# 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:** 338
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6742 "2014-04-19T03:11:00Z")
> [@Vita\_Beata](#): > > What happens when there’s all aardvark and Yoplait? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Doesn’t that take back a dull joy? > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Was there a pun or joke in this post? Is it I am so depressed that when I play a questions-only game when my mind is in such a state of “whatever,” I’ll read some letters in a row and at least let a trickle of conscious enjoyment, in its own small way, be released, before I take another shallow breath with near affect-less engagement with the outside world, and wonder if I am not getting the pun or joke because my emotions and cognitive engagement are in below-idle, demonstrating that yes, indeed, I’m depressed, because every one else playing this game is not so encumbered? [Eh, what’s hard to understand about “all aardvark and Yoplait take back a dull joy”? Haven’t you seen\* The Shining\*?] IN PLAY: Are we down to dammed profane questions? ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6743 "2014-04-19T03:28:09Z")
Sure, why not? 🙂 ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6744 "2014-04-19T09:41:50Z")
Does anyone else here always mix up “profane” and “profound”? ---
**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 19, 2014, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6745 "2014-04-19T11:39:34Z")
They go hand-in-hand, don’t they? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6746 "2014-04-19T13:23:12Z")
Is it profitable for a profligate professor to profer a profane profession of profundity? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6747 "2014-04-19T15:07:25Z")
Is it profitable for profligate Prof. Pepperwinlke to profer a progane profession of profundity? ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6748 "2014-04-19T15:34:34Z")
Is the name Pepperwinkle related to Periwinkle? ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6749 "2014-04-19T15:43:08Z")
Was he the one with a flying squirrel? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6750 "2014-04-19T20:38:58Z")
Is it fan mail from a flounder? ---
**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 19, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6751 "2014-04-19T22:38:43Z")
Did Dorothy tweet during the twister? ---
**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 20, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6752 "2014-04-20T00:29:24Z")
You mean nowadays people tweet even while playing Twister? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6753 "2014-04-20T02:20:20Z")
Before cell phones, people use to “tweet” during Twister all the time, didn’t they? ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6754 "2014-04-20T02:45:03Z")
Don’t they just use the spinner? ---
**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 20, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6755 "2014-04-20T03:31:39Z")
Is that what they’re calling it now? ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6756 "2014-04-20T03:34:03Z")
How would an old fart like me know? ---
**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 20, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6757 "2014-04-20T03:45:37Z")
Doesn’t that go without saying? ---
**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 20, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6758 "2014-04-20T04:12:32Z")
If something goes without saying, how can you know what wasn’t said? ---
**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 20, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6759 "2014-04-20T04:36:37Z")
What are you saying? ---
**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 20, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6760 "2014-04-20T16:16:24Z")
You talkin’ to me? ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/6761 "2014-04-20T16:49:54Z")
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