# 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:** 86
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1701 "2021-04-30T06:29:01Z")
Opinions there? Or opinions here? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1702 "2021-04-30T13:19:09Z")
Wasn’t my question clear? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1703 "2021-04-30T15:25:36Z")
Well, if **Spoons** thought he had to ask, isn’t the answer obvious? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1704 "2021-04-30T19:47:16Z")
One never knows around here… do one? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1705 "2021-04-30T20:04:52Z")
Need a little grammatical help there, do ya, Sparky? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1706 "2021-04-30T20:57:58Z")
When did **Sparky** start posting? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1707 "2021-05-01T10:04:18Z")
I’m guessing **EH** isn’t a Fats Waller fan, right? [“One Never Knows, Do One?”](https://excelwitheducationalexcellence.com/2014/08/01/one-never-knows-do-one/) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1708 "2021-05-02T05:13:24Z")
As for “punter,” don’t you know it’s widely used in Thailand for “prostitute’s john”? Could that be from all the Brits there? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1709 "2021-05-02T21:23:30Z")
Isn’t this thread educational? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1710 "2021-05-02T21:54:02Z")
Are you trying to kill interest in it? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1711 "2021-05-02T23:36:10Z")
Yeah, can’t it just be fun? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1712 "2021-05-03T00:33:58Z")
Can’t it be both educational and fun? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1713 "2021-05-03T02:19:30Z")
If you don’t ask questions, how will you ever learn anything? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1714 "2021-05-03T02:24:18Z")
You seem to ask a lot of questions – have _you_ learned anything? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1715 "2021-05-03T19:55:09Z")
Have _any_ of us, really, when you stop and think about 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:** [May 3, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1716 "2021-05-03T23:31:05Z")
How can you learn anything, when nobody answers these questions? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1717 "2021-05-04T00:51:07Z")
So only people in the “Answers Only” know anything? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1718 "2021-05-04T02:14:59Z")
Aren’t those just random answers? Shouldn’t they be answering the questions here? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1719 "2021-05-04T04:16:49Z")
I wonder, if you match them up, how many of them actually do? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1720 "2021-05-04T10:59:58Z")
A few hundred, maybe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=87)