BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Les from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 08:28 AM

Stewarding at Warwick Folk Festival and being rather obvious in the main street in a fluorescent jacket got me plenty of stupid non-folk festival questions like 'Where is the Registry Office?, and 'Is there a Marks and Spencers?'

Don't these people know that us folk festival stewards are only qualified to answer relevant questions like 'How many roads must a man walk down?' and 'How can there be a cherry without a stone?'?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:58 PM

If they can make the Black Box out of stuff that means it will survive the crash, why can't they make the whole plane out of it?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:32 PM

One the plane they tell me that in the case of a water landing (as if a place could LAND in water) my seat cushion turns into a floatation device.

My questions is: If they can do that, why can't the turn the plane into a BOAT!?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:27 PM

Answer: YES!

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:22 PM

I took my car into the shop. The mechanic told me I had blown a seal. I told him to leave my private life out of it and fix the damn car.

If you have 23 odds and ends on a table and 22 of them fall of - what's left: an odd or an end?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 08:24 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 08:23 PM

My bottle of cough syrup says, "Do not use if seal is broken." So how am I supposed to get the cough syrup out without breaking the seal?

Videos usually say, "This video has been altered to fit your TV set." How do they know how big my TV set is?

Why is it, when someone posts a list of "Rules and Regulations," they never tell you which ones are the rules and which ones are the regulations?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 08:03 PM

GS, you must be seriously pissed--in the North American use of the term. Where's the Be Blessed?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 07:52 PM

Harpgirl...If you find Brits unfriendly...can I ask what you have said to upset them????? You have certainly ATTACKED me and I am a Brit.Best wishes all the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 07:48 PM

Why is a music thread listed under BS?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 07:38 PM

What's this thread about?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 05:37 PM

Well.

To say that the Mother of all BS Threads has taken on a life of its own is now officially redundant.

The next question is, can one thread usurp another?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: MOAB
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 04:36 PM

Oh, I forgot to ask my question!


What do this thread and a circle jerk have in common?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: MOAB
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 04:18 PM

Bee-dubya-ell, you sorry sack of shit! This is your Mother! That's right, The Mother of All BS Threads. What's the big idea of starting this useless piece of crap thread when there's plenty of room at my place for stupid questions? I thought you were one of my faithful children and look at what you've done! Created this upstart thread for absolutely no reason. Haven't I always been good to you! Is this how all my hard work is repaid? I always thought you would come to a bad end and now it's pretty obvious I was right. Get a life before it's too late!

Your Mom

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 10:59 AM

What is the difference between half a hen?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Les from Hull
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 10:56 AM

If a man stands alone in the middle of a forest, says something and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 10:26 AM

Does the Mudcat Cafe exist when I'm not logged on ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:50 AM

If a tree falls in the forest...........??????

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:10 AM

The movie "Citizen Kane" opens with the guy dying, alone in his bedroom, and his last word is "Rosebud," right? So if he's alone, how do they know what he said?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 08:57 AM

When will Martin realize how great Bob Dylan really is?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: dunkel_esel
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 06:41 AM

Why isn't 'Twurpy, twurpy, tweet, tweet' Britian's national anthem?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 06:05 AM

Do bugs live in a ' buggery '?
Am I sane ?
Who am I anyway ?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 01:36 AM

How did Burt Lancaster get away with playing Elmer Gantry in every movie he ever made?

Why didn't Roy Orbison rewrite the line "love is like a stove"?

How could "Dirty Deeds" possibly be considered as being folk music?

What about "Highway To Hell"?
Would that be a polka or more of a waltz?

Is there a way to get the protective seal off a new jar of honey before your toast goes cold?

Are the stars really tiny pinpricks in the otherwise perfect (and otherwise black) fabric of eternity?

Were there only supposed to be three questions?

Why only three?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 12:18 AM

awww, harpy...the ones I met last fall were DANGEROUSLY friendly. ;>)

(and boy, did they have good taste in booze!)

