The worlds first riddle!

I make forests. For high value clearwood timber.
Plant them, prune them, thin them, fall them.

*sings*hes a lumberjack and hes ok

DP,the pictures are great! Do you have cabins for rent?


Shari set, "cotcidrerayte"

The answer was: Try is inconciderate


I don't see no ?'n' in the question!

Who is gonna be the first with the ?'seaman' jokes? I am too considerate.
BTW be careful with my pic. You may be mistaken and, oh, I don't want to go there!




Dang, Mark don't you got no work to do!

living
IOU an hour = [size=7]Living on borrowed time.[/size]

A spider eats 3 flies a day. Until the spider fills his quota, a fly has a 50% chance of survival if he attempts to pass the web. Assuming 5 flies have already made the attempt to pass, what is the probability that the 6th fly will survive the attempt


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JCUASSET

Gosh, are you having your monthly? Where are your pics try?


JCUASSET

Just a second??

Dear sweet Shari wrote, "Gosh, are you having your monthly?"

You should be a medic. However, it will only last 28 days this month.



Where are your pics try?

It's against the TOS to frighten the kids, I don't want to crash the server.

I love the Navy. I went to see the ?'review of the fleet' last summer in Portsmouth England, and got to look around HMS Victory, the oldest commissioned warship in the world. Fantastic



JUST in…

Love your self portrait, fairy nuff. :wink:

I was tired of being you. I figured that was punishment enough. Where are you from, anyway? You are very sneaky when it comes to personal info, huh?

Spider to the fly
[size=7]Probability that 5 flies made it past the spider is P(5,0)(1/2)^5=1/32=1/32?-no flies eaten
Probability that 4 flies made is past the spider is P(5,1)(1/2)^5=5(1/32)=5/32?-1 fly eaten
Probability that 3 flies made it past the spider is P(5,2)(1/2)^5=10(1/32)=10/32?-2 flies eaten
Probability that the spider has eaten less than 3 flies (still hungry) is 1/32+5/32+10/32+16/32=1/2
and the probability that the spider is sated is 1-1/2=1/2
So the probability of the 6th fly making it past the spider is
(1/2)*1[spider not hungry]+(1/2)*(1/2)[spider still hungry]=1/2+1/4=3/4[/size]

Many are called, one is chosen

Dadpad that looks like a Husky you're brushing with?-good saw. I use a little one for firewood. What's the wood? The straight and true boles with the sloughing bark.
Oh! He's a lumberjack and that's OK!

Rap

I think he means just in case, but case is in just.

Try got:
living on borrowed time

I was wondering what kind of wood also.

Whats the fascination with wood, guys?

You guys'll probably get these easily, but I think they are fun.

The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it


The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?

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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's

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What is unusual about the paragraph above


Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground!
What am I?


What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What is it?


I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I

Try, I've walked the decks of the Oldest Commissioned Warship Afloat. But, by temperament, I'm partial to four masted merchantmen.

When I was small, my father, a USN Captain, forced me to put down my favored science fiction to read Horatio Hornblower. Since then I've always wanted to see what the pigeons do daily to Nelson's column.

Rap

The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it

coff coff coff :wink:

I seem to be coffin a lot

Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground!
What am I? ................... wheelbarrow

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What is it? ......................That would be me, Man mountain that I am.

Little known fact! In Oz slang, Root=sexual intercourse. Usually a casual encounter but not necessarily.

I have many feathers to help me fly.....

Arrow.

shari said: Whats the fascination with wood, guys? and they say men have one track minds. BTW does your mother know you're out. :wink:

TRY we dont do cabins but many in this area do

Rap these are all hardwoods. All our gums drop their bark on an annual basis.
pic 1 Eucalyptus nitens. (shining gum.)

pic 2 E.cladocalyx, (sugar gum)

Pic 3 E globulous,sub sp. globulose. (Tasmanian Bluegum)

Pic 4 E globulose sub sp. bicostata. (Victorian blue gum)




The more you take away, the larger it becomes? What is it?

Not you too dad!! Should I start calling you daddy? Since I seem to be such a little girl. I told you you would get those quick......Did you cheat?

You can call me whatever you like, as long as it aint late for dinner sweetums.

A hole

Interesting. We have many gums among the species of hardwoods of some of the few remaining examples of Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests, principally blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica) and sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) but they look nothing like the Eucalyptus gums you have there.

Logging and hardwoods are quite a business here too as the dominant trees in the forest are oaks, hickories, ashes, birch, black walnut, maple and yellow poplar. And as I live right in the midst of one of the northernmost prevailing examples of these forests. 200 years ago they stretched the length of the Ohio Valley on the north and the length ot the Tennessee River Valley on the south?-but, alas, the oaks and hickory were prime timber for railroad ties, bridges and trestles. And the dominant chestnuts were taken out by the blight 70 years ago.

