Ask the experts.... Trivial questions

[Dauphin]

Submit your trivial questions, and hopefully someone will know the answer. Here is my starter:

If the cream that keeps dentures in is so good, how do people take out their false teeth at the end of the day?

[Bereta_Eder]

Why is whiskey and cocal cola combined suppose to give you a bigger buzz?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

SD- To prevent gum disorders.

paiktis- The bubbles blast it into your bloodstream quicker through a number of different absorption methods.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Here's mine. The English language has a number of opposites that have no matches. As an example, the opposite of "displeased" is "pleased"- but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

[Dauphin]

Bugs, I mean how, not why. Presumably their teeth are stuck down pretty good. Do that just give them a good yank?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Oooh. Good question. Solvents or crowbars, I presume.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
SD- To prevent gum disorders.

paiktis- The bubbles blast it into your bloodstream quicker through a number of different absorption methods.

AHA! Like Champagne. They "open up" the colon intenstine wider and thus the alcohol enters faster in the blood.

Why didn;t I think of that...
Thanks Bugs

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
Here's mine. The English language has a number of opposites that have no matches. As an example, the opposite of "displeased" is "pleased"- but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

english is a languge that has generally evolved over many centuries from a wide variety of cultures.

sometimes, however, people just make words up.

if i were you i would start using words such as "gruntled" in everyday conversation. get all your friends to do it too. this time next year it'lll be in the dictionary.

[Guynemer]

What was communism's/Christianity's/capitalism's greatest crime?

Oh. Wait. You're being serious?

[Ramo]

but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

Could be that disappointed transformed from originally meaning "unappointed" (hmmm.. is that even a word ), but if one is "unappointed" from a position, someone is probably displeased or "disappointed" in that person, hence our common usage.

And "gruntled" likely used to be an English word, but has not been used for centuries.

[rah]

Personally, I've always loved.........

You park on a driveway, and
drive on a parkway.

RAH

[Richelieu]

If you could apply an anti-gravity field to an object, what would happen to it ?

[Tau Ceti]

While we are talking about strange things in the English language, how did "before" and "without" get their current meanings? Earlier (in Shakespearean times, at least) they had their logical meaning, being the opposites of "behind" and "within", and you would use the lovely "ere" and, um, whatever you would use for "without" instead. So what happened?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Richelieu
If you could apply an anti-gravity field to an object, what would happen to it ?

Fall upwards.

[ranskaldan]

(I'm not sure if people in UK call their mail "post" but if so, here goes)

Why is it that the US Postal Service delivers the "mail" but the Royal Mail delivers the "post"?