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Re: War
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Date: 
Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:25:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

Ask me a question which only requires a yes/no question, and I'll give it • one.

Have you stopped beating your wife?

I would not dare hit her.. You've never seen my wife's mother.

I presumed that the second 'question' above was supposed to be 'answer.'

Well spotted.

And
so I assumed that you meant you would answer with a 'yes' or a 'no.'  Is that
not what you meant, or did you fail to do so?

I shall be clearer : Ask me a question to which I can qive a yes/no answer,
and I'll give it one.


How about you?

I have not stopped beating your wife.

Because you never started?

Scott A


Chris



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  Re: War
 
(...) You could have. You simply did not like the connotations that doing so implied. It's not like I asked what the value of pi is. (That would have been unfair.) (...) Of course. And presumably that's your answer too. So you could have just (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: War
 
(...) one. (...) I presumed that the second 'question' above was supposed to be 'answer.' And so I assumed that you meant you would answer with a 'yes' or a 'no.' Is that not what you meant, or did you fail to do so? (...) I have not stopped beating (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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