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Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Is it time to bring back this game in which every question must be answered with another question?
[Did I fix the title because Wodders asked me to? Would Will and Tom thank me for it?]
[ 08. August 2012, 03:36: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Does anyone still want to play?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Are you kidding me? Isn't the answer obvious?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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How long has it been since the last time we played?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Have the Circus hosts been counting?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Can all of them count? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Why do you need to ask?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Is asking questions now a crime?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Doesn't that depend on the questions?
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on
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Isn't asking questions what led us to develop supercolliders and search for those Bozo Jiggy God Particle things?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Are they still calling it the God Particle?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What would your preferred title be?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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How did I know you were going to ask me that?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Could my title be HRH?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is your blood blue?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Do you get pissed off when someone accidently crossposts with you, and flood control won't let them cop to it?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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How do you know it was accidental?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would shipmates do something like that deliberately?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Is there anything Shipmates won't do deliberately?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that include bludgeoning people with an axe?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Would it have to be an axe or would a hacksaw do?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Wouldn't that depend on the degree of dismemberment you were planning?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't an electric bandsaw be better for dismemberment??
[ 03. August 2012, 12:37: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Better in what sense?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Do we need to be so specific?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we need an expert for that?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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What's wrong with experts?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are they not sometimes rather narrow in their expertise?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Is that a problem?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't you think it would be better to have an holistic approach?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Doesn't it depend on the context?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Why context do you usually have for hacking up corpses?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Does that make sense?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Do you have an axe?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Are there any spares?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What size are you looking for?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What sizes have you got in stock?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Does size really matter?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Depending on whether your "stockroom" is real or virtual, why would size matter?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would a virtual stockroom have measurable dimensions?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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How would we know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is there a user manual somewhere?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Isn't Manual un vacation?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Un Vacation? Ar ju hees friend from Cancun?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Does he have any friends?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Aren't we all friends here?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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How many axe-wielding dismemberers can I afford to be friends with?
[ 03. August 2012, 19:34: Message edited by: Gwai ]
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Am i the one who keeps bringing up the axe? And did I ask you to be my friend?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Do only those who have an axe get to ask two questions?
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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Is Kelly trying to draw a discreet veil over her erstwhile Gallery photo?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Seriously, is it OK with all of you if I play this game with everybody else?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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How are you defining everybody else?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Since one and all comport themselves like sweethearts in The Circus, wouldn't that require a sugar definery?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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How would you define sugar?
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on
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If you are going to de-fine it, wouldn't you just make it coarser?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Would you have to use glue to do that?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Wouldn't it have to be edible glue?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Or would corn starch do instead?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Would that make it too crisp?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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How crisp would you want it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that a matter of personal taste?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Couldn't you melt it down and smash it up into larger bits?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that be an energy efficient way of tackling the issue?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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How much energy does it normally use?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Could you do the calculations yourself and get back to me?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want the answer in metric or imperial units?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are you answering me, or justlooking? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does it make a difference?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is it worrying that sometimes a crosspost still makes sense, after a fashion?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are you measuring that crosspost in metric or imperial units?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is crossposting measurable?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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If you can measure crosses, and posts, why not crossposts - in rods, poles or perches?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What if the budgerigars are sitting on their perches?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would that be like a swallow carrying a coconut?
Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on
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Wouldn't swallowing a coconut be rather painful?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Couldn't you smash it up into bite-size pieces?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you talking of smashing the husk up as well?
[ 04. August 2012, 07:32: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Would an axe be best for that?
Posted by Rosa Gallica officinalis (# 3886) on
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Where's Kelly when you need her?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Do you really think she has nothing better to do than hang around here and smash things for us?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Couldn't we just borrow the axe?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would she be prepared to lend it to us?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Who is going to sharpen it?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Does anyone here even have a whetstone?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would a butcher's steel be as effective?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Are butchers particularly good at stealing Kelly's axe?
Posted by passer (# 13329) on
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Gwai can't we all just be Firenze?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Isn't one Firenze enough?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Doesn't it depend how hungry you are?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you think you could eat a whole one?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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A whole what?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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If you wanted to eat a watt wouldn't you need to kilowatt first?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Wouldn't we need Kelly's axe for that?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Couldn't we get one from Rent-An-Axe?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Who would pay the rent?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do they take credit cards?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Would they give a discount for cash?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we have enough cash?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Does anyone ever have enough cash?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does Bill Gates not have enough?
[ 05. August 2012, 15:51: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why pick on Bill Gates?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Why not pick on Bill Gates?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Hasn't he redeemed himself yet?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Has he given enough billions away?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Couldn't he spare a little for us?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Would he approve of the purpose?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Is that really a porpoise, though, or could it maybe be a dolphin?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Are dolphins really as clever as some people say they are?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are these people believable?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Why would they lie?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do some people not rejoice in causing confusion?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Are you not one of them?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you believe my answer, whatever it was?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Dear Wodders, how could I not?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is that a rhetorical question?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Haven't I always missed seeing Kelly with her axe when we met in person over a few micro-brews?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What's a micro-brew?
Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on
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is it smaller than a megabrew?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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But larger than a nano brew?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is a nano brew what your granny makes?
[ 06. August 2012, 21:03: Message edited by: QLib ]
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Anyone want a cuppaT?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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is it hot and wet?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is there any other way?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Have you got any Earl Grey?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Can I send some as an attachment?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can it be detached easily later?
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on
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How did I miss the start of Rosencranz?
[ 07. August 2012, 03:32: Message edited by: Leaf ]
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Leaf:
How did I miss the start of Rosencranz?
Were you on a ship with Guildenstern?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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And did you encounter any pirates?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why would there be pirates?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Aren't there always pirates?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Are you in the Caribbean?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I not rather a long way from there?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Are you rather not a long way from everywhere?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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so is he anywhere?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I not right here?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is it possible you could be wrong there?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have I ever been wrong before?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Before what?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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is it right he's not all there?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Should my ears be burning?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Did you set them on fire? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Are you into self-mutilation?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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do you have enough wax in them to maintain the flame?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Do you really want to go to the E.R. again?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Does E.R. mean enormous room?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Wouldn't it need to be, to get the elephants in?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Why, what happened to the elephants?
Posted by JFH (# 14794) on
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Weren't they just lost in the flood?
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Was there a flood?
Posted by JFH (# 14794) on
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Where else did all the dinosaurs go? (ITTWACW!)
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Have you looked at any chickens lately?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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I'm not sure; did you deep-fry them and serve them with fries and a coke?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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don't they taste foul cooked that way?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Mightn't they, if you don't stop to pluck them?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Have you ever actually plucked one?
Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on
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Who hasn't?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Who'd want to?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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If there are 30,000 feathers on a thrush then how many are there on a chicken?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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How large is the chicken?
