BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS

Subject: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:02 PM

Can all of these threads be good for us?

Could we, perhaps, strive for more serious BS? ☺

Am I guilty of prolonging the agony?

Does anyone care?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM

Does anybody REALLY know what time it is?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM

How are marshmallows made?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM

It hardly matters

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:09 PM

Who is this "all" person?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:11 PM

How do you ruin something that has no worth to begin with....

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:11 PM

Would a limit on the # of threads started in a 30 day period cause nervous twitches in Peace & Little Hawk some members? ☺

Does arcane philosophical humor lose something in the translation?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:13 PM

There's humour here?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:16 PM

sure, Clinton! It's just too arcane for you when translated into 'Petulant Canadian'.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:19 PM

In Canada's second language that would be Canadien Petillant.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:19 PM

"How do you ruin something that has no worth to begin with...."

Finally engaging in a little serious self-criticism, eh, Clinton? (Heh!)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Wesley S
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:25 PM

It's a sure sign of an inferiority complex when folks start spending time at websites they consider worthless.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: MMario
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM

Finally?? You don't pay any attention at all do ya LH?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:34 PM

In Canada's second language that would be Canadien Petillant.

'other official language' shurely? ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:38 PM

Of the 32.2 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 7.7 million are native French-speakers and 5.2 million are native speakers of neither of Canada's two official languages.

Statistics Canada, 2001

   1. English 17,352,315
   2. French 7,703,325
   3. Chinese 853,745
   4. Italian 469,485
   5. German 438,080
   6. Punjabi 271,220
   7. Spanish 245,500
   8. Portuguese 213,815
   9. Polish 208,375
10. Arabic 199,940
11. Tagalog 174,060
12. Ukrainian 148,090
13. Dutch 128,670
14. Vietnamese 122,055
15. Greek 120,365
16. Russian 94,555
17. Persian 94,095
18. Tamil 90,010
19. Korean 85,070
20. Urdu 80,895
21. Hungarian 75,555
22. Cree 72,800
23. Gujarati 57,555
24. Hindi 56,325
25. Croatian 54,880
26. Romanian 50,895
27. Serbian 41,180
28. Japanese 34,815
29. Bengali 29,505
30. Inuktitut 29,005
31. Armenian 27,350
32. Serbo-Croatian 26,690
33. Somali 26,110
34. Czech 24,790
35. Finnish 22,405
36. Ojibway 21,000
37. Yiddish 19,295
38. Turkish 18,675
39. Danish 18,230
40. Slovak 17,545
41. Macedonian 16,905
42. Khmer 15,985
43. Lao 12,945
44. Slovenian 12,800
45. Hebrew 12,435
46. Twi 11,070

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:39 PM

Twi?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:39 PM

Hey, Bill:

Howzabout dropping by and having a cup of coffee at the kitchen table?
That is not a rhetorical question..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:41 PM

Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS

Is this a rhetorical question?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:47 PM

Why do you ask?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:51 PM

Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:52 PM

krappenkrout?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:16 PM

YES, BillD!!

They have reduced it, in large part, to a juvenile cesspit of unimaginative copycats.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:32 PM

Can all of these threads be good for us?

Well, I suppose maybe not...

Could we, perhaps, strive for more serious BS? ☺

Surely you jest!

Am I guilty of prolonging the agony?

Yes you bloody well are.

Does anyone care?

Kat does...

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:34 PM

I'm with you, Bill. This is just arrant flapdoodlery and it degrades the level of creative humor to which we should become accustomed. Why does "How Many Ears on a Pig" seem funny to anyone? LH should be ashamed for contributing to such nonsense because at least he is capable of much better.

Was a time when the creative efforts around the site were both humorous and mature. Well, except for Spaw, but he made up for it by being original.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:36 PM

It's plain and utter codswallop, all of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:51 PM

That's right!

We need more serious humour! And wipe that smile off your face!

( ...and eat your peas! They're good for you!)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:56 PM

YES, Katlaughing!!

