Questions Only

[Weeping Willow]

don't you know?? didn't you write it?

[AimusSage]

Was I not referring to another question?

[Weeping Willow]

how should i know?

[smilingtearz]

so which question are we now referring to?

[Weeping Willow]

isnt it The one you asked about?

[AimusSage]

Do you remember which one that was?

[smilingtearz]

Do i remember anything after what you've been doing.. umm, i mean.. saying? :p

[AimusSage]

Are we not still having an interesting conversation? :)

[smilingtearz]

is that a conversation??

[AimusSage]

Was it meant metaphorically?

[Weeping Willow]

What are you talking about?

[AimusSage]

Was i not talking about the metaphorical nature of questions that potentially have multiple meanings?

[Weeping Willow]

how can i know what were you talking about?

[smilingtearz]

didn't you observe?

[AimusSage]

Indeed, did you not see what has transpired?

[smilingtearz]

Was i not busy elsewhere?... :D

[AimusSage]

hehe... Busy... with what ? :p

[smilingtearz]

Was it not something like wondering how warm, deep mysteries can be ? :p

[Weeping Willow]

are you trying to confuse little old me here?

[AimusSage]

And how deep and warm are they?

[Nightshade]

Are we talking springs or pockets.??

[Pendragon]

Who is "he" and why is he on first?No, Why is Right Field, Who is on first base, understand?

[Pendragon]

So what don't you get?Robin, are not you perfectly aware that What plays second base? :D

[Pendragon]

So, listen up one more time, guys and gals don't you know I hate repeating myself? Who is on first, What's on second, I Dont Know is on third, right? The pitcher is Today, the catcher is Tomorrow, dig? Right field is Why, Center Field is Because, Left Field is Sorry, OK? The shortstop is I Don't Give a Darn, dig? The whole team is there now, so questions? Comedy routine, Abbott & Costello.

[smilingtearz]

Huh?.............

[ShoutGrace]

Why isn't this thread at the top of the aggregator?

[AimusSage]

It's there now isn't it? Do you look at the thread when it is at the top?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't It more obvious there? Where have you been? :D

[AimusSage]

Was I gone? Where have I been? Did I just skip another time frame?

[ShoutGrace]

Does this happen often? What is your personal evaluation of physcotropic substances?

[AimusSage]

Is not my mind the most potent psychotropic substance of them all?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't that a little selfcondescending? Or is it selfaffirming?

[AimusSage]

Could it be self delusional?

[ShoutGrace]

Are you prone to such behaviour?

[AimusSage]

are you referring to the time shifting or the self deluding?

[ShoutGrace]

Can a person voluntarily shift time?

[Nightshade]

WHo are the eagles? Wait did they sing Hotel Califfornia? And if not why is yahoo launch saying they did??

[RobinHood3000]

How can you not know the Eagles and their classic hit, Hotel California??

[Nightshade]

I dont know do you??
It turns out I do know that song But I havent heard ityt in years and anyway I didnt know who sang it I just know its opne of my mums all time favourites.:D

[AimusSage]

Is Hotel Calfornia not extremely high on many top 100 greatest songs of all time lists radio stations play?

[Nightshade]

DO I sound like someone who listens to the radio??

[AimusSage]

Would you listen if they played John Denver songs?

[Nightshade]

But how would I know if they did???

[AimusSage]

You mean you don't have an FM receiver in your head that continously play all frequencies?

[Nightshade]

do you??? Have you been watching Doctor WHo? Isnt it along time till saterday? Do you think micky will die??OR ricky?? or :eek2: both!?!

[AimusSage]

Who? What? Where? I don't watch Doctor Who, I know 'The Who', but the're not one and the same now are they?

[Nightshade]

How can you not know The doctor?

[RobinHood3000]

Is the doctor in?

[Pendragon]

Theoretically, all thirteen of him are in, somewhere, but you'd have to understand the space-time contendium theory and multiple universes and frankly that seems a lot of bother, doesn't it?

[AimusSage]

Why would that be a lot of bother? Isn't that common knowledge?

[WhimsySA]

Dosen't that depend on what you classify as 'common' knowledge?

[AimusSage]

What would you classify as common knowledge?

[WhimsySA]

Wouldn't you say that which you know & I suppose alot more?

