[Sca-cooks] washing birds...

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

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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