Unimaginative copycatery abounds in this juvenile cesspit!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:01 PM

I wonder if this is partly a result of the BS section having been redefined as a separate area unto itself? It seems to have exaggerated the effect.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:22 PM

It is partly related to the situation that 'most' folks here grew up without an internet/WWW, and have not adapted to the situational dynamics that make this format different from, say, a party where folks toss out quick remarks and puns, etc., most of which are quickly forgotten and almost never recorded.

Here, when one looks in, the entire routine remains...confronting one with good & bad, appropriate and awkward, clear & obscure....in a maze of interlocking threads & posts that require a certain...ummmm...'dedication' to follow at all.

The results are a bit like doughnuts...one or two can be tasty, but five or six at one sitting tend to make one queasy.

There is an art, not only to SEEING the pun/remark/rhythme, but to judging when to use it....you don't have to throw out for public consumption,everything you think of.


I could write a similar treatise on dirty jokes.........

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM

Is it proper to pour HP sauce on your eggs?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: michaelr
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:26 PM

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:28 PM

Ask Wolfgang.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:29 PM

My last remark was directed to No.6's question.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:57 PM

As in all things Mudcat-- one always has the choice of what to read, what to post, and what to leave alone.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: MMario
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:04 PM

well - unless you've been put on Jacqui and Sinsull's short list. Then you really don't have a choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:01 PM

Re: listing of languages spoken in Canada-Twi.

In his 28 Feb 06 - 01:39 PM post, bobad asked "Twi?"

I'm assuming that wasn't a rhetorical question.

See this excerpt from this website: http://corporatelanguageservices.com/twi.htm

"Twi is an African language spoken in the southern two-thirds of Ghana. Like most languages spoken south of the Sahara, Twi is a tone language, which means that word distinction is determined not only by vowels and consonants, but also by the pitch on which each syllable is pronounced. There are many different dialects, but all dialects are mutually intelligible. They are written by a common script developed by the Bureau of Ghana Languages."

-snip-

Twi is spoken by people known as {the} Akans. It just so happens that last week I received an email from a Ghanaian man, Quarkoo, who visited my website. Quarkoo wrote that there are "9 clans and 9 ethnic groups" [in Ghana] who are grouped as Akan. He then wrote "We all speak Twi but do have different dialects. As a Fante I speak Fante-Twi. So Akans are also known as "twi-fo"( "fo" means nationality}"

-snip-

The Ashanti {Asante} people are a sub-group of Akan people.

Ananse the spider/man stories, kente cloth, adinkra symbols such as Sankofa and day names such as Kofi and Kwame are just a small part of the rich Akan culture that have been adopted by African Americans and other peoples.

And those are facts and not rhetoric.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:10 PM

Is that one of the people who sometimes name boys by the day of the week? Kojo Nnamdi mentioned this on his program one day

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:15 PM

Thank you for that Azizi.

That's the first I've heard of Twi. I will now do a little investigating into the Ghanaian culture as it appears to be rather interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Janie
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:25 PM

Rhetorical questions don't ruin anything. PEOPLE behaving badly ruin things. Also, coffee spilled on a white sweater will be ruined if you don't get it out really quick. I have been known to ruin rolls on numerous occasions by forgetting they were in the oven.

But what really ruins a thread, in my opinion, is when people such as myself, or perhaps even someone else, write really long sentences that go on and on, and even after they have gone on for several lines, they still have not made their main point, which is....uh....I forget.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:29 PM

Is all the BS ruining the rhetoric?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:45 PM

One of the comics (Speed Bump) in my morning rag suggested that what's needed is a

PLATITUDE ADJUSTMENT.

I think I'll go discuss it with my favorite counsellor, the Hon. Mr. Jack D.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:19 PM

Dare I ruin the humor of this thread by posting something serious-again?

