A correspondent on an e-mail list to which I belong sent a query out today, asking for topic suggestions for an Argumentation Essay that his teacher spouse wanted to set for her students. Many fairly conventional subjects were proposed, such as:
- Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone / was part of a larger conspiracy;
- The pen is / is not mightier than the sword;
- The European Union has been a success / a failure.
However, fellow list member Ken W. sent me into a fit of laughter with this suggestion:
If it takes 30 square feet of mosquito netting to cover a baby hippopotamus, how long does it take a fly with a peg leg to bore through an onion?
Another List member replied simply, "One day, 17 hours, 23 minutes and 44 seconds."
I want to know more! Does the size and/or ripeness and/or number of layers in the onion make any difference? Is a Vidalia sweet onion easier for a fly to bore through than a less flavorful yellow onion? And does the fly cry while boring through the layers? Indeed, can the baby hippopotamus use the mosquito netting to keep flies off the onion altogether?
Come on, readers, help a guy out here! Let's hear your suggestions in Comments.
As my friend Lawdog would say, *Gigglesnort!*
Peter
4 comments:
The answer is three.
...and what about Naomi?
42, of course...
While joe is obviously correct for, 42 is the answer, we still have not figured out the question that its the answer to due to a minor glitch in the computer that forced a reboot of the system just before we determined that.
But,while we are waiting for that to finish...I pose I another, more important question...
Is this a Asian or African Hippo?
(Think Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail and Sparrows here folks..*8))
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