# 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:** 76
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1501 "2021-03-11T15:50:17Z")
How old are they? At what age do most children learn to count? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1502 "2021-03-11T18:16:30Z")
Certainly by the time they can vote, don’t you think? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1503 "2021-03-12T04:20:40Z")
Aren’t you being a little optimistic? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1504 "2021-03-12T04:47:12Z")
Well, that’s not _too_ unrealistic, is it? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1505 "2021-03-12T23:51:49Z")
What’s wrong with being optimistic? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1506 "2021-03-13T15:52:22Z")
Yes, I tend to be an optimist; how about you? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1507 "2021-03-13T16:29:54Z")
Are you cockeyed? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1508 "2021-03-13T16:32:41Z")
Why would the two of you ask that? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1509 "2021-03-13T17:33:38Z")
Could they be calling you immature and incurably green? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1510 "2021-03-14T02:40:51Z")
Is it easy being green? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1511 "2021-03-14T03:03:38Z")
Wouldn’t you have to ask Kermit about 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:** [March 14, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1512 "2021-03-14T03:26:11Z")
Does he even deign to speak to the public anymore? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1513 "2021-03-14T04:29:27Z")
Is it true that Miss Piggy cannot count to 70, because when she gets to 69, there’s a frog in her throat? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1514 "2021-03-14T20:15:03Z")
D’yknow that I had never even _thought_ of such a thing as interspecies oral sex before now? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1515 "2021-03-14T23:26:06Z")
Is _that_ what my question referred to? 😵 ---
**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:** [March 15, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1516 "2021-03-15T03:58:22Z")
What else could it have referred to? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1517 "2021-03-16T15:52:10Z")
Yeah, there aren’t too many other plausible interpretations, are there? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1518 "2021-03-16T16:03:26Z")
What’s wrong with _im_plausible interpretations? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1519 "2021-03-16T16:50:17Z")
Did I say there was anything wrong with them? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1520 "2021-03-17T02:50:31Z")
What might be wrong with them, anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=77)