So what if Wodehouse died almost three decades ago, his works still sell well. |
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Assembling a machine sounds straightforward, but what if the components of that machine are nanoscopic? |
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So what if more houses get built on the outskirts of Dublin without proper local infrastructure. |
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But what if that same caller is transferring funds because five checks just bounced or his credit card was stolen? |
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So what if it turns out that lots of other native Americans are not Native Americans either? |
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But what if someone stood up and admitted whatever he held deep within the bowels of his soul. |
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From a purely cricketing perspective, so what if Australia play a weakened Zimbabwe. |
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And so what if the films they produce are more street-smart, more professional, less nakedly polemical? |
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So what if it was a Western classical concert, kids are after all kids, right? |
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So what if their lyrical outbursts are in English, they capture the sound of inner city west Wales with precision and wit. |
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Well, what if I went for a nightcap at my hotel and just happened to get chatting to a lady in the bar? |
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Well they couldn't waste any time brooding on this because what if someone saw them? |
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Where the film falls down slightly is during its latter stages, when the real is overtaken by special effects and a what if scenario. |
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I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage? |
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So what if it's an inherited thing, as long as they don't have any real power? |
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But, what if the school could use these children's passions as a springboard to further learning? |
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But so what if their stories are inventions that have been thoroughly discredited? |
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So what if it was the end of the day, the energy at the pub was infectious. |
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But then, what if that N-word is spoken by a hip-hop artist instead of a KKK member? |
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So what if it is all about forbidden love and doomed sexual obsession for a pre-pubescent nymphet. |
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This of course was mildly interesting but what intrigued me was what if you used the values of Pi to create not letters but musical notes. |
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So what if the chemistry between the actors spilled off-screen from their on-screen pairing during the film? |
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Also, what if the pitcher picks the runner off base before he makes his first pitch to home? |
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I tried you six different times and so what if I called your house at six in the morning? |
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And what if this parent is just an acquaintance, and not really a friend I can be open with about it all? |
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So what if the guy repeatedly emailed you asking for the update you had over-optimistically told him he would have. |
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So what if it led to the development of the electric gramophone and later took the form of radio and record player. |
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But, since there are no outlined commitments to stay with each other, what if unforeseen circumstances arise? |
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We could probably cope with smaller climatic variations, as we have done in our past, but what if it were an ice age or the melting of the poles? |
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And what if she had been committed to a mental hospital for the rest of her life? |
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So what if she next decides she wants her own football club, playing at the bottom of her garden. |
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Yet what if you believe, to a moral certainty, that the confession is a fabrication and the defendant didn't do it? |
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So what if the idea is to create the illusion of total surveillance, so that people behave? |
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And what if the most competitive jockey and the most competitive trainer in the sport's history were ranged against each other? |
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I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent? |
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But what if some of these seemingly minor, inconsequential events had never occurred? |
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You've got that creative talent, you produce the artistic goods, but what if no-one sees it or hears it? |
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Questions begin to appear, such as, are they going to be weird, like trainspotters,, and if they are, then what if I fit in! |
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As for the movie scenario, what if several zebras, hippos, giraffes, and lions were introduced to the island? |
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And what if the motor causing it to rotate was instead a huge drill press which drove into the ground at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour? |
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Furthermore what if you were told that had they been doing the speed limit, they could have survived? |
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This is the bit I hate, what if it makes people feel all stressed and under pressure to perform? |
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So what if they have lost their privy purses and are left hallucinating about their past glory? |
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So what if perception is warped by our egos and reality is warped by perception? |
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But then, what if the spyware captures your keystrokes and stores them for later retrieval? |
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I sipped my ale, and wondered what if anything the two men had spoken of while I jested with Hildfleda. |
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So what if Sweeney buys drinks for Rachel Rabinowitz or Aunt Helen's footman dandles the second parlormaid? |
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But what if we build dams to generate electricity or protect low-lying regions from floods? |
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So what if a keyword phrase you want to use doesn't actually appear within your visible copy? |
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After all, what if the ideas that end up winning popular support don't happen to be ones that they approve of? |
