Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
“If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?”
(Disclaimer: I didn’t make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
Smullyan invented this “coercive logic” in “The Riddle of Scheherazade”.
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
looks silly to me. ;)
And you know you’ve got a winner when the pickup-ee grins and answers with no hesitation, “Maybe.”
Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
“If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?”
(Disclaimer: I didn’t make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
Smullyan invented this “coercive logic” in “The Riddle of Scheherazade”.
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
looks silly to me. ;)
And you know you’ve got a winner when the pickup-ee grins and answers with no hesitation, “Maybe.”