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Originally posted by FMF
A: This issue will be moot if the UK votes to extract itself from the grip of Europe's pedantic rules and regulations.

Q: Why was North Korea's 'dog bites man' announcement that it was ready to use nuclear weapons at any time seen as controversial when all nations that own nuclear weapons ~ according to the logic of deterrence ~ must essentially take exactly the same stance about the possible use of the weapons they have?
A. Because "any time" to North Korea could mean saying that "Kim" is a girl's name.

Q. Will Cyprus ever be free of the invading Turks?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. Will Cyprus ever be free of the invading Turks?
A: A less biased questioner might have asked will Cypriots ever stop being in the area that Turkey wishes it were free to invade completely?

Q: Have the best TV cop series consistently been a bit better than the best TV cop series from earlier years/eras?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: A less biased questioner might have asked will Cypriots ever stop being in the area that Turkey wishes it were free to invade completely?

Q: Have the best TV cop series consistently been a bit better than the best TV cop series from earlier years/eras?
A. We look back at Kojak, S&H, Z Cars and the rest through rose tinted
cathode ray tubes. Good at the time they are awful compared to the best
of today. Perhaps Columbo is the only one that stands up to scrutiny.

Q. The first CSI series was ground-breaking and thought pretty awesome
by most. How have all the spin-offs diminished its reputation?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. We look back at Kojak, S&H, Z Cars and the rest through rose tinted
cathode ray tubes. Good at the time they are awful compared to the best
of today. Perhaps Columbo is the only one that stands up to scrutiny.

Q. The first CSI series was ground-breaking and thought pretty awesome
by most. How have all the spin-offs diminished its reputation?
A. I seldom watch this "CSI series" because they're now all previous installments.

Q. If you were able to audibly ask one final question on your deathbed, what would that last question be?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. If you were able to audibly ask one final question on your deathbed, what would that last question be?
A: You do realize how much I've loved you all these years, don't you?

Q: Do cats with bob tails look at cats that have long tails and realize that they haven't got one?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: You do realize how much I've loved you all these years, don't you?

Q: Do cats with bob tails look at cats that have long tails and realize that they haven't got one?
A. Yes.

Q. What day is today?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
A. Yes.

Q. What day is today?
A: The day after my wife's birthday.

Q: Is the fact that some cats purr a lot for humans and other don't a 'personality trait' or a 'physical trait' of each cat in question?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: The day after my wife's birthday.

Q: Is the fact that some cats purr a lot for humans and other don't a 'personality trait' or a 'physical trait' of each cat in question?
A. Haven't a clue.

Q. Were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle aware of mental telepathy?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
A. Haven't a clue.

Q. Were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle aware of mental telepathy?
A: Perhaps you could try holding a seance.

Q: Does each victory of the England football team over Germany help, in its own tiny incremental way, to calm the lingering anger of UK tabloid newspapers about events of the C20th?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: Perhaps you could try holding a seance.

Q: Does each victory of the England football team over Germany help, in its own tiny incremental way, to calm the lingering anger of UK tabloid newspapers about events of the C20th?
A. Doubtful.

A. Your favorite annual holiday?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
A. Doubtful.

A. Your favorite annual holiday?
A: Idul Fitri ~ there's such a long build up and then when it happens it affects nearly everybody, it goes on for as long time (3-4 days) and millions of people make extraordinary efforts to hook up with other branches of their family trees.

Q: Do you think Scotland will leave the United Kingdom as soon as it can after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union (if that were to happen on 23 June)?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: Idul Fitri ~ there's such a long build up and then when it happens it affects nearly everybody, it goes on for as long time (3-4 days) and millions of people make extraordinary efforts to hook up with other branches of their family trees.

Q: Do you think Scotland will leave the United Kingdom as soon as it can after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union (if that were to happen on 23 June)?
A: Eventually, yes.

Q: Which popular UK political commentator, when referring (on national TV) to people fleeing the Syrian civil war, said “These migrants are like cockroaches"?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: Eventually, yes.

Q: Which popular UK political commentator, when referring (on national TV) to people fleeing the Syrian civil war, said “These migrants are like cockroaches"?
A: Katie Hopkins.

Q: Where will ISIL/ISIS strike next?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Where will ISIL/ISIS strike next?
A: Ankara and Jakarta.

Q: Why do straight-haired redheads so often have disastrous perms?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: Ankara and Jakarta.

Q: Why do straight-haired redheads so often have disastrous perms?
A: A direct result of genetic experimentation by Procter and Gamble on redheads. Secret documents revealed 45 year long experiments that went haywire.

Q: Why do my shoes squeak on tiled floors?

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