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The other thing of note is, if a couple of emails and a letter gets a blogger to close down his blog, what if you got a writ of summons? |
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She raised her head, wondering what if anything to say, and then suddenly craned forward. |
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So, what if you get on your horse and he starts jigging, trotting or moving around at an improper pace? |
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But what if on arrival, their meeting place were bombed and all 21 were killed? |
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And so what if the media have lowered themselves to airing snuff films in an effort to boost ratings? |
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But what if the economy fails to produce the job growth he needs for a glide path to re-election? |
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Yet what if a member of one of these sites intended to use it for criminal purposes? |
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But still what if she got pregnant last night, or early this morning, same difference. |
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But what if the car was used not for pleasure but purely as a means of transport, like the taxicab? |
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But what if you wanted to sell your house before the endowment policy was fully vested? |
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So what if my pants are bagging at the ankles and I have to keep pulling them up every 5 seconds. |
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This might not matter if the war were won easily, but what if the operation went wrong? |
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It allows us to play what if games with internal ballistic calculations for pressure and velocity. |
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The problem is, what if the engine stops while he is already on the fast lane of a nearby toll road? |
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So what if Sven has been keeping an ear to the ground about what might be next for him? |
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But what if you are the user of a new product and want to write a review on it? |
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And, as a postscript to that, Bob, what if, the unlikely event, they find nothing? |
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Besides, what if expecting the worst actually makes it more likely to happen? |
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I can't remember if Holly tucked both arms under and anyway, what if he wanted to itch a tickle on his nose? |
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Or, what if we called their bluff and didn't give them the money and see what happens then? |
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Then I thought what if all the potty buskers and freaky street celebrities you see around town were not mad? |
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I have no idea what if anything was ever done with the structure or if it's still sitting there on the corner under the mesquite trees. |
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But, what if the cyclist was there to inform you about a faulty brake light or indicator? |
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But what if he drove her to some remote, isolated place and left her there? |
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But what if the doctor does not want to treat someone because he or she thinks that they would be an inadequate parent? |
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And what if the Scots are left in some halfway house with a few bob in their pockets and nothing more? |
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No one minds throwing these items away once the seams start to fray, but what if you're buying the real deal? |
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We don't like to think about it, but what if you lose your job or the roof of your house caves in? |
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On the other side of it, what if an illegal-action bowler bowls a batsman out consistently? |
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What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox? |
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But what if your spanking-new ball slices into an adjacent fairway and gets chopped and spit out by a triplex mower? |
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It's said that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but what if that was actually true? |
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And what if she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that by revealing the threat, her own life would be in mortal danger? |
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What if I kept postponing the outing until one day the boys didn't want to pick buttercups, or what if the flowers stopped blooming? |
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But what if it didn't happen that way and the Neanderthals were the ones left around? |
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It is so easy to say that murderers should be hanged, but what if they have been framed, or the evidence isn't up to scratch. |
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So what if he gets driven around with the pedal to the metal? |
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But what if winning is an ancillary goal to the financial health of the organization? |
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And what if they are also a diabetic and are traveling with a syringe of what they say is insulin. |
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And what if they're only the canary in the coal mine for doctors and MBAs and government workers? |
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We may resolve the paradox, say in the Euclidean theory of quantum gravity, but what if the Euclidean theory of quantum gravity doesn't correctly describe our universe. |
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Or what if an ingredient in your beer or cocktail machines has gone bad without knowing it? |
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So what if money-making teens in Malaysia say a gleeful ker-ching! |
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But what if you don't have a say about where your tax money goes? |
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Instead of our bodies having to work double-time to sift out the nutrients from food that is wolfed down anxiously, what if we gave our bodies an easier time of it? |
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So what if all the ladies in the kitty parties were talking about her? |
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So what if he is pictured on his hotel balcony in his Y-fronts? |
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We're all no doubt envisioning worthless adolescent punks who deserve to lose some teeth, but what if the perpetrator is female, or a precocious 12-year-old? |
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But what if they also know that making us happy or sad or angry or envious would make us more likely to want what they have? |
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It's a big let-down for people who have had to put up with the inconvenience, the noise and the roadworks and what if it's put off again until the spring? |
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So, they ask, what if germs, looking to spread, drive people to perform rituals? |
