One of the coolest skills anyone could acquire is the art of asking a loaded question. Let me demonstrate.

We were doing our normal bantering in 305 Lewis when we got to the topic of Chris (one of our roomates) sexcapades. I was commenting that Yush and Nelson (his brother), once they had worked out, would become formidable opponents to Chris on the singles scene.

Chris replied, "Nah man."

I retorted, "So you gave up on your sexcapades?"

Now, think about the answer. (Note: Chris does not really *have* sexcapades, but this is why this is funny). If he answers "no," then he is admitting to being a selfish sexaholic. If he answers "yes," then he is admitting to the whole sexcapade scenario.

A loaded question!

I'm going to master this art. It really does put people on the spot and makes you seem superwitty.
Posted by roy on January 6, 2004 at 10:32 PM in Foolishness | 5 Comments

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MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on January 7th, 2004 at 03:33 PM
I bow to the master, but retort with:

"So youve ended your trail of serial herpes victims?"
Comment posted on January 7th, 2004 at 05:49 AM
They could always just answer with "Plurium Interrogationum" to expose the fallacy.
Comment posted on January 6th, 2004 at 11:26 PM
a famous sentence of study in linguistics that deals with what you're talking about is: "When did you stop beating your wife?"
Comment posted on January 6th, 2004 at 10:56 PM
shut up fool! you ain't no no Chris "PIEMP" Lim!
Comment posted on January 6th, 2004 at 10:47 PM
Keep working on it, Royo. Keep working.