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Xeni Jardin at 6:12 am Wed, Mar 24, 2010

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  • weaponx

    Well? Can they or not?

  • AceJohnny

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  • arikol

    Ohh…. dear…

    But this is the fun thing about Yahoo! answers, people with less than a full deck of cards can ask to their hearts content and nasty people like us can make fun of them!
    Some of the answers which I’ve seen given have been absolutely priceless, exactly the type of quick thinking smart alecky genius which I wish I had ;)

  • Rob Beschizza

    Obligatory Babby Formed reference.

  • mermaid

    bleh, anything with 4chan is probably a set-up, “Treena” is 4chan.

    • beneditor

      Obligatory “fake question is fake” reference.

  • beneditor

    You can play “count the memes” in the comments. Delightful!

    “You sir, are brilliant. And by brilliant, I mean a fucking idiot”. I LOL’d.

    • jasonjayr

      It’s over 9000 :)

  • AirPillo

    How is Babby’s Babby’s Babby formed?

  • Anonymous

    Dr. McCoy: The nearest thing I can figure out is that they are born pregnant. Which seems to be quite a time saver!

  • Anonymous

    http://www.howisbabbyformed.com/

  • Chris O

    Yup, that’s pretty much what you’d expect when the best answer to a question comes from 4chan.

  • Avram / Moderator

    Only if you’re a tribble.

  • bombertherigpig

    I am constantly amazed daily, by how stupid people are. I love it!

    The internet. The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

  • Random Royalty

    Q: Is it true I can get pregnant by having anal sex?

    A: Yes! Where you think lawyers come from?

    • jackie31337

      I’ve heard that one as “where do you think engineers come from?”.

  • thievedrelic

    “you’d just get into this ridiculous russian doll situation.”

  • Lobster

    This is why I could support government monitoring of the internet. The person who asked this question needs to be sterilized.

  • ill lich

    I think Sly Stone had a song about this.

  • ian71

    Biology funtime: all of the eggs that any human female will ever produce in her ovaries are formed while still in utero. Betcha the snarky repliers to that thread didn’t know that one. Babby is busy with oogenesis in there!

  • Anonymous

    There are no dumb questions?

    • Anonymous

      No dumb questions, but lots of inquisitive idiots.

  • Felton

    This particular phenomenon is best illustrated using these scientific models.

  • Anonymous

    Only if you are an aphid.

  • Yamara

    Only in manga, dear.