Yes. I. D. Double. Dare.

bobad, you're welcome. You may find this interesting:

Not only are there Ghanaian day names:

Ghanaian Day Names

but there are Ghanaian birth order names:

Akan Birth Order Names

Some examples:
Kofi Annan {male born on Friday, 4th born}
Kwame Nkruma- {male born on Saturday, 9th born}

Also, Bill, fyi, Kojo Nnamdi has an Akan {Ghana and The Ivory Coast first name: Kojo=male born on Monday and Nnamdi=father's name lives on {Ibo, Nigeria}. Given this combination, though I'm going to admit that I don't know who Kojo Nnamdi is, I bet he's African American.
Since we don't know our specific Afrian roots, we often mix and match names and traditions.

And that's not rhetoric, it's fact.

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:20 PM

Afrian=African. same same.

or close enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 08:13 PM

Rhetorical question: one put for effect and not requiring an answer.

Ask any question here and you'll get an answer, whether you think you require one or not. So the truth is there aren't really any rhetorial questions here.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:04 PM

Azizi..clicking on that link for Kojo would show that he is indeed African-American, and one of the most well-read, intelligent and balanced radio hosts I have ever heard. I 'believe' that he explained once, when someone from his area was on the program, that he was born on Monday, and named accordingly. (it sure must be interesting when some Mother yells "Kojo!" and 27 boys snap to!)

(oh...it's ok....this is my thread, and you can ruin it with serious, relevant posting if you like..☺)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:38 PM

Wild Bill writes: "There is an art, not only to SEEING the pun/remark/rhythme, but to judging when to use it....you don't have to throw out for public consumption,everything you think of."

One of my favorite stories......about one of my favorite writers and humorists, the wonderful George S. Kaufman. At a dinner party he was seated next to a woman who monopolized the conversation all through the meal. By the time the coffee was served, Kaufman could no longer restrain himself. "Madam," he asked, "don't you have any unexpressed thoughts?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:57 PM

JtS says Rhetoric is tactic, but BS is an art.

I say, let's declare a war against rhetoric.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:00 PM

Not until we have successfully concluded the War Against Unexpressed Resentment!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:04 PM

Just allow it to self-destruct!

As I'm fond of saying, "Suicide is the sincerest form of self critcism!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:35 PM

I think it HAS self destructed! Seriously, there are people here with taste and wit...and then there are those who think the 20th copycat thread is funny. (or the first) I just have to realize there's a lot of really stupid shit here that I don't find the slightest bit amusing - but the people who write it do, and that's all that counts.

Unexpressed resentment? Most of the time it is, because, no matter how much something bothers me or anyone, the people who could control the urge to post everything little thing they think of, don't care about the people who read the stuff. So most of the time, all of the frustration just adds up and figures into my opinions of people.

I'm sure Art thought the condom thread was the epitome of inanity. Who knew? Moronic television sitcoms on are beginning to look like high art.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:43 PM

Jeri, the War on Unexpressed Resentment is a concept invented by Amos (an improvement of his on my recently suggested War Against Suspicion), and they were both meant to parody George Bush's ridiculous War on Terror....the point being that to launch a war on any such amorphous concept is to engage in an unwinnable exercise in complete idiocy....(unless all you really want is just an excuse to go and invade people who have oil or something else you covet).

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:54 PM

Oh. Politics. Like an excercise in complete idiocy is hypothetical...

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:07 PM

I thought Bill was talking about Cocojaru!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:09 PM

So...what is your point, Jeri?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:59 PM

Don't hold back. Let him have it!

I'm selling tickets.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 12:02 AM

Say What?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 12:02 AM

Yea.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:12 AM

Here's a rhetorical question for you, when Bill wrote "...it sure must be interesting when some Mother yells "Kojo!" and 27 boys snap to!), how many boys snap to it when some mother calls "Bill!"?

****
I suppose in Ghana that there must be ways of distinquishing all those Kojos in a classroom from another.

I've sent this URL to the Quarcoo who I exchange emails with. I'm sure he will hip me to the different ways that folks given the same first name are verbally distinquished from each other. With his prior permission I'll share what he wrote with [the collective] you

And maybe he will decide to join Mudcat and post here for on Mudcat.

