Have I got time to play it in 3 minutes before I leave work?

Why are you always thinking I don't know the rules? Why does it always have to be a win/lose scenario? Why the constant scrutiny?

Is this really what you want?

Why does this make me feel like Colin Mochrie on "Whose Line" (UK or US)?

Do you really think this will work well on a message board where people have time to think about their answers and even have to preview before posting? Do you?

Is it really that hard?

Don't you enjoy an occasional game where it's nearly impossible for anybody to actually lose, Capn, or are you that competitive?

And why is LT concerned about 'constant scrutiny'? Does he have something to hide? Does he have anything left to hide?

Who wants me to stop this car right this instant? Wendell, Capn?

I don't think I want to play?

Should I be worried about how little there is left to hide? Or should I rejoice in searing abandon and an effulgence of wicked splendor?

Many of the markers that signify meaning in spoken language aren't present in written kind?

Why would I leave the word 'the' out of that previous post?

Have you ever wondered how this question thing got started? Like, why do they do it that way on Jeopardy? Do you think it makes any kind of sense? And did you know that Latin had a special word to start hypothetical questions with, just so everyone would know it was a hypothetical question? Wouldn't it be nice if English had a word like that?

What on earth are you talking about?

Does anyone else think hellbient's pushing it a little with his "question"?

Why would anyone believe that just adding a question mark at the end of a declarative sentence make it a truly interrogative query?

Why aren't I having pizza and beer with Specklet?

Elizard? Mudpuppie? TrishaLynn?

Who wants pig nipples?

I know I'm going to lose. I always do. So let's just get it out of the way now.

Specklet should really shut her question hole, eh?

Hasn't it been your experience that interrogativeness can be indicated with nothing more than a rise in pitch?

Is a question signified by an interrogative sentence structure, or by terminal punctuation?

And did you know that Latin had a special word to start hypothetical questions with, just so everyone would know it was a hypothetical question? Wouldn't it be nice if English had a word like that?

Mygoth, doesn't English have a word like that? And isn't it "hypothetically"?

Why is mudpuppie such a defeatist?

In the written form, can notions of pitch be applied to form a question, or must the question differ in grammatical structure from the statement? Can we really hear what you're saying?

Grapefruitmoon, have you had a chance to read the PMS thread? Can I use it in/as my defense?

Can pitch be conveyed through typography? Should written language approximate spoken language as closely as possible?

"This on could go forever. I'm trying very hard to bend rules the here"
Can you make a sentence from the words I gave you?

And box, what shall we make of the people who override the typeface settings in their browsers, thereby willfully occluding whatever meaning the typography might have conveyed?

Should the fact that some of them are visually-impaired enter into our considerations?

mgl what is the Latin word?

Why, nomis? Are you studying Latin?

When do we start answering questions?

Can't I ask a question out of mere idle curiosity?

Who's on third?

nomis, since when has your curiosity been merely idle?

Is this a question?

Mudpuppie: Isn't PMS always the finest excuse for anything? Would you like a cookie?

danf, would you believe me if I said "it's always been that way"?

What the hell is going on here? Who are you people?

Why, God, Why?

Let me, if I could, go to the Civil Rights Restoration Act. In 1981, you support an effort by the Department of Education to reverse 17 years of civil right protections at colleges and universities that receive federal funds. Under the new regulations, the definition of federal assistance to colleges and universities would be narrow to exclude certain types of student loans and grants so that fewer institutions would be covered by the civil rights laws. As a result, more colleges and universities would legally be able to discriminate against people of color, women and the disabled. Your efforts to narrow the protection of the civil rights laws did not stop there, however. In 1984, in Grove City v. Bell, the Supreme Court decided, contrary to the Department of Education regulation that you supported, that student loans and grants did indeed constitute federal assistance to colleges for purposes of triggering civil rights protections. But, in a surprising twist, the court concluded that the nondiscrimination laws were intended to apply only to the specific program receiving the funds and not to the institution as a whole. Under that reasoning, a university that received federal aid in the form of tuition could not discriminate in admissions but was free to discriminate in athletics, housing, faculty hiring and any other programs that did not receive the direct funds. If the admissions office didn't discriminate, they got the funds through the admission office, they could discriminate in any other place of the university. A strong bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate decided to pass another law, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, to make it clear that they intended to prohibit discrimination in all programs and activities of a university that received federal assistance. You vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Even after the Grove City court found otherwise, you still believed that there was, quote -- and this is your quote -- a good deal of intuitive appeal to the argument that federal loans and grants to students should not be viewed as federal financial assistance to the university. You realize, of course, that these loans and grants to the students were paid to the university as tuition. Then, even though you acknowledged that the program-specific aspect of the Supreme Court decision was going to be overturned by the congressional legislation, you continued to believe that it would be, quote, too onerous for colleges to comply with nondiscrimination laws across the entire university unless it was, quote, on the basis of something more solid than federal aid to students. Judge Roberts, if your position prevailed, it would have been legal in many cases to discriminate in athletics for girls, women. It would have been legal to discriminate in the hiring of teachers. It would have been legal not to provide services or accommodations to the disabled. Do you still believe today that it is too onerous for the government to require universities that accept tuition payments from students who rely on federal grants and loans not to discriminate in any of their programs or activities?

Hellbient, why don't you kiss my booty?

where does the line form?

seanyboy, do I have to read that?

Why am I compelled to eat salty, fatty food today? Is it the hangover? PMS? And who can I blame for the hangover? Triode? Trondant? viachicago?

How did you get the hangover?

Why is my throat sore all of a sudden?

Did I just nap through 39 questions?
Is that why I feel like I have a hangover without having ingested any alcohol in, like, three months?

Is seanyboy a lawyer?
Should seanyboy be a lawyer?

Isn't it a legend that "Jeopardy" was like any other game show until the day a very young Jack Bauer appeared as a player and growled at Alex Trebek "I'm gonna be the one asking questions here"?
Or did I just get that off some cheesy "24" fansite?

Hellbient, why don't you kiss my booty?

Ooo, why am I laughing like Butthead right now?

How did you get the hangover?

As far as I know, there is essentially only one way to get a hangover, although there are infinite subtle variations. This one involved red wine & IRC.