# Rhetorical question **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178 "2000-09-30T20:17:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/1 "2000-09-30T20:17:13Z")
Ok I probably spelled “rhetorical” wrong…but whatever! My question is, if you were stranded on a desert island (it COULD happen) and all you had was a CD player and 3 CDs, which CDs would you want w/you more than anything? Double CDs (like The Fragile by NIN) counts as 2 ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/2 "2000-09-30T20:30:09Z")
Mozart’s CLarinet Concerto in A: Karl Leister with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Mariner conducting Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet Number 1-3 Performed by the Borodin Quartet London Stage Version of “Les Miserables.” [Is the CD player powered by solar energy?] -----🙂 —////\\ ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/3 "2000-09-30T20:37:54Z")
That would be a hypothetical question, not a rhetorical one. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/4 "2000-09-30T20:43:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*That would be a hypothetical question, not a rhetorical one. \*\* Damnit, you’re right…I’m an idiot 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/5 "2000-09-30T20:43:05Z")
I’d want to have the spoken-language CD, “how to escape from a desert island in 10 days or less” If not that, some good classical music… Beethoven’s 9th, Mahler’s 1st, and perhaps the Firebird Suite ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/6 "2000-09-30T20:44:44Z")
I’d want the first KoRn album, “The Downward Spiral” by NIN and “Little Earthquakes” by Tori Amos ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/7 "2000-09-30T20:47:40Z")
Empires-VnV nation,NIN-fragile…but 3 ain’t enough…i’d need more! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/8 "2000-09-30T20:52:07Z")
Jane Siberry: _When I Was a Boy_ Jeff Buckley: _Grace_ Nobukazu Takemura: _Child’s View_ and as backup, Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: _Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony_ ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/9 "2000-09-30T20:53:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\*Empires-VnV nation,NIN-fragile…but 3 ain’t enough…i’d need more! \*\* NopeNope, only three tough guy! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/10 "2000-09-30T20:55:28Z")
wouldn’t matter, if there weren’t also a source of electricity or endless supply of batteries. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/11 "2000-09-30T21:07:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*wouldn’t matter, if there weren’t also a source of electricity or endless supply of batteries. \*\* Ok it’s a magic radio that has an endless supply of power. BUT it can only play 3 CDs. You get to pick which ones. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/12 "2000-09-30T21:31:06Z")
Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Okay, so I saw that Volkswagen comercial one too many times) Pink Floyd - Animals ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/13 "2000-09-30T21:31:39Z")
Mindy McCready - _I’m Not So Tough_ SHeDAISY - _The Whole SHeBANG_ Jimmy Buffett - _Songs You Know By Heart_ ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/14 "2000-09-30T21:57:37Z")
Try to imagine a world without hypothetical situations. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/15 "2000-09-30T22:02:34Z")
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat The Beatle’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Savage Garden’s Affirmation ---
**Author:** ![aztec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@aztec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aztec)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/16 "2000-09-30T22:46:49Z")
Pearl Jam, “No Code” Sublime’s self titled CD any Celine Dion CD (this one is just in case i decide to commit suicide on the island and am having trouble) ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/17 "2000-10-01T05:17:33Z")
The soundtrack to Le Miz, all of it (that’s 2) and Savage Garden’s Affirmation Kitty ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/18 "2000-10-01T05:34:09Z")
\>\> wouldn’t matter, if there weren’t also a source of electricity or endless supply of batteries Ever heard of solar power? Available now at a thread near you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/19 "2000-10-01T05:39:34Z")
Metallica S&M, and both Creed CD’s. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/20 "2000-10-01T06:38:07Z")
Frank Zappa’s _Joe’s Garage_ Bob Dylan’s _Blood on the Tracks_ Rimsky-Korsakov’s _Shaherazade_ (sp?) (Do 2-CD sets count as one CD in this situation?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178.md?page=2)