The Imponderable Thread

[Stanley Design]

There's an outside button to close the door on busses.

 

[Jared Lash]

Alright smart guy, here's another - this time by way of Stephen Wright:

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

 

[Munjibunga]

Do you suppose that all the asbestos brake linings that were used before the '80s may have caused more lung cancer than cigarettes? Think of all those little particles that wore off and went into the air as a fine dust.

 

[Jared Lash]

If peanut oil comes from peanuts, and corn oil comes from corn, then where does baby oil come from?

How can a person "draw a blank"?

How is it possible that the word cleave is its own antonym?

 

[louieeadg]

If peanut oil comes from peanuts, and corn oil comes from corn, then where does baby oil come from?

If crime-fighters fight crime and fire-fighters fight fire, then what do freedom-fighters fight?

 

[unbasslichkeit]

I can't express this properly without upsetting someone, but:

When people say "just a hair", are they referring to a specific hair kept at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) for reference? Whose hair is the Standard hair?

 

[morf]

If crime-fighters fight crime and fire-fighters fight fire, then what do freedom-fighters fight?

Or animal rights fighters?

 

[louieeadg]

Or animal rights fighters?

Aren't they typically labeled "activists"?

 

[Munjibunga]

What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

 

[Jared Lash]

When people say "just a hair", are they referring to a specific hair kept at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) for reference? Whose hair is the Standard hair?

And along those same lines, what about a "buttload"?

 

[louieeadg]

And exactly how heavy is a s**t-ton?

 

[Alex]

What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

I'd stay away from the city.

 

[SpankyPants]

And exactly how heavy is a s**t-ton?

A little less than one metric s**tload.

 

[louieeadg]

A little less than one metric s**tload.

And how does that relate to the regular @$$load?

 

[SpankyPants]

It depends on how much the @$$ can unload.

 

[louieeadg]

It depends on how much the @$$ can unload.

And how does that relate to the typical metric ton?

 

[SpankyPants]

That depends on the @$$.

 

[Stanley Design]

An assload is 20 Kurics, and a single Kuric is around 2.5lbs of excrement.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

That reminds me. How the hell does one get a bag of @ssholes and then once one has said bag how does one manage to hit someone in the face with it?

 

[unbasslichkeit]

Let's don't forget being dummb as a Box of Rocks. What level of Dumbness do we ascribe to said Rocks, and what Size to said Box?

American or European measurements?