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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 274.1 | No nonstandard answer allowed | DEBET::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Fri Nov 21 1986 05:21 | 16 |
| I hadn't noticed that before. I suspect that the longer question
provides some redundancy and time with which the listener can
formulate the appropriate reply. The alternative question also
implicitly requests that the reply be one of the two alternatives,
and nothing else. If the host(ess) or waiter(waitress) simply
asked "Smoking?", (s)he may get a response about which (s)he may
have to think.
A related phenomenon is the common sign "No smoking allowed."
This should really say "Smoking not allowed" or "Smoking
disallowed" or "Smoking forbidden" or simply "No smoking."
"No smoking allowed" means to me that refraining from smoking
is an acceptable behavior in the area, but says nothing about
smoking itself.
Dave C.
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| 274.2 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | The Mad Armenian | Fri Nov 21 1986 06:41 | 6 |
| re:.2
And the phrase, "There are some things man is not meant to know,"
should be, "There are some things man is meant not to know."
--- jerry
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| 274.3 | | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Fri Nov 21 1986 08:38 | 15 |
| Re "No smoking":
When I was in high school, there was, close to the school I graduated
from, a Brigham's Ice Cream Parlor where students congregated after
classes.
Prominently displayed was a sign:
NO STUDENT SMOKING
I always thought that a good idea. Hams or herrings always seemed
preferable things to smoke.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 274.4 | NO SMOKING WHAT!! | FSGG::DOYLE | Ellen McWilliams-Doyle | Fri Nov 21 1986 11:18 | 8 |
| .3 puts me in mind of a sign in, of all places, the library
where I went to college:
No smoking food or liquids
When we confronted the librarians with our interpretation, they
responded that people would get the message, and they were not
about to replace the signs. Here's to higher education!
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| 274.5 | non-sense | VOLGA::BLANCHARD | | Fri Dec 26 1986 12:41 | 10 |
| I have found another curiosity having to do with non items or
allowances. When I picked up a bottle of aceteminophine ( Tylenol
) and dicovered that I had bought a NON ASPIRIN. It occured to me
that most of the items in the store were indeed NON ASPIRIN. And
another thing, what happened to the "OVEN" in MICROWAVE OVEN ?
Everyone I know puts their food in a MICROWAVE. If they have one.
Any comments?
Steve
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| 274.6 | | CACHE::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Mon Dec 29 1986 10:41 | 8 |
| I cook my food in microwaveS, I wonder what a single microwave would
do? ^
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| 274.7 | Chuck the excess baggage. | APTECH::RSTONE | | Tue Dec 30 1986 08:55 | 2 |
| I guess it's all right to cook food in a Microwave if you have just
taken it out of the "fridge".
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| 274.8 | video, videre, vidi, ... | ECLAIR::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Jan 06 1987 08:33 | 2 |
| Re "Microwave" - and how about "video" to mean either "video recorder"
or "pre-recorded video cassette tape"?
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| 274.9 | inaccurate but colorful | MODEL::YARBROUGH | | Mon Jan 12 1987 11:23 | 4 |
| > I guess it's all right to cook food in a Microwave if you have just
> taken it out of the "fridge".
And then, according to my kids, it has been "Nuked".
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| 274.10 | Yeah, nuke it! | ERIS::CALLAS | So many ratholes, so little time | Mon Jan 12 1987 14:56 | 4 |
| Or as I've been known to say, "Nuke it 'til it glows, then eat it
in the dark."
Jon
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| 274.11 | | MIMS::ZUMO::GULICK | When the impossible has been eliminated... | Thu May 06 1993 03:53 | 7 |
|
Very late reply to .0:
Have a little fun and do as I sometimes do; answer, "Yes." Throws 'em
every time.
Lew
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| 274.12 | | GAVEL::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow or @mso | Thu May 06 1993 06:38 | 5 |
| Another very late reply to the "smoking" string.
Q. Do you smoke after having sex?
A. I don't know. I've never looked.
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| 274.13 | Or... | RICKS::PHIPPS | | Thu May 06 1993 08:51 | 6 |
| As I think it was from the movie Alice's Restaurant":
Q. Do you smoke after having sex?
A. No but it burns a little!
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| 274.14 | | MU::PORTER | have a nice datum | Mon May 10 1993 11:10 | 5 |
| And what about those insufferably smug signs saying "Thank you for
not smoking" ?
They make me feel like lighting up a ciggie just so I can argue
that there's nothing saying I can't smoke.
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| 274.15 | Politely firm? Firmly polite? | THEBAY::GOODMAN | walking on broken glass... | Mon May 10 1993 14:36 | 7 |
| My favorite sign is out here in Sunny California:
Please do not smoke while you are here.
Seems to be polite, but firm.
Roy
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| 274.16 | Another anti-"Thank you for not smoking" vote | GVPROD::BARTA | Gabriel Barta/ITOps&Mgmt/Geneva | Thu Jun 24 1993 04:23 | 6 |
| Yes, I like "Please do not smoke while you are here."
The thing that annoys me about "Thank you for not smoking" is that it
_assumes_ that you aren't smoking, without having the guts to ask you
not to. I don't like people making convenient assumptions about my
behaviour for their own benefit.
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