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What if he knows Mick's upstairs, what if he's rumbled our game? |
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But what if this war does eventually involve ground troops, and what if it does just grind on for years? |
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And what if people were straightforward and told it like it is? |
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Or what if she is planning to adopt but her husband will be a stay-at-home dad? |
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But what if the adjudicator finds the facts to be materially different? |
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But what if the upstream community wants to use the water to bathe and wash clothes, and the result will be a shortage of drinking water for the downstream community? |
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But what if we all pooled the loose change we get back after buying our morning latte at Starbucks? |
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And what if the crust were not a dense pastry, but a light cream cheese crust? |
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What I am getting at is, what if this person was a nag or very critical? |
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Without delving into spoilers, what if a trait like vulnerability can also be a source of strength? |
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But what if vasectomies were cheap, non-invasive, fully reversible, and as widespread as the female birth control pill? |
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However, what if I had sleepwalked and took it from Palestrike's chamber? |
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But what if the problem is caused by a natural, unpredicted event? |
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So what if the near and dear ones are not able to attend the marriage? |
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Then again, what if they had sold their souls for the brass ring? |
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So what if they were living on their nerves for the second half? |
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But what if I told you there was another burger chain that purposely pays above the minimum wage? |
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But what if we take JFK off the half dollar and give it to Martin? |
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But what if a Louisiana runoff will determine which party controls the Senate? |
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And above all, what if those bands aren't the overripe gods of the sixties and seventies, but the inescapable products of them, either in worship or in reaction or both? |
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Besides, what if I don't want it on my iPod but on my fancy stereo system where I can hear just how bad the sound quality is when it's streaming over the air? |
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So what if he'd fiddled his taxes and done business with crooks? |
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But what if the buffer contains a gigabyte of plain text to be processed? |
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We wonder what about them is unique, what if anything specifically German. |
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So what if pussycats and tigers originate from the same species? |
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So, what if we tell you that there's something gratis coming up? |
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But what if you want to conduct a guided tour for the public? |
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True, in the original the eyes were terrifying and unblinking and deathly, but what if we popped some guyliner around the edges and made them ocean blue? |
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But what if he hadn't been suspected of doctoring his report? |
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So what if Maggie wants to quit school and pursue some pipe dream. |
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So what if you can barely twitch a toe let alone move a leg? |
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Diageo has designed what if claims is the first advertising to appear on a barbecue briquette. |
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But what if I don't have time to discharge you tomorrow. The epicrisis has to be written, you know. |
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But what if your accumulated wisdom is only, as the punsters would say, half-vast? |
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It was not immediately clear what if any damage resulted from the quake in the area, which lies along the northern coast of the Gulf of Alaska. |
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But what if the regulations get tighter, won't two-strokes be at a disadvantage because of their propensity to burn oil? |
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So what if you hadn't already identified a distinct need for a small wooden horse-type rustic nicknack to sit on the windowsill. |
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And what if the family and community collude in this inversion? |
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And while we're on the subject, what if global warming enables the malaria mosquito to reach our shores? |
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But what if you're a fan of vivid orange, lime green or a luscious shade of lavender? |
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But what if that bottle-feeder she had to despise couldn't feed her own baby for some reason and wanted to? |
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But what if we approached our creative close encounters through the lens of an animist or aboriginal understanding of the land? |
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And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly. |
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What if someone I know sees me? Or what if a paparazzi is lurking somewhere? |
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So what if arms dealers are money-grabbing deathmongers? This is a revelation? |
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All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts? |
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While we're fantasizing, what if Marc Tyler would make a miraculous recovery? |
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Finally, what if the Toon hadn't hoyed away a 12 point lead 20 years ago. |
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Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law. |
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Lorries have flashing beacons and reversing bleepers, but what if someone who is walking behind one is blind, deaf, or just cannot walk very fast to get out of the way? |
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Finally, what if the Toon hadn't hoyed away a 12-point lead 20 years ago. |
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So what if you kissed some bogan mole in the bogger at some 3rd-rate bar? |
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Even more likely, what if the client, for one reason or another, checks the Hidden text radio button on his or her own computer so that all the hidden text will show? |
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