Questions Only

[kathycf]

Weren't the damsels brave too?

[AimusSage]

Didn't the damsels use GPS to direct their knights to their location? Would that make them brave?

[imthefoolonthehill]

what else would they use? Isn't it obvious?

[Weeping Willow]

Can we talk about something else?

[AimusSage]

What would you like to talk about?

[Weeping Willow]

Dunno... have any ideas?

[AimusSage]

Would the detrimental effects of turnip consumption in modern day society be an interesting subject for you?

[Riesa]

Why all the turnip talk?

[Weeping Willow]

you think Aimus has a Turnip fetish?

[Riesa]

How do you indulge a turnip fetish?

[Weeping Willow]

can't it be a childhood thingy?

[Riesa]

Do children have fetishes, or just bad habits?

[Weeping Willow]

don't you have kids to answer that question?

[mingdamerciless]

can't we pretend we're kids again and find out for ourselves?

[amanda_isabel]

why don't you, and tell us how it goes?

[kathycf]

Why not ask all the turnips?

[mingdamerciless]

But would the turnips definitely tell us the truth?

[AimusSage]

Isn't it true that all turnips are pathological liars? Should we ask the mushrooms to confirm this?

[Riesa]

Aren't the mushrooms too busy taking over the earth to testify against the poor turnips?

[AimusSage]

Who said the turnips are poor? Are they not the owners of a large international company specialised in the sale of turnip related merchandise?

[ShoutGrace]

Is there a customer base for 'turnip related merchandise'? Isn't it likely that their large international company is foundering?

[AimusSage]

Have you ever been too mars? You don't seriously think a Martian without some form of turnip related memorabilia actually exists, now do you?

[ShoutGrace]

Can I not be quite certain that if a Martian does, in fact, exist, that it would be lacking in turnip related goods?

[AimusSage]

Isn't that where the turnips' company comes in? Do they not export their merchandise to Mars?

[ShoutGrace]

How have they been able to keep such an operation under wraps?? Wouldn't we have a better understanding of this stellar exportation - if it actually exists?

[AimusSage]

Do you think the general public would be granted access to such knowledge? Have you ever actually been to outerspace to witness it with your own eyes?

[ShoutGrace]

Why should the public be kept unaware of such activities?

(Do you actually think that they landed on the moon, despite your never having been there?)

[AimusSage]

How do you think the public would react if they are made aware of the existence of martians, and that the turnips have had dealings with them for centuries? Don't you think it'll turn into mass hysteria?

(Haven't I been on the moon? Isn't the Dutch flag standing next to the American one? :p)

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't it be a mass hysteria of broadened horizons and enlightened prejudices (both towards martians and turnips alike)??

[AimusSage]

You don't honestly believe that? Don't you know what happened when the people thought the martians invaded in 1938?

[ShoutGrace]

Didn't a large portion of dimwitted drains of society get erradicated?

How can there be a faulty outcome from the procurement of knowledge?

[AimusSage]

Don't you think knowledge needs to be treated carefully? Do you think mankind is ready for such knowledge?

[amanda_isabel]

is mankind ready for knowledge?

[thingamajig]

Is knowledge ready for mankind????

[AimusSage]

Is mankind crazy about knowledge, or is knowledge just messing with the mind of mankind?

[thingamajig]

Do we even have minds or is that just a misconception?

[AimusSage]

Don't we share one hive mind with the rest of mankind?

[thingamajig]

What?...........

[AimusSage]

You mean to say you don't know what I'm thinking?

[ShoutGrace]

Does anyone, really?

Why don't you clarify for the rest of us fellow bees?

[AimusSage]

Maybe I should call tech support? You think they can fix broken neural pathways in the brain?

[ShoutGrace]

Can't modern technology do anything it wishes? Aren't you assuming that I have discernable neural pathways in the first place?

[AimusSage]

Shouldn't you be plugged in the neural receptor? How else can you understand my insanity?

[ShoutGrace]

Can you be so certain I am not already plugged in? Wouldn't your insanity be harder to understand that way?

[kathycf]

Who could understand such a thing?

[ShoutGrace]

But surely there is someone who does?

[AimusSage]

Isn't that guy from jupiter, what's his name again, Polywaffel or something, very understanding?

[kathycf]

Don't you mean Gluggywiffel from Mars?

[AimusSage]

Gluggywiffel? Where did he come from, wasn't he on some deep space exploration, in search of planets that could sustain turnips?

[kathycf]

Um, aren't you thinking of Sslarkum? Isn't he the hunter of turnip sustaining planets?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Isn't Sslarkum the planet's name?

[Pendragon]

And here I thought I was the one who read weird Sci-fi, but I think it proven not to be true after all, n'est c'est pas? http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/borgsmile.gif

[Mililalil XXIV]

Could be, mais non?

