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The worlds first riddle!

 
 
Tryagain
 
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Reply Sat 4 Aug, 2007 09:02 am
I marvel at the ineluctable acerbity of another weekend of relentless toil; I may be forced to peruse daytime TV.

In the meantime, what has been occurring during the intervening celestial transition?



Stormy:

RI
POORCH = take from the rich and give to the poor Cool

CALM STORM= calm before the storm Cool


You said it babe. Laughing



TTH chipped in with, "It is also my guess that IF you could go the speed of light and turned your headlights on that nothing would happen."


For what it's worth; that would be my thoughts exactly, and as we will never find out for sure; as good an answer as any.


G'day Dutchy, have you been at the happy pills? That write-up was really funny. Good onya.


Epenthesis (I kid you not) wrote, "Cataclasmic, cataclysmic catechisms it is then.""A conjunction of 4 very different integer cubes saunter in (completely ignoring a group of nilpotent matrices at another table who would run rings around them)"


It is indeed extremely difficult to know whether you are setting a riddle or writing freekin poetry! Laughing


Mark:

RIDER
5km Cool


Let me check the map:

x---the walking rate, x+8---riding rate
25/60 * (x+8)=75/60*(x)
=> 25x/60+200/60=75x/60
=>200/60=50x/60
=>x=4
75*4/60=5 km

Nice!





OHOLENE Question



PHDGUESS Question
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TTH
 
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Reply Sat 4 Aug, 2007 03:17 pm
Tryagain wrote:
I marvel at the ineluctable acerbity of another weekend of relentless toil; I may be forced to peruse daytime TV.
In the meantime, what has been occurring during the intervening celestial transition?
Huh? See, you still talk weird. Laughing
Tryagain wrote:
OHOLENE Question
hole in one
Tryagain wrote:
PHDGUESS Question
A doctor's first guess, first degree guess, research prior to guess or guess after research? Confused
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epenthesis
 
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Reply Sat 4 Aug, 2007 04:40 pm
Dutchy wrote:
TTH wrote:
I hardly understand the guy Laughing Laughing


That makes two of us. Laughing Laughing


3 and counting, Tryagain is totally abstruse.

QUESTION:

What do you call places where 3 roads meet?
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sat 4 Aug, 2007 05:35 pm
TTH:

OHOLENE = hole in one Cool


PHDGUESS ~ close but no chocolate! :wink:


Using only a quill Epenthesis scribed, "Tryagain is totally abstruse."

4 and counting… Laughing




QUESTION:

What do you call places where 3 roads meet?


I was led to believe it was called a Witches Cross. However if you hail from Tennessee; it is called Wychaway. Laughing




My solar-powered car is being test-driven. The vehicle is driven at 30mph under solar power and 40mph under regular power.

The trip to the nearest town takes 45 min using both solar and regular power, whereas the return trip takes 50 min using only solar power.

On the trip to the town, what is the distance driven using solar power and the distance driven using regular power Question





HAR
MO
NY Question



10NSNE1 Question
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TTH
 
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Reply Sat 4 Aug, 2007 11:18 pm
Tryagain wrote:
PHDGUESS ~ close but no chocolate! :wink:
educated guess? now do I get chocolate Laughing
Tryagain wrote:
HAR
MO
NY Question
vertical harmony?
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markr
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 01:52 am
HARMONY
[size=7]three part harmony[/size]
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pstewart
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 02:29 am
I think the reason nothing happens when you turn on the headlights at the speed of light is that the car itself is already going that fast, and nothing can go faster, so no beam shines out.
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 07:49 am
TTH:


PHDGUESS = educated guess Cool

Now do I get chocolate?


Sweetie; chock's, pop and smokes. Razz



Mark:

HARMONY
three part harmony Cool

For you; maybe some soup. Laughing



Peter Stewart! I don't believe it; is that you after all this time? Welcome to the forum and this thread. Can we look forward to some nail biting drama from your fingertips?

BTW I agree with your thoughts on light. But how to prove it one way or another?




BJAOCKX Question


PACKPACKPACK
PACKPACKPACK Question



MCEMCEMCE Question
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raprap
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 09:30 am
Solar power
15 miles under solar power, 10 on regular

Quote:
PACKPACKPACK
PACKPACKPACK
Six pack

Rap
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Stormwatch
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 09:32 am
10NSNE1= tennis anyone?

BJAOCKX= jack in the box

MCEMCEMCE= three blind mice
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TTH
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 09:37 am
Tryagain wrote:
TTH:
Now do I get chocolate?
Sweetie; chock's, pop and smokes. Razz
and my dog, cat oh and a jacket too Laughing
Tryagain wrote:
BJAOCKX Question
jack in the box
Tryagain wrote:
PACKPACKPACK
PACKPACKPACK Question
something 6 pack?
Tryagain wrote:
MCEMCEMCE Question
Confused
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 04:28 pm
Rap:

Solar power
15 miles under solar power Cool , 10 on regular Cool


PACKPACKPACK
PACKPACKPACK = Six pack Cool


Good to see you around buddy; I should have made it a five pack, looks like you have already started. Laughing



Stormy:

10NSNE1= tennis anyone Cool

BJAOCKX= jack in the box Cool

MCEMCEMCE= three blind mice Cool Cool


Hot! Razz



TTH:

BJAOCKX = jack in the box Cool


PACKPACKPACK
PACKPACKPACK = 6 pack Cool





On her way to support her favorite team; blues were $5 each and yellows cost $8 each. Stormy spent $82, and the number of blues she bought was 2 greater than twice the number of yellows.

