# Say the weird thing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065 "2024-06-19T19:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/21 "2024-07-09T16:13:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yes, as long as we don’t have to talk. Fine by me. We’ll sit in quiet companionship ignoring each other lol! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/22 "2024-07-10T00:58:44Z")
Every night, about 20 minutes before bed, I eat 5 scrambled eggs (usually with an avocado). I also take my multivitamin right before I go to sleep. I prefer to sit when taking a shower One of the nicknames for my cat is “mama” I occasionally flip around and sleep with my head at the foot of the bed, to “even out” the mattress. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/23 "2024-07-10T01:13:14Z")
I often sleepwalk. I think, as I’m sleepwalking how much more comfortable I was in bed and why don’t I go back. Never have. I wake up in odd places, Everytime. ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/24 "2024-07-10T01:24:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I wake up in odd places, Everytime. I would have thought it would be odd places every OTHER time. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/25 "2024-07-10T01:33:15Z")
I once told my wife that I was walking on the inside of her to protect her if a burro came out of an alley and tried to through a jar of acid in her face. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/26 "2024-07-10T01:36:25Z")
Yeah, _even_ if … everything is equal. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/27 "2024-07-10T02:22:29Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Every night, about 20 minutes before bed, I eat 5 scrambled eggs (usually with an avocado). How do you sleep with that in the stomach…? For me, that would be a recipe for either acid reflux, or at least 5 hours without sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/28 "2024-07-10T02:35:43Z")
> [@glee](#): > > If I break wind audibly, I remark “More tea, vicar?” “I love you too (in Terceron)” (a Rowan Atkinson / Doctor Who reference). “Hang on, I have to put my feet back on” (said at the doctor’s office, when I have removed my shoes for a weigh-in and need to re-don them). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/29 "2024-07-10T10:40:16Z")
I often say “Some form of” We should eat some form of food. I’m going to do some form of cleaning. Amazingly, I’m still married. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/30 "2024-07-10T13:36:50Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > > [@Moriarty](#): > > > > Every night, about 20 minutes before bed, I eat 5 scrambled eggs (usually with an avocado). > > How do you sleep with that in the stomach…? For me, that would be a recipe for either acid reflux, or at least 5 hours without sleep. It doesn’t bother me. I’m usually asleep about 15 minutes or so after I lay down, and I sleep soundly through the night. It’s not an especially heavy meal, and I eat 6 times a day, so my body is used to digesting, I guess. What I find weird is how people can go so long between feedings. I eat my eggs about 9:30 at night, and I don’t eat breakfast again until 8:30 in the morning. Thats 11 hours as it is! I can’t imagine not eating after 7 pm, which I often hear recommended. I’d be up in the middle of the night looking for a snack. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/31 "2024-07-10T14:55:33Z")
I only eat twice each day; once on my way to the office (about 7:30 am) and once on my way home from the office (about 4:30 pm). If I eat any later than that, I pay the price, and either won’t be able to sleep, or will wake up to the lovely experience of stomach acid in my lungs (which makes a sound like the old Rice Krispies-in-milk adverts, in case you were curious). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/32 "2024-07-10T21:51:47Z")
I was taught back in grad school the version: “The colorless green liquid slept furiously.” I used that a lot in teaching CS to show students the difference between syntax and semantics. Only a couple years ago or so did I search for it found it was wasn’t the original expression. But I like it, so there Noam. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/33 "2024-07-10T23:42:27Z")
I’ve never heard that version, and it partially defeats the point of Chomsky’s version, which is that each adjacent pair of words has a very low probability of occurring because of the incompatible semantics. “Colorless green” would almost never occur; likewise “green ideas”, “ideas sleep” and “sleep furiously”. In your version, “green liquid” is perfectly cromulent and undoubtedly has been uttered millions of times. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/34 "2024-07-11T00:26:04Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I only eat twice each day; once on my way to the office (about 7:30 am) and once on my way home from the office (about 4:30 pm). Generally speaking, I eat at roughly 8:30 am, 11:30 am, 2:30 pm, 5 pm, 7:30 pm, and 9:30 pm. My eating habits are either the healthiest way to eat (my ever so humble opinion) or it’s going to kill me. I eat about 200 grams of protein a day - in addition to the eggs, that results in me eating about 8 to 10 ounces of red meat a day (plus yogurt, milk, and whey protein powder) But I also eat about 40 grams of fiber. So that means a lot of fruits, vegetables, and nuts (plus oatmeal, sweet potatoes, and psyllium husk; i.e. Metamucil) It’s definitely on the weird spectrum. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/35 "2024-07-11T00:32:54Z")
If you don’t mind me prying, do you have trouble with your weight? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/36 "2024-07-11T00:36:31Z")
Not at all. I’m about 212 pounds, at 6 feet. I can see my abs, but I’d need to drop about 10 pounds of fat to be really lean. I’m just lazy about doing cardio. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/37 "2024-07-11T00:37:24Z")
That is awesome. You’re now my eating hero. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/38 "2024-07-11T00:37:57Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > You’re now my eating hero. I should add that I work out with weights 5 times a week (usually about 6:30 pm on that eating schedule) ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/39 "2024-07-11T00:41:38Z")
I used to be a twice-a-weeker, but now I’m old. We lift once a week to prevent any further muscle loss. And long ago, I could bench a single at 400 lbs, and bench 350 for reps. Now I’m a weakling who struggles to bench my weight. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065/40 "2024-07-11T00:47:42Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > And long ago, I could bench a single at 400 lbs, and bench 350 for reps. Damn dude! You’re now my lifting hero. I don’t bench my weight. It’s not about that anymore. Eating well translates into excellent “pumps” at the gym. I chase that tightness in my muscles. I don’t worry about the weight I use, but my form is perfect. And I think you can get away with eating “lots” of food when you load up on natural, minimally processed foods. I eat single ingredient items: beef, a sweet potato, and an apple. Or beef, a bowl of oatmeal, and some blueberries, apricots, and prunes. Or eggs and an avocado. Plus lots of water. You don’t get fat eating like that. (You poop 2-3 times a day, but you don’t get fat) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-the-weird-thing/1003065.md?page=3)