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on
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Are there Chickens of Unusual Size?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Unusually big or unusually small?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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is a big chicken soft?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that depend on whether or not it is frozen?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Why would a chicken be freezing - don't their feathers keep them warm?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that work at all temperatures?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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What if they've been plucked already?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might the feathers then be keeping someone else warm?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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You mean like a boa?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do boas eat chickens?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Is there anything they don't eat?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Can a boa eat an elephant?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Wouldn't that leave a bulge?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Are you certain that is the right way to spell bugle?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Would the elephant make a noise like a bugle when it was being eaten?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Can you find that sound on YouTube and download it here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't downloading rather than linking risk breach of copyright?
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Do elephants file copyrights?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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If they leave their copyrights around, will we soon see them posting on the de-cluttering thread?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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Does the Ship have a provision for allowing elephants to post?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Couldn't an elephant type using its trunk?
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on
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Wouldn't he have to unpack the trunk first?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How do you know the elephant is male?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Did he leave the toilet seat up and then become too stubborn to ask for directions to the peanut farm?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Aren't elephants more intelligent than that?
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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Do we really know what's going on in an elephant's cranium?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do we really want to know?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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If you shove peanuts up an elephant's arse, does it fart through its trunk?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Whatever made you think of a question like that?
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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Dose not the trunk resemble a tail, making it difficult to distinquish one end of an elephant from another, even when sober?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How often are shipmates sober?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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With most of them - how would we be able to tell?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Honestly, would you want to read a lot of what's posted sober?
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Is that when I am sober or the poster was sober?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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are you suggesting the hosts aren't sober?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Now or generally?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Would I judge?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't making judgements an essential part of survival?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Isn't survival essential for making judgements?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that then become a circular argument?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Could we perhaps do a spherical argument or an octagonal argument instead?
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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If we're going to be geometrically elegant about our arguments, could we not just do a metabidiminished icosahedrionic argument (like most Purg threads, anyway)?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why would we want it to be like a Purg thread in any shape or form?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Wouldn't that be better than being like a Hell thread?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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What kind of clothes would a hell thread make?
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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Would you wear them anyway?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would they be rather hot?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do you mean hot in a good way?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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hot in every which way would they not?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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would after sun cream help?
Posted by piglet (# 11803) on
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Does one need cream after reading the Sun?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't brain bleach and an anti-emetic be more appropriate?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't page 3 a cure all?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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A cure all for what?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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what would you prefer?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Where does preference come into it?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you saying this is obligatory?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you prefer mandatory?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Can we please keep the Tories out of this?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't we rather keep the Tories out of everything?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Aren't there some things one might like to dip them in?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Can you get sulphuric acid in bulk?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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How does that relate to the previous question, pray?
[ 11. August 2012, 17:02: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on
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When we pray, should our prayers relate to the previous or to the future eternal?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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does a praying mantis care?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Isn't that a different sort of praying/preying?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you explain the difference without raising more questions?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Do you acknowledge, then, that there is a difference?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does the difference affect the outcome?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What criteria will you be using to measure outcomes?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Do I need criteria? - Won't a tape measure and a 12 inch ruler do?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Could a metrical prayer really be measured in inches?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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a case for getting converted?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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from coal gas to natural gas?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Hasn't that already happened?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Is there any reason why it shouldn't happen again?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Wouldn't that just be repetitious?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Wouldn't that just be repetitious?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is there an echo in here?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Or even a narcissus?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Who are you justlooking at?
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Your name Jimmie?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might I not prefer James?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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To whom?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that a rather personal question?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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What makes you think that?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Could it be all the passive-aggression in the air?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you describe passive/aggressive in one sentence?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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With how many sub-clauses?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But what about the main clause?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that be the Santa Clause?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is that Clause available at this time of year?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't you think that he will be in a store near you far too soon?
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Do you really think the man in red is real?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could anyone doubt it?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Richard Holloway, perhaps?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we need to take account of his view?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Did I suggest we should?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Were you not somewhat ambiguous in what you said?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Could you elucidate the different interpretational possibilities, please?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Could you use shorter words?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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But what would everyone else do in the meantime?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Shall we have a party?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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at your place?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Where's that?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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will we all get an invite?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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how many of you typed that post?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Why do you want to know?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Haven't you heard about those parties people inadvertently advertise on Facebook, to which 3,000 strangers turn up?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are there any people stranger than shipmates?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are there any shipmates stranger than people?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have you met our resident penguin?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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The one who used to post while ironing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How did she manage that?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Did you miss the endless speculation in the old café?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think she was forcing the children to iron whilst she played?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Do penguins have children?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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How else would they reproduce?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Which came first, the penguin or the egg?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is the egg being served as a savoury dish and the penguin as a pudding?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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What are the cooking instructions?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have the Scots made Deep Fried Penguins yet?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is there any food the Scots can't cover in batter and deep fry?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do you have a problem with Scots deep frying food?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Would there be deep-fried Mars Bars for dessert?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does anyone know the nutritional content of a deep-fried Mars Bar?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is it possible to have a negative fibre content?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Is it possible to have a negative moral fibre content?
[ 14. August 2012, 19:00: Message edited by: Loquacious beachcomber ]
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Do fibres get depressed
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that happen when they were being ironed by a penguin?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Wouldn't that be rather impressive to see?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think it would fall flat, or would it be steamy?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Do you mean steamy like a steamy romance novel?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How many ways do you think it can be taken?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What does it say on the bottle?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Which bottle?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that like "What Camera" or "What Car"?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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How should I know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you not frequent the magazine racks at W. H. Smith?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What are you insinuating?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that where you would find magazines of that ilk?
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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What ilk would that be?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What is your favourite?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Why not read something exciting and informative like US magazine Road & Track (which I subscribe to) now that it's not just for gearheads like me anymore?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Why should I, if it doesn't interest me?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Do you read CAR or any enthusiast magazines at all?
(Cat Fancy doesn't count!)
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why doesn't it count?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is it the same reason 'Woman's Realm' doesn't count?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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(Playing Devil's Advocate here...)
If cats were just overpriced, home-destroying, high maintenance mouse traps, would people still own them?
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Doesn't every home have at least one occupant like that?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Didn't we kick her out of the house when she was 21?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Didn't she have the key to the door at 21?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Didn't she live at 23, though?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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But was that the right or the wrong side of the tracks?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Doesn't that depend which way you're facing at the time?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Is that question directed to the conductor of the train?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why would the conductor's view of the aesthetics of town planning be of more interest than anyone else's?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Something to do with his training, perhaps?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does he hold the baton wrongly?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Will he be stripped of his relay medal?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would he have won one if he had been wrongly holding the baton?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What did the timekeepers say?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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If they lose the time, how will we know when it's dinner-time?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Simples: you ask "What's the time Mr. Wolf?"
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Has Mr Wolf been invited?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would he want to come?
