Spend a half hour on a careful analysis of the consequences ( but what if they ve set up a barricade behind the doors? but what if they panic from fright? and so on)? Or would you just throw it?

What if I fail?

What if he fails?

American parents were more likely to say things like, What if? What if?

How about you get on the phone?

Boy How about this?

If he doesn't come, what'll you do?

The What If? of 1989

So what?

You can think of this nagging inner voice as sort of the brain's equivalent of the Catholic Church, if you're an Austrian like me, or the super ego, if you're Freudian, or your mother, if you're Jewish.

What if they're doing important work?

What if Nathan Here it comes. Yay!

And watching ?What If!

What if they had gotten their hands on a nuclear weapon?

What if the reality is the reverse?

But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, What do you do?

What if, in the coming crowd of nine billion ...

What if they're thinking about something important?

But what if there actually is a fire?

If you were in my place, what would you do?

If you were in my place, what would you do?

What would you say if you were in my place?

What would you say if you were in my place?

Now, what will happen? What if they come to, you know, suck up our oceans for the hydrogen?

So what if we evolved as hunting pack animals?

What would you do if you were ten years younger?

What would you do if you were ten years younger?

What have you been doing to increase interest in blogging?

Aref I'm pretty sure if you said sleepy juice things would've gone a lot better than they did.

What if we could prevent electrical fires before they start?

What if it was just a tiff between two friends?

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

But what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us?

What if he says, 'Oh, I already have one,' or, 'I've already memorized it'?

So in the year 2000, I began to wonder, what if we came together?

What if that Copernican insignificance was actually all wrong?

The what if game can be played out endlessly.

But what if not every little boy and girl is born that way?

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

I know how I would vote.

So you have the engine, now what if you combine the petals and the engine in the center?

The same thought was echoed by Hisham Maged on his blog, playing the What if game

What if I'd had a gun under my jacket? My hand would have gone right toward it.