Yes, there are stupid questions

This was a question from blogger,

Random Question:
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?


Well you know, I would have had to have lost a tooth to know the answer to that, wouldn't I? I suppose my baby teeth would count but that was a long time ago and I never noticed that it tasted like pennies.

I think this question is geared toward a demographic of people with bad dental hygiene.

What makes a question a stupid one is that it holds a lot of assumptions that aren't necessarily known to be true.

Here are some of the things this question assumes I know.

1. What a penny is. Yes, I do know what a penny is but what if I lived in Japan or some place and didn't? Or what if the pennies there were made from some other metal, like steel.

2. That I have teeth. Ok, that's a fair assumption because most people have had a tooth at some point in their life.

3. That I think pennies taste like losing a tooth. I don't. Pennies just taste like pennies to me. The older ones tast like copper, the new ones don't taste like much of anything.

Also, pennies are very dirty and I haven't put one in my mouth since I was a child.

Plus, there is the whole issue of asspennies.