Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Douglas Adams

He was a genius.
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“Why” is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire
letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go “A B C D
What? When? How?” but it does go “V W X Why? Z.” “Why?” is always the
most difficult question to answer.
You know where you are when someone asks you “What’s the time?” or “When
was the battle of 1066?” or “How do these seatbelts work that go tight
when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?” The answers are easy and are,
respectively, “Seven-thirty-five in the evening,” “Ten-fifteen in the
morning,” and “Don’t ask stupid questions.”
But when you hear the word “Why?,” you know you’ve got one of the
biggest unanswerables on your hands, such as “Why are we born?” or “Why
do we die?” and “Why do we spend so much of the intervening time
receiving junk mail?”
“Will you go to bed with me?”
“Why?”
There’s only ever been one good answer to that question “Why?” and
perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There’s room for
it. “Why?” doesn’t have to be the last word, it isn’t even the last
letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended, “V W X Why? Z,” but “V W
X Why not?”
Don’t ask stupid questions.
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-- 
Yatta!,
O'Neill: Do you read the Bible, Teal'c?
Teal'c : It is a significant part of your Western culture. Have you not
read the Bible, O'Neill?
O'Neill: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Not all of it. Actually, I'm listening to it on
tape. Don't tell me how it ends

 Z.” “Why?” is always the most difficult question to answer.
But C is the only letter that allows you to answer those questions. 
No C? No answer!
And don't forget B, the most important of them letters. More
important than To Have, some say. G!

 What? When? How?â€  but it does go â€œV W X Why? Z.â€  â€œWhy?â€ 
Too many euros (€)... I'm afraid it's too expensive to understand :)
-- 
Oudépote anégnote en taîs grafaîs, líthon hòn apedokímasan hoi 
oikodomoûntes hoûtos egenéthe eis kefalèn gonías: parà Kuríou egéneto 
haúte, kaì éstin thaumastè en ofthalmoîs hemôn? (Mt 21:42)

 Too many euros (?)... I'm afraid it's too expensive to understand :)
I'm afraid I can't get you.  But I suspect it might have to do with your
client not rendering the original post correctly.
Max

 Too many euros (€)... I'm afraid it's too expensive to understand :)
Have you set you TB to ignore content type?
In any case:
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"Why" is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire
letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go "A B C D
What? When? How?" but it does go "V W X Why? Z." "Why?" is always the
most difficult question to answer.
You know where you are when someone asks you "What's the time?" or "When
was the battle of 1066?" or "How do these seatbelts work that go tight
when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?" The answers are easy and are,
respectively, "Seven-thirty-five in the evening," "Ten-fifteen in the
morning," and "Don't ask stupid questions."
But when you hear the word "Why?," you know you've got one of the
biggest unanswerables on your hands, such as "Why are we born?" or "Why
do we die?" and "Why do we spend so much of the intervening time
receiving junk mail?"
"Will you go to bed with me?"
"Why?"
There's only ever been one good answer to that question "Why?" and
perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There's room for
it. "Why?" doesn't have to be the last word, it isn't even the last
letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended, "V W X Why? Z," but "V W
X Why not?"
Don't ask stupid questions.
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-- 
Yatta!,
If a prior visits your world... leave.

 important than To Have, some say. G!
The english is most prone to these words jokes. :)
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