[AimusSage]

But what if a person is not common, would what he knows still be common knowledge?

[WhimsySA]

Aren't you smart? Can't you tell me that?

[AimusSage]

Who told you I was smart? What was the person thinking when he/she told you that?

[WhimsySA]

Why do you deny that you are smart? Isn't everyone smart in his or her own way?

[AimusSage]

I'm denying what now? Are you so sure about the second question? Have you never met any really daft people?

[WhimsySA]

Why wouldn't I have met daft people? (someone in my class is daft but I think he acts like that - he has 1 other bro & 3 sisters) Aren't people only daft because we are so smart?

[AimusSage]

How does one go about measuring daftness anyway?

[WhimsySA]

Can daftness even be measured?

[AimusSage]

Don't people try to measure everything nowadays?

[WhimsySA]

Why do things have to be measured?

[AimusSage]

Could it be because there is a desire in many people to have things explained, segmented and analyzed, to compensate for their own self doubt and uncertainty?

[WhimsySA]

Dosen't that just make for more learning??????

[AimusSage]

Would that be what confuses so many people?

[WhimsySA]

Isn't confusion horrible?

[AimusSage]

Why would it be horrible?

[samercury]

Should it be fun?

[AimusSage]

Does that have anything to do with the fun factor of the dead obvious smiling donkey?

[WhimsySA]

What is 'the dead obvious smiling donkey'?

[AimusSage]

Isn't it the one that is smiling right now, while looking at that silly monkey over yonder?

[Gozeta]

Why is it smiling?

[AimusSage]

Do you prefer it to do something else?

[ShoutGrace]

What else would it do?

[AimusSage]

Is it true that these smiling donkey have an inside running joke?

[ShoutGrace]

How would I know? Have I been made privy to such information?

[AimusSage]

Does that mean you are not one of the smiling donkeys? ;)

[ShoutGrace]

Would it be better for me if I was?

[AimusSage]

Do you like to carry around coffee beans in colombia? Isn't that what smiling donkeys do?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't that be a wonderful activity to engage in?

[AimusSage]

Aren't you in danger of being kidnapped when in Colombia?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't that depend on whether or not I had transmutation properties or not?

[AimusSage]

Don't these people kidnap everything that's alive? What you you transmutate into?

[ShoutGrace]

Maybe a cheese grater? Or a monstrous barnacle? Why would you ever kidnap a barnacle?

[AimusSage]

Can't you hold it ransom for a poor sailor who lost his favorite barnacle?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't that poor sailor be too busy engaging in promiscuous activities at the local harbor to worry about a smelly barnacle?

[AimusSage]

What if he is out in the forrest, riding a smiling donkey, on its way to a coffee plantation?

[ShoutGrace]

Didn't you just metaphorically illustrate what I just said?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[AimusSage]

Are you saying a smiling monkey in reality is a metaphor for a ship?

[ShoutGrace]

Wasn't I talking about sexual relations?

[AimusSage]

Why did you have to steer it in that direction, when I was tactfully trying to avoid that thought in my mind? :lol:

[ShoutGrace]

Didn't you enjoy the metaphor? Doesn't it make you think . . . How is riding through a forest on a smiling donkey on the way to the coffee plantation in any way akin to sexual relations?

[AimusSage]

How is it not? Is not everything that is said some form of innuendo if one looks hard enough?

[ShoutGrace]

How would I know? Do I not uphold Christian ideals?

[AimusSage]

What do they have to do with innuendo?

[ShoutGrace]

Wasn't it my point that they have nothing to do with innuendo?

[AimusSage]

Are you saying that the smiling donkey has nothing to do with anything at all then?

[ShoutGrace]

Is it not obvious I am too dense to really grasp the essence of the smiling donkey on any level?

[AimusSage]

But what exactly does the smiling donkey represent then? If you don't know, who does?

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps a smiling donkey itself? But where are they all?

[AimusSage]

Are they not all in Colombia, carying sailors on their backs?

[ShoutGrace]

In light of this fact, could they even communicate with us?

[AimusSage]

Would using a universal translator from Star Trek shed some light on this matter?

[ShoutGrace]

How could we predict whether such a thing would prove efficacious?

[AimusSage]

Perhaps we could ask the late Gene Roddenberry how it affected him?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Gene who, m'boy?

