# 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:** 48

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**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/941 "2003-08-18T23:43:02Z")

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Q: What’s that in your ear, and where can I get some?

A: I hit him with a frozen sea bass.

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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:** [August 19, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/942 "2003-08-19T02:38:44Z")

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Q: Why did the blackjack player look all confused?

A: Because twisted children sell for a premium.

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**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:** [August 19, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/943 "2003-08-19T03:20:12Z")

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Q: Why do gymnast couples have a hard time finding life insurance?

A: The four-dimensional twist tends to complicate things.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/944 "2003-08-21T06:11:20Z")

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Q: Why was Dee Snider’s life as a member of Twisted Sister so difficult after taking on siblings as roadies?

A: The Fuller Brush man hs the answer.

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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:** [August 23, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/945 "2003-08-23T17:09:50Z")

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Q: All right, how do I paint my house?

A: Never touch the red button.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/946 "2003-08-23T17:30:35Z")

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Q: what do you say to get people to press the red button?

A: millions of unfed demons scoured hungrily amongst ruined kingdom

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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:** [August 23, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/947 "2003-08-23T17:34:59Z")

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Q: What happened in the lost “Magnificent Ambersons” footage?

A: Our love went thataway.

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**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:** [August 23, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/948 "2003-08-23T21:29:15Z")

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Q: What was the greatest double entendre removed from “Blazing Saddles”?

A: Pysanky. Really, really _big_ pysanky.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/949 "2003-08-24T02:32:06Z")

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Q: What art craze failed to catch on during the years when dinosaurs roamed the earth?

A: Yes, it’s Mother’s Day, but a pink chainsaw doesn’t _ahem_ cut it.

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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:** [August 24, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/950 "2003-08-24T03:43:11Z")

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Q: What question finally sent Norman Bates over the edge?

A: Sweet God Almighty, is that a half-ton of insence?!?!!?!?

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/951 "2003-08-24T10:42:12Z")

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Q: What was Apu mumbling in his sleep?

A: All we found was sixteen sequential hexidecimal bytes.

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**Author:** ![curlybacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@curlybacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlybacon)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/952 "2003-08-24T13:00:06Z")

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Q: Was there much left of last night’s pizza when you got home this morning?

A:Every day, like clockwork.

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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:** [August 24, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/953 "2003-08-24T14:36:44Z")

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Q: How often have you broken your watch?

A: “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/954 "2003-08-24T23:26:43Z")

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Q: Quick-name one of those shitty songs from the '70s that seems to get stuck in your head?

A: A dune buggy, some mercury, and a box of spiders.

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**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:** [August 25, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/955 "2003-08-25T02:21:04Z")

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Q: What was in the display in the Museum of the West, that led to the famous unscripted reenactment of _Eight Legged Freaks_ in Reno, Nevada in 2006?

A: Barry Manilow’s tube socks.

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**Author:** ![Shiva418](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Shiva418](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva418)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/956 "2003-08-25T02:24:54Z")

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Q: What did the beach loving alchemist have in his handy dandy “Spider Building Kit.”

A: I ended up with “666” tatooed on my forehead.

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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:** [August 25, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/957 "2003-08-25T02:32:20Z")

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Q. What was your prize for being the 666th customer at Dave’s House of Disfigurement?

A. It’s all in the wrist.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/958 "2003-08-25T16:31:53Z")

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Q. how do you throw so far?

A. moon dust

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/959 "2003-08-30T08:05:54Z")

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Q: What must the Man in the Moon do when expecting company?

A: A flaming outhouse.

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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:** [August 30, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-and-answer-thread/168722/960 "2003-08-30T11:17:45Z")

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Q: What’s the hot new drink in all the trendy NYC bars?

A: The nappy-headed schoolgirl.

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