What is the answer to this question?

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 16 Jul 2002 00:57 PDT

Do you want a sociological, religious, scientifical or more general
analysis on asking and answering ?
till

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Clarification of Question by alluvialphil-ga on 16 Jul 2002 02:18 PDT

Yes.

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 16 Jul 2002 03:39 PDT

Itīs a little bit strange to answer a question with alternative options by "Yes.
till-ga

Hello Alluvialphil,

The answer is: "Yes, but only in summer".

Please let me point out why, and how the answer was found. First, I
checked many search engines*. There I entered different phrases and
keywords. Next, I visited pages from the results and copied good
quotes. These were at the same time funny, challenging, deep, and not
too long. Then I interviewed friends, family members, and complete
strangers I ran into outside. Soon after, I called my secretary
telling her the answer and explanation; she wrote it down on paper,
the office boy scanned it, a colleague ran it through the character
recognition software, our software support had to update the character
recognition software, and finally my secretary spell-checked the
result. During this process -- as ever so often with long chains of
communication based on modern tools -- the exact meaning got lost, but
rest assured it was very profound.

Hope this helps.

* Resources:
- Google at ://www.google.com
- Altavista at http://www.altavista.com
- Lycos at http://www.lycos.com/
- Teoma Search at http://www.teoma.com/
- Ask Jeeves at http://www.ask.com/ 
- WebCrawler at http://www.webcrawler.com/ 
- AllTheWeb at http://www.alltheweb.com/
- Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com/

** Search Strategy:
- "What is the Answer" to this question
- Questions in General
- "Overview of Answers"
- Answers database

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Request for Answer Clarification by alluvialphil-ga on 17 Jul 2002 01:05 PDT

What is it about the word "or" you don't understand? <g>

This is the answer to that question!

;-)

Nope - this 

https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=13884

is the answer to this question, isn't it?

Q:What is the answer to this question? 
A: The answer to this question is answer.

Q: What is the answer to this question?
A: You have asked no question..therefore there cannot be a correct
answer. The way it is phrased presents itself like a question but it
isn't and is illustionary.

e.g "What is the title to this song?" The song doesn't exist and
neither does the question.

What.

The above word, is the answer to the question posed by alluvialphil-ga.

The old answer was "42," but the eggplant over there.

Does THIS question have an answer?

Hi, alluviualphil-ga.

You must be some distant relation to me (and, oddly, to everyone
posting here,) since we share the unusual surname "ga."

In addressing your fascinating, yet subtly annoying question, I would
like to begin by saying that your query demonstrates a characteristic
underlying subtext of the existential semanticist paradigm of
consensus. However, the dialectic, and some would say the absurdity,
of the individual psychosocietal universe leads us to challenge our
biophilosophical parameters. In a sense, the subject is interpolated
into a postcultural deconstructionist materialism that includes
absolutism as a totality.

Then again, maybe not.

Perhaps this link will be of assistance to you:

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dbh/games/questions

Apropos of very little, I find it cosmically significant (or at least
comically so) that ALLUVIALPHIL-GA is an anagram of AVAIL LAUGH PILL.

Cheers from
pinkfreud-ga

Heck, I couldn't even spell "alluvialphil-ga" correctly in the
salutation of my comment, above.

If I were you, I wouldn't take my advice. ;-)