[AimusSage]

Haven't you heard of Star Trek?

[Nightshade]

Which one???

[AimusSage]

What if I say it's the one where Kirk wreckes the enterprise?

[Nightshade]

What if I said what the heck are you watching??

[AimusSage]

Does that mean you don't know what I'm talking about?

[Nightshade]

should I take that to mean you do??

[AimusSage]

Why wouldn't I know what I was talking about?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Who else can vouch for you, kid?

[Nightshade]

who are you calling kid?

[AimusSage]

Are you referring to the sundance kid?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Could you please name me a few more kids? Am I to make a selection from only one choice?

[AimusSage]

Can't you just name your Kid?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Oh, we're talkin' bout my kid?

[AimusSage]

What else would we be talking about?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Your kid, maybe?

[Nightshade]

Aimus has kids? how many? human, martian or goat??

[Mililalil XXIV]

Did you forget to mention "demi-goat"?

[AimusSage]

Don't you think they'de be more like half-gods? The ancient greek ones?

[Nightshade]

dont you mean pan? Do you know why the word panic is panic?

[ShoutGrace]

Is this an etymological question best answered by a specialist?

[AimusSage]

Wouldn't my future children rather resemble Apollo and Athena? Why would they be goat like?

[Nightshade]

but wasnt PAn the uncle of Apollo and Athena? or wait werreent Those 2 siblings ? By different mothers?
Or was that hercules?? Where is my map of mythological family trees when you( I ) need it??

[Mililalil XXIV]

Wouldn't ye like to know?

[amanda_isabel]

would you like to know?

[AimusSage]

Would I like to know what exactly?

[RJbibliophil]

Will Nightshade believe me when I tell her that Apollo and Artemis were twins born of Zeus and Leto on the island of Delos? That Apollo was the god music, light and reason, the sun, whereas Artemis was the goddess of the hunt and newborn, the moon? If I tell her of how Artemis was so cold hearted? How the arrows of Artemis were soft as moonbeams and brought painless death, but those of Apollo were hard and piercing as the rays of the sun? Pan was the god of nature, the son of Hermes and a nymph, was he not?

[AimusSage]

Can I thank you for giving this explanation to Night, since I was to lazy to do so?

[Pendragon]

It's possible that Piglet may be correct in her lesson on mythology, (as to the parentage of Pan, although I thought Zeus his father) and he was the supposed God of Nature, but he falls into the class or hierarchy known as demigods, does that clear the picture? *singing* Oh Piglet Gal, the pipes, Pan Pipes, are they calling? :D

[ShoutGrace]

What did that have to do with?

[AimusSage]

What does anything have to do with everything? Isn't the universe complex enough without trying to explain it? So what is string theory all about anyway?

[ShoutGrace]

If the Universe were that complex, could we even think about it, it being as unquantifiable as it is? Isn't 'string theory' basically saying, to paraphrase, that you can never string a cheese perfectly?

[AimusSage]

Isn't string theory more like a guitar string which produces different tunes depending on the tension and such?

[ShoutGrace]

I assume that by 'such' you mean ambient temperature, force of pluck, etc?

[Shannanigan]

Can I remember back to when I heard about string theory? Was I in...8th grade? Didn't my teacher have us discuss it in class to impress his evaluator? String theory...who the heck cares when we've got microwavable burritos?

[AimusSage]

What else could I be talking about, but are the strings in string theory attached anywhere?

[ShoutGrace]

Didn't the fact that they were 'guitar' strings imply that they were attached to a guitar? Or could the adjective 'guitar' refer to the string's intended purpose?

Does anybody besides me eat burritos cooked in a nuclear reactor?

[Shannanigan]

Didn't my above post suggest that I eat nuclear reactor-cooked burritos?

[AimusSage]

Isn't the difference between a guitar string and a string from string theory that the latter has tension while floating about in space time?

Do you drink vitamin juice out of the Tsjernobyl reactor too? Isn't that what I do?

[ShoutGrace]

@Aimus - Isn't your nuclear habit reflected in that bewitching avatar?

@Shan - Shouldn't you have a chance to explain yourself before I jump to conclusions?

[AimusSage]

Didn't my avatar come from the galactic core? What does that have to do with my drinking habits?

