Things You'd Like to Know

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Have you ever stripped on top of a mountain and afterwards caused, by that nudity, an earthquake?

A: I'm not sure this is the place to talk about the metaphors my spouse and I use.

Q: Will the skill of memorizing phone numbers be mostly lost altogether one day?

Originally posted by FMF
A: I'm not sure this is the place to talk about the metaphors my spouse and I use.

Q: Will the skill of memorizing phone numbers be mostly lost altogether one day?

A: May have already happened what with speed dial.

Q: Why is it I remember our home phone number from 65 years ago but can't remember my current cell (phone) number?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why is it I remember our home phone number from 65 years ago but can't remember my current cell (phone) number?

A: Because the skill of memorizing phone numbers was being exercised 65 years ago, while nowadays it largely is not.

Q: Is making an untrue statement ~ when it has been coerced by force or threat of harm ~ an immoral action?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Because the skill of memorizing phone numbers was being exercised 65 years ago, while nowadays it largely is not.

Q: Is making an untrue statement ~ when it has been coerced by force or threat of harm ~ an immoral action?

A: Depends if the "interviewer" has morals or not.
Q: Should someone who thumbs up or down be identified to the person being "thumbed"?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: Depends if the "interviewer" has morals or not.
Q: Should someone who thumbs up or down be identified to the person being "thumbed"?

A. Probably not; if this feature was beneficial to Red Hot Pawn, Russ would have provided the option by now.

Q. Do you have any celebrities' autographs?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: What makes people like Sir John Franklin so dogged in their quests?

A: It probably all boils down to them having the ability to do it, the confidence that they can, and a sense that they have nothing better to do.

Q: Does ideology seek to suffocate discourse about truths or is this suggestion ideological in nature?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: How do you straighten a slice (golf)?

A: If you're right handed, move your left foot three inches back as you address the ball.

Q: If your default right arm (cricket) delivery swings away slightly from the tight handed batsmen, what do you do with your shoulders, arms, hands, back and chest in order to make a delivery swing in to the batsman, assuming that the swing is not being caused by the condition of the ball?

Originally posted by FMF
A: It probably all boils down to them having the ability to do it, the confidence that they can, and a sense that they have nothing better to do.

Q: Does ideology seek to suffocate discourse about truths or is this suggestion ideological in nature?

A. Yes.

Q. Which cuisine is your favorite?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Have you seen the movie "Monster Inc.?

A: Yes, many times ~ on account of the fact that my kids are just the right age to have been into it when it came out.

Q: Why do so many kids find trains fascinating (and I'm not talking so much about riding on them)?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. Which cuisine is your favorite?

A: The Italian

Q: Do you love reading?

Originally posted by lolof
Q: Do you love reading?

A: For the last year or so, with one thing or another, I have been more in love with the idea of reading but, alas, it has been an unrequited love.

Q: What proportion of avid followers of Formula 1 - do you think - secretly want to see really bad crashes?

Originally posted by FMF
A: For the last year or so, with one thing or another, I have been more in love with the idea of reading but, alas, it has been an unrequited love.

Q: What proportion of avid followers of Formula 1 - do you think - secretly want to see really bad crashes?

A)11.35%

B) How many RHP members sport facial hair?

Originally posted by redbadger
A)11.35%

B) How many RHP members sport facial hair?

A: 16.5% of the men (me included) and 2.7% of the women (excluding the men pretending to be women of course)

Q: Will you be going to Ottawa to see the Magna Carta?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Will you be going to Ottawa to see the Magna Carta?

A: I'm not enough of a devotee of their brand of prog rock to travel so far.

Q: Why do documentaries like "Air Crash Investigation" and "Mayday" (about air crash investigations) hold so many kids in thrall ~ above and beyond so many other types of documentary?

Originally posted by FMF
A: I'm not enough of a devotee of their brand of prog rock to travel so far.

Q: Why do documentaries like "Air Crash Investigation" and "Mayday" (about air crash investigations) hold so many kids in thrall ~ above and beyond so many other types of documentary?

A: Same reason some men enjoy car racing...accidents maybe.

Q: Why are some pets (dogs) so protective of their owners?