Things to ponder...

[ksech]

Have you ever been some place and all of a sudden weird question(s) pop into your head? This happens to me all the time. Most of the times the stuff is really weird. Here are a few examples...

If all the dinosaurs died in the Ice Age, did all the cavemen die to? And if all the cavemen died, is that when God decided to create heaven and earth? If so, is God an alien from another universe?

Who decided that an egg was edible? And who decided it tasted better cooked? And was the first time the egg was cooked was it soft boiled, hard boiled, sunny up, over easy, over medium, over hard, poached or basted?

Who invented the first boat/canoe/raft? And what made them sure it wouldn't sink? And why don't ocean liners, and any other big ship sink? They are made of steel, which by the law of physics says it should sink? And what keeps a hot air balloon (filled with people) in the air? (I understand the concept that hot air rises, but what is the equation which figures out how much hot air is needed to lift 1 lb off the ground?)

Okay, now that I have opened myself up for some ridicule (it's okay to laugh!), anyone else ever have bizarre thoughts???

 

[chayton]

You're not alone! For instance:

One day we were sitting on the couch eating mixed nuts and watching the tube and started talking about how they grow (peanuts are kinda on vines on the ground, walnuts are on trees...) and suddenly I said "Has anyone ever seen a cashew in the shell?" And we were all like huh....so went and googled it and it was really interesting how cashews grow. So then I had to look up all the different kinds of nuts and find out how they grow too (brazil nuts are another one that surprised me)

But I feel kinda stupid that I'd been eating these things all my life without ever wondering anything about them or where they come from until that one day.

Jessica Simpson: "It says chicken of the sea, so is it chicken or tuna?"

 

[swampwitch]

If all the dinosaurs died in the Ice Age, did all the cavemen die to?

Dinosaurs were already long gone before the first humans came along.

On a similar note...In seventh grade Wednesday night Catechism class the teacher was discussing Noah's Ark. I asked why, if they only took 2 of each species, didn't animals inbreed themselves out of existance? This question was greeted with expulsion from the class.
I can only imagine what would have happened had I asked where Adam and Eve's sons got their wives. I know...inbreeding! And so, since inbreeding is all biblically approved, that explains the Westboro Baptist Church membership rolls.

Here's one I've wondered about since I was a kid...How did Columbus discover a place that already had people?
Also, who was the first imbecile who decided women should wear high heels? Torquemada?

 

[chayton]

I remember once I heard a comedian who said, "Who was the first guy to ever eat a lobster?" You know..."oh look, a big ugly bug with a hard shell and pincers. I wonder what it tastes like?"

Sorry but that reminds me of another in the same vein, "oh look we found a -----! Wow, we thought those were extinct. This must be the ONLY one left in the world...what a find!!!

..........I wonder what it tastes like......?"

 

[chayton]

Also, who was the first imbecile who decided women should wear high heels? Torquemada?

I believe it was the Marquis de Sade.....

 

[skiny]

Jessica Simpson: ".... so is it chicken or tuna?"

You never know. That's why you're supposed to smell it before you taste it.

 

[voltage1]

how do ya know something is poisonous and that ya cant eat it ...... someone had to try it first ........... here Skiny , you try it .....okay......poof Skiny drops dead....okay mental note to self ........don't eat the purple berry's............

where do imitation lemons come from

and of course my personal favorite which I failed on my final physics exam many many years ago..
why does a frisbee fly:explain your answer
I think I put cause ya throw it F-

 

[love2winalot]

Hiya: Here is what i wonder about, and what i hate. "Shaving" Lots of stuff happens to us that is natural. Hair grows on our head, we sleep 1/4 of our life, we can breath thru both our nose, and our mouth, and so on.

So, who in the Hell decided, that the hair that grows naturally on a mans face, "or part of what god did if you believe in that", is not wanted or needed, and you should take a sharpe blade and cut it off on a daily basis? And it just keeps growing back again....................

