# 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:** 87
**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 4, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1721 "2021-05-04T14:14:59Z")
Should we start numbering the occasional question here, and numbering the answers over there? ---
**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 4, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1722 "2021-05-04T14:23:18Z")
Wouldn’t that confuse those who post here, but not there, and vice versa? ---
**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 4, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1723 "2021-05-04T14:26:56Z")
Couldn’t we explain what we’re doing so that everyone understood? Or, come to think of it, would it be more fun not 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:** [May 4, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1724 "2021-05-04T15:55:56Z")
Wouldn’t this necessitate a separate “Questions and Answers” thread? And aren’t there already enough of those? Unless we made it an “Answers and Questions” thread, but wouldn’t that be indistinguishable from _Jeopardy!_? ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1725 "2021-05-04T16:36:07Z")
How about “Questionable Answers”? ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1726 "2021-05-04T19:31:22Z")
But aren’t all answers, by definition, questionable? ---
**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 5, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1727 "2021-05-05T14:33:16Z")
You don’t think there’s such a thing as an absolute truth? Or just that any idjit can question even those? ---
**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 5, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1728 "2021-05-05T14:44:39Z")
But does questioning an answer make it any less true? ---
**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 5, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1729 "2021-05-05T14:46:20Z")
Did you, by any chance, graduate with a degree in classical philosophy from the University of Woolamaloo? ---
**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 5, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1730 "2021-05-05T16:00:37Z")
Is your name not Bruce? ---
**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 5, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1731 "2021-05-05T16:09:31Z")
If it weren’t, might’n’t that cause confusion? ---
**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 5, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1732 "2021-05-05T21:43:32Z")
Is there no rule six? ---
**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 6, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1733 "2021-05-06T04:24:46Z")
Didn’t that get misfiled upside down as rule nine? ---
**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 6, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1734 "2021-05-06T06:03:36Z")
Don’t you have to drill down for that? Isn’t it actually Rule IX (A) (iii) (b)? ---
**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 6, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1735 "2021-05-06T13:25:41Z")
Would you say it’s hot enough in here to boil a monkey’s bum? ---
**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 6, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1736 "2021-05-06T22:14:16Z")
Where did that come from? ---
**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 6, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1737 "2021-05-06T23:58:32Z")
Isn’t that a strange expression, Bruce? ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1738 "2021-05-07T00:16:06Z")
Are you not a _Monty Python_ fan, then, **Spoons**? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8gw1Ur62x0Q/maxresdefault.jpg "Bruce's Sketch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw1Ur62x0Q) ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1739 "2021-05-08T03:28:57Z")
Don’t you think ball pythons are more interesting? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1740 "2021-05-08T03:31:04Z")
Or even ball lightning? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=86) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667.md?page=88)