Thread drift....

[Bob Noel]

Oh, and Anand really needs a win soon.

who is Anand?

 

[Gerhardt]

who is Anand?

Better question: Who is Bob Noel?

 

[48dodge]

Who is John Galt?

 

[upstateny]

I don't always have to talk about airplanes. Let's talk about horses. Did you know that when horses run, all their landing gears are off the ground at the same time just like an airp......... Damn!

 

[Bob Noel]

What does it mean for a question to be "better"?

 

[flhrci]

What does it mean for a question to be "better"?

It means the question is not worse than the question being better.

David

 

[Bob Noel]

It means the question is not worse than the question being better.

David

Unless, of course, it is also not better.

 

[flhrci]

Unless, of course, it is also not better.

I had not considered that point.

David

 

[FastEddieB]

What does it mean for a question to be "better"?

I had always held forth that there is no such thing as a stupid question.

I'm being forced to reconsider.

 

[Bob Noel]

I had always held forth that there is no such thing as a stupid question.

I'm being forced to reconsider.

What will it take for social graces to be meaningful?

 

[Norman]

Why do they call left handers "southpaws"?

 

[FastEddieB]

Why do they call left handers "southpaws"?

That's a sinister question.

 

[upstateny]

Why do they call left handers "southpaws"?

Folklore has it that early baseball fields were built with home plate to the west so the batter would not be looking into the afternoon sun. Therefore, a left-handed pitcher's arm would on the south side of the field.

[Disclaimer: Might be an urban legend.]

 

[FastEddieB]

Our president is a leftie!

 

[Norman]

Our president is a leftie!

AMEN.

 

[Capt.Crash'n'Burn]

RAmen!!!

 

[upstateny]

Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest can overcome it.

(Of course I'm a lefty, so I had to say that.)