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Long, long time ago, I can still remember... limit three per post... no shoving... keep one arm's distance apart... single file...
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Does anyone remember this game? What is the meaning of life? Are we there, yet?
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Huh?
What is the man talking about?
Do you think he has an unsavory, ulterior motive?
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does that count as three, Zed?
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Would you consider an instinctive, interrogative exclaimation to be a legitimate question?
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Aren't instinctives, interrogatives and exclaimations three different things?
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No idea. Howsomever, what's 'exclaimations'? Wid a I?
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Does the Ellanoyan know the rules? Who wants to splain her? Should the thread starter do it?
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Is this thing on? (thud, thud....squeeeeeeak)
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Where am I? What's going on here?
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Were you dreaming? Can't you see?
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Yes, but it's easy to turn any declarative sentence into a question, n'est-ce pas? Well, isn't it?
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what about a rhetorical question then?!
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Well, that covers both of them, doesn't it?
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>>what about a rhetorical question then?!
>Why?
how was it that it wasn't perfectly clear that my question required no question?!!?
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what? Somebody asked a question?
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how was it that it wasn't perfectly clear that my question required no question?!!?
Doesn't this bring us back to (do'h) "What is the meaning of life?
If an interrobang is only 1/2 of a question, does this "?!!?" mean there's a whole question in there... somewhere?
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I'm HERE so all of you must be there--but here is there to you-all, right?
Has that word "interrobang" been around for a while?
Does the punctuation work backwards!?
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Whenfor is it that there becomes here and now becomes then?
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Have we done "Why a mouse when it spins" yet? And can anyone please tell me where it comes from?
In all seriousness?
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Has that word "interrobang" been around for a while?
Does the punctuation work backwards!?perhaps these will suffice?! http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-int1.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobangsince ?! is a conventional substitution for the real deal, I don't think they work as well backwards - I've always used that to represent shocked incredulity, as in: I can't believe you would do that!?
as pointed out in the 2nd link above, "interro-bang" is itself suggestive of an order.
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In all seriousness?
You're stretching it there, aren't you?
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You don't think it can be a real question, eh? Well, do you think it's worth starting its own thread, then?
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Would you believe there can't be 'all seriousness'?
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Thanks, tswum, I enjoyed those links muchly.
Your thoughts on the reversed marks (!?) sound right.
And to carry it a step farther, that might be a
bang-interro, which suggests accidental punctuation?!!?
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Could you enjoy those links any more?
What does tsuwm's thoughts on the "other order" sound like?
To be or to not be?
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Ah, musick, couldn't we always savor the good things a bit more?
And do you think I really can hear those thoughts?
And for that one, is it "tswum or no-seeum"?
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Is he the plaintiff?
Was he the swimmer?
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Were the covers down around the ankles? Did I miss something? Where have I been? Hi, y'all. Just peeking out of my box.
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