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on
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Will the pigs be there?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Will they be in uniform?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does that depend on whether or not they're on duty?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are you motivated by a sense of duty?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What's that got to do with you?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Are you our train conductor?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Wouldn't an orchestra conductor be more fun?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't some of his accomplices on the fiddle?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Who are they fiddling with?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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More to the point, is it before or after Rome burns?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Has Global Warming become that severe?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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is that a severe global warming warning?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could it just be a warning of a warming warning?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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A warming warning? IN Scotland? Are you serious?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Cold in Scotland is it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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At those latitudes could it ever be anything else?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Are you allowing for the probability of rain?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Will I need a raincoat and an umbrella?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would you consider any other apparel?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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What do I have to choose from?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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how much can you afford?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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That depends - do you give credit?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Where credit is due, or indiscriminately?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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Do we need to do a credit check?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do I want my credit rating revealed?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Doesn't it depend to whom?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Alternatively, does it?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is that not just a reversal?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have we changed topic to Ballroom Dancing?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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when dancing do we need a lot of ballroom?
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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Should gentlemen choose their trousers more carefully?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Can you be trusted to choose them at all?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Would you trust someone else to choose them?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Can beggars be choosers?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are they totally lacking in choices?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are they totally lacking in choc-ices?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is it the right weather for indulging in such indulgent indulgences?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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is the right weather better than the left weather?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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which do you prefer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you rather you left such weather behind?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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How fast do you have to go to leave the weather behind?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that depend on the size of the weather's behind?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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isn't the weather just a front?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
isn't the weather just a front?
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
To be just a front, wouldn't it have to be very thin?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that then be an occluded front?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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So can we expect a storm?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I qualified to answer that question?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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You mean you aren't a weather prophet? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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would he make a profit whether he was a weather prophet or not?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Do prophets charge for their services?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't even prophets need to eat and have a place to lay their head, to say nothing of the odd Rolls Royce?
[ 20. August 2012, 02:11: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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and odd prophets?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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or even prophets?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How can you be in profit if you only break even?
[ 20. August 2012, 16:22: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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And would you give a sucker an even break?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Will the profits be used to pay for all breakages?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Would that encourage carelessness?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we really care?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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surely someone somewhere sometimes must care?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Is that a case of unbridled optimism?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Has it been given free rein?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Or is it simply raining?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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someone is reigning i assume?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would we be amused if you were right?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Are you having a laugh?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you define the signs and symptoms?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is a laugh the sign or the thing signified?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Are you now St. Augustine?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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or Ferdinand de Saussure?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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When you were a child did you read about Ferdinand the Bull?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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What have cattle got to do with semantics?
[ 22. August 2012, 05:10: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why don't we ditch the semantics and keep the cattle?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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can i have the horny bull?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does it come with fries and salad garnish?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What sort of dressing would you like?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Should I resist the temptation to reply "undressing?"
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Which do you prefer, succumbing to temptation or resisting it?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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If you prefer resisting, then are you really resisting when you resist?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you positing the possibility of a discussion of the inner meaning of the temptation to resist temptation?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you taking the mickey?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Where are you taking Mickey?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is Minnie going too?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would you like her to?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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together aren't they two nice mice?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you think they ever have a row?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Do they live near a boating lake?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might they swim there, too?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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And back again?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is that a piece of Hobbit-lore?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Wouldn't its canonicity depend on whether it was in the Red Book of the Westmarch?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that contain the sum of all Hobbit-lore?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are you suggesting it only contains some of it?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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would there be a blue book version?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Is that the same as a blue movie version??
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would respectable hobbits watch blue movies?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Wouldn't that be anachronistic?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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but isn't that old hat?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you have a new hat?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you not tell it is new just by looking?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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could it be distressed?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How do you think I feel?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Are you a tactile person?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I am sometimes touchy?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Only sometimes touchy?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I not successful in hiding my basic misanthropy?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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where do you hide it?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Coud it be where you disposed of your feck, or perhaps where you lay about?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What are you insinuating?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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If you looked directly under WW's avatar and directly above his member number, would you find the answer to your own question?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Did you find the answer there?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is there any practical difference between a feckless layabout and a layabout who has retained some feck?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Wouldn't it be more of an impractical difference?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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If making a difference is to be considered impractical, can any real progress ever be achieved?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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are we making good progress here?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What is our ultimate goal?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Are you prepared to suggest an ultimate goal, or are you still justlooking?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Which would you prefer?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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May I ask if anyone has ever been "bludgeoned" by a hacksaw ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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If we say yes, you may ask the question, will you then ask it?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Am I the only one to fail to see how that hacksaw question followed on naturally from the one before it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Who can unravel the workings of a shipmates mind?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Quite frankly, who would even want to?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Would a psychologist be interested?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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would he use cutting edge technology?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you suggesting Psychology really is a science?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why do you think it doesn't qualify?
Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on
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If you think it qualifies, what are the qualities that qualify it?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Asking convoluted and seemingly pointless questions?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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I disagree, aren't all questions about the search for knowledge?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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What are we trying to learn here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that matter as long as we are learning?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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It is a good to learn isn't it?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Isn't a little knowledge a dangerous thing?
Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on
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How would I know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How do any of us know anything?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Didn't your mother explain all manner of things to you?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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Are you (plural) implying that I am wrong to ponder such things as hacksaws, and bludgeoning ?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Your mother talked to you about hacksaws and bludgeoning?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Could it be that her mother didn't want her to have dangerously little knowledge on the topic?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Pearl B4 Swine is a she???
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Does an Oyster-Shucker simply shuck off and fry, or is a hacksaw employed in the process?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What sort of salary can a hacksaw in regular employment expect to earn?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might that not be a sore point?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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could it be a moot point?
Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on
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Is that a sharp retort?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What is the purpose of all these cutting remarks?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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To be perfectly blunt?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Doesn't perfection require a certain sharpness of focus?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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How would that apply to a cream cake?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you shipping them to Shipmates?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Can I be first?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Even if the first is to be last?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Last to what?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Will this offer last?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is it a BOGOF?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Or is it a BOWOT? (buy one watch one rot)
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Could this surfeit of acronyms bring on an attack of acronyphobia in sensitive subjects?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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Doesn't every well-equipped kitchen have a hacksaw ?
[Pearlie, Female oyster-shucker]
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is a fretsaw always worried?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does it have anything to be worried about?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Is it loosing teeth?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Can a fretsaw wear dentures?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What would you make them from?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Could you use diamonds?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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are they really a girls best friend?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could you send them by secure courier, please?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are couriers really secure with diamonds?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Could you just put mine in a jiffy bag and pop it in the post please?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Shall we sort out who's paying for them first?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Are jiffy bags that expensive?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't everything expensive these days?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Aren't the best things in life still free?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you name a few?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are we still waiting?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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♩ ♪ ♫ ♬♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Why are we waiting? ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Should we think of another topic whilst we are waiting for a response?
Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on
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Is because someone has broken into song ?
[ 27. August 2012, 10:38: Message edited by: rolyn ]
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Does everyone have a hymn sheet?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does the organist know the tune?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Has the organist got an organ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you suggesting than at organist ceases to be such after an appendectomy?
Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on
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Have you heard him play that appendix?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can't you stomach the sound?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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And could you then digest it, if you did?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would he then be disorganised?
