Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

[TBRS1]

Why would you imagine that I have an exhausted chiropractor?

 

[NDR2]

Don’t you feel exhausted after a chiropractic treatment?

 

[TBRS1]

Does "feeling exhausted" have anything to do with touching the hot tailpipe of a car?

 

[Rodafina]

Doesn’t that fall into the category of insanely curious?

 

[TBRS1]

How broad a definition of "insanely curious" are we using for the present purpose?

 

[NDR2]

Don’t we want the recipient of the present to be curious enough to want to open it?

 

[TBRS1]

If that person were insanely curious, would they not disassemble it, subject it to careful chemical analysis, reduce it to elemental particles, catalogue them, mount them for display, donate enough money to create a new speciality wing in a major university museum, and endow a university chair to oversee ongoing research on the subject?

 

[NDR2]

Why such a long question?

 

[TBRS1]

?

 

[NDR2]

Cat got your tongue?

 

[TBRS1]

Wouldn't it be most rational to assume that the cat has the cat's tongue until there is a rational reason to question that assumption?

 

[NDR2]

Don’t you remember what Oscar Wilde said about assuming?

 

[TBRS1]

How many different assumptions was Oscar actually making when he made that statement about assumptions?

 

[NDR2]

Are you saying he was a hypocrite?

 

[TBRS1]

Is "hypocrite" a word that was made up of syllables that were left over after somebody said something else?

 

[NDR2]

What syllables are left over from “something else?”

 

[TBRS1]

Do "hypo" and "crite" ring any bells?

 

[NDR2]

How do they even come close to “ding dong?”

 

[TBRS1]

If I can hear that bell ringing from all the way over here where I am, do you think it would be safe for you to come close to it while it's ringing?

 

[NDR2]

Couldn’t that potentially damage my hearing?