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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 May 2015.
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We can all say stupid things at times. But have you ever heard someone say something so overwhelmingly, mind-numbingly, face-palmingly stupid that you felt the urge to share it with the whole world? We have. That's why we invented WhoInventedFoxes.com.

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While looking at the night sky...

Bloke: "I wish I knew how to find Polaris."

His friend: "What does it look like?"
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Mar 2010. + (4) - (0) Permalink

"My son has invented a new word, who do you sell them to? I can't tell you what it is in case you steal it, it's a good sensible word, how much would it be worth?"
    (From http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/...)
    Posted by JT on 1 Oct 2009. + (10) - (0) Permalink
I thought sensible was already a word.
    Posted by Tiger on 31 Oct 2009.
where i live, 4 eggs and a potato
    Posted by Moosh on 9 Nov 2009.
You sell them to.... the Patent Office!
    Posted by breadbocks on 4 Apr 2010.
Who... sell you!
    Posted by Tiger on 12 Dec 2010.

"Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (7) - (0) Permalink

"Why on Earth did they build Windsor Castle on the flight path to Heathrow?" (Tourist - almost certainly American - to tour guide)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (2) - (0) Permalink

"Who did England fight in the English Civil War?"
    Posted by JT on 11 Jan 2010. + (9) - (0) Permalink
Poles and Pakistanis, obviously :)
    Posted by Moosh on 11 Jan 2010.

Answer given in History exam: "The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (4) - (0) Permalink
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm... More similar answers.
    Posted by Destrii on 9 Jan 2010.

The Pope's, like, Prince Charles' helper, isn't he?
    Posted by JT on 18 Aug 2009. + (2) - (0) Permalink

"Who'd pay five quid for that? It's broken!" - Entirely serious member of the public looking at a 30cm tall reproduction of the Venus de Milo that I was selling on a market stall.
    (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de...)
    Posted by JT on 18 Mar 2010. + (5) - (2) Permalink
Now that you mention it - Why is she missing her arms? Did some psychopathic maniac cut them off?
    Posted by Socky on 18 Mar 2010.
She was a compulsive nail-biter.
    Posted by JT on 19 Mar 2010.

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." (Golfer, giving award acceptance speech)
    Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

"How do electrons work in the US?"
    Posted by JT on 8 Feb 2010. + (6) - (0) Permalink
This was asked in a politics forum, so I think it was a typo for "elections..."
    Posted by JT on 8 Feb 2010.