# Well, I just asked to interview the Dalai Lama **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369 "2008-04-14T23:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/21 "2008-04-15T17:21:38Z")
“If you and Pope Benedict swapped jobs for a year, what would you do?” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/22 "2008-04-15T17:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Interrobang!?] “If you and Pope Benedict swapped jobs for a year, what would you do?” [/QUOTE] “Make…available…RUBBERS!” ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/23 "2008-04-15T19:09:40Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] [QUOTE=Interrobang!?] “If you and Pope Benedict swapped jobs for a year, what would you do?” [/QUOTE] “Make…available…RUBBERS!” [/QUOTE] Winner!!! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/24 "2008-04-15T21:44:44Z")
What do you think of [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ&feature=related)? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/25 "2008-04-16T15:35:24Z")
Well, I got a very polite turn-down from his secretary or somesuch. But I wrote back with many questions asking if we could do the interview via email this way. Cross your fingers! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/26 "2008-04-16T17:12:10Z")
[QUOTE=Jonathan Chance] Well, I got a very polite turn-down from his secretary or somesuch. But I wrote back with many questions asking if we could do the interview via email this way. Cross your fingers! [/QUOTE] Crossing them for you! Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/27 "2008-04-16T23:23:50Z")
Jonathan, sorry you didn’t get an outright interview, and fingers crossed for a Virtual one. One question I’d ask is: “You have seen much change in the world in your lifetime. What do you see as the most positive changes/developments we human beings have made?” I think he would enjoy answering that. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/28 "2008-04-17T02:21:33Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] What do you think of [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ&feature=related)? [/QUOTE] Oh, you unfeeling bastard. Not only did my kids practically pee their pants laughing at that, but now we’ve watched it about 10 times and I am singing it to myself- llama, llama, duck, indeed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/29 "2008-04-17T02:56:09Z")
\*\ Dalai Lama with no hair Soul vibrations in the air There’s a question I’ve got for you: Why are you named for a beast of burden with an Aunt LaRue? I’m askin’ you! \ Dalai Lama with no home All around the world you roam At a lecture hall near you What’s a bald-headed, glasses-wearing Tibetan monk master to do? I’m askin’ you! Far away in the snowy Himalayas There’s a cat who’s always getting reincarnated Dalai Lama Hello, Dalai It’s so nice to have you back where you belong \\* I can’t think of the Dalai Lama without hearing this song by the local band [Clambake](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=129373773). (Warning: Embedded music plays upon opening.) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/30 "2008-04-17T03:14:44Z")
What is his favorite joke? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/31 "2008-04-17T04:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Not only did my kids practically pee their pants laughing at that, but now we’ve watched it about 10 times and I am singing it to myself- llama, llama, duck, indeed. 😃 [/QUOTE] Once you’ve cleaned yourselves up, you should play [llamatron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llamatron) ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/32 "2008-04-17T13:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] What do you think of [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ&feature=related)? [/QUOTE] I prefer [this version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDyM7XX0J_4), if only because it apologizes for itself. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369/33 "2008-04-17T14:48:50Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Oh, you unfeeling bastard. Not only did my kids practically pee their pants laughing at that, but now we’ve watched it about 10 times and I am singing it to myself- llama, llama, duck, indeed. 😃 [/QUOTE] My work here is done. 😉 OK, maybe just _almost_ done. [QUOTE=Jayn\_Newell] I prefer [this version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDyM7XX0J_4), if only because it apologizes for itself. [/QUOTE] We don’t need no steenkin’ apologies! 😛 Here’s the [Harry Potter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6giU02gEc&feature=related) version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-just-asked-to-interview-the-dalai-lama/445369.md?page=1)