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(Message started by: alien2 on May 21^st, 2016, 3:36am)

Title: Magic?
Post by alien2 on May 21^st, 2016, 3:36am

A 12-hour candle burned continuously for one day. How is this possible?

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by towr on May 22^nd, 2016, 11:21pm

[hide]low oxygen conditions?[/hide]

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on May 23^rd, 2016, 1:39am

I am not a naked scientist but this sounds like a pretty good answer to me. It is not the intended answer though.

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by dudiobugtron on May 31^st, 2016, 6:11pm

Was it incorrectly manufactured?

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jun 1^st, 2016, 12:58am

Nope.

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jun 12^th, 2016, 9:34pm

It's burning on a [hide]plane[/hide], travelling [hide]westard[/hide]

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jun 13^th, 2016, 12:49am

Not bad. I had another idea in mind.

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by Lupin on Jun 13^th, 2016, 10:50pm

So "a 12-hour candle burned continuously for one day" does not necessarily mean it burned continuously for a period of 24 hours?

How about crossing the IDL?

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jun 13^th, 2016, 11:07pm

on 06/13/16 at 22:50:31, Lupin wrote:

So "a 12-hour candle burned continuously for one day" does not necessarily mean it burned continuously for a period of 24 hours?

[hide]That's right. Pun is involved.[/hide]

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by Grimbal on Jun 16^th, 2016, 1:26am

The candle is made in 12 hours?

The candle is very spicy? It burns when you eat it and it burns when ... well ... when it comes out again, for a total of 24 hours?

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jun 16^th, 2016, 1:40am

Nope.

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by dudiobugtron on Jun 23^rd, 2016, 5:48pm

Is the day that it burned for [hide]a day on Jupiter or Saturn?[/hide] If so, then [hide]I'm not sure where it got the Oxygen to burn from! Perhaps they make oxygen masks for candles now.[/hide]

Or perhaps the Day is actually [hide]Doris Day; she may well like having candles burned for her. And I'm sure if she ever dies, many more 12hr candles will be burned continuously for her as well.[/hide]

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jun 24^th, 2016, 3:54am

on 06/23/16 at 17:48:36, dudiobugtron wrote:

Or perhaps the Day is actually [hide]Doris Day; she may well like having candles burned for her. And I'm sure if she ever dies, many more 12hr candles will be burned continuously for her as well.[/hide]

You win although I was thinking of [hide]a particular day like e.g. Father's Day.[/hide]

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jun 30^th, 2016, 1:02am

on 06/16/16 at 01:26:15, Grimbal wrote:

The candle is very spicy? It burns when you eat it and it burns when ... well ... when it comes out again, for a total of 24 hours?

Ouch..there's a definite clenching of my nether regions when reading this. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBImages/undecided.gif

Title: Re: Magic?
Post by alien2 on Jul 2^nd, 2016, 1:32am

If you drink the melted wax of a candle it will become solid soon, I guess in in your throat or stomach. How to remove it? I don’t know. Perhaps with Mr Muscle.