What do you think?
If you have hung out with me for any amount of time you probably have heard me ask the question, "What do you think?" The usual response to this is, "What do I think about what?" But see people! That is the beauty of the question! It usually means what do you think about the topic at hand or what is currently going on. "This is a nice view. What do you think?" "And that's how the proof works. What do you think?" But it can mean what ever you want it to. Fill in the blank! It is a lot less invasive than "What are you thinking?"
So it is basically the perfect ice breaker.
I should note here an interesting factoid. I got this from my dad. He asks it all the time. But Steven Janke asks it too! Isn't that fun?
12 November 2006 08:11pm UTC • 671 views • 11 comments
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Robert
13 November 2006 03:11am UTC
'What scene in Top Gun was the most inspirational for you?' is the perfect ice breaker.
Except if you are talking to German exhange students. Because they understand what you said, but they think there's no way they understood you correctly and they start to doubt their English skills.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
13 November 2006 04:31am UTC
Good point, my question isn't really much of an ice breaker, more of a silence, awkward breaker.
I don't think I have ever seen Top Gun. Or if I did it was when I was 3. And I don't remember a lick of it.
I know Val Kilmer was in it. And as far as I am concerned, the only movie he has ever actually been in is Willow.
Robert
13 November 2006 04:43am UTC
He was in Heat too, which was pretty awesome even though he had stupid hair.
That question is also good because if they answer 'the part where goose dies' you know they are either evil or a replicant, either way you know to avoid them.
Boatswain The Fool
15 November 2006 03:00pm UTC
I thought that the part where the goose dies was both touching and psychologically relevant, and - more importantly - the underlying motifs are the same as those that define our shared experiential horror at existing in an era rampant with nihilism. It was a coup d'etat, almost a gestalt, of perfection at a time when perfection is impossible.
Really, though, I don't even know what a goose is.
Robert
17 November 2006 01:48am UTC
I think your website is broken!
Dread Pirate Benjamin
17 November 2006 06:29am UTC
Is it still broken or are you referring to the layout change?
Boatswain The Fool
18 November 2006 07:46pm UTC
I think that he's referring to the fact that I started commenting again.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
18 November 2006 08:12pm UTC
Fool, that's a bug I have been trying to fix for years. ;)
Robert
18 November 2006 09:44pm UTC
I was kinda talking about the new layout... there where even more weird lines at the time so I figured the whole layout was some kind of mistake.
Boatswain The Fool
19 November 2006 01:28am UTC
Benjamin, I would suggest the following technique: create a fool_allowed bit for every element in your database, and then set all of them to false. If there are certain elements on which you'd like for me to be able to comment, you could... ... well... I guess that would just be unnecessary code.
For more complicated, time-consuming solutions, there is an entire organization devoted to what they call, "Fool Free Software Solutions." The organization is named "Robert."
Robert
19 November 2006 04:59am UTC
Actually I just pity the Fool, I wouldn't try to stop him from posting all together.