Stuupid Questions/Answers/Comments thread

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

He made a great case for sex ed classes though.

or sterilization....

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by FurnaceFace

or sterilization....

Here's another story about the guy. He was remodeling is house, and was in the middle of doing something with a propane torch when he realized he needed some supplies. So he took off for the local lumber yard, and forgot to turn the propane torch off. While he was gone it somehow got knocked over (cat?) and started a fire that burnt his place to the ground.

A lot of people figured it was arson, and that was just a cover story. Knowing the guy, I find it more plausible that he'd do something stupid like that than come up with a devious arson plan.

[Buzzard]

I had a girlfriend once who was a great girl, just not the sharpest knife in the drawer. She used to confuse so many phrases and words. I can only think of one in particular right now but it happened all the time. She asked if we could pick her friend up at whatever time at the bus steeple !

When my wife and I were dating we were at Fish Creek one day. Just before the little ranch restaurant deal down there heading north is a sign saying ranch restaurant or whatever with a large question mark indicating info. As we come up to it, lovely buzzardswife asks me, "What, don't they know it's the restaurant or what?" I look at her in total confusion and ask her what the hell she's talking about. She says, "The question mark...don't they know what's there or what. Why is there a big question mark?" I killed myself laughing at her explaining what it was.

Awww women!

[Kybosh]

I was on vacation in the Maritimes and had stopped the car to marvel at the Confederation bridge. While looking at it, another car pulled up and asked me if I knew where the bridge was. Dumbfounded, my only reply was that it was the huge thing right in front of him that spanned so far you couldn't see the end.

[IgnitedSoul]

My friend in Florida just asked me, "Is today Mothers' Day in Canada, too?!"

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by IgnitedSoul

My friend in Florida just asked me, "Is today Mothers' Day in Canada, too?!"

Why is that stupid? Is mother's day celebrated world-wide? I doubt it.

[IgnitedSoul]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

Why is that stupid? Is mother's day celebrated world-wide? I doubt it.

If I lived in Europe, or somewhere farther away I would get it. But in Canada, minus Thanksgiving being on a different day, most of the holidays are the same. It's not something like a President's Day, either, which would only make sense for the States; we have mothers in Canada, too. Not to mention the card, flower, and chocolate companies are going to want to promote every holiday they can.

[Temporary_User]

Is mother's day celebrated today in Mexico? Serious question, I don't know.

He also (according to your quote) asked if it was today, so like you mention Thanksgiving is celebrated on a different day, maybe mothers day is as well?

Edit: Just wiki'd mothers day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
It actually is celebrated in many countries world wide, with differing names and dates in many countries.
I'm actually surprised at the amount of historical significance that it seems to have, I would have thought is was a recently made up holiday strictly for businesses.

[ken0042]

So your friend is already aware that our Thanksgiving is on a different day just clarifies another holiday. Add to that the fact that different countries celebrate it on different days (link) it just doesn't strike me as being stupid.

[Jayems]

What's up with skinny jeans. I don't get it.

[GreenLantern]

This topic might have already been mentioned.. but I had a girl once say as she ate Buffalo Wings at a local pub that it was "Pretty light coloured for Buffalo meat."

Same girl: we were on a slow pitch team and everyone was writing nick names on their truckers hats, the team name keep in mind was "Balls Deep" and she wrote "Billions and Billions Served". We all laughed, her boyfriend just shook his head and she said "What, I like McDonalds!"

Sigh.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

Sex Ed. class in grade seven I think. The instructor was showing slides of Herpes on male Genitals. She left a slide on the screen showing the tip of a penis with a herpes sore on it. The instructor then asked the class if there were any questions.

One of my class mates raised his hand and asked "What happens if you bite it?"

Needless to say, the entire class erupted in laughter!!

.......poor guy.

(No, it was not me)

Sex ed was great for asking purposely dumb / humiliating questions. In grade 9, We had this anonymous question box you could put questions in if you were to embarrased to raise your hand. Being a bit of a jerk, I immediately saw the evil that could be done with it.

We has one guy in the class that was an uber ginger, and I asked the question, "If I have read hair on my head, does that mean I will get red pubic hair?" The entire class snapped their head towards poor Craig, and after slowly scanning the entire room with his eyes, his only reply was to cross his arms and put his head down on his desk.

We also had this really popular girl in our class that was a real mean bitch, and she was the token early bloomer in the class with big D boobs at 13. My question for her was, "Is my Vagina big, because I have big boobs?" There were about 12 girls in that class, that had they knew it was me, would have provided me with girlfriends for the rest of my Junior High senior year had they known it was me that made her run from the room in humiliation.

In hindsight it was mean, but what was even meaner, is our sex ed teacher would actually read the questions knowing some jackass in the class was using the question box for evil purposes.

[Weiser Wonder]

Questions I was asked when I worked at the hat store, CapZ in Chinook:

"Do you accept Canadian money?"

"What do you sell here?"

"Is this store called "Caps" or "Captain Zeds"?

[Cowperson]

We were flying to London one time and Mrs. Cowperson, normally fairly sharp, was flippling through a tour book and calmly opined: "Hmmph. Did you know Great Britain was an island?"

