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  • 09-07-2008 11:27pm
    #1
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭


    Okay so I really just want to start a new lasting thread.......:)

    But may also be interesting,

    I'll start it off obviously

    How far into the woods can you go????????:confused::confused::confused:


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  • #2
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Half way....or something... isn't it?


  • #3
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    Half way....or something... isn't it?

    Yeah, half way, any further and you are going out of the woods.

    Come on lets keep it going.


  • #4
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    I've got none, someone else can post one if they like


  • #5
    minxie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    I've got none, someone else can post one if they like
    walk into the centre,turn and sway ;)


  • #6
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Good idea for a thread. Hopefully people won't just search for the answers to these :).

    Here's one that annoyed me when I was told it first:

    If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what is the answer?


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  • #7
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    70?:o


  • #8
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,951 ✭✭✭emaherx


    malice_ wrote: »
    Good idea for a thread. Hopefully people won't just search for the answers to these :).

    Here's one that annoyed me when I was told it first:

    If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what is the answer?

    30/.5 =60 + 10 =70 surely?


  • #9
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Limerick-man wrote: »
    70?:o
    Correct! You'd be surprised how many people will answer 25 :).

    Here's a good one:

    He who builds it, builds it to sell it,
    He who buys it doesn't want it
    He who uses it never sees it.
    What is it?


  • #10
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,951 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Limerick-man wrote: »
    70?:o

    Sorry beaten to it.


  • #11
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    malice_ wrote: »
    Correct! You'd be surprised how many people will answer 25 :).

    Here's a good one:

    He who builds it, builds it to sell it,
    He who buys it doesn't want it
    He who uses it never sees it.
    What is it?

    Coffin?


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  • #12
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,951 ✭✭✭emaherx


    malice_ wrote: »
    Correct! You'd be surprised how many people will answer 25 :).

    Here's a good one:

    He who builds it, builds it to sell it,
    He who buys it doesn't want it
    He who uses it never sees it.
    What is it?


    My house :D


  • #13
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Limerick-man wrote: »
    Coffin?
    Correct again. Maybe I should try to find some more difficult ones? :P


  • #14
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    malice_ wrote: »
    Correct again. Maybe I should try to find some more difficult ones? :P

    Haha don't i'm no good at them
    I've one

    If it takes half an hour to dig a hole, how long does it take to dig half a hole:confused:


  • #15
    poppers
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭poppers


    Limerick-man wrote: »
    If it takes half an hour to dig a hole, how long does it take to dig half a hole:confused:

    You can't dig half a hole.


    What can you put into a barell of water to make it lighter??


  • #16
    esminyos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭esminyos


    Thats a good one but see can u get this one
    What can go down a down spout, down
    but cant go up a down spout up
    clue a down spout is a drain pipe ok


  • #17
    esminyos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭esminyos


    whats the only number that can be multiplied or added to itself and still give the same answer?


  • #18
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    esminyos wrote: »
    whats the only number that can be multiplied or added to itself and still give the same answer?

    0?


  • #19
    avillan
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭avillan


    a hole:confused:


  • #20
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    Okay, it's an old one but there is an actual answer to this one....

    Which came first, the chicken of the egg?:confused:


  • #21
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    MB74 wrote: »
    Okay, it's an old one but there is an actual answer to this one....

    Which came first, the chicken of the egg?:confused:

    Hah! I didn't know there was an answer to that!


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  • #22
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    esminyos wrote: »
    What can go down a down spout, down
    but cant go up a down spout up
    clue a down spout is a drain pipe ok
    I haven't a clue what the answer to this is.
    poppers wrote: »
    What can you put into a barell of water to make it lighter??
    Air?


  • #23
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,951 ✭✭✭emaherx


    MB74 wrote: »
    Okay, it's an old one but there is an actual answer to this one....

    Which came first, the chicken of the egg?:confused:

    The egg....
    Eggs were around for millions of years before chickens


  • #24
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,951 ✭✭✭emaherx


    malice_ wrote: »
    I haven't a clue what the answer to this is.

    Air?

    I think that one was already answered, its a hole.


  • #25
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    Limerick-man wrote: »
    Hah! I didn't know there was an answer to that!

    It's one of those logical but really annoyingly stupid answers that's makes you want to punch the person for asking the question. I'll wait a little bit longer to get punched though!!!:D


  • #26
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    emaherx wrote: »
    I think that one was already answered, its a hole.
    Ah yes, I wasn't sure but now I see the post you're referring to. I was nearly right :).
    MB74 wrote: »
    It's one of those logical but really annoyingly stupid answers that's makes you want to punch the person for asking the question. I'll wait a little bit longer to get punched though!!!:D
    I know the answer's going to be annoying but so's the waiting!


  • #27
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    Missed that someone had already answered it right already, yeah the egg came first. Dinosaurs were having eggs long before the chicken arrived.......now isn't that such an annoying answer to an age old question.

    Bet you someone is going to ask that in the pub this weekend!!!


  • #28
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    esminyos wrote: »
    Thats a good one but see can u get this one
    What can go down a down spout, down
    but cant go up a down spout up
    clue a down spout is a drain pipe ok

    Okay officially confused by the question, I hope the answer clears it up, think we are all waiting...


  • #29
    poppers
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭poppers


    esminyos wrote: »
    Thats a good one but see can u get this one
    What can go down a down spout, down
    but cant go up a down spout up
    clue a down spout is a drain pipe ok


    the rain???????


  • #30
    jhn_noln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭jhn_noln


    esminyos wrote: »
    whats the only number that can be multiplied or added to itself and still give the same answer?


    2????


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  • #31
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    jhn_noln wrote: »
    2????

    Ahhhh now i get it. I read it wrong, i was thinkin to give the number u started off with ie. 0+0=0 haha how stupid was i... :pac:


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