:05:03Z")

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Q: What does the Geneva Convention strictly forbid?

A: It was in his watch pocket.

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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:** [June 17, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/758 "2003-06-17T14:54:05Z")

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Q: Where did Sherlock Holmes keep his secret stash?

A: The whore of Babylon, 24 gallons of whipped cream, those guys we met at Sodom, two she camels, and the Harem girls from Dagon’s temple.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/759 "2003-06-17T15:42:43Z")

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Q. Name five gifts that all would have been better than eight fucking lords a-leaping.

A. The look on the bartender’s face when the fat chick took off her underwear.

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**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/760 "2003-06-17T17:06:38Z")

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Q: What was the result of Danny Devito’s and Rhea Pearlman’s marriage?

A: Limmericks that dont rhyme

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