Did You Ever Wonder Why...

[kdfrawg]

Beethoven, the composer, is also dead.

It is said that he is currently decomposing.

[Wilma]

Bad one, frawgie.

[kdfrawg]

Well, heck, Wilma, it wasn't much worse than the one immediately before it.

[Wilma]

Much worse.  Come to think of it, tho,  how are you mostly dead?

[kdfrawg]

I don't know. I didn't say "mostly dead." Janet said "mostly dead."

Janet, how can you be "mostly dead?"

[desertlilydarla]

Is that anything like "partly dead"?

[flo]

that belongs in the "we want to know" catagory.

Oh, Janet!!! how can you be "mostly" dead.   Does that mean one more twitch left?

[Wilma]

and what part isn't dead?

[kdfrawg]

In my experience, dead is pretty much a binary phenomenon: either you are or you aren't.

It is like George Carlin used to say about the "semi-boneless ham."

"Ain't no semi-boneless ham. Either it has a bone, or it doesn't."

Yessir, that's it!

[flo]

good point - however, you can be nude or semi-nude.  If you are semi-nude does that mean you are half dressed?