However, they do have an answer to Ethilrist’s Donald Duck question:
from here
I’d like to know that one myself.
Or more simply
Who and what is Tom Bombadil?
I’ve heard it was the same thing as the Pulp Fiction briefcase.
I add these:
Who’s on first?
What does a Yellow Light man?
Jim
In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, who is Judy?
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Could the eagles have flown Frodo to Mount Doom?
Did Brawn die in Transformers the Movie?
Who would win: Star Destroyer vs Enterprise-D?
…Ignatowski?
What did Billy Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahachee Bridge?
I thought the movie made it clear that it was the corpses of aliens.
Actually we know the answer to this one. The Eagles could not penetrate Morder while Sauron was alert and in Barad-Dur. It was only after Sauron’s destruction that they came winging in. Sauron knew they were servants of Manwe.
Jim
Slow down!
OK.
W…h…a…t d…o…e…s a y…e…l…l…o…w l…i…g…h…t m…e…a…n?
What was in the unopened package in “Cast Away.”
It was jokingly answered in an egg on the DVD.
I would have opened it immediately.
The One Ring, of course.
Only the ones in the Air branch. Medical-corps balrogs have cadeucuses (cadeuci?); survey corps ones, palantiri on tripods, etc.
Well, naturally.
If I shot the sherrif, who the hell killed the deputy?
Especially since she once said, “there’s nothing in it that isn’t true of Warren Beatty.”
From here:
"The question is: Who is Carly Simon’s classic 1972 song “You’re So Vain” about? That’s the song about the cad who flies around in a Learjet and sleeps with “the wife of a close friend.”
The answer is: Warren Beatty.
Many people over the years thought possibly Mick Jagger, or even Simon’s then-soon-to-be-husband James Taylor, was the subject of the song. They were wrong.
Jagger, in fact, provides the delicious backing vocals on the record that blend so well with Simon’s delivery. Paul and Linda McCartney also sang on the recording.
But Beatty is the guy, no matter how much his name is protested by Simon or by him. Carly dated him in 1971, right after she became an overnight sensation with the lilting, tense ballad “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be.”
Carly met Beatty in Los Angeles after she played at the Troubadour. And Warren … well, you can guess the rest. He was always the first to put out the welcome mat to beautiful young women who had arrived in Hollywood.
In 1988 I interviewed Carly about her incredible career. When the subject of “You’re So Vain” came up we discussed Beatty at length. She said the song was “a little about Beatty.” It was a composite of three men from her L.A. days. Beatty, she told me, was not a good boyfriend.
“I never took him seriously,” she told me. “He was great fun and very, very bright. But noooo … as a boyfriend. A lot of women like someone who is that smooth. In the beginning Warren was pretty good at pretending he was only smooth on the outside and a bowl of jelly on the inside. But he doesn’t do that secondary act very well now.”
What was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction? A McGuffin, pure and simple.
I think a classic one among Baby Boomers was trying to figure out what the dad on Leave it to Beaver did for a living.
Who was the Third Man?
What was Rosebud?
Oh wait, we know those…
No, not necessarily recognize. You have to read that question literally: Yes, the contents of the briefcase are what he thinks they are, literally: they’re whatever he thinks they are. If you looked in the briefcase, they’d be whatever YOU think they are.
What was Meatloaf not willing to do for love?
Oh, don’t even get me started on that. He does say what we won’t do in the last section of the song, and it doesn’t help. Make something up.