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ThudnBlunder
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More Quickies
« on: May 10th, 2003, 12:35am » |
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A few of these may have been posted before: 1] Why can't a woman living in New York, with relations in Los Angeles, be legally buried in Canada? 2] How many cubic feet of earth are there in a hole measuring 3 feet wide by 4 feet long by 5 feet deep? 3] How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? 4] How can you lift an elephant with one hand? 5] Why are many famous artists Dutch? 6] A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? 7] In which month of the year do American Indians eat least? 8] Evaluate (x - a)(x - b)(x - c)(x - d)(x - e).............................(x - y)(x - z). 9] If a duck came swimming down the Amazon river, where do you think it came from? 10] A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for 3 days, and left on Friday. How come? 11] A woman has 2 sons who were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month in the same year. But they are not twins. How come? 12] What three things that you can eat can you never have for breakfast? 13] What would you call a person who does not have all his fingers on one hand? 14] If it takes two men two days to dig a hole, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole? 15] There is three errers in this sentence. [What are they?] 16] Would you rather a tiger attack you or a lion? 17] If there are two cows in a field, and one is facing north and one is facing south, how can they see each other without turning their heads? 18] How many flowers do I have if all of them are roses except two, all of them are tulips except two, and all of them are daisies except two? 19] In Outer Mongolia can a man legally marry his widow’s sister? 20] How many binary numbers make a dozen?
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #1 on: May 10th, 2003, 2:08am » |
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I know these two: Quote:10] A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for 3 days, and left on Friday. How come? |
| hide: Friday is the name of the horse Quote:11] A woman has 2 sons who were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month in the same year. But they are not twins. How come? |
| hide: They were triples i think i know some other to but i think i should let some other people try.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #2 on: May 10th, 2003, 4:09am » |
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1. She's still alive 2. What dirt in a hole? 4. In the same way you lift one that has two hands. 6. Sibling 7. February 8. 0 as (x-x)=0 9. An egg 13. Normal, you're supposed to have all your fingers on two hands 14. Please explain how on earth you can dig half a hole. 15. Errors, are and there are only two errors. But I don't think this one is good because there are now three errors, which makes the sentence true. (This sentence is false, anyone?) 16. It would be considerably nicer to have it attack the lion. 17. They are facing each other. 18. 3 19. Go there and try it... 20. Let me see, what was that number after eleven again?
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ThudnBlunder
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #3 on: May 10th, 2003, 4:48am » |
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Well done, misty. I have alternatives to the standard answers to 18 and 19: 18] I marry the sister first, then marry the woman that will later be widowed. Now, if God asks me "Did you marry your widow's sister?", what can I say? 19] Two. For example, one daffodil and one crocus. (Instead of one rose, one tulip, and one daisy.)
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #4 on: May 10th, 2003, 12:20pm » |
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3] How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? An egg isn't hard enough to crack concrete.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #5 on: May 10th, 2003, 12:28pm » |
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I think this is the only one left: 12) lunch, dinner, supper.
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ThudnBlunder
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #6 on: May 10th, 2003, 5:04pm » |
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5] ?
