Re: Mariah's vocals on Emancipation


In article <1123532445.622963.283790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> What is it ok for him to not know?

How much the dealer paid for the mic that was the same kind as used on
Mariah's record? I dunno. What was the question again?

> I'm going to give you the benfit of the doubt that you're not
> suggesting that quote is something you'd actually say. The problem is
> there are people who say that. It doesnt' take much thought or effort
> to come up with wording that's not condesending. RAP has been severly
> diluted by people who respond the way you describe in quotes.

Yeah, I'm one of them. We're not mind readers. But the nature of
people who ask an unanswerable question, when nobody tries to answer
it, is to ask it again, and again, ususally wondering if their message
got through. It got through, all right.

> There's also the option of not responding to a "useless" question.
>
> The more I think about it however, it seems that the "useless"
> questions tend to be the ones that people don't know the answers to.

So, how would you answer the original question?

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