 

[Mavin1]

Years ago I used to enjoy this sitcom, Wings, there was this old guy that was so funny, he had this wierd whiny sarcastic voice , he would ask, "if dogs sweat through their tongues, what are their armpits for", or why do they call hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids and asteroids, asteroids, shouldn't it be the other way around"?

Cain took of wife in the land of Nod.

 

[just play]

Hiya: Here is what i wonder about, and what i hate. "Shaving" Lots of stuff happens to us that is natural. Hair grows on our head, we sleep 1/4 of our life, we can breath thru both our nose, and our mouth, and so on.

So, who in the Hell decided, that the hair that grows naturally on a mans face, "or part of what god did if you believe in that", is not wanted or needed, and you should take a sharpe blade and cut it off on a daily basis? And it just keeps growing back again....................

My husband loves my hairy legs in the winter.

 

[incrediblestuff]

Dinosaurs were already long gone before the first humans came along

where did you get that idea?
didnt you watch the flintstones for crying out loud?

 

[swampwitch]

Cain took of wife in the land of Nod.

And where did she come from? If you start with the notion that Adam and Eve were the first people...and they had three sons...where did Cain's wife come from? Had to be from Adam and Eve, or even Eve herself.
This might help...

Dinosaurs were already long gone before the first humans came along

where did you get that idea?
didnt you watch the flintstones for crying out loud?

Watch it? Hell, I know people who think it was a weekly documentary. Until
the Great Wazoo came along...they thought that was a bit farfetched.

 

[Mavin1]

Have you ever been some place and all of a sudden weird question(s) pop into your head? This happens to me all the time. Most of the times the stuff is really weird. Here are a few examples...

If all the dinosaurs died in the Ice Age, did all the cavemen die to? And if all the cavemen died, is that when God decided to create heaven and earth? If so, is God an alien from another universe?

Who decided that an egg was edible? And who decided it tasted better cooked? And was the first time the egg was cooked was it soft boiled, hard boiled, sunny up, over easy, over medium, over hard, poached or basted?

Who invented the first boat/canoe/raft? And what made them sure it wouldn't sink? And why don't ocean liners, and any other big ship sink? They are made of steel, which by the law of physics says it should sink? And what keeps a hot air balloon (filled with people) in the air? (I understand the concept that hot air rises, but what is the equation which figures out how much hot air is needed to lift 1 lb off the ground?)

Okay, now that I have opened myself up for some ridicule (it's okay to laugh!), anyone else ever have bizarre thoughts???

Also one to ponder is commercial airliners, just thinking of how all that weight can stay up in the air, despite the technical explanation, it's still weird.
Another one, sometimes I try to think of just how big is space???? Can't get my mind around that one.

 

[De Beuker]

Also one to ponder is commercial airliners, just thinking of how all that weight can stay up in the air, despite the technical explanation, it's still weird.
Another one, sometimes I try to think of just how big is space???? Can't get my mind around that one.

Yeah, space is endless, they say.
But I cant imagine 'endless'
But if its not endless, then whats behind it?!?

 

[ksech]

I have 3 cats... 1 male and 2 females. The females are friendly to each other ( they clean each other and play together) but they don't want anything to do with the male cat. Does this make them lesbians?

Who every figured a rhutabega was good and how did it get that name?

And the age old question...
Why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?

 

[Mavin1]

Ah Kesch, I found a bunch of things for us to ponder on

Weird Questions

If you try to fail and succeed, what have
you done?

How is it one careless match can start a
forest fire, but it takes a whole box to
start a campfire?

Why is the time when the traffic is slowest
called rush-hour?

What's the speed of dark?

If physics can predict lottery numbers,
why are they still working?

If you run backwards will you gain weight?

If Barbie is so popular, why do you need to
buy her friends?

What happens when you get scared
half-to-death twice?

Are you telling the truth when you lie in
bed?

If your vacuum cleaner really sucks, is it a
bad thing?

How do you know when a Smurf
suffocates?

Despite the cost of living, why does it
remain so popular?

If a word in a dictionary is misspelled, how
would you know?

