Stupid Questions...

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:15 pm

Ok, so you know those things that people always mention as if you should know what they mean and you nod but inside your head you are thinking 'wtf is that?'?

lets have em. Transfans will continue to expand you rpathetically limited horizens my friends.

So to start:

WTF is a widow's peak?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:18 pm

A widows peak is a V-shaped point formed by the hair at the top of your forehead. Apparently if a woman has this feature it means she'll outlive her husband (and vice versa).

My turn:

What's this 'egg' business about?

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:33 pm

He said egg! Like an egg!

Well, t'ing is ma brudda, we in the know are big fans of the comedic legends that men have called Lee and Herring. Here is some of their wit:

S Hello, I’m Stewart Lee

R And my name is Luka. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes, I think you’ve seen me before.

S Is your name Luka?

R Yes

S No, listen to the question. The words in it. Is your name Luka?

R No.

S What is it?

R It’s Richard Herring.

S Do you live on the second floor?

R No, I live on the first floor.

S Do you live upstairs from me?

R No, I live upstairs from Andy Krupa.

S On you own?

R No, I have a plant as well, but it died

S Say it all. Say it!

R My name is Richard Herring, I live on the first floor, I live upstairs from Andy Krupa and I live alone with a dead plant.

S Good

R You always spoil everything I do.

On their whymsical radio shows and sunday morning televison (which is like radio but with pictures) show This Morning With Richard Not Judy (which was not well liked by Richard and Judy) they had a feature invlovinG SKY TV's educational children's show Histor's eye, which featured Histor - SKY TV's one eyed magical history crow (who had a disturbingly conservative agenda) and his bumbling (or so it seemed...) assistant (oeuf-sistant) Plinny.

Plinny was prone to making litteral errors, eg:

Histor: Fetch the cabin boy Plinny
Plinny: But Histor, you asked me to flog the cabin boy, flog meaning to beat or whip or flog meaning to sell, I flogged the cabin boy Histor, and I got two pound seventy-five...

He was also very amused by egg puns and some might even say he took this to extremes:

Plinny : Egg Feather Beak Oeuf Tit

ie I've never heard of it

or

Histor: Come with me now Plinny, as the crow flies.
Plinny: Egg with me egg Plinny , as the egg eggs.

or

Pliny:What place is this, Histor?
Histor:This is the Sahara desert, Pliny.
Pliny:The Sahara DESSERT, like a dessert, that probably has eggs in it.

or

Pliny: Egg egg egg egg egg egg egg egg egg egg egg!

Histor would sometimes also play:

Histor: Ha, he egg- sploded!!!

It was brilliant!

I yoke you now understand and feather have to ask such a qu-egg-stion again. Egg! I said Egggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:44 pm

Gotcha.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:52 pm

Next question, does this look infected to you?

-OR-

Which hand do you wipe with?

-OR-

How many lick DOES it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:06 pm

-Can i say yes?

-Right

-162

What does ffs stand for?

Post by **Denyer** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:19 pm

FFS = for f*ck's sake.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:09 pm

What's a Roxxor??

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:54 am

"r0xx0r" is leetspeak for "rocks"

"teh r0xx0r" = something that rocks.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:19 am

Cheers

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:36 am

Darth Aux wrote:Cheers

An American sitcom set in a bar.

jboyler · Post by **jboyler** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:54 am

Can someone please explain to me what "P'WNED" is supposed to mean?

-J

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:05 am

Leetspeak corruption of "owned"

The p and o keys are, of course, next to each other. Typing fast "pwned" instead of owned. Frequent use means that it becomes a "knowing and hilarious" intentional replacement.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:32 am

spiderfrommars wrote:
Darth Aux wrote:Cheers
An American sitcom set in a bar.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:15 am

jboyler wrote:Can someone please explain to me what "P'WNED" is supposed to mean?

-J

In Warcfraft 2 when you won a multiplayer battle, and you totaly beat the other guy hands down.

it would say 'you Owned them' in the winning text. well it was supposed to, the actualy text read

'You Pwned them' - a spelling mistake. and thus Pwend was born!

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:07 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
jboyler wrote:Can someone please explain to me what "P'WNED" is supposed to mean?

-J
In Warcfraft 2 when you won a multiplayer battle, and you totaly beat the other guy hands down.

it would say 'you Owned them' in the winning text. well it was supposed to, the actualy text read

'You Pwned them' - a spelling mistake. and thus Pwend was born!

LOL I like that

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:29 am

Who really started that cereal-box-on-Besty's-head business?