I'd love it if that happened.

BTW: Quarcoo said his name is a Ga form of the name male born on Wednesday, the Ga being another ethnic group in Ghana.

BTW2: For the record, Quarcoo had given me permission to quote information in his emails about his culture.

BTW3: Thanks for information about Kojo Nnamdi. See how you learn things on Mudcat when you least expect it?

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:37 AM

I was gonna put this info. in my last post. But i thought that labeling something as BTW4 might be a bit much. So here I go muddying up this thread again with seriously off the main topic stuff.

Well, Bill D. said I could. So here goes.

I want to mention that the name "Cudjoe" is a modification of the name "Kojo". The name "Cudjoe" appears in a number of American {USA} listing of enslaved Africans. It also appears in a listing of names used by African slaves {presumably from Ghana and The Ivory Coast} in Jamaica, 1757, documented by Edward Long {"The History of Jamaica, 3 vols; published in 1774}.

Here's that list of day names as quoted in the 1973 book "Slaves, Free Men, Citizens: West Indian Perspective" {edited by Lambros Comitas & David Lowenthal, Anchor Books, p. 37}:

Monday    -Cudjoe {male}; Juba {female}
Tuesday   -Cubbenah {male}; Beneba {female}
Wednesday -Quaco {male}; Cuba {female}
Thursday -Quao {male}; Abba {female}
Friday    -Cuffee {male};Phibba {female}
Saturday -Quamin {male}; Mimba {female}
Sunday    -Quashee {male}; Quasheba {female}

****

And that's all I'm gonna say about that {here}.

Thanks, Bill. And thanks, bobad for introducing the subject of African naming traditions {though you probably didn't know you were doing it}.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:56 AM

Azizi, thanks. Have been reading the info on names with great interest. It's posts like yours which add some needed value to threads.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 07:46 AM

You're welcome kat.

It seems to me that when the BS threads get real heavy duty, as they have gotten lately [what with discussion of racism, trolls, censorship, war, politics, and other subjects] folks need some lightness to balance things out.

Maybe that's why these play on words and other "silly" threads pop up. They meet a need. And-given the real probablity of thread drift-one never knows where these types of threads will lead.

I've read a number of witty posts on those rhetorical questions and play on words threads that have made me chuckle. I needed that-actually I still need that.

So I thank God for the wit & humor of 'Catters who start such threads, and who post on those types of threads.

Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:49 AM

Should I waste my time reading this thread, or just post blindly anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:59 AM

I wrote: "I thank God for ...'Catters who ..post on those types of threads."

Since I posted on this thread, and have posted on other threads that are not the least bit serious, I guess that includes me.

So thank you, God, for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 11:30 AM

I think it's a valid point, Bill. There are many, many threads I don't bother opening. There are several members whose posts I refuse to read. Tried it & found nothing worth my time. We have some great members here & some great information & opinions available. That's why I stay. Those of you who like the drivel, enjoy!

best to some,

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 04:18 PM

aww..I see your point, bbc....but I 'sometimes' find value even in the most awkward and silly threads....even if it's only an exchange of brands of silliness. We all have our personal levels of tolerance for the 'drivel', and different notions of how to define it.


I guess I just have thicker skin on some parts of my aged anatomy! *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:21 PM

So would "Cujo" (Stephen King and latterly Kath and Kim) be a version of the name, or has it got a separate origin?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bbc
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:36 PM

Bill, don't get me wrong. I enjoy conversation, too. I've always read the "non-music" threads & usually contribute to them more than to the strictly musical ones. What I dislike are the negative threads & the copycat ad infinitum ones.

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:47 PM

"Cujo" is a corruption of "Kojo", "Kwadwo" etc {depending on the Ghanaian dialect}. A 1991 reprint of a 1977 book that I have called "The Book of African Names" by Chief Osuntoki says that "Kwadwo" is the Akan name for male born on Monday. Monday in Akan is "Dwouda". According to that book, the Akan meaning for "Monday" is "Peace".

