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What looks like a half of an apple?
The other half |
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The answer to who is in the Burger King picture is somebody in BK that was on an episode of Undercover Boss or The Burger King unmasked!
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Cajun, Steve and Moe are sitting around a bonfire and arguing who of them is the smartest. Jbuck happened to pass by and heard the conversation. He said, in my bag I have white and black hats, I'm going to put one on each of you so that you can see only your opponents' hats. I promise that at least one hat will be white. Whoever first figures out what color hat (s)he wears would be the smartest.
He put white hats on all three and left.
After staring at each others' heads for a minute Cajunlady exclaimed, my hat is white! How did she figure it out?
I'm still trying to figure out which one of you knew to light the match first... |
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(A variation of above) A troop of soldiers came to the river, and two little boys were fishing on a dingy. The vessel is so small that it can carry only two boys or only one adult.
How can the troop get to the other side of the river?
They cross the bridge? |
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Apollo is right about B., the peasant with his market purchases.
Weavus is right about D., the circle thing doesn't work, but "the third one lied" is correct.
Weavus got E., two monkeys, and F., the other half of the apple.
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Weavus is right about D., the circle thing doesn't work, but "the third one lied" is correct. The tortoise lied? Who ever heard of a lying tortoise. grrrrrrrrrrr |
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The question about tortoises was posed on an international high school Math competition couple of decades back. The answer "the third animal lied" is the only logically feasible one.
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The question about tortoises was posed on an international high school Math competition couple of decades back. The answer "the third animal lied" is the only logically feasible one. logic is an odd thing. If one assumes an animal can lie is logical then I propose that the third tortoise perspective could have them going in circles. The first tortoise says there are two behind because he wants to believe he is in the lead but that statement does not preclude he can see a tortoise in front of him. The third tortoise knew there were two in front of him when the started their journey but now he see the 'first' one catching up on him ready to lap him! Sounds as reasonable as a tortoise lying! so who lit the match for that bonfire? |
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To figure out the laws of logic sometimes you need to let go of the content, not think about the meaning of it. That's why when I teach logic I try to use more nonsensical statements, and my class eventually became known as a "green monkeys" class among students. As one of them summed it up a few years ago - It's logic, it doesn't have to make sense!
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03/28/2012 7:27 pm
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A. Cajun, Steve and Moe are sitting around a bonfire and arguing who of them is the smartest. Jbuck happened to pass by and heard the conversation. He said, in my bag I have white and black hats, I'm going to put one on each of you so that you can see only your opponents' hats. I promise that at least one hat will be white. Whoever first figures out what color hat (s)he wears would be the smartest.
He put white hats on all three and left.
After staring at each others' heads for a minute Cajunlady exclaimed, my hat is white! How did she figure it out? Does it have something to do with the light of the bonfire? I am smarter than them two.... but can't prove it right now.  If that turtle could lie, then I looked in my mirror and saw I had a white hat on.  |
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G. Move three matches to make the fish swim to the right:  * * * * *H. Move two matches to make the cow look right:  * * * * *I. Explain how the exact half of twelve can be seven.
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I'm still trying to figure out which one of you knew to light the match first.. We used a lighter, Weavus. |
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I. Explain how the exact half of twelve can be seven. I got this one! Pick me! Pick me! The exact half is: in Roman numerals 12 is X11 If you slice that in half, then it is V11 which is 7. |
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I. is correct, use Roman numerals. Seven cheers for Cajunlady!
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