What’s the best question ever asked?

25 thoughts on “What’s the best question ever asked?”

1. Just how fast do hot cakes sell?

2. OK so why don’t ghosts fall through the floor or come through the ceiling? And if they appear through a wall, where have they come from? If they are spirit, why do they need to travel at all!

3. I don’t know PapaG. I’m just posing the questions….

4. One of my favourites is one my daughter asked of a rather large lady we visited.

   Why are you wearing such a fat dress?

5. Oh! Joy 🙂

6. (In the league of “What does this red button do?”)

7. I thought, for a four year old, it was incredibly tactful. 🙂

8. Scout to Dad one morning when beard removed:
   “Daddy, why are you different?”

9. @7
   yes Ara, very tactful

10. I find it rather sad that all those questions that have perfectly sound scientific answers probably went unanswered.
    Probably explains why we have such a paucity of scientists and are rapidly descending into a third world country.

11. Whose round is it?

12. Aha, Toc.

    It’s obviously and indisputably yours! 🙂

13. “I find it rather sad that all those questions that have perfectly sound scientific answers probably went unanswered.”

    Christina, even this one:
    “If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don’t they fall through the floor?”

14. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

    OZ

15. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

    For Ferret:

    Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

16. Why do the towels get dirty although we are supposed to touch them only with cleans hands (after washing)? 🙂

17. PEDANT WARNING. To keep Christina happy:

    Q1) The wording of the question is unclear, but it you mean “If you are going East, how far do you go before yous start heading west?”, the answer is never, you are always heading east.

    Q2) Assuming you could survive the temperature there, and assuming the hole you dug was then sealed at each end and pumped our of air, then you would go as far past the centre of the Earth as you jumped from, then keep going backwards and forwards. In practice you would be vaporised long before you got near the centre.

    Q3) It is a question of semantics. I guess most people would assume that one becomes the other when there is 50% cloud cover.

    Q4) Have you ever seen a ghost?

    My favourite question is “Is the glass half full, or half empty?”. The answer depends on context. If you are pouring a beer, the glass is half full. If you are drinking a pint, the glass is half empty.

18. OUT OF AIR!!!!

19. FEEG – Whooomppfff! Pedant shields raised. 🙂

    OZ

20. Four-eyed English Genius :

    Q2) Assuming you could survive the temperature there, and assuming the hole you dug was then sealed at each end and pumped our of air, then you would go as far past the centre of the Earth as you jumped from, then keep going backwards and forwards. In practice you would be vaporised long before you got near the centre.

    Actually, I think you would not get anywhere near the centre of the earth. I think, and I confess that I have not tried this myself so I cannot say for certain, that you would get stuck to the side of the hole some way before you got to the centre. Gravity works from every angle. Your centre of gravity would be unlikely to fall exactly down the centre of the hole and so you would get drawn to one side. You would then be dragged down the side of the hole for a bit until the friction slowed you down. The gravitational forces pulling you ‘up’, due to the mass of earth above you, coupled with the resistance due to friction would eventually overcome the downward force. I dare you to prove me wrong. Only empirical evidence will suffice.

21. Whooomppfff! Pedant shields down.

    You would both die in the white-hot heat of the Earth’s core, so the question is irrelevant. Will the pair of you please go and give yourselves a good talking to? Really, really big 😀

    Much more importantly, what did they go back to before the drawing board was invented?

    Whooomppfff! Pedant shields up.

    Cave secure and locked down!

    OZ

22. OZ: In response to the question “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” my old Physics master used to begin “Assume the chicken is in the form of a solid ovoid of density 2.5…..”

23. LW – Physics, OZ-style. The chicken and the egg laid back on the pillows and lit cigarettes. “So that’s settled that, then”, said one.

    OZ

24. OZ: OR as my late wife would have said “If the chicken was cockerel there are no prizes for the answer”

25. LW – 🙂

    OZ