What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Wow, is that a good question, from Straight Answers to Some Popular Rhetorical Riddles.

Boy, is their answer boring:

Then all questions would concern only actual circumstances existing at the time of the posing of each respective question, and both science fiction and law school examinations would become things of the past.

Obviously, the real answer is: then we wouldn’t be having this stupid conversation.

Couple other questions I enjoyed:

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If there were an acceptable answer to that question, then my parents would have just shut up already about me living in the basement.

And:

If you ate both pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?

Their answer is, again, bo-rrrrring. Something about what it means to be hungry, and why eating makes you not hungry.

Obviously the answer is: no. Because you’ll have exploded.

Via The Linkiest.