Posted by Dal Segno (# 14673) on
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Can any of us claim to be truly organised?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would we truly want to be?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But what is a disorganised organist?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would disorganist be an appropriate term?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would you find that in a Management Theory handbook?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is there anything you wouldn't find in a Management Theory Handbook, depending on the decade?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Wiould you find instructions on how to perform a lobotomy in a management handbook?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Wouldn't that depend on what you were being taught to manage?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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In legal terms is management a tort?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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Have you ever, as I have, had a manager who was a tart?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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do you mean like a fruit cake?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What sort of nuts did it have in it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Were the nuts shipmates?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Don't you mean: were the shipmates nuts?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Or were the shipmates nuts in a cake ?
(I'm launching out with my mixing bowl here, waiting for the tide)
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that a punctuation question?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Are you a Grammar Nazi?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you consider punctuation unimportant?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Was my post in any way grammatically incorrect?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I widely accepted as the arbiter of these things?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Who initiated the discussion of punctuation?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that the act of a tyre going flat?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Or perhaps the linguistic eloquence of a flyer wearing tat?
[ 28. August 2012, 17:43: Message edited by: Loquacious beachcomber ]
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do Quakers wear tat?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would Quaker tat have to be grey and homespun?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Like my Quaker oats?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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How can I tell if I've never tasted them?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have you never had porage?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Isn't porridge a shipmate?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Quaker oats with flying punctuated nuts ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that as painful as it sounds?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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I thought we were talking about taste, not sound?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you not relish all round sensory experiences?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Are sensory experiences always circular?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't 'always' a rather limiting term?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Sometimes it sounds tasty.
Others, it tastes soundy -
ah back to the drawing / oat board
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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What's an oat board?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't you be bored in a packet in the cupboard until the day you're taken out and boiled?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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so when one gets bored,one gets in hot water?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Would the water get bored too?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Isn't that part of the human process of giving birth; a boring through the bag of waters until they break?
[ 29. August 2012, 17:50: Message edited by: Loquacious beachcomber ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Can you really describe any part of the birth process as boring?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Ha you ever seen a current copy of an interesting magazine in the father's waiting room?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Yours had magazines available?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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With real, live ammunition?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does it depend on the calibre of said waiting room?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't working that out be rather a bore?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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What, the Severn bore?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wye choose that one?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Because I Kennet?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Would you lot please quit making appalling puns?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are we allowed to make non-appalling puns?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is a starving pun called a puny pun?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Am I a good boy because I didn't respond to that with a line about the Romans and the Carthaginians?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Am I a good boy because I didn't respond to that with a line about the Romans and the Carthaginians?
Shore-ly that Dee pends on the quality of Mersey ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you depend on Depends™?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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That link a bit off the deepend
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I call foul as that wasn't a question?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Which fowl would you call then ?
(Wasn't I idiotic? last post)
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Yes, and could we call it a turkey?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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I think I must agree with you but are nt I supposed not to here ?
So that could be a case of turkies voting for xmas.
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Do turkeys vote against xmas then?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Has anybody ever actually asked them to vote?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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How would such a ballot be cast?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Would they not gobble up the voting paper?
[ 30. August 2012, 20:35: Message edited by: Morlader ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Even if we could overcome such technical difficulties, would anybody care what turkeys thought?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Wouldn't the other turkeys care?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would man's avarice take any notice?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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If we're talking the Seven Deadly, shouldn't that be gluttony rather than avarice?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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But isn't gluttony fun?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would that be food for thought?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Is that nourishing?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Might it be fattening?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What if it is all fat free and calorie free?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would that make it like the best things in life?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
Would that make it like the best things in life?
I think you got a point there.
Were you thinking of hill walking or shuttlecock
(I think I may have done the quoting successfully !)
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did you forget to put in a question somewhere there?
Is that your second such slip?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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quote:
Were you thinking of hill walking or shuttlecock ?
with added extra enriched ?
(tweaked code)
[ 31. August 2012, 15:03: Message edited by: Chorister ]
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Enriched with what?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we want extra vitamins or would we prefer butterscotch ice cream with whipped cream on top as our enrichment?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Surely we can have both?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Question mark enriched Bean Sidhe.
Thanks for that Chorister.
I'd like to have my vits and eat them.
Have I said too much ?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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Might I be so bold as to reply in the affirmative?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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To what, exactly, are you saying yes?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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How do you expect me to know that when I just wandered in here?
Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
To what, exactly, are you saying yes?
Beachcomber's question....."Have I said too much?"
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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just where are we up to?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Don't you know?
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Why would he?
Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on
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How should I know?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Are you excused from knowing?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does anybody know?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Can you be excused from knowing?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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What might such an excuse be?
[ 01. September 2012, 00:27: Message edited by: Bean Sidhe ]
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would "I have heard that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" work?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Wouldn't that be an incitement to know more, not less?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that right?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is rectitude necessarily objective?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Did rectitude kill Schrödinger's cat ?
[ 01. September 2012, 16:23: Message edited by: beachcomber ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Schrödinger's cat is dead? Are you sure?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Where is the proof of the cats death?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
Where is the proof of the cats death?
Could it be lurking behind the missing apostrophe? ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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Where did it go?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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I'm sure SC is still very much alive - aren't you?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't I what?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Dead or alive?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Which do you prefer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you all notice a difference?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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That would depend - would the hole it left be above or below the water line?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would that be the plimsoll line?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that anything like Empire Line?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would it be a little lower?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How much lower can we get?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that your bottom line?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Is my income relevant here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't everyone's income relevant somewhere?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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isn't it relevant to the taxman?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Are there no taxwomen?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Haven't you met my friend Sue?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does she live in wonderland, too?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Does she walk through it in winter?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Is it always winter and never Christmas there?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Where is this wonderland place?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is the route to it through a rabbit hole or wardrobe, or something less exotic?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Have you looked on Google Earth?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can you be more specific?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Wouldn't you rather be unspecific?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Is my answer allowed to be evasive?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that be preferable to being invasive?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is all this to do with the price of fish?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you thinking of any particular variety of fish?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Which varieties of fish are the most particular?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are they the ones that don't particularly go well with chips and peas?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would smoked salmon qualify under those criteria?
Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on
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Would things be any different if it were over the criteria?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Are you serving it to everyone here?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Only if they sit the usual tests successfully.
x post x 2
[ 03. September 2012, 18:12: Message edited by: beachcomber ]
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Only? Should they not?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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quote:
Originally posted by beachcomber:
Only if they sit the usual tests successfully.
x post x 2
Hosting fez On!
Beachcomber, have you not been asked in the past to read the opening post where the rules are before posting to game threads? Are you aware that, in this game, every response must be a question? If it's not too much trouble (which it isn't), would you mind observing this in the future?
Hosting fez off.
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that what is commonly known as a bollocking?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
quote:
Originally posted by beachcomber:
Only if they sit the usual tests successfully.
x post x 2
Hosting fez On!
Beachcomber, have you not been asked in the past to read the opening post where the rules are before posting to game threads? Are you aware that, in this game, every response must be a question? If it's not too much trouble (which it isn't), would you mind observing this in the future?
Hosting fez off.
oh dear, sorry, I got mixed up - a senior moment or something. Thanks for mentioning it. I did read the opening rules the other day, but it slipped my mind now. I'm just getting the hang of stuff on the ship of fools.
