Vital Question
 

How many roads must a man walk down?

None. A man has walked them all before.

Gatac

Well, technically none. He could always run, skip, tiptoe, crawl, drive, skateboard, rollerblade, get dragged via rope by Maddog Tannen, whatever.

42.

I was trying to avoid the obvious fanwankery answer.

Your post and sig make a weird combination.

Homer: Seven.
Lisa: No, dad, it's a rhetorical question.
Homer: OK, eight.

The usage of 42 in my sig predates this thread by awhile. What, I'm supposed to change it so it doesn't conflict with my post? Oooookkkkaaaayyy....

None. If he tries he doesn't have to go anywhere. But if he wants to, we have cars and buses and things.

What if the road is placed in the box, flattening the cat, and the box is then re-sealed?

(in other news: Ha! Eat that, you glorified photocopier! :P )

Who nose?

Mudshark, your post made me giggle because it contains a nigh-invisible juxtaposition joke when combined with Val's. Let's see if anybody else can figure it out. Hint: That's right!

I'm trying to remember what my six year old niece said when my brother asked her that... it was a surprisingly good answer than i had never heard before, but i can't think of it now... oh well.

Was it 42? :)

no, but i would have died laughing it it had been.

I've always liked Rick Berman's joke that 47 is 42 adjusted for inflation.

Oh, so you can comment on funny juxtaposition, but when I do it....

That sounds about right.

I won't explain Mudshark's hidden joke because it really is stupid.

I don't get it, but I think the real question is: Who is 'Val'?

What, you don't like "Val?"

Chancellor Valium: What if the road is placed in the box, flattening the cat, and the box is then re-sealed?
mudshark: Who nose?

A cat and a nose. Meowth (of Pokemon fame) points out every so often that the animator forgot to draw him with a nose. Incredibly obscure, incredibly random. You really didn't want to know.

Or it could just be that the catbox smells bad.

Val = Prince Valiant.

Well, actually Val is Valkyrie, one of the Defenders. Great semi-Thor knockoff.

"Val" is a sleazy, cheap, chavvy laundromat owner who incessantly chews gum, who invites every equally disgusting specimen that enters her presence to an evening of herpes and cans Tesco Value Red Wine in her tiny flat upstairs. Or at least, that's what the name implies to me.

And I still don't get the joke :p

You need to be a Pokemon fan to get the joke. Flattened cat+no nose=Meowth.

...Ah.

Choo. ;)

Chattanooga?

Yes, sir! Track twenty-nine!

Val is a Sluggy Freelance character first, an abbreviation for "value" second, and the Vulcan equivalent of HAL third.

Hey Valium, how do you like "CV"?

Funny, I think "CV" and my mind immediately mutates it into "SeaBee," those little yellow shuttlecraft from the Trek movies.

@Zeke: CV is fine, provided it isn't used possessively.

Story of your life, eh?

I'll kill you.

With a broken teaspoon.

*bows* I've still got it.

This is, apparently, a joke which doesn't lend itself easily to the shortcut of a quick Googling.

CV = curriculum vitae = resume (sorta) = story of your life

Sumus Quod Sumus.

I thought Sa'ar's joke was that the story of Valium's life was "used possessively."

Nate, you've reminded me of a somewhat different Latin phrase: "sum quod eris", found on tombstones. It means "I am what you will be."

What? Dead? Slighty amusing. For Latin anyway.

It has many levels, some undiscovered.

I forget the Latin for it, but "never speak ill of the dead" is a good thing to say if someone is giving you a hard time about your ill-advised drinking the night before.

I bet it was even used by hungover Romans. Or maybe the slaves on barf cleanup duty. *shudder*