# Your Question Is....?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867 "2014-07-11T15:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/21 "2014-07-12T18:19:10Z")

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Why is there something instead of nothing?

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/22 "2014-07-12T18:24:06Z")

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About a decade ago, I was playing in a regional bridge tournament. One of the opponents at my table suffered a seizure/stroke-like event at my table. I caught her as she fell, and did the best I could to make her comfortable until the paramedics came to take her away. What happened to that woman?

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**Author:** ![Purin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Purin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purin)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/23 "2014-07-12T18:46:50Z")

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What is my purpose in life?

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/24 "2014-07-13T05:45:58Z")

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What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?

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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/25 "2014-07-13T05:52:16Z")

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Am I going to Heaven after my death?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/26 "2014-07-13T05:57:20Z")

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Why only one question?

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/27 "2014-07-13T23:37:14Z")

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How many other planets have intelligent life (at least as intelligent as humans)?

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/28 "2014-07-14T02:57:15Z")

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How does everything work?

I’ve got time…

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/29 "2014-07-14T03:43:16Z")

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Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/30 "2014-07-14T03:51:13Z")

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> [@Flywheel](#):
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> Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?

Why did 7-11 stop carrying the black and white cookie? ☹

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**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/31 "2014-07-14T12:00:09Z")

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Where did I put my $#@^! keys ?

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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/32 "2014-07-14T12:29:26Z")

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> [@chiroptera](#):
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> - is there _any_ sort of afterlife that the deceased is aware of?

I can answer that for you. No.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/33 "2014-07-14T12:56:39Z")

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What is the most comprehensible answer to the most useful question I could have asked?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/34 "2014-07-14T13:58:32Z")

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I’d ask, but **Czarcasm** would just give me the [Godly Sidestep](http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Godly_Sidestep).

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/35 "2014-07-14T16:20:32Z")

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What was the greatest thing _before_ sliced bread?

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/36 "2014-07-14T18:10:45Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> What was the greatest thing _before_ sliced bread?

Answered [here](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/straight-answers-to-some-popular-rhetorical-riddles).

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**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/37 "2014-07-14T18:13:56Z")

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Where’s my other sock?

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/38 "2014-07-14T18:32:51Z")

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> [@bldysabba](#):
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> I can answer that for you. No.

You’re wrong.

My question would be, "Will you give me a TARDIS?

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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/39 "2014-07-14T19:21:10Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> You’re wrong.

Yeah, yeah, be a pedant. Almost certainly no, to the extent that to waste your one chance of gaining truly new knowledge like that would be criminal. There. Correct, but boring. Happy now?

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/40 "2014-07-14T21:24:30Z")

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> [@bldysabba](#):
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> Happy now?

Always. 🙂

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