Two tough questions

[bluelady]

Heres an Email I had sent me, test you judgement
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who
were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis,
would you recommend that she have an abortion?


Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here
are the facts about the three candidates.

Candidate A.

Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist. He's
had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a
day.

Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon , used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C

He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice?

Decide first... No peeking, and then go to answer thread for the response.

[bluelady]

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Candidate B is Winston Churchill.

Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:

If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals..built the Titanic

[Anne x]

Changi
its the answers to post 2 questions yeh I was lost as well

[Moira]

I wasn't sure what was going on here either - then I spotted the separate thread :-
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=31495

[Torvaig]

She was just making sure that we don't cheat!

[changilass]

Merged posts as I wasn't the only one to read answers before questions.

With the speed things move up and down the boards it is too easy for one of the posts to end up on a totally different page.

[bluelady]

I apologise for the confusion, couldnt find a way to hide e answers, not a tec bod

[appleskin]

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Candidate B is Winston Churchill.

Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:

If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals..built the Titanic

clever and intresting

[Bobinovich]

I apologise for the confusion, couldnt find a way to hide e answers, not a tec bod

For future information the easiest way is to type the answers out at the bottom of the original post, highlight them and change the text colour to white. The reader then has to re-highlight them to see them.

[bekisman]

"If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven"
Hmm I see you've not read Dawkins the God Delusion (I.e. 'Beethovens' mother did not have that disease etc ect)..
I'm on holiday, but as a number of you have read Dawkins, please look that section up for me?

[bekisman]

Here tiz;

"Is it true that Beethoven's mother got seven or more children, of which most of them were deaf or blind or otherwise disabled, probably due to syphilis?

No, that's not true. When she married Johann van Beethoven she was already a widow. Both her husband and her young baby had died. Nothing is known about the cause of their deaths. In 1769 she gave birth to Johann's first child, but it died at the age of six days. Then followed our great composer, then his brother Caspar Anton Carl, who died in 1815 of tuberculosis, then his brother Nikolaus Johann, who died in 1848 of old age. Three more children (one boy, two girls) followed, all of them died very soon, respectively at the age of four days, two years and one year. Nothing is known about the causes of their deaths. Beethoven's mother died of tuberculosis (in 1787), Beethoven's father probably of a heart attack (in 1792).

[bluelady]

For future information the easiest way is to type the answers out at the bottom of the original post, highlight them and change the text colour to white. The reader then has to re-highlight them to see them.

Thanks Bobinovich

[lady penelope]

My answer is never judge a book by its cover.

and never trust a man who is too trustworthy or hasn't 'lived'.

[bluelady]

"If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven"
Hmm I see you've not read Dawkins the God Delusion (I.e. 'Beethovens' mother did not have that disease etc ect)..
I'm on holiday, but as a number of you have read Dawkins, please look that section up for me?

No have not read that as not something im interested in, just posted what had been sent to me, so peeps can add their knowledge of events, i never take things at face value. Its just e concept of the thing.