# Questions too mundane and idiotic for GQ
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 10, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874 "2006-11-10T16:03:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/1 "2006-11-10T16:03:42Z")
For instance…
How do you say Cthulhu in pig latin?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/2 "2006-11-10T16:19:23Z")
Uthulhu-Cthay, of course.
Why do they server French bread in Italian restaurants?
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### Author:  [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/3 "2006-11-10T16:45:09Z")
Because french bread is good?
Why does everyone make college out to be the funnest thing ever? I think it sucks. It’s just four plus years of extreme stress and regret and failure with some beer in between.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/4 "2006-11-10T17:03:27Z")
[QUOTE=myskepticsight]
Because french bread is good?
Why does everyone make college out to be the funnest thing ever? I think it sucks. It’s just four plus years of extreme stress and regret and failure with some beer in between.
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Wait til you have to get a haircut and get a real job and you’ll understand.
If you’re on a treadmill moving at 1,200 feet per second and you’re facing backward, and you fire a gun at a duck standing on the same treadmill and facing you and the bullet leaves with a muzzle velocity of 1,200 feet per second, will the duck have a chance to hear its quack echo?
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/5 "2006-11-10T17:25:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac]
How do you say Cthulhu in pig latin?
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Never mind that, how do you pronounce it in regular English? I’ve only seen it in writing.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/6 "2006-11-10T17:37:30Z")
[QUOTE=myskepticsight]
Why does everyone make college out to be the funnest thing ever? I think it sucks. It’s just four plus years of extreme stress and regret and failure with some beer in between.
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After 17 or 18 years you’re finally no longer living at home. You’re surrounded by peers just enough like you to share common interests and different enough to make it interesting and you’re exposed every day to fascinating, stimulating ideas and concepts driving your evolution as a thinker and doer.
We’ve all observed a herd of elephants following each other single file in a line. Do they still do this when one of them gets diarrhea?
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/7 "2006-11-10T17:41:07Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
Never mind that, how do you pronounce it in regular English? I’ve only seen it in writing.
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I’ve always heard it pronounced cuh-thoo-loo. Ideally, the cuh syllable is very short and blends into the thoo.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/8 "2006-11-10T17:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
Never mind that, how do you pronounce it in regular English? I’ve only seen it in writing.
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“Pete”.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/9 "2006-11-10T17:58:25Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
Never mind that, how do you pronounce it in regular English? I’ve only seen it in writing.
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It’s pronounced “Throatwarbler Mang—” nevermind.
How come, if as is supposed, humans developed an “ick” aversion to festering sores, feces and vomit to as to avoid contamination and illness, it seems no other animal has done the same? I look at a litter box and think “Ew! Toxoplasmosis!” My dog looks at a litter box and thinks “Yum! Buffet!”
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/10 "2006-11-10T19:21:44Z")
Where are my car keys?
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/11 "2006-11-10T19:22:45Z")
For that matter, where’s my car?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/12 "2006-11-10T20:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith]
For that matter, where’s my car?
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[Parent]It’s right where you left it.[/Parent]
Why does time fly when you’re having fun, and drag when you’re not?
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/13 "2006-11-10T21:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
Uthulhu-Cthay, of course.
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Forgive me, but this is preying on my mind. Why isn’t it Thulhu-cay?
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### Author:  [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/14 "2006-11-10T21:50:01Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith]
For that matter, where’s my car?
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Where’s your car, dude?
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### Author:  [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/15 "2006-11-11T04:11:53Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith]
For that matter, where’s my car?
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The last place you’ll look.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/16 "2006-11-11T04:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac]
Forgive me, but this is preying on my mind. Why isn’t it Thulhu-cay?
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It seems to be a common misconception that in Pig Latin, you remove the first letter and place it on the end of the word and add the -ay, but that’s not the case. You remove all the first constanents until you reach the first vowel, and then place them at the end and add -ay.
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### Author:  [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/17 "2006-11-11T05:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons]
Why does time fly when you’re having fun, and drag when you’re not?
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Because of the [Principle of Asymmetric Transitions](http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASYMTRANS.HTML).
Where did the tradition known as the police line-up get its start?
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### Author:  [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/18 "2006-11-11T12:00:49Z")
Do really obese men sit down when they pee?
I just thought of this the other day at work. Some really big guy said he had to pee and went off into the bathroom. A few minutes later I went in to wash my hands as he was coming out of a stall instead from where the urinals are.
I’d imagine that logistically it would be far easier to use a toilet than a urinal in such a case, and as I think back I don’t remember ever walking up to a urinal where there’s was an overweight guy standing a few urinals down.
Don’t read too much into this question. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/19 "2006-11-11T14:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=myskepticsight]
The last place you’ll look.
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pssst. Theeee aallaammo. in the basement. You beter get going.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-too-mundane-and-idiotic-for-gq/379874/20 "2006-11-11T14:53:35Z")
[QUOTE=Black Train Song]
Do really obese men sit down when they pee?
I just thought of this the other day at work. Some really big guy said he had to pee and went off into the bathroom. A few minutes later I went in to wash my hands as he was coming out of a stall instead from where the urinals are.
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To minimize calorie burnage. They have a reputation to uphold you know.
If college professors are people that society should look to for wisdom, how come so many of them used to think that communism was hot shit (and some still do)?
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