Things You'd Like to Know

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
A. There's 'No Earthly Reason' why you should give an "oughta" any thought or an Otter food unless it's hungry.

Q. What prompted you to choose your site nickname?

A: One of my nieces.

Q: What's a "tab", besides a running bill at a bar?

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A: Right this moment I have fifteen tabs open. It seems rather typical.

Q: Does the more widespread use of behaviour management drugs on children in the USA than there is in Europe give the USA any advantage over Europe?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: What's a "tab", besides a running bill at a bar?

A: There is of course a "tab" of lysergic acid diethylamide ~ or "Uncle Syd" as people called it when I was at college.

Q: Has MP3 technology unleashed more widespread and numerous instances of law breaking than any other single invention in the last 25 years? If not, what has?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q: What prompted you to choose your site nickname?

A: The relevant bit of the Sign Up page when I registered with RHP.

Q: How long could one live while only having an imperial gallon of water and nothing else to consume?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. What is the ratio of cheerful vs. unhappy people you talk with face to face and/or online on any given day?

A: Face to face: about 8.5 happy people to 1.5 unhappy ones.

Q: If you were being bricked into an air tight alcove in a cellar by a man with a moustache and a convoluted grudge that I won't go into here, like in that episode of Thames TV's "Thriller" in the 1970s, would you choose to eke out a few extra moments of life by sitting there in the dark, or would you light the candle he gave you and sit there awaiting death in the light?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Q. At what point does social assertiveness become aggression?

A: Who can say ~ it's like asking 'how long is a piece of string' ~ in fact it comes across like one of those weaselly passive aggressive questions you so often ask. But if it's in the spirit of the thread then so be it...

Q: Why do people on message boards so often resort to brandishing the word "troll" when they get a little bit flustered?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Face to face: about 8.5 happy people to 1.5 unhappy ones.

Multiply both numbers by two to get a ratio stated in terms of whole people.

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A: Half full of course. Always.

Q: If you were being bricked into an air tight alcove in a cellar by a man with a moustache, would you ask for a final glass of water that was half empty or half full?

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A: Consider it done. 😵

Q: If the moustachioed bricklayer offered you half a bar of chocolate, would you think of yourself as having being deprived of the whole bar by persons unknown, or would you think of yourself as having shared it with others?

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A: What doers it matter? One day the glass will break and then there will be no water. Things always go wrong. And nothing ever goes right for me. But forget it if you think I'm going to reveal to you whether I am an optimist or a pessimist. I won't be falling for your pop psychology question.

Q: Can a bearded man tell a bare-faced lie?

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A: I'd need to know whether you meant half full glasses or half empty glasses before I could give you an exact number.

Q: Kenapa pertanyaan ini ditulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia?

Originally posted by FMF
A: I'd need to know whether you meant half full glasses or half empty glasses before I could give you an exact number.

Q: Kenapa pertanyaan ini ditulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia?

A. Language unrecognized.

Q. Do Gigabytes and Megabytes bite?