# 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:** 232
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4622 "2022-11-10T18:26:31Z")
How about in the middle of that big, open cornfield over there, where nothing mechanical is visible except a crop-dusting plane off in the distance? ---
**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 10, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4623 "2022-11-10T18:34:44Z")
Where is that ominous music in the background coming from? Does anyone else hear that? ---
**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 10, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4624 "2022-11-10T18:35:22Z")
What direction do you think it’s coming from? And, come to think of it, didn’t I see a movie of that title once…? ---
**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 10, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4625 "2022-11-10T18:36:24Z")
Who do you think I am…Cary Grant? ---
**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 10, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4626 "2022-11-10T20:19:03Z")
What happens to all the daylight we’ve been saving ? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4627 "2022-11-11T01:19:16Z")
Don’t they ship it somewhere to be liquified? ---
**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 11, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4628 "2022-11-11T01:30:59Z")
Don’t they save it for when the sun is about to explode? ---
**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 11, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4629 "2022-11-11T16:00:33Z")
Does anyone else get the impression that a lot of folks have failed to save any sunshine? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4630 "2022-11-11T16:45:26Z")
Wasn’t Elon Musk in charge of that? ??? ---
**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 11, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4631 "2022-11-11T17:57:21Z")
Wait, who put him in charge? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4632 "2022-11-11T19:42:09Z")
Didn’t he tweet that he was in charge of it? Isn’t that good enough for you? ---
**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 11, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4633 "2022-11-11T19:55:12Z")
Well, Al Haig suggested he would be the next in charge after Reagan, but that didn’t make it true did it? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4634 "2022-11-11T19:57:45Z")
But Al Haig didn’t have the Omnipotent Power of Twitter™ working on his behalf, did he? ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4635 "2022-11-11T22:16:42Z")
Twitter wasn’t even around back in 1981, was it? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4636 "2022-11-11T22:27:37Z")
Don’t you think he was wishing he could spew out some tweets? ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4637 "2022-11-11T22:29:53Z")
Haig? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4638 "2022-11-11T22:32:08Z")
Who else? Do you really want to think about what Alexander Haig could have accomplished if he’d had Twitter available? ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4639 "2022-11-11T22:34:28Z")
As Secretary of State, in particular, or are you thinking of something else? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4640 "2022-11-11T22:39:49Z")
Wouldn’t we be happier if we don’t speculate on what he might have done at any time in his life? ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/4641 "2022-11-11T22:43:17Z")
Why do you say that? Do you have strong opinions on the late Secretary, one way or the other? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=233)