Questions Only

[dafydd manton]

Don't you think you'd look better in the pink one, with the fishnets and five-inch heels?

[MarkBastable]

Didn't I tell you to wait in the car?

[dafydd manton]

Why didn't you tell me which car?

[Astromaxis]

Does the car need to be mentioned?

[dafydd manton]

If it didn't how would Mark and I get to the motel?

[Astromaxis]

What's so fulfilling about the hotel?

[dafydd manton]

What's that got to do with me, since we're going to the motel?

[Genocide]

Will there be a party at this motel?

[dafydd manton]

Would you like one?

[Genocide]

Would you think less of me if I said yes?

[dafydd manton]

Would you think less of me if I did as well?

[aliengirl]

Why should I tell you?

[mrv]

Why would you not?

[dafydd manton]

Can't a man have secrets?

[Genocide]

Don't you know it's women who can't keep secrets?

[dafydd manton]

Ws it a woman that told you that?

[Genocide]

What do you think?

[dafydd manton]

Do you think it's worth risk?

[Genocide]

Do you really believe all that "Hell hath no fury..." business?

[dafydd manton]

Aren't you married?

[Genocide]

Are you suggesting I'm old enough (or mature enough) to marry?

[dafydd manton]

Who said marriage had anything to do with maturity?

[Genocide]

Would you believe me if I said it was my daddy who told me that?

[MarkBastable]

What else did your daddy tell you?

[Genocide]

Can I be honest and say I read that way creepy?

[dafydd manton]

Have you asked him about severed heads in the fridge yet?

[Genocide]

Why would there be severed heads in a fridge?

[dafydd manton]

Is there a better place?

[Genocide]

Attached to a body, maybe?

[dafydd manton]

Wouldn't that qualify as an un-severed head?

[Heathcliff]

Are they un-severed if they've only been reattached with sticky tape?

[dafydd manton]

Surely that's re-severed?

[MarkBastable]

Would it be arrogant of me to conclude that I've just been cited?

[Maryd.]

Why, are you arrogant?

[MarkBastable]

You've not been here long, have you?

[Maryd.]

How do you know how long I have been here?

[MarkBastable]

How do any of us here know anything about anyone else?

[dafydd manton]

Why would it be arrogant?

[Maryd.]

Who is calling who arrogant?

[dafydd manton]

Wsn't it Mark asking us if it was him? Or was it the severed head having it's say?

[Maryd.]

Eww, can the severed head actually speak?

[dafydd manton]

Haven't you heard it?

[Maryd.]

Where is it?

[Madhuri]

What are they talking about?

[dafydd manton]

Have you never read "Icebox"?

[Genocide]

Still going on about the severed head?

[mrv]

Who is talking about severed heads?

[dafydd manton]

Is that what it was all about?

[mrv]

Isn't it obvious by now?

[Astromaxis]

Is obviousness a three dimensional phenomenon?

[Genocide]

Is anyone else sick of every new movie, video game, etc. being 3D?

[Indyben]

Why should we be?

[Heathcliff]

Do glasses hurt your eyes?

[mrv]

Shouldn't glasses be hurting your ears instead?

[dafydd manton]

Would it worry you if I said that mine hurt my nose?

[Genocide]

Have we strayed from the point?

[dafydd manton]

There's a point to this?

[Genocide]

You don't remember?

[dafydd manton]

Will you help us get back to it?

[Maryd.]

Are you as lost as I am?

[dafydd manton]

Is there any other way to be?

[Madhuri]

Do you want options?

[dafydd manton]

What are the options?

[Genocide]

Are there many options?

[dafydd manton]

If there are, where do we find them?

[Genocide]

Is this some sort of scavenger hunt?

[dafydd manton]

In the mood for scavenging?

[Genocide]

Can you blame me?

[dafydd manton]

Now why would I do that to you?

[Maryd.]

What are you going to do to me?

[Genocide]

You're not going to be the one with the severed head are you?

