Unanswered Questions III
(Game idea by Lobo Negro)
Basically, someone asks a question and the next person answers, but the answer must not contain any useful information at all, think tangents, off-base.
Answers can be simple, eg
Q: What is the purpose of thumbs
A: They give our hands enough weight not to float in the air all the time.
Or they can be elaberate, one of my favourites was
Q: Why do women wear high heels.
A: In ancient times, the level of helium inside the Earth (which is what keeps it floating in space) was dangerously high, to the point where the planet was threatened with floating right up out of the galaxy, and ending up bobbing around the universal ceiling, out of reach. Seeing as men were busy at the time declaring themselves 'hunters', and investigating whether or not it's a good idea to try to headbutt woolly mammoths to death, it fell to women to solve the problem. They did this by wearing special footwear with sharp heels, which made tiny punctures in the Earth's crust as they walked, thus venting excess helium (the cumulative effect of this, over dozens of generations, is also why women's voices tend to be higher than men's). The reason for high heels has long been forgotten, but the practice remains as a kind of racial memory, thereby keeping the Earth from floating away.
Q: Is it a good idea to headbutt Wooly Mammoths to death?
A: Only on the second Tuesday of every month when woolly mammoths have a monthly one day hibernation and are therefore vulnerable & unable to defend themselves. Of course, once you have headbutted them to death you're faced with the problem of having to move them, which involves constructing a complex series of levers and pulleys. It's much easier to just let the woolly mammoth be & hunt something a bit smaller.