The Question Game

[Gliondrach]

Do you think it might be one of those fictitious places created by map makers as a sort of copyright infringement checker in case anyone copies their maps?

[nagev]

Oh, it might be, can we find any evidence of such a thing though?

[Gliondrach]

Wasn't there a BBC Radio 4 programme about it last week, where Punt PI examines the curious case of Argleton, a place only existing on internet maps - and when he reached the place in Lancashire where it should be (not far from Ormskirk) he found just some sheep in a field?

And, if you search for it on the internet, you'll find a wiki entry for it and information about how it used to appear on go ogle maps. I blame the E.U.

[gabbles]

Why are you asking me?

[Gliondrach]

Why do you think I was asking you?

[nagev]

What do you think I was thinking you were asking me?

[Gliondrach]

What makes you think I thought you thought I was thinking you thought I was asking what you were thinking you thought I was asking?

[nagev]

Doesn't that seem like there are too many thoughts/thinkings in that question?

[Gliondrach]

Are you saying I think too much?

[nagev]

Why do you think I talk about you when you're not around?

[Gliondrach]

Well, why you talk about me when I'm not around?

[nagev]

I think I've only mentioned you once or twice when you're not around, but it's more fondly than critical, does that offend you?

[Gliondrach]

Can you think of a time when I wasn't around?

[nagev]

Yes, aren't you never around me?

[Gliondrach]

Are you quite sure I'm not that obnoxious individual who lives a few doors away?

[gabbles]

The house where the curtains are always drawn and strange noises come from at night?

[Bowwowmeow]

Have you been in my neighborhood recently?

[Gliondrach]

Don't you know I'm not allowed to travel to the U.S. after Jimmy Carter thought I was trying to assassinate him?

[Bowwowmeow]

Do you think it wise to make such confessions on the Interwebz?

[Gliondrach]

Did I make a confession or did I just say someone thought I was going to do something?

[Bowwowmeow]

You mean you weren't?

[Gliondrach]

Can I plead the Fifth?

[gabbles]

How can you plead the fifth if you are not in America?

[Gliondrach]

Are you saying I am denied the right to demand my rights?

[gabbles]

Are you saying I'm denied the right to say you are not in America?

[Gliondrach]

Are you demanding the right to say you have been denied the right to demand something that you might or might not have a right to demand to not be denied the right to demand?

[nagev]

Why are you so sensitive about what other people are asking?

[Gliondrach]

Why do you ask such an insensitive question?

[nagev]

Are you denying my right to be insensitive?

[Gliondrach]

Why are you so concerned about what I believe?

[nagev]

Why do you think I'm concerned with what you believe rather than critical of your oppressive attitude about my apparent insensitivity?

[Gliondrach]

Why are you so insensitive that you accuse me of oppression just for giving you the chance to answer a question?

[nagev]

Is asking someone why they're sensitive insensitive?

[gabbles]

What if the person you are asking is sensitive about being asked if they are insensitive?

[nagev]

What should I do in that case?

[Bowwowmeow]

What would Jesus do?

[Gliondrach]

Is he a member of this forum?

[nagev]

How do I find out?

[Gliondrach]

Would the Pope know?

[nagev]

Who is the closest, so they can ask him?

[Bowwowmeow]

Does the Pope have an email address?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't it pope at pope.org.vt?

[Bowwowmeow]

Does a bear poop in the woods?

[Gliondrach]

Is the Pope Catholic?

[nagev]

Can bears be Catholic?

[Gliondrach]

Can't bears be very catholic in their tastes?

[nagev]

You mean in what they eat?

[Gliondrach]

Is taste a matter of taste - so that there's really no such thing as good or bad taste?

[Bowwowmeow]

What would Fuzzy say?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't Fuzzy the arbiter of all that is good, decent and honourable?

[gabbles]

Would anyone dare disagree?

[Gliondrach]

Wouldn't Fuzzy not care if anyone disagreed - as he is so magnanimous?

[gabbles]

Should we all try to be more magnanimous?

[Gliondrach]

What's it to you, big nose?

[Vinnie]

Why don't you hit him Gabbles?

[Gliondrach]

Are you trying to cause trouble? :eat:

[gabbles]

What if I am?

