Timeline for "Do you live around here or ride a bicycle?"
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| Mar 16, 2013 at 15:47 | comment | added | rhetorician | In light of Hugo's prodigious answer (and 28k reputation), it seems safe to assume Hugo agrees with me when he says the phrase is a "nonsense set question often used on a first meeting to break the ice or to amuse children." I therefore stand by my answer and insist the question derives its humor from being a non sequitur. (This is not to say your grandfather's mildly sardonic question isn't humorous.) While not exactly a non sequitur, my grandfather used to say, "I'm as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth." Go figure! | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 10:14 | history | answered | Fortiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |