Glad you answered that for him Crusty, maybe now the board can move on from the usual weekend "content"
Nice to see our stock continue it's trend from Fridays trading. At LT we sit at .395 on 146.8K. Sure beats that .30 we saw midweek last week. Up almost 25% since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
Rhetorical question
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"A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply (ex: "Why me?")[1] Rhetorical questions encourage the listener to think about what the (often obvious) answer to the question must be. When a speaker states, "How much longer must our people endure this injustice?", no formal answer is expected. Rather, it is a device used by the speaker to assert or deny something.
Negative assertion
Often a rhetorical question is intended as a challenge, with the implication that the question is difficult or impossible to answer. Thus the question functions as a negative assertion. For example, What has he ever done for me? should be read as He has never done anything for me. Similarly, Shakespeare's Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? ("Julius Caesar," Act 3, scene 2, 257) functions as an assertion that Caesar possesses rare qualities that may not be seen again for a long time, if ever.
Such negative assertions may function as positives in sarcastic contexts. For example the sarcastic who knew? functions as an assertion that the preceding statement is utterly obvious: Smoking causes lung cancer. Who knew?"
