# 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:** 37
**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:** [September 15, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/721 "2020-09-15T20:20:03Z")
How long has that thread been going, anyway? ---
**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:** [September 15, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/722 "2020-09-15T20:49:37Z")
How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? ---
**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:** [September 16, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/723 "2020-09-16T00:48:19Z")
Those are rhetorical questions, right? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/724 "2020-09-17T04:42:30Z")
So 35,814 feet/11,034 meters and roughly 32,808 feet/10,000 meters aren’t the right answers? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/725 "2020-09-17T04:47:11Z")
Is the ocean that deep everywhere? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/726 "2020-09-17T10:43:25Z")
Didn’t someone go down there for 20 minutes, back in the '60s? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/727 "2020-09-17T13:52:52Z")
Well, we don’t get much call for it 'round here, sir, y’know? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/728 "2020-09-17T23:17:10Z")
**EH** , did you confuse this thread with the Answers Only thread? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/729 "2020-09-17T23:31:51Z")
So I’m not the only one who thinks he did 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:** [September 18, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/730 "2020-09-18T13:51:22Z")
It’s a paraphrase of a _Monty Python_ line that is now a question, innit? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/731 "2020-09-20T23:34:08Z")
Are you Brian? And is your wife Brian too? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/732 "2020-09-21T02:31:29Z")
Maybe he’s Spartacus? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/733 "2020-09-21T03:53:48Z")
Is your name not Bruce, then? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/734 "2020-09-21T03:56:43Z")
Should we just call him Ishmael? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/735 "2020-09-21T04:04:09Z")
Has this whole thread left you at sea? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/736 "2020-09-21T04:08:10Z")
Well, didn’t we just celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/737 "2020-09-21T04:12:28Z")
Yarr, we did, didn’t we, lads? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/738 "2020-09-21T05:27:40Z")
What about the lasses? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/739 "2020-09-21T13:48:44Z")
Are there any _women_ here? ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/740 "2020-09-21T14:39:18Z")
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