# Stupid Questions: June 2009 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590 "2009-06-22T15:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/1 "2009-06-22T15:31:34Z")
So I’m calling a medical office to have them check some records for me. And they ask me my birthdate. “10-29-61” “Nineteen sixty one?” I was so tempted to say no and see what her next guess was going to be. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/2 "2009-06-22T15:39:07Z")
Maybe the line was muffled and it sounded like either “fifty one” or “sixty one”, so they wanted to make sure… Not beyone the realms of possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/3 "2009-06-22T18:40:04Z")
Yes, I’m guessing it was the '61 part she was verifying, and she just asked it as the whole year. Unless she specifically said “\*\*\*Nineteen \*\*\*sixty-one?” with that emphasis on the first part. So, I guess this makes this Stupid **Threads** : June 2009 Edition, instead. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/4 "2009-06-22T18:47:28Z")
I just popped in to ask if this was the thread for stupid questions? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/5 "2009-06-22T18:53:44Z")
Is this thread about stupid questions? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/6 "2009-06-22T18:54:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I just popped in to ask if this was the thread for stupid questions? No, this is abuse… Stupid questions is down the hall, first door on the right. Stupid git. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/7 "2009-06-22T19:06:42Z")
**Euphonious** , **Philster** , **beowulff** , you’re all wrong. Try to keep up–this is Stupid _Threads_. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/8 "2009-06-22T19:25:38Z")
To be perfectly clear - this is Stupid Threads 09. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/9 "2009-06-22T19:27:53Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > To be perfectly clear - this is Stupid Threads 09. Nineteen oh nine? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/10 "2009-06-22T19:32:04Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Nineteen oh nine? _Zero_ nine. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/11 "2009-06-22T20:06:00Z")
The other day I was in the break room, putting a filter in the basket and tearing open the packet and emptying into the filter. A coworker walked in and asked “Making coffee?” I was really tempted to say “No. You mean this isn’t how you prepare coq au vin?” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/12 "2009-06-22T20:52:38Z")
Um… here’s your sign? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/13 "2009-06-22T22:35:46Z")
It seems in ANY fast food chain, the workers are from Stepford. It always goes like this: Me: May I have combo #1, medium, with a diet coke for here. Fast Food Clerk: What size? Me: Medium FFC: What kind of drink? Me: Diet Coke FFC: For here or to go? Me: For here. Sheesh, maybe they gotta stop training with videotapes. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/14 "2009-06-22T22:48:13Z")
Me: I need to schedule my recheck. They asked me to come 2 weeks from my last appointment, but we’re moving out of state on the 27th so I need an appointment on the morning of the 27th. Her: Ok, lemme look at your file… It looks like 2 weeks from your last appointment will be the 30th. We have appointment times at 10 and 2pm. Me: Yeah, but we’re moving out of town on the 27th, so I need an appointment for that morning. Her: Oh, I’m sorry, but we don’t do rechecks on Saturdays and the 27th is a Saturday. What other days would work for you? Me: What have you got available near then? Her: You could come on the 30th. Me: \ We are moving out of town on the 27th. What do you have _before_ the 27th? Her: Oh, ok, how about the 26th? Me: Perfect. Her: Ok. Now, have you applied for our Frequent Visitor’s Discount card? Me: You mean the one for people who live in the area and are ever going to use your office again? No. No, I have not applied. No, I don’t want it. I hate you. Good bye. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/15 "2009-06-23T00:32:39Z")
Customer calling about bill: You better speak English, I don’t want to talk to any foreign people. Where is this call center. Me: We’re in Idaho, ma’am. ccab: See I don’t even know where that is. Me: Idaho is between Montana and Oregon. ccab: So you’re Canada then. Me: Yes southern Canada ma’am.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/16 "2009-06-23T01:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Unless she specifically said “Nineteen sixty-one?” with that emphasis on the first part. Actually she did. It was “_Nineteen_ sixty one?” not “Nineteen _sixty_ one?” or “Nineteen sixty _one_?” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/17 "2009-06-23T02:15:59Z")
I generally give out my birthdate the way twenty-first century computerized forms want it entered: dd-mm-yyyy ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/18 "2009-06-23T02:37:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So I’m calling a medical office to have them check some records for me. And they ask me my birthdate. > > “10-29-61” > “Nineteen sixty one?” > > I was so tempted to say no and see what her next guess was going to be. Maybe she wanted to get you speak the “18-” loudly so she’d be able tell the story of “Oldest Living Correctional Worker Yells Call.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/19 "2009-06-23T03:25:47Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > Maybe she wanted to get you speak the “18-” loudly so she’d be able tell the story of “Oldest Living Correctional Worker Yells Call.” _groan_ ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/20 "2009-06-23T11:58:23Z")
A few months ago I was giving my medical history to a nurse at new doctor’s office: Nurse: Do you currently take any prescription medication? Me: Yes. I take two for high blood pressure and 1 for high cholesterol. Nurse: Have you had surgery in the past year? Me: No. Nurse: Have you ever had high blood pressure? Me: No! Why would you even ask a question like that? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590.md?page=2)