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(Message started by: Kitty on Mar 26^th, 2003, 10:22am)

Title: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 26^th, 2003, 10:22am

i got one but normal this kind of thing you need to ask questions to get the answer but i ll post it any way:

A bell rings and a man is dead.
What happened?

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by prince on Mar 26^th, 2003, 1:24pm

If I remember correctly:
[hide] The bell signalled the end of a round of boxing, but too late;the loser was killed by his opponents last punch [/hide]

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 26^th, 2003, 2:31pm

This is a different one because the answer is nothing like that.

;D

Hint:[hide] for this you need to ask question like to find out where he is but give you something to start, the man has something wrong with him. He can hear, speak but he cant... [/hide]
i think i ve given it away! whoops !!!!

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by BNC on Mar 27^th, 2003, 4:04am

Ok, the man is blind, and the bell ringing is the blind-person indication that a traffic light is red. The man was overran by a speeding car.

Or, the car belongs to an extrentic billionare who is driving a complete reconstruction of a steem-powered car. The bell is the warning "horn" on this car. He was the one overrunning the blind man. Later, he walked out at court -- being a billionare he hired good lawers.

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 27^th, 2003, 8:35am

No but your right he is blind. To know what happened you need to Know where he is.

(Its not in a street and he does not get run over by a car.)

;D

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by cho on Mar 27^th, 2003, 8:45am

Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings, or a blind man falls down an elevator shaft.

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 27^th, 2003, 9:00am

The blind man is in even in a building!

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 27^th, 2003, 9:23am

on 03/27/03 at 09:00:10, Kitty wrote:

The blind man is in even in a building!

? Sorry i meant the blind man is not in a building

Sorry :-/

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by maryl on Mar 27^th, 2003, 10:09am

Is he around other people?

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 27^th, 2003, 10:36am

Nope!! He all alone. :'(

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by towr on Mar 27^th, 2003, 10:45am

is he in an oversized microwave..

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 27^th, 2003, 10:47am

No!!!!!!

Hint: [hide] He in da sea, swimming[/hide]

You should get it now!! ;D

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Boody on Mar 28^th, 2003, 5:23am

I know a similar one.
the text was:

A ring bell,
a mam die,
a ring bell.

(highlight next space for read it )
[hide] A blind man is swimming every day in the sea.
A bell rings to show him the direction of the coast.
A day, there was the same bell which rang on a boat in the wrong direction. The man tried to reach the coast because he was tired and he had never joined it..[/hide]

is that the same one ?

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Mar 28^th, 2003, 8:23am

:)

Yeah, it is.

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by jon_G on Apr 24^th, 2003, 8:34pm

Maybe the man always has his waiter ring a bell for lunch, but in this case a cruise ship is passing and he thinks lunch is in that direction, but he falls off the 100 foot pier onto a few rocks... seafood anyone? ;)

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by RidRash on Apr 30^th, 2003, 10:42am

Heard another explanation: [hide]The man is in a circus. He is a tightrope walker. The bell signalled that he had reached (or 1 step away from the end). Maybe the bell rang too soon.[/hide]

Have to say this is one of the friendliest forum I have seen.

Title: Re: A bell rings
Post by Kitty on Apr 30^th, 2003, 11:00am

Welcome to the forum RidRash.

The other version to the puzzle that i know is similar to the i post: [hide]

The child i walking on the habour.
He knows he has to be home at eight for dinner.
When he hears the bell on the boat, he thinks it is church bell.
Being blind he does not know he walks toward the bell, as he think it is his way home.
He falls into the sea and, as he is a little kid, he does not know how to swim so he drowns :'(
(but then again what kind of parent leave their blind child go to the harbour without then coming?)

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