[Gliondrach]

Why don't you answer the question?

[gabbles]

Why do you ask so many questions?

[Gliondrach]

Why are you asking why I am asking?

[Vinnie]

What are you asking?

[Gliondrach]

Who are you asking?

[gabbles]

Was he asking you?

[Gliondrach]

Who are you asking?

[Bowwowmeow]

Why are you asking?

[Gliondrach]

Hasn't that been asked before?

[Bowwowmeow]

When was this?

[Gliondrach]

When was what - isn't your when and then a few hours after my when and then?

[Bowwowmeow]

To be or not to be, is that the question? :shakespeare:

[Gliondrach]

Didn't some Danish bloke ask that?

[Blueshark]

Do I look like I know Danish?

[Gliondrach]

What do you know, then?

[Blueshark]

What don't I know?

[Gliondrach]

Did you know I was going to ask this?

[Blueshark]

Doesn't everyone know this is the question game?

[Gliondrach]

Do you mean everyone in the world or just everyone who infests this forum?

[gabbles]

What causes the infestation?

[Blueshark]

Is it necessary for me to know how to spell infestation?

[Gliondrach]

Do you know how to spell it?

[Bowwowmeow]

Doesn't it look like he does?

[Gliondrach]

Can't looks be deceiving?

[Blueshark]

Is my neighbour an annoying idiot or should I continue to understand his ignorance? /fire

[Gliondrach]

I don't even know what my own neighbours are like, so how am I supposed to know what yours are like?

[Blueshark]

Shouldn't you tell me I am righteous in my indignation?

[Gliondrach]

Wouldn't I need to know what you claim to be indignant about before I can judge your righteousness or lack thereof?

[Bowwowmeow]

Isn't "neighbor" a four letter word?

[Gliondrach]

How can it be when it has nine letters?

[Bowwowmeow]

Don't you know what that means?

[Gliondrach]

Do you think I don't know what it means?

[gabbles]

How do we know if you know what it means?

[Gliondrach]

How do I know if you don't know that I know what it means?

[gabbles]

What do you mean?

[Gliondrach]

Which question are you asking me about?

[gabbles]

Would you know what the answer was if I told you?

[Gliondrach]

Do you think we should change the subject?

[Bowwowmeow]

Can I get back to you on this?

[Gliondrach]

Was that an answer to my question or is it the change of subject I asked about?

[Bowwowmeow]

Are there ever any answers to the questions in this thread?

[Gliondrach]

Is that a rhetorical question?

[Bowwowmeow]

How did we get so popular all of a sudden?

[Gliondrach]

Could the KGB be thinking that we are sending secret messages amongst our strange questions?

[gabbles]

Has the KGB joined the forum?

[gabbles]

Is everybody scared to ask questions in case the KGB are watching? :eek:

[Gliondrach]

Why do you keep mentioning them?

[manzana]

Karaoke Gone Bad?

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[Bowwowmeow]

Haha, where have I seen that before?

[Gliondrach]

Why are you asking me?

[manzana]

Wasn't she asking herself?

[Gliondrach]

Are you implying that she talks to herself? :stir:

[manzana]

Does she laugh like this when she does?

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[Gliondrach]

That's a hearty laugh.

But why are you asking me what BWM sounds like?

[manzana]

Why not?

[Gliondrach]

Do you think I should try to guess what her laugh sounds like and if it is like that of that baby?

[manzana]

Wasn't the baby's laugh funny because it was not like that of a baby?

[Gliondrach]

What do you think her laugh will be like when she grows up?

[manzana]

Hasn't Bowwowmeow already grown up?

[Gliondrach]

Was that BWM in the video before she grew up?

[manzana]

Did she also sing that song, I Want Candy?

[manzana]

Wasn't that a metaphor for carrots?

[Gliondrach]

If 'candy' is a metaphor for 'carrot', does that mean John Candy is Jasper Carrot?

[manzana]

Isn't JC deceased?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't there more than one JC and didn't I see Jasper on telly not long ago?

[manzana]

Isn't Jasper a strange name, especially as a pseudonym?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't Carrot a strange name?

[manzana]

Isn't it a household name?

[Gliondrach]

Are there any households that are called carrot?

