How Long Is A Piece Of String?

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04 Aug 2020, 10:27 am

Why ask? They are all different lengths.

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04 Aug 2020, 10:31 am

Mountain Goat wrote:

Why ask? They are all different lengths.

Exactly.

A similar question is "How high is up?" Both are rhetorical questions used to point out the futility of over-thinking.

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04 Aug 2020, 10:40 am

It would be easier to say "I don't know" if asked a question where people reply "How long is a piece of string?" I just used that in a reply to a question on another forum, but I felt guilty as I was replying not actually knowing what I was replying even though it was an expected reply to a question like what was asked.
Then I felt guilty because it is not a reply that answers the question.
It was a question that I don't know the answer for.

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