# "There ARE no stupid questions!" Well, that sounds like a challenge to me. (game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466 "2004-08-31T20:59:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/41 "2004-09-01T01:43:55Z")
“Are you my mommy?” ---
**Author:** ![Anngela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@Anngela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anngela)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/42 "2004-09-01T01:52:59Z")
How do they get the poop off the recycled toilet paper? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/43 "2004-09-01T02:15:55Z")
My stepdaughter calls me last night asking this: “A friend wants to buy an iMac, can it run Windows XP?” ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/44 "2004-09-01T02:19:45Z")
Math? Isn’t that the class with the numbers and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/45 "2004-09-01T02:21:29Z")
I was going to college in the late 80’s, when the AIDS crisis was new. For nearly every class I was taking , they had a person come in and discuss safe sex and AIDS and all that stuff. The result was that we all heard the same stuff over and over. And they always asked if we had any questions at the end. One day I thought of asking this question: A buddy of mine is gay, thinks he’s a vampire and drinks blood, and shoots heroin with used needles. He recently lost a lot of weight. I was wondering; should I blow him? Then spit his spooge into my open wounds? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/46 "2004-09-01T02:42:28Z")
I had a sex ed class in fifth grade. Lasted for a trimester. Last day of class before the final exam. Teacher asks, “Okay, does anyone have any questions on any of the material we’ve covered in this class? Anything you don’t understand? This is your last chance to ask before the big test tomorrow!” One girl raises her hand and asks, “Can boys get pregnant?” ---
**Author:** ![J.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@J.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J.Me)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/47 "2004-09-01T03:32:51Z")
Preface: I work in a restaurant. These two were asked of me by customers, recently… “Can I have a sandwich on bread?” and “Do y’all use real tomatoes?” I have a fun job. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/48 "2004-09-01T03:45:45Z")
Back in '99, NASA had a [press release](http://www.space.com/news/spaceshuttles/shuttle_leonids.html) mentioning that a November shuttle launch would be delayed due to the Leonid meteor shower. Some co-workers and I were discussing it at lunch when one of them asked, “Why don’t they just raise their shields?” ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/49 "2004-09-01T03:54:05Z")
Hey you! You with the shaggy beard and erect penis ! Are you a girl? ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/50 "2004-09-01T03:55:54Z")
A couple years ago I played [Milky White](http://metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=28) (the cow) in _Into the Woods_. An audience member asked our director, “Is there really a person inside the cow?” I walked, mooed, sat down, and even danced a little. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/51 "2004-09-01T04:04:41Z")
7-8 years ago my mother, sister, and I were eating at a McDonald’s talking about the person my sister’s named after… at the end of that conversation my sister asks “What was her name, again?” ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/52 "2004-09-01T04:08:26Z")
Are you asleep? A real one from when I was working at a bath and body products store: “Do you sell bubble bath?” I look around at the rainbow of of bubble bath bottles on every shelf in the store… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/53 "2004-09-01T04:22:10Z")
(This is true.) Today, in my wife’s oncologist’s office, the doc was explaining, in great detail, the chemotherapy procedure she’s going to go through in a couple of weeks. He talked about one chemical that sounded like cre-uht-nine. I stopped, him, kidding, and asked, “Is that the stuff Sammy Sosa takes?” “No,” he said, " Sammy takes creatine, and that’s different." “Oh, so this stuff won’t help her batting average?” “No, and if she plays golf, it won’t help her handicap. If it did, I’d take it myself.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![musicmajor13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@musicmajor13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicmajor13)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/54 "2004-09-01T04:53:50Z")
Whoever coined that phrase “There is no such thing as a stupid question” obviously never worked with the public on a daily basis. I work in technical support for a software company, so that means I am under the assault of the catapults of the dumb day after day, and the stupid question list grows hour by hour. But two questions come to mind immediately: Customer (while filling out a login form): What country do I chose? _Uhh…I’ll put you on mute to let you figure that one out_ Customer: I need to know what questions to ask. _I’m still perplexed at that one_ ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/55 "2004-09-01T05:33:24Z")
Tourist in Key West, FL Q: Does water go all the way around this island? Tourist in Key West, FL, standing in the middle of town. Q: Where’s the coral reef? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/56 "2004-09-01T05:40:03Z")
Me(answering telephone at work, speaking slowly and distinctly as instructed by Boss): _Name of university_, may I help you? Caller: Is this _Name of university_? No, I just like saying it. You think I’m really going to answer, “Miss Tabby’s Cathouse!” :rolleyes: (Although, believe me, some days I’d really like to.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/57 "2004-09-01T06:54:55Z")
From my SIL: How old will I be when I’m 65? ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/58 "2004-09-01T08:07:37Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > My stepdaughter calls me last night asking this: > > “A friend wants to buy an iMac, can it run Windows XP?” Actually, an iMac can run WindowsXP, if you use VirtualPC . . . ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/59 "2004-09-01T12:17:10Z")
I bought a Bronx Zoo hat once. Here are two that came from wearing the hat. . . My Dad (who is actually quite smart) : “Where is that, Brooklyn?” A guy who was working in the gym one day : “I’m from the Bronx. Is there really a zoo there?” ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466/60 "2004-09-01T12:34:57Z")
True story: Orientation meeting before starting Grad School in South Carolina - Me: " I’m from the Netherlands" Fellow (American) student: “Wow! did you drive here?” Honorable mentions: (all true) “Do they have Thanksgiving in Holland?” “Do they have Christmas in Holland?” Then there’s the one that seemed stupid at first, but may actually reflect deep insight: “Do they have summer in Holland?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-stupid-questions-well-that-sounds-like-a-challenge-to-me-game/262466.md?page=4)