I've read that this Ghanaian day name was the source of Stephen King's vicious dog named "Cujo". I can't recall where I read it...And I just learned fom your link about that Australian series
Kath & Kim and the dog "Cujo".

It's possible that the use of this name for a dog is based on the animalization [if that's a word] of African people. Or maybe King just liked the sound of name. And perhaps Kim & Kath copied off of Stephen King in the use of the name Cujo because in the Western world that name has come to be associated with gogs.

And perhaps not.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:50 PM

Wow. Maybe I made up a new word. But gogs=dogs.

Same same or nearly so.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 07:10 PM

I've got a Duck Billed Platitude,
I keep him in a cage,
I can't stand his bad attitude,
It's got me in a rage,
You see, it was my 'at 'e chewed,
While I was out at work,
I gave him too much latitude,
The evil little jerk.

Don't you just hate it when that happens.........I'll get me coat!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:05 PM

Azizi...
"Nothing is new under the Sun!"
Gogs

Brillantly funny! A Welsh Invention!

"The Gogs are a mind-bogglingly stupid, coarse clutch of cavemen and women who, robbed of anything we could remotely call language, communicate through a stream of manic gestures, belches, farts and bodily outpourings."

Sounds like the Mudcat BS section on a good day...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 11:09 PM

Azizi, I hope that King just liked the name and didn't mean anything demeaning. He did name a killer car "Christine.":-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 03:20 AM

Cudjo was also the name of the Geoffrey Holder character in the `76 movie Swashbuckler.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 08:40 AM

Thanks for that information, Cluin.

I haven't seen that movie, and wonder if the Cudjo character was was good guy, or a bad guy, or somewhere in between {like most people are on any given day}.

By using that link, I see that the character's full name is
"Cudjo Quadrill". Giving that character a last name that has the "Qua" /"Kwa" sound as so many of these male Akan names sure seems purposeful to me.

I just emailed my friend in Ghana to ask him if he knew or could find out the meaning of the "Qua"/ "Kwa" element {prefix?{prefix}.

I also invited Wuarcoo to visit and to post on Mudcat.

That would be great. But we shall see, what we shall see.
[Which is not a rhetorical question, but maybe it's a rhetorical statement-if there are such things].

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 08:43 AM

Very Sorry- {I doing this alot on this thead-proving that "preview" should be my friend but isn't through no fault of his/her/it's own}

"Wuarcoo" should be "Quarcoo".

Those names are not the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 10:40 PM

He was a somewhat sinister good guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:12 PM

Who is "he"? Oh, Cudjo in Swashbuckler? Okay...

So which came first- the Cudjo dog or the Cudjo man- in the movies that is?

[Yeah. I could look it up, but I mean this is not a rhetorical question and you guys know this stuff right off the bat [what ever that means] so I don't have to look it up, right? [ or "eh?" if you're Canadian].

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Once Famous
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:14 PM

The more rhetorical the question, the more this place sucks.

Keep the pseudo intellectuals at bay. Please!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:15 PM

Right of the bat: he gets it from this guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:45 PM

Thanks alot Peace.

I hate bats.

Not that bats ever did anything to me. But you gotta admit they aren't the best looking animal?-um-bird?-well whatever they are-on the block.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:48 PM

Since the Swashbuckler movie came out in `76 and King wrote Cujo in around 1980, I guess the movie character came first, but I doubt they are connected in any way.

Stephen King says he can't recall much of writing the book since it was in the midst of his alcoholism and drug addiction days. It's essentially a story about a rabid dog terrorizing a family and community. Cujo was a friendly loving 200 lb. St Bernard that got bitten by some rabid bats and became a terrifying killer. A paradox between the image of the kindly loveable St Bernard family pet and a crazed slobbering ravening beast it became.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:48 PM

The answer is in. Rhetorical threads are not ruining the BS. One sexually frustrated anonymous person refreshing all the old Shatner threads is ruining the BS. Or at least trying to.

