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I think the joke is that the police are investigating how the man died of gunshot wounds and asked his widow if she heard any last words from him. She says, “yes, he said ‘Go ahead. You couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, anyway’.”
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if these riddles, puzzles and science lessons continue, the moderator may need to frequent the “alcoholic mixes” thread. LoL
A little brainfood never hurt anyone….. I meant the riddles, not the alcohol!
34 2/7 MPH is correct. Nice!
A simple formula that I derived to solve this equation is
time * (2 * Miles1/hour * Miles2/hour) / (Miles1/hour + Miles2/hour)
=
1 hour * (2 * 40 * 30) / (40 + 30) = 34 2/7
4 pennies, 0 nickels, 4 dimes, 3 quarters. 119 cents.
4 pennies, 9 dimes and 1 quarter would be the same answer.
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Never mind, I just looked it up. It’s a place where they bury dead actors.
What’s an actuary?
Tofu.
Some pundit suggested that all candidates be forced to wear the logos of their corporate sponsors, like NASCAR. I think that would do a lot to help curb the seriousness with which we take their words. Case in point, if Obama had a General Motors sticker on his lapel as he begged for immediate bailout of the auto industry, what would people take out of that?
Feivel is right. The paper was placed under a door. (though other creative answers are interesting to me as well – such as they are tiny pets 🙂
zimby – that is quite a riddle. Actually, a complicated puzzle. Do you want to start a puzzle thread instead?
Let’s try them all out, since I have no idea what most do:
this is blockquote
this is codethis one, we all know, is em
this is strong
- this is ul
- here is ol
- and finally, here is li
And though I’ve tried using the backtick in the past, it has never worked for me. Does anyone know how to use that?
To Gitty: If you truly do not believe in Judaism, there are people out there who can just about prove it to you (if you want to give them a chance – though none of them have appeared here on YW). But there is another phenomenon that could be making you say that you don’t believe – it’s called cognitive dissonance. Some of your posts indicate that this is what is going on. I actually know a lot about this (so maybe I’m unfairly projecting).
As for happy/unhappy part of it, the discussion is silly. YOU are in control of your own happiness. No one else is. Therefore, you can be happy no matter what happens, whether you are frum or not. So if you say that you are happy, anyone who says they know otherwise is just full of garbage.
Eisav and Yishmael are fighting. The UN decided to stop the fighting (for a change) and took a piece of paper, drew a line down the middle and ordered them to each stand on one half of the paper. Though they were both on the same piece of paper, and within 11 inches of each other, neither one was able to hit or even touch the other. How is that possible?
Imagine a digital clock (I wouldn’t stigmatize anyone by saying a digital watch. When the minutes are the same as the hour, that is called a “double”, e.g. 2:02 is a double, as is 10:10.
What is the longest amount of time between doubles? What is the shortest?
Between the ones who are patronizing and the ones who are just plain cold, I’m sure Gitty (and others like her, lurking) will often revisit this thread for advice.
Joseph – please, not from you! You should be yelling Ma’aras Eyin!!!
re Kahlua: The rumor you may be referring to is that if you buy it directly from Mexico it is kosher, and that the only problem is the lack of kashrus at the US bottling plant. Whether or not this was true at one time, IT IS NOT TRUE now. You can call a kashrus agency to confirm this/discuss the rumor. Kahlua is history (to the kosher market).
What’s black and white and red/read/redt all over?
Yoshi – they do sell sleepers for adults. Yuck.
I guess I’m a little late in the thread to make this point, since the berliner rav has indicated that he meant the above mentioned BACH, but I was going to suggest that the psak as it was mentioned by ROB was from a Johann Sebastian (note the “j”).
Math? Yuck. We managed to avoid those riddles up ’till now. I guess I have a good one, too, then. This was an actual SAT question that no one was able to answer, from back when the T stood for test (oy, I hate making myself look old).
If a person drives to a place at 40 MPH, and then drives back at 30 MPH, and the total trip takes 1 hour with no stops, what is the average speed for the trip? [Note that the distance is the same both ways, and the speed in each direction is not an average but an exact and constant speed].
I think that the 9’s is the only one left outstanding – but it is not specified what order of operation to use.
Action
— Elapsed Time — — Total Elapsed Time —Chaim and Yankel walk across 2 minutes 2 minutes
Yankel walks back 2 minutes 4 minutes
Reuven and Shimon walk across 10 minutes 14 minutes
Chaim walks back 1 minute 15 minutes
Chaim and yankel walk across again 2 minutes 17 minutes
Interesting that Microsoft knows about MBD…
ICOT – 27 is definitely not a possibility. Remember that on day 27 he starts out 26 feet high and makes it only to 29 before falling back to 27. Perhaps you meant to say it could be 28 or 29. That would be true, since it is ambiguous what will happen at the lip. The answer I gave (28) assumes that reaching the lip prevents the snail from falling back down. Good point though!
jfem: I am a liar is a statement that cannot be made by either a patent liar or a patent truth teller. Only someone who sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth can say that. Not so the statement “My father’s name is Daniel”, which can be stated by either a truth teller or a liar (and its validity can be discovered).
