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Dumbest sayings or questions that have no purpose

Postby CezeN » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:15 am

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Postby Jebus » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:09 am

I guess people just aren't as smart as you CezeN, will you forgive them?

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Postby Syphon the Sun » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:26 pm

Here's a list I compiled of stupid jokes and riddles like that.
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Re: Dumbest sayings or questions that have no purpose

Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:31 pm

Why did the chicken cross the road??
I like this question. In fact, when I actually saw a chicken cross a road a few years ago, I called multiple people to tell them how awesome I thought it was.

Lighten up. Sheesh.
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Postby Wil » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:39 pm

Here's a list I compiled of stupid jokes and riddles like that.
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Postby CezeN » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:59 pm

I hate when people post a link to that. Only because I dont like that type of music.

Gravity Defier-So since you have the advantage of an eyewitness account. Why did the chicken cross the road???? :wink:
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Postby Jayelle » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:36 pm

It's a joke, man. You deconstruct it, it's not funny.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:15 am

Gravity Defier-So since you have the advantage of an eyewitness account. Why did the chicken cross the road???? :wink:
To piss you off, of course.

Or maybe it was heading to a yard sale; it was an early Saturday morning and there were tons of them happening all over the neighborhood.

Or maybe it was just being a chicken and wandering.
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Re: Dumbest sayings or questions that have no purpose

Postby zeroguy » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:41 am

If a tree falls in a forest, and no ones there to hear it, does it make a sound?? Who would be bored enough to think of such a useless question.
Philosophers.
Who would care or want to know??
Philosophers. I intended this one to actually be a list, but I couldn't think of anything else to put in it...

And if you think such questions are pointless, you could probably add every single Zen kōan to this list of pointless questions. One of my favorites:
A monk saw a turtle in the garden of Daizui's monastery and asked the teacher, "All beings cover their bones with flesh and skin. Why does this being cover its flesh and skin with bones?" Master Daizui took off one of his sandals and covered the turtle with it.
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Postby CezeN » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:44 am

Gravity Defier-So since you have the advantage of an eyewitness account. Why did the chicken cross the road???? :wink:
To piss you off, of course.

Or maybe it was heading to a yard sale; it was an early Saturday morning and there were tons of them happening all over the neighborhood.

Or maybe it was just being a chicken and wandering.
replying from the futurenope, pretty sure thats why you ever crossed into this thread
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:34 am



Jayelle-Theres nothing funny about those jokes though. Have you ever seriously laughed at a why did the chicken cross the road joke????
It's funny to children, in the same way a knock, knock joke is.

Also, I've totally laughed at the "To see the man lay bricks" version of the punchline. So, yes, I've laughed at that joke.

And thirdly, the tree in the forest is a philosophical question, while the chicken and the road is merely a joke.
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Postby Caspian » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:58 am

Why did the chicken cross the road?

(Hemmingway's answer): To die. In the rain.
(Einstein's answer): Did the chicken cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
(Karl Marx's answer): Because it was a historical inevitability.
(Barack Obama): Because it wanted change.
(Foucault): What is a chicken?
(Tolkien): The chicken is NOT an allegory for anything.
(Joss Whedon): So it could finally live happ... (chicken dies horribly).
(Schrodinger): Until you look at the chicken, it has both crossed the road and remained on this side.
(Heisenberg): It is impossible to determine both which side of the road the chicken is on and whether it is crossing. We can only know one of those.
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Postby Young Val » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:01 am

<3 both the Whedon and Tolkien answers.
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Postby lyons24000 » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:47 am

You wanna know why the chicken crossed the road? I know the answer:

To Get to the Other Side!!!
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Postby Jakt » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:57 pm

You wanna know why the chicken crossed the road? I know the answer:

To Get to the Other Side!!!

That's a lie and you know it!

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Postby BonitoDeMadrid » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:46 pm

Why did the chicken cross the road?

(Hemmingway's answer): To die. In the rain.
(Einstein's answer): Did the chicken cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
(Karl Marx's answer): Because it was a historical inevitability.
(Barack Obama): Because it wanted change.
(Foucault): What is a chicken?
(Tolkien): The chicken is NOT an allegory for anything.
(Joss Whedon): So it could finally live happ... (chicken dies horribly).
(Schrodinger): Until you look at the chicken, it has both crossed the road and remained on this side.
(Heisenberg): It is impossible to determine both which side of the road the chicken is on and whether it is crossing. We can only know one of those.
To that, I can only say one thing: LOL! That's nice!

