Rhetorical Questions, Answered!
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Every time I write a rhetorical question, I wish there were a special question mark to signify my meaning. Here's what I came up with. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar writes: Up until now, the only problem with them has been the clumsy punctuation we use. If we use a traditional question mark, some yahoo might answer. If we use a period, we sound like Eeyore, the donkey who needs Prozac. So thank you, Craig Conley, for this, the rhetorical question symbol. Why didn't we think of that? (Wait, don't answer -- it was rhetorical.)
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Bruce Robb shares:
According to Wikipedia:
In the 1580s, English printer Henry Denham invented a "rhetorical question
mark" for use at the end of a rhetorical question; however, it died out of
use in the 1600s. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that
instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away
from it.[*]
* Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, 2003. p. 142.
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"Did a blurred view of the moon influence the smile of the Mona Lisa?" asks artist David Dodson.
The answer is yes! We put together this animation to show how the craters of a blurry harvest moon perfectly line up with the eyes, nose, cheek bones, and enigmatic smile of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Ronan suggests, "So maybe the real question is ... what is the moon smiling at, eh?"
Derek Bair writes:
Normally I would think this would be a little bit too far fetched to believe but curiously before I saw this picture and read about it, I had thought something similar. On my way up to Vegas one time it was a full moon but I could see it during the day. I thought the craters and things reminded me of a face of a sad woman! Ever since then I would always see the same face on the moon. This is actually very possible, since Da Vinci said to make glasses to see the moon closer - so he was definitely looking at the moon. Mona=Moon? I don't know but I thought this was interesting!
Sara Soares writes:
Leonardo was such a special creature, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the moon was his inspiration. Amazing post BTW
Angela Bou Kheir writes:
Omg! I saw the moon last night and had never thought about it before. This is the first time to see your post. But I was thinking the same thing. Actually, Moon is "Luna" in Italian, but I was thinking he was playing with the words. I don't know, maybe Lona Misa? That's really far-fetched, but I know back then to paint a smile was "provocative" in that time, and they don't know who that picture was based on. Leonardo was an out of the box thinker and if there is a possibility that's a self portrait of him, I think there is a possibility that it's the moon he drew.
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Q: Why does it seem to take forever to drive across New York State? A: Because of the shape and geographical orientation of New York State, time actually slows down north of New York City and makes all travel seem incredibly monotonous. Einstein called this the Upstate Temporal Distortion Effect, which he discovered during a trip from Princeton to Cornell. Note that it also explains the phenomenon of the "New York Minute." Recent studies have suggested that the magnetic field of the earth has a slight "bulge" around New York State, now thought to be related to the type of metal reinforcements used in the structural mass of the Erie Canal locks, and this could explain the time-dilation effect. (Literary humorist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt's plays, stories, essays, letters, parodies, wordplay, witticisms and miscellaneous tomfoolery can be found at Monkeys 1, Typewriters 0. Here you'll encounter frivolous, urbane writings about symbolic yams, pigs in bikinis, donut costumes, vacationing pikas, nonexistent movies, cross-continental peppermills, and other compelling subjects.)
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"If a unicorn frolics in the forest with no one to hear it, then is the unicorn imaginary?" Not necessarily! Expert unicorn spotters can “see” more unicorns with their eyelids shut than the average person can see with eyes wide open. That’s because they are intimate with the sounds unicorns make. A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound (presented in an eco-friendly, low-wattage palette) will help you to identify the various calls of the mysterious unicorn as it frolicks in its natural environment. Along the way, you will become better acquainted with unicorns’ habits, eccentricities, antics, attitudes, and manners. Before you know it, encountering unicorns will become second nature. Hearing is believing! |
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