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When I'm filled I can point the way
« on: Dec 21st, 2003, 8:20am » |
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 I came across a riddle and I haven't been able to solve it... Can any one help me please
This is the riddle:
When I'm filled I can point the way, when I'm empty nothing moves me.
I have two skins, one without and one within.
I hope somebody can solve it soon, thanks a lot!!
// moved and renamed, next time please post in the appropriate forum and use meaningfull titles --towr
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #1 on: Dec 21st, 2003, 11:05am » |
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You find them at airports. Around here, the way they point is most often north.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #2 on: Dec 21st, 2003, 3:09pm » |
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Yeah, you can find them on suction cups attached to the inside of windshields.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #3 on: Dec 22nd, 2003, 3:27pm » |
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on Dec 21st, 2003, 3:09pm, aero_guy wrote:| Yeah, you can find them on suction cups attached to the inside of windshields. |
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Clearly you must have a different answer than mine, because mine would be absolutely worthless attached to a suction cup inside a windshield!
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #4 on: Dec 29th, 2003, 5:58am » |
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on Dec 22nd, 2003, 3:27pm, Icarus wrote:| Clearly you must have a different answer than mine, because mine would be absolutely worthless attached to a suction cup inside a windshield! |
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My answer is a compass, which I think is what everyone else was thinking of. I've seen them on suction cups attached to windows before, although not windshields. Usually they stick to the dashboard, and in older cars I've seen them on the driver's side mirror (not often anymore with the collapsible mirrors).
Also, about seeing them in airports, I don't remember seeing one there. Maybe the pilots and tower have them, but not in the concourses. Or maybe your airport is different than the ones I've visited 
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #5 on: Dec 29th, 2003, 8:33am » |
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If I know what Icarus is thinking, that's not it. Besides, you don't need to have a fluid in a compass. Many (most?) just rest the arm on sharp point to make a good bearing.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #6 on: Jan 4th, 2004, 4:00am » |
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It is a wind sock!!
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #7 on: Jan 4th, 2004, 11:00am » |
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Exactly. I suppose you can use a fluid compass to fit the first line, but I don't see how a compass has 2 skins.
On the other hand, most windsocks consist of two tubes, one inside the other.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #8 on: Jan 4th, 2004, 5:08pm » |
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I don't know about windsocks having two tubes/skins, but nothing in the riddle says it has to point the right way - it simply states "I can point the way" And the most common way to "point the way" is your index finger. So a glove may fill ... err ... fit both conditions: the fill/empty issue and the two-skins issue (the glove's skin without and the hand's skin within)
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #9 on: Jan 5th, 2004, 3:35pm » |
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Yes - that sounds like the intended answer, but I still say that a double-tube windsock works as well.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #10 on: Jan 21st, 2004, 5:25pm » |
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Im sure Michael Jackson can give everyone a hand with this one.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #11 on: Jan 21st, 2004, 6:15pm » |
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on Jan 21st, 2004, 5:25pm, Scribbles wrote:| Im sure Michael Jackson can give everyone a hand with this one. |
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That's gross. Just the thought of "Michael Jackson," that is... whatever else you were thinking
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #12 on: Feb 7th, 2004, 3:30pm » |
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Alright back to the subject. I am thinking more on the lines of a person .We need food to think (point the way to success) and without it, we would die. The two skins might be the one outside, and some kind of tissue. If that is wrong, I think i'll go with drummer's answer.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #13 on: Feb 8th, 2004, 12:17pm » |
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Though I come up with "windsock", I believe that Lupin's answer is the intended one. The two skins are the glove itself and the skin of the hand. When filled, it can point the way if that is what the hand inside is doing. When empty it does not move.
I like the windsock answer, but not all windsocks have two skins.
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Re: When I'm filled I can point the way
« Reply #14 on: Feb 9th, 2004, 3:58pm » |
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i also got windsock
and does it have to have 2 layers to it, cant it just be an inside and outside? it still works that way,
i didnt think of glove but that also works, probably better in fact.
do you like the hat? i like the hat. it's my hat. i have a hat like this. 
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