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mathmo · 08-18-2003, 10:04 AM

Yes, well done BonesCPA that's right!

mustangsally · 08-18-2003, 10:17 AM

Hey, all. Here's one that I didn't see on any of the posts:

Scientist find two people buried in the ice in Antarctica. After unthawing them and studying them, they conclude that these two people are Adam and Eve. How do they know that?

mathmo · 08-18-2003, 10:35 AM

Must be that neither of them have a belly-button. And perhaps Adam has a scar on his chest...

wario · 08-18-2003, 11:04 AM

Must be the fig leaves

mustangsally · 08-18-2003, 12:35 PM

Yeah, it was the belly button. You guys are gooooood. ;-)
I just thought it was a fun one!

Shpoop · 08-18-2003, 01:00 PM

how bout this one

When is four half of five?

dexlargo · 08-18-2003, 01:43 PM

when you take the letters iv, roman numerals for four.

cliche · 08-18-2003, 02:28 PM

dexlargo - wouldn't that make five half of four?

I guess four is half of "four+one"

dexlargo · 08-18-2003, 03:20 PM

No, iv is half of five. 'five' is four letters long so take away the first and last letter of the word 'five' and you have 'iv', which is half the length of five, so it is half of five, and also means four in roman numerals.

I should have explained that better before.

dexlargo · 08-18-2003, 03:36 PM

Okay here is an easy one:

A butcher I know is six feet, two inches tall, wears a size 12 shoe and has a 17 inch neck. What does he weigh?

Also an old one:

Bob and Sue are dead on the floor beside a table, surrounded by broken glass and water. The window in the room is open. How did Bob and Sue die?

Shpoop · 08-18-2003, 05:25 PM

they are fish and he weighs meat...

i will edit this one when i remember another good one

-edit: okay: there are 100 coins in a room, each which have one black side and one white side. They are placed in two piles one of 90 black side up coins and one of 10 white side up. An old, blind man comes into the room. He can do whatever he wants. He is told to make sure that each pile has the same number of white side up coins. How would he do this?

TIO · 08-18-2003, 07:00 PM

He should take the smaller pile and flip it over.

dexlargo · 08-18-2003, 07:48 PM

Okay, I've got another one:

A man goes to work, misses the last bus and goes home happy.

What happened?

cliche · 08-18-2003, 10:05 PM

dexlargo - did the last bus crash?

dexlargo · 08-19-2003, 06:13 AM

No, but he is happy because he missed it.

Shpoop · 08-19-2003, 06:46 AM

yea he missed it and it got a flat tire and got delayed or broke down, or fell off a bridge or got robbed etc, and he is happy because he got home first or safely

TIO: wow, i typed it wrong lol
try this: the 90 black and 10 white are in one big pile, how can he be sure to have two piles that have the same number of white coins face up?

cliche · 08-19-2003, 08:09 AM

dexlargo - was there someone on the bus he wanted to avoid? Ex-wife/ex-girlfriend/police/creditor etc?

cliche · 08-19-2003, 08:12 AM

Shpoop - he should take the coins out into the sun for a while. Then he can feel which ones are black side up (they'll be warmer). Flip over the ten cool ones, then separate into two piles of any number (as neither will have any white coins) ?

dexlargo · 08-19-2003, 10:44 AM

No, he didn't know anyone on the bus, that wasn't his concern.

A hint though: If he hadn't missed the bus, he wouldn't have performed his work properly, and probably wouldn't have been able to go home.

mathmo · 08-19-2003, 10:54 AM

Ah ha ha ha. I think I have it... I hope I'm right. Is the person a stunt motorcyclist??

So he clears the last bus???

cliche · 08-19-2003, 10:55 AM

dexlargo - he's a driver of some sort (taxi, HGV, whatever) and he wasn't looking where he was going (changing tape/mobile phone etc). Suddenly, he looks up and sees he's heading straight towards a large bus (coincidentally the last bus of the evening)...

He swerves... and misses! Hurrah, no real damage, just a few shaken nerves. He lives, happily, to fight another day.

Am I right?

(edit: just seen mathmo's... I like it!

)

dexlargo · 08-19-2003, 11:23 AM

Mathmo got it, he's Evel Knievel!

(Edited because I can't spell strange names)

Shpoop · 08-19-2003, 03:53 PM

cliche: i guess that would work, but thats not the answer... whats a fool proof way that he could do it (after all, if it is sunny the white ones will get hot, though not as hot, and when he touches black ones his hands will get hot and it will be hard to judge etc etc)
lets keep heat out of it

cliche · 08-20-2003, 01:09 AM

Shpoop - a couple of ideas:

1. he can ask someone who isn't blind (cheat's method

)
2. he can use his fingers to spot the head vs tail by touch alone (overly-sensitive method, and I guess you'll tell me the coins are blanks)
3. make 4 piles. 3 have only one coin in, 1 has all the others. He now has at least 2 piles with the same number of white side up coins (as at least 2 of the 3 with only one coin will be the same) (foolproof, wasteful method

)

dexlargo · 08-20-2003, 07:06 AM

I've got it... He picks ten coins at random from the pile of 100, it doesn't matter which ones. Then he flips those coins over. These are his two piles.

