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Question:I think that it is YA Anxiety. I have experienced it myself. If you are like me, you feel the urge to ask, but it seems like it has all been asked before. You don't want to look like Johnny-Come-Lately with a lame answer so you try to outdo yourself.

You start typing, but the nifty database searching properties of the YA system shows you that somebody else asked the EXACT QUESTION YOU WERE GOING TO ASK!!!

Arggh!

You curse at the screen, delete what you type and grab a pencil to nervously chew on. You bite the pencil, flick it, bounce it off the keyboard and finally throw it across the room in a rage because some insipid MORON stole your question!

You think that maybe answering a couple of questions will make you feel better, but NO DICE! Same lame questions, over and over again like repetitive nonsensical campaign promises on election night! Several profanities later you find yourself answering another "Favorite Band(s)?" question, but you can't bring yourself to do it. It is morally wrong.

Now, it is a Herculean quest. Like the YA zealots of lore, you fly back to the "Ask" button, smashing down on the mouse with enough force it brings goosebumps to your flesh. "What kind of question shall I write?" you muse. It strikes you square in the face: "It is so simple –?yet so elegant!" you squeal with glee.

Then, as a flash you are done. Alia iacta est. The die is cast. Now you sit back and wait for it. Some other sucker will have to answer YOUR question! You are the Master – he is the apprentice. And you have asked a deed of him that he shall fulfill –?the providence of mental fodder with which you may now proceed to create a super question of Biblical proportions.

Well, my Xiaolin master, I as your humble grasshopper apprentice humbly submit this question for your use at your discretion:

"If people from Utah are Utahans, what are people from Tampa?"

May the question gods smile upon you....


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think that it is YA Anxiety. I have experienced it myself. If you are like me, you feel the urge to ask, but it seems like it has all been asked before. You don't want to look like Johnny-Come-Lately with a lame answer so you try to outdo yourself.

You start typing, but the nifty database searching properties of the YA system shows you that somebody else asked the EXACT QUESTION YOU WERE GOING TO ASK!!!

Arggh!

You curse at the screen, delete what you type and grab a pencil to nervously chew on. You bite the pencil, flick it, bounce it off the keyboard and finally throw it across the room in a rage because some insipid MORON stole your question!

You think that maybe answering a couple of questions will make you feel better, but NO DICE! Same lame questions, over and over again like repetitive nonsensical campaign promises on election night! Several profanities later you find yourself answering another "Favorite Band(s)?" question, but you can't bring yourself to do it. It is morally wrong.

Now, it is a Herculean quest. Like the YA zealots of lore, you fly back to the "Ask" button, smashing down on the mouse with enough force it brings goosebumps to your flesh. "What kind of question shall I write?" you muse. It strikes you square in the face: "It is so simple –?yet so elegant!" you squeal with glee.

Then, as a flash you are done. Alia iacta est. The die is cast. Now you sit back and wait for it. Some other sucker will have to answer YOUR question! You are the Master – he is the apprentice. And you have asked a deed of him that he shall fulfill –?the providence of mental fodder with which you may now proceed to create a super question of Biblical proportions.

Well, my Xiaolin master, I as your humble grasshopper apprentice humbly submit this question for your use at your discretion:

"If people from Utah are Utahans, what are people from Tampa?"

May the question gods smile upon you....

you've got the block. go to sleep like normal. when you wake up tomorrow...it will come to you. go do an activity or read something. give it 24 hrs.

You thought of this one! There are still questions in there....

because you've asked sooo many
that you know everything.

cause yahoo has helped you out a lot! :)

Because you know all the answers! : ) THX 4 the 2 points

cause u dont know alot,
dont take it the wrong way but ignorant people run out of quetions way sooner that someone who knows alot,
again i mean this in the best way posible you may have limited intrest in few things.

I think the human brain is a little bit like a potted plant. If the plant is watered too much (if the brain is given too much information) the excess just sits on top and stagnates. At the same time, if the plant needs water, the soil may dry up and blow away (the brain may be unable to ask more questions and seek new knowledge).

Don't worry. You don't really have to ASK questions. You can continue answering them, however. (Besides, I am convinced that you will find some more questions to ask later on.)

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

Read a philosophy, science or religious book. That always helps me.

Come on be creative... I know u have more in that mind of urs!!

Talk about sex, lies and video tapes haha