# What's got 4 legs and goes "BOO!"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 29, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965 "2008-11-29T20:13:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/21 "2008-12-01T00:23:10Z")

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> [@nonacetone](#):
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> Does the picture of the shaggy cow look an awful lot like Martha Stewart, or is it just me?

I was thinking bovine boy band, so apparently it’s just you.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/22 "2008-12-01T00:43:53Z")

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It’s not just him. I totally see the resemblance.

I think it’s the bangs.

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**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/23 "2008-12-01T00:50:30Z")

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I’m a her, by the way.  
Yes. I believe it’s the bangs, also!

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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/24 "2008-12-01T00:54:56Z")

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> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#):
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> Still no fuckin’ idea!

Isn’t that supposed to be ideer?

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**Author:** ![PandaMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PandaMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaMom)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/25 "2008-12-01T02:08:36Z")

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What do you call a monster with its ears covered?

Whatever you want to. He can’t hear you.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/26 "2008-12-01T06:44:12Z")

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> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#):
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> Isn’t that supposed to be ideer?

Not if you’re a Southie.

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/27 "2008-12-01T07:31:23Z")

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What’s blue and smells like red paint?

Blue paint.

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/28 "2008-12-01T07:40:04Z")

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> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> What’s blue and smells like red paint?
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> Blue paint.

Snerk.

> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> And what do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs, and no dick?

Saddo.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/29 "2008-12-01T08:11:37Z")

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> [@Savannah](#):
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> Hee!
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> Here is a picture of a shaggy [cow](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/83/94583-004-8F5FE59F.jpg).

Yak, yak, yak.

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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/30 "2008-12-01T08:16:48Z")

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Why would you paint the bottom of an elephants feet yellow?

So it could hide upside down in a bowl of custard

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**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/31 "2008-12-01T08:50:04Z")

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What is about a foot long and slippery?  
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A slipper.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/32 "2008-12-01T10:35:23Z")

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“Knock, knock”  
“Who’s there?”

“ **Brooke Shields** ”

"Brooke Shields **who**?

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“Brooke shields her eyebrows as I cum on her face”.

**Y’all** started it! 😛

Q

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/33 "2008-12-01T11:33:10Z")

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> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#):
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> What do you call a boomerang that does not come back?
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> A Kylie.

I don’t get it: always thought the answer to that riddle was ’ a stick’.

😕

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/34 "2008-12-01T14:34:04Z")

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Ah, that’s that joke, 'tis true for those of us with knowledge and cullture, some boomerangs were designed to skim the ground and catch up with the prey - these are not desgined to return, and are called Kylie.

The joke is in the reaction of the unelightened.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/35 "2008-12-01T14:38:17Z")

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If woman with big breasts work at Hooters, where do woman with one leg work?

IHOP

And what phrase do they give new meaning to?

Tipping your waitress

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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/36 "2008-12-01T14:49:34Z")

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What would you call Postman Pat when he retires?

Pat

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/37 "2008-12-01T15:02:11Z")

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Used this one this weekend:

You know how birds fly in that “V” formation when they migrate? _[Yeah]_ And you know how there’s always one side of the “V” longer than the other one? _[I guess]_ You know why that is? _[Why?]_

More birds.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/38 "2008-12-01T16:34:34Z")

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[Karnac the Magnificent] Sis-Boom-Bah. . .

[Ed McMahon] Sis-Boom-Bah.

[Karnac] What is the sound of an exploding sheep?

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**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/39 "2008-12-01T16:53:47Z")

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> [@kambuckta](#):
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> I don’t get it: always thought the answer to that riddle was ’ a stick’.
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> 😕

“A stick” is a punchline to another classic, which goes a little something like this:

What’s brown and sticky?

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-got-4-legs-and-goes-boo/474965/40 "2008-12-01T17:16:34Z")

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What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs?

Matt.

What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in a pool?

Bob.

What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs hanging on a wall?

Art.

What’s brown and sounds like a bell?

Dung.

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