Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:31:09 +0100, andrel wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:29:43 -0500, Warp wrote:
>>>
>>>>   If that's the case then the original riddle doesn't make any sense.
>>>> It's too trivial.
>>> Well, I disagree with that as well.  Within the confines of the riddle
>>> itself, asking one question is what's allowed - doing other things is
>>> undefined within the scope of the riddle.  Being undefined doesn't mean
>>> it can't be done - most people don't think outside the scope of a
>>> question being asked, particularly in the case of a riddle.
>>>
>>> Q.  Why is a duck?
>>>
>> With a conical answer of: 'Why the "?"?'?
> 
> Conical? ;-)
> 

I did my best to construct a interesting sequence of punctuation 
characters that actually makes sense and then I blow it by such typo. :(

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