Stupid Questions... Do they exist?

[ElboRuum]

Questions borne of honest ignorance, no matter how common the knowledge? NOT stupid.
Questions where the questioner already knows the answer? NOT stupid, especially when coming from a lawyer.
Questions where an answer is not expected nor required? NOT stupid, rhetorical.
Questions where the questioner should know the answer, probably does know the answer, but questioner's brain is lactose intolerant and spent the evening eating gooey nachos and is now otherwise occupied with farting? Yep, stupid.

Example: Where are my car keys? (Questioner is HOLDING them.)

Your thoughts?

[derby378]

1. A lighthearted answer, but I think I found one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSciSL8MjQU

[ElboRuum]

2. I don't think that's tremendously stupid...

Presently unknowable, perhaps...

The real question is, supposing we were traveling in outer space, and yes, suppose we were traveling at the speed of light... knowing his question, do you have the stones to start screaming to experimentally find the answer, having entertained the possibility that Stanley Spedowski may have been onto something?

[bluedigger]

3. According to my drill sergeant,

"The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked."

Works for me.:shrug:

[ElboRuum]

4. Can be immediately refuted...

To drill sergeant: Do you think I can skip the morning run and just go see a movie instead?

Clarification: Stupid if your drill sergeant is R. Lee Irmey from Full Metal Jacket, quite brilliant if your drill sergeant is the sergeant major marching up and down the square from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

[bluedigger]

7. Oh, he would have jumped down my throat...

and ripped me a new one, lol. For not either prefacing or ending (preferably, both:eyes:) the question with "Drill Sergeant"! :rofl:

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Stupid questions? Is this really about stupid questions or something else... like stupid questions?

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[Xipe Totec]

6. A self-proving hypothesis?

[ElboRuum]

9. Was it your question or mine that was the stupid one?

Or is this one the stupid one? Or was that one the stupid one? Or was that one the stupid one? Or...

[Xipe Totec]

10. Yes nt

[many a good man]

8. MOST questions are STUPID

As are MOST answers!

[Recovered Repug]

11. There is no such thing as a stupid question.

There are just stupid people who ask questions.

[petronius]

12. In the classroom, there are two:

1) Will this be on the test?
2) I'll be absent tomorrow; are we learning anything?

I suppose repeating the question that someone else just asked because you weren't paying attention could count, but that's more of a stupid beavior than a stupid question...