Quoth Peter Sellers, "Answer simple, but question very hard."

[sigma7]

Via Lucard, Slate's list of questions they just couldn't answer.

• Hello ... Could you tell me if there's been any kind of medical discovery in the last 30 years besides DNA.

• If we taught animals to talk, how would that affect the world?

• Can you tell me how long it will take if you eat rat poison to see if it is going to affect you? Please e-mail me back. Because my niece ate some.

• Hi. How did the horse in the movie about dreams make it to not only survive but to win again? Was this movie true?

This actually puts tech support in perspective.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

The first one's easy to answer. The answer is "Yes." If you want to get into more detail, you can also point out that DNA was discovered more than 30 years ago.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Well, I just assumed their mail server was running slow.

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

I was just now reading this. I think the last question was my favourite:
"I have this special connection with a 40-year-old cocaine-using stripper who was arrested for forgery and disappeared with all my money last night. Does she really love me?"

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I wish I lived with that degree of blissful ignorance. That'd be awesome. I just have to scrape by with general stupidity.

[bishop282.livejournal.com]

This one's easy: "When we are approaching another person, like in a hallway, why do we step to our left? That is, try and pass right-shoulder-to-right-shoulder."

Because you are from Great Britain. People treat hallways like roads and walk as though they are driving. In most places in the world people step to the right and pass left-shoulder to left-shoulder.