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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ravells on June 10, 2004, 11:59:51 PM
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May I ask you a question?
What are the three most important axioms in your life?
Ravs
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Sorry to barge into this conversation, but those are 2 questions...
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shreck off smart arse.
Ravs
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:confused:
Would it have been more appropriate to say "May I ask you two questions?"
....then ask only one?
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and you can shreck off too.
Ravs
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1. Crush your enemies.
2. See them driven before you.
3. Hear the lamentation of the women.
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McGroin's comment made no sense... I'm on yer team here.
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I have an entirely different agenda.
I have to catch a plane in about 4 hours.
I hate flying, so I've drunk enough to stay awake to get on the plane and then pass out when I get there.
Ravs
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Should you ask to ask 2 questions?
I think so Nash, the first question would be to politely ask for permission to ask the second, so your second question would then be the question you actually wanted an answer to in the first place.
So if you asked a permission and then asked a single question after permission was granted, you would be asking two questions. So you should ask for permission to ask two questions, assuming permission would be granted to ask the first in order to ask the second question.
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Originally posted by ravells
1. May I ask you a question?
2. What are the three most important axioms in your life?
Ravs
Hmmm...I see 2 questions. Yeah...ok, grrrrrrrreat.
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Heh... :)
This is supposed to make sense?:
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
..... the end.
Who does that?
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Originally posted by ravells
May I ask you a question?
What are the three most important axioms in your life?
Ravs
Sure. Doesn't mean I can answer it.
I'm not exactly sure how to answer that. You're asking me to condense something sort of complex and difficult to explain into a few short statements. I'm not sure I can. And I'm not sure I want to try.
Why do you ask?
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I was asking the question of Virgil!
Nice of you all to pitch in.............but where is he?
Ravs
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Virgil appears!
just curious Virgil, you seem to have very fixed views.
Ravs
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Originally posted by Nash
Heh... :)
This is supposed to make sense?:
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
..... the end.
Who does that?
Happens all the time here. Drives me nuts. I usually reply with a "no" and walk away.
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Diablo...I have to add... and wear funny underpants
ravs
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Originally posted by ravells
Virgil appears!
just curious Virgil, you seem to have very fixed views.
Ravs
Ah, and I'm lone and singular in this attribute?
I guess you can just chalk it up to being a reasonably well read and educated southern moderate conservative with a loosely Christian base. Like I said, it's probably next to impossible to give you a real answer to the question without writing a small novel.
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:aok
I shall answer with the Mr Black gambit! ^
The reason I ask is that you seem very comfortable in your black and whites, and you don't appear to have any shades of grey in your thought.
Could you at least write the forward of your novel for us?
Ravs
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Originally posted by ravells
:aok
I shall answer with the Mr Black gambit! ^
The reason I ask is that you seem very comfortable in your black and whites, and you don't appear to have any shades of grey in your thought.
Could you at least write the forward of your novel for us?
Ravs
Nah. Why bother? Just follow along with the masses that figure I'm just too freakin simple minded to contemplate "grey areas", it makes it easier on everyone.
:D
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Originally posted by Nash
Heh... :)
This is supposed to make sense?:
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
..... the end.
Who does that?
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
"May I ask you another?"
"No."
I think it comes from a Marx Bros. movie, maybe "A Day at the Races"
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Oh come on!
Ravs
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So how exactly would you word the situation wherein you ask permission to ask a question? Seems it would wind up in some kind of infinity condition and the participants would be whisked back in time. :D
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Would you mind if I asked you how you came to that conclusion, Nash?
Ravs
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Originally posted by Nash
So how exactly would you word the situation wherein you ask permission to ask a question? Seems it would wind up in some kind of infinity condition and the participants would be whisked back in time. :D
Here's a common example:
Wife:"Honey, can I ask you a question without getting mad?"
"Sure honey, it's up to you whether you get mad or not."
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Originally posted by ravells
Would you mind if I asked you how you came to that conclusion, Nash?
Ravs
Nice. :aok
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So how exactly would you word the situation wherein you ask permission to ask a question?
"Kind Sir, if I may be so bold to assume I have permission to ask the very question I utter presently, I would like to ask you a series of questions, the number of which is yet to be determined, and I was hoping that you may be so inclined to grant me your benevolence in answering the aforementioned interrogatory series."
I think that may be appropriate.
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That sounds like the begining to the next 'Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy' Holden!
Ravs
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LOL Holden! Air-tight! :D
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what's wrong with... "mind if I ask you a few questions?"
If you ask for one and then ask two you are being a salesman.
so far, diablo and virgil are the only ones making sense... diablo if you want to live a prticular style of life and virgil for everything else.
"grey" areas are a matter of degree.. there may indeed be grey areas in life but there is no need to dismiss the hard stuff... the hard decisions by labeling them "grey" areas.. We all run into enough hard decisions in life without manufacturing them.
lazs