# Questions Only **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491 "2012-12-09T05:40:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 126
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2501 "2013-06-26T04:11:12Z")
Why is a raven like a writing desk? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2502 "2013-06-26T10:28:15Z")
Haven’t you heard the answer is “they both have inky quills”? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2503 "2013-06-26T11:09:24Z")
Wasn’t it “Because Poe wrote on both?” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2504 "2013-06-26T12:45:47Z")
What would a Poe/Carroll mashup be like? ---
**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 26, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2505 "2013-06-26T13:15:23Z")
I’m sure it would somehow squickishly involve prepubescent girls, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2506 "2013-06-26T13:18:11Z")
Something like “Alice of the House of Usher”? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2507 "2013-06-26T13:30:35Z")
Or maybe"Quoth the Jabberwocky, ‘Nevermore’ ?" ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2508 "2013-06-26T13:34:32Z")
Or “Sylvia and Bruno and the Pit and the Pendulum”? ---
**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 26, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2509 "2013-06-26T14:27:05Z")
Or “The Hunting of the Tell-Tale Snark”? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2510 "2013-06-26T14:40:34Z")
[well, that’s the best one so far.] Or “Through The Looking Glass of Amontillado?” ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2511 "2013-06-26T15:47:32Z")
Now doesn’t that sound particularly grim? (_Ph **anna** tasm **bell** gorica **lee** _) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2512 "2013-06-26T16:03:30Z")
Is there only one “m” in Grim, Brothers? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2513 "2013-06-26T16:05:34Z")
Can I answer the question a few posts back? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2514 "2013-06-26T16:06:36Z")
Don’t you know you can and you may and you might and you must? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2515 "2013-06-26T16:13:14Z")
Does the ability to do something necessarily imply an obligation? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2516 "2013-06-26T16:17:57Z")
Are you asking ontologically or is this a question of etiquette? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2517 "2013-06-26T16:19:27Z")
What, you think I have cancer? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2518 "2013-06-26T16:21:06Z")
Do you mistake ontology for oncology? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2519 "2013-06-26T16:24:36Z")
Don’t you hate it when that happens? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2520 "2013-06-26T16:26:40Z")
Well, Madame Pepperwinkle had an oncological surgery a few months back; if had been an ontological surgery, what do you think would have been the result? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=127)