[gabbles]

Would there be any law against it?

[Gliondrach]

If there were, would you break that law?

[gabbles]

Would I get into trouble if I did?

[Gliondrach]

Would you stand up for your right to call yourself what you want?

[gabbles]

Who could stop me? :biff:

[Gliondrach]

What should people not be allowed to do?

[gabbles]

Things that are wrong?

[Gliondrach]

What things are wrong?

[Bowwowmeow]

Is that relative or absolute?

[Gliondrach]

Are you saying that some of your relatives are absolutely wrong?

[Bowwowmeow]

How did you know all of my relatives are meat eaters?

[Gliondrach]

Are some more meatophile relative to the others?

[gabbles]

Are you trying to invent a new word?

[Bowwowmeow]

Shall one of us put that in the Urban Dictionary?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't there already a perfectly good word - necrotarian - in there?

[Bowwowmeow]

Isn't there always room for one more?

[Gliondrach]

Do you think you're a bus conductress?

[Gliondrach]

Are you talking to me?

[nagev]

Are you talking to yourself?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't it often the best way to get good conversation?

[gabbles]

Isn't it the best way to win arguments?

[Gliondrach]

Isn't the best way to win arguments to be well informed, or at least to have incriminating evidence against the other person so you can force them to shut up?

[gabbles]

When did you last lose an argument?

[Gliondrach]

Do you have the daft belief that I ever lose arguments?

[gabbles]

Is it daft to believe someone can lose an argument?

[Gliondrach]

Are you arguing with me?

[gabbles]

Do you think I'm arguing with you?

[Blueshark]

When are you not arguing?

[Gliondrach]

Are you asking or arguing?

[Blueshark]

Is not arguing more fun?

[Gliondrach]

More fun than what?

[nagev]

Why don't you ask Blueshark that question?

[Gliondrach]

Who did I ask?

[nagev]

Why ask me?

[Gliondrach]

Who should I ask that can tell me if arguing is more fun than something and who would also be able to tell me what that something that arguing is more than is?

[gabbles]

Has anyone told you you're strange? :crazy:

[Gliondrach]

Are you implying that I am? :grumble:

[gabbles]

What did you think I was implying :rolleyes:

[Gliondrach]

What are you implying I was thinking?

[gabbles]

Nothing but how did I forget to ask a question in this game?

[Gliondrach]

Could it be because you didn't remember to ask?

[Fauxmage]

Did you remember what day it was today?

[Gliondrach]

How did you know I needed reminding?

[Bladerunner]

Because isn't that typical of you?

[Gliondrach]

Are you saying that I'm typical?

[Bladerunner]

I thought I was asking if your response was typical of you, wouldn't you say?

[Gliondrach]

Are you asking me if I think it's typical of me or if you think it's typcial of me?

[Bladerunner]

What do you think?

[Gliondrach]

How can I decide between the questions I asked and which you are asking me which is the one I mean?

[Bladerunner]

Why are you refusing to answer my question #670?

[Gliondrach]

Why are you calling me 670 - do you think this is an episode of The Prisoner?

[Bladerunner]

Well if it's not an episode of The Prisoner, 670, why do you think that big white ball is bouncing toward you?

[Gliondrach]

Could it be a giant puffball mushroom?

[Bladerunner]

Could it be that anybody seeing a giant puffball mushroom hurtling towards them needs a visit to SpecSavers?

[Gliondrach]

Do they give a second pair at half price?

[Bladerunner]

Do'nt people who need 2 pairs of glasses suffer from double vision?

[Gliondrach]

In that case, what about people with monocles?

[Bladerunner]

You mean like him wot used to be in Coronation St, Lens Fairclough?

[Gliondrach]

What about Ena Sharp-eyes?

[Bladerunner]

Did I ever tell you that my late father used to work at an optician's until that fateful day when he fell into the lens grinding machine and was sacked for making a spectacle of himself? :rofl:

[Gliondrach]

:D :rolleyes:

Do you expect us to believe that?

[gabbles]

Is that a rhetorical question?

[Bladerunner]

I ask myself, why would Gliondrach ask a rhetorical question?

[Gliondrach]

And what is your answer?

