Why Dad why?
Aug 12th, 2009 by Bert
When I was young I remember a comic strip called “why dad why” with a young boy who was always asking his dad silly questions. Eddie is at that age now, and I understand where the strip was coming from - I have to deal with questions like “who would win if a tiger fought a gorilla?”. It’s a very fair question, and as a betting man I obviously took a stand - most people would back the tiger but my money would be on the gorilla every time. He set me a real tester last night - “who would win between a transformer and Peter Pan?”. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.
The football season is on us, and Swindon are proving a tough read. I was devastated on Saturday when the lost 5-0 away at Gillingham, but yesterday they won 4-1 away at MK Dons. Work that one out.
Not a lot to report from Manor House stables other than everything is going fine. I have a runner today - Teia Tephi goes at Yarmouth. She needs a bit of cut and I didn’t give her much of a chance, but I understand there’s been a fair bit of rain at Yarmouth today - if the ground has softened she should have a squeak. I have quite a lot of runners coming up - I’ll list them later. One bit of bad news - Bodkin Van Horn, who I like a lot, injured himself today and will probably be out for a little while - hopefully nothing too serious but we await the vet’s report.
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Eddie might like to enter the debate here :-
http://debate.thepemberton.com/archives/3
You won’t be short of layers for your gorilla bet !
In answer to Eddie’s questions you could start using the Zen replay “Mu”. This is a Japanese reply to questions that cannot be answered for one reason or another.
For example: the leading question in a court case “Have you stopped beating your wife?” cannot be answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without incriminating yourself. Saying ‘yes’ implies that you have beaten her; saying ‘no’ means that you are still beating her.
Will your horse definitely win the race? Yes or No. Answer Mu.
So, by answering ‘Mu’ requires the questioner to ‘un-ask’ the question.
So Bert, just say Mu.
alternatively, you could just say ‘ask your mother’
Yes ScottF, that’s OK too - mainly for questions like: “Where did I come from Dad?”, or “How are babies made Dad?”