# "Some people say that cucumbers taste better pickled"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 27, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735 "2008-10-27T07:23:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/1 "2008-10-27T07:23:25Z")
The thread title comes from a rather hilarious Chappelle show sketch where Chappelle responds to a trial prosecutor’s question with this hilarious non sequitur.
So firstly, what are your favorite non sequiturs? Two, do you prefer pickles over cucumbers? I do. Dill all the way 🆒
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/2 "2008-10-27T07:48:02Z")
Might as well, can’t dance.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/3 "2008-10-27T09:12:07Z")
My favorite non-sequiter would have to be the [Chewbacca Defense](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense#Chewbacca_defense).
To see the Chewbacca Defense in action (legally), go to [www.southparkstudios.com](http://www.southparkstudios.com) , then go to Full Episodes, and look for “Chef Aid” under season 2.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/4 "2008-10-27T12:56:26Z")
I’m fond of the motto of the American Non-Sequitur Society:
We may not make sense, but we do like pizza.
But the best is from the master of the form, G. Marx: “And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/5 "2008-10-27T13:18:33Z")
“Son, you got a panty on your head.”
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/6 "2008-10-27T14:01:40Z")
If a duck-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how long does it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
It doesn’t matter, because we’re doing a money trick.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/7 "2008-10-27T15:13:33Z")
Yes, of course, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/8 "2008-10-27T16:07:42Z")
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you are one dumb Polock.”-- Archie Bunker
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### Author:  [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/9 "2008-10-27T20:01:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> My favorite non-sequiter would have to be the [Chewbacca Defense](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense#Chewbacca_defense).
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> To see the Chewbacca Defense in action (legally), go to [www.southparkstudios.com](http://www.southparkstudios.com) , then go to Full Episodes, and look for “Chef Aid” under season 2.
Heh. I tried that - when I clicked “Full Episodes” I got a pop-up with five characters with 😑 faces and “SORRY SCANDINAVIA!”
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/10 "2008-10-27T20:05:23Z")
Don’t get me started on those fucking Greeks.
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/11 "2008-10-27T21:04:51Z")
From a Norm MacDonald impression of Larry King:
“COCA-COLA IS AN EXCELLENT COLA. **BUT!** SO IS… PEPSI COLA!”
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/12 "2008-10-27T21:16:00Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#):
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> Heh. I tried that - when I clicked “Full Episodes” I got a pop-up with five characters with 😑 faces and “SORRY SCANDINAVIA!”
Hee, sorry about that. I often forget that not all Dopers reside in North America. And not everybody knows that most of the U.S. video sites are only available here.
Here is a link to the text of the [Chewbacca Defense](http://www.lukegilman.com/blawg/2007/12/24/the-chewbacca-defense/) for those unfamiliar with it.
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/13 "2008-10-27T23:01:23Z")
When working on someone’s PC, I like to drawl out, “Well, there’s your problem, son, you got a squirrel stuck in the manifold!”
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/14 "2008-10-28T00:05:54Z")
I like the one from Twin Peaks:
“The owls are not what they seem.”
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/15 "2008-10-28T02:54:09Z")
I’m a proud member of the Non Sequitur Society of America. We may not make sense, but we sure do like pizza!
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/16 "2008-10-28T02:59:10Z")
I like the one that friends of mine and I use to break up uncomfortable silences: “So the bear takes the squirrel, and…”
(It’s the punchline to a joke in which the bear asks the squirrel if poop sticks to his fur, and the squirrel says no.)
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-say-that-cucumbers-taste-better-pickled/469735/17 "2008-10-28T03:41:21Z")
One of my cousins used to enjoy saying, just for the hell of it, “One of my eyes is too big but the other one don’t make sense.”
My mom tells me about a girl she used to know in Catholic school who made up this little poem. It makes no sense in English or Spanish:
_Elefantito, elefantito
Que vuelas de flor en flor
Te comprare unos anteojitos
Para que no andes descalzo._
Little elephant, little elephant,
Who flies from flower to flower
I’ll buy you a little pair of glasses
So you don’t go barefoot.