How many of each kind did she buy Question




9ALL5 Question


E/R
E/R Question
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raprap
 
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2007 07:52 pm
Quote:
On her way to support her favorite team; blues were $5 each and yellows cost $8 each. Stormy spent $82, and the number of blues she bought was 2 greater than twice the number of yellows.

How many of each kind did she buy


Not possible if blues and yeallows are whole numbers >0
5b+8y=82
b=y+2
so
5y+10+8b=82
13y=72
y=72/13=8*3*3/13 a fraction
& b=8*3*3/13+2 also a fraction

Now if b & y are whole numbers > 0
solutions are y=4 & b=10 (4*8+10*5=32+50=82)
and y=9 & b=2 (9*8+2*5=72+10=82)

Rap
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markr
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 12:01 am
BLUES/YELLOWS

[size=7]blues: 10
yellows: 4
[/size]
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epenthesis
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 04:59 am
Tryagain wrote:
the number of blues she bought was 2 greater than twice the number of yellows.


B = 2Y+2 (2 more than twice the number of yellows)
82 = 5B +8Y
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TTH
 
  1  
Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 05:09 am
Tryagain wrote:
Stormy:
10NSNE1= tennis anyone Cool
Could you please explain this one? I don't see it Confused
Tryagain wrote:
On her way to support her favorite team; blues were $5 each and yellows cost $8 each. Stormy spent $82, and the number of blues she bought was 2 greater than twice the number of yellows.

How many of each kind did she buy Question
4 yellows x $8=$32
2 x the # of yellows + 2 = 2x4+2 = 10 blues x $5=$50
10 blues ($50)
4 yellows ($32)
Tryagain wrote:
9ALL5 Question
everything happens between 9 & 5? Confused
Tryagain wrote:
E/R
E/R Question
tv show that aired for 2 consecutive years? Confused
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raprap
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 05:46 am
meaculpa--sosueme

Rap
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TTH
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 07:49 am
raprap wrote:
meaculpa--sosueme

Rap
Now I am really confused. Why would you make a post like this Confused
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 08:11 am
Good morning everyone, what a wonderful start to the week; I hope the sun is shining wherever ya'll are.

Before I have even had a chance to catch-up on the goings on over the weekend, I see Stormy is cutting up a bit of ... a storm. Way to go!


It would appear to my untrained eye that the problem involves understanding:





Rap:

(If we cut to the chase.)

Now if b & y are whole numbers > 0
solutions are y=4 & b=10 (4*8+10*5=32+50=82) Cool



At last he comes outta the closet and fesses up to…"so sue me"


Well Sue, your secret is as safe with us, as if it were in the safe of the Titanic. Laughing

Just for you…


"A Boy Named Sue"

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me "Sue."

Well, he must o' thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk,
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue."

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean,
My fist got hard and my wits got keen,
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame.
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man who gave me that awful name.

Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry,
I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table, dealing stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue."

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had,
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' How do you do!
Now your gonna die!!"

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down, but to my surprise,
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear.
But I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the wall and into the street
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell ya, I've fought tougher men
But I really can't remember when,
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile.
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss,
He went for his gun and I pulled mine first,
He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's the name that helped to make you strong."

He said: "Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you "Sue.'"

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my pa, and he called me his son,
And I came away with a different point of view.
And I think about him, now and then,
Every time I try and every time I win,
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!




Mark:

BLUES/YELLOWS

blues: 10 Cool
yellows: 4 Cool

As succinct as ever.




Epenthesis saw things differently, but thought he was on the humor thread; but just in case I sought confirmation from Thoh…

Unfortunately he had gone out the see the new Simpson's movie, but a spokesperson acting on his behalf replied…


TTH:

4 yellows x $8=$32
2 x the # of yellows + 2 = 2x4+2 = 10 blues x $5=$50
10 blues ($50) Cool
4 yellows ($32) Cool




Back at A2K central I checked it out:

Let B be the numbers of blues, $5 each
Y be the numbers of yellows, $ 8 each
B= 2 + 2Y
total $82= B* $5 + Y * $8 = (2+2Y)*5 + Y*8 = 10+ 10Y+8Y=10+18Y
82= 10+18Y=> 72= 18Y => Y= 72/18=4
B= 2+2*4= 10


So there we have it; the blues won!


10NSNE1= tennis anyone
Could you please explain this one? I don't see it.


Sure thing Toot's: 10 (TEN)NS NE(ANY) ONE


9ALL5
everything happens between 9 & 5? Very Happy

It could be; I was thinking: All in a days work.


E/R
E/R

I could have said, "snap E R snap E R"

Or smash/ over.




LATE BREAKING NEWS…

"Why would you make a post like this"


Isn't it obvious? The guy works for the IRS! Shocked




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raprap
 
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Reply Mon 6 Aug, 2007 08:38 am
top secret

buckle up

Rap
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