But it'll blow over presently when they have to go to the washroom or eat or get some sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:51 PM

How do you know the person is sexually frustrated? Maybe this IS sex for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:54 PM

Well, I think it's very, very likely. Nastiness and sheer pettiness of that kind are often biproducts of a smothered and unexpressed sex drive.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:05 AM

So they take it out on Bill Shatner?

Freud would have to set aside a few hours a day for this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:06 AM

Yes...

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:10 AM

Interesting development now. Joe or a clone seems to have closed all the refreshed Shatner threads as well as deleted the GUEST refresher posts.

Bravo.

Just hope Shambles doesn't find out.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:22 AM

Excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:25 AM

Spoken like a true evil genius.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:26 AM

Or a teenager from the 1980s.

You know, either one.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:33 AM

Oh, be off with you, you miserable nerf-herder! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:44 AM

Och! Ma secret's oot!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 09:39 PM

Haven't you guys been chastized enough?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 09:45 PM

Is that a rhetorical question?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 10:52 PM

Here's another non-rhetorical question: What's a nerf-herder?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:11 PM

A guy with an irresistable and almost mystical attraction for the laaaaaay-deeees.

But how Little Hawk knew, I can't guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:12 PM

Pic of nerf herder here.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:15 PM

So I guess this is a Canadian thing.

Where I come from we call them playa playas.

[btw, Peace: That was a naughty drawing of Frosty]

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:34 PM

My first 100th post!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 04:09 AM

From: Don(Wyziwyg)T - PM
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 07:10 PM

I've got a Duck Billed Platitude,
I keep him in a cage,
I can't stand his bad attitude,
It's got me in a rage,
You see, it was my 'at 'e chewed,
While I was out at work,
I gave him too much latitude,
The evil little jerk.

Don't you just hate it when that happens.........I'll get me coat!

"DON'T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS?"

The ultimate rhetorical question, and it spoiled precisely nothing. The thread is still going strong. So rhetorical questions do not per se ruin the BS

I rest my case M'Lud

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 06:55 PM

"The ultimate rhetorical question, and it spoiled precisely nothing."

Don't be so sure of that. Someone somewhere got ticked.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 08:32 PM

Will it never end?

If there was no BS, would we have to SING rhetorical questions?

May I be excused from my own thread now?





oh, wait...I haven't been needed in it for many, many posts now, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 08:41 PM

Hey, Bill. Howzit?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Mar 06 - 08:59 PM

zit ok...use Clearisil!
I'm not too bad, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Arne
Date: 05 Mar 06 - 06:06 PM

You didn't really want an answer, did you?

Good. Cuz you ain't getting one....

Cheers,

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: GUEST,Quarcoo
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 05:10 AM

i decided to join this discussion,upon an invitation or should i say urging by Aziz. about the names thing. i know that different people of different culture settings,decide on how they will go about giving names in their enviroment. we Africans will always acknowledge God in everything we do and it has remain so from generation,no matter the current circumstances or enviroment.whether they are living in Timbuktu or Alaska.

i have already given Aziz an explanation of the names thing. i am sure she will post them shortly,but would welcome any additional enquiries.

once again,Quarcoo from Ghana(Gana).

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:45 PM

Hello again.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 05:20 PM

"About the name Kwadwo/Kojo and Kudjo. The first one is an Akan male born on Monday. Now when the child is being named,most of the time this name is not mentioned because it obvious that he was born on Monday so the name is his. He is rather given the name of either his father,grandfather,uncle or even aunties depending on the tribe. So let's say that you have four boys born on monday,the first one can be called either Kwadwo or the name given to him during the naming ceremony,and this can apply to the rest of the boys,so it depends on you the mother who was there at the naming ceremony to distinguish between the boys. Eg. my dad is Kweku,my uncle Kweku,my grandfather Kweku and myself Kweku(Kuuku). Now when we meet,my mother will call me Kweku Nyarko, my grandfather Kweku Ntefo.So there is no confusion.