(btw can anyone please explain the Foucault and Heisenberg ones for me?)
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Postby Mich » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:20 pm

(btw can anyone please explain the Foucault and Heisenberg ones for me?)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenburg ... _Principle
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Postby CezeN » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:19 am



Jayelle-Theres nothing funny about those jokes though. Have you ever seriously laughed at a why did the chicken cross the road joke????
It's funny to children, in the same way a knock, knock joke is.

Also, I've totally laughed at the "To see the man lay bricks" version of the punchline. So, yes, I've laughed at that joke.

And thirdly, the tree in the forest is a philosophical question, while the chicken and the road is merely a joke.
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Postby Luet » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:59 am

Wow, I have never seen a baby comedian. Is it like the baby in the e-trade commercials? Cuz that is one funny baby.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:27 am

you guys are mean.
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Postby lyons24000 » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:46 am

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Postby Luet » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:54 am

*hugs brain until he feels all warm and fuzzy*

See? We're not mean. You just need to post more often. :P
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Postby Jebus » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:07 pm

Fine, let's see if we can get you to stop whining.
I have never that I can remember laughed at those jokes. Their the type that baby comedians use.
Why are you expecting children's jokes to be intelligent or funny? Why is this something you have possibly taken so much interest in?
Yeah I know its a philosophical question. I dont see what can be gleamed from it other than it all depends on how you interpret the word sound or noise or whatever.
Scientifically it depends on how you define sound. Whether it is the frequency the tree makes from falling or it is the way the ear hears that frequency. Philisophically it's about perception, and whether things exist without being perceived, as well as the difference between perception and reality.


A related anectode I just remembered that has nothing to do with my answer: Whe I was about eight or nine I remember being asked if when the door to a room was closed, and nobody was in that room, did the room exist? I tried my best to open the door really quickly to catch the room in a state of non-existence several times. I was a pretty stupid kid. ;)

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Postby CezeN » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:28 am

you guys are mean.
Their not mean, just annoying.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:14 am

no, they're mean. you're a noob, for surely. but that's no reason to attack. rather than analyzing and ripping the thread to shreds, take a dumb pill and play along. like so:

a phrase i hate:
git 'r dun (i cringe when i even TYPE that sucker out)

there, was that so hard?

oughtta keep ya'll on a leash.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:25 am

oooh the phrase "i don't give a rat's ass" bugs me a bit.

i don't think it is worded correctly.


it should be more like "i wouldn't even give a rat's ass"

doesn't roll off the tongue though.

don't even get me started on the flying rat's ass

i think i would want to keep a flying rat's ass, it'd be special... i'd show it off to all my friends. of COURSE i wouldn't give that! not to anyone.


give it a cape or something.





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Postby Dr. Mobius » Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:58 pm

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Postby neo-dragon » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:37 pm

I can't figure out why people say "I could care less" to indicate that they don't care about something. Now that's a dumb saying.
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Postby Petra456 » Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:26 pm

I can't figure out why people say "I could care less" to indicate that they don't care about something. Now that's a dumb saying.
Ugh, that bugs me to no end! For a while I thought I was just saying it wrong, but everyone says it the same way!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:09 pm

Then I've been saying it wrong...I say "I couldn't care less."

Which makes perfect sense to me; when I don't care about something, it really is pretty darn hard for me to care even less than that.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:29 pm

thanks, that's another phrase i was driving at. my brain was malfunctioning.
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Postby lyons24000 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:45 am

I always say that "I couldn't care less", too. I used to say "I could care less" until I realized that it didn't make sense.
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Postby Bean_wannabe » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:09 pm

I've never heard it as could care - everyone around here says couldn't

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Postby Young Val » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:41 pm

I can't figure out why people say "I could care less" to indicate that they don't care about something. Now that's a dumb saying.

I've heard it said both ways, and have said it both ways myself. I always interpreted "I couldn't care less" as the nonchalant, light-hearted statement, whereas "I could care less" to me always seemed more biting because of (what I assumed was) the sarcasm.
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