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lawyertood
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul, Incheon and the World--working undercover for the MOJ
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| Shouldn't the story in the dead wife riddle be told as the man seeing nobody else in the car? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Hey, don't shoot the messenger, man- I lifted that riddle from some riddle webpage.
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mdokupilkr
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Three guys driving in a car. Car breaks down. They walk into a nearby hotel and ask for 3 rooms. The hotel manager explains that there is only 1 vacancy. They take the room and are charged $30 total. Each man gives a $10 bill and they adjourn to the room. About 10 minutes later the manager decides to give the guys a $5 discount because of their late arrival. He pops open the cash drawer and gives the bellhop 5 $1 bills. When the bell hop arrives at the room and the men open the door, the bellhop explains the discount. The men ask how they are going to divide it up equally. So, they decide to each keep a dollar and give the bellhop the other $2 as a tip.
So, each guy gets one dollar back and origionally paid $10. Each guy therefore only paid $9 since they each got a dollar back. $9*3= 27 + $2 bellhop tip = $29. Where did the other dollar go? |
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mdokupilkr
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mdokupilkr
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mdokupilkr
Joined: 30 Mar 2006
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Bulsajo: Easy. She gave birth to a kid and died because of the blood loss or something like that. Could have been an alien that she gave birth to and it sunk it's teeth into her throat.  |
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J.B. Clamence
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| mdokupilkr wrote: |
| So, each guy gets one dollar back and origionally paid $10. Each guy therefore only paid $9 since they each got a dollar back. $9*3= 27 + $2 bellhop tip = $29. Where did the other dollar go? |
They didn't pay $27 + the $2 tip. The $2 was included in the $27 they paid.
It's embarassing that I had to cut up 30 small pieces of paper to figure that out. |
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mdokupilkr
Joined: 30 Mar 2006
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So ya had to cut up paper? That cracks me up. Good thinking though.
New riddle: Make 26 cents using only two (US) coins; one of them can't be a quarter. |
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The Chewbacca Defense
Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place
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One of them is a quarter and the other was a penny??????
Is that right? |
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J.B. Clamence
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| The Chewbacca Defense wrote: |
One of them is a quarter and the other was a penny??????
Is that right? |
Yes, I believe so. "One of them can't" and "neither of them can" have two completely different meanings. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| mdokupilkr wrote: |
| Bulsajo: Easy. She gave birth to a kid and died because of the blood loss or something like that. |
Yes. mithridates got it on the other page, but it was hard to see. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| J.B. Clamence wrote: |
| The Chewbacca Defense wrote: |
One of them is a quarter and the other was a penny??????
Is that right? |
Yes, I believe so. "One of them can't" and "neither of them can" have two completely different meanings. |
That's a good one! I wonder how toefl students would do one that... is it more obvious to non-native speakers, I wonder? |
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The Cube
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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What happened to the one with the 3s and the 1s?
I'm sure I had it!
Tell me the answer and I'll tell you if I got it right...
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| The Cube wrote: |
A really balanced man.
With 50 at the beginning, and 50 at the end, and 5 in the middle.
The one that starts every clock lies in both in betweens.
Put them all together and this man is not inclined to do anything. |
Balanced? Inclined? Har har. I think I get it. |
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