# Why ask what?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-ask-what/602713 "2011-11-12T18:56:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-ask-what/602713/1 "2011-11-12T18:56:04Z")

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So this morning, I was trying to pick up my (corded) keyboard, and there was a cable in my way, one of those cables you keep plugged in to the USB slots at the back of the PC because they’re so hard to get to.

I fought valiantly, but it got the upper hand – probably because _my_ sword hand was full, holding the keyboard. So I thought that I’d find the other end of the cable, to see if it was mission-critical, or if I could just unplug it and get it out of my way. (I’m **all about efficiency**.)

I said, “What is this cable, and why is it such a pain in the ass?”

Then I looked down at the dense and writhing mass of cabuncular snakes (cord-ate creatures) that perpetually engulf the base of my homebuilt computer.

😃

_ **Ah, well you might ask, hu-mon!** _ \*

Lather, rinse, repeat. _Indefinitely._

- Completely unrelated question: How many of you know what a “hooey monster” is, and where the term came from?