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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? |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: Peace Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM How are marshmallows made? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: Clinton Hammond Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM It hardly matters |
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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? |
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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.... |
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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 Does arcane philosophical humor lose something in the translation? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: Clinton Hammond Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:13 PM There's humour here? |
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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'. |
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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. |
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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!) |
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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. |
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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? |
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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? |
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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) |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: bobad Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:39 PM Twi? |
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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 |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: frogprince Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:47 PM Why do you ask? |
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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~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:52 PM krappenkrout? |
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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. |
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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... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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!) |
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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!! |
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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. |
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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......... |
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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 |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS From: bobad Date: 28 Feb 06 - 03:28 PM Ask Wolfgang. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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..☺) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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!!" |
