Hi all!

What's the strangest (preferably answered) question ever on GA?

I'd like to nominate this one: ID 517334 (gotta love shoaib; wonder
whatever happened with his female vampires?), but are there any others
you would like to nominate? A little tip to the winner!

---

Clarification of Question by richardmtl-ga on 22 Aug 2006 05:48 PDT

Ok, the nominees are in, time to announce a winner!

Thank you to all the commentors (commentators?) for their suggestion.
Unfortunately, the prize can only go to a GA researcher. However, an
honourable mention goes to artqs. The questionner has some real
problems!
 
And the winner is.......

jackburton-ga, and the guy with the tattoo!

Thank you all for participating! Jackburton, you may claim your prize!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
  
Here's another question I also found quite bizarre:
 
Q: Can a liver move in the fridge?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=750884
 
Best regards,
jackburton

Thanks to all the participants! Jackburton, that extra question is the
absolute winner, even better than your other one! Thanks a bunch!

I nominate the Question "What Color is Penguin Poop?" answered by Pinkfreud-ga.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=240878

Richard,  I had never read that Shoaib question before... I was really
missing out.  Even better than his origional question, his followup
question:

"so therefore I want to know that what type of romance Munch is doing
with that totally nude female  vampire either he is doing sexual
intercource or kissing only with that totally nude female  vampire ?"

is far better :)  And his 17 comments/notes to Pafalafa are indeed a
work of art.  I laughed, I cried, they moved me.  Thank you for
pointing me to that question!

In my opinion this one is the strangest question ever. The customer
wanted help finding a company that would help him build a time machine
to his specifications. To provide a little background on the question
that isn't apparent now, the customer first placed an extremely high
fee on it. Because he was obviously misguided and perhaps even, well
"confused"m I encouraged him to reduce the fee to $2 and settle for a
friendly comment in lieu of an answer. It went unanswered because I
simply felt it would have been wrong to take his money.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=220163

Besides that, if I "had" pointed him to a company to help him build a
time travel machine and he "was" successful, he could easily have gone
back in time to the point BEFORE he answered the question and taken
his money back, couldn't he? Think about it.  ;)

tutuzdad-ga

Jack,

I personally loved this comment of his more:

"Pafalafa researcher please note that I need a little more
clarification about female Vampires and this  clarification  is
important for  me. Please note that I have plan to stay for one night
in the haunted house along with my team members. So therefore I want
to know that how will I encounter female  Vampire(S) in that haunted
house  and that female  Vampire(S) will attack on me so as to suck my
blood  and how should I defend  myself from that female  Vampire(S) ?
I  need general information about those  questions. Thanks for that
help from Shoaib."

With his team members? What, like the A-Team? He's asked a few
questions about ghosts and haunted houses. I wonder.. Maybe his search
for a loan is so that he can build a haunted house, and he's planning
on populating it with some ghosts and vampires that he will hunt and
catch? Anyone else have any clues as to what his plans may be?

And Pafalafa's reply was priceless: "Sounds like you're headed for
quite an adventure, but to tell the
truth, I haven't a clue how you should proceed, since all I did was
find some pictures for you.  That hardly makes me an expert on dealing
with femal vampires, I'm afraid."  HA!

Wow!

I'd missed the Vampire Question and Paf's marvellous Answer.

You know, I'd always been a bit suspicious of Paf ... 

He always seems to know far more than any mere human should about everything.

More Worried than Ever from Hove

Well, I don't know what the answer to this question should be, but I'm
certainly taking vicarious pleasure in the discussion thus far.

And much to my surprise, not a single commenter has yet speculated as
to whether pafalafa-ga and shoaib-ga are actually one and the same
person...

Well, only two nominees so far. We may have to wait until the end of
the month before declaring a winner, if this is the pace we're going
to set. Keep 'em coming, folks!

Here's another nomination:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=117249

It was one of a series that was asked by Googel-ga (Wonder how he
thought of that name?) seeking opinions on a Dental Floss holder that
he had invented.

ID: 751360

Maybe not that strange.

Cheers

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=599756

I nominate "What would I need to do to get my friend's mom in bed with
me?" as a contender. Paired with the question that soon followed,
"What is the best way to get a girl to make a home porn with me?", we
could have a winner.

Friend's Mom - (No Answer)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=748673

Sex Video - (No Answer)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=752031

Paf,
"And much to my surprise, not a single commenter has yet speculated as
to whether pafalafa-ga and shoaib-ga are actually one and the same
person..."

NO WAY!  Shoaib's style is inimitable.

I was rather taken by Brudenell-ga's series of questions about pay
toilets, which Politicalguru answered so well.

This was an odd one for me. The customer decided he wanted to identify
a strange green symbol he saw floating on his hand whilst he was at
work. He felt compelled to have the symbol tattoed onto his foot, even
though he had no idea what the symbol represented. I took on the case,
and managed to answer it --with the help of one of world's leading
researchers on medieval magic!
  
Q: meaning of an unknowen symbol
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=309070
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=319072

In addition to the penguin poop question (mentioned above by Bobbie),
I found this question to be rather strange and interesting to
research:

Why are pigeon's feet seldom normal? 
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=344307

I've been reviewing questions in my spare time and I'm convinced I
need to recast my vote please. This one takes the cake:

>>>"What speed would a bag containing an average sized faeces have to
be travelling, in open space, to be capable of cleanly removing a
human head ( including space helmet)?"
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=433736

No one dared answer it but one brave peanut gave it his best effort:

>>>>"Well, one of my average logs is probably 0.5 lb.  And then the little
rabbit-turds that follow are probably 0.1 lb...  (I hate those little
guys...)

However, a large portion of the mass comes from water.  In space, the
water would be gone, right?  Wouldn't it turn to ice immediately and
then sublime into gas?  I may be wrong... ANYWAY, I'm guessing your
log would lose about 50% or 60% of it's mass when it instantly dries
out and freezes.

Then, you have to decide whether to assume the log slowly dropped out
of 'Uranus', or whether it was something like explosive diarhea, where
the speed could be more like 10-20 mph.  Either way, those speeds are
pretty slow.

For a 0.25 lb loaf, I'm guessing it would have to travel somewhere
around 750 - 1000 mph in order to sever the head and helmet..."

LOL! This one is way weird, and way funny too! I can't help but wonder
what inspired the customer to ask it in the first place.

tutuzdad-ga

I nominate this one:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=495132

Steph53

Or perhaps this one:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=756611

Well, Jackburton's is in the lead, with tutuzdad's second vote as a
close second. Any other contenders?

This one may not be the strangest of the strange, but it amuses me so.
 And I love the clarification.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=432401

A friend of mine paired it up with a craigslist post offering a
roommate for sale. There was even a picture of the roommate conked out
on his bed.  I'll always wonder if it was warhis behind that post. Did
he get so disgusted that he decided to sell off that roommate and be
done with him?  hehe

Here's a good one that was answered at a cost of $200. "A day in the life..."
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=186507

Oh yes, I loved that Day in the Life question, read from start to
finish completely enthralled!

Unfortunately, I don't see it as being very strange. I'm looking more
for "wacko" questions, stuff that someone quote-unquote normal
wouldn't really think of asking. Thanks for the good try, though!

I found this question to be rather unusual:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=423489

It's about statistics on eating habits (breakfast). However, this
question was not answered.

My three Nominations

443804
558557
536567

Mongolia

Thanks for the honorable mention, richardmtl-ga. I think you made the
right choice with jackburton-ga's suggestion.

 - artqs