92 minutes
by Mark Peters and Dan Carey


Where's the beef?
In the basement

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
43

Does God exist?
People

How can world peace be achieved?
Globe

How can world hunger be eliminated?
Hot cakes and sausage

How does Danny get hurt?
Maybe

Do we really have free will?
No

What is poetry?
21 numbers

Where's the beef?
In the counselor's room

What is the meaning of life?
Hitting

What do lobsters want?
Mustard

Why?
They eat hot dogs

Why don't animals use language?
They fart

Why do animals fart?
Because they poop in the woods

Why do people fart?
They stink

Where are the good men?
In San Diego

Where are the good women?
Out

Out where?
Out to Burger King

What do they eat there?
Hamburgers

Where can I find my car keys?
In the car

What is the purpose of government?
News

Who is the Pope?
Jesus Christ

When was Jesus born?
May 21st 1976

At what time?
At 8:05 PM

What is Jesus doing now?
Hugging

What are bugs good for?
Eating

What kind of bugs?
Little bugs

Who is Confucious?
Ron Carey is Confucious

What's a catastrophe?
24 catastrophes

What's the most valuable thing in the world?
Hitting people in the world

What did Elvis say?
Eight is enough

What did Miles Davis say?
Stop it

What did John Coltrane say?
Stop that

What does Kelly Mitchell say?
You were eating toothpaste

Why did you eat the toothpaste?
Fresh and minty breath

Why did you eat the toothpaste?
Because it is not good to eat

What's the best toothpaste?
Colgate tartar control with baking soda and whitening

How do you make a salad?
You make it with a tomato

How do you make soup?
You make it with turkey

How do you make shaving cream?
You eat it

How can I become enlightened?
Ch. 2

How can I find peace?
Inside

What is philosophy?
Stinky

What is anthropology?
Bees

What is astronomy?
Robot

What is sociology?
Mr. Horn

What is religion?
Comfort my people

What is art?
Paint

What is noble?
Running

What is spiritual?
Dan Rather

What was the first crime?
Beirut

What happened in Beirut?
They all fell down

What do Dads do?
Fall down

What do Moms do?
Cry

What do children do?
Hit

What do grandparents do?
Run

Is language an instinct?
No

Is the Pope Catholic?
No

What is it like to be a bat?
OK

What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Noisy

Why is there art?
Newspapers

What is truth?
The Price is Right

Who is Moses?
The People's Court

What is real?
Real people

What's important?
Masturbating

What is ethics?
Games

What is morality?
Game shows

What's a good name for a boy?
Tom

What's a good name for a girl?
Leeza

Where can I find salvation?
In the army

What is opera?
Name that tune

What is theatre?
Life stinks

What is poetry?
School

What is school for?
Jumping

What does sand taste like?
Like A&W Root Beer

What does music sound like?
Bits n pieces

Do you like music?
Yes

Why?
Are you screaming?

What does trust mean?
Trivial Pursuit

Why do people fight?
They will be sad

Why do people kiss?
They will be good

What is good?
Baseball is good for you

What is bad?
Sand is bad for you

Do aliens exist?
Yes

What do they do?
Eat pickles

Where do pickles come from?
Las Vegas

Are pickles moral?
No

What is moral?
PM Magazine is moral

What is math for?
Writing 25 + 10 = 75

What's a pickle for?
Broken

What's broken?
The flowers are broken

Why?
Are you so sad?

Does God exist?
No or yes

How do you feel?
Mad about the noise at Cradle Beach Camp in the dining hall today at 1:09 pm on Thursday August 25th 1994

How do you feel besides mad?
Scared

How else do you feel?
Lonely

Write five more ways you feel--
Sad mad scared and happy

One more--
Bored

Anything else?
Unseen

Why do you feel unseen?
Because of the noise of the smoke alarm going off

What's in the air?
Barney Miller is in the air

What's on your mind?
Tic Tac Dough and The Joker's Wild are on your mind

What kind of Saturday will it be?
Super

What kind of Sunday?
Sick

Monday?
M*A*S*H

Tuesday?
Top Ten

Wednesday?
Wonderful

Thursday?
Thunderous

Friday?
Fun

What has been the best moment of your life?
Cone heads

Write anything--
Unlocked

What do heroes do?
Jump up in the air and go down

What do villains do?
See the Joker's Wild on Chan. 4 at 2:00 on Tues Aug 4th 1988