[dafydd manton]

Are you implying that I'd look better with no head?

[Astromaxis]

Why do imply everything with severed heads?

[dafydd manton]

Haven't you been following the thread?

[mrv]

Couldn't she be clueless even after having followed the thread?

[dafydd manton]

what gives you the idea the rest of us know what's going on?

[mrv]

Are we all just as clueless as she is?

[dafydd manton]

Is there any point in asking me?

[mrv]

Should I concede you the point for a very relevant question?

[dafydd manton]

Did I say something relevant?

[mrv]

Are you as clueless as that?

[dafydd manton]

How clueless should I be, then?

[mrv]

Isn't that for you to decide?

[Maryd.]

How do I know how clueless to be?

[dafydd manton]

Should I just stay as clueless as I am and hope it will be all right?

[Maryd.]

Is it right to be clueless?

[dafydd manton]

Can you think of a better way to get through life?

[Maryd.]

Why are we always searching for better ways to go through life?

[dafydd manton]

Is there a better way?

[Maryd.]

Are you asking me or telling me?

[dafydd manton]

Which would you prefer?

[Indyben]

Does my opinion matter that much?

[dafydd manton]

Why wouldn't it, since we haven't spoken in ages?

[Indyben]

Does the small detail that we don't know each other very well count?

[dafydd manton]

Are you blaming me for not having met sooner?

[Indyben]

Why would I blame you for that?

[dafydd manton]

Because I was the first one there?

[Indyben]

Can I really blame you for the meeting times though?

[dafydd manton]

Weren't they advertised?

[Astromaxis]

Isn't advertisement usually a form of illusion?

[dafydd manton]

Isn't illusion really a form of advertising?

[Genocide]

What's with all of these questions?

[dafydd manton]

Can you think of a nicer way to while away an hour or two?

[Genocide]

How about reading?

[dafydd manton]

Can you recommend any good books?

[Astromaxis]

Will The Twilight books be a good recommendation?

[dafydd manton]

Are they better than Harry Potter?

[Astromaxis]

Was Harry Potter Better than The Lord Of The Rings?

[dafydd manton]

Is Tolkein Hobbit-forming?

[MarkBastable]

Even as a confessed recycler of old puns, do you feel no shame at all when you look at that last post?

[dafydd manton]

None at all, but I know I should!! Should I blame Ken Dodd?

[Astromaxis]

Who's that guy :blush:?

[dafydd manton]

Have you never lived? (British comedian, been at the top (?) of the tree since 1954.)

[Astromaxis]

Is he really that famous? (Well don't know him 'cause I couldn't see his shows I live in Bangladesh)

[dafydd manton]

Any reason why a chap shouldn't be of iconic status on our little aircraft-carrier in the North Sea?

[Astromaxis]

The North Sea is an aircraft carrier :D?

[Genocide]

Is it?

[dafydd manton]

What gave you the idea that aircraft sink?

[Genocide]

Was it Pearl Harbor?

[dafydd manton]

Was it?

[Genocide]

Could it have been those weird occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle?

[Astromaxis]

Isn't Pearls In an Oyster?

[dafydd manton]

Wasn't Pearl a Singer in a Nightclub?

[Genocide]

Or Mr. Krabbs's daughter?

[Astromaxis]

Isn't Mr. Krabb SpongeBob's Boss?

[dafydd manton]

Are you implying that I wear square pants?

[Genocide]

Don't you?

[dafydd manton]

Why not? Isn't it perfectly socially acceptable?

[Genocide]

Are they comfortable?

[dafydd manton]

What constitutes comfortable? (Anyway, lads, I'm off to me scratcher. Nos da a iechyd da!)

[Genocide]

Why did he call us lads?

[Indyben]

Are we not lads?

[Genocide]

How do we know you're a lad?

[Indyben]

Isn't that a bit personal?

[Genocide]

Are we going by the urbandictionary definition?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lad

[Madhuri]

Can't we create our own definitions?

