# Questions Only thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667 "2020-06-22T15:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 133
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2642 "2021-11-22T19:24:56Z")
Are we supposed to? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2643 "2021-11-22T19:31:50Z")
Am I missing out on some wonderful missives by not reading them? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2644 "2021-11-22T19:51:17Z")
Can’t you just _read the damned things_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2645 "2021-11-22T20:12:05Z")
Now why would I do a thing like that? If I carefully read every comment, wouldn’t I have _less_ cause or occasion to post questions? And isn’t this thread’s very existence solely intended to serve that purpose? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2646 "2021-11-23T05:32:35Z")
Was anybody here expecting the Spanish Inquisition? ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2647 "2021-11-23T05:45:33Z")
What are looking at me for? Can’t I post when I damn well please? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2648 "2021-11-23T14:07:57Z")
It’s not a question of when, but of if, innit? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2649 "2021-11-23T14:34:23Z")
Doesn’t the concept of ‘if’ somehow constrain our potential development as humans? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2650 "2021-11-23T14:45:03Z")
_If_ you’re going to post in this thread, there’s no reason that it should, is there? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2651 "2021-11-23T14:48:42Z")
Is it just me or was my previous post more or less unintelligible? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2652 "2021-11-23T15:13:20Z")
I’d say “more” rather than “less”, right? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2653 "2021-11-23T15:17:00Z")
How could I have phrased that better? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2654 "2021-11-23T15:20:46Z")
Doesn’t that depend on what the hell you were trying to say? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2655 "2021-11-23T15:28:51Z")
Now how would I know what I was thinking over half an hour ago? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2656 "2021-11-23T15:44:59Z")
If _you_ don’t know, how could the rest of us? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2657 "2021-11-23T18:43:18Z")
Perhaps it was intended as more of a rhetorical question? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2658 "2021-11-23T22:58:59Z")
That’s not exactly unusual here, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2659 "2021-11-24T13:29:58Z")
On a closely related matter, does anyone else feel like their whole life is somehow like being trapped in a never ending Keebler Elf commercial? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2660 "2021-11-24T14:52:57Z")
No, why? Do you have pointy ears, live in a tree and make cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/2661 "2021-11-24T15:08:08Z")
Couldn’t being named ‘Ernie’ qualify? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=132) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=134)