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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 06:16 AM
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Is n`t that weird,my e-mail says that Mil1ion replied to this thread at 1:28am this morning,but yet I dont see anything there?Maybe this thread somehow ties in with the one about ghost stories.The disappearing reply.
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 07:21 AM
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Actually, they are different.

Chris
I agree. Feathers would be weighted in Mass (Avoirdupois) units. Gold would be weighed in Troy Units.

A Troy ounce is ~31.1 grams
An Avoirdupois ounce is ~28.35grams
12 troy ounce=1 troy pound
14.583 troy ounce =16 avoirdupois ounce (1Pound)
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 11:23 AM
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This is a very old and simple riddle, but maybe I've outlived most of you and still remember it.

A man lives on the 22nd floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes, prepares himself for work, then goes into the hall and pushes the down button for the elevator. He enters the elevator and presses "G" for the ground floor. Exits the elevator upon arriving at the ground level, and walks to work. He returns in the evening, enters the elevator, presses 16. Rides to the 16th floor, gets off the elevator and uses the stairs to climb the remaining 6 floors to his apartment. Why doesn't he use the elevator to go all the way to the 22nd floor?
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by santana
This is a very old and simple riddle, but maybe I've outlived most of you and still remember it.

A man lives on the 22nd floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes, prepares himself for work, then goes into the hall and pushes the down button for the elevator. He enters the elevator and presses "G" for the ground floor. Exits the elevator upon arriving at the ground level, and walks to work. He returns in the evening, enters the elevator, presses 16. Rides to the 16th floor, gets off the elevator and uses the stairs to climb the remaining 6 floors to his apartment. Why doesn't he use the elevator to go all the way to the 22nd floor?
He's a midget/dwarf and can't reach the 22nd floor button.
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by jpsartre12
He's a midget/dwarf and can't reach the 22nd floor button.
Way too easy eh?

Yep, that's it!
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 12:04 PM
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Way too easy eh?

Yep, that's it!
Actually, I heard a variation of that riddle years ago. In it, on rainy days, he got off on the 22nd floor and on dry days he got off on the 16th floor. The reason was that he carried an umbrella on rainy days and used it to reach the 22nd floor button.
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 01:26 PM
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Wouldn't that be a watermelon?? Green on the outside, white just on the inside, then red with a bunch of little seeds, hence the 'babies'???????


So ckrichard..... was I correct or not?!?!
 
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 02:46 PM
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#3. You are in a room with a locked door. There are no other ways out but through the locked door. It is impossible to force the door open. In the center of the room there is a glass of water, a pipe, and some pliers. Also, there is a small hole in the room. It is directly in the center of the room in the floor and it contains a key to the door. The hole is too small to fit your hand into or any of the items listed. How do you get out?

Im guessing you somehow put the pipe in the hole, and dump the water in the hole.... not sure, but thats my line of track
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 11:39 AM
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So ckrichard..... was I correct or not?!?!
Yes, you are correct sir. Har-ar-ar-ar
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 01:42 PM
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Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 01:46 PM
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David.

10 character minimum
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 01:49 PM
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Would that be King *David 1st* ?
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 02:45 PM
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You got it. DAVID (Roman numerals)
 
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter94
Ok, lets see who can figure this one out, the answer is obvious, but its hard to realize somtimes.

There is a dad driving down the road in his car with his son. They get into an accident, 2 ambulances come from 2 different hospital. ambulance #1 takes the boy and brings him to hospital #1. Ambulance #2 takes the father to a different hospital 20 miles away from where the son is (#2). They take the boy into the operating room at hospital #1, and the doctor says "I cant operate on this boy, he is my son."

How is this possible? Lets see who knows the answer, or who's watched the movie "tin cup"
Ahh maybe this was in the movie TIN CUP but this very same riddle was also in an episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY spoken my Gloria and asked of her father Archie and Husband Mike neither of whom could guess the answer.... its been around a bunch!
 
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Old Apr 15, 2004 | 09:07 AM
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I wonder how many have heard this one...

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives.
Every wive had seven sacks.
Every sack had seven cats.
Every cat had seven kittens.
Kittens, cats, sacks wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

Ryan
 
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