[kathycf]

Ce qui? If the planet's name is Sslarkum, then who is the space guy?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Ever heard of Mister X?

[kathycf]

Isn't he related to Miss Y?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't it be more accurate to call them partners?

[AimusSage]

Partners in what? Wouldn't you think they are at odds with each other?

[Pendragon]

Perhaps they are relatives of Q from the Star Trek Universe? :nod:

[AimusSage]

Do they also have their own continuum?

[Pendragon]

Maybe they do, who can say? Perhaps they hitch rides in Doctor Who's T.A.R.D.I.S. , since it is so big inside even he admits he has lost things in it before, do you think?

[kathycf]

Didn't Q steal the tardis for a joyride?

[Kafka]

Isn't this Q from Alice in Wonderland?

[Mililalil XXIV]

This Q way over here?

[kathycf]

Don't you mean the Q way over there? Or is that X, of the X continuum?

[Pendragon]

Who knows? After all, just what did that catapillar have in that hokua he was smoking in Wonderland anyway? And the Cheshire cat: Was he using time warps or what? Were they really drinking tea at that tea party, you think, when they get so far out of it as to put the Doormouse into the teapot? ;) :lol: :lol: :lol:

[AimusSage]

Do you want some more tea?

[Royalmoons]

Do you squeeze the tea back out of the last rich flavors?

[kathycf]

Who would assault a teabag in such a fashion?

[ShoutGrace]

Do I really have to repeat myself?

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

[smilingtearz]

:lol:... are you trying to start where i left?

[ShoutGrace]

Shouldn't I want to do just that?

[smilingtearz]

Isn't there so much better to do?

[ShoutGrace]

What would you suggest?

[smilingtearz]

You wouldn't make me think again.. would you?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't it better for you to use your brains?

[smilingtearz]

Wouldn't that be bad for the others... you remember the ide effects don't you? :p

[ShoutGrace]

How could I forget??

Won't the side effects be evident anyways?

[smilingtearz]

Do you have any idea how long the side effects remain? btw, what happened to the camels while i was away??

[ShoutGrace]

Oh the camels got some treatment (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2531&page=263&pp=15). (near the end and for several pages after that . . . :D )

Aren't the side effects thoroughly residual?

[smilingtearz]

:goof: and spitty?

[ShoutGrace]

You're not comparing any of us to camels are you?

[smilingtearz]

You think i'd make such an obvious... i mean obviously crude comparison?? :p:D

[ShoutGrace]

Hey, are you not included in the 'us'?

[smilingtearz]

am i?? :goof:

[ShoutGrace]

Well, isn't that how you said it?

Is it really bad to be compared to a camel? Wouldn't it be an honour?

[smilingtearz]

did i say "us" at all? and you don't mean to say you like being compared to camels?

[ShoutGrace]

Are not camels more attractive than I am?

Shouldn't I want to be compared to so favourable a beast?

[smilingtearz]

uh..so, do you have three humps?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't you like to know?

How would that change things?

[smilingtearz]

didn't you want to be compared to camels?? okay atleast two humps??

[ShoutGrace]

Aren't you getting a little too personal? :D

Can I not be comparable to camels in other areas . . . such as spitting technique?

[smilingtearz]

:lol: :p Now... you call that "personal"? :p

you mean stinking slimy spit of samels... uhuh.. camels?

[ShoutGrace]

How do you know their spit is stinky? :brow:

[smilingtearz]

well..uh.. weren't you guys discussing that a few pages back???

[ShoutGrace]

Do you really think you can avoid the issue?

[smilingtearz]

you don't think i'm trying to... isn't that a reasonable explanation of the source of my knowledge?

[ShoutGrace]

Are you just trying to confuse me?

How can you be sure that we were speaking factually earlier?

[smilingtearz]

don't you think i believe your words??

[ShoutGrace]

Do you really have any reason to?

[smilingtearz]

do you imply that i shouldn't in the future?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't every day a new opportunity/the start of the rest of your life?

[smilingtearz]

are you trying finally to avoid being compared with camels?

[ShoutGrace]

What do you think?

[smilingtearz]

Do you think like a camel?

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps we can't even discern such a thing, have you thoughtfully considered that possibility?

[smilingtearz]

would that require of me to think like a camel too?

[Pendragon]

Ya got something against camel's, do ya? Yeah, so camels stink, bite, spit, and so on but you want you should carry your own junk across the desert or what? Maybe the camels should go on strike like in Kipling's poem, huh? How far ya reckon ta make it wid out a camel in da burning sand, huh?

http://animations.50webs.com/photogallery/photo24248/jerry_camel_walking_md_wht.gif

[kathycf]

Are you saying a camel is a lovable, misunderstood beast? Would you not say I agree with that?


(long story, but I actually petted a camel once. I think he was too depressed at his captivity to spit on me... :( )

[Virgil]

Are you guys talking about Robin again? Wasn't he a camel once?

