BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS

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

Rhetorical Question   Your Caption!

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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 06:04 PM

Keep a stiff upper lip, Art.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Bill D
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:42 PM

¿
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:17 PM

Was it?

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 - 08:05 PM

How?

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: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM

Heretical questions?

Hysterical questions?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 06:59 PM

Are you with the progam now?

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 - 06:42 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 - 06:32 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:45 PM

Hello again.

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: 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: 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: 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 - 08:32 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 - 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: 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: Azizi
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:34 PM

My first 100th post!!!

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: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 11:12 PM

Pic of nerf herder here.

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: 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: bobad
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 09:45 PM

Is that a rhetorical question?