A dialogue about question marks, intentionally punctuated.

Althouse: "Why are question marks really needed."

Meade: "That's a good question."

Althouse: "What did you say when I said why are question marks really needed."

Meade: "That's a good question."

I find myself omitting the question mark more and more lately. Why is it needed. The question is already in the words. It's absurd silliness, if you think about it — that rococo curlicue.