Here goes:
Will they be able (unlike me) to sit the test successfully ?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Who has common bollocks?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Conjoined twins maybe?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you saying that conjoined twins have uncommon bollocks, or people who sit tests unsuccessfully?
[ 03. September 2012, 20:00: Message edited by: QLib ]
Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on
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Don't you mean 'people who sit testes unsuccessfully?
(I'll get me coat)
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Are uncommon bollocks fit for purpose?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What purpose did you have in mind?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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What is an uncommom bollocking for any purpose ?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is an 'uncommom' an unusual mother?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But why do you ask?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Why not ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could there not be a whole complex of reasons?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you saying I've got a complex?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would I dare to say such a thing?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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What wouldn't you dare to say?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would anybody dare say their name was Dan
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Why would I say my name is Dan, when it isn't?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Are you Desperate to know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is there Cow Pie for supper?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What wine would you drink with that?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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How about a nice Merlot?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would not a cup of oxo be apt?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Might ma ?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But is bovril a load of bull?
Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on
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Are we all cowed by that question?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do you mean as opposed to being over the moon?
Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on
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Did you see what we did there?
Posted by jbohn (# 8753) on
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Why would I care?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have you no feelings?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can you define feelings?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Haven't you heard Barbra Streisand sing about them?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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No - is the song worth googling?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is anything by Streisand EVER worth Googling?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Did she ever impress you?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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What are you suggesting?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why, was that a suggestive remark?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Could one be suggestive regarding a digestive biscuit?
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Is that enough to put you off dunking it in your tea?
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on
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Or will it just encourage you to do so?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do suggestions go well with tea?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't crumpets and scones and squdgy cream cakes go rather better?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Was that an offer? ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Do you always take everything as a proposition?
Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on
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Do you sometimes end a sentence with a preposition?
Or is that the wrong thing to end a sentence with?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Why would you want to do that?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is it the sort of construction up with which you will not put?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is san miguel lager that strong?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is it stronger than Southern Comfort?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Am I now longing for Southern Comfort?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is it something that one can drink by the pint glass?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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What's wrong with two litres when you are not driving?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I take my own stomach pump along with me, please?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Will there be room for it, given that the boot is full of lager and Southern Comfort?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can we hire a trailer?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you proposing to ride in the trailer, with your stomach pump?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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First, can you tell me who is driving?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't Mr Miguel driving?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Didn't I outgrow it when I was 17?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Was I ever 17?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Shouldn't you have passed that age to be able to become a Shipmate?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Passed it going which way?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you sometimes change direction age-wise, or is that just me?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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It must be everyone don't you think?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can thinking be beneficial?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Might the answer to that depend on who is doing the thinking?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can we use a penguin as an example?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Are you trying to attract Smudgie's attention?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did I name her in any way?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Why else would you mention penguins?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might I just have been thinking of creatures with limited thinking ability?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Don't you think you're possibly entering dangerous territory?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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When entering a hinterland, how is one to assess the incipient dangers ?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Arne't penguin territories poles apart?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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As they rarely come north of the Equator wouldn't that be half a pole?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But isn't half a pole only 2.75 yards?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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isn't hald a pole better than no bread / no russian ?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do penguins eat Russian or Polish bread?
Posted by Below the Lansker (# 17297) on
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What do they polish bread with?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would butter do?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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HP sauce would be better if you were making a steak sandwich, wouldn't it?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would anybody disagree with that combo?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might I prefer a Chilli and Garlic sauce?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Does vegetarian food need more sauce?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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What do veggies taste like with or without ?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't a bit of salt only required?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Should anyone be using salt in these days of sky high blood pressure?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't lack of salt cause some pretty drastic health problems?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is there anything wrong in assaulting ones health?
Posted by beachcomber (# 17294) on
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Is there anything wrong with slow unintentional condimental suicide ?
(failed to cross post)
[ 08. September 2012, 17:05: Message edited by: beachcomber ]
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would that depend on whether or not you were in a hurry?
(But, yes, I have been ill from salt loss)
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Is it ever okay to post a statement in this game, even if in parentheses?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But is a statement ok if in brackets?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What sort of bracket should it be in?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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And are rawl plugs going to come into this at some point?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you like rawl plugs?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How many rawls do you have that need plugging?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Is a rawl anything like a drain or is it just unknown to spell-check™?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Perhaps, since rawl plug turns out to be a trade name (my bad), you call them something else over there?
[perview psot is not my friend and will not speak to me - was it something I typed?)
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would a wall plug by any other name smell as sweet?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are you plugging lou rawls here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you envisaging a .38, a .45 or a 9mm to do that?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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I prefer the 9mm parabellum,would that do the job?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't that depend on your aim?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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So, what are you aiming for?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would you like me to aim high?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might I ask you to aim in the opposite direction?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Is WW able to aim in 3D?
Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on
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What does that matter as long as he hits the thing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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To what thing do you wish me to be violent?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Something you don't like too much?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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How much is too much?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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How would we know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can it be objective or is it necessarily subjective?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are we missing an adjective here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What adjective do you suggest?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What's the use of an adjective, when we haven't settled on a noun?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would the noun be squashed if I settled on it?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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is the noun in fact, squash ?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is a disreputable lady of the street a pronoun?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might there not be a verb in there somewhere?
[ 12. September 2012, 11:20: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Is it healthy to ask questions in such a negative manner?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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With some of the teachers I had at school was it healthy to ask questions at all?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Can anyone answer that but yourself?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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What happens if someone else answers on his behalf?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think me more likely to be amused or indignant?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Why assume that I could predict your reactions?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Doesn't that make an ass out of u and me?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you an anagram expert?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Is that a useful skill?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Depending on circumstance aren't most skills useful?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What if you are a skill free zone?
Posted by Haydee (# 14734) on
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What free skills are on offer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What free skills do you already have?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Could you combine free skills to make a skiffle group?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Was skiffle not a forerunner of punk?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Anyone seen my missing washboard?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did you not keep it on your abs like I kept mine?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Now, where did I put my six-pack?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Do you turn every post into something about drink?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Shall we discuss it in the pub?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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I'll have a pint of Guinness. You?
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on
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Does the Book of World Records come in pints?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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US or Imperial?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why are we still using the word Imperial in that context?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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In what context?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't the context explain the context?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is it from a contextualization point of view?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Has anyone got any paracetamol - I'm developing a headache?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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At the risk of seeming mean... what's stopping you buying your own paracetamol?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Is there a good reason for why it is called different things in different countries?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Isn't it just different brand names? Like Advil and Nurofen?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What is like Advil and Nurofen?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What can I do to show how much I love them?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could you take them out to dinner?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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After dinner would they complain that they had a headache?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that the usual procedure?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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So it's not major surgery then?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't it depend somewhat on the view of the patient?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Surely it depends on the view of the surgeon?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do I not have the right to see anyone approaching me with a scalpel as being a major occurrence?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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But what if ones heavily sedated?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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You mean with Advil or Nurofen?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Why should I be mean with these products?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would they notice any difference?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would who notice any difference from (or to) what?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How is it possible to differ to something?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Anybody beg to differ?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Do you like shipmates to beg?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Do they sit up and beg?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would you find that cute?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would being able to bark help?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't that what sea dogs do?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't sea dogs usually old?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Never mind old - are sea dogs really dogs?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Are you dogged by sea dogs?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't their Barque worse than their Bight?