What does Jack Anthony do?
Had little pine cones

What does Kathy Hennig say?
Glue paste paint paper and play dough

What did Beethoven do?
Spilled some mud on the dog's blanket

What did Babe Ruth do?
Hit

Who will be the first woman President?
Jane Pauley

Who is Theresa?
Fonzie

What is true beauty?
Number 76

Where can I find inner peace and serenity?
In 1997

How can I get good luck?
Say bye bye

Why do people lie?
They are sad

What is life?
The Greatest American Hero

What is death?
Barney Miller

What are giraffes?
Boys

What's a good idea?
Corn flakes are a good idea

What about religion?
He will give you a call

Who?
David Joseph DeSimone

Do you like wigs?
Maybe

What should I do with my life?
See Jane Pauley

How long is eternity?
25 years

What do you hear?
Smoke alarm noises

What do you smell?
Moldy pumpkins

What do you see?
Newscenter 2

Who is your hero?
Wonder Woman

What does Wonder Woman do?
Go up

What does "go up" mean?
Up up and up

What did Aristotle do?
He went up

What did Mr. Spock do?
Run away and hit himself on the head

What did Abraham Lincoln do?
Oopshlopped

What did Richard Nixon do?
Threw up

What did Emily Dickinson do?
Gargled

What did Bach do?
Ate some soap

What did Frank Sinatra do?
Saw E Entertainment Television

What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Made a poop in the potty

What did Eleanor Roosevelt do?
Woke up in the morning

What did Jimi Hendrix do?
Went to sleep at night

What will Judy do in North Carolina?
Go away

What do boys do?
Hit

What do nurses do?
Hurt

Why is there disease?
Because ice cream is a disease

How do you make root beer?
You make root beer and mouthwash by making mint root beer

How do you make water?
You make water toothpaste coffee and mouthwash and you drink it

How do you make eggs?
You make eggs chocolate chips flour salt and sugar and you eat it

How do you make chocolate chips?
You make chocolate chips sugar salt and mint extract and you eat it all up

How do you fly a plane?
You fly a plane with 15 wings

How do you grow a wing?
You grow a wing with 27 planes

How many kinds of intelligence are there?
76

What's the difference between speech and writing?
Letters

What's the difference between music and noise?
The smoke alarm

Why are boys annoying?
Boys are not happy

What's the perfect job?
Have breakfast

What smells good?
Hot dogs smell good

What smells bad?
Twinkies smell bad

Where's China?
In London

Where's London?
In Houston

Where's Houston?
In Dallas

Where's Dallas?
Out

Where's out?
Outta here

How do you feel?
Scared about the big pine cones at 1:42 a.m. tonight

What do big pine cones do?
Scare you and go away at 3:42 a.m. tonight

What should I do to become happy?
To tell the truth

What do turkeys think about?
Chickens

What do deer think about?
Peeing

What do geese think about?
Nancy Glass

What do rats think about?
Fixing it

Fixing what?
The radiator register

Is your life fulfilling?
No

What makes a life fulfilling?
Boxing

Why?
Are you so sad?

Who's sad?
Brendan is sad

Why?
Because I want to go on the beach

Where's the beach?
On the sand

What do flowers think about?
Fish

What do fish think about?
Fishing

What do congressmen think about?
Presidents

What do Presidents think about?
Maxwell Robinson

What do cops think about?
Cutting themselves from the knife

What do artists think about?
Walking

What do aliens think about?
Smiling

What do doctors think about?
Blood

What do dentists think about?
Toothpaste

What do priests think about?
Hitting

What do children think about?
Throwing up in the bucket

What do chickens eat?
Legs

Whose legs?
Mr. Larrrabee's legs

What's your favorite leg?
Left leg

Is communism dead?
Yes

What do cops love?
Mom

What do aliens love?
Dad

What does love smell like?
Feet

What do you do behind a haystack?
Run

What do you do in the laundry room?
Drink laundry soap and oopshlop

Write 5 ways you feel--
Mad scared sad angry frightened

How can I help you feel better?
Bowling

What's your favorite place?
Denny's

Why?
Because I can go for dinner at 5:52 pm in the afternoon

Write a poem--
Are we going to tease people at school?