A few days ago, Mrs. Cowperson found three of the neighbour's Golden Retrievers lost and on the highway. She picked them up, put them in her Jeep and patiently used her cell to call a neighbour, asking that person to phone the owner of the dogs, also a neighbour and let them know we had their dogs. Unfortunatley, neighbour #1 doesn't have the phone number for neighbour #2 either. Right then, however, the light bulb goes off and Mrs. Cowperson realizes the dogs probably have the right phone number on their collars. Sure enough, they do. Mrs. Cowperson gives the phone number to neighbour #1 to call neighbour #2 to tell them we have her dogs. Neighbour #1, being neighbourly, does this. Later, of course, the light bulb goes on even brighter and it occurs to both that Mrs. Cowperson, armed with the right phone number didn't need the relay, she could have just called directly. It's the small things that entertain us.

A friend of ours, well into her 30's, had been watching some show or other and came to dinner one night marvelling about World War II. "Can you believe all that happened. Did you know all that happened?" Yes, yes I did know that. How could you be in your 30's and never have heard about World War II?

And, of course, I'm guilty as hell of similar faux pas . . . . but I can't seem to remember them right now.

Cowperson

[Weiser Wonder]

Originally Posted by pylon

Sex ed was great for asking purposely dumb / humiliating questions. In grade 9, We had this anonymous question box you could put questions in if you were to embarrased to raise your hand. Being a bit of a jerk, I immediately saw the evil that could be done with it.

We has one guy in the class that was an uber ginger, and I asked the question, "If I have read hair on my head, does that mean I will get red pubic hair?" The entire class snapped their head towards poor Craig, and after slowly scanning the entire room with his eyes, his only reply was to cross his arms and put his head down on his desk.

We also had this really popular girl in our class that was a real mean bitch, and she was the token early bloomer in the class with big D boobs at 13. My question for her was, "Is my Vagina big, because I have big boobs?" There were about 12 girls in that class, that had they knew it was me, would have provided me with girlfriends for the rest of my Junior High senior year had they known it was me that made her run from the room in humiliation.

In hindsight it was mean, but what was even meaner, is our sex ed teacher would actually read the questions knowing some jackass in the class was using the question box for evil purposes.

They made the awkward Christian basketball coach teach us Sex Ed in Middle School in Las Vegas. One kid asked what a BJ was and the teacher wouldn't answer him. But he did have a lot of gross pictures to show us.

[Sparks]

When I worked at Blockbuster, a customer once asked me, "Do you rent videos?" This was amidst walls of videos and rental signs.

At HMV - "Do you have that song?" "Which song?" "The one about love?"

[Redliner]

My family used to own a bakery in Waterton Lakes National Park, and we had a few real winners from the tourists. (mostly from the southern United States) Some of the highlights:

Looking down the valley on a brisk spring morning: "Is that real snow up on the mountains, or is it just cotton the wardens put up there to make it look nice for the tourists?"

Inquiring about Cameron Falls: "What time do they shut the falls off at night?"

To my mother, as she was carefully removing a tray of cinnamon buns from the oven: "Are those cinnamon buns fresh-baked today?" Seriously - they didn't even have icing on them yet.

Another gem to my mother: "Excuse me, how much do the mountains weigh?" This one was near the end of the summer and she looked back at the guy and responded "with, or without the trees?"

My favourite had to be the retired couple from Florida who were on their way to Alaska and decided to take a "side trip" into the park. As they paid for their coffee & donuts, they asked if me if they should fuel up in the park or wait until they got to Alaska because "fuel in Canada was so expensive". I asked how big his gas tank was and he said it was 90 gallons, but they still had over half a tank so he figured they could make it. I thought he was kidding so I kind of laughed and said he must get insanely good mileage. Then his wife asked how long it would take to get to Alaska, and both were incredulous when I told them it was 2 days' drive. The guy wouldn't beleive me, and went out to their RV to get his map. They were travelling using a map of the continental United States that showed Alaska and the lower 48 full-size, but had Canada compressed into a tiny grey band about an inch wide - they thought it would take them about an hour and a half to drive across.

[albertGQ]

For all intensive purchases, this thread is ironic. You guys are all a bunch of loosers.

[Redliner]

Originally Posted by Sparks

At HMV - "Do you have that song?" "Which song?" "The one about love?"

I worked at Sam the Record Man and we used to get that same thing all the time.

Them: "Do you have that CD with that song that's on the radio all the time?"

Us: "Which one?"

Them: "I don't know the name but it's by that same band that's always on MuchMusic..."

Us: "Which band?"

Them: "I'm not sure but the song says something about smiling and love being on our side"

Of course, they never know the song title, the name of the band, or anything else - but you're expected to know exactly what they are talking about. I used to make them try and sing it just for fun, until I realized that didn't really help at all and usually made things more confusing.

[missdpuck]

Originally Posted by IgnitedSoul

My friend in Florida just asked me, "Is today Mothers' Day in Canada, too?!"

Hahaha I like the Florida part.