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: harpgirl
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 08:55 PM

Why are the Brits so damn unfriendly?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 07:19 PM

Are rhetorical questions ruining stupid threads, as well as serious ones?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Joe_F
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 07:11 PM

Does this question entail that at least one question exists?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:48 PM

Cheers Blackcatter, I thought BS meant that as well, but wasn't sure.

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:32 PM

You'll here other explanations but it stands for B.S. - Bull Shit

We don't treat all stuff in the BS section as "BS," but is started when peole begai ndiscussing things off-topic (music).

As for LOL, you shoudl find that on the Internet. That's what lazy people write when they want people to know a joke made them laugh out loud.

ROTFHMNAIWIPFTOSFS

Rolling on the floor, holding my nuts as I wince in pain from that oh so funny statement.

That's my favorite.

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 05:08 PM

Seriously, can someone tell me what BS stands for. I have my own idea, but no-ones ever told me, and it doesn't say on a google?

Also what does LOL mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 04:10 PM

why dont monks live in a monkery?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 03:47 PM

You know, if we create a filter for GUESTS posting in the "BS" sections, where, instead of it being "GUEST whomever" It was automatically "I'm a GUEST so it is best ot ignore my post Whomever," It might cut down on GUEST postings.


Also - I keep hearing people complain that long threads are a pain to read because it takes too long to load them. Is there that many people who dont know about the "part 1,2,3,4," and the "descending" options, or are they just trying to be funny in a non-humerous way?

Requiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 02:49 PM

Why have special thread for stupid questions anyway? This is the Mudcat Cafe, after all, isn't it?

And if, as I've been told, there are no stupid questions, do stupid people suddenly become smart when they ask a question?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 02:08 PM

hmmm, maybe I'm starting to get it. Is this something like entropy, eh? Like, say you have a penis and you don't use it or do anything with it, it disappears.....is that it?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 02:03 PM

I take it back. The ab factors cancel each othe rout so that is not the error.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 01:53 PM

John 'Giok' MacKenzie, dogs are kept in a kennel because they "understand", while cats are just too busy being catty to develop any depth of "knowledge" whatsoever.

Bagpuss, I'm not giving apples away, I just have an integer that represents 1 place (1 can represent something can't it?) Now if I don't do anything with that place or thing, or even if I try to multiply that "place or thing" with nothing, why can't I still have that place or thing, after I have done nothing with it? I want to have my cake and eat it too!

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Bagpuss
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 11:25 AM

Or will this?

[it could be-all I have to do is push this button]

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 11:21 AM

Will this be the last post to this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 11:09 AM

If your doctor says your new medication is one you will need to take for the rest of your life but there are no refills, should you be nervous?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:59 AM

and doesn't oatmeal absorb, rather than suck?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:56 AM

What do you get when you steep crushed rolled oats in hot water?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:50 AM

Rap, these questions are not being asked on the MOAB because that thread is a repository for nonspecific BS. TOMSQT posts must be either questions or answers to questions. A MOAB post may be a question or an answer, but it may also be a recipe for oatmeal. Recipes for oatmeal are not allowed here unless one is able to phrase said recipe as a question. But why would anyone want to post a recipe for oatmeal anyway? Oatmeal sucks.

As to what makes this thread "official", I was sitting in my "office" when the idea came to me. It was a very "moving" experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:50 AM

Does anyone care?

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: 42
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:04 AM

Do Americans not read Shakespeare?
Does Raggytash just think Americans don't read Shakespeare?
Do Rap artists starve to death?
Is that three questions?

j

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 10:01 AM

To be more precise, the factorisation is bogus as written because there is no ab term in the expression being factorized.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:57 AM

For our American cousins "If music be the food of love" is the opening line of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Deep River Blue
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:54 AM

Why don't guests get a name dammit and use it so we'll know who they are ?

And where do all these guests come from anyway ??

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:53 AM

If music be the food of love ......... why don't Rabbits sing

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:43 AM

The factorisation omits the ab term.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Official Mudcat Stupid Question Thread
From: Bagpuss
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 09:41 AM

Nobody does jokes in base 13