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since there's no alt.rhetorical question...

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sarchasm

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Apr 17, 2008, 5:00:50 AM4/17/08
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The sound of one hand clapping is ... a slap in the face, (or a very faint
sound as fingertips lightly clap one's own palm).

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make
a sound? Yep. As a remote microphone will verify; the production of sound
is not dependent upon the existence of a receiver.

Is the glass half empty or, half full? It is half full since no glass
begins with contents, a glass found to be filled halfway must have had those
contents poured into it rather than emptied out.

How high is 'up'? It is half the distance 'down', times two.

sarchasm

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Jul 10, 2008, 4:22:39 AM7/10/08
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> The sound of one hand clapping is ... a slap in the face.

>
> If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it
> make a sound?
> Yep. As a remote microphone will verify; the production of sound is not
> dependent upon the presence of a receiver/listener since a recording will
> have the sound of the tree fall.

>
> Is the glass half empty or, half full?
> It is half full since no glass begins with contents, a glass found to be
> filled halfway must have had those contents poured into it and _then_
> emptied halfway. The glass is therefore initially half-full.

>
> How high is 'up'?
> It is half the distance 'down', times two.
>
>
> What is a bottomless pit?
>
> It absolutely is the strip-joint dive down on Broadway & Main that no one
> admits to frequenting.

sarchasm

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Jul 30, 2008, 8:31:49 PM7/30/08
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If the speed of light is 186000 miles per second squared, what is the speed
of 'dark'?


sār`chāsm

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Mar 25, 2010, 7:12:03 AM3/25/10
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> If the speed of light is 186000 miles per second squared, what is the
> speed of 'dark'?

Upon due consideration, the speed of dark would be half the speed of light
times two.


sār`chāsm

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Jul 3, 2010, 3:39:45 AM7/3/10
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You'll note that this is suspiciously similar to the answer to the inquiry;
how high is up? That is, being half the distance down, times two. No doubt
this is purely coincidental happenstance.
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