What would the world be like if it had more roads than people?
I’ll cross that bridge when the road gets to it.
Roger Morrell, Perth, Western Australia
• Life as we know it would be e-roaded!
Avril Taylor, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
• That rather depends on whether you’re talking about an increase in the number of roads, or a decrease in the number of people.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• For those who bought shares in the road-building companies early, “Great!”
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia
• Not sure, but it shouldn’t be long before we find out.
John Benseman, Auckland, New Zealand
• An oven, judging by my time in Houston: all that concrete retains heat like a kiln through the night. High 41C, low 31C in August, with 80% humidity.
R M Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
• Exhausted.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
• Less cluttered with cars.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• Some of us would have a fine excuse for never wanting to ask for directions.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
• This is not a hypothetical, and never mind the bitumen – by my reckoning, there are at least three times as many roads as there are people. At some stage in our lives we are all on the road to success, the road to ruin or the road to recovery.
Cameron Grant, Nailsworth, South Australia
• Bumpy.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
I have a lovely co-writer
How did you finally take possession of your personal narrative?
By opening a personal account.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• By falling in love with a wonderful woman who then became my co-writer for life.
Tijne Schols, The Hague, The Netherlands
• I haven’t: as soon as I start talking most people disagree with me.
Rhys Winterburn, Perth, Western Australia
• I told it so often to friends and acquaintances, with its many embellishments, that I finally believed it myself.
Brian Kenworthy, Norwood, South Australia
• By studying hard and gaining readmittance to university, after being rusticated at the end of a first year spent exploring people and ideas but rarely attending lectures or producing an essay. From then on challenge and achieving hard tasks became my credo.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• I retrieved it from my printer and stored it in my bedside cabinet.
Jim Dewar, Gosford, NSW, Australia
It really all depends
Can yes or no ever be the right answer to anything?
It depends. Every time.
Barney Gilmore, Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada
• Both a yes or a no, or a yes-and-no could be the right answer, depending on the question, who asks, and who answers.
Reiner Jaakson, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
• Quantum-wise, only until it is measured.
Janice Marshall, Eersel, Netherlands
Any answers?
Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall?
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
Can golf be an intellectual pursuit?
William Emigh, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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