The name Kojo and Kudjo is a name for males born on Monday belonging to the Ewe tribe(another tribe found in Ghana,Togo,Benin and Nigeria). The Ewe are our brothers and we have a lot of things in common. They also have names like adwoa/adwoavi etc."
-Quarcoo, from email to Azizi 3/7/06

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:11 PM

How did a thread about rhetorical questions drift into a discussion on non-English naming practises?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:21 PM

Is THAT a rhetorical question?

(It happened when the thought police weren't looking.)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:30 PM

Thread drift is a revered Mudcat tradition of immemorial continuity....only defense is to drift it back.

Can thread drift be defended, or will the defense inevitably drift?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:32 PM

You can blame me. I responded to this post:

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: bobad - PM
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:38 PM


As a result of the posts on this subject, I started this thread:

Naming Practices & Ceremonies

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:42 PM

Was I well aware of the culprit when I asked my rhetorical question?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:48 PM

Is that a rhetorical question?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 06:59 PM

Are you with the progam now?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:03 PM

Which program?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:09 PM

Is the Airforce flying low today?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:15 PM

Can a metaphysican be sued for malpractice?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:18 PM

Does a bear go in the woods?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:27 PM

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:52 PM

One of its legs is both the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:58 PM

Is that a rehetrical question in a form I don't understand Cluin?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM

Heretical questions?

Hysterical questions?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:01 PM

You explain yours and I'll explain mine.

But that would defy the purpose.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:05 PM

How?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:09 PM

Ah. Very clever.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:17 PM

Was it?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:34 PM

Will success spoil Rock Hunter?

Can 50 million Frenchmen really be wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 01:29 PM

I was reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves and came across a bit which passes on the suggestion that rhetorical questions could be indicated by the upside down question mark the Spanish use at the start of questions. Apparently this was actually the practice at one time back in teh 17th century.

For example:

Do bears shit in the woods¿

(You get that by holding down Alt and typing 168 on the numeric pad on your keyboard.)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 01:33 PM

That A before the upside down question mark shouldn't be there. It didn't show up on the preview...

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 01:56 PM

Never mind the question mark. What's the answer?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:41 PM

You'll know when you step in it. Then suddenly the rhetoric doesn't matter so much anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:42 PM

¿
¡

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:43 PM

But think, my friends -- what IS a rhetorical question, really??


A

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 10:48 PM

It is as the sound of one hand clapping, of a revolving door not clapping, of an audience not clapping. It is a statement within a question within a prune.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 10:54 PM

"What IS a rhetorical question, really??"

No answer to that question is expected, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:11 AM

that doesn't mean to say you couldn't make an answer even if its not expected
when Hamlet said to be or not to be?

not be mate. evry time! do yourself in! if you don't , all sorts of quite nice peoople get killed, and the stage is left full of bodies...

another thread
great rhetorical questions that someone should have hazarded an answer to

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 05:06 PM

In spite of my addiction to this place, I'm here less because I saw the truth of this threads premise. No problema though. Other interests and compulsions have filled any void that may have been extant. -- Alas, it's a sneaky cruel joke that Viagra won't work por moi. No condoms or condom-threads for this old fArt. No New Age crap for me. But old age! --- There's the rub...

Love,

Art (no F)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 06:04 PM

Keep a stiff upper lip, Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 06:26 PM

a stiff upper lip? They have a Viagra tablet you dissolve in your mouth?

(this is a rare thread...I don't actually start very many. I'm glad to read it again. Fun.)

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: olddude
Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:49 AM

List of Languages spoken in Canada

Thank you ... my life is now complete
I can die in peace

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: john f weldon
Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:54 AM

If you had a thread that linked to all the threads that do not link to themselves, should that thread link to itself?

Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:02 AM

Rhetorical Question   Your Caption!