[Pendragon]

Why ever for?

[Indyben]

Who wouldn't make their own definitions?

[Heathcliff]

What would you be defining?

[Indyben]

Can you define a definition?

[Heathcliff]

Would you like my own definition of that?

[Genocide]

Are you going to say it?

[Indyben]

Can you please say it?

[Genocide]

When do you think she'll tell us?

[Indyben]

Maybe the next time she's online?

[Genocide]

Wouldn't that make too much sense?

[Indyben]

Doesn't the nonsensical make sense?

[Genocide]

Aren't you aware that the lack of sense only makes sense when you're on Nyquil?

[Indyben]

What's Nyquil?

[Genocide]

:looks at location:

I take it Australia doesn't supply it's citizens with Nyquil?

(It's a cold medicine that will knock you out or make you act extremely sleep deprived...while making you better of course.)

[Indyben]

Learn something new everyday don't you?

(Thanks for the info)

[Genocide]

Do you ever feel like you learn nothing in a whole year of school, but then one day you learn something that just rocks your world?

[Indyben]

Is the pope catholic?

[Heathcliff]

Who does the pope go to for confession?

[Indyben]

Should the pope need to confess?

[Genocide]

Wasn't he a Nazi youth?

[Indyben]

The pope? A Nazi?

[Genocide]

You didn't know?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

[Heathcliff]

What does the pope pray for?

[MarkBastable]

Well, assuming he wants to stay in a job, he can't be praying for a cessation of sin and wickedness, the establishment of universal harmony and a general feeling of tolerant goodwill across the globe, can he?

[Genocide]

Isn't that odd? :]

[Heathcliff]

Don't we all do a lot of odd things?

[dafydd manton]

So what's so odd about that?

[dafydd manton]

Well, assuming he wants to stay in a job, he can't be praying for a cessation of sin and wickedness, the establishment of universal harmony and a general feeling of tolerant goodwill across the globe, can he?

Somebody said that it was for some new white silk elbow-length gloves, another hat studded with gold and diamonds, a fresh silk robe, a new ruby ring - Oh, and for women to be kept out of the priesthood.

[Pendragon]

Perhaps odd is in the eye of the beholder?

[dafydd manton]

Should we be beholden to you?

[aliengirl]

Why should anyone be beholden to 'you'?

[dafydd manton]

Isn't a Holden an Australian car?

[Genocide]

You associate "Holden" with a car before "Catcher in the Rye"?

[dafydd manton]

Did Salinger drive one?

[Genocide]

What would be the odds of that?

[dafydd manton]

In what way was Salinger odd?

[Genocide]

Did you know he died on my birthday the same month I declared him to be one of my favorite authors? (Way to be funny, karma...)

[Cailin]

So did you celebrate your birthday or mourn the author's passing?

[Genocide]

What would having a shot in his honor be?

[dafydd manton]

Rum?..

[Genocide]

Would you believe me if I said I have no idea what it was?

[dafydd manton]

would you believe me if I said that it is (a) alcoholic and (b) disgusting?

[Genocide]

You think I don't know what rum is?

(never had it... but I meant I had no idea what the shot was :] )

[Indyben]

Ah derpy derpy derpy derp?

[Heathcliff]

If you're the king of derpy does that mean I'm a prince of the universe?

[Indyben]

Don't you have to be male to be a prince?

[hack]

Do we look like ants down here?

[Indyben]

Sure why not?

[MarkBastable]

In these challenging days, when moral compasses are spinning wildly and a maelstrom of conflicting opinions buffet us from every side, isn't that - the question that Indyben poses - the central dilemma facing personkind, torn as humanity is between the cautious and prudent 'why' and the adventurous, reckless 'why not', each of which has its advocates and its detractors, and either of which might lead to happiness or sorrow - and aren't all of us, in our hearts, looking not only for the right answer, but, more importantly, the right question, and aren't we wondering whether the answer to the question of what the question is that we want to answer might not be the question that Indyben has so succinctly framed, if only because of the inevitability with which it invites every one of us to contemplate a personal, very individual response?