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #8 on: May 16th, 2003, 12:28am » |
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I beg to differ on the answer to number 12. As a college student, I eat lunch for breakfast quite often. I did today, as a matter of fact. To explain: Breakfast is whatever meal you have first in the day. Lunch is whatever meal you eat at midday. But if you sleep in, you may well not eat anything until noon, which is then both breakfast and lunch. Or if that's not good enough, you can also eat dinner for breakfast: Dinner is the largest meal of the day, regardless of when it occurs. So if you have a really big breakfast, and a small lunch and supper, then you had dinner for brakfast. Meanwhile, question 15 contains two and a half errors.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #9 on: May 16th, 2003, 11:50am » |
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Quote:Breakfast is whatever meal you have first in the day. |
| Oh really? The dictionary I have say that breakfast is the meal you have in the morning. But of course, you can argue that morning is the period of time you wake up, which in turns make a common afternoon your effective morning. And therefore a normal lunch will become your breakfast. But if that's true, then you're actually having breakfast, and the question & solution put up by Thud is valid. And by shuffling different names of different meals, the effective outcome - that you'll end up having breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper is equivalent to a normal person. When integrated, multiply by the speed of light and ...oh, my head is spinning.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #10 on: May 19th, 2003, 12:39pm » |
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Fine, then, wake up at 11:30, and eat a meal at 11:50. That way, it's still a meal eaten in the morning.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #11 on: May 19th, 2003, 10:55pm » |
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19)you can't marry anyone if your the husband of a widower...then your dead.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #12 on: May 21st, 2003, 11:09pm » |
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btw, can i get teh ##s for the invisible text? or are you guys just using gray? 1] Why can't a woman living in New York, with relations in Los Angeles, be legally buried in Canada? -you cant bury a living person. 2] How many cubic feet of earth are there in a hole measuring 3 feet wide by 4 feet long by 5 feet deep? -zero. a hole is a hole. 5] Why are many famous artists Dutch? -cuz theyre born in the netherlands. 6] A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? -i think youre missing a part, like "the brother who died didnt have a brother", since the answer would be way too obvious w/o that. anyway, answer is sister. 7] In which month of the year do American Indians eat least? -february. 10] A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for 3 days, and left on Friday. How come? -the horse is named friday 11] A woman has 2 sons who were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month in the same year. But they are not twins. How come? -triplets would suffice. 12] What three things that you can eat can you never have for breakfast? -lunch, dinner... and supper? 15] There is three errers in this sentence. [What are they?] -are, error...and that there's only two? 16] Would you rather a tiger attack you or a lion? -id rather a tiger attack the lion. 17] If there are two cows in a field, and one is facing north and one is facing south, how can they see each other without turning their heads? -look up ^_^ 18] How many flowers do I have if all of them are roses except two, all of them are tulips except two, and all of them are daisies except two? -3; one rose, one tupip, and one daisy. whhoops..
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #13 on: May 22nd, 2003, 3:30am » |
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on May 21st, 2003, 11:09pm, henjiredux wrote:btw, can i get teh ##s for the invisible text? or are you guys just using gray? |
| There's a hide tag. [ hide]this is hidden[ /hide] without the spaces gives: this is hidden Quote: 19] In Outer Mongolia can a man legally marry his widow’s sister? -if he's a priest or minister, that kind of fellow. |
| How does he do that when he's dead?
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #14 on: Nov 4th, 2004, 3:18am » |
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New question: What time is it, when an elephant sits on your fence?
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« Reply #15 on: Nov 4th, 2004, 4:24am » |
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All together now... :: Time to get a new fence :: Of course, if he sat on a school fence, then it's clearly break time
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« Reply #16 on: Nov 4th, 2004, 5:02am » |
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15] There is three errers in this sentence. I count 2 errors and 1 errer in that sentence. An errer is clearly the term for something which errs, in which case "this sentence" is one, so the correct statement would be: There is one errer in that sentence.
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #17 on: Nov 5th, 2004, 12:56am » |
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20] two ... whats the correct answer to 5
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Re: More Quickies
« Reply #18 on: Nov 5th, 2004, 1:17am » |
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on Nov 5th, 2004, 12:56am, coolnfundu wrote:whats the correct answer to 5 |
| :Because the were born in the Netherlands.
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« Reply #19 on: Nov 5th, 2004, 1:36am » |
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Here is another interesting puzzle ... If probability of me winning if I dont accept defeat is 0.9, what is probability of me winning if I do accept defeat? P.S. What is I havent made up my mind? Quite simple, but it is under quickies remember
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« Reply #20 on: Nov 5th, 2004, 1:44am » |
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on Nov 5th, 2004, 1:36am, coolnfundu wrote: If probability of me winning if I dont accept defeat is 0.9, what is probability of me winning if I do accept defeat? |
| What is the probability of Kerry still winning the elections?
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« Reply #21 on: Nov 18th, 2004, 7:22am » |
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Monthy Python revisited: What's brown and sounds like a bell?
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Is the whole February thing because Feb. has the least days? Just checking.
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« Reply #24 on: Dec 31st, 2004, 7:23pm » |
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yes - the shorter the month, the fewer meals you have in it.
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