I'd Give My Left Ovary To Know...

[arista]

I would like to know why Walmart thinks it's acceptable to have only one cashier available at the Site to Store center in the days leading up to Christmas. Of course, there are about five people behind the desk, draped on top of the photo machines, or looking at videos on their iPhones. There's a line 20 deep, most of them looking suicidal/homicidal, but they seem to gather hope when it's their turn, only to be greeted with "Hmm. I don't know why you got a text saying it's ready. It's not here."

I hate to think that the reason they do this is that they simply don't care. Could that be true? I would love to know.

An evil plot I tell you!! So many check out people and it is so frustrating when they are so many few lanes open.

 

[blunthead]

...Where Jesus Christ was between the age of thirteen until He came back...

Jesus came back already?! When?! Nobody tells me these things!!! All those raptured people - I haven't even missed them!!!

I'd like to know what really happened to the dinosaurs. I'd like to know where the Universe is. I'd like to know what Dark Matter and Dark Energy are. I'd like to find out where things that fall into a black hole go (not the hard way). I'd like to understand how and why Quantum Physics is provable.

 

[SusanNorton]

Jesus came back already?! When?! Nobody tells me these things!!! All those raptured people - I haven't even missed them!!!

I'd like to know what really happened to the dinosaurs. I'd like to know where the Universe is. I'd like to know what Dark Matter and Dark Energy are. I'd like to find out where things that fall into a black hole go (not the hard way). I'd like to understand how and why Quantum Physics is provable.

I'm slightly curious about all of those things, BH, and look forward to maybe knowing about them one day. But it's the little nagging, personal things that really make me want to relinquish an ovary - What would my life have been like if I'd not been so fearful of taking risks? That guy in college - I think he liked me. Did he?

 

[fljoe0]

I'd like to know what really happened to the dinosaurs.

I can answer this one

 

[blunthead]

...it's the little nagging, personal things that really make me want to relinquish an ovary - What would my life have been like if I'd not been so fearful of taking risks?...

Those are things I've never wanted to know the answers to, though my attitude toward life is changing to one including less built-in doom.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...which island Jimmy Hoffa's on laughing his ass off at every fruitless dig...

 

[Sigmund]

I still have two but I'm hanging on to mine - at my age I need those hormones!

So to get back on to the questions for this thread idea - I would like to know - do you think time travel would be possible? I read about it in 11/22/63 and also in the "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon and it's a cool idea.

Hi!

I struggled through a book regarding time travel. Struggled because the words and theorems were wayyy over my head. The one thing I did understand and remember quite well: If you time travel it is essential that your past/future self not see you (the present you doing the time traveling thing). Something to do with two versions of you being in the same time/dimension...would throw the time continuum off kilter and we would all die a horrible terrible death.

Peace.

 

[arista]

Why are Elvis sightings all over?

 

[Sigmund]

...why in hell Geraldo thought opening Capone's vault was a good idea....

:rolf:

Hi!

I totally remember that! Gosh they kept us on the edge of our seat for the better part of an hour and finally they open the door and...nothing. Then another thirty minutes *explaining* and throwing out hypothesis on WHY it was empty.

Thanks for the memories!

Peace.

 

[Sigmund]

I tend to wonder "who was the first person" kind of things (in addition to the Jack the Ripper thing, which I cannot start thinking about, or it freaks me out, and the only thing that helps is the knowledge that he is certainly dead).

Who was the first person who discovered that castoreum—beaver anal gland secretions—tastes like vanilla? And how did that go down?

Who was the first person who watched someone sicken and/or die after eating rhubarb leaves and then thought, "Well, maybe the stems are okay ..."?

Hi!

That is totally cool! (Dahmit! Where's the dude with the hat and shades emoticon?)
I do that, too! Especially when it's something goofy.

Billy Ray Washboard can fit 23 wieners in his mouth!

Wanda Chestair can lift a 50 pound child using only her cleavage!

How the he!! did they figure out they could do that? Can I assume alcohol was involved?

Thank you!

Peace.

 

[Sigmund]

Jesus came back already?! When?! Nobody tells me these things!!! All those raptured people - I haven't even missed them!!!

:rofl :

Thanks for the laugh! (I said I wasn't really up on my bible things.)

I haven't laughed at myself that much or blushed so deeply in a long time.



Peace.

 

[nate_watkins]

I still have two but I'm hanging on to mine - at my age I need those hormones!

So to get back on to the questions for this thread idea - I would like to know - do you think time travel would be possible? I read about it in 11/22/63 and also in the "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon and it's a cool idea.

Michael Crichton has a book titled Timeline. It's an interesting story about time travel. They made a movie about it that turned out alright too.

 

[staropeace]

Where does all the asphalt go when the road crew patches potholes? A pothole will form and then the road crew will come out and dump asphalt in the hole. A couple of months later the hole is back and the road crew comes out and dumps more asphalt in the hole. This is repeated over and over again sometimes for years on the same hole. Where does all the old asphalt go?

I know in central Newfoundland, a bunch of teenagers started to pick up this stuff on the side of the road. Some company helped them melt it and they laid a basketball court for the little town.

 

[Stanley Ruiz]

Why do you always run out of the shiny expensive wrapping paper just as you have come to the last pressie for your wife- and then having to change to the tacky snowman pictured cheap stuff - thus making your collection of finely wrapped boxes uncoordinated and nothing like the vogue front cover with the bows and tinsel and beaming grateful recipient.

Bah humbug !

 

[Todash]

I am trying to understand why some people turn bad. Like, out of several siblings, why
does one become a serial killer, while the other(s) lead normal lives?
This has been on my mind for many years, and if I had more than one ovary, I would totally give it up to know. Right now, I need the hormones.

I think with things like serial killers ... I really think that it's some kind of birth defect in their brain. Sociopaths are just DIFFERENT. That being said, many of them consciously decide to follow the law (generally) and put their "talents" to use in other directions. For example, some jobs require you to make emotionally difficult decisions, such as deciding who gets what limited resources. Who better than a sociopath trying to logically ensure the best possible outcome to make that call? Most of us could not give up the life of someone we love to save 20 others even though clearly it's a "better" outcome to save the 20. A sociopath trying to make the best decision would call that in a second.

I've given this a little thought.

 

[Dana Jean]

Chicken and an egg are in bed having made love, the chicken lights up a cigarette and says "well that answers that old question". At the risk of being a 'buzz killington', that's an annoying question, a chicken is hatched from an egg, it's the only way it can be made, and reptiles have been laying eggs for hundreds of millions of years.

About Jack the ripper, there have been some interesting documentaries about him, and the most compelling line of inquiry seems to point to a guy who was in London at the time of the killings, then disappeared, only to be sentanced to death in America for a brutal murder that had similarities to the rippers killings a little while later. I wish I could remember the specifics.

Was this that H.H. Holmes guy?

 

[Dana Jean]

We could tell you. But then, you know ...

We'd have to pee on you.

 

[Dana Jean]

I would want to know about Jack the Ripper also.

And Lizzie Borden.

And what the hell really happened to Jon Benet Ramsey?

Where is Jacob Wetterling?

And what happened to Natalie Holloway?

 

[arista]

Why is it that it always is so freaking hot in department stores. If anything, they should be piping in cool air due to people wearing coats.

 

[Todash]

We'd have to pee on you.

This is my favorite thing ever.