The No Stupid Questions Thread

[Gigem]

What are you saying?

Asking for a friend.

That I, Gigem, First of his name and King Of The Andals shall rule this board from Henceforth. To wit, today is the First Day of the Year Gigem I. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

I’m not under any impression that they knew it was x,xxx BC.

I love the idea of this.  Subtracting years as time progresses.
What year is it?
298 BC
Before what?
Dunno.
Hmmph.  Is there a game on TV?
What's that?
Nevermind.

[Brutus Buckeye]

The names of months is interesting, of course September should mean the seventh month, as once it did, before July and August were added, named for Julius and Augustus Caesar.  I've read that the 1912 Russian Olympic team showed up two weeks late because they were using the wrong calendar, the old one, that kept getting further and further off of the seasons.

The days of the week are named for Norse gods. 

Then later they transformed Sunday into a day to worship the Son instead of the Sun. 

[MrNubbz]

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

[OrangeAfroMan]

This is a dad joke thread and the force is strong with this group.

[FearlessF]

stoopid thread

[MarqHusker]

Do you know the way to San Jose?

[Cincydawg]

Time is a fascinating concept with no real definition, other than being another dimension, like up and down, one into which we are locked.  It's in most physical laws as a thing, and yet we cannot define it.

What is "spooky action at a distance" for $200, Ralph?

[betarhoalphadelta]

Time is a fascinating concept with no real definition, other than being another dimension, like up and down, one into which we are locked.  It's in most physical laws as a thing, and yet we cannot define it.

What is "spooky action at a distance" for $200, Ralph?

Quantum entanglement, if I understand it correctly. Quite weird. 

[Cincydawg]

Why are there SO many shopping channels on my feed?  (DirecTV).  There must be over 100.

[Brutus Buckeye]

It forces you to set up your channel list. 

Just block everything but sports, movies, music, skinemax, and the news channel that most coincides with your world view.

[LittlePig]

I believe the Romans had a calender that went back to the founding of Rome, with Romulus and Remus, and that was about 750 years before Christ was believed to be born.  So Augustus was emporer around the year 750 according to the Roman calender. 

[LittlePig]

The week has 7 days because Ancient people would look up into the sky and see 7 objects that did not move like the regular stars in the sky.  These 7 objects were given the names of 7 Roman gods and each was assigned a day in a regular 7-day rotation.

The Sun (Sunday)
The Moon (Monday)
Mars (Tuesday)
Mercury (Wednesday)
Jupiter (Thursday)
Venus (Friday)
Saturn (Saturday)

When the Germans and  Scandinavians and eventually the Anglo-saxons adopted the 7 day week,  they substituted their  own gods for 4 of the days.

Mars Day became Tiw's Day or Tuesday.  Named after the German God of War.

Mercury Day became Oden's Day,  or Wednesday

Jupiter Day became Thor's Day, or Thursday.

Venus Day became Freya Day or Friday.

Sunday (Sun) , Monday (Moon) & Saturday (Saturn) stayed loyal to the original objects in the sky they were named after. 

[Cincydawg]

Why did kamikaze piliot's wear helmets?

(There is an answer.)