Imponderables or ponder this

The idea of this thread is to try to answer (as best you can) the imponderable question, and then ask one of your own.

Oh yeah - the most important thing - the more absurd the better!


Q. If a cow were to laugh, would milk come out of it's nose?

Not likely.

Q: Do all carnivorous cows eat meat?

Since cows are herbivores they would not. But if there were cows that were carnivorous - they would.

What IS the sound of one hand clapping?

Well, if you try hard enough, you could make a cracking sound when your wrist breaks.
Hmm... Here's a very interesting question I've found: (Not sure if it's imponderable, though.)

"The last man on earth sat alone in his bedroom. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door!"
Can you change one word in the first sentence to make the knock on the door completely impossible?"

Seriously, my dad couldn't figure this one out at all, but I found it in a book called "QuickThinks". (It took me about ten seconds to figure out.)

Yes, the first sentence says "the last man on earth" that doesn't necessarily mean he is the last person on earth so the person at the door must be a woman. To make the knock on the door impossible, you would have to change the word 'man' to 'person' or 'human'.

I found this on a website & thought it was interesting.

While exploring the wild highlands of Scotland, Crazy Rob was captured by hostile wood fairies.
Smazze, the powerful chief of the fairies told him he could make one final statement which would determine how he would die.
If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water.
If the statement were true, he would be fried in oil.
Crazy Rob found neither of this options too his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation.
What is the one statement he could make to save himself?

"I am going to be boiled in water." I read a different version of this once, and I LOVED it.
You see, if he says that, and they think it's true, they'll have to fry him. But that would make it false, and so on and so on. My head hurts, so this is all I can think of:
Q. Where did the (insulting) term "Dumb Blonde" originate?

Hello? Aw, come on! That's imponderable!

I do not know what?

It's imponderable because the three smartest people in my class are all blond.

Q. If a plane crashed dirrectly on the border between Canada and the U.S., where would you bury the survivors?