[hack]

Yes??

[Aryaa]

Do I have a choice to say No ?

[Madhuri]

Can anyone simplify what MarkBastable said?

[Themis]

No? ;)

[aliengirl]

Why not?

[dafydd manton]

Would it be worth the effort?

[Genocide]

Does he say things like that often?

[mrv]

Does it scare you to think he does?

[Genocide]

Should I be afraid?

[mrv]

You still need to ask after reading all that?

[Genocide]

Does that make me a fool?

[mrv]

Whoever said anything about you being a fool?

[Genocide]

(My 11th grade teacher... :])

Is the word fool old fashioned?

[mrv]

(My 11th grade teacher... :])
:smile5: What can I say to this?:smilewinkgrin:


Is the word fool old fashioned?
Could such a beautiful sounding word ever become old fashioned?

[Genocide]

Would you judge me if I said I think "slavery," the word, is euphonic?

[mrv]

Why would I judge you about anything at all?

[Genocide]

Isn't it human nature to judge?

[MarkBastable]

Wasn't it Lieutenant Columbo who said, Judge not, unless you're a judge?

[mrv]

Isn't so much that is human nature overcome by us everyday of our lives?

[MarkBastable]

Well, to be fair, which of us has not in some unguarded moment trapped a rabbit in a blind alley, wrung its neck with our bare hands and then ripped out its throat with our teeth just to taste the warm blood trickling into our stomach?

[Genocide]

Am I mistaken when I say we've all done that?

[Jazz_]

Would anyone believe you if you tried to deny it?

[Heathcliff]

Is it because *insert long words here* ?

[Indyben]

Does that really count as a question seeing as it ended in an action rather than words?

[MarkBastable]

Which?

[Maryd.]

What?

[Indyben]

Who??

[Genocide]

Does adding two question marks instead of just one make it more of a question?

[dafydd manton]

Surely not???

[Indyben]

Didn't you know that there is a character limit of a minimum 5 characters and "who" is only 3?

[mrv]

?????

[Indyben]

Are you by any chance married to Mrs V?

[mrv]

How did you guess that:confused:??

[Indyben]

Could I be Psychic?

[mrv]

Do you really think you figured something that needed psychic powers

[dafydd manton]

What if I said that I knew you were going to say that?

[Pendragon]

You tellin' me you're psychic?

[dafydd manton]

And if I wasn't?

[tailor STATELY]

Would make you one of great discernment then ?

[Genocide]

Ddafydd is psychic?

[Jazz_]

Didn't you know that?

[mrv]

She isn't the psychic one here, is she?

[Genocide]

You mean he?

[Jazz_]

Does it change his psychic abilities?

[dafydd manton]

How many other things in my life would it change?

[Heathcliff]

How many minutes do you think I had to stare it to figure it out?

[Indyben]

Can you stare at psychic abilities?

[Heathcliff]

Have you ever stared in amazement that someone can posess such an interesting talent?

[Indyben]

Have you?

[Heathcliff]

Weren't you there?

[Indyben]

Can't you remember?

[Heathcliff]

Don't I usually give you my almost undivided attention when you're around me?

[Indyben]

Don't I give you the same courtesy?

[Heathcliff]

Do you know how much I appreciate it?

[Indyben]

Do you know how much I appreciate you being with me?

[MarkBastable]

Can you two take this behind closed doors before it becomes distasteful?

[Indyben]

Why do you assume it will become distasteful?

[Heathcliff]

What do words taste like?

[Indyben]

Can you taste words?

[Heathcliff]

What are they written on?

[Indyben]

aren't they normally on paper?

[Heathcliff]

Have you ever eaten paper?

[Indyben]

Haven't you?

[Heathcliff]

Have you really lived before you've eaten paper?

[Indyben]

Have you been speaking to my sister?