But Lehrer does not acknowledge this possibility, let alone tell us whether it has been tested.
"Birmingham police couldn't even spell the word truth, let alone tell it," he said.
How the hell did anyone find Pitcairn Island, let alone tell anyone else about it?
Before Tuesday's night's debate 40% of Americans could not name either vice-presidential candidate, let alone tell them apart.
But any successes that nanotechnology has enjoyed so far have been small beer compared with the devices that would be needed to interrogate nerve cells, record the results and transmit them back to base, let alone tell those nerve cells what to do.The protagonists would, they say, build up slowly, using humbler creatures than human beings as experimental subjects to start with.
Since many birth injuries remain hidden, known only to the woman herself (Mel says that in the early months after her baby was born, she would sleep in the spare room rather than admit her incontinence to her husband, let alone tell a GP about it), it is impossible to know how common it is.
Now, only the studious chefs and dedicated foodies likely know that such things as Djena Lee's Golden Girl Tomato and Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter Tomato exist, let alone tell them apart.
She wouldn't talk to us let alone tell us where she was.
What would it do to the kingdom if he confronted and fought him, let alone tell on him?
"It has taken me a few months just to ring your doorbell let alone tell you how much I miss you and think about you," he wrote.
