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(Message started by: alien on Apr 28^th, 2005, 12:27pm)

Title: Porcelain vase
Post by alien on Apr 28^th, 2005, 12:27pm

Gladys lives on the 15th floor of the skyscraper. She threw a porcelain vase at her husband. He ducked and the vase flew through the open window, but it didn't break when it fell on the concrete ground. Why?

Title: Re: Porcelain vase
Post by VictorPride on Apr 28^th, 2005, 5:09pm

Ambiguous. Probably the simplest is that she wasn't at home when she threw the vase at him.

Title: Re: Porcelain vase
Post by Icarus on Apr 28^th, 2005, 6:15pm

Or it could have hit something soft, such as a mattress, bounce on the mattress until it almost stops, at which point it falls off the side, hitting the ground 10 cm below.

Title: Re: Porcelain vase
Post by Sir Col on Apr 29^th, 2005, 12:40am

Or as it flew through the open window it hit the window sill (or somthing else hard), smashing the vase into many pieces. Hence "it didn't break when it fell on the concrete ground".

Title: Re: Porcelain vase
Post by Grimbal on Apr 29^th, 2005, 6:26am

Two friends are on a glacier. One falls in a crevice.
The other calls down:
- Can you hear me?
A voice comes back:
- Yes, I hear you.
- Is it deep?
- Yes, very deep.
- Are you hurt?
- No, not at all.
- Not hurt? How is it possible?
- I'm still falling...

Title: Re: Porcelain vase
Post by alien on Apr 30^th, 2005, 11:14am

Sir Col got it.