Even so, IMO “I am a liar” does not work because a liar could say that (even though it is the truth – someone who sometimes lies is still a liar).
And the answer to riddle A is……. (I would put it in white font if I knew how to)……. 28 days. Shkoyach is on the right track, he is basically going a foot per day, so at the end of 27 days he is 27 feet high. But then on the 28th day, he climbs 3 feet and sleeps on solid ground.
30 is also incorrect.
29 for riddle B is correct!
Actually, the store can (and as you said, did) prevent unions. Whether it’s by closing up shop or other means is for them to decide, but it is certainly in their right to do so. If the workers want to unionize, and the store doesn’t want to be overrun, they don’t have to be.
Actually, both. The first time I laid eyes on a bottle of zechs und neintziger it was in the hands of a lad that could not have been more than 7 or 8, carrying it home from the store.
No, 31 is incorrect.
Stores have the right to be anti-union. It goes both ways. So if you are taking the workers’ side, then you are pro-union. OK, if that’s what you want to stand for.
feivel, who do you think I am? Hillary Clinton? Miss spoke indeed.
Riddle A: A snail fell into a hole 30 feet deep. It tries to climb out, but can only climb up 3 feet in a day. At night, while sleeping, it slips back down 2 feet. How many days does it take the snail to get out of the hole?
Riddle B: A school science project involves placing a bacteria cell into a jar. The bacteria reproduces at a rate such that the total population doubles every day. (so on the second day there are 2, the third day there are 4, etc). If it takes 30 days before the jar is completely full, on which day was the jar half full?
Well, I’m not a Manhattanite anymore, but that’s all I’ll admit to. Notice my absence from the “Lounge” thread.
feivel, you sound like you just read the wikipedia article. correct me if I’m wrong, but you don’t really know much about this, right? Please don’t try to give me a lesson on this.
In Brooklyn, double parking may not be common during alternate side, but in Manhattan it is a necessity! Not enough parking spaces exist even with 2 sides of the street. Everyone knows that if you will need your car during alternate side make sure it is not on the “right” side of the street or it will be blocked in. It’s just a reality.
For the most part, cops don’t ticket people even though it is not legal. But I can remember when there was a job action and they just went up and down ticketing everyone. You can’t fight the ticket (unless it is defective) but hopefully 99% of the time you won’t get one.
In Israel I thought that the age you could buy liquor is when you are tall enough to see over the counter?
For anyone who is interested in this kind of stuff, the “center of science” of Europe is currently trying to replicate the Big Bang. They built a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for this purpose, and it was just started up this October. It was a big deal in the science community. Go ahead and search for LHC if you care about this. I’m satisfied with “Beraishis Borah….”
He says, “You will shoot me”
Gold is measured in troy ounces, and there are only 12 troy ounces in a pound. A troy ounce is slightly heavier than a regular one, but 12 troy is still less than 16 regular.
So the companion riddle to the pound feathers vs pound gold is
What weighs more? An ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
I agree with the know-it-all. I think that if it is for a guy, making the day special trumps giving him a chotchke. Favorite supper, or a homemade cake are some good ideas.
Of course, if you buy toys he will like them too (e.g. a 21.6 volt cordless drill or a gas powered chain saw), but if you don’t plan on spending a lot of money on something nearly useless, the costless gifts are the priceless ones.
2 reasons why you would weigh more at the poles:
1) You would be wearing a lot more clothing
2) The Earth is flattened at the poles so you are closer to the center of the Earth, hence more affected by gravity.
Nice to see this thread getting back on track.
While we’re on the subject of Yekke jokes….
Adam Harishon was the first Yekke. We know this because Hashem called him “Ayekke”. Onkelus probably did not like Yekkes, because he translated this “Anut”.
Joseph – I was also being humorous (and purposely missing your joke). Now that I think of it, it was a bit ghoulish.
I think the films could have women in it, based on the standards of the Yated and Hamodia.
As long as the actresses are off screen, and their lines are in muted closed caption, it should be OK. We could probably remake a bunch of films this way. I can even think of a good name for the studio!
Joseph – contrary to what you may have heard from your propaganda machine – the red stuff we make kiddush on is just wine. Not a reason to block on YW.
Sad it is, but it’s kind of hard to stay in business when you are selling a $15 sandwich that is going for $5 in every other Subway in America (except for nine, of course) including the shops just down the block.
Downtown kosher restaurants are just not sticky. They don’t get any dinner business – I don’t see how any of them can make it on 1 hour a day.
Joseph – you drive us all to drink