# What floats your boat?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 1, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282 "2000-10-01T23:05:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/1 "2000-10-01T23:05:15Z")
Music and family for me. Oh, yeah and there’s that _other_ thing…you know…
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/2 "2000-10-01T23:08:55Z")
Music. Speed (as in fastness, as in vitesse in French, as in “woo hoo zero to two hundred fourteen in less than a minute”). More music. Nitro fuel. Music again. Friends. Music. Listening to music while hanging out with my friends and moving quickly.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/3 "2000-10-01T23:11:37Z")
And technically water. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/4 "2000-10-01T23:13:50Z")
Well as long as I don’t overload it, I think it’s the air on the deck that creates the buoyancy… 🙂
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/5 "2000-10-01T23:16:59Z")
Well if you’re going to get into the physics of the phenomenon, I believe it’s a combination of the density of the boat, the air pressure on the water and on the boat, and the water pressure on the boat.
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### Author:  [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/6 "2000-10-01T23:59:05Z")
Water floats my boat. Moving air blows my skirt up.
We won’t go into what trips my trigger.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/7 "2000-10-02T00:09:16Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by agisofia \*
> \*\*Water floats my boat. Moving air blows my skirt up.
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> We won’t go into what trips my trigger. \*\*
But what, may I ask, creams your twinkie?
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/8 "2000-10-02T00:14:14Z")
Don’t even mention _my_ boat. It was hit by lightning a couple of months ago and I am _still_ chasing the insurance company. Those SOBs!
I guess I can go sailing in January and get frostbite.
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/9 "2000-10-02T00:26:13Z")
I first heard that phrase when those inflatable bikini tops started hitting Waikiki beach. They interviewed this guy on the news and asked him what he thought of them. He turned and eyed the enhanced boobage of girl wearing the bikini, and then shrugged and said, “Hey, man, whatever floats your boat.”
I’ll go with music, too.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/10 "2000-10-02T02:07:47Z")
Love, sex, friends, physics. Maybe a little basketball. Definitely some music.
Just to be clear on that whole buoyancy thing, it’s just the difference in the weight of the water displaced by the boat versus the weight of the boat. Because the boat is less dense than water, it floats (i.e. the direction of the buoyancy force is opposite to that of gravity). How far down it sits in the water is determined by the force of buoyancy being equal to the force of gravity on the boat, so the net acceleration is zero.
Sorry. You’ll note the word “physics” in the first line…
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### Author:  [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/11 "2000-10-02T02:32:30Z")
I don’t have a boat. Are you trying to ask what yanks my lanyard?
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/12 "2000-10-02T05:00:59Z")
No, no, no. He clearly wanted to know what tickles your pickle.
–Tim
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### Author:  [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/13 "2000-10-02T08:20:16Z")
What floats my boat?
Lola.
She is very bouyant.
I never could float on my own.
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### Author:  [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/14 "2000-10-02T16:54:47Z")
Music, especially classical music!
Being creative and making things with my hands.
Sex, of course!😉
If I really HAD a boat, I would probably try to keep it afloat with chewing gum and baling wire :D.
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### Author:  [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/15 "2000-10-03T01:18:08Z")
Dudes w/long hair GOD I love that 😃
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### Author:  [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/16 "2000-10-03T02:38:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by MaxTheVool \*
> \*\*
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by agisofia \*
> > \*\*Water floats my boat. Moving air blows my skirt up.
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> > We won’t go into what trips my trigger. \*\*
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> But what, may I ask, creams your twinkie? \*\*
None of your freaking business. Get away from me, you perv. 😛
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/17 "2000-10-03T12:18:48Z")
But what tears along your dotted line?
What spins your bottle?
What rotates your tires?
What pulls your trigger?
What activates your timer?
I’m making all these up, of course.
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### Author:  [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/18 "2000-10-03T12:35:02Z")
I’ll step out on a limb and say…a nice poop.
A good BM is truly a wonderous thing.
Family and stuff like that is way up on the list, but there’s nothin’ like a crap to end all craps.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/19 "2000-10-03T20:28:12Z")
A long bicycle ride on an early summer day along country roads, through horse pastures and alongside creeks.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-floats-your-boat/35282/20 "2000-10-03T20:30:17Z")
Oh, and puppies. Lots of puppies. 'Specially pug puppies.
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