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"How long is it until you can be fairly confident that your tropical fish won't die?"
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Well, I heard that if it's still alive after a year then it has achieved immortality. and will NEVER die.
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.
Reminds me of a poster common in British maternity hospitals in the early 80s which said "THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF LIFE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS." Most examples had the words "THE LAST FIVE CAN BE FAIRLY DICEY, TOO" added to them within minutes.
    Posted by JT on 14 Feb 2011.

"If telepathy doesn't exist how do we hear ourselves think?"
    Posted by JT on 26 Apr 2011. + (3) - (0) Permalink

"If it's high tide on this side of the island, does that mean it's low tide on the other side, and where does all the water go?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (3) - (1) Permalink
The water is magically teleported to a dimension where gnomes rule the world.
    Posted by Socky on 18 Nov 2009.

"What type of hamster is my Syrian hamster?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Feb 2010. + (3) - (1) Permalink
Well it's certainly not Syrian, I can tell you that.
    Posted by Necropaxx on 21 Feb 2010.
Could be a Lebanese one - these foreign rodents all look the same to me. Come over 'ere eatin' our sunflower seeds - send 'em back to the petshop they came from, that's what I say.
    Posted by JT on 21 Feb 2010.

Paris Hilton on ferrets: "...they're not the most intelligent animals..."
    Posted by JT on 15 Apr 2010. + (2) - (0) Permalink
This shouldn't be funny as it's just a personal opinion (a wrong one, IMO, but all the same. But, coming from her...
    Posted by JT on 15 Apr 2010.
Do you think they are the most intelligent animals?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Apr 2010.
Well, humans are supposedly the most intelligent animals. However, the vast majority of humans I meet are less intelligent than the majority of ferrets I meet. Therefore...
    Posted by JT on 16 Apr 2010.

"That's Himalayan salt, it doesn't contain sodium."
    Posted by JT on 30 Dec 2010. + (2) - (0) Permalink
Potassium chloride is sometimes sold as "salt substitute", and tastes very similar to table salt.

As for "Himalayan salt"... a bit of Googling doesn't find much about its detailed composition, but does find a lot of material that wouldn't be out of place here... such as "Crystal salt is immune to electromagnetic fields", and "Himalayan salt is called white gold because it contains ions of stored sunlight." Jeezus!
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
OK, ignore my first comment - Himalayan salt is indeed, as you'd expect, mostly NaCl. [+]
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Dec 2010.
...and stored sunlight.
    Posted by JT on 4 Jan 2011.

"I just think it [homosexuality] is unnatural."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, you don't get gay animals."
"Actually, you do - one in five male mallard ducks are gay."
"Ducks aren't animals."

(Conversation with a customer)
    Posted by JT on 31 Dec 2010. + (2) - (0) Permalink
That's right! They live in the river, which makes them fish; and every vegetarian knows that fish don't really count as meat, so they can't be animals, can they?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 31 Dec 2010.
"You got somebody, he’s really weird, and his sexual orientation is that he likes to have sex with ducks. Is he protected under hate crime?" - Pat Robertson
    Posted by CheddarBBQ on 31 Dec 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPcBI...

(The song's irritating, but the brunette one's cute.)
    Posted by JT on 2 Jan 2011.
I assume he was one of these people (all too common, and a strong argument in favour of regular culling IMO) that confuses "animals" with "mammals." On the other hand, it's also just within the realm of possibility that he knows something we don't; i.e. that all ducks are in fact robots.
    Posted by JT on 5 Jan 2011.

"my seven months old kitten only eat meat and cream she is very weak what shuld i do so that she start eating bread"
    Posted by JT on 22 May 2011. + (2) - (0) Permalink
Take her back to the shop and get a dog instead?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 May 2011.

Why do gophers fart out boogers?
    Posted by Lollipop on 11 Jun 2011. + (3) - (1) Permalink
I'm wondering why they do,I saw one fart them out.
    Posted by Lollipop on 17 Jun 2011.

"Why Do Owls Catch Several Mice?"
    (From http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_Do_Owls...)
    Posted by LucyT on 11 Jan 2010. + (3) - (2) Permalink
Because if they caught only one mouse, there'd be too many mice left.
    Posted by Socky on 22 Jan 2010.