# Silly, weird, perhaps unanswerable questions about movies and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401 "2013-03-31T03:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/561 "2026-07-26T22:05:13Z")
You were alive? We froze to death and all died. Every day. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/562 "2026-07-26T22:12:56Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Yeah, I shared a bedroom with my brother until I was a sophomore or so (I forget when I got the room to myself). I had my own room in fifth grade. Didn’t have indoor plumbing, though. . . . ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/563 "2026-07-26T22:14:18Z")
Ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/564 "2026-07-26T23:01:32Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Luxury! you had a drawing? we had to imagine our own fire. You had an imagination? We had to pretend we could imagine a fire. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/565 "2026-07-26T23:09:34Z")
In the snow. Uphill. Both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/566 "2026-07-26T23:41:30Z")
We rolled dice to determine who would be cannibalized to feed the others. It’s how I learned to cheat at dice. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/567 "2026-07-27T02:05:21Z")
“Yorkshiring” is a verb, now? Good to know. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/568 "2026-07-27T02:39:05Z")
A noun that hangs around too long in English will find itself verbed, adjectived, and sometimes adverbalized, while verbs can even find themselves being infixed with advance notice. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2026, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/569 "2026-07-27T03:18:30Z")
I think you’re an encyclopedia salesman. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/570 "2026-07-27T03:19:30Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A noun that hangs around too long in English will find itself verbed, adjectived, and sometimes adverbalized, while verbs can even find themselves being infixed with advance notice. Or mugged in a dark alley, then their pockets are rifled thru for loose vocabulary. 🙀 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/571 "2026-07-27T04:13:40Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A noun that hangs around too long in English will find itself verbed, adjectived, and sometimes adverbalized,… That’s so cringe. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/572 "2026-07-27T14:13:17Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I assumed they must have had guests fairly often, because no one I knew would have 2 kids sharing a room and a guest bedroom that was empty almost all the time. That’s how my family did it in the early 70s, my brother and I shared a room, while the fourth bedroom was a “guest bedroom”. But eventually my brother did move into it, I guess my parents realized they almost never had such guests, but they always had the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/573 "2026-07-27T17:37:55Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A noun that hangs around too long in English will find itself verbed, adjectived, and sometimes adverbalized, while verbs can even find themselves being infixed with advance notice. …he said Yorkshiringly. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/574 "2026-07-27T18:37:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A noun that hangs around too long in English will find itself verbed, adjectived, and sometimes adverbalized, while verbs can even find themselves being infixed with advance notice. … In addition to being sliced, diced, cubed, filleted, skewered, and spatchcocked! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/575 "2026-07-27T23:22:33Z")
“That’s so cringe.” (Robot Arm, quotes went sideways somehow.) I see what you did there. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/576 "2026-07-28T04:37:09Z")
And don’t forget the quote (from Calvin & Hobbes?): “Verbing weirds nouns.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/577 "2026-07-29T20:07:51Z")
I’ve _NEVER_ spatchcocked anyone! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/578 "2026-10-25T21:51:41Z")
Okay, here’s one: Star Trek’s Universal Translator– does it work with household pets? Do cat owners use it to hear their cat ask “I can has cheezburger?” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/579 "2026-10-25T22:15:12Z")
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/b3/da/25b3dae7e10ca0ea8495b84b019532c0.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/b3/da/25b3dae7e10ca0ea8495b84b019532c0.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/580 "2026-10-28T12:11:52Z")
If that’s the case, why didn’t the UT work for ST IV with the probe lookin for whales? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=28)