yahoo (yä'hōō) n.
an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
-Random House Dictionary
Back in the Olden Days, when you had a nagging question, you consulted a doctor, counselor, librarian or other trained professional.
In the Not-Quite-As-Olden-Days, you called into a radio show or listened to the sage advice of a psychologist (or an actor who played one) on TV.
Nowadays, there's Yahoo! Answers, which resolves your queries using all the power of the Internet. And by "power" I mean "skull-thumping moronity."
The basic idea is as follows:
- Some dipshit formulates a question that neither the voices in his/her head, Glenn Beck, nor Google can answer.
- This dipshit types said question into Yahoo! Answers, often ending the question with a question mark (sometimes several, for those really nagging questions.)
- Other dipshits from all over the world post their answers.
- Still more dipshits vote on which of the other dipshits' answers is the least dipshitty.
- If Question-Posting Dipshit accepts the "Best Answer" picked by the Voting Dipshits, then the question is deemed "resolved," and QPD goes back to sodomizing a sheep, sticking body parts in light sockets, and/or coming up with more dipshit questions for Yahoo! Answers.
Got it? Cool. Then let's explore 10 of the forehead-slapping-est nuggets of populist curiosity, shall we?