[Bladerunner]

Can there be an answer to a rhetorical question I ask myself?

[Gliondrach]

Can there be a rhetorical answer?

[Bladerunner]

No, surely not?

[Gliondrach]

Very clever - weren't the last two words of your answer one?

[Bladerunner]

Ha Ha, but surely I was responding to your latest question?

[Gliondrach]

Wasn't it an answer?

[Bladerunner]

Unless you're not really there and I'm chatting to myself, you must surely agree it was a question to your good self Gliondrach?

[Gliondrach]

What would happen if I disagreed and how do you know I am good?

[Bladerunner]

Firstly why don't you disagree (and maybe we'll find out)? Secondly can I ask you to agree that I should have said "goodself" (which is a polite way of saying "yourself)?

[Gliondrach]

Why do you feel such a need for agreement - are you some sort of confidence trickster who is trying to trick me confidently by getting me to agree to more and more things until I can't back out of it without admitting that my thinking must be faulty so that, in order to save face, I must agree to do what I agreed to do?

[Bladerunner]

So you're only now beginning to realise that your thinking is faulty?

[Gliondrach]

If my thinking was faulty, and I thought it was faulty, wouldn't that thought be faulty - meaning that it wasn't faulty?

[Bladerunner]

Maybe you have the occasional thought that is not faulty? (It sometimes happens to me.)

[Gliondrach]

How do you know when it's faulty if any occasional one could be the faulty one?

[Bladerunner]

Are you trying to change the subject because I thought we were talking about an occasional thought that is not faulty?

[Gliondrach]

Couldn't the occasional one be the one that is not faulty and all the others could be faulty - which would mean the occasional one that is not faulty might actually be faulty because with so many faulty thoughts, how would anyone know when they didn't have one?

[Bladerunner]

Don't you find in life Gliondrach that there are some questions that are just too difficult to answer?

[Gliondrach]

Is the question you just asked one of those?

[Bladerunner]

I'm sure that reasonable people would find it an easy question to answer but are you reasonable Gliondrach or are you being deliberately awkward?

[Gliondrach]

Am I not always deliberately reasonable?

[Bladerunner]

Don't you think that you are the only one able to answer that question?

[Gliondrach]

Who could I ask to find out if I am?

[Bladerunner]

Why not ask somebody/anybody else?

[Gliondrach]

Is anyone else qualified to answer?

[Bladerunner]

Perhaps someone from your balm-pottery class?

[Gliondrach]

What's balm-pottery?

[gabbles]

Do you mean balm poetry?

[Bladerunner]

or is it possible that I meant barm-pottery as undertaken by barmpots?

[Gliondrach]

How can we tell which balm/barm you meant?

[Bladerunner]

Can't you read my mind?

[Gliondrach]

Do you mind what I read?

[Bladerunner]

Do you mind what I read?Why should I mind?

[Gliondrach]

Don't you know?

[Bladerunner]

Why? Is there anything I should know?

[Gliondrach]

Aren't there lots of things you should know, such as the capital of Slovakia and the best way to make nettle soup?

[Bladerunner]

Why would I want to make nettle soup in Bratislava?

[Gliondrach]

Didn't you know it is their traditional Christmas breakfast dish?

[Bladerunner]

And did you know that Slovakia was settled in the 6th century by Welsh explorers who established a town on the Danube and because of all the seaweed about, decided to call it after their favourite food lavabread, which in Slovak is Bratislava?

[Gliondrach]

Is that why all the volcanoes in Wales are extinct - because the Welsh ate all the lava?

[Bladerunner]

Is that why Welsh people are collectively known as "pumice" in Australia?

[Gliondrach]

And is that why Aussies greet each other by saying G'dai?

[Bladerunner]

And is that why Aussies call condoms "Welsh letters" (which are of course the same as "French letters" except that they always have a leek in them)?

[gabbles]

Is New South Wales common ground for the Aussies and Welsh?

[Gliondrach]

Is there a New North Wales?

[Bladerunner]

Isn't New North Wales the historical name for the region of Canada east of Hudson Bay to Labrador, what is currently Nunavik (Northern Quebec)and was given this name by Captain Luke Foxe in 1631 and is nothing at all to do with New South Wales (hi gabbles)?