Maybe some of you can relate 2 this 1....
After a nasty fall, you're lying prone on the ground.
Your nose is spread across your face & bleeding profusely.
As you pick yourself up & pick the teeth (jutting from your lip) out, a kind & sincere unknown runs over & asks....
"Are you alright?"
Tiz a classic dumb question, but you know....tiz automatic 🙂😉😀
Originally posted by phil nutleyI can't off hand remember who it was but someone, famous enough to get away with it, answered the question "Do you intend to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States" on the card with "Sole purpose of visit."
The one that has always got me is the one on the immigration card that you have to fill in when entering the US. I cant remember the exact wording but its something like...
'Are you or have you evere been a menber of a terrorist organisation?'
Like you are going to answer Yes to that!
Not so much of a question, but fits with the airplane theme.
I went to Wisconsin a few years back. When I tried to get my ticket for the plane ride home, they told me they had canceled the ticket and sold it to someone else since I had never gotten on the plane back in VT, and definitely didn't make the transfer in Detroit. I said that since I was standing right there, how did she think I got there, She told me I had gotten a refund (I didn't until hurassing them for a month later) and that I must have driven because the records couldn't be wrong and I was just trying to get a free plane ticket out of her. Dumbest arguement I ever had.
A couple of decades ago, MAD Magazine's Al Jaffee put out a series of paperbacks (comics) about _Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions_.
Example: Auntie-type lady stops a woman walking with two boys who look remarkably alike. Auntie says, "Are they twins?" The snappy answer: "No, they're a pair of identical strangers!"
He also had a section of "Stinging Replies to Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." The one I remember was about a guy strapped to the electric chair. The executioner says, "Did you kill someone?" The guy responds, "No, I'm here for a parking ticket!" The executioner, throwing the switch, says, "About time you scofflaws got what you deserved!"
These paperbacks are still available in used book markets. I don't know if MAD still has them in print.
