Favorite of the week (Oct 10-16)

Humble Master · Post by **Humble Master** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:00 am

You all know the drill by now.

100 Hour vs. Ouija Boards

Welfare Session of Conference

Yankee Hating

Naming a stuffed monkey

US vs UK Rock and Roll History/R.E.M. as greatest alternative band

Disco?

Apple trees (who knew that?)

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:46 am

Oooo, there are a lot of good ones. I think I am just going to have to go with the Rock and Roll though. It is quite simply one of the best, most comprehensive responses that I have have seen in quite a while. 100 Hour vs. Ouija Boards is a close second though.

Wisteria · Post by **Wisteria** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:28 pm

In response to your question in the link to the apple tree question, Humble Master, I did in fact know that apple tree seeds are not true to the kind of apple tree they come from. *sigh* I'm going to give myself away soon if I'm not careful. But I actually had a teacher once who liked to rail on Johnny Appleseed for planting so many apple seeds because it introduced so many bad varieties of apples into the market. That was an interesting class.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:47 pm

I think my next wish is to get one of my questions on the weekly poll.

ahem. · Post by **ahem.** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:53 pm

The thing is, there's only so much that you as a question asker can do to get a good/funny response. You could ask the same question and get either a fairly standard answer or a highly creative answer. it really depends on how inspired the writers are feeling. And it's really the combination of Q & A that makes a favorite or memorable question.

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:57 pm

So true. And yet, I have to agree that it is also my goal to have a question appear here. Even if I have no control over it, it is still something I dream of.

ahem. · Post by **ahem.** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:05 pm

Well, clearly you guys should just put up the polls every week-- then you would have all the control you want over who ends up in the polls

UffishThought · Post by **UffishThought** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:31 pm

Mmmm, I agree and disagree, ahem. There are good questions and bad questions. Though neither is guaranteed to have a matching answer, it's a whole lot more likely. Interesting questions often lead to interesting answers. Boring questions often lead to boring answers.

And if you guys want to have your questions be the winner, and you ask more good questions to achieve that, I'm all for it.

Cognoscente · Post by **Cognoscente** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:10 am

Man. I thought Claudio's rock history was epic. Too bad it didn't win.

Humble Master · Post by **Humble Master** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:56 am

I assumed the rock history answer was going to run away with the voting as well. I guess that's why we put up the polls for voting.