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Lateral Thinking

Hurricane-Dean · 2011-06-12 20:42:44

Some of the questions are just weird, read my rolling papers while dropping the kids at the pool and the question was: "How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?" What ones do you know? Some are ridiculous!

12-06-2011 8:42pm

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Some of the questions are just weird, read my rolling papers while dropping the kids at the pool and the question was:

"How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?"
The baby fell out of a ground floor window.

What ones do you know? Some are ridiculous!

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#2 12-06-2011 8:43pm

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What has a guitar and a comb got in common?
Neither can climb trees

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#3 12-06-2011 8:44pm

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The guy shooting himself in the head on the train when it goes into a tunnel is a classic.

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#4 12-06-2011 8:45pm

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Who directed Kenneth Branaghs film version of Hamlet?
Kenneth Branagh

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#5 12-06-2011 8:47pm

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Why don't pandas have more babies?

Cause they're ghey.

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#6 12-06-2011 8:47pm

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Aon, ein, uno, een, eyns etc.

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#7 12-06-2011 8:48pm

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Ah no lateral thinking, as in outside of the box, normally the answer you don't think it will be normally is

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#8 12-06-2011 8:48pm

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This doesn't conforms to lateral thinking but w/e

Ask people this and you'd be surprised how many people don't get it.

What was the name of the ship in the film 'Mutiny on the Bounty'

Try it.

1000 poasts...

yay

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#9 12-06-2011 8:49pm

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Chuck Stone wrote: »

1000 poasts...

yay

well done

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#10 12-06-2011 8:54pm

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From the creator of (the term) lateral thinking

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#11 12-06-2011 8:56pm

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Came across this one before!

A man enters a tower block every Monday to Friday and gets into a lift there.
His work office is on the 30th floor.

After pressing a button on the panel of floor buttons, he stand and waits as the lift rises. The lift stops. He get out and walks up another five flights.
1. He is in full health and fit.
2. He doesn't like walking generally.
3. He is not afraid of heights, close spaces or any other phobia.

Question: why did he get out at floor 25 and walk up to 30?

Answer:
The man is a dwarf. He can only reach up so high with his hand to the highest button which in the case of the lift, is 25.

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#12 12-06-2011 8:57pm

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Biggins wrote: »

Came across this one before!

A man enters a tower block every Monday to Friday and gets into a lift there.
His work office is on the 30th floor.

After pressing a button on the panel of floor buttons, he stand and waits as the lift rises. The lift stops. He get out and walks up another five flights.
1. He is in full health and fit.
2. He doesn't like walking generally.
3. He is not afraid of heights, close spaces or any other phobia.

Question: why did he get out at floor 25 and walk up to 30?

Answer:
The man is a dwarf. He can only reach up so high with his hand to the highest button which in the case of the lift, is 25.

Heard that one before, kept me guessing for AGES :mad:

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#13 12-06-2011 8:58pm

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Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Ah no lateral thinking, as in outside of the box, normally the answer you don't think it will be normally is

^ the dictionary definition.

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#14 12-06-2011 8:59pm

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take everything wrote: »

^ the dictionary definition.

ha ha is it? just what my friend always says just before he asks me a question

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#15 12-06-2011 9:10pm

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There's millions of answers to them. As Ricky Gervais says they should be called "what am I thinking?"

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#16 12-06-2011 11:52pm

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thread over there ----> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=504

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