Famous Questions

[jpmassar]

For some completely random reason this meme came into my head just now.
The two that immediately jumped to mind were

"Dr. Livingston, I presume?"
"What has it got in its pocketses?"

and then a moment later

"African or European?"

What popped immediately (or soon thereafter) into your mind?

Comments

[kalimac]

When I first began taking German and learned that the word sein meant "to be", a concept for which English has no single word, I was delighted, and wanted to use it in a sentence. Not surprisingly, the first one I could think of was,

"Sein oder nicht sein, das ist die Frage."

Which is in fact pretty close to the standard German translation of that line.

[gunga_galunga]

I don't know.

[jpmassar]

Surprised no one came up with

'Do you feel lucky?'

[gunga_galunga]

I was just answering your query about African or European Swallows.

My personal favorite is (obv, given my user name), "so I've got that going for me, which is nice."

A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

[abostick59]

"Why does the porridge bird lay her egg on the air?"
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
"Got wood?"
"Got milk?"
"Where have all the flowers gone?"
"Will you still love me in the morning?"
"Is it in yet?"
"Why do fools fall in love?"
"Who wrote the book of love?"
"Who will watch the watchmen?"
"Where's the beef?"

[jpmassar]

If a tree falls in the forest...

[murrayl]

From a B. Kliban cartoon I have framed:

Tell me, oh Buddha, how much do you weigh and what's your favourite colour?

[evwhore]

I drank what?