Questions for Mental Giants

[Amerpie]

1. Why do men shave their face and why do (American) women shave their legs and armpits?
2. Why do we put dead people in boxes and bury the in the ground and why do we embalm corpses?
3. What makes people want to wear diamond encrusted gold on their bodies?
4. What makes sense about ear piercing and why do conservatives approve of it for women but not men?
5. Why are there so many kinds of laxatives?
6. Professional Wrestling?
7. Since we can still buy Coca-Cola Classic, does that mean you can still buy New Coke somewhere?
8. Does God like fancy, air conditioned churches with sterling silver communion sets?
9. For every plant that has been identified as poisonous, is there a corresponding dead person somewhere in history?
10. What made someone, for the first time, pick a coffee berry, strip off the fruit, dry and roast the bean, grind it up, steep it in hot water, add sugar and milk and drink it?
11. Why is it polite to excuse yourself after sneezing since you couldn’t help it in the first place?
12. Does all humor involve pain?

[WillParkinson]

1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's too close to bed time. No thinking! (Darn good questions, though...)

[Deja Q]

2. Answers, Hypno-style!

1. We have a fetish.
2. We bury because we're bio-degradeable, though burning us to smelly cinders is the current (and less expensive) fad. Embalming? Cool!
3. They think they're better than everyone else. Self-aggrondizing pigs is all they are.
4. They're sexist.
5. Because no one pill works for every person. But give science a chance, they'll make us all the same in the end. (just as long as it's not in suppository form...)
6. Appeals to a sad and/or mindless group of people.
7. I hope not. New Coke was a marketing ploy; get 'em to hate the new taste so they bring back the old one, after which people will buy it in droves. Love that psychology combined with trademark corporate chicanery...
8. Probably. He is also believed to bless only America, leaving everybody else to rot. (and why do people think God is a male? How about a female? Or has bits of both? Or Alpha Centurian?)
9. Presumably. When we go back to having to eat plants in their raw form, there will be a lot more dead people in history.
10. The same disgusting reason that other pervert started to eat whale eggs and christen it "caviar".
11. It's just another of society's foibles.
12. Yes. We either laugh until it hurts, or it's so unfunny it's agonizing. Just like sex. :D

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Just one slight thing

Caviar comes from sturgeon, a fish. Beluga caviar is from beluga sturgeon. Whales don't produce eggs that are substantially different from other mammals, and only one at a time.

[Deja Q]

22. I knew I should have said fish... and a thought...

All I know is that they're eating potential life forms. Why the right wing who is against abortion and all that still wants people to eat eggs is beyond me...

[Don_G]

3. Here's # 13

Why do the drive-up ATM's have instructions in Braille? Like the driver of a car should actually use that feature?

[Deja Q]

4. Here's the answer

It's cheaper to use the standard keypad and sign molds rather than make a new braille-less version. Besides, I'm sure there's a federal law somewhere that mandates this lunacy... which means it's probably backed by the so-called "Patriot" act too.

[HateDaNeocons]

11. what I wonder about

as far as the braille goes is the way you see signs here and there in braille. Well, I understand theyre required to be at such and such a height, location etc...but if the poor blind person is clueless theres an elevator there to begin with how will he know theres a sign next to it? I think someone has a relative in the sign business.

[Cursive_Knives512]

5. Good questions!

The only thing I know anything about is the first question. From what I've heard, when shorter skirts became "acceptable" for women, certain clothing brands and hygene companies started to have their female models shave their legs. I'm not sure if that's true or not, though.

[Doc_Technical]

6. "You ask so many questions...

..what answers should I choose
Is this Plato's heebie-jeebies or just existential blues"?

[Amerpie]

8. Seekers

Descartes thought
therefore he was
I'm just a solipsist
With Sunday morning caffeine buzz

[Tyler Durden]

9. Well, there's a seeker born every minute.

Hyuk, Hyuk.

RandomCoolZip would have said this, but I beat him to the punch.

[cosmicdot]

7. I would like to try the 'original' Coke

just to test which is better, and to look on the bottom to see what city it was bottled in

[undergroundpanther]

10. Humans

are INSANE,so we make insane cultures and treat each other in a crazy way,and eat plants to either rel;ieve the craziness or enhance it in a way that makes like in this crazy society somehow feel less crazy..or just manageable.

How we got so crazy,I dunno.Maybe we will NEVER remember what sanity is because this world itself is so sick.I mean life feeds upon the living,consious,beautiful feeling,sensitive,live loving beings...to live what could be more insane?

[opiate69]

12. Interstate Highway in Hawaii?

Why is there an Interstae in Hawaii??



(actually, I know why.. just want to see if anybody else does)

[zelda7743]

16. interstates

So we can get federal funding?

[opiate69]

18. We have a winner!

[Elidor]

13. I forget who originally asked this...

Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Steven Wright

That's one of his better ones.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Answers for Giant Mentals

1) Because hair grows there.
2) Paper bags are too small, and corpses rot.
3) Because they think that if they put shiny objects on themselves, everyone will love them.
4) It makes sense because piercing through the entire skull would kill someone. Conservatives like women with them because they think that if they have a woman with bright shiny earlobes everyone will want to be them. If they have a man with bright shiny earlobes, everyone will know their sexual orientation.
5) Because people are so full of shit.
6) Would you pay to see amayeur wrestling?
7) Yes. See #5.
8) Yes. they're comfortable.
9) Not anymore. See #2.
10) There is an inherent drive in people to open a Starbucks. This is why there are so many of them.
11) In case you splattered mucus in someone's face.
12) No, but all pain involves humor.

[ashling]

19. Let me add a final question to your original list:

13. Given the fact that this thread was labled as
a call to "mental giants," is everybody who came to this thread suffering from illusions of granduer or are they just egotistical?
:shrug:

[oneighty]

23. Oh!

I thought it was "Metal Giants"

180

[Skittles]

20. I never understood the pierced ear thing

every woman I know poked hole in her ears and decorates them like Christmas trees.

[VermontDem2004]

21. Easy

1. Most people don't like hair, women seem to not like hair on their legs, arms, armpits, facial, or other places. Me, I don't like too much hair on my face or "other places"

2. Because it's better then dumping the bodies in some type of junk yard.

3. To impress other people or show off how much money you have even if you spent your life savings for that nice chain.

4. Well from most religous fundies, they told me that being pierced indicates that you are slave. A slave for the devil, another is it signifies that you are gay and most don't approve of the gay lifestyle.

5. I don't know

6. Don't understand the question

7. No it doesn't

8. I can't speak for god.

9. I don't know, but did you know if you swallow the plant Sardinia you will suffer from convulsive laughter followed by death.

10. Same reason someone rolled up a marijuana plant and smoked it and the same reason someone ingested the Sardinia plant, Curiousity.

11. Good question.

12. Yes, http://terrytate.reebok.com/watch.asp#