If he chose 10 black coins, then he would have flipped them and had 10 white in both piles.

If he chose 9 black and 1 white, then he would have flipped them and had 9 white in the new pile and guess what? there are nine white in the larger pile too.

Repeat for all numbers of coins, still works.

cliche · 08-20-2003, 07:52 AM

dexlargo - well done! (fx: kicks self)

BentNotTwisted · 08-20-2003, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BentNotTwisted
You are going in the right direction on the bull story. Think carefully about the phrasing of the second question "What word describes the scene after the explosion?" Another 24 hours, then I'll give you the ultimate hint.

Where is the bull?

mathmo · 08-20-2003, 08:13 AM

Well, I'm at the point of tearing my hair out, so I'll guess at Noble (No bull)??

BentNotTwisted · 08-20-2003, 09:16 AM

Well done mathmo! That was it!

mathmo · 08-20-2003, 09:46 AM

Well, you definitely gave the ultimate hint!!

You've got to love puns

double · 08-20-2003, 01:27 PM

hey I have one i heard the other day...

Two people are driving in a car. A father and his son.
They have an accident, a bad car crash and the father DIES and the son is badly injured.
The son is rushed to emergency for operation. The surgeon walks in to the room and sees the kid and says I cant do this, I cannot operate on my own son.

How is this possible..?

cliche · 08-20-2003, 03:28 PM

double - I think we may have already had this one...
However, I'll go for a short-sighted surgeon or a "My Two Dads" type explanation

shakran · 08-20-2003, 05:21 PM

the surgeon is the kid's mother.

double · 08-20-2003, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shakran
the surgeon is the kid's mother.

...Da correct answa.

Fremen · 08-20-2003, 08:59 PM

What kind of cheese is made backwards?

shakran · 08-20-2003, 09:21 PM

edam.

Fremen · 08-20-2003, 10:49 PM

Yup, you got it, shakran.

TIO · 08-21-2003, 01:58 AM

The Riddle oy the Sphinx (again, for the sake of completeness):
What has four legs in

cliche · 08-21-2003, 04:47 AM

TIO, you might need to finish writing that riddle if you want it to be understood!

For real completeness:

What has four legs in the morning,
Two legs in the afternoon,
And three legs in the evening?

BonesCPA · 08-21-2003, 05:41 AM

Man.

Four legs - child crawling
Two legs - adult walking
Three legs - adult walking with a cane

08-18-2003, 02:28 PM	#288 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	dexlargo - wouldn't that make five half of four? I guess four is half of "four+one" __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-18-2003, 03:36 PM	#290 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	Okay here is an easy one: A butcher I know is six feet, two inches tall, wears a size 12 shoe and has a 17 inch neck. What does he weigh? Also an old one: Bob and Sue are dead on the floor beside a table, surrounded by broken glass and water. The window in the room is open. How did Bob and Sue die? Last edited by dexlargo; 08-18-2003 at 03:40 PM..

08-18-2003, 05:25 PM	#291 (permalink)
Shpoop Curious Location: NJ (but just for college)	they are fish and he weighs meat... i will edit this one when i remember another good one -edit: okay: there are 100 coins in a room, each which have one black side and one white side. They are placed in two piles one of 90 black side up coins and one of 10 white side up. An old, blind man comes into the room. He can do whatever he wants. He is told to make sure that each pile has the same number of white side up coins. How would he do this? Last edited by Shpoop; 08-18-2003 at 05:54 PM..

08-18-2003, 07:00 PM	#292 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	He should take the smaller pile and flip it over. __________________ Strewth

08-18-2003, 10:05 PM	#294 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	dexlargo - did the last bus crash? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-18-2003, 10:04 AM	#281 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Yes, well done BonesCPA that's right!

08-18-2003, 10:17 AM	#282 (permalink)
mustangsally Upright	Hey, all. Here's one that I didn't see on any of the posts: Scientist find two people buried in the ice in Antarctica. After unthawing them and studying them, they conclude that these two people are Adam and Eve. How do they know that?

08-18-2003, 10:35 AM	#283 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Must be that neither of them have a belly-button. And perhaps Adam has a scar on his chest...

08-18-2003, 11:04 AM	#284 (permalink)
wario Insane	Must be the fig leaves

08-18-2003, 12:35 PM	#285 (permalink)
mustangsally Upright	Yeah, it was the belly button. You guys are gooooood. ;-) I just thought it was a fun one!

08-18-2003, 01:00 PM	#286 (permalink)
Shpoop Curious Location: NJ (but just for college)	how bout this one When is four half of five?

08-18-2003, 01:43 PM	#287 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	when you take the letters iv, roman numerals for four.

08-18-2003, 03:20 PM	#289 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	No, iv is half of five. 'five' is four letters long so take away the first and last letter of the word 'five' and you have 'iv', which is half the length of five, so it is half of five, and also means four in roman numerals. I should have explained that better before.

