# Time, once again, for 5 (new) Pointless Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026 "2005-09-29T15:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/41 "2005-09-29T21:46:12Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? > > 2. What’s your favorite type of candy? > > 3. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? > > 4. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? > > 5. What is your favorite theme park ride? 1. Keyboard, touching it. 2. Gummi Lifesavers. 3. I never, _ever_ refer to, er, carbonated sugar liquid buy a collective general noun (except just now). I will refer to specific brands. (And I never ask for Coke.) 4. Hearsay. Tainted with the random biases of others. 5. Centrifugal force rides - the one where they pin you to the wall like a bug and drop the floor out is good, but the Tilt-a-whirl (enclosed teacups) are better, particularly with another guy to help pull the wheel until we can no longer muster the strength to reach away from the wall, and with a small girl or two to render into an insensible pulpy mass. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/42 "2005-09-29T21:46:35Z")
1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? Coffee cup. Filled. With coffee. 1. What’s your favorite type of candy? CHOCOLATE. Failing that, any lime-flavored candy. 1. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? Coke, even if it isn’t coke. 1. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? [news.google.com](http://news.google.com), The Pit. 1. What is your favorite theme park ride? Pirates of the Carribean! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/43 "2005-09-29T21:49:08Z")
And someday I’ll even learn how to spell “Caribbean” properly :smack:. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/44 "2005-09-29T22:00:26Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? > > 2. What’s your favorite type of candy? > > 3. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? > > 4. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? > > 5. What is your favorite theme park ride? 1. My chin. 2. Gummy worms. 3. Soda. 4. Internet for all. 5. Any really fast roller coaster. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/45 "2005-09-29T22:27:20Z")
1. My left hip 2. Peanut-Butter M&Ms 3. Pop 4. Local: Newspaper, National: TV, International: Internet 5. A roller coaster at Canada’s Wonderland called The Vortext, you sit in a car suspended from the track above. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/46 "2005-09-29T23:10:22Z")
1. A pen/computer keyboard. 2. Chocolate, preferably dark. 3. Soda most often, sometimes pop. 4. Via the internet, or BBC television if possible. 5. Mr. Freeze roller coaster, Flashback, Judge Roy Scream, or Texas Chute Out, all from Six Flags Over Texas. (No, I can’t really choose just one.) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/47 "2005-09-29T23:56:48Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? > > 2. What’s your favorite type of candy? > > 3. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? > > 4. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? > > 5. What is your favorite theme park ride? 1.) A dictionary 2.) snickers bars 3.) soda 4.) The Washington Post 5.) I’ve never been to a theme park. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/48 "2005-09-30T00:29:50Z")
1. A comforter I hope I don’t need to use for a few weeks. 2. Chocolate. Don’t make me narrow it down further, it’d be like picking my favorite child, but less hypothetical. 3. Soda. 4. Local 5. Rollercoasters ---
**Author:** ![surrotobeinMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@surrotobeinMD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrotobeinMD)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/49 "2005-09-30T00:35:48Z")
> [@surrotobeinMD](#): > > 1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? > my crotch I wanted to clarify… I wasn’t being dirty… I just keep my left hand between my thighs, crammed up near my crotch when I’m reading, driving, watching tV, etc. Sort of like how Al Bundy used to put his hand down his trousers on the couch… completely non-sexual, just habit. It really was where my hand was at the momen I read that post… You believe me, don’t you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/50 "2005-09-30T00:45:31Z")
1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? The chair arm 2. What’s your favorite type of candy? Peanut M&Ms 3. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? Soda. My mom calls my son’s favorite soda Mildew. (Mt. Dew) 4. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? Radio 5. What is your favorite theme park ride? Ferris wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026/51 "2005-09-30T00:56:36Z")
1. Right this minute, what is the closest thing to your left hand? My chin, which is resting on said hand. (Now it’s not anymore, as I quickly tired of typing with my right hand only.) 2. What’s your favorite type of candy? Salt-water taffy, I guess. I’m not much of a “candy” person; I prefer a good “chocolate” bar. 3. What do you say: soda, pop, Coke…? Soda 4. How do you prefer to get your local/national/int’l news? Google or BBC News 5. What is your favorite theme park ride? The Matterhorn at Disneyland [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-once-again-for-5-new-pointless-questions/324026.md?page=2)