Author Topic: Jokes reborn (Read 20421 times)

Ian Sane · « **Reply #50 on:** December 04, 2003, 01:52:12 PM »

You weigh 4 of the coins against 4 other coins. If they're equal then the remaining coin is the fake. But if it's not then you're f*cked.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #51 on:** December 04, 2003, 03:53:31 PM »

But then they'd taste like soap.

I say you just spend the damn coin and hope the cashier doesn't take all this time to figure it out.

oohhboy · « **Reply #52 on:** December 05, 2003, 12:51:34 AM »

No bill got the right answer. He only loaded it TWICE. It said nothing about taking coins off.

Swordsplay · « **Reply #53 on:** December 05, 2003, 04:13:51 AM »

I thought this was a good joke (riddle?) I had to quote it.

---quote by twinkletoes----

Do fish ever get thirsty? If you stick a sticker on a non stick pan would it stick? Why does it say on childrens tylenol not to operate heavy machinery or vehicles when they are just kids!?

---end quote---

Jdub03 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 05, 2003, 06:30:24 AM »

I think I remember this one. Take 8 of the 9 coins, and load the scale up with four coins on either side. If the two sides are equal, then the remaining coin is the fake.
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But if the scale is unbalanced, unload two coins at a time checking to see if the scale remains unbalanced. If it does then the coins removed are good coins. Place the good coins that were removed from the scale into a pile. Coninue to remove two coins at a time until the scale becomes balanced or the remaing two coins are left on the scale. The trick is, the tray still has only been loaded once. For the final loading, weigh one of the coins on the scale with the known good coins in the pile. If it evens out, both coins are good and the one that was previuosly removed was bad. If the scales are unbalanced you know which coin is the bad one because the good coin was taken from the "good pile".

I hope this is that made since. Its been so long since Iv'e heard this riddle.

vudu · « **Reply #55 on:** December 05, 2003, 06:56:06 AM »

- “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin.

great quote jdub. in fact, i used to have it as my idle message. in fact, i actually had it up on 9/11/01 when the first plane struck the world trade center. i took it down very shortly after the second plane hit, and haven't used it since. it just didn't seem appropriate any more.

Swordsplay · « **Reply #56 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:15:21 AM »

Heres a few riddles:

1.) You have three american coins, and one cannot be a nickel, yet it has to be 20 cents, how do you do accomplish this?

2.) You have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

3.) If a papa bull, a mama bull, and a baby bull are in a pen, how many bulls are there in the pen?

Ian Sane · « **Reply #57 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:26:21 AM »

"1.) You have three american coins, and one cannot be a nickel, yet it has to be 20 cents, how do you do accomplish this?"

1 dime and 2 nickels. It's a play on words. One cannot be a nickel. The dime is the "one" that is not a nickel.

"2.) You have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?"

Two because that's how many you took with you.

Swordsplay · « **Reply #58 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:28:31 AM »

the first two are correct, ian, but what about #3?

3.) If a papa bull, a mama bull, and a baby bull are in a pen, how many bulls are there in the pen?

Ian Sane · « **Reply #59 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:31:58 AM »

The third one is kind of odd since there's no such thing as a mama bull. A female bull is a cow. I'm not sure if that's the whole point of the riddle or not but it's confusing.

I think the answer is 1. Each bull is in it's own pen. But that's a total guess.

Or it's one because a female bull is cow and a baby bull is a calf.

Swordsplay · « **Reply #60 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:35:45 AM »

close, but your wrong. Your right about the mama bull which is a cow. Therefore there are 2 left. So the answer is 2. A baby cow is a calf, a baby bull, is still a bull just smaller.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #61 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:46:07 AM »

Well 2/3 ain't bad.

Here's a mathematical riddle I made up in high school. I have a theory that infinity x 0 = 1. How did I reach that conclusion?

Swordsplay · « **Reply #62 on:** December 05, 2003, 08:54:20 AM »

anything times 0 is 0 no matter how big the number is, so my theory is that your wrong.

infinitely means there is no end

so no end times 0 (nothing) is:

no end times nothing = nothing, because their is nothing to times it to, thats why i think its 0. In other words, i have no idea how you reached your conclusion.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #63 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:26:57 AM »

My friend figured a way to make 1 = 2. Forget how, but if I remember I'll post it sometime.

How do you know baby bull isn't also a cow, though?

Ian Sane · « **Reply #64 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:39:18 AM »

"anything times 0 is 0 no matter how big the number is, so my theory is that your wrong."

Yes but in math anything times infinity is infinity so if you multiply infinity by 0 which rule applies?

Besides the point is to try to guess how one can come to that conclusion not whether or not it's correct.

"My friend figured a way to make 1 = 2."

They do that in 1984 using doublethink but that's really a clever way to do it.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #65 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:49:09 AM »

Weird that you should mention 1984. . . I'm reading that in English this very moment

Jdub03 · « **Reply #66 on:** December 05, 2003, 12:06:14 PM »

Quite true kingvudu now that I think about it I might take it down, although it is sadly true.

Anyway I read 1984 back in highschool. It really was a good book. Im trying to find the movie, hopefully its good.

phatboy · « **Reply #67 on:** December 05, 2003, 12:39:33 PM »

I thought a baby bull is considered a...bull. I thought a calf was a baby cow, not a bull. So if what I just said was correct, which might not be, then there would be 2 bulls in the pen. Yet, Ian Sane's idea could be right if he was correct about a baby bull being a calf...hmmm. So then what's the answer Swordplay. That is, unless someone else wants to take a wack at it.

Edit: oops, I didn't realize there was a 4th page...sorry.

Edit2: Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it?

This is kind of an easy one.

Swordsplay · « **Reply #68 on:** December 06, 2003, 12:57:52 PM »

no no no, the answer is indeed 2

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #69 on:** December 06, 2003, 02:54:48 PM »

phatboy: a coffin
Swordsplay: But HC brought up a great point. The calf could be either male or female.

Yes, there is a way in which 1=2. Yet since it totally confuses people all over the world, the high kings of math decided to put it in exile in Siberia.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #70 on:** December 06, 2003, 04:35:27 PM »

Ah, I remember that 1 = 2 paradigm...

a = b
a^2 = a x b
a^2-b^2 = (a x b)-(b^2 )
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
(a + b) = b
a + a = a
2a = a
2 = 1

^_^''

Edit: Ian, I remember my Calc teacher talking about that infinity riddle...

N x (1/N) = 1

N = any number

And as you get closer to infinity, the identity will still hold true...

(infinity) x (1/infinity) must equal 1, but (1/infinity) is generally known as zero...Therefore, infinity x 0 = 1

Weird, huh?

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #71 on:** December 06, 2003, 06:22:19 PM »

Yeah, that could be it, or it could not. Kinda cheap of him to say he made it up, though.

Come to think of it, twas not my friend that made it up, but his sort of friend. Or maybe not made up. I don't care. Sleep.

manunited4eva22 · « **Reply #72 on:** December 07, 2003, 04:55:24 AM »

Both the 0=1 and 1=2 riddles are older than all of the people on these forums. Nothing too new.

TOY · « **Reply #73 on:** December 07, 2003, 12:24:13 PM »

I thought of this myself.

When is 99 more than 100?

TOY

phatboy · « **Reply #74 on:** December 07, 2003, 05:31:51 PM »

When you want it to be! duh!

Edit: Just use your i-m-a-g-i-n-a-t-i-o-n!

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