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could you send me the bill?

Made me wonder if anyone fancies a question game?


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What's a question game?


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Does anyone really know?



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What, me query?
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have we already hijacked this thread?



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Who's *"we"?


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would you like to know?



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Is there a point to all this?


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How does the thisness of this differ to the thatness of the other?


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Why is a mouse when it spins?
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Can you get spinning wheels that small?


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You mean like a couple of questions we asked once before? And did anyone step on sjmaxq's elephant hoofs? And isn't it good to have mav back instigating mischief once again?


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Elephants got hooves?! Really?


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Does anyone know if we're playing the game correctly?



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Who said we need rules?


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Do elephants have hooves or hoofs?

Does correctly mean the game has roolz?


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Is that chopped liver I smell? Is that a mantle I'm wearing?


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What's that smell? Hooved liver, is it?


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Or is it the trophy elephant hoofs on sjmaxq's mantle?


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Is this thatness all wrong from the thisness that mav first envisoned for this or that thread?

Does this help get the thread back on its improper track?


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Does this ficus look okay in the doorway? Does that ring any bells?


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Can we cover our confusion with this ficus leaf of nonchalance? Tom said with aplomb.


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Who is Tom? And why is he talking about us?


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have you seen the ghost of Tom?



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Isn't that him right next to the ghost of Jacob Marley?


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Is that the guy that makes all those tiles?

and anywayz, who had the daft idea a maverick might have intended something specific with this thread, least of all rule-bound?!


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Was Bob his uncle?


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Was Max his Bob?


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Why is everybody always picking on me?


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Hey Charlie Brown, why're you such a clown?


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can the same question be asked by two people?



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can the same question be asked by two people?


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Isn't Jacob Marley Bob's nephew?


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when does this all end?


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Who cares?


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What's this bill for? Did I order this?


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But didn't you accept delivery of it?


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How can you be in two places at once when you're really nowhere at all?


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where you callin' nowhere?



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If you give it some space is nowhere now here?


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>If you give it some space is nowhere now here?

Did Samuel Butler get there backwards?


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If so, would he have ridden in a straw cab?


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and does he give a damn?

I know, I know, wrong butler...



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Are you speaking frankly, my dear eta?


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have I ever spoken any other way?



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And would Samuel Butler have written that novel ere WO'N was here?


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Does this mean the butler did it?


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With whom?


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With Max?


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Why is everyone picking on Max?
Is it because he changes his handle as often as he changes his socks?


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Would anyone like to wager that it's a different max?


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>a different max?

May I quote from my favourite country song? Do you remember, "I'll take that bet, and you're gonna regret."?


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>Is it because he changes his handle as often as he changes his socks?

Really? I only change my socks thrice in three years? Should I ask my wife if you're tight about that?


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...you're gonna regret."?

Didja have to make it easy for *'em?


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>a different max

Mad Max?


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did you get a sense he was unhappy?



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>Mad Max?

Did you know that my handle in another forum is porangimaxq? Can you be bothered to LIU?


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Anyone have any luck looking up porangimaxq?
Isn't it obvious I didn't?
geetings to Ron Obvious due here?


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Should I have added that you only need to LIU porangi, since the rest is just my usual handle?


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What's an 'axq'?


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Isn't that how Kiwi's sneeze? Should we be responding "god bless you"?


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>axq

Isn't that what James Bond does when he needs new gadgets?


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Am I going to die laughing at the "Kiwi sneeze"?
Isn't Kiwisneeze the bee's knees?


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do you need a Kweenex?



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>do you need a Kweenex?

I haven't got one, will this man do?
http://www.iru.org/BulgariaPM.htm


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wouldn't he be a Exking?



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>wouldn't he be a Exking?

Did you think that might be why I asked if he would do? Against anastrophe have something do you?


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why have you begun to talk like Yoda?



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Like me he is talking, think you not?


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do you think I should know better the definition of anastrophe?



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Did you know LIUYC?


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can I?



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>do you need a Kweenex?

Or would you prefer a Kingex?


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>Or would you prefer a Kingex?

Why use a line that's been done to death by eta and me?


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You were Exking for it, weren't you?


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Why wouldn't I go for the Maximum groan from Max himself?

And why wouldn't I thank Max himself for it?


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Why wouldn't I go for the Maximum groan from Max himself?

Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?


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Is the ficus making the K1W1 sneeze, I axq?


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>Is the ficus making the K1W1 sneeze, I axq?

Are you saying "I" should be taken out of the focus?



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Would that bother you?


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>Would that bother you?

Did you miss the subtle jibe in my previous question?


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Whatever gave you that idea?


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>Whatever gave you that idea?

Why have you avoided answering the question?


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Isn't it obvious?


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In reply to:

Why have you avoided answering the question?




Which question?


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Isn't the Which question? "When shall we three meet again?"?


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Isn't Isn't the Which question? "When shall we three meet again?"? actually two questions?



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is it?



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So?


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at first i avoided this thread but as it continued to grow, i thought better, but even rereading the first few post, its very clear that there were no rules or limits posted; that said why can't someone post two questions at one time?

intentionally wordy, a contrast to So?!


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And would our Helen ever be intentionally wordy?


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Do y'all know the actual® magic number is 98?


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Isn't Isn't the Which question? "When shall we three meet again?"? actually two questions?

It was meant to be - was I wrong? Is it really three questions? Should the post have been have been titled Question Cubed?



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Am I the only one who thinks this game has become far too silly?


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Who will have the courage to end it?


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do I sense an airborne gauntlet?



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Yes.


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answered your own question, did you?



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Ae.


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The buck stops here !?


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