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by AnimalMuppet 4441 days ago
I once worked with a guy who gave a lot of "it depends" answers. (In fairness, he was the chief scientist, and there was a lot more of valid "it depends" than I wanted to recognize in the way microwaves interact with living tissue.)

One day a coworker and I asked him a question, and demanded that he give us a yes or no answer. He thought for a moment, and then replied: "Yes. However..."

[Edit: Fixed typo.]