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Subject: 
Re: War
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sun, 7 Oct 2001 11:36:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

> > 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.

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.)

> > > How about you?
> > 
> > I have not stopped beating your wife.
> 
> Because you never started?

Of course.  And presumably that's your answer too.  So you could have just
answered "no."

But of course, this threadlette was just me being a smart alec and didn't
really merit this much attention.

Chris



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  Re: War
 
(...) Well spotted. (...) I shall be clearer : Ask me a question to which I can qive a yes/no answer, and I'll give it one. (...) Because you never started? Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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