Things That Make You Go Hmm

[JTass]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

I've pondered that. I did see them using muskets in one film, and ... they don't really use firearms in the book.

 

[Imstillfun]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

In the one with Charlie Sheen there’s the scene where they are facing an army. Pretty sure there were muskets there but I could be remembering wrong.

 

[Imstillfun]

I've pondered that. I did see them using muskets in one film, and ... they don't really use firearms in the book.

I think in the books there were pistols mentioned.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Why is it when I stare into a mirror for too long, I start to expect my reflection to move on its own. "Any second now... any second..."

Also, what's up with feet? Seriously, they're weird as fuck.

 

[Imstillfun]

If 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything, and 6x7=42, do kids today know something we don’t?

 

[JTass]

Here's another one that pops into my brain on sleepless nights:

In tonal languages like Mandarin Chinese, is tone deafness considered a speech impediment?

 

[TheRedChamber]

Many pop songs have silly lyrics, but since by far the vast majority of them are either about boys wanting to stick their bits into girls or else pretending to want to hold her hand until the topic of the insertion of those bits can be subtly inserted into the conversation later, it usually doesn't matter much.

It is far rarer then that one can describe a pop song as 'entirely flawed in its very premise'

Never Knew Her Name from Elton John's 1989 album Sleeping with the Past isn't his most famous, but contains the refrain.

And she walked like a mystery
And she passed like summer rain
And she said "I do" like an angel
But I never knew her name

Oh the congregation gathered
But in darkness I remained
In love with the bride of a handsome man
But I never knew her name

If the issue isn't immediately obvious, please run through the marriage ceremony for the denomination of your choice and then tell me why it shouldnt have been correctly titled 'Even Knew Her Middle Name'

 

[liliput1]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

The muskets are in their pants?

 

[Rambling_Chantrix]

the vibe in here

 

[Mastered_again]

Also, what's up with feet? Seriously, they're weird as fuck

Especially when they're webbed

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Also, what's up with feet? Seriously, they're weird as fuck.

They are beautiful, can support quite a lot of weight, and have a lot of spots that can be stimulated.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Seriously, what's up with those Charmin bears?

There has to be a Lit story in there somewhere...

 

[ADirtyPerv]

They are beautiful, can support quite a lot of weight, and have a lot of spots that can be stimulated.

The trust that goes into letting someone touch your feet... That's a spicy thing to throw into a piece of erotica.

 

[HordHolm]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

1974, the Four Musketeers (Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay), there's a whole battle scene in which they use muskets.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

Seriously, what's up with those Charmin bears?

There has to be a Lit story in there somewhere...

Unfortunately it's a scat fetish piece. Obviously

 

[HordHolm]

Also, what's up with feet? Seriously, they're weird as fuck.

If the toes are long enough one can hang from a branch by them.

 

[TheLobster]

the vibe in here
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

(Look here if you don't know WTF I just said. It's an older meme, but it checks out).

 

[anthrodisiac]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

(Look here if you don't WTF I just said. It's an older meme, but it checks out).

I read Garfield strip about ten times before I just gave up and decided to read something I could understand easier, like ancient Sumerian.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?
At what point does a building become a built?

 

[TheLobster]

A bus station is where the bus stops.
A train station is where the train stops.
So why is my desk called a workstation?

... Wait, no, don't answer that

 

[alohadave]

At what point does a building become a built?

Gerunds in action.

Adding -ing turns the verb into a noun.

Like a painting.

 

[HordHolm]

Why do I have more work on a Friday than a Monday, despite working diligently all week?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

If 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything, and 6x7=42, do kids today know something we don’t?

I solved that one a long, long time ago in a universe right here.

What is Life, the Universe, and Everything? Be brief.

Life is the period from the beginning of something until its end; that is, essentially, Time. Life = Time. but to know time continues, we need three generations: the first must see the offspring of its offspring reach reproductive age to be sure time/life continues. The average age of reproductive maturity for humans is 14. 3 x 14 = 42 therefore Life=Time=42.

The Universe is Space, and it can be defined as the product of all the places you can be and all the places you can't be. You can be 7 places: above, below in front, behind, left, right, or with someone or thing. There are 6 places your can't be: above, below, in front, behind left, or right of yourself. 6 x 7 = 42.

Everything is, of course, the Space-Time continuum. Life=Time=Space=the Universe=Everything=42

We could only be briefer if we counted in a fold-420 system, where the answer would be 1.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Share your favorite imponderables and shower thoughts.

I'll get us started:

Why is it that in every single film or television version of The Three Musketeers that I've ever seen (I've watched probably a dozen or so since I was a kid), none of the musketeers ever actually carry or use a musket?

In 1622, Louis XIII formed an elite unit from the light cavalry to serve as royal bodyguards, adding muskets to their armaments. They still bore their light duty sabres; after all, it takes time to reload a musket while on horseback, and they might need to continue to fight. Of course, swordplay was more exciting, and Dumas featured that in his novel.