Silliness Quiz - Page 296

poohbear_nc · 11-01-2011, 08:56 PM

1. Coca cola

2. Margarine

Stitchawl · 11-01-2011, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

1. Coca cola

Wrong (They tried it but it took off the wings too.)

Quote:

2. Margarine

Wronger. (it has about a million additives...) We only need something with up to 16.

Stitchawl

SneakySnake · 11-01-2011, 09:44 PM

Californian wine?
Bread?

Shayne Parkinson · 11-01-2011, 09:55 PM

1. Baking soda?
2. Mayonnaise?

SneakySnake · 11-01-2011, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Here we go.. a two-parter food question seeing as how the dog is so food oriented...

Q: What cooking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S. Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?

Q: What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster of paris, to stay fresh?

Stitchawl

I keep forgetting the Q. So re-posting for reminder.

Stitchawl · 11-01-2011, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

Californian wine?
Bread?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

1. Baking soda?
2. Mayonnaise?

We have co-winners! Baking soda is used instead of paint stripper by the US Air Force, and Bread can have up to 16 additives to help preserve it!

Take it away, ladies!

Stitchawl

Shayne Parkinson · 11-01-2011, 10:29 PM

Wow, an Australasian triumph!

You take it, Sneaky.

Shayne Parkinson · 11-02-2011, 12:31 AM

Since Sneaky's not around: King James VI and I (i.e. Sixth and First - I wasn't one of the authors) wrote a treatise deploring a particular practice. A quote to give the flavour:

Quote:

Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the markes and notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned.

What was the foul practice he was condemning?

Stitchawl · 11-02-2011, 03:10 AM

Smoking tobacco or drinking coffee?

Stitchawl

SneakySnake · 11-02-2011, 03:44 AM

masturbation?

WT Sharpe · 11-02-2011, 04:24 AM

Oh, I'm sure Stitchawl's right. King James despised smoking.

Shayne Parkinson · 11-02-2011, 05:13 AM

Sneaky! shocked

Stitchawl is correct. The treatise is known as A Counterblaste to Tobacco.

Quote:

A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.

Stitchawl · 11-02-2011, 07:37 AM

King Jimmy knew what he was talking about. As a 43-year smoker, smoke free for the past 13+ years, I can only wonder how I could have been so foolish, to say nothing of how generous the people in my life must have been to put up with the stench!

OK... 'nother question:

In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 (what?) per year.

Stitchawl

orlok · 11-02-2011, 07:40 AM

Snails?

vivaldirules · 11-02-2011, 07:40 AM

Erm........doughnuts, by chance?

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11-01-2011, 08:56 PM	#4426
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,850 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	1. Coca cola 2. Margarine

11-01-2011, 09:44 PM	#4428
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	Californian wine? Bread?

11-01-2011, 09:55 PM	#4429
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	1. Baking soda? 2. Mayonnaise?

11-01-2011, 10:29 PM	#4432
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	Wow, an Australasian triumph! You take it, Sneaky.

11-02-2011, 03:10 AM	#4434
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	Smoking tobacco or drinking coffee? Stitchawl

11-02-2011, 03:44 AM	#4435
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	masturbation?

11-02-2011, 04:24 AM	#4436
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Oh, I'm sure Stitchawl's right. King James despised smoking.

11-02-2011, 07:37 AM	#4438
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	King Jimmy knew what he was talking about. As a 43-year smoker, smoke free for the past 13+ years, I can only wonder how I could have been so foolish, to say nothing of how generous the people in my life must have been to put up with the stench! OK... 'nother question: In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 (what?) per year. Stitchawl

11-02-2011, 07:40 AM	#4439
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Snails?

11-02-2011, 07:40 AM	#4440
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Erm........doughnuts, by chance?