[Should I apologise for that now or later?]
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Should you apologise yesterday?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How do you know I didn't?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you suggesting that you apologised somewhere other than here?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is this a cat and dog fight?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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If you can be dogged, can you be catted?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Don't I get catted every morning? Does this sum it up?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Or should that have been rat-arsed?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that preferably an evening activity?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Why confine ourselves to the evening?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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One must have some standards - is the sun over the yard arm yet?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Shouldn't that be "metre arm"?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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And a metre of ale?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we have metrical ale?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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How does it measure up?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Why up, rather than along?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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What about around it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you need a round tuit for that?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Why must you always procrastinate?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are you sure he is not just vacillating?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Or could he be oscillating?
Posted by justlooking (# 12079) on
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Is there a danger of hyper-ventilating?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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At my age isn't hyper-plasis more likely?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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What is hyper-plasis?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why would you ask me?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is it to do with hens laying too many eggs?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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How many is too many?
Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on
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How much is enough?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want a developing world or a first world answer?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What units of measurement would apply in either case?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Would you like a measured responce?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Would you measure it out with coffee spoons?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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But what abut my allergy to coffee?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Could you use a small teaspoon instead?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would using a fork suffice?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Couldn't you use a whisk?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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I'm lost - are we talking about S & M here?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Surely you can find the necessary implements without the bother of going to M&S?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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But don't they make rather lovely underwear?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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You must agree their shirts are good?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Aren't I still enjoying wearing the shirts I got there five years ago?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do they still make those nice interesting sandwiches?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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How would I know when I spent all my time in the store replacing what BA lost on the flight from LA?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are you sure you took them in the first place?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could he have taken them in the second place?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Could he be speaking in the third person?
Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on
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How many people are there in the room anyway?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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What room?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you implying we are beyond three dimensional space?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Are not three dimensions passé nowadays?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Do we have time to debate this?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Doesn't time just complicate the dimension question?
Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on
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Who knows where the time goes?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want the answer on a postcard?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Will it take three weeks to arrive?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How reliable is the postal service?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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How does one address this question?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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When addressing a question does one use Sir, Madam, you, or the more intimate thou?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How intimate do you want to be?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Darling, shouldn't that question be asked in private?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Is anywhere private?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would you go for a private or an officer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I use the expression "I am catholic about such things" without being misconstrued?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Well, how would it be correctly construed?
Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on
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Who gets to decide what "correct" means?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does correct make it right?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Am I wrong in thinking that you veered rather to the left?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do you have a problem with somebody moving to the left?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Oh, are we dancing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you hear the beat?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Can you beat time?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What else would you like to beat? (Answers on a postcard.)
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that the right time for the old joke about beating the eggs and whipping the cream?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Who let you in?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wasn't it you who answered the door?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Was it you that rang the doorbell?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Did you come down in the lift from All Saints?
Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on
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Why don't you call it an elevator?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Why not call it an escalator?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Has anyone ever been trapped on an escalator?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't accidents abound on escalators?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Isn't it deer that bound?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Why would you bind a deer?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Wouldn't one have to catch one first?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Wouldn't it be easier to catch a cold?
Posted by pimple (# 10635) on
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Isn't that the lazy (wo)man's way out?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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And what, may I ask, is wrong with being lazy?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Would a truly lazy person have the energy to post such a question anyway?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could I qualify as aspiringly indolent?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would that be your claim to fame?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would indolence rank as famous or infamous?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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If there is indolence, is there also dolence?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are they both types of the dole?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What would you like to have doled out?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Once it has been doled out will we be doleful?
[ 26. September 2012, 02:48: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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How about a Dole Pineapple?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that an American politician?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is he a candidate for PoTUS?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you trying to frighten us?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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How scared are you?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How scared do you want me to be?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would a simple 'boo' suffice?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Be careful, don't you know I have a nervous disposition?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Does that make you a goose?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Are you getting fat?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What do you mean "getting"?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Or was that "begetting?"
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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But who or what was it that was begotten?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Shall we begin the beguine?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Or bag the bagels?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Do you shoot them with a 12 bore?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is how they get the hole in the middle?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
Is that how they get the hole in the middle?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Are they any relation to the mint with the hole?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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In these days of austerity would that be the Royal Mint?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Has the Royal Mint been reduced to selling bagels?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would they generate more dough selling bagels?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Surely dough comes before bagels?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you make sourdough bagels?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Can I make sourdough bagels? Or can one make sourdough bagels?
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on
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How many people are usually required in order to make sourdough bagels?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that like the question about how many psychotherapists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Does the bagel have to want to change?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why would you change a bagel?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What would you change it for?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I have a croissant instead?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Is that a cultural statement?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does one have to cultivate culture?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do your cultures cure athlete's foot?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can't it be prevented by keeping your socks on?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Wouldn't going barefoot be better?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that depend on the surface upon which we walk?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would that include walking on water?
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on
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THAT old trick?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is it harder to walk on egg shells?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Harder than what?
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[ 28. September 2012, 10:36: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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[Haiku are obviously getting to you, WW]
Harder than Watt Tyler?*
*Tough man in English history who came a cropper, but whose 6-pack could well have been spectacular.
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What was the tiler tiling?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Was it a cat, out on the tiles?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Or was it on a hot tin roof?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Was the roof in Tin Pan Alley?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't the roof be above the alley?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would it still be an alley if it had a roof on it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want to call it a covered walkway?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Surely there's a cover* entitled Walk away...?
* meaning a recording
[ 29. September 2012, 11:49: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can you sing it for us?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have you ever heard me sing?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Is that what you call it?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does it matter if other people call it something else?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Or does it only matter if they start throwing things?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why should I worry if they throw money?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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So are you a busker?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could that be the word they shouted at me?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Do people normally shout 'busker' at buskers?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could it have been another word with a slight similarity in sound?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do you have a hearing problem?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would that explain the quality of the singing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is singing the appropriate term?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Don't I sing rather well when I am sitting in the choir next to someone who sings the same part?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Isn't that just one step up from sounding good when you sing in the shower?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would you describe your neighbour in choir as a shower*?
*Cockney slang for dreadful
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Don't we all talk wet in the shower?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Is this your idea of keeping things clean?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Are you suggesting some kind of innuendo?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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How many kinds are there?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't some more risque than others?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Like getting a little too near to the knuckle?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do people still eat pig's knuckles?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are they connected to the trotters?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do they rhyme with rotters, as in Rottweiler?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are there other sorts of rotters?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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was there not the the harlem globe rotters?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Do they cheat while playing basketball?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Did anyone else hear Meadowlark Lemon speak at their church?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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How many of us have heard any famous sports person speak in church?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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How many of us would be able to reply to that question?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't NO qualify as an answer?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Did you read the question?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't the ability to do that the first pre-requisite of successful academic examination survival?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What would be the second pre-requisite?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Shouldn't the answer be optional?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would an optional answer help at all?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Have you ever had a former ABC come to your parish?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do you really want to know?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Does alphabetti spaghetti count?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Do you really want to know?
