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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 15, 2010 09:48AM

May I propose a new round of twenty questions? And the winner should take over as the new answerer? And to be clear, it does not have to be any of an animal, vegetable, or mineral.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 15, 2010 09:55AM

1) Is it animal?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 15, 2010 10:12AM

1) No.
(Please note we're playing the Woolly Mammoth 9 variant).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 10:14AM by EgonSpengler.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: annie (164.53.218.---)
Date: February 16, 2010 01:33AM

Is it philosophical?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 16, 2010 11:22AM

2) That's a hard question. Isn't everything philosophical in the truest sense of the word? Maybe.



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Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 16, 2010 12:36PM

3) Is it an event?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 16, 2010 01:13PM

3) No.

Is twenty too many questions in this impatient day of age? Answers on a postcard...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2010 04:11PM by EgonSpengler.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: February 16, 2010 09:22PM

4) Is it continental?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.zone6.bethere.co.uk)
Date: February 17, 2010 08:43AM

As in 'Does it resemble a continent?' or 'Is it from the continent?'?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 17, 2010 08:55AM

EgonSpengler Wrote:
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> 3) No.
>
> Is twenty too many questions in this impatient day
> of age? Answers on a postcard...

Please publish your address for the postcard. I am 100% certain that no-one would use it for any purpose other than to send you a reply.

In the meantime, plese print off and stick the following to a postcard of your choice.

No. Let the hard-of-thinking stick to their attention deficit world. Twenty questions is a classic format and does not need any tampering.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: February 17, 2010 09:16PM

Is, is twenty too many questions, one of the twenty questions? In which case I propose we have twenty one, or maybe since it's been asked twice and therefore may count twice twenty two. Then of course, there is this question which may or may not count,( although notice I'm being very careful not to ask if it does or not) which would make it a nice round 23.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: February 17, 2010 10:35PM

EgonSpengler Wrote:
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> As in 'Does it resemble a continent?' or 'Is it
> from the continent?'?

In the sense of "does it relate to a continent" as opposed to global, subcontinental, insular, marine, aerial, otherwise or the like.
PS- It need not be the continent closest to Britain.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: February 17, 2010 10:39PM

geg Wrote:
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> Is, is twenty too many questions, one of the
> twenty questions? In which case I propose we have
> twenty one, or maybe since it's been asked twice
> and therefore may count twice twenty two. Then of
> course, there is this question which may or may
> not count,( although notice I'm being very careful
> not to ask if it does or not) which would make it
> a nice round 23.

No, this is invalid reasoning. Only the questions asked by the Interrogators count. Questions asked by the Answerer are Off-Topic per definition.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 18, 2010 09:14AM

4) No, it is not continental.

(Already it causes trouble).

5) Does it look like William Shatner?

5) No, it does not.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 18, 2010 09:20AM

As ES asked the William Shatner question does that count as one of the 20?

Does this?


6) or 5) or 7) Can I eat it?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 18, 2010 09:27AM

6) No.

(Answerer makes up the rules.)

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 18, 2010 09:52AM

In that case , is it the Forth Road Bridge?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 18, 2010 11:36AM

7) No.

1) Animal? No.
2) Philosophical? Maybe.
3) Event? No.
4) Continental? No.
5) Look like Bill Shatner? No.
6) Edible? No.
7) Forth Road Bridge? No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: HouseInTheWoods (81.102.13.---)
Date: February 18, 2010 01:42PM

Is it the concept of self? My concept of myself is neither animal, nor event, nor continental, nor does it look like Bill Shatner even when going on very little sleep, nor is it edible, nor is it the Forth Road Bridge.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 18, 2010 02:00PM

8) Concept of self? No.
7) Forth Road Bridge? No.
6) Edible? No.
5) Look like Bill Shatner? No.
4) Continental? No.
3) Event? No.
2) Philosophical? Maybe.
1) Animal? No.

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