Author Topic: You'll get the answer.... the WIKI way.  (Read 144 times)

Offline Oogly50

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You'll get the answer.... the WIKI way.
« on: April 17, 2008, 06:37:41 PM »
I found a delightfully fun website called WikiAnswers. 

Anybody can ask questions, anybody can answer them.  No account is even needed. 

It's insanely populated.  You can usually get 6-7 questions asked PER SECOND. 

Some are very funny though.  One time I saw a question posted about hamsters falling...  "What happens when you drop your hamster?"  Obviously, this person was either a little kid, or they were too stupid and lazy to think of that themselves.
Hoping it was a little one, I gave the most complicated answer I could muster.

"It all depends on velocity and other variables.  Variables like approximate height from the surface area, and what surface the hamster is too be dropped upon.  For example, if you were holding your hamster, sitting down, and accidentally lost your holding, and he tumbled onto the pillow below him on his feet, he would obviously be fine.  However, if standing at your maximum height, losing grasp of the hamster would clearly be fatal if over a hard surface.  (concrete, floor, spikes, naked girl avalanche, etc.)  I hope this answers your question."

The reply...  "..... what?" 

I only reply to the really obvious questions.  Most questions I see are too hard for me to answer, but there's the occasional "What are 5 words that start with the letter O?"  It's COMPLETELY obvious they're doing an assignment, so I'll laugh in their faces telling them to do it themselves, and give them nearly every word in the dictionary that DOESNT start with an O. 

Anyway, quite fun if you use your imagination.  http://wiki.answers.com/
There was once a saying that goes "If you put an infinite amount of monkeys in a room with an infinite amount of typewriters, eventually they will produce something worth reading."

The internet has proved this wrong.