riddles ..bit of mental exercise

[Jockney Rebel]

5 TRICKY QUESTIONS

(You will kick yourself if you don't get these)
pm me with ur answers ...keep it real for the rest




Your brain teaser for the day.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms.
The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins
With loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3
Years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for
Over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go
Out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray
When you throw it away ?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words
Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday? ..........

[Weaselman]

1. The lions are dead
2. Shes a photographer using a dark room.

the other 2 have got me buggered

[Large]

4 is xmas eve, xmas day and boxing day

[Cruisecontrol]

quote:Originally posted by Jockney Rebel


5 TRICKY QUESTIONS

1...
2...
3...
4...


FAIL :D:D:D

[scampy]

Number 3 I think is charcoal?

Number 4, three consecutive days? Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Number 5 is...

oh

it's not there.

Interesting...

[Jockney Rebel]

..lol smartass
5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how
Quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary
And plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing
Is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it,
But you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you
Might find out.
tho it might be a bit too hard for ya ...

[Jockney Rebel]

..and last but not least ...a tie breaker

2 americans on the golden gate bridge one s the father of the other ones son ..
how are they related ?

[Jockney Rebel]

quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol


quote:Originally posted by Jockney Rebel


5 TRICKY QUESTIONS

1...
2...
3...
4...


FAIL :D:D:D
show us yer answers then ....:)

[Iceman]

3. cigarette

5. bad punctuation, (almost as bad as my spelling)

[Large]

5 No "E"s in the whole paragraph

[vizman]

the septics on the bridge are man n' wife

[Lucas]

5. The start of every line is a Capital

[Jockney Rebel]

1.the lions are dead
2.photographer
3.charcoal
4.yesterday today and tommorow [or the xmas ones ]
5. the paragraph has no letter E the most common letter in the english language
6.husband and wife
well done chaps :D

[Jockney Rebel]

where is the only place in the world you can live without breathing air ?

[Large]

At my computer desk.

All I'm breathiung is farts

[Azrael]

Hong Kong..

[Large]

quote:Originally posted by Jockney Rebel

where is the only place in the world you can live without breathing air ?


I'd like to say in your mother's vag, but that would be rude

[Azrael]

Id like to say YOUR mothers vag but i dont know her well enough..

Im sure she would support life..

do parasites count?

[Matt]

underwater?

[pommybstd]

in the womb.

[Jockney Rebel]

well done pommy ...lol my mums a 16 stone Glaswegian ..ill pass on yer comments ...

[pommybstd]

i dated a glasgow girl once. left her (and changed my number and address) after seeing her headbutt a builder in the street after he wolf-whistled at her.

[:|]

[pommybstd]

Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?

[Gix11]

"only son's brother's" .....Only sons don't have brothers.

[pommybstd]

good work ;)

the answer is "no-one"

[Jockney Rebel]

right ..what travels faster at sea than at 10000 feet

[Anakist]

A boat, fish, anything that can swim but not fly.

James

[Azrael]

Pavlova

[Large]

tsunami

[morrigan]

quote:Originally posted by Azrael

Pavlova


Az, you shouldn't post replies when you have the munchies!!

[Jockney Rebel]

ok i admit its a bit vague ...but its ....sound

[Azrael]

NO, I said PAVLOVA!

[Jockney Rebel]

lol ok its a dessert then ...eaten by a pilot ..travelling at 707mph at sea level lol

[pommybstd]

ok.... REAL challenge time!

(you can use any number of letters any number of times that you want for each word)

how many words can you make, ONLY using the following letters:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

[Lucas]

Just in english or all languages?

[pommybstd]

damn. the website didn't mention that bit.

[Lucas]

Bibliographic Entry Result
(w/surrounding text) Standardized
Result
Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York: Penguin, 1992: 1 "The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world's languages (which now number some 2,700), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade." 500,000 words

1,000,000 words
(including scientific words)
Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 10. Grolier, 1999. "The vocabulary has grown from the 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to the tremendous number of entries -- 650,000 to 750,000 -- in an unabridged dictionary of today." 650–750,000 words
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 1989. "In addition to the headwords of main entries, the Dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of 616,500 word-forms." 616,500 words
Webster's Third New International Dictionary. G&C Merriam Co., 1971. "This dictionary has a vocabulary of over 450,000 words." > 450,000 words
Wilton, David. How Many Words Are There In The English Language? Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins. 7 February 2001. "The OED2, the largest English-language dictionary, contains some 290,000 entries with some 616,500 word forms." 616,500 words

Have you ever encountered a person who just keeps on rambling on and on with no end in sight. If you have, you might have wondered if he/she would ever run out of words to say. Unfortunately, that will remain a dream for all of us.

As we enter the Twenty First Century, English is the most widely spoken and written language on Earth. English was first spoken in Britain by Germanic tribes in Fifth Century AD also known as the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) period. During the Middle English period (1150-1500 AD), a lot of the Old English word endings were replaced by prepositions like by, with, and from. We are now in the Modern English period which started in the Sixteenth Century.

The number of words in English has grown from 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to about a million today. There are a number of ways in which the English vocabulary increases. The principal way in which it grows is by borrowing words from other languages. About 80% of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Another way is by combining words into one word such as housewife, greenhouse, and overdue. The addition of prefixes and suffixes to words also increases the immense vocabulary of the English language.

Today, more than 750 million people use the English language. An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 words in a week. Despite its widespread use, there are only about 350 million people who use it as their mother tongue. It is the official language of the Olympics. More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals as well three quarters of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables are in English. About 80% of the information stored in the world's computers (such as this text) are also in English. English is also transmitted to more than 100 million people everyday by 5 of the largest broadcasting companies (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC). It seems like English will remain the most widely used language for some time.



My answer is

Lots and lots and lots
:D

[pommybstd]

lol... good work

(btw lucas, email sent about your request the other day)

[Lucas]

Thanks Glenn. I start work at 3 this arvo so I'll get it later today.

[pommybstd]

it's not that great news-wise. but i've included attachments of mine so you can understand what i mean in the email...


(aaaaaaaaaand i've just realised this sounds dodgy as all hell)

[Lucas]

Yeah, seems a little suss ;)