Were you lucky enough to shake hands with Lord Runcie when he had retired from being the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Has he retired, then?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Did anyone notice a difference?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Does anybody care who shook hands with whom?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can one even remember ones last handshake?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does it count if one felt one had to wash one's hands afterwards?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Which are you, Pontius or Pilate?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would there be much to choose between them?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could their mother tell the difference?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would their mother want to know?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would the mother know who the father was?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Whilst maternity is undeniable isn't paternity always mere supposition?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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You've not heard of DNA?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Are you suggesting I'm an ignoramus?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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What do they look like? Is there one in the zoo?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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D'you think there'd be a gnu in the zoo?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that be a new gnu?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Or a gnother gnu?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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If they were both there would that be on the Gnus?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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But surely you gnu that already?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that like buying a gnu pair of shoes?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Would the hosts consider this a tangent?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Do cattle actually require footwear?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Well, horses have shoes so why not cattle?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Will no one speak up for sheep?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't they make a fabulous dip?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Could you eat a whole one?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't wholefood supposed to be good for you?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would the food wholly agree?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that bother the carnivores?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What about the omnivores?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we have to consider them?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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What, precisely, do we need to consider?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you not tell from the context?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is context everything?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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The author's context or the reader's context?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Taken in context, isn't this text a con?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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What does 'con' mean in that context?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Am I 'con' fused?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't that involve a meltdown from a prisoner?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Would that be preferred to a meltdown of scrap gold or silver at the local barbershop as we have here?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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If there is any spare gold scraps left over can they be sent to me?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Can you pay me for them in £ or $?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could you not send it as a gift?
Posted by Halo (# 6933) on
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Wouldn't internet banking be more convenient?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that a useful way to go about money-laundering?
Posted by Halo (# 6933) on
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Shouldn't you use a washing machine for that?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Should I use a boil wash?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Would not luke warm be better suited to that?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't Luke have a cool hand?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Wasn't he coerced into eating rather a lot of hard-boiled eggs?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that have done his digestive system some harm?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Would eating green apples have been better?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would a mixture of the two be kinder?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What about nil by mouth?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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How would that help?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Haven't you heard of weight loss?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can you fit hard-boiled eggs through a drip?
Posted by Halo (# 6933) on
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Who are you calling a 'drip'?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Who are you calling hard boiled?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are we having a slanging match?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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What's the half time score?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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But is it definitely a game of two halves?
[ 08. October 2012, 18:03: Message edited by: QLib ]
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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If not of two halves then perhaps of two wholes?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Isn't it nil-nil with 4 minutes overage?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are we back to nil-by-mouth?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't that a bit hard to swallow?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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How does one swallow with an Adam's apple in their throat?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Does one swallow make a summer after all?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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But I thought it was autumn, nicht wahr*?
*Ain't that so?
Posted by Morlader (# 16040) on
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Have you heard of the Southern Hemisphere?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Does it make a noise?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could it just be noisome?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Who is the big noise?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might that be a Trappist?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Is there a trap door?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that where the Trappe family emerge?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Was that the Trapp Family Robinson, by any chance?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Well what are the odds?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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Why does no one ever ask about the evens?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Is it because it's more fun to be odd?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Should we consider that your personal testimony?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do I look odd?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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More importantly, are you having fun?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Do you mean right now?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Are you toying with me?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Would that be fun?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Wouldn't it be odd?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't it make you an Oddie?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Are you an Oddfellow?*
*Ancient society of old peculiars
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Should not that be kept a secret?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Does that mean you have an elephant in your room?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are you watching me pack my trunk?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is your name Nellie?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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When were you last on the road to Mandalay?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Don't all roads lead there in the end?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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So where do they lead to at the beginning?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't they come from rather than lead to?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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Do all roads lead to a yellow wood?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that idea hold in all seasons of the year?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Is it wise to go Into The Woods?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Are those Sondheim's woods?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Does he have any?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can he lend me some?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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Is there room for them alongside all of your own?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I build a big shed to keep them in?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would they be fuel for a wood burning stove?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would that be environmentally friendly?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Who are you calling mentally friendly?
Posted by roybart (# 17357) on
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What is it about 'environ' that you don't understand?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Can you educate us then re environ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that a brush off?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does a new one clean better?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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How do you clean a better?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Do you use betterware?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do they still sell that by pushing the catalogue through the door?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Would it be easier to use the letter box?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is a catalogue classed as a letter?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Do you use the catalogue to buy a cat?
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Can anyone ever own a cat?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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What is the cat has nine tales?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that the same as a cat o nine tails?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't it that to which I was referring?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Who can read your references, or, indeed, your mind?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I don't have the same problem?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What should I know about your problems?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you not an Agony-Aunt?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does she wear high boots and tote a whip?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that wishful thinking?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would it fulfill your wishes?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would I make so bold as to say so on a Family Board?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would that be bloody, bold and resolute?*
*Macbeth
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is the Scottish play a useful resource in these circumstances?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Do you believe the Scottish Play can bring bad luck?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is it bad luck to ask such a question?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Wouldn't you say that we make our own luck?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do you have a recipe?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't it in Mrs Beeton?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Have you conducted an internal examination?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I am a gynaecologist?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Depends, are you the inward looking type?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you asking if I am an introvert?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Can you be an introvert and remain vertical?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you be offended if I said that these days I prefer the horizontal?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are you on the level?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Which level?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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Did you know there's a town in North Carolina called "Bun Level"?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do the inhabitants describe a pregnant woman as having a bun in the oven?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How would the pregnant woman describe the inhabitants?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Could she describe her own inhabitant/s?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Who could do it better than her?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Surely you mean, than she?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Is she the same as her?
Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on
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Is she the same as him?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might there not be some marked physiological differences?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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How do you mark them?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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You mean you haven't noticed?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think some people are less observant than others?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Like the blind leading the blind?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Have you heard the poem Guide cats for the blind?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is it all about pussy footing around?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Does that give you paws for thought?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is thought all it is cracked up to be?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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to be or not to be?
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Is that the question?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you have a nobler mind?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do you live on the piano nobile?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is nobile a typo for mobile?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Don't you understand Italian?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Why would you assume I might?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Could it be that spaghetti hat you wear?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could that be pasta joke?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Wouldn't a yoke be tastier?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could you really eat two whole oxen?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Wasns't that a spelling mistake rather than a yolk?
Posted by QLib (# 43) on
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Can't you take a joke?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I have no sense of humour?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Do you make people laugh?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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At me or with me?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Which would you prefer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Which do you think is the kinder?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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How did we get onto Kinderchocolade?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Dose not one simply open the wrapper?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Will there be a little toy inside?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is there a danger of eating the toy as well?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is the toy edible?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is a football headable?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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With or without specs?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Will a speculum suffice, or must we speculate on the spectacular respectability of most spectator sports?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can any sport be deemed respectable these days?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Isn't that unduly cynical?
