Hey everyone. After taking a semester hiatus from Ask Anything I’ve decided to come back because I care about you, the readers, and your problems. Eh, who am I kidding, I just really wanted an excuse to have someone take pictures of Erica and I singing karaoke at Court’N House. Hopefully we don’t look like ghosts in the pictures this week.
Anyway, Erica and I will use our great advice-giving talent, as well as her less-than-stellar life coach abilities, to find answers to any of the tough questions you may throw at us.
Additionally, I will try to throw in as many clich buzz words as possible because it’s the jam and that’s just how I roll. Oh, and no matter what Erica says, I will never sing the Spice Girls with her in public. Such activities should be saved for driving through blizzards.
Dear Ask Anything,
Why, in darts, do they call a bullseye a bullseye? Did they actually use eyeballs in early dart boards? If so, ewww, and if not, why the stupid name?
– Kenny from Altoona
Dear Kenny,
I actually am aptly qualified to answer this question because I regularly tell people I play in a dart league. In fact, I do enjoy a good game of darts, but only the “01” games because I have really bad vision which leads to really bad aim. Oh and math, I’m horrible at math.
The term bullseye is not referring to an actual bovine eyeball but rather the circle inside of a circle resembles a pupil (I think that’s the black thing in your eye) and the iris. However, the word now can be used in place of anything that appears to be an easy shot. For example, The Spectator women kicked The Spectator men’s asses at Family Feud and won the Superior Gender trophy. Bullseye.
Dear AA,
Is there any scientific fact behind the five second rule? Because I was thinking, isn’t there a bit of difference between dropping an ice cream sandwich on my kitchen floor or the ground at the bus stop?
– The Incredible Mr. Dirt Cake
Dear Mr. Dirt Cake,
Your comparison between a bus stop and your kitchen floor is completely relative to how clean your kitchen floor is. If it’s “so clean you could eat off it,” then I say munch away. Does that sound really dirty to
anyone else?
However, if your kitchen floor resembles the one at Erica’s house (which is a great house and lots of fun) I definitely would advise against eating something that has fallen on it, no matter the number of seconds it was on the floor. Hmm, except when drunk, then anything goes. I once ate a bagel in the dark sophomore year after a house party, only to wake up the next morning and see the entire bag was full of mold. Eh, I’m still alive, although that was definitely not the jam.