[Shannanigan]

Are we alone in our nuclear reactor dependency?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't the avatar, at least in some vague sense, a reflection of personality? Isn't nuclear ingestion a serious personality aspect?

[AimusSage]

What if you have nuclear indigestion? What would happen to you?

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps someone at Pepto Bismol would like to know? Couldn't you just see a nuclear indegestion ad campaign?

[AimusSage]

What if mobsters get wind of it? Would they use the nuclear fumes that these poor people emit for their criminal activities?

[ShoutGrace]

Emit? Do you have any idea how many orfices you actually have??

Would we expect anything less from mobsters?

[Shannanigan]

Aren't mobsters still people with friends, families, needs and wants just like us?

[AimusSage]

how many orfices do people have then? Why can't mobsters just run around with their tommy guns and shoot up some illegal drinking establishments?

[Shannanigan]

Why only illegal drinking establishments? Why didn't you include whorehouses and crackhouses in that statement?

[AimusSage]

Wouldn't you rather see them use nuclear weapons on these places?

[Shannanigan]

Jeez, have you known me long? How did you know that I would think nuclear weapons would be better?

[AimusSage]

Was that not clear from the way you formulated the question?

[ShoutGrace]

Aren't nuclear weapons a little overkill for buildings? Don't those things obliterate entire countries?

[AimusSage]

You think the fumes from people with nuclear indigestion can obliterate entire nations?

[ShoutGrace]

Is this a decent thing to think upon? Are not people's fumes in general crude thinking matter, let alone nuclear fumes?

[AimusSage]

Would it be better to discuss the criminal activites the mafia engages in?

[RJbibliophil]

Has Night seen my post yet? Is it reasonable to assume that she never will?

[AimusSage]

Would it help if we advertise the post everytime she's online?

[ShoutGrace]

Would you go to all that trouble?

[AimusSage]

Do you think it'll make a difference?

[RJbibliophil]

Oh, would you really do that? She would appreciate it, wouldn't she?

[ShoutGrace]

That would depend on the nature of your post, wouldn't it?

[AimusSage]

Why don't you tell her yourself? Are you not the one that posted it? Do you not deserve the credit?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't this much ado about nothing? Couldn't RJ just PM NS?

[AimusSage]

Why do things the easy way when it can be so complicated?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't I be implicating myself if I answered that question honestly?

[AimusSage]

What would be implicated by answering questions?

[Weeping Willow]

What's up everyone?

[RJbibliophil]

Oh, I was just answering Nightys question, wasn't I? Wouldn't she like to know? What would happen if I did? One should always consider the long-term consequences, right?

[SurrealDialogue]

What are you talking about?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't it strange to interject a question after so long?

[Shannanigan]

Aren't we just supposed to keep interjecting questions?

[kathycf]

Isn't that the point?

[Mililalil XXIV]

The point of what?

[RobinHood3000]

The point of the pencil?

[Pendragon]

Ball-point pen do? :D

[kathycf]

Don't you think one of those feathery quill pens would be better?

[RobinHood3000]

Didn't I use all the feathers available for fletching :blush:?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Now, isn't this all just horse feathers?

[blondeatheart]

isn't a horse with feathers a horse with wings? is that a pegasus?

[Nightshade]

How can you have a feathery mammal? Didnt pegusus have wings of fur like bats?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Now, where do you get this notion from? Is that how it is in Egypt?

[AimusSage]

Don't they have camels in egypt?

[ShoutGrace]

Why are talks in this thread always centered on or reverting back to the topic of camels?

[AimusSage]

Perhaps it is due to the universal appeal of this animal?

[ShoutGrace]

But is the appeal actually universal? Or does it insomuchasfact reside in the minds of LitNet addicts? How can we tell?

[AimusSage]

Doesn't every self respecting zoo around the world have camels?

[ShoutGrace]

Does zoo inhabitance necessarily correlate with appeal? Do not camels naturally transcend zoos?

[AimusSage]

Have you never seen the people watching the camels in the zoo? Do they not enjoy the sight of these mamals?

[ShoutGrace]

But don't camels have a tendency to spit, usually at erect viewers eyeballs?

[AimusSage]

Isn't that half the appeal?

[ShoutGrace]

Doesn't that depend on the velocity, texture and odor of the camel expectoration?