08-18-2003, 07:48 PM	#293 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	Okay, I've got another one: A man goes to work, misses the last bus and goes home happy. What happened?

08-19-2003, 06:13 AM	#295 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	No, but he is happy because he missed it.

08-20-2003, 09:16 AM	#309 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Well done mathmo! That was it! __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-19-2003, 06:46 AM	#296 (permalink)
Shpoop Curious Location: NJ (but just for college)	yea he missed it and it got a flat tire and got delayed or broke down, or fell off a bridge or got robbed etc, and he is happy because he got home first or safely TIO: wow, i typed it wrong lol try this: the 90 black and 10 white are in one big pile, how can he be sure to have two piles that have the same number of white coins face up?

08-19-2003, 08:09 AM	#297 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	dexlargo - was there someone on the bus he wanted to avoid? Ex-wife/ex-girlfriend/police/creditor etc? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-19-2003, 08:12 AM	#298 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Shpoop - he should take the coins out into the sun for a while. Then he can feel which ones are black side up (they'll be warmer). Flip over the ten cool ones, then separate into two piles of any number (as neither will have any white coins) ? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-19-2003, 10:44 AM	#299 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	No, he didn't know anyone on the bus, that wasn't his concern. A hint though: If he hadn't missed the bus, he wouldn't have performed his work properly, and probably wouldn't have been able to go home.

08-19-2003, 10:54 AM	#300 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Ah ha ha ha. I think I have it... I hope I'm right. Is the person a stunt motorcyclist?? So he clears the last bus???

08-19-2003, 10:55 AM	#301 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	dexlargo - he's a driver of some sort (taxi, HGV, whatever) and he wasn't looking where he was going (changing tape/mobile phone etc). Suddenly, he looks up and sees he's heading straight towards a large bus (coincidentally the last bus of the evening)... He swerves... and misses! Hurrah, no real damage, just a few shaken nerves. He lives, happily, to fight another day. Am I right? (edit: just seen mathmo's... I like it! ) __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-19-2003, 11:23 AM	#302 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	Mathmo got it, he's Evel Knievel! (Edited because I can't spell strange names) Last edited by dexlargo; 08-19-2003 at 11:26 AM..

08-19-2003, 03:53 PM	#303 (permalink)
Shpoop Curious Location: NJ (but just for college)	cliche: i guess that would work, but thats not the answer... whats a fool proof way that he could do it (after all, if it is sunny the white ones will get hot, though not as hot, and when he touches black ones his hands will get hot and it will be hard to judge etc etc) lets keep heat out of it

08-20-2003, 01:09 AM	#304 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Shpoop - a couple of ideas: 1. he can ask someone who isn't blind (cheat's method ) 2. he can use his fingers to spot the head vs tail by touch alone (overly-sensitive method, and I guess you'll tell me the coins are blanks) 3. make 4 piles. 3 have only one coin in, 1 has all the others. He now has at least 2 piles with the same number of white side up coins (as at least 2 of the 3 with only one coin will be the same) (foolproof, wasteful method ) __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-20-2003, 07:06 AM	#305 (permalink)
dexlargo Upright	I've got it... He picks ten coins at random from the pile of 100, it doesn't matter which ones. Then he flips those coins over. These are his two piles. If he chose 10 black coins, then he would have flipped them and had 10 white in both piles. If he chose 9 black and 1 white, then he would have flipped them and had 9 white in the new pile and guess what? there are nine white in the larger pile too. Repeat for all numbers of coins, still works.

08-20-2003, 07:52 AM	#306 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	dexlargo - well done! (fx: kicks self) __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-20-2003, 08:13 AM	#308 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Well, I'm at the point of tearing my hair out, so I'll guess at Noble (No bull)??

08-20-2003, 09:46 AM	#310 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Well, you definitely gave the ultimate hint!! You've got to love puns

08-20-2003, 01:27 PM	#311 (permalink)
double Crazy Location: Helsinki	hey I have one i heard the other day... Two people are driving in a car. A father and his son. They have an accident, a bad car crash and the father DIES and the son is badly injured. The son is rushed to emergency for operation. The surgeon walks in to the room and sees the kid and says I cant do this, I cannot operate on my own son. How is this possible..? __________________ Reach out and touch faith

08-20-2003, 03:28 PM	#312 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	double - I think we may have already had this one... However, I'll go for a short-sighted surgeon or a "My Two Dads" type explanation __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-20-2003, 05:21 PM	#313 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	the surgeon is the kid's mother.

08-20-2003, 08:59 PM	#315 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	What kind of cheese is made backwards? __________________ Google

08-20-2003, 09:21 PM	#316 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	edam.

08-20-2003, 10:49 PM	#317 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	Yup, you got it, shakran. __________________ Google

08-21-2003, 01:58 AM	#318 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	The Riddle oy the Sphinx (again, for the sake of completeness): What has four legs in __________________ Strewth