In Chinese why are the words for crisis
and opportunity the same?

Why does X stand for a kiss?

Why does O stand for a hug?

Why is the alphabet in that order?

How does skating on thin ice get you into
hot water?

Why are they called stands when there
made for sitting?

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make
the unexpected expected?

When cheese gets its picture taken what
does it say?

Why are they called non-stick pans? Is
there a law saying your not allowed to put
sticks in them?

Why are a wise-man and a wise-guy
opposites?

If work is so terrific how come they have
to pay you to do it?

Is it possible to have a civil-war?

If the #2 pencil the most popular, why is it
still #2?

Do tea makers have coffee breaks?

Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

Why do they announce power shortages
on TV?

Do you need a silencer when you shoot a
mime?

Why do you press harder on the
remote-control when you know the
battery is dead?

How can batteries die?

If its zero degrees tonight, and tomorrow
its meant to be twice as cold, how cold
will it be?

Why are buildings called buildings when
there finished? Shouldn't they be called
builts?

Why is abbreviated such a long word?

Why is it that when you tell a man there
are 400 billion stars he will believe you, but
when you tell him there's wet paint he has
to touch it?

Who's cruel idea was it to put a 'S' in 'lisp'?


Do you find it unnerving that what doctors
do is called 'practice'?

Would a fly without wings be called a
walk?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell is it
homeless or naked?

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal
injections?

 

[Mavin1]

Okay Kesh, here's one for ya.

Can a cats tongue stick to velcro?

 

[secret2]

I drive for a living and almost all of these ponderous questions have come into mind. I do not have satellite radio and AM radio is out of range where I drive, so no talk radio to 'busy' my mind.

BTW, they sterilize needles for lethal injections so that they can't be sued for 'cruel and unusual punishment'... ...hey ironic justice.

I don't think it's possible to not make a left turn in a whole day of driving. Believe me I would love it.

 

[Pulver]

Last year when I was on a hunting trip in the Norwegian mountains I had to walk outside the cabin to take a piss after some beers and jägers and a question popped into my head that freaks me out to this day.

"What is outside outer space?"

The more you think of it, the more you realise how little we understand about our own existence. I have never felt as alone and lost in the world as I did that night.

 

[secret2]

My house was built in 1880. I believe that if you believe in ghosts, or not even 'believe', that if you want to see a ghost, you will.

I believe that we are guided by our dead relatives and friends.

We are never alone. ...so thinking about that, and that if you believe that you are being 'watched', do you pick your nose when you are alone?...or other unmentionables? If so? do you think that they are on a higher plane and that they do not feel embarrassment and just that it is mortal behaviour?

What if we could all speak our mind and swear and cuss at each other and REALLY tell each other how we REALLY feel without censorship and that we would never feel pissed off about it ? How would the world be? But then again would we 'feel"?

 

[Mavin1]

Another thing I ponder is this: Cracks me up that the hubby always wants to go hunting but can't find anything around the house, or even in the refrigerator! I think the animals are pretty safe. :nod:

 

[Nate]

Yeah, space is endless, they say.
But I cant imagine 'endless'
But if its not endless, then whats behind it?!?

Space and the cosmos... I love the subject and am still astounded everytime i read something new...

All the stars we see in the night sky are actually Suns like our very own (with the exception of a few inner solar system planets that reflect light)

All the stars we see, we see them as they were r ... Our nearest star - proxima centauri is about 4.1 light years away (i think) 1 light year is 10 Trillion Km's (apprx.) ... It takes light from our nearest star 4.1 years to reach earth... hence we see our closest star as it was 4.1 years ago... amazing .. Now it would take us 4.1 years to realise that Proxima centauri went supernova and exploded ... so if it happens now, we will see the star for the next 4 years and assume that its there...

Space is infinite according to human assumption, but scientists theorise that we live in parallel universes / in a Multiverse, something like the planet earth compared to other planets (where earth is our universe) .. something like the soap bubbles in ur bubble bath...

i would marry an astronomer so she could talk to me about this all night :notworthy