What do you learn at school?
Math books and lying down

What's the meaning of life?
Punching

What is the soul?
Noises

What is sin?
Guilty

Where's the beef?
In the movie channel

What's your mom like?
Like Theresa

Why like Theresa?
Because she is good

What's your dad like?
Ron Howard

What's a fun job?
August 23rd is a fun job

Are you happy?
Absolutely

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Industrial hygienist

What does an industrial hygienist do?
Read newspapers

What's in your mouth?
Teeth

What else is in your mouth?
Gum

Where did you get the gum?
Under the table

What do poets do?
Drink coffee

What does coffee do?
Drink your stomach

What do monkeys do?
Jump up and down

What do psychologists do?
Go do work

What is work?
2 + 5 = 7

What is ideology?
Songs

What is power?
25

What is wisdom?
Hands

What is clarity?
Charmed

What is perfect?
Money

What is flawed?
Wings

What is funny?
What's happening

What's happening?
Nothing's happening

Where's the beef?
At McDonald's

Am I living my life correctly?
Yes

What do I really need?
Hot chocolate

Does God exist?
No

What happens after we die?
We throw up

Who lives in the mountains?
Mommy

Who lives on a farm?
Mom

What should I forget?
Mustard

What should I remember?
Ketchup

How do you hit a home run?
By hitting 2 home runs

How do you hit 2 home runs?
You make 7 home runs

How do you make 7 home runs?
You get 10 home runs

What's on the moon?
Circles

What's in the Grand Canyon?
Salt

What's in the ocean?
Big pine cones

Who invented pine cones?
Scott Brown invented pine cones in 1952

Why do pine cones exist?
They are broken

How did the pine cones get broken?
They won't get fixed

Why not?
Because there are no pine cones here

Where did the pine cones go?
Out

Do you know when I'll die?
No

How many children will I have?
27

How many grandchildren will I have?
91

How many times will I get married?
20 times

Who will I marry?
Mommy

When will I get married?
In 2000

What is the secret to the universe?
Signs

Who invented farting?
Eric Johnson

Who invented spaceships?
Mom

Who invented the toilet?
Ron Carey

Who invented oatmeal?
Chainsaw

Who invented goulash?
Morgan

Why are Morgan's eyes blue?
Because I need my eyes to see

What do you see?
News

What is news?
Newscenter 2

Why does the sun set?
Because it is sad

Why does the sun rise?
Because it is sad

Where do babies come from?
Tacoma

Where do uncles come from?
Seattle

Where do aunts come from?
London

Where do Martians come from?
Barbour / Langley Productions Inc.

What do aliens look like?
Poop

What do angels look like?
Boys

What do boys smell like?
Poop

Should soup be illegal?
Yes

Does God exist?
Unwanted

Nature or nurture?
Nature

Where's the beef?
In 1974

Who made the universe?
Abe Vigoda made the universe in 1994

Who invented toast?
Wink Martindale invented toast in 1976

Who invented math?
Wink Martindale invented math in 1992

Who invented the calendar?
Jack Anthony made the calendar on Saturday August 19th 1995

What did Shakespeare do?
He played Jeremiah was a Bullfrog in 1925

What did Mozart do?
Sang Monday Monday

What did Einstein do?
Played Monday Monday on the radio in 1982

What did Picasso do?
Drink red dye

What is red dye?
Bad

What do you dream about?
Waiting

Why is there death?
Waiting

What is love for?
Waiting

What do you yearn for?
Hitting

What's worth thinking about?
Falling

What do parakeets say?
Cheep cheep

What do teachers say?
No hitting

Why does Chris wear a hat?
It is good to wear a hat

Why does Eric fart?
Cause he stinks and he wants to take a shower

Why did the dinosaurs die?
Because they oopshlopped

What is language?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Where's the beef?
On HBO

What is hell?
Hurting kicking and boxing

What's in a name?
Juices

What's in the Bible?
The Greatest American Hero books are in the Bible on page 84

What is true love?
Hurting

What is happiness?
Fonzie

When did time begin?
In 1976

How old is the oldest person?
11

What's the opposite of pain?
What the hell?

What do you mean?
I hate you

Why?
I like you

Why?
What the heck

Who is the Buddha?
Ron Howard

What music do you like?
Noises

Why?
Are you screaming?

How will it all end?
In 1962

How?
Cause it's all gone in 1962

How?
Cause it's so sad in 1962

Do you want more juice?
Unpredictable

What does unpredictable mean?
Not wanted

What isn't wanted?
Not locked

What isn't locked?
Opened the doors

What doors?
Locked up

How much is too much?
97

How little is too little?
19

Why are we here on this planet?
Thursday

Where did the universe come from?
The map

Which is better: toast or danish?
Toast

What is toast?
Burnt

Who is Plato?
A man

Who is Jesus?
Superman

What does God say?
Hi

What's the meaning of Christmas?
Bigger pine cones

What do you need?
Kiss and a squeeze

What is philosophy?
Falling down

Why is there war?
In heaven

What is heaven?
Waiting

How long will the world last?
92 minutes


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May 1999