« Reply #60 on: August 15, 2008, 01:42:38 PM »
Just out of curiosity, can you please explain why he needs to answer your question before you'll answer his? He asked the first question. He asks, you answer...then you get to ask and he answers. Thats how we learn things from each other and get things done.
In my experience usually someone asks a question the person asked has only a few options.
- Answer the question if he knows the answer.
- Tell the questioner "I don't know".
- Ask a clarifying question so as to be better able to answer accurately.
- Be rude and ignore the question altogether.
- Turn the question back on the original questioner because you haven't the faintest idea of the answer and you hope the original questioner will provide a reasonable answer that you can regurgitate nearly verbatim.
With respect Robosteve, can you tell us which category your line of reasoning falls into in this thread? Or is there a 6th option I have not included above? If there is, please tell us what it is.
There is a sixth option that my question falls into quite nicely. It may be succinctly described as "ask a rhetorical question of similar form to illustrate the inanity of the original question".
Will you at least tell us if you do or do not know the answer to the original question? If so, when?
The question does not deserve an answer. See above.
Then you failed badly in your attempt to do so as your 'rhetorical question' and it's follow-ups have illustrated your own inanity to far greater affect than thay have the original poster.
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