# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/21 "2009-06-23T13:13:31Z")
You take the medication \*for \*high blood pressure, not \*against \*high blood pressure. ---
**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 23, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/22 "2009-06-23T15:41:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Actually she did. It was “_Nineteen_ sixty one?” not “Nineteen _sixty_ one?” or “Nineteen sixty _one_?” I officially retract all mockery of you. I guess I just didn’t want to believe that it was \*physically possible \*for someone to be that obtuse and still hold down a job. ---
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/23 "2009-06-23T15:43:24Z")
“Nineteen sixty one? Did I say nineteen sixty one? I was born in sixty one just like I said. And let me tell you, back when we had a man like Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus running things, we didn’t have to put up with nonsense like this!” ---
**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, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/24 "2009-06-23T15:48:01Z")
> [@](#): > > You take the medication for high blood pressure, not against high blood pressure. Exactly. Why just the other day a co-worker asked me if I could make a donation. I asked what the cause was and she told me they were collecting money for cancer. So I didn’t give her any money because I’m against cancer. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/25 "2009-06-23T16:31:51Z")
Had someone recently ask “What’s the difference between the Cinnamon Sugar and the Vanilla Sugar?” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/26 "2009-06-23T17:44:01Z")
Me and my husband had this conversation with a sales clerk, condensed but accurate. Me: Ooooh look at that princess-y lamp. We should get that for our daughter’s birthday. Hubby to sales clerk: Could you get that lamp for us? It’s our daughter’s birthday tomorrow. Me, spying a frageelie lamp\*: Look at that one, we should get it for our son. Hubby to sales clerk: And that lamp too. We have twins-- a boy and girl. Sales clerk: Oh really? Were they born on the same day? No, I didn’t get a chance to tell the story of the month long labor I went through. Hubby saw the look on my face and stepped in front of me with 'Yes. Yes, they were." \*A frageelie lamp is a lamp with a fishnet stocking leg made in Italy. ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/27 "2009-06-23T17:51:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Had someone recently ask “What’s the difference between the Cinnamon Sugar and the Vanilla Sugar?” One of them has nutmeg in it. But I forget which one. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/28 "2009-06-23T17:57:09Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Had someone recently ask “What’s the difference between the Cinnamon Sugar and the Vanilla Sugar?” Well, don’t leave us hanging what is the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/29 "2009-06-23T18:00:28Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > Well, don’t leave us hanging what is the difference? One is a sugar the other is a flavor. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/30 "2009-06-23T18:08:00Z")
Hey, how do I post a reply to this thread? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/31 "2009-06-23T18:11:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Sales clerk: Oh really? Were they born on the same day? I once asked a classmate who was older, him or his twin brother. He gave me a look that said “Ha ha, very funny, asshole.” No, really, which one is older, and by how many minutes? I have no idea why that information was important to me. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/32 "2009-06-23T18:14:38Z")
> [@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.” But does he play well with others? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/33 "2009-06-23T18:19:49Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I guess I just didn’t want to believe that it was \*physically possible \*for someone to be that obtuse and still hold down a job. But… isn’t that _why_ they call it “holding down a job”? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/34 "2009-06-23T18:35:19Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > 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: Hey, I work in a call center, too, and I’m also in Idaho! Who knows, maybe we even work for the same employer! (I know Boise has several call centers, though). I work in a travel reservations agency. I occasionally get people who are pleased to hear an unaccented voice and know that they are calling a U.S.-based call center. Still, we have some workers with foreign accents who undoubtedly are either assumed to be in India or they are harassed by the callers for not being “domestic”. :rolleyes: I’ve had a few people who confuse Idaho with Iowa. “Boise? How far is that from Des Moines?” Oh, not too far, only about 1,400 miles, give or take a few. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/35 "2009-06-23T19:24:44Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > 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. In the clerk’s defense, the #1 combo is called “The Komodo Dragon.” ---
**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 23, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/36 "2009-06-23T19:40:24Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > But… isn’t that _why_ they call it “holding down a job”? Well, they’re certainly not uplifting it, that’s for damn sure. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/37 "2009-06-23T19:52:26Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Me: Ooooh look at that princess-y lamp. We should get that for our daughter’s birthday. > Hubby to sales clerk: Could you get that lamp for us? It’s our daughter’s birthday tomorrow. > Me, spying a frageelie lamp\*: Look at that one, we should get it for our son. > Hubby to sales clerk: And that lamp too. We have twins-- a boy and girl. > Sales clerk: Oh really? Were they born on the same day? I’ll do you one better; a friend brought in their twins, a boy and a girl. Another friend: “Are they identical?” And people used to wonder if my brother and I, 13.5 months apart, were twins. :rolleyes: > [@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.” Please to explain? ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/38 "2009-06-23T20:01:15Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > 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. This is how you know \*she \*is a real American. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/39 "2009-06-23T20:02:05Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > I’ve had a few people who confuse Idaho with Iowa. “Boise? How far is that from Des Moines?” Oh, not too far, only about 1,400 miles, give or take a few. Hey, they both start with an I, right? I mean, it’s almost the same thing. 😃 I mean, you say “potato”, I say “Iowa’s the Potato State, right?” ---
**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 23, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590/40 "2009-06-23T20:02:57Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’ll do you one better; a friend brought in their twins, a boy and a girl. Another friend: “Are they identical?” > > And people used to wonder if my brother and I, 13.5 months apart, were twins. :rolleyes: 1.) How old were the twins in question? I.e., were they young enough that they could have been mistaken for both boys or both girls? 2.) A year is not such a big gap that two siblings could not be mistaken for twins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-june-2009-edition/500590.md?page=3)