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Conference quark::human_relations-v1

Title:What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'?
Notice:Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS
Moderator:ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI
Created:Fri May 09 1986
Last Modified:Wed Jun 26 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1327
Total number of notes:28298

312.0. "The "Eternal Answers" ... now that we know the Questins" by TONTO::EARLY (Bob_the_hiker) Wed May 27 1987 12:00

    In another note, someone suggested that the "questions" be asked
    there ... all sorts of questions about ... everything. It puzzled
   me that there are so many questions, and so few answers to the really
    important questions.
    
    Some people feel that when the correct question is asked, the answer
    is half found.
    
    So then, when the correct answer is given, we then know what question
    need to be asked ? Seems like it could become a very recursive cycle,
    but let me give an answer I've heard many times, and perhaps others
    can share some of the answers THEY've been given, (or even provided).
    
    Nopoint in putting the QUESTIONS here, because all suitable questions
    have already been asked. Now we need some ANSWERS.
    
    Answer #1: "... because I said so !"
    
    .bob.
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312.142BCSE::RYANRelatively humanWed May 27 1987 15:290
312.2My standard: "Cuz I'm the 'mommy' thats why!"TORA::KLEINBERGERmisery IS optionalThu May 28 1987 00:081
    
312.3VINO::KSTEVENSI don't believe what I believe inThu May 28 1987 13:502
    No one said that life is fair.
    
312.4SPMFG1::SEABURYMThu May 28 1987 19:523
     
     'Cuz thats how things work around here
     
312.5DDMAIL::ANDREWSJust living a life of illusionFri May 29 1987 00:163
    Re .0,.2,.4
    
    Because is a word, not a reason :-)
312.6TORA::KLEINBERGERmisery IS optionalFri May 29 1987 12:293
    Ah, but "because" is the best reason they get :-)
    
    (especially if I'm the mommy! :-).....)
312.7 HARPO::B_HENRYBill HenryFri May 29 1987 12:412
because your not old enough to know any better

312.8Most IllogicalVAXWRK::CONNORLive Free or Pay UpFri May 29 1987 13:521
	No reason - It's just policy.
312.9I want an explanationYODA::BARANSKI1's & 0's, what could be simpler?!Fri May 29 1987 15:1020
RE: .*

Of the answers so stated:

"... because I said so !"
"Cuz I'm the 'mommy' thats why!" 
"No one said that life is fair."
"'Cuz thats how things work around here"
"because your not old enough to know any better"
"No reason - It's just policy."

I would be very upset if someone gave me those reasons as answers, and I would
not accept them.  I certainly would not give them as answers to my children, and
I would hope other parents are not.  I feel that every person deserves some
explanation to their questions, even if they won't understand the explanation
fully.

Jim. 


312.10QUARK::LIONELWe all live in a yellow subroutineFri May 29 1987 15:2513
    I can't get away with pseudo-answers like these.  If I say just
    "Because" to Tommy, he asks "Why because?"  However, I think
    this is more a subject for PARENTING than H_R.
    
    "It's just policy" is one that I hear a lot in the business world,
    and little infuriates me more.  (Well, maybe those signs that start
    out with "For your convenience..." and then tell you eight things
    that inconvenience you.)
    
    Anyway, I don't know where we can really go with this topic other
    than some amusement.

    					Steve
312.11From an old Barney Miller episodeHPSCAD::WALLI see the middle kingdom...Fri May 29 1987 17:299
                  
    For the same reason the sperm whale, one of the largest creatures
    in existence, has an eyeball the size of a baseball.
    
    'Cause that's the way it is.
    
    I find myself confronted by this reality quite frequently.
    
    DFW
312.12From my parochial school days :-)AKOV68::FRETTSShine your Spirit!Fri May 29 1987 20:399
    
    
    
    Well, it's a mystery.
    
    
    
    Carole
    
312.13:-(NOVA::GROFFFri May 29 1987 21:213
    because
    	life sucks,
    		and then you die
312.140>-v-<0GENIE::CLARKleaves them feathers if they fallMon Jun 01 1987 13:442
    that's the way God planned it
    
312.15Because a Smith & Wesson Beats Five AcesTSG::MCGOVERNSzechuan VanillaMon Jun 01 1987 18:351
     
312.16Or...TIPPLE::HANSONSittin' on a Lilypad...Tue Jun 02 1987 00:126
    
    Or, as Lily Tomlin once said :
    
    "If love is the answer, would somebody please rephrase the question?"
    
    
312.17Good answer! Good answer!AXEL::FOLEYRebel without a clueWed Jun 03 1987 00:5711
    
    
    	"Oh no, I know what you're thinkin'.. `Did he fire 5 or did he
    	fire 6?' Well, in all the confusion I kinda lost track myself.
    	But seeing as how this is a .44 Magnum and it can blow your
    	head CLEAN off, you oughtta be askin' yourself one question.
    	`Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya? PUNK!
    
    					Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry"
    
    								mike
312.19Love isn't the answer?YODA::BARANSKI1's &amp; 0's, what could be simpler?!Mon Jun 08 1987 15:365
RE: .16

I'd like to hear more of the context that was taken from...

Jim.
312.20Perhaps it is...TIPPLE::HANSONCaution: Prone to sudden Fun Attacks...Thu Jun 11 1987 13:4211
    
    RE: .19 *** I'd like to hear more of the context that was taken from...
    
    Gee, Jim, I believe it was stand-up comedy.
    
    [Several years ago, Lily had a one-woman show on Broadway, and during
     the performance, she would throw out a one-liner viewpoint on life's
     ironies, pause, and move onto the next observation, sort of in the
     same fashion as Steven Wright.  Ergo, no context, just offered here
     as a light-hearted smile  8^)  ]
    
312.21Because that's the way my mother always did it.OWL::LANGILLA Transitory HallucinationWed Jun 17 1987 18:101