# Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2000, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173 "2000-01-27T09:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/21 "2000-01-27T17:35:00Z")
Where’s Prof Irwin Corey when you need him? He had a wonderful discourse on “Why?” ---
**Author:** ![Bobby\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bobby\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobby_O)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/22 "2000-01-27T17:37:00Z")
Trust me, you don’t want to know. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/23 "2000-01-28T06:20:00Z")
That’s classified. If I told you I’d have to kill you. 😉 * * * Love stinks! (Yeah, yeah!) ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/24 "2000-01-28T06:25:00Z")
Aw, crap! Why do I always get the tough questions? * * * Eat right, exercise daily, live clean, die anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/25 "2000-01-28T06:26:00Z")
Huh?? * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/26 "2000-01-28T06:34:00Z")
The Devil made me do it. * * * Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. -William Blake ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/27 "2000-01-28T06:35:00Z")
To understand your true nature you must not seek out “why” but seek to forget why you asked “why”. Only in not dwelling upon why you ask “why” will you truely know why. * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/28 "2000-01-28T06:36:00Z")
Because. Now go clean your room. * * * “You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/29 "2000-01-28T06:37:00Z")
Not like it used to. Sweet Basil ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/30 "2000-01-28T06:38:00Z")
Don’t know whyyyyy… there’s no stars up in the sky, stormy weather… * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/31 "2000-01-28T06:45:00Z")
Because it felt sooooooooooooo good!! * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/32 "2000-01-28T06:54:00Z")
::raises hand:: Is this going to be on the final? ---
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/33 "2000-01-28T06:55:00Z")
Why ask Why? ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/34 "2000-01-28T06:56:00Z")
You talking to me, I said are you talking to me. :Steps up to mike and taps it: “is this thing on?(Singing)” Oh well, whatever, nevermind." :Looks around, sees no one , shrugs, shoulders and leaves: Keith ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/35 "2000-01-27T19:00:00Z")
Because we are one with the universal and with nature * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/36 "2000-01-27T19:08:00Z")
…was **Satan** up at 4:05 AM EST? * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/37 "2000-01-27T19:21:00Z")
Sure, why else do you think it’s an ungodly hour? ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/38 "2000-01-27T19:34:00Z")
Because it ticks so many people off, that’s why. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/39 "2000-01-27T19:35:00Z")
This is so I can get to the next color background. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173/40 "2000-01-27T19:36:00Z")
My drawing of Satan snowed in in NC. ^ ^ Jeffery [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/13173.md?page=3)