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Who gets to measure which levels of cynicism are appropriate and which are completely off limits?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Can it be otherwise?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't not to believe it can be otherwise the ultimate surrender to hyper-Calvinism?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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If you are feeling hyper, wouldn't it be wise to cut down on your caffeine intake?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I reduce it below zero as it is something which I avoid due to allergic reactions?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is coffee drinkable without caffeine?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that depend on who you are asking?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Why don't you ask me?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you be able to give an objective view of the subject?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Or would the answer be subjective?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't the whole of our existence subjective?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Have you never been the object of someone's affections?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want a complete list of my conquests?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Does he stoop to conquer?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Or does he beg to differ?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Can I differ without begging?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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At which point do you begin to differentiate?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Were you any good at calculus when at school?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that why the abacus was invented?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't the abacus more arithmetical?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Should we consult Wikipedia on this?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that the ultimate reference resource?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would it be found at Ultima Thule?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't that make accessing it rather tricky?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Surely tricky Dicky would have no problem?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might he not face impeachment?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Disgust/Discuss amongists just-in-time. Simple shows this week. Working back stage
in the legitimate theatre on Sunday afternoon. Irish chorale went today.
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did I miss something? Was that a question?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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Do all questions need '?' at the end of them ?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that the accepted general practice in English?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Who knows?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would a teacher of English be able to give an acceptable response?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Do you know any teachers of English?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Have I not met plenty of them over here?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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over where?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did you not know that I live a long way away from most other Shipmates?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Isn't that your choice?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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What was Sophie's Choice?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Was it the same as Hobsons choice?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did Hobson choose Jobson?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Is he a Jobsworth?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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Is a job worth doing, really worth doing well?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Is she related to Salome?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that a veiled question?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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How's your dancing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I'd look good in tights and pumps?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Will that attire help you pump up the action?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Couldn't you try to keep this discussion on a higher plane?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are you trying to sell me a jumbo jet again?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Is it jet black?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't that be too shiny?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Wouldn't you prefer matte as a finish?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't checkmate a better finish?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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is checkmate better than stalemate?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that stale, mate? Do you want me to see if I can find a fresher one?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Are fresher ones available at the moment?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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How long will they stay fresh?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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Is fresh always best?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is fresh cheese preferable to mature cheese?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't some things better when they have aged a bit and had time to mature?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Is goat cheese one of them?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that depend, at least in part, on the processing?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is goats cheese suitable for kids?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Would you seethe a kid in the milk of its mother?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Wouldn't it be ok if one wore kid gloves?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would they fit my rather large hands?
Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on
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Do large hands really imply other things about a persons physique?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Might they also imply large feet?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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How naive can a person be?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Is there a limit?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Wasn't that the sky?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are we talking sky tv here?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Have you forgotten freeview and digital?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that a rather ethnocentric viewpoint?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is that the view of the whole group?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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How many groupies are there?
Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on
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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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Will we ever know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we ever really know anything?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does that mean we know nothing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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But doesn't that put us all on an even footing?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What about the one-legged?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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What about the drunks, aren't they legless?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Isn't it more like we have legs, but cannot drive?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is that another pond difference?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Or is it more like we have legs and shouldn't drive, but do anyway?
Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on
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How long have you been driving?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you mean how long have I been driving or how long have I had a licence?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Just what are you driving at?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you think I am a golfer?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Have you ever found yourself in a bunker?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wouldn't I normally have had to knowingly go there first?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Are you OSHA-certified to drive that golf cart?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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If you are certified, should you be driving while on medication?
Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on
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Did you take your medication this morning?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is it medication time already?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Does a spoonful of sugar make your medicine go down?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does honey count?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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What about a pint of beer?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Can I just have a lemon soda [no sugar, no salt], please?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What's wrong with a pint of Guinness?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Because its not 2 pints?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Did you not know that gluttony is a sin?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Shouldn't it take more than two pints of Guinness to make one a glutton?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Doesn't that rather depend on the capacity of the imbiber?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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If she's not over the limit, what does it matter?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is a universal limit any sort of reliable guideline to internal psychological effects?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would you care if it were?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does me asking the question in the first imply either that I would or would not care?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Where is Socrates whhen we need him?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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What does he know?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't knowing what we know or don't know sometimes the problem?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are problems meant to be solved?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Which is more important, solving them or learning from them?
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Is it always helpful to rank things in order of importance?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Would you rather use a Critical Path Analysis approach?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't cpa the only approach?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Are you not able to spell 'cap'?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Does it make you think?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Isn't that how we know we exist?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do we know we exist or do I only know that I exist?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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If you don't exist, who is writing your posts?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Could it be you?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Am I a multiple personality, and, if so, should I get the others to come out of the woodwork?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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What are they doing in the woodwork?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Are they singing like carpenters?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Are The Carpenters still performing?
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Can ghosts sing?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Is there a spiritualist about who can answer that question?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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What if the spiritualist is tone deaf?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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What if she has a hammer and nails?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Will she then be able to nail a Top C?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Isn't that required for all opera singers?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that include the Basso Profundo?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't that a deep topic?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Does that qualify as a profound question?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Aren't your assumptions questionable?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Aren't ALL assumptions questionable?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Do you always answer a quetion with another question?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Isn't that the point of the exercise?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Well is it?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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I'm not sure, what do you think?
Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on
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Is thinking always the best way to tackle a problem or is an intuitive guess sometimes more effective?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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As in 'a shot in the dark'?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Wasn't there a book with that title?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Aren't there books with most titles?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Can I not sing falsetto when high notes are called for, even if I am a mild-mannered basso profundo by day?
Posted by Zeke (# 3271) on
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Is that not a truly frightening prospect?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Is that what you would call a shot in the dark?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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Would you prefer a shot of gin or vodka?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Shouldn't GIN be written in upper case?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Is gin the end of begin?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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To begin or not to begin - is that the question?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Wouldn't sloe gin be the answer?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Isn't the answer blowing in someones wind?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Are you accusing someone of breaking wind?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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ITTWACW - surely Christians don't fart, do they?
Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on
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Didn't JC, being fully human, fart occasionally?
[ 14. November 2012, 15:18: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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Did he have erections?
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Is he a builder?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do carpenters qualify as builders?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Don't they contribute a great deal?
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Do you have to be a carpenter if you're a builder when you possess a good set of Lego?
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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If i was a carpenter and you was a lady,would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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As it should be 'if I were a carpenter' - is this the pedant thread?
![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Posted by agrgurich (# 5724) on
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Are you a bargain couter tenor?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Is this the beginning of the end of Hull?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Do you want it to be?
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on
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How did I miss this?
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Were you looking the other way?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Couldn't that be dangerous?
Posted by comet (# 10353) on
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is danger a bad thing?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Are you just bumping this thread to torment me?
Posted by comet (# 10353) on
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is it working?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Aren't you used to failure by now?
Posted by comet (# 10353) on
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how can I be used to it if I've never done it?
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on
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Are you really that oblivious?
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