[Sca-cooks] washing birds...
AEllin Olafs dotter
aellin at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 9 09:47:22 PST 2003
Hey! I ask almost as many questions as you, and I'm not an engineer!
But, OK, I learned the technique from my Dad, and he was. I don't ask as
many here as I do some other places, because you beat me to them... but,
before I settled on AEllin for a name, a local friend named me Anne of
the Thousand Questions. (He was answering them, bless him.)
And I'm also a firm believer in the Stupid Question (TM). I've found
that it can elicit all kinds of information that no one was expecting.
Frequently "Everyone Knows" - several different things... And sometimes
I know none of them, but sometimes I know several of them and want to
know what other people "know" the correct answer to be. And I don't care
if people are fool enough to assume that this means that I am stupid. *G*
AEllin
Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Sorry, I've not seen you post here long enough to know such details
> about you or how you post. But even knowing this, I would probably
> still want to ask many of the questions I did. By temperment and
> training I'm an engineer.
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>
> As others have pointed out, asking multiple questions is often how I
> approach things. Its much more economical to learn from someone else's
> mistakes than to make my own. Then at least mine are original. Whether
> I believe or agree with something or not, I will often ask questions.
> I have found that I often ask questions that other folks, for one
> reason or another, are not willing to ask. I've made a fool of myself
> enough here that one more "stupid" question is not going to make much
> difference. If you read Admiral Rickover's (the creator of the US
> nuclear navy) autobiography you will find that he operated on much the
> same methodology. And often that "stupid" question that I thought
> would result in a simple one line answer has resulted in a rather
> complex thread and we find out there *wasn't* a simple answer after all.
>
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