- Woo: Pet me! Pet me! Pet me! Pet me! Pet me! Pet me! … Pet me! Pet me! Pet me!
- Sandra: Why do pets love getting petted so much?
- Sandra: … Why do I ask such stupid questions?
- Woo: Mmmm.
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[0087] There Are No Stupid Answers, Only Stupid Questions
└ posted on Thursday, 20 August 2009, by Novil
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fun…he probably wants to be petted for the same reason’s artists enjoy praise. It feels good an brings a moment of pleasure.
Aww… I want to share a moment. Yesterday, my kitten was playing with a lizard in the back yard, but the lizard would have none of it: jaws wide open and hissing. Kitten batted at it, and it bit him on the paw, and hung on! Kitten spun around in circles, trying to throw it off. This happened several times, and the whole thing went on for about half an hour before I rescued the lizard and dropped him in some fence ivy. I should have filmed it for youtube….
I wish I could be pet…
@Lord Evil: WHY DIDN’T YOU RECORD IT!?!?
still wearing the dress, meaning she is a REALLY fast quick-change artist.
My friend has a book on stuff like that… evidently when you dog gets a belly rub it’s thinking about sex.
“There are no stupid questions, but there are a *lot* of inquisitive idiots.”
Why is Futurama a tag?
I think it has something to do with the name…. could just be me though…
LOVE the title! So true…
I have a rabbit who is still skittish about being touched, but he has learned about begging for attention from my other rabbit. Thus it’s quite odd to get the “Pet me” demand, then have him immediately run off when I try. Or maybe he just likes to be chased. Pets are weird.
Pet me!
I have a pet cat, and on reading the first panel I was immediately reminded of him. I like to pet him often when he doesn’t ask for it, in the hopes that he’ll stop catching me up in the middle of the night getting a glass of water, and then following me to my bedroom begging to be petted >.<
Funnily enough, I just went to my parents’ house yesterday to grab some Atari games. Pretty sure one of the cats was saying that to me almost the whole time I was there. 😛
Not so strange; must be like a human getting their hair stroked. (and just like pets, not all humans like it, LOL)
no no no … “there are no stupid questions, only stupid people” 😀
(or in simpler terms, “barf is gross!”) 😀 😀 ………. ahem, sorry.
Hmmm, head nuzzles. Hehe…
on the subject of cats vs lizards, a friend of mine has a frightening phone video in the curious case of pet tortoise vs mother doing the gardening. they’re vicious. and fast!
I’m trying to figure out how the title is connected to Futurama,but I don’t see (nor can find) it.Either way,that does sound pretty dumb and like the fourth wall almost got broken there.
My brother pets me alot…. it feels nice 🙂
The title IS a reference to Futurama (intentionally or otherwise), it was in one of the episodes with Hubert. Someone asked the Professor a question and to the reply Hubert remarked “That’s a stupid answer” The Professor then mentioned “There are no stupid answers, only stupid questions.”
Or something like that anyway…
haha “there are no stupid answers, only stupid questions” so true XD.
aw man, i wish i was Woo at that time, must be really nice
i think she looks kinda cute in that dress lol…
Aww! My cat likes tummy pats too.
“If there’s no such thing as stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?” -Catbert
EVERYONE loves to get petted. Don’t believe me? As ask a furry! Well, I am a furry, so you can just trust me on this then. =^-^=
The dialouge is actually part of the reference(1st panel)
Fixitfixitfixitfixitfixitfixit…fixitfixitfixit!
That episode with farnswoth’s clone/successor, fry says it after the engine breaks then cubert fixes it and speed away from the near-deathstar(How should I spell that?:s)
This very much reminds me of my cat… She spots the perfect moment of me reading in my bed, comes to me, lies down on the book I’m reading and demands petting. Very much like Woo here.
Hi. I’ve been reading your comic for a while, and I have to say I love it. :]
I just wanted to correct something for English grammar. The last panel would work better if Sandra said “Why do I ask such stupid questions?” instead of “so.” ^^’
Keep up the great work. 😀
To quote a gut who came into our French class once,
“There are no stupid questions, except, ‘are there stupid questions?’ That’s a stupid question.”