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't we have known it if he was?

[smilingtearz]

How would you have known? What if he's actually a camel who knows how to type?

[ShoutGrace]

Don't you need bendable digits in order to type?

[smilingtearz]

You think he uses his tongue?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't the tongue reserved for other duties?

[smilingtearz]

you wouldn't want me to comment on any, would you?

[ShoutGrace]

Don't you know it would break my heart?

[smilingtearz]

how would that break your heart?

[ShoutGrace]

Well for what other purpose could the tongue be used for?

[smilingtearz]

For breaking the heart?
the tongue's used while talking... while eating.. while doing this -> :p
how come i can't relate it with breaking a heart?

[RobinHood3000]

Can't cruel words break the heart?

[smilingtearz]

were we talking about words?

[kathycf]

What were we talking about? ( I got lost after camels...)

[AimusSage]

Isn't the exchange of spit an interesting event that can involve the tongue?

[kathycf]

Are you being licentious? ;) :) :brow:

(am I addicted to smileys? :p )
Be careful what key you press by accident! :nod:

[AimusSage]

Am I being r...?

[kathycf]

Didn't you know I hit enter by mistake? Did you see my edit? Are you just avoiding the issue? :lol:

[AimusSage]

What issue would I be avoiding? What did you think I was speaking off? :p

[RJbibliophil]

Why would Aim not be avoiding the issue?

[Pendragon]

Nah, ya don't need bendable digets to type. If I recall it straight, there's a book called Archy and Mehitabel written by a cockroach who bangs his head on the keys of a typewriter out there somewhere, I think you could Google and find it, perhaps? And didn't Snoopy write the classic It Was a Dark and Stormy Night? And Kathy, I don't know if camels are misunderstood, read the Kipling poem in The Jungle Book about them that I mentioned, might get a laugh anyhow, oui? (From the truly hoplessly smilie addicted) http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/d060.gif

[AimusSage]

Who'se avoiding the issue now? Or is the camel still the issue, and am I missing the point completely?

[RJbibliophil]

Would it be alright if I say yes?

[AimusSage]

Why would I mind, don't you think I would do anything to avoid the issue?

[kathycf]

Are you saying you are an issue avoider? :brow:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/kathycf/smileys/gum.gif

[AimusSage]

Doesn't that depend on the issue I am avoiding?

[RJbibliophil]

Why would it?

[smilingtearz]

Is that not the point? avoiding or not avoiding the issue?

[Virgil]

What issue are you avoiding?

[smilingtearz]

You think i'm the one avoiding the issue??

[cuppajoe_9]

What issue?

[smilingtearz]

wasn't it the one regarding the tongue breaking the heart?

[cuppajoe_9]

What kind of anatomy class have you guys been taking?

[smilingtearz]

Isn't it obvious that we weren't paying attention in the classes?

[cuppajoe_9]

However did you pass?

[smilingtearz]

Isn't it rather better to avoid such issues?

[cuppajoe_9]

How will we ever arive at any sort of conclusion that way?

[smilingtearz]

Aren't we trying our best to not reach conclusions here?

[cuppajoe_9]

What do you mean 'we'?

[smilingtearz]

Wouldn't "we" include everyone who's been playing instead of attending classes?

[cuppajoe_9]

Perhaps, but aren't you talking to me now?

[smilingtearz]

well..Aren't you playing too?

[cuppajoe_9]

Do you think that I was in that anatomy class?

And are we playing by the 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' rules?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Are we gonna talk shop, class, or club here?

[smilingtearz]

haven't the topics always varied from minds.. Jimmy carter... Universe... needles... Love.. Hate... ...madonna.. Britney spears.. camels... robinhood.. et al ??

[ShoutGrace]

What is on your mind right now?

[smilingtearz]

how would i answer that in a question??

[ShoutGrace]

Well shouldn't you think about that and try to figure it out?

Is the heat frying your brains?

[smilingtearz]

Would roasting not be a more apt word??

[ShoutGrace]

That most obviously depends on whether there is a hissing sound being emitted from your head or not, doesn't it?

[smilingtearz]

Can you hear it?

[ShoutGrace]

Can I be expected to? Wouldn't I need to be near you to hear it?

[smilingtearz]

Can't you just imagine!?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Imagine what?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't it obvious?

Isn't that what I do all day long?


(HOW ARE YOU MIL!!!????)

[Mililalil XXIV]

But how are you, Dave? (I'm great!)

[ShoutGrace]

Why should I complain?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Is that your final answer?

[ShoutGrace]

Isn't that question a little too confrontational?

[smilingtearz]

Are we talking about some kind of a death sentence?

[Mililalil XXIV]

You don't mean I'm in trouble from you, do you?

[smilingtearz]

why would i ever think that way??

