I don't understand this AskMe question

August 17, 2005 9:46 AM

I don't understand. But then again, this is some pretty heady stuff and I'm a simple man. [I wanted to flag it but apparently you can't flag AskMe posts]
posted by KevinSkomsvold to Etiquette/Policy at 9:46 AM (46 comments total)

Woah. On preview, the question was zapped. Basically, the question was "What makes the world go around?" My guess would have been "gasoline and war" but I missed my chance to post it. Oh well.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:47 AM on August 17, 2005

You can flag AskMe posts, you just have to go into the comments view to do it.
posted by jessamyn at 9:49 AM on August 17, 2005

Ah ok. Thanks Jessamyn!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:50 AM on August 17, 2005

Huh. I would have gone with angular momentum. Or sex.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 10:09 AM on August 17, 2005

it's love, sillies!

(or maybe 4 giant turtles)
posted by amberglow at 10:11 AM on August 17, 2005

Huh. I would have gone with angular momentum. Or sex.

I suggest a combination of the two.
posted by dreamsign at 10:12 AM on August 17, 2005

Superman, if the reverse is necessary.

Otherwise, puppies, and sandwiches with the crusts cut away.
posted by docpops at 10:26 AM on August 17, 2005

Well, really good sex is all about the angles.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:27 AM on August 17, 2005

docpops >>> "and sandwiches with the crusts cut away."

No, no. That was the British Empire.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:28 AM on August 17, 2005

Is this a rerail?
posted by dreamsign at 10:30 AM on August 17, 2005

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
posted by gramschmidt at 10:36 AM on August 17, 2005

Phil Spector's hair.
posted by docpops at 10:42 AM on August 17, 2005

Momentum.
posted by yhbc at 10:51 AM on August 17, 2005

You know, I should really start reading everyone else's witty comments before throwing mine in.
posted by yhbc at 10:52 AM on August 17, 2005

It's one turtle, amberglow, and four elephants (or was it five?)
posted by Tuwa at 10:56 AM on August 17, 2005

C'mon Tuwa, you know it's turtles all the way down.
posted by Specklet at 10:59 AM on August 17, 2005

There was that fifth elephant, waznther?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:03 AM on August 17, 2005

The world doesn't go around -- the Universe revolves around the Earth.
posted by pardonyou? at 11:04 AM on August 17, 2005

Static Electricity.
posted by By The Grace of God at 11:34 AM on August 17, 2005

If you google "makes the world go round" the first hit says it's money. So there's your answer. Google wins again.
posted by languagehat at 11:46 AM on August 17, 2005

Turtles. All the way down.
posted by me3dia at 11:47 AM on August 17, 2005

If you look at languagehat's first link, it's actually money, love, greed and pussy, in that order.
posted by me3dia at 11:49 AM on August 17, 2005

me3dia, if you count coffee as caffeine, then the list is money, love, drugs, greed and pussy.
posted by Frisbee Girl at 12:07 PM on August 17, 2005

Turtles Turtles Turtles all the way down
posted by jazon at 1:27 PM on August 17, 2005

"What makes the world go around?"

You can pray every night
Before the sun goes down
But there's only two things
that make the world go round...

What's it all about...
posted by jonmc at 1:37 PM on August 17, 2005

You mean those goofy-looking hippy guys who sang "Happy Together"?
posted by wendell at 1:54 PM on August 17, 2005

Caffeine IS my pussy so I'm covered nine ways to Sunday.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 2:00 PM on August 17, 2005

It revolves around me but I've never really found the time to care why.
posted by i_cola at 2:07 PM on August 17, 2005

JRun, d'uh.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 2:22 PM on August 17, 2005

Weapons-grade pandemonium.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:25 PM on August 17, 2005

it's actually money, love, greed and pussy
When flirting, I always point out a smile…& it’s what makes the world go around.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:30 PM on August 17, 2005

Lesbians trapped in men's bodies have caffeine for pussies?

you just exploded my head.
posted by hellbient at 2:42 PM on August 17, 2005

The world goes round?
posted by carter at 2:48 PM on August 17, 2005

caffeine is my pussy--great username!
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:49 PM on August 17, 2005

Metafilter: caffiene is my puss--great username!
posted by mai at 2:54 PM on August 17, 2005

Ah fuck.
posted by mai at 2:55 PM on August 17, 2005

Kevin, how would you explain that beautiful daughter of yours then, she doesn't look like a sack of coffeebeans?

But thanks for the wonderful image.
posted by fenriq at 4:08 PM on August 17, 2005

Half an inch of water
posted by edgeways at 5:29 PM on August 17, 2005

The world doesn't go round. It goes square. Just ask the Timecube guy.
posted by beth at 6:20 PM on August 17, 2005

Kevin, how would you explain that beautiful daughter of yours then, she doesn't look like a sack of coffeebeans?


It was a moment of weakness, I admit.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 8:00 PM on August 17, 2005

Damn. Are we sure the questioner wasn't genuinely interested in why the earth rotates? I could've dusted off some of my old astrophysics knowledge.

*sulk*.
posted by Decani at 9:45 AM on August 18, 2005

I'm genuinely interested. Dust me, Decani.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 1:18 PM on August 18, 2005

Conservation of momentum as a cloud of stuff contracts into clumps due to gravity.

Decani's astrophysics might be more in demand in explaining to laypeople, say, tidal locking of orbiting bodies or, better yet, why the universe is "clumpy" in the first place.

Basically, assuming a dynamic universe, it'd be a surprise if the world didn't "go around". Assuming a static universe, then I suppose an anthropic perspective provides the answer: because we need it to.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:40 PM on August 18, 2005

Comedy, thy name is Bligh.
posted by yerfatma at 6:34 PM on August 18, 2005

Aint it the truth?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:07 PM on August 18, 2005

Only if truth is really relative in this frame.
posted by yerfatma at 2:39 PM on August 20, 2005