The question to 42
Well, techically 41.999999999…
Altightalteady quit shovin’ geez I know where the door is.
a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…
What if there were no rhetorical questions?
…,baked for 30 minutes at 375 degrees and served with a béarnaise sauce.
A brick!
A dubiety.
The aristocrats.
… smothered in secret sauce.
(Thank you for that one, Jimmy James.)
Is this some kind of bust?
You get a joke that you don’t expect anyone to laugh at.
The story behind the OP:
I received a “Fact Or Crap” Page-A-Day desk calendar as a Christmas present(Example-“Fleas that live on cats jump higher than fleas that live on dogs”), and when I got to the page for 3-8-19 I found a Post-It Note with “What do you get when you cross a riddle with a rhetorical question?” stuck to the front of the page. Someone at the factory had stuck it in there before it was shrinkwrapped, boxed and shipped.
You get a riddle that cannot be correctly answered by answering.
I remember my friend handed me one of his college textbooks with the impressive title, “Guide to Rhetorical Criticism”.
I leafed through the first couple of chapters, turned to him, and said, “You REALLY think this crap is worth reading, don’t you?”
The opener for your second Toastmasters speech (?)
–G!
A zen koan?