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps his deeds would alter your neural reactions?

[smilingtearz]

how would you define neural reactions??

[ShoutGrace]

Wouldn't it have something to do with firing synapses?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Couldn't it just be neurosis related?

[smilingtearz]

could it be related to the fire from a dragon's mouth?

[ShoutGrace]

Where'd you get that idea?

[smilingtearz]

Aren't we supposed to be innovative?

[ShoutGrace]

Can't we at the same time be practical?

[smilingtearz]

what's the use??

[ShoutGrace]

Do you really feel that way?

[smilingtearz]

Why would i feel any other way?? Isn't all this virtual?

[ShoutGrace]

Does that make it meaningless?

[smilingtearz]

Do you want to believe in everything it would mean?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Isn't this getting off topic?

[smilingtearz]

what's the topic?

[RobinHood3000]

Who's askin'??

[Mililalil XXIV]

Doesn't it seem like it's you, Robin?

[smilingtearz]

why are you not here to ask anymore?

[RobinHood3000]

Isn't everyone asking?

[AimusSage]

Yeah really now, tell me, What is the topic?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Do you intend to break all the rules to find out?

[smilingtearz]

Are there any rules here except that you're supposed to ask only questions?

[Pendragon]

Have you seen any other rules? Can't we just say, "OK. The topic for the month of June is Sherlock Holmes", or words to that effect? Iy would be elememtry, my fellow LitNetians, wouldn't it? http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e010.gif

[kathycf]

You would think it would be, wouldn't you? Why can't we all take a vote?

[AimusSage]

Can't we just let the question have a natural progression?

[kathycf]

Nothing wrong with that, is there?

[Mililalil XXIV]

No?.......

[RJbibliophil]

Why would we want Sheerlock Holmes to be the topic?

[AimusSage]

Isn't he an interesting figure in literature?

[RJbibliophil]

Who are you to decide that? Have you seen my new siggy?

[rabid reader]

Why? Should I have?

[RJbibliophil]

Who are you to think so?

[rabid reader]

I am me, am I not?

[AimusSage]

who are we to ask questions anyway?

[rabid reader]

Why not just let these question ceise?

[RJbibliophil]

Why should we do that, prey tell?

[AimusSage]

Are we talking about the hunter and his prey?

[kathycf]

Pray tell, who exactly is this hunter dude and his prey, anyway?

[rabid reader]

Why do you suddenly need to know? :mad:

[Boogiie___x]

.........why am i so confused?? =|

[ShoutGrace]

Perhaps it is due to your signature?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Who can tell?

[smilingtearz]

Can the camels? or the fairies?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Which are which?

[smilingtearz]

aren't the creatures with humps called camels and the ones with wings, fairies?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Aren't the hybrids called chimeras?

[smilingtearz]

they are?
What would you get if you crossed a camel with a fairy?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Aremiches sound right to you?

[smilingtearz]

How come i've never heard of such a word? :goof:

[Mililalil XXIV]

If I tell you, will you survive the shock?

[smilingtearz]

Don't you think i'm strong enough to be able to take it?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Will you hold back the side effects until after the shock has worn down to a gentle breakdown?

[smilingtearz]

Aren't breakdowns really depressing...?especially the emotional ones..?

[Mililalil XXIV]

What if you're thinking about after the breakdown, about the post-breakdown celebrationals?

[water lily]

They hold celebrations for those???!!!

[Mililalil XXIV]

Does this shatter your illusions?

[smilingtearz]

Illusions are not eternal are they?

[water lily]

If they are, how would we be able to know?

[smilingtearz]

what if we never come to know? :eek:

[Mililalil XXIV]

Are you going to discuss this for ever?

[water lily]

Were we boring you?

[smilingtearz]

Do you wan't to discuss something else?

[water lily]

Doesn't it seem so unnatural to just pick a new topic and start all over?

[Mililalil XXIV]

What shall we talk about now, then?

[smilingtearz]

Donkeys?..........

[water lily]

Were you guys as weirded out as I was by that scene in Pinocchio where they all turn into donkeys?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Who all became donkeys again?

[smilingtearz]

Shouldn't you know.. aren't you the head of the donkeys??

[water lily]

How could you forget that fateful moment when Pinocchio and all the naughty little boys sprout ears and start "hee-haw"ing?

[smilingtearz]

Weren't they "lying" about something?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Wasn't it the girls that became donkeys?

[smilingtearz]

It was the guys!..would you please tell me who or what the Aremich is?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Wouldn't you like to know later than sooner?

[smilingtearz]

Are you trying to avoid telling me?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Give up yet?

[smilingtearz]

will you tell me if i'm persistent?

[Mililalil XXIV]

How persistent?

[smilingtearz]

Would you really want to know?

[Mililalil XXIV]

Did you mean to ask such a rude question without my permission?