dumbest question

[Zwilorg]

so as the title says whats the dumbest question someone has ever asked you

mine was: "where is the melbourne cup held".

for those who dont know melbourne is a city in Australia and one of the main ones if you live in Australia you know what melbourne is.

and for those that are a bit thick its like asking where is the london cup held

Well maybe it is not so dumb :S you know Rio de Janeiro from Brasil right? well there is a party that is Called Rock in Rio and while it did started in Rio it nowoccurs every year in Lisbon Portugal and if i am not mistaken in another 2 or 3 countries!

but btw i really think that one was a stupid question too hehe

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

In U.S. History class a year or two ago, this one girl in class asked if G.I. Bill was still alive.

I had to punch myself in the gut to avoid guffawing.

 

[IcyEvils]

My mother and brother come out with some gems every day, but today we had "What is a bee?" after I told her bees have worse stings than wasps, and "Why are you putting on the kettle?", when I had a teabag in my hand, milk beside it and the cup and spoon out. -.-'

The worst, though, had to be a distant cousin of mine in our English class. Doing Shakespeare, we got to the end of 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day', and when reading back over it and coming to the line "And often is his gold complexion dimm'd", he shouted at the teacher, "WAIT! WAS SHAKESPEARE GAY?!". Among others, he didn't realise Crooks in Of Mice and Men was black, he didn't know where Europe was on a map, and he had never heard of Leonardo da Vinci, saying, "Was he in Titanic?". This is a 16 year old, in a grammar school.

And not really stupid, more.. said in the wrong way, was when a boy in Biology asked a teacher (petite and SMOKING HOT) who had her finger in a the aorta entry to a cow's heart, which she was prodding with one finger and stretching the skin (as sexy as it sounds), ask, "Could you fit two fingers in there?". Suspended, and the teacher wrote on the report "x asked me if I could finger the cows heart". Laughs were had, especially when he told us of his mother's reaction.

 

[wfpdk]

"where lighters made before matches?"
my reply was "to quote dave chappelle; 'you have smoked yourself retarded.'"

May I quote Wikipedia?

"One of the first lighters was invented by a German Chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823"

"The first "friction match" was invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826"


Although different sources give different dates for either, that's not such a stupid question.

hhmmm... I did not know that. I feel like quite the fool, now. I would say that maybe she wasn't as dumb as I thought, but she also got her arm stuck in a fence because she wouldn't let go of her binder, and in context of that particular conversation, she was talking specifically about Bic lighters, because her's was taken away in class, which started the conversation. but either way, I suppose I should do my research before I post.

 

[sirpwnsalot65]

I hate it when people ask stuff like Where is he? When someone is late. Like I know. Kind of a weird post but I just find it so irritating.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

My aunt asked me "How do birds know when to move when we're driving down the road?"

 

[Krafty_Krocodile]

"can i borrow some paper?" Sure, but i want it back the way i gave it to you

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

After being hooked on call of duty 1 and 2, then buying moh pacific assault, my cousins asks me "We fought the Japaneses in WW2?"

I answered yes, but it was hard to keep a strait face XP.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I got a question:
What would happen if pinokio said "My nose will grow now"?
He is neither telling the truth nor telling a lair.

That's not dumb.... That's genius!

OT: My history class had a lot of dumb questions (Hell, half the football team was in there).... I can't really think of any, but I remember one resulted in my teacher telling the asker and I quote:

"Wear a helmet...."

I loved that class

EDIT: Oh yeah, in anatomy class a girl asked (in the middle of a lecture, on a completely different subject, I might add) "Is your sphincter, like, your butthole?"

EDIT 2: Possibly the stupidist question I've heard (from a 16 year old male) "We (as in the United States) have nukes?"

 

[Thedayrecker]

Thank you thread, you just reminded me of a priceless secondary school moment.

I was talking with a group of mates in Biology class, year 10 I think (14/15 yrs old), and somehow the word cunnilingus came up; you know, as it does. One guy asked what it meant and we wouldn't tell him, we thought he was being intentionally dense. He pushed for an answer but we wouldn't say.

In the end, he put up his hand and asked our female, student teacher.

All sound just ceased and everyone, classroom wide, just stared goggle eyed unable to accept that that had just happened.

Absolutely fan-fucking-tastic memory, thanks again for reminding me.

This girl in my anatomy class (Who I know for a fact has done it) asked our teacher what felatio was....

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

After I saw Cloverfield in theatres, I heard a girl ask if that really happened when the creds started rollin.

 

[Yeslek Ssomllur]

Once I hit a broken piece of pavement on my bicycle going down a hill and flew about fifty feet through the air, landing face first. I sat up, holding the skin that had been torn off half of my face, streaming blood, with a bone obviously jutting four inches out of my shoulder. This hippy wanders up to me and goes
"Heeeyyy man! Are you hurt?"
Right before I passed out I went "Yeah, man. I'm great."
Sarcastic until the very end...

 

[martin's a madman]

Uh, what? I'm from the US and I know where Melbourne is.

OT:"If we evolved from monkeys, then WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS?"

Yeah! I dislike that question, we didn't evolve FROM modern monkeys and apes, we share common ancestors.

But they don't ever listen.

 

[Julianking93]

"Was Hitler the bad guy?"

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

This idiot in my French class in High School once asked the teacher,

"Is Paris a plural word?"

Her reasoning behind asking this question...

"Well, it ends with an S..."

And, no, I am not kidding.

 

[blankedboy]

I have one to top the entire thread.

Teacher: For the next three weeks, we'll be covering Achievement Standard 1.9, it's an internal research assignment worth three credits.
Student: Is it worth credits?

Heard it today, epic win.

 

[Littlee300]

A girl in my history class asked me, after half an hour of talking about this very incident, "So, is Anne Boleyn dead yet?" We had just spent the entire class discussing that. And even if she hadn't been beheaded, she'd bloody well be dead by 2008. Maybe it's because I'm really into Tudor history, but I seriously wanted to throttle her.

Aww she could just be like me and have a really hard time paying attention and only remember the key words like "Incident" and "Anne Boleyn"
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Hmm maybe "Can I dent the air with this hammer?"
Edit: 2nd one would be "Is Hitler from Mexico?

 

[Littlee300]

"where lighters made before matches?"
my reply was "to quote dave chappelle; 'you have smoked yourself retarded.'"

That was a pretty pretentious comment.
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How much wood would a wood jack wood if could jackwofoddochucknorrishasahugepieceofwood

It just annoys me when I hear it now ...

 

[teisjm]

"May i ask you a question"
Well, you sortof just did... Theoretically, thats like me asking you if you want to have sex while raping you. Or asking you whether you wanna fight while punching your teeth in.

 

[SnipErlite]

"where lighters made before matches?"
my reply was "to quote dave chappelle; 'you have smoked yourself retarded.'"

May I quote Wikipedia?

"One of the first lighters was invented by a German Chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823"

"The first "friction match" was invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826"


Although different sources give different dates for either, that's not such a stupid question.

hhmmm... I did not know that. I feel like quite the fool, now. I would say that maybe she wasn't as dumb as I thought, but she also got her arm stuck in a fence because she wouldn't let go of her binder, and in context of that particular conversation, she was talking specifically about Bic lighters, because her's was taken away in class, which started the conversation. but either way, I suppose I should do my research before I post.

Lol I only knew that because I remember reading it a while back. It's a reasonable assumption to make, that lighters came first, but there seems to be no definitive answer. Ho hum.