And the stupid question award goes to.......

[sokka14]

at school:
teacher - "what is the name of the ship that sunk and the wreckage was never found?"
girl - "the titanic?"

at uni:
whilst walking home, my housemate sees a dog running across a field and asks - "yo man, do dogs have brains?"
and later he asked me "why is this thing so cold, man!?" referring to our freezer.

 

[sokka14]

"Is the black market a place where white people can't shop?"

"Wait, Jesus didn't speak English? Then why is the Bible in English?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA. genius.

 

[antipunt]

"Why do people post in this topic?! It's so stupid!"

'Tell me. Exactly what are you doing now?'

 

[beholdmycape]

"Can I touch your ballbag?"

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

Only example I can think of right now is from highschool:
Random girl:What was that word you just used?
Me:Comically.
Girl:You're smart.
Probably doesn't seem all that bad, but we were in the highest level English class.
Also

Once, in middle school, a teacher was talking about how the signs that are similar to the Nazi Swastika outside certain Asian temples incurred the wrath of many people.
At this point, a girl promptly asked, "What's wrong with that symbol?"

The correct answer is:
"Technically nothing, Hitler just took a 12th century Buddhist peace symbol out of context resulting in it becoming taboo in modern society."

 

[Aura Guardian]

I posted this question on a thread about stupid customers.
"Do you have Mariokart Wii for the PS2?"
Dead serious. The mother asked me that.
And here's the nearly everyday question.
"Is there a Mario game for the PS2?"

I've been asked that many times at my store myself. I've also been asked if there are any Legend of Zelda games for the PSP. My favorite response to give to questions like these is "Not yet."

Damn, that's as bad as me putting down the kid by saying; "Nope and it's never going to happen"

 

[Fineldar]

How many halves are in a Rugby game?

 

[BadGadgit]

Years ago when i was in the army our sarge rings us up and my mate answers the phone with the required name and location speil
"Mortar Store, PTE Wurth speaking"
and the sarge comes back with

"where are you guys?"

 

[Senor Smoke21]

I know a girl at my college who thought Japan was a town.
=]

 

[nuckpang]

I admit, only last week I was in a bookshop and walked across the room to one of the assistants to ask her where the poetry section was, only for her to point to the sign above her head which said "Poetry". Not my proudest moment.

I've seen worse though. I've got an uncle who works for a charity in disaster zones and I was talking to a cousin of mine and asked how he was. "Oh he's great, he's in Utopia right now, helping with the famine"
"He... huh? Do you mean Ethiopia?"
"I dunno, somewhere like that"
At the time of this conversation she was studying in University to become a doctor. God help us all.

 

[Saul B]

"where's my orange gone?"
"I dunno. What colour was it?"

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

One of my classmates in my chemistry class asked if it was possible to drink hydrochloric acid *face-palm*

to which my teacher replied: "yeh you can drink it, it'll kill you but you can drink it"

there was a thirsty girl,
alas she is no more,
for what she thought was H20,
Was H2SO4

Ummm...
H2SO4 is sulfuric acid. Hydrochloric is HCl...
Also, HCl has to be dissolved in water. It doesn't exist(as far as I know)in liquid form.

 

[Blow_Pop]

while working at disneyland

excuse me what time are the 9:25 fireworks?
uh......

(while standing in front of big signs that say or in front of)
Excuse me, where is
the bathrooms
*turns around and stares at bathrooms and turns back and just points*

the lockers
you see that big sign that says lockers over my head.....

the jungle cruise
uh.....open your eyes you're standing in front of it

while in a ridiculous costume obviously a disney one

Excuse me do you work here?
no, i just like running around looking like
Indiana Jones
Polynesian hostess
gal from the 1950s
while wearing my name on my chest.

I mean really? some of those are ridiculous.

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

"Chicken nuggets come from cows, right?" Cue the /facepalm.

You know, it IS McDonalds, I really wouldn't put it past them. Up here in Canada they have an ad campaign going about how they use fresh cracked grade A Canada eggs, when people who work there just grab a bucket full of cracked eggs (without the shells obviously) and just pour them into whatever they are using them for.

Extremely fresh.

 

[Simalacrum]

parrently my friend forgot the word "the" once...

 

[Flying Dagger]

it isn't so much a question but when people say:
"i just like you better as a friend"
and always seem to forget to finish the sentence with:
"that i never want to see again"

but the stupidest question is
"where do you see yourself in ten years time"
to which i always want to answer billboards, crimewatch or mirrors.

 

[Citrus]

"Why don't they just make some really big air conditioners?"

-15-year-old girl, regarding global warming.

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

I'm at the table munching on a dinner, my dad walks in looks at me...

"Have you eaten?"

No I'm just concentrating enough to make the food on the plate disappear.

I could totally do that!

But only because either someone would steal it all, or my mom would grab it eventually and put it in the fridge.

Still counts.

 

[Nomad]

"Are you asleep?"

I was going to mention that one. It really takes the prize, no contest. Whenever someone asks me that question, I always answer "Yes".