When asked directly, she replied, "Why the spider?
To which Jon replies, "Why the hell do you ask me that?
"To the dumb question 'Why me?'," he wrote, "the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'" All the same, his many friends and admirers, who do not, as one of them put it, "relish a world without Hitchens", will be asking "why him?" today.
"Hey, buddy, want a brand new TV?" "Sure," you reply, "why not?" The man pops open his boot, shows off what looks to be a TV….
"To the dumb question 'Why me?,' " he writes, "the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?" He was valiant to the end, a paragon of British phlegm.
John's reply: "Why do not the barons, with these unjust exactions, ask my kingdom?" But in June, 1215, the King, his royal back against the wall, affixed his beeswax seal to a treaty, or charter, written by his scribes in iron-gall ink on a single sheet of parchment.
The reply: "Why don't you have some more mandarin fish?" On Feb. 22, writer visited a military attache from a European country that is supposed to have a sensitive appreciation of Chinese politics.
"I originally asked for his cooperation and got back the reply, 'Why don't you do it after I'm not here anymore?' I decided early on that this was to be a piece about the man himself, not his politics".
When she was eight, one of her brothers accidentally shot and blinded her in one eye with a BB gun; asking an employer for a loan, to pay a doctor, only brought the reply: "Why you wanna waste $250 getting your sister's eye fixed?
