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If you're too old for dates, what about figs?

What about fig leaves?

What about collar stays?

Wouldn't prunes be more appropriate?

Are you suggesting I need pruning?

A little pruning never hurt anyone, what are collar stays?

Is that a grammatically correct sentence with such a complex structure of both a statement and a question?

Good point, but is it pertinent?

You mean pertinent to the current subject of the thread?

Does this thread have a subject?

Isn't the subject continuously morphing?

Will it ever become a butterfly?

In order for that to happen, wouldn't the subject of the thread first have to be extremely still and hang somewhere unobtrusively from a tree branch or other out-of-the-way place while wrapped in a cocoon for a period of time sufficiently long as to produce the desired result of a butterfly?

What if the winter wind blows the subject of the thread, while wrapped in a cocoon, off the tree branch or other out-of-the-way place, and it falls to the ground and is mistaken for a nut and eaten by a squirrel?

Would said squirrel not realize its mistake with the first bite?

What if said squirrel didn't have any teeth?

How could it eat nuts without teeth?

Wouldn't it hurt to bite nuts with teeth?

What would it hurt, the nuts or the squirrel?

Wouldn't a squirrel have to be nuts to do that?

You think the squirrel might prefer to have his nuts crushed by someone first?

What kind of demented squirrel would want his nuts crushed?

The extra-demented kind?

What kind of nut crusher would it take to crush a squirrel's nuts?

Would a hammer be sufficient to crush a squirrel's nuts?