# 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:** 92
**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 28, 2021, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1821 "2021-05-28T03:42:03Z")
Must you always be so literal? ---
**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 28, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1822 "2021-05-28T18:03:26Z")
Can’t there be other kinds of dipsticks? ---
**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 28, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1823 "2021-05-28T19:09:42Z")
These days, don’t there seem to be unlimited kinds of dipsticks? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1824 "2021-05-28T19:56:12Z")
How did the good Lord make so many more horses’ asses than horses? ---
**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 29, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1825 "2021-05-29T04:03:32Z")
Do you agree with Lincoln that the Almighty must love common people, as he made so many of 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:** [May 31, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1826 "2021-05-31T18:54:21Z")
Did Lincoln really say that 86% of statistics quoted on the Internet are false? ---
**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 31, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1827 "2021-05-31T19:05:37Z")
Don’t you believe him? ---
**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 31, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1828 "2021-05-31T20:03:46Z")
If he said it on the internet, is there an 86% chance that it’s false? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1829 "2021-06-01T02:39:34Z")
Don’t you trust Honest Abe? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1830 "2021-06-01T04:19:13Z")
Did you know that his friends actually just called him “Lincoln” and not “Abe”? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1831 "2021-06-01T06:38:39Z")
What did Mary Todd call him? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1832 "2021-06-01T16:43:44Z")
“The President” or “Mr. Lincoln” in others’ presence, as I recall? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1833 "2021-06-01T18:14:08Z")
Are you sure you’re remembering correctly after all these years? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1834 "2021-06-01T18:22:43Z")
Did any of us suspect E.H. of being that old? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1835 "2021-06-01T20:06:37Z")
Well, you knew I meant that I’d _read_ about it, didn’t you? Which reminds me, did you know that Alex Trebek liked to joke that Johnny Gilbert was the first man ever to utter the phrase, “Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln”? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1836 "2021-06-02T01:18:26Z")
How old is Johnny Gilbert now? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1837 "2021-06-02T01:45:28Z")
Would you believe he’s 96? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1838 "2021-06-02T13:29:14Z")
Isn’t he more like 205 or so? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1839 "2021-06-02T15:29:41Z")
Aren’t you supposed to come as close as possible without going over? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only-thread/911667/1840 "2021-06-02T16:50:33Z")
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