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V. wrote:
f***ed up generation

... that was "Monster". But there was a question mark, so the next qualifier wouldn't have counted anyway)

Three logicians walk into a bar.
The barman asks "does everyone want a drink?"
The first logician says, "I don’t know".
The second logician says, "I don’t know".
The third logician says, "Yes".

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Very good ! Cool | :cool:

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

I was going to upvote you but then thought, would everyone reading upvote the joke? I think I will hold my upvote until such time I figure it out. Big Grin | :-D

I am kidding, of course! Good one! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

You have just been Sharapova'd.

I woould vote this comment as abuse, but I'm not entirely sure that I can do it without people finding out. Is the anonymity really 100%? Wink | ;)

I am also kidding of course! Wink | ;)

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time

Agent__007 wrote:
the joke

There was a joke? Confused | :confused:

Bartender: Drink?
George Boole: One.

Probably most of you cán solve this, despite it is rumoured only 2% can. I once read you should do this without "pencil and paper", so perhaps that's where the 2% comes from.

Anyways first time I saw this I took the pencil and paper and got to work.
It took me about 30-40 minutes to complete. How long did it take you (the first time?)

Einstein's riddle

The situation

There are 5 houses in five different colors.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The question is: Who owns the fish?

Hints

the Brit lives in the red house
the Swede keeps dogs as pets
the Dane drinks tea
the green house is on the left of the white house
the green house's owner drinks coffee
the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
the man living in the center house drinks milk
the Norwegian lives in the first house
the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
the German smokes Prince
the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water

V.

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It's WRONG wrong wrong! Thre should be a zebra in there somewhere! D'Oh! | :doh:

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time

You're mistaken, the zebra is in the next street ! Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

V.

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Johnny J. wrote:
Thre should be a zebra in there somewhere!

I had a zebra curry a couple of months ago. Very nice it was too.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

As long as it took Google to find the answer after I'd registered my disgust at the perpetuation of the myths that

a) this has anything to do with Einstein

b) it's a riddle

c) it's solvable (like my esteemed colleague says - there ain't no fish!!!)

d) only Mensa qualifying IQs can achieve the given answer

e) it contains free advertising for tobacco

Suspicious | :suss:

Puzzles of this kind predate Einstein's birth (I haven't yet been able to establish whether the great Dudeney has an example but I wouldn't be surprised) and the easiest way to solve them is not purely by logic.

About 30 minutes with pen and paper. Used similar logic as Cheryl's birthday problem.

d@nish wrote:
similar logic

Is that the "The fact that X is able to make a choice implies that the only possible choice for Y is 'choice a' ?"

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

No. I am referring to making a grid and omitting or selecting possible options.

Isn't that theology/philosophy rather than logic? Wink | ;)

Riddler, Riddler ask me why the birds fly free on a mackerel sky...

Geek code v 3.12 {
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

What is the average velocity of a swallow carrying a coconut? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

V.

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The definite integral of it's acceleration during the trip, obviously!

Geek code v 3.12 {
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

Well a king must know these things Big Grin | :-D

The african or the European Swallow?

#region(start signature)
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
#endregion

Not reading the Insider news much are we? Smile | :)

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

idd, missed that... Laugh | :laugh:

V.

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All the houses are the same colour (blue) - they are just moving away from our reference frame so fast that the light reaching us from them appears shifted up the spectrum.

All the owners have horses as pet it's just the distance between us and the houses that the pets appear to be cat, fish goat etc

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