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Originally posted by TIO
One of my favourites:
A businessman had an important meeting which led him to fly from London to New York on the concorde (this is in the past, before it crashed). When he left home in the morning, his wife drove him to the airport and kissed him goodbye as he went through to the departure lounge. She did some shopping at the airport, and saw the concorde take off on time.
The businessman's flight from London to NY was, of course, a direct flight. He went straight through customs when he arrived in NY, and had no baggage to collect. There in the arrivals hall was his wife, waiting to drive him home! She had only seen him off that morning, and had not flown or taken a boat; how did she get there to meet him?
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Thanks for throwing your hat in the ring
Well, off the top my head I'd say at no point does it say the guy only took one flight. If he's, say the pilot of the concorde...
So he lives in NYC, flew the concorde out to London, then flew it back to NYC. Since it's the concorde and does the flight in about 2 hours or some such sick amount of time, it's easily possible to fly to Europe and back to America in the space of one working day. If I'm right about this, it doesn't hold up as well as it did before the concorde crashed, because it NEEDS to use a plane that can do the distance in such a short amount of time, and that you're forced to make reference to the fact that this was before it crashed draws unwanted attention to the type of plane. Of course, if I'm wrong....
How about
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Four friends are on their way home at night. They come to a darkened bridge that is, for whatever reason, only traversable by two people at once. Also, they have only one flashlight between them, and the flashlight must be carried whenever crossing the bridge. They cannot risk losing the flashlight by throwing or rolling it back across the bridge, so someone must convey it back for the group to cross. The four friends are varied in athletic ability. One is a sprinter and can cross the bridge in one minute flat. The second is a soccer player and can cross in two minutes. The third is a typical unathletic American and can only cross in five minutes, and the last has a broken leg. It takes him ten minutes. The good news is that it takes only the greater amount of time for two people to cross, i.e., the sprinter takes the fat slob's pace. They have 17 minutes to get all the way across : how do they do it?