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WHERE IS MY APPLE
Something different... And not, we are not looking for your lost iPhone...
Before you three - covered - crates of fruit. One full of oranges, the second full of apples and the third a mix of both.
All of the crates are labeled - 'Apple', 'Orange' and 'Mix' - but all of them labeled wrongly...
You can pick one fruit from one crate - blindfolded, so you could not see the rest, and you have to say what crate contains what fruit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 25-Jan-17 15:07pm.
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bananas. 
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Before you free
And unless you have a lifp, I fink you meant three.
Marc
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I would add kiwi too... And juice from red grapefruit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Because all the labels are wrong, the label tells you what the box can contain:
"Apples" contains Oranges, or is mixed.
"Oranges" contains Apples, or is mixed
"Mixed" contains Just Oranges or Apples.
Pick one fruit blindfold from "Mixed" - you know know which fruit it contains.
If it's an Apple, then "Apples" contains Oranges, and Oranges is mixed.
If it's an Orange, then "Apples" is mixed, and "Oranges" contains apples.
If you like, a truth table with show it:
Legend> A O M
Pick v
AAA X
AAO M A O
AOA X
AOO X
OAA O M A
OAO M A O
OOA O M A
OOO X Where "X" indicates an impossible combination.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the label tells you what the box can contain:
Yup, I started to go down the path of creating a solution tree based on what was picked and knowing the boxes are all mislabeled, but my attention span failed me. 
Marc
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That's what happens at our age, I understand.. 
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I'm sorry, what was the question again? 
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Can you type that a bit louder? I didn't quite catch it.
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Oops! Hit the wrong "reply" button... 
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I have a gun. I'm not going to let you blindfold me, and I'll pick from as many goddamn crates as I want. Any more questions?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Before you are three targets, marked "commie", "jihadist", and "liberal"... oh, you shot all three already, OK.
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What kind of gun?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Probably not a water pistol.
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Probably? 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A .45 because they don't make a .46. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In that case I can blindfold him me think...
I have a M4A1 and a Glock 37...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ah, the functional programming approach...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Presumably you get to say which crate you pick from, even though you can't see it?
In which case, assuming you trust the person leading you to the crate, you pick from "Mix", reminisce about the good old days of Woolworths "Pic'n'mix" for a while, and then the solution is trivial.
(Whatever you pick is the real contents of the "Mix" crate; the crate with that fruit on its label is the other fruit; and the crate with the other fruit on its label is the "Mix" crate.)
If you can't see which crate you're picking from, then you'll have to resort to JSOP's answer. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You pick from the mix box as that must be either apples or oranges. After that the other two are obvious.
veni bibi saltavi
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One is really heavy, the other is a little lighter.
I'll get me coat.
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:groan:
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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We're gonna get you, hippozippo. 
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Ron Anders wrote: We're gonna get you, hippozippoGriffo.
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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X & Y is not the same as
X && Y
Twenty minutes wasted on a condition who refused to yield the correct result.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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