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either: “the judge is gonna make me serve 6 years”
or: “the judge is an idiot.”
Joseph: probably something along the lines of “You’re a selfish, nasty and unintelligent judge.”
brooklyn19: beautiful!!
He said, “You’ll sentence me to six years in prison.” If it was true, then the judge would have to make it false by sentencing him to four years. If it was false, then he would have to give him six years, which would make it true. Rather than contradict his own word, the judge set the man free.
NEXT:
A frog fell into a hole that was 14 1/2 feet deep. He could jump 3 feet, but he slid back a foot each time he jumped. How many jumps does it take him to get out of the hole?
8?
BYM, no…
He gets out with the seventh jump.
Esther – precisely!
7 – The frog advances 2 feet with each jump, but he jumps 3 feet, so the 7th jump, starting at 12 feet, brings him to 15 feet, which takes him out of the hole.
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A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?
tie the corn to the end of the boat and go back and forth for the fox and the goose with it??
brooklyn19, sorry 🙁
oh! bring over the corn first, go back for the fox (the fox doesn’t eat corn, right?) and then get the goose on the last time around???
he’s one i’m sure you’ve heard:
what comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The fox would then eat the goose, as the farmer was taking over the corn.
B, C, D, E, G. what letter comes next and why?
yup! here’s the next riddle: does “don’t have internet” have internet?
answer: (this is your cue)
asdfghjkl – You seem to post between 1 AM and 5 AM Irish time. Do you work the graveyard shift?
bym:i said b4 in a post a few pages back that i got a 98!!! funny e/o who said their marks all got 98%!!!
authors & books they wrote to effect history:
-thomas pain-common sence
-h.h. jackson-a)a country of dishonor b)ramona
-stowe-uncle tom’s cabin
-adam smith-wealth of nations
-jacob riis-how the other 1/2 lives-blacks in slums
-upton sinclair-the jungle-on sanitary conditions
-steffens-shame of cities-political power machines
-norris-the octapous-about rail road monopolies
-betty friedan-Feminine Mystique
-rachel carron-silent spring
brooklyn19:
i always enjoyed american history over world history!! got a 92% on the wols history regent!!!
You guys are treading thin ice here…. This thread is about ready to be closed for the crime of repeating posts in two threads. We already have a riddle thread – this thread was supposed to be for random questions, like “Why is the sky blue?” and “Why is the Pope always a Catholic?” etc.
Who were the only two U.S. President’s ever impeached?
Clinton and Johnson
andrew johnson and bill clinton
you both made the same mistake!?
Nixon was not impeached. He resigned.
Esther & brooklyn, correct. And both escaped conviction; Slick Willie on a 50-50 vote in the Senate and Johnson by 35-19 in favor (less than the 2/3 requirement.)
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We all know that John Hancock is the man who signed his name the largest at the bottom of The Declaration of Independence. Why did he sign so big?
(a) Because he was proud.
(b) Because he was egotistical
(c) Because he wanted King George to see it without his glasses on
(d) All of the above
joseph – i guess “c”
and btw – remember that question of mine about “the dead dog in the white house?”
that was andrew johnson. after he was impeached, but not convicted and he remained in the white house but was completely ineffective. he vetoed anything that came his way and congress overrode everything he tried to do. hence, “dead dog in the white house.”
brooklyn19 – Your guess is C-O-R-R-E-C-T!
Next:
Who invented e-mail?
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Steve Case
(c) Greg Carr
(d) Ray Tomlinson
bill gates is windows
steve case is aol
dunno who the other two are. cheap question.
My guess is Steve Case.
no way, esther. he started AOL. (dunno what happened to my last post – maybe it’ll still come up but it’s definately not A or B)
here’s a good one for you:
what is the funny bone really and how’d it get it’s name?
the “funny bone” is called such as it is really called the “humerus” – (think I spelt that right)
joseph:
stop tryin to be the fbi here!!!
toronto – come on answer it properly!
and don’t have – it’s actually not a bone at all.
It’s actually a place at the elbow where two bones meet and the nerve passes through. Since there is nothing but skin protecting it, it is a very sensitive area. When hit, there is a sharp, tingling, (or I guess “funny”) sensation, hence, its name, funny bone.
actually esther, you’re right about what it is and toronto got why it’s called “funny” it’s a pun – a play on the word “humerus” which is the long bone of the arm
Which three presidents died on July 4?
WHERE DO YOU GET THESE RANDOM QUESTIONS FROM???? are we supposed to KNOW this??????
Adams
Jefferson
Don’t know the last one:(
1. what did mary antoinette say when they told her there was no bread?
2. what picture is on the back of the 2-dollar bill?
3. who was the first US president to appear on a US coin?
BTW Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail in 1971, for the ARPANet (created by the US Military), the predecessor of the Internet.
Two of them are Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. I don’t know who the third was.
Joseph-
“Which three presidents died on July 4?”
I think Jefferson and Adams in 1826, and Monroe in 1836.
Interesting historical footnotes:
-When Adams was dying he said (not exact quote) “At least Jefferson still lives”. He was wrong – Jefferson had died a few hours previously. Madison was quite the mentch when it came to Jefferson, since TJ had been contemptuous towards him.
-The Liberty bell cracked when it was tolling for Monroe’s death. The U.S. government traded the bell as scrap, but the person it was traded to refused to accept it when he found out how much drayage (the schlep fee) cost.
1. what did mary antoinette say when they told her there was no bread?
a) let them eat crusts (that is what was meant by “cake”). Not very nice, but practical advice.
b) Nothing. Populist rhetoric existed back then, too.
2. what picture is on the back of the 2-dollar bill?
The constitunal convention.
3. who was the first US president to appear on a US coin?
Washington appeared on a prototype coin earlier, but the first regularly circulated coin with a prez was the 1909 penny, which comemorated the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth. On the 150th anniversary, the Lincoln memorial was put on the reverse. On the 200th anniversary there will be four new reverse designs.
IDK – actually it’s a pictire of the signing of the declarattion of independence which took place on july 4th 1776 at the continental congress. the constitutional convention took place in 1787 when the regathered to fix the articles of confederation.
ICOT, Esther, GivPerf: Correct.
What is the last word in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance?
ICOT, Monroe died in 1831.
GivPerf-
It was John Quincy’s father.
brooklyn19-
You are correct re: the $2 bill. I was unsure if it was the declaration or the convention, and guessed wrong.
No one noticed (or thought it worthy of comment, anyway) but I mentioned “Madison” in my answer, which was a mental typo – obviously “Adams” should have gone there.
Joseph-
“…with liberty and justice for all” is the concluding line (I think).
Joseph-
Re: Monroe – you’re right.
(What better proof that the answers aren’t being googled than the plethora of errors in mine?)
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