# Where's the Kaboom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559 "2004-12-01T20:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/1 "2004-12-01T20:16:08Z")
There was supposed to be an Earth-Shattering Kaboom! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/2 "2004-12-01T20:20:09Z")
The clown must have caught it. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/3 "2004-12-01T20:21:05Z")
I heard it. What, you missed it? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/4 "2004-12-01T20:24:09Z")
If the earth shatters in the middle of the universe, can you hear the kaboom?? ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/5 "2004-12-01T20:24:38Z")
**KABOOM!!!** That was a recording of the kaboom that you missed. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/6 "2004-12-01T20:25:45Z")
Subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/7 "2004-12-01T20:31:34Z")
You’ve got hand grenades for your barreled oatmeal? Harumph. Back in my day we had to hit ours with pointy sticks about XVIII times. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/8 "2004-12-01T20:32:42Z")
You see, here’s the problem. You used the Illudium Q-32 Explosive Space Modulator. That thing is so obsolete. Everybody knows you need the Q-36. Get with the program! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/9 "2004-12-01T20:35:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > You’ve got hand grenades for your barreled oatmeal? Harumph. Back in my day we had to hit ours with pointy sticks about XVIII times. Is that an Acme Pointed Stick that you used? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/10 "2004-12-01T20:36:18Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > You see, here’s the problem. You used the Illudium Q-32 Explosive Space Modulator. That thing is so obsolete. Everybody knows you need the Q-36. And coat it liberally with some Illudium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/11 "2004-12-01T20:49:16Z")
There is no kaboom. The kaboom is a figment of your imagination. I can prove that there is no kaboom… ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/12 "2004-12-01T20:53:15Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > And coat it liberally with some Illudium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom. But don’t if you have broken skin. You’ll get a rash. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/13 "2004-12-01T21:01:08Z")
Looks like you need some [Instant Martians](http://home.earthlink.net/~bbbilly/MarvinInstMar.htm). Just _don’t_ accidentally drop the dispenser into the sewer. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/14 "2004-12-01T21:19:40Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > There is no kaboom. The kaboom is a figment of your imagination. I can prove that there is no kaboom… But…doesn’t the data show the shock from the kaboom? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/15 "2004-12-01T21:21:01Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#): > > But…doesn’t the data show the shock from the kaboom? 😉 Nope, but I could pencil one in, with bright red crayon if you want. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/16 "2004-12-01T21:43:54Z")
You’re all fools. Only a few select persons heard the kaboom. I myself was one, due to my overwhelming awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/17 "2004-12-01T21:49:57Z")
There are those that believe the kaboom has yet to occur, but it will happen “any day now”. Even though they’ve been waiting for “any day now” for about 2,000 years. Personally, I posit that the kaboom has already happened, but that the earth was restored to its previous un-kaboomed state due to the kindness of dolphins. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/18 "2004-12-01T21:56:13Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Nope, but I could pencil one in, with bright red crayon if you want. 😉 Similar to [the anger waves](http://edentrap.com/portals/8/3.jpg) in a recent **Bruce\_Daddy** [thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=280524&page=1) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/19 "2004-12-01T22:00:48Z")
There was a pretty loud Kaboom in my pants a little while ago. Still, I don’t think it actually shattered any of the Earth or anything unless it unleashed one of those Butterfly in Peru sequences or something. Probably not though. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559/20 "2004-12-01T22:09:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > There was a pretty loud Kaboom in my pants a little while ago. That was you? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-kaboom/277559.md?page=2)