# 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:** 330
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6582 "2014-04-11T13:37:41Z")
Would any person worth their salt attempt something that crazy?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6583 "2014-04-11T14:02:55Z")
Is this the non-sequitur thread? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6584 "2014-04-11T14:05:15Z")
I like turtles (do you, too?) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6585 "2014-04-11T16:33:03Z")
With a little bit of salt? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6586 "2014-04-11T18:12:24Z")
I’m out of salt…how about some tumeric turtle stew? ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6587 "2014-04-11T18:51:17Z")
Only turtles on the half shell will do, don’t you agree? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6588 "2014-04-11T22:41:13Z")
Which one – Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, or…umm…the one I’m always forgetting? ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6589 "2014-04-11T23:44:56Z")
Oh yes, the ones that appeared in the da Vinci Code? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6590 "2014-04-12T01:45:10Z")
Um…de Chirico? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6591 "2014-04-12T02:41:14Z")
The cheery what? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6592 "2014-04-12T16:30:10Z")
The Cherry-Poppin’ Daddies did what? ---
**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 12, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6593 "2014-04-12T18:12:19Z")
Didn’t they sing about the universe being turtles all the way down? > **[Turtles all the way down](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down)** > > "Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, which itself is part of a column of increasingly larger turtles that continues indefinitely. > The exact origin of the phrase is uncertain. In the form "rocks all the way down", the saying appears as early as 1838. References to the saying's mytho... ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6594 "2014-04-12T19:04:23Z")
Ever think about how the turtle at the bottom must have one hell of a sore back? ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6595 "2014-04-12T21:42:57Z")
Isn’t ibuprofen manufactured from turtle shells? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6596 "2014-04-12T23:24:39Z")
Does that mean vegetarians need to stick with tylenol? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6597 "2014-04-13T03:12:13Z")
Would the cyanide-strength variety be best for them? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6598 "2014-04-13T03:31:44Z")
Why would anyone wish to exterminate all the turtles which Creation itself resides upon??? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6599 "2014-04-13T03:44:06Z")
Wouldn’t you rather pray to Venus on the Half-Shell? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6600 "2014-04-13T12:36:33Z")
Wouldn’t I rather frolick with Venus in a half-nelson? 😉 ---
**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 13, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6601 "2014-04-13T16:49:57Z")
Wouldn’t you rather climb the column to see Lord Nelson? > **[Nelson's Column](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_column)** > > Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built to commemorate Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar over the combined French and Spanish navies, during which he lost his life. The monument was constructed between 1840 and 1843 to a design by William Railton at a cost of £47,000 (equivalent to £4,908,873 in 2021). It is a column of the Corinthian order built from Dartmoor granite. The statue of Nelson was c [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=329) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=331)