[AimusSage]

Isn't it the risk factor that draws people to the camels? Isn't getting hit in the face by smelly camel spit one of the greatest achievements in a human's life?

[ShoutGrace]

Is my belief that this must have happened to you unfounded?

[AimusSage]

Don't you think I still have much to aspire toward?

[ShoutGrace]

Well doesn't that depend on whether or not you have already achieved the apogee of human experience, namely getting your face spit upon by a camel?

[AimusSage]

Isn't that the one thing I have yet to achieve?

[ShoutGrace]

Are you taking any literal of figurative steps towards achieving that goal?

[AimusSage]

Isn't visiting zoos several times a year enough to achieve this? There must be a camel somewhere that is willing to spit in my face, right?

[ShoutGrace]

How could I do any other than to applaud your efforts?

What if there is no such willing camel?

[AimusSage]

Would it be possible to force a camel to spit in ones face?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't that detract, if only slightly, from the essence of the spitting? Musn't it be voluntary?

[AimusSage]

Why is voluntary spitting more valuable then forced spitting? Isn't it all spitting?

[ShoutGrace]

Spit is spit, I will grant that, but a voluntary expectoration has a deeper, genuine aspect to it, which is much appreciable, don't you think?

Isn't spitting similar to love in this way?

[AimusSage]

Are you saying it is impossible to force a camel to spit?

[ShoutGrace]

Did it come out that way? Will you please accept my apology?

How would one go about forcing a camel to spit?

[AimusSage]

Would slapping the creature in the face have effect?

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps to rile the beast?!?

But isn't getting a camel to spit more of a coaxing type of method?

[Mililalil XXIV]

well, what about tickling?

[ShoutGrace]

Well, where would you tickle a camel? Who would be compelled to do such a thing?

[AimusSage]

Isn't spitting the camel in the face the best method? Would they not gladly return the favour?

[ShoutGrace]

How can we judge their emotions? Is it not possible that spit is a one way, take-only relationship for camels?

[AimusSage]

Wouldn't that be selfish? Don't you think Camels like to give?

[ShoutGrace]

Is spitting really giving? Don't the camels receive some special warm feelings themselves when they spit? Couldn't spitting even be considered selfish?

[AimusSage]

Was I not referring to them not spitting in return as being a selfish act? Should I have expressed myself more clearly?

[ShoutGrace]

Is there a field of study linked specifically to camel expectoration? If there is, should we feel obligated to do our research before posing these questions, well intentioned though they are?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Who has the link to that journal, Camelitae Napolitanae?

[AimusSage]

Who's going to look into this matter? Isn't there some camel expert nearby we can ask to clarify?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Isn't anyone going to ask me?

[AimusSage]

Are you a camel expert?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Do you think I am? Who can tell?

[AimusSage]

Aren't you the one who knows best?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Don't you think I was just saying that?

[ShoutGrace]

Can there be such a person?

[Mililalil XXIV]

You mean saying that?

[ShoutGrace]

Did I not make it clear that I was talking about a camel expert?

[Mililalil XXIV]

You mean I didn't acknowledge that?

[AimusSage]

are you or are you not an export in camel behaviour?

[Mililalil XXIV]

An expert or an export? Can one man be both? Will a knowledgable man ever accept the task of exporting a camel?

[Shannanigan]

Exporting a camel? Who would want to export a camel when they are so useful? (Camels don't need gas, right?)

[AimusSage]

Are camels not gas producing animals?

[Weeping Willow]

So are we back talking about camels?

[Mililalil XXIV]

You too, eh, Willow?

[Weeping Willow]

Why do you think i'm two? wouldn't it be wierd if i'll be two?

[mingdamerciless]

two, did he not say too?

[Weeping Willow]

DOes it look like i ment too and not two?

[mingdamerciless]

is that what you meant?

[Weeping Willow]

Why is it that unclear?

[AimusSage]

Can we talk about medievel damsels in distress instead?

[kathycf]

Why not medieval knights in distress? (those tournaments were tough!)

[AimusSage]

But are not the damsels spectators at these tournaments? Is that not a situation that is cause for much distress?

[Weeping Willow]

Should we ask a knight that question?

[AimusSage]

Isn't the brave knight in distress too busy being in distress due to saving the damsel in distress?