@ prev messsage: I meant: “guy”. He was a 12th grader coming in to talk about a French club after school.
Ack! I concur with Callypso on the english grammar front. Time for a retrospective edit before this goes in the archive 😀
Can’t blame your proofreader for that one though, as it’s one of those optical illusion things that the native speaker/reader probably blanks as it’s such a common phrase-construct. Didn’t notice it til it was pointed out by Cal!
My dog exactly.
Aye, what Callypso said.
“So” used for that meaning is only used (that I can think of) when forming a result clause, such as “It’s SO hot outside (that as result) you could fry an egg on the sidewalk.” The section in parenthesis is implied even though it is not said, although people do sometimes include the word “that” there. Like in this classic (and very lame) American insult: “Yo moma’s SO fat THAT when she sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!”
But at the same time, you can use the word “such,” so instead of:
“That pie was SO good that I wish I could eat it all over again.”
you get:
“That was SUCH a good pie that I wish I could eat it all over again.”
So, “…Why do I ask such stupid questions?” would be correct, and would be similar to “Why do I ask questions THAT stupid?” or “Why do I ask questions that are THAT stupid?”
It’s when the severity of the adjective used should be obvious.
When swearing in front of your grandmother, she might say “Such fowl language!” and she might continue: “…is not befitting of a fine young man/lady” and ,might even add “such as yourself.”
You might also hear: “See? It’s not that big (of) a deal.” or “See? It’s not such a big deal.”
Or stupid Game Writers. :p
Yes, it’s incorrect grammar. However, do you think an 11 year old is going go use perfect grammar all the time? No. This adds realism. It is perfectly okay (and often GOOD) for characters in a story to have poor grammar. Ever read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
(If you haven’t, you should. It’s a great book. One of the few “required reading” assignments I’ve had that was actually worth it. Go read “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” while you’re at it. That’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. Twain was a genius.)
My kid acts the same way if just replace “pet me” with “play with me”. 🙂 Attention is their currency.
Awwww…. So Cute!!!
@Waffle911 – shouldn’t that be “Such foul language!” instead of “Such fowl language!” Buk buk bakaw.
Yup. Typo. Trying to figure out what key I pressed instead that caused auto-correct to default to ‘fowl’ instead of ‘foul’. :-\
@Pizzasgood:
Yeah, I have read it, but there’s a difference between regional dialects such as in Huck Finn where the grammar is consistently bad and actually part of the way they normally spoke (the adults were the same way) and something like this comic where a modern native English speaker wouldn’t actually say “so” in that context as it would naturally sound awkward to the ear.
@waffle
presactly. after 11 years of learning the tongue there’s some things you may mess up, but a whole load of other stuff you wouldn’t. this is one of them, really.
i’m looking on it sort of a translation issue, as there’s a fair bit of overlap between english and deutsch but also a lot of sometimes deceptive differences – and various instances of “so” can fit into both categories.
*sort of as a translation issue
ok, it’s the sort of thing you wouldn’t get wrong _in speech_ but may mess up quite easily when typing 😀
My cat loves back scratches, but she’s scratched me because I tried to give her a belly rub. She’s scarred me for other reasons, though.
One of my favorite answers to questions, is quite simply.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
Petting for an animal is pretty much the same as a human getting a back massage.
Its very rare to find someone who doesnt love a good back massage, or foot massage, or whatever.
Unfortunately most people don’t get enough – im envious of cats, lol.
There may not be any stupid answers, but there are TOO MANY stupid questions.
Ask a stupid question, get a totally random out-of-left field answer.
Last panel should say, “such stupid questions?” not, “so stupid question?”
^-^ Adorible stuff man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the last panel, it should probably be “so many” or “such” instead of just “so.”
For stupid questions, all answers are referred to as, “pet me! Pet me! Pet me!”