I've seen some chestnut timbers in a civil war era once icehouse now a masonry supply warehouse near here. Clear straight quartersawn timbers 18 inches square. To imagine what those trees must have looked like boggles my mind.

Shari, I?' once strode the woods around the Pacific coast---and those trees, to me, trees are equally impressive. I never felt so insignificant as the night I camped in a hollow redwood not too far from Garden Grove, but those forests lack the diversity of Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan of deserts (no trees), or cities (no forests). Unfortunately, the means of living today (at least in the US) tends to drive us all to tall buildings.

Rap

Happy Valentines Day people. Before I dash out, I thought I would share with you the fact that I received a sack of mail. Most were the usual death threats, but surprise, surprise, I received one from Shari. I am sure she won't mind me sharing it with you.



"Ugh!! My avatar was defaced by a big fat jerk face."


She is such a sweetybunnykins.


Later…

You think I dont know that you look at my posts? If you are angry with me that means you care what I think of you, and if you care what I think of you then that means you LOOOOOVEEEE me. Sorry, I was mad at you. And I dont want to get into it with you on V-day.......can you keep the peace for a day?

This is for all my funny valentines.......

Mark:

Tripod
That is better than; 3 p's in a pod.

Take pets

Take a step back

TIME
Operator

Big time operator

AGES
I is 40, J is 30

90% of this problem is working through the wording into the form of an equation.
Let i be my age and j be the age of John. The first piece of information tells us...
i = 2*((i+j)/2 + (j-i)) + (j-i)
= 2*(3j-i)/2 + (j-i)
= 4j - 2i
= (4/3)*j
The second piece of information tells us...
j = (j+10)/2 + (i-j)
= i - j/2 + 5 = (2i+10)/3
Combining the two equations we get...
i = (4/3)*(2i+10)/3
= (4/9)*(2i+10)
= (8/9)*i + 40/9
= 40
So I am 40 (and John is 30).



My last half means 'impolite,' & I mean to 'stick out.'
protrude


I am the title of a movie. Remove my first two letters & you have the plural form of a parasitic insect
malice


I am a wanton leader from long ago. Remove my first letter & read me backward & you will find something that is mined
Nero

JCUASSET
I think he means just in case, but case is in just.

Well spotted Mark, I am an idjot.





Rap:

Spider to the fly
Probability that 5 flies made it past the spider is P(5,0)(1/2)^5=1/32=1/32?-no flies eaten
Probability that 4 flies made is past the spider is P(5,1)(1/2)^5=5(1/32)=5/32?-1 fly eaten
Probability that 3 flies made it past the spider is P(5,2)(1/2)^5=10(1/32)=10/32?-2 flies eaten
Probability that the spider has eaten less than 3 flies (still hungry) is 1/32+5/32+10/32+16/32=1/2
and the probability that the spider is sated is 1-1/2=1/2
So the probability of the 6th fly making it past the spider is
(1/2)*1[spider not hungry]+(1/2)*(1/2)[spider still hungry]=1/2+1/4=3/4 /


It appears we agree.
Using the binomial distribution, the probability that n flies out of 5 have been eaten is combin(5,n)*(1/2)^5, where combin(5,2)=5!/(n!*(5-n)!).
The probability that 0 flies were eaten is combin(5,0)*(1/2)^5=1/32.
The probability that 1 fly was eaten is combin(5,1)*(1/2)^5=5/32.
The probability that 2 flies were eaten is combin(5,2)*(1/2)^5=10/32.
So the probability that the spider is still hungry is 1/32 + 5/32 + 10/32 = 16/32 = 1/2. The probability the spider is full is 1-1/2=1/2.
Thus the probability of a successful attempt to pass is (1/2)*1 + (1/2)*0.5 = 0.75

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Many are called, one is chosen

"I've walked the decks of the Oldest Commissioned Warship Afloat."

As the victory is in dry dock, what is the name of said ship?

"Horatio Hornblower"

Fantastic read and fits in well with many of the threads in the History forum.

"what the pigeons do daily to Nelson's column."

Sorry to inform you but, the last time I was there the new mayor for London had got rid of them all. Have you checked it out with G@@gle Earth. It's as clear as being there.


You know who wrote, "I was tired of being you."

How do you think I feel after more than nineteen years!

"Where are you from, anyway?"

My life is an open book, it's just that all the pages are stuck together.

"You are very sneaky when it comes to personal info"

Such is the price of fame.

".......can you keep the peace for a day?"

That is a heck of thing to ask. However, as it's you - deal.

Cute pic, back attcha.



DP your answer, "What am I? ................... wheelbarrow "
Thanks, I did not get it.


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Five cows can eat two acres of grass in 10 days. Seven cows can eat three acres of grass in 30 days. The grass grows at a constant rate and each cow eats at a constant rate. The length of the grass before the cows begin grazing is constant.

How many days will it take 16 cows to eat seven acres of grass

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