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hiram wrote:Since we humans eat, defecate, and give birth backwards, why should it be surprising that we have to do many other less important things backwards as well ?
Doesn't the reaction (Newton's third law) propel us forwards?
voralfred wrote:Granted for the other two, but why do you [hiram] say we eat backwards?
Aren't some people reactionary or just weird?
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Doesn't the reaction (Newton's third law) propel us forwards?
After eating mexican food, shouldn't the answer to that be self evident ?

And shouldn't I know better than to try to out-quip an experienced dentist ?
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hiram wrote:... And shouldn't I know better than to try to out-quip an experienced dentist ?
In the dentist's office, while receiving dental care, isn't it impossible to speak, let alone quip?
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If the Star Trek chief engineer had been younger and more rude, would Captain Kirk have said, "Beam me up, Snotty!"?
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Um is everyone else as confused by the turn this thread has taken as I am?
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uhm ... no ?
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It has become a bit strange hasn't it?
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What constitutes "strange" in the thread where only questions may be asked and never answers given?
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Hiram, does your current ambling avatar coyly suggest Hiram Walker, and if so, how often?
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Algot Runeman wrote:Hiram, does your current ambling avatar coyly suggest Hiram Walker, and if so, how often?
Could it be a too often over-indulgence in Johnnie Walker?
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Isn't there a specific place for quotes like that around here somewhere?
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Is that 'single' or "double" quotes?
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May I submit that I'll be single in August?
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Why is that?
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Are you querying a member's personal life?
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Is the life we lead ever impersonal since it always happens to us as a person? :wink:
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Are you some kind of philosopher?
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Wasn't it gpackin who asked,
Are you some kind of philosopher?
How would a psychoanalyst deal with that question?
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Wouldn't a psychoanalyst ask why you would ask such a question?
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Wouldn't a visit to your dentist be much quicker, much simpler, much cheaper and painless? Image
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What do you suppose would be a common question that both a psychoanalyst and dentist would ask?
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umsolopagas wrote:What do you suppose would be a common question that both a psychoanalyst and dentist would ask?
Uhm ... "Did it hurt?"

(I'll bet you saw that coming, didn't you?)
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