Research, or not? Never you mind.

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:55 am

Aaron Hong wrote:
Research, or not? Never you mind.

or... don't care.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:07 pm

Why do you never see baby pigeons?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:12 pm

Because they grow really ****ing fast! They're only "babies" for, like, a week...

So you probably see shitloads of young pigeons, but just don't know it because they don't look any different.

[/knowledge!]

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:42 pm

who invented the divsion of days between the working week and the weekend?

where do they live?

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:12 pm

Who is your Daddy, and what does he do?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:16 pm

I'm your daddy. [/D'Argo]

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:19 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Who is your Daddy, and what does he do?

Bruce, or "the Brewster".

Drinks (not heavily anymore though) while enjoying his retirement as best he can considering he just got through a few years back taking care of his Alzheimer's ridden mother in his own home, is now having to put up with his insultive mother-in-law in his own home (really, she's a giant child of a bitch, I was surprised), and thanks to his wife's idea they just recently sold the land they were going to build on in New Mexico.

Poor dude. If I still drank, I'd buy him a beer.

Who killed Mr. Body?

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:29 pm

Best First wrote:who invented the divsion of days between the working week and the weekend?

where do they live?

In the UK it developed out of Victorian philanthropy. Originally people had numerous holidays through Wakes, Saint's Days and Feasts. Also working on the land meant that if weather was poor, then you stayed at home and did nothing. Carnivals and travelling fairs were also common.

When people moved in droves to the cities during the early industrial revolution, the Protestant Work Ethic considered idleness a sin, and the only good thing for people to do was work. Hence bank holidays were halved, then halved again. Wakes and Saint's Days were cancelled and travelling fairs/blood sports were banned. Austensibly this was done on the ground of trying to civilise the lower classes, however the primary reason was fear that a large mob of people incensed over some high-adrenaline gathering (like bear baiting) could be led to riot by a skilled orator and a French style revolution might occur.

As the Industrial Revolution completed its changed, and the new middle class was born, a paternal instinct was born amongst the more well-to-do to improve the lot of the working man, who was working immense shifts and had about half a day off per week.

It was discovered that with better treatment and properly directed recreation, people came back to work better and healthier and were more productive.

Hence organised 'rational recreation' and so called 'Muscular Christianity' began finding pursuits for the working man to follow in his slowly increasing free time- this is where most of todays soccer leagues are founded, from work unions and local Christian groups.

Public houses replaced the old style inns, whereby you could drink what you like as long as you liked, and were heavily regulated by the state.

Slowly the working man and the increasing power of the Unions, who discovered they could shut down an entire factory if they chose, gained lower hours and guaranteed holidays.

Bank holidays increased and Sundays became a regular free day- in keeping with Christian tradition of the Sabbath. This then increased to Saturday as well a few years later.

Over the next 50-100 years legislation was brought in further reducing the hours and ultimately obligating employers to give far larger paid holidays.

That's where the weekend comes from ^_^

As well as bank holidays, pubs, modern leisure pursuits and the modern attitudes to blood sports (except fox hunting, which being a snob sport mysteriously wasn't banned...)

Why don't Lee and Herrin have a show anymore?

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:38 pm

Señior's Covenant wrote:
Who killed Mr. Body?

Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick.

If you were stranded on an island, and you were a hotdog.....would you eat yourself??

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:33 pm

Can we get a bit more phlianphropy going? 3 days off week woudl be mint.

Cheers K.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:01 pm

Best First wrote:Can we get a bit more phlianphropy going? 3 days off week woudl be mint.

Cheers K.

Well current trends show that most people with decent jobs consider themselves 'time rich, money poor', i.e. they'd happily take a cut in wages for an increase in free time. Apparently we are moving slowly towards a more leisure oriented society ^_^

And no, if i were a hotdog i would not eat myself. What would i eat myself with, afterall?

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:11 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:
Best First wrote:Can we get a bit more phlianphropy going? 3 days off week woudl be mint.

Cheers K.
Well current trends show that most people with decent jobs consider themselves 'time rich, money poor', i.e. they'd happily take a cut in wages for an increase in free time. Apparently we are moving slowly towards a more leisure oriented society ^_^

Surely they consider themselves "time poor, money rich".

And no, if i were a hotdog i would not eat myself. What would i eat myself with, afterall?

Ketchup?

And this post finally puts me in the top 200 posters. Yay.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:13 pm

But where would i get the ketchup from on a desert island?

and yes its TPMR- got it wrong way round.