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Dr. Loon · 18-02-2004 05:46PM

Originally posted by Raphael
A fish

Greater than god
More evil than the devil
The poor have me
The rich want me

What am I

Nothing... isn't there more to that riddle though?

Evil_Bilbo · 18-02-2004 05:46PM

greater than god
More evil than the devil
the poor have it
the rich want it

The answer is

NOTHING

Thirty white horses upon a white hill
First they stamp
Then they champ
Then they stand still

Anyone???

Evil_Bilbo · 18-02-2004 05:47PM

Sorry, thats

30 white horses upon a RED hill

Raphael · 18-02-2004 05:47PM

Well if there is i dont know it.

Evil_Bilbo · 18-02-2004 05:55PM

Its pretty dumb

Teeth!

Capt'n Midnight · 19-02-2004 02:35AM

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Thirty white horses upon a red hill
First they stamp
Then they champ
Then they stand still/B]

Can I give a friend a ring ?

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You are in a room with three light switches on a wall.
In a while you will be taken to room with a light.
There you have to work out which switch controls the light.
The usual provisions apply you are not allowed back in the first room and the winged monkeys haven't been feed in ages so you had better get it right.

Civilian_Target · 19-02-2004 02:45AM

Originally posted by Jam
If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

Zero degress C is the same as 273.15 Kelvin (0k being absolute zero), and I would consider twice as cold to be the same as 'half as hot'. So my answer is 273.15k divided by two. So minus 136.575 degrees C.

Bull****. To get half of something, you have to have a reference point, eg. half of 8 is 4 but only because we assume 0 is the reference point. Assuming 0 is still the reference point, if it's 0c today then when it's half as cold it'll still be 0c. Otherwise the question is redundant.

PrecariousNuts · 19-02-2004 03:07AM

Yes but here we have the number 273.15K. Half it to get 136.575K. I don't see the problem. If you want it back in celcius subtract 273.15 to get -136.575C

All he was doing is changing the scale temperature is measured on.

Agent Smith · 19-02-2004 03:49AM

yawn

TheSonOfBattles · 19-02-2004 03:57AM

Originally posted by Captain Midnight
You are in a room with three light switches on a wall.
In a while you will be taken to room with a light.
There you have to work out which switch controls the light.
The usual provisions apply you are not allowed back in the first room and the winged monkeys haven't been feed in ages so you had better get it right.

Switch on all 3, at once if possible and leave them on.

Failing that, flick all 3 one at a time, and watch the area behind the switch on all 3, whichever one gives a little flicker of light just behind the switch is the one supplying electricity somewhere.

Magic Monkey · 19-02-2004 05:20AM

Flick switch #1, leave 3 mins. Switch off. Wait 5 mins.

Flick switch #2, leave 3 mins. Switch off.

Flick switch #3.

Enter room.

If light is on, switch #3 is active.

If lightbulb is warm, switch #2 is active.

If lightbulb is cold, switch #1 is active.

Dubious. Something to do with time intervals between flicking the switches and heat of the bulb. I heard this when that girl who won the Young Scientist for some crypto work was on the Late Late... :dunno:

kiffer · 19-02-2004 11:29AM

Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
Yes but here we have the number 273.15K. Half it to get 136.575K. I don't see the problem. If you want it back in celcius subtract 273.15 to get -136.575C

All he was doing is changing the scale temperature is measured on.

right, but thats assuming that that twice as cold is the same as half as hot ... but that's not really so...
.
I'd have to say that room temp is "not cold" so thats say 20C right so the loss of temp down to 0C is -20
then twice that much is -40 ...
so -20 is twice as cold as 0 ...

cold is a privative like darkness.
its not a lack of heat . it is the absense of heat.
so I'm just going to stop thinking about it now.

Privative
Consisting in the absence of something

Macseamusa · 19-02-2004 12:42PM

damm i was just about to post that riddle. heres an easy one
u are in a dark room, u cant see anything, ur directed to a box, in the box there are 50 white socks and 50 black socks. what is the minimum about of socks u have to take out to get a pair of the same colour

Magic Monkey · 19-02-2004 01:00PM

If you can't see anything, how would you know you've made a match?

I'd say 2, as with the absense of light, the white socks are black, so you only need 2. Unless you're blindfolded, and there is light...

Macseamusa · 19-02-2004 01:07PM

there is someone in the room with night vision gogles or something
and no

seamus · 19-02-2004 01:10PM

3.

There are only two colours, so at least two of those three must be the same colour.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-02-2004 02:38PM

Originally posted by Magic Monkey
Flick switch #1, leave 3 mins. Switch off. Wait 5 mins.

Flick switch #2, leave 3 mins. Switch off.

Flick switch #3.

Enter room.

If light is on, switch #3 is active.

If lightbulb is warm, switch #2 is active.

If lightbulb is cold, switch #1 is active.

Dubious. Something to do with time intervals between flicking the switches and heat of the bulb. I heard this when that girl who won the Young Scientist for some crypto work was on the Late Late... :dunno:

Not doubious at all.
- don't touch switch #1 at all
- leave switch #2 on for a while - so the bulb gets hot
then turn off
- turn on switch #3

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For those who don' t watch Mr Singh on BBC3

Two jars of tablets X,Y - one of each to be taken daily. Two have been removed from jar X and one from jar Y. - but they look identical - how do you go about getting the correct dosage with wasting any tablets ?

Dathai · 19-02-2004 03:01PM

A cowboy goes to his mothers house on Friday
2 days later he leaves on Friday,how is this possible?

Magic Monkey · 19-02-2004 03:27PM

Dathai: It's the name of his horse.

Cap'tn: Take another from jar Y to even the numbers? Hmm, but you could still be taking two of the tablets from either jar X or Y... :dunno:

Raphael · 19-02-2004 03:31PM

Friday is his horses name

spudulike · 19-02-2004 03:47PM

u are in a dark room, u cant see anything, ur directed to a box, in the box there are 50 white socks and 50 black socks. what is the minimum about of socks u have to take out to get a pair of the same colour

The minimum you need to take out to guarantee a match is 51 socks.

Raphael · 19-02-2004 03:50PM

no, thats the minimum you need to take out to be sure of not getting a match

Evil_Bilbo · 19-02-2004 04:49PM

3 socks will give u a match.

Posibilities -all 3 are the same colour, or 2 are the same colour and one is a different colour.

Whats this: Hink hank, under bank, ten drawing four??

PrecariousNuts · 19-02-2004 06:26PM

Kinky art sex in a bank?

Mercury_Tilt · 19-02-2004 10:13PM

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Capt'n Midnight · 19-02-2004 10:36PM

Originally posted by Magic Monkey
Dathai: It's the name of his horse.

Cap'tn: Take another from jar Y to even the numbers? Hmm, but you could still be taking two of the tablets from either jar X or Y... :dunno:

Ah - now you understand the problem.

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Three men in a lifeboat they have four cigarettes (it's an old one from when you could smoke in public) and nothing else - how do they smoke the cigarettes.

Mercury_Tilt · 19-02-2004 11:20PM

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Kunst · 19-02-2004 11:27PM

heres one for all your massive brains.....

you are in a room with two doors. one leads to death, the other to freedom. theres is a guard at each door. one guard always lies, the other always tells the truth but you do not know which guard is which. you may ask ONE of the guards ONE question. what is the one question that will tell you which door to take to freedom?

have fun wit dat one!

Mercury_Tilt · 19-02-2004 11:32PM

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Kunst · 19-02-2004 11:34PM

i have underestimated ur massive brain

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