Answer a Question with a Question...

[hollydolly]

Would you land on Neverland with peter Pan ?

 

[Patch]

How could you ever land on Neverland if Neverland had no land on which to ever land?

 

[StarSong]

Wouldn't you rather land in Neverland than in No Man's Land?

 

[hollydolly]

Have you ever visited No Man's Land ?

 

[Patch]

How could it still be referred to as "No Man's Land" if I... a male... had ever visited it??

 

[Kaila]

Is it possible or probable that you have visited there? .....

and that you didn't notice you were the only one present?
And didn't in fact realize, that was where you'd landed? (Or arrived. ? )
Perhaps that occurred, many times?

 

[Tish]

How many times are many times?

 

[Kaila]

Would the answer be too many times?

 

[Patch]

Don't you understand one's definition of "many" could be significantly different than another person's and, therefore, wouldn't it be perfunctory to assume I could answer the above question?

 

[hollydolly]

Do you know the meaning of perfumer... perfectomy...perfectory... errmmm wot he said above ..^^^^^

 

[Kaila]

Is anyone here on this perfunctory thread, accusing anyone else here,
of being perfectoryific or perfumalific, or something similar?

 

[StarSong]

My father was a perfumer, does that count?

 

[Kaila]

Oh yes, I would think that definitely counts a great deal!
Wouldn't we all,
be able to agree, on at least that one fact?

 

[Kaila]

And I MIGHT possibly, have had a cousin, who was believed to be (but not proven)
a perfectionist; Would that count, as well?

(And I have had a neighbor who was so very perfumatic,
that it was problematic .......therefore, Wouldn't that count, too?)

 

[Tish]

It should, but does it?

 

[Rosemarie]

Did you know that perfumieres did not catch the plague?

 

[StarSong]

Did you know that perfumieres did not catch the plague?

Is that true? Would love to read a link - I can't find anything on it though.

Do you also find that the hardest part of getting answers from search engines is properly phrasing the question?

 

[Tish]

Totally!
Do you think they need to change the phrasing?

 

[Kaila]

Did you know that they did change that system of key words, a while back,
to be more accurate?

Do you think they succeeded or not?

 

[Rosemarie]

Don't you find it frustrating when the search engine picks up on one word, but it isn't what you're looking for?

 

[Rosemarie]

Is that true? Would love to read a link - I can't find anything on it though.

Do you also find that the hardest part of getting answers from search engines is properly phrasing the question?

It is thought that the essential oils used in the perfume industry sterilized the air, and killed any viruses.

 

[StarSong]

Boolean searches are a mystery to me, much like electricity. If I try to turn on a lamp and it doesn't work, I'll change the bulb. After that, I've got nothing!

I do try rephrasing (as I did with the perfume and plague connection), but that doesn't always guarantee success.

Doesn't a search engine sometimes remind you of trying to find a word that you know exists but you can't remember it - so you struggle with a thesaurus, finding words that kind of work but not like the precise one you're looking for?

 

[Kaila]

It does often seem, that the most difficult topics to search for and find, are the ones that link 2 subjects,
such as what StarSong was searching for, described above.

Have you found that, as I have, with many other topics as well?

 

[StarSong]

I have! Great analysis - it does happen often when two topics are linked in the search but almost never linked in everyday life.

Have you also found that despite narrowing down the time frame you often get results that are out of date?

 

[Kaila]

Yes, and....
Isn't that amazing HOW EXTREME the time periods are,
away from current time frames,
or how different from whatever the time period you search for?