Can you win this thread? It's only beginning!

Solstice · Post by **Solstice** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 3:42 am

lol Ladies Man

Here's a riddle to pass the time -

Three friends check into a hotel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. They each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5.

He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!

Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.

Where did the other dollar go????

Zyph · Post by **Zyph** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 4:29 am

I've heard this in about 5 different versions (most of the time a restaurant, but no biggie).

From alot of Figuring, I've feel this is one of those wierd errors in math (american problem or what I still don't know)...but basically, there is no other dollar! confused?

Math (do the match backwards instead of how it's stated in the riddle):

Remember:
10+10+10=30 (just like 10*3=30) [what the 3 guys originally paid]
and
9+9+9=27 (just like 3*9=27) [what they paid after the refund]
and
30-3=27 [the original amount minus the refund]
ok? Now....
27-2=25 [the amount after the refund minus the 'tip' for the bellboy {or waitress in some of the riddles)]

This leaves the $25, the correct amount paid.

OK, since I solved that one, who can solve this one:
(I hope I say this right)
What american word does not have a vowel?

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 9:54 am

OT from Zyph's question... best way to pick up a girl:

A girl walks into a supermarket and buys the following:

1 bar of soap
1 toothbrush
1 tube of toothpaste
1 loaf of bread
1 pint of milk
1 single serving of cereal
1 single frozen dinner

The checkout guy looks at her, smiles, and says, "Single, huh?"

The girl smiles sheepishly and flirtingly replies, "How'd you guess?"

He says, "Because you're ugly."

bitSLAP · Post by **bitSLAP** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 10:23 am

Okay I have the first one figured out. The dollar does exist, but you have to think of the money exchanging hands as cyclical. The money passes from one node to the next, but like a clock that 0 and 12 is shared, the $3 that is returned goes back to the first node:

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Added: to clarify

You're basicly counting the bell boy's 'fee' twice. Since that $2 came from their pockets, then the $9 they spent already includes the bellboys fee...

because the room fee does not divide evenly, then each payed
$25 / 3 ~= $8.33 each
plus bell jerk's fee $2 / 3 ~= $.67 each
you could say that the refund never existed, or you could say they got it back. Depends on which way you look at the clock: $3 / 3 ~= $1 each

long and short of this is
8.33 + .67= $9 each

[Edited by bitSLAP on 04-16-2001 at 11:36 AM]

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 3:45 pm

Yeah I heard this thing a long time ago, and since I was good in math I knew it was simple mathematics, you multiply and divide first, then add and subtract...

Ladies Man · Post by **Ladies Man** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 5:44 pm

The Seinfeld Sex Dictionary

Backed Up - Glandular condition that men get from not having sex.
Bad Breaker Upper - Someone who ends a relationship by saying those mean things that people don't mean, but means them.
Home Bed Advantage - The confident feeling one gets while making love in one's own surroundings.
"It didn't take" - George's explanation for Susan's short-lived experimentation with lesbianism.
The "It's-not-you-it's-me" routine - Breakup method to which George lays claim.
Love - A spice with many tastes, according to Newman.
Make up Sex - The best feature of a heavy relationship; eclipsed only by "conjugal-visit sex".
Master of your Domain - One who can refrain from masturbation. (Also: Lord of the Manor, King of the County, Queen of the Castle.)
Public Fornicator - A porn actor.
Put in - The length of time one has to keep up a relationship after a sexual liaison. Elaine suggests three weeks.
Sexual Camel - Someone who can go great lengths of time without sex.
Sexual Perjury - Faking it.
Shrinkage - Physical reaction men have to cold water.
Slip One Past the Goalie - To impregnate a woman.
Stopping Short - Frank Costanza's technique to cop a feel in the car.
The Switch - Dating a woman, then dating her roommate after the breakup. Has never been done successfully.
The Tap - Sign a woman uses to stop oral sex, sort of like the manager coming to the mound and asking for the ball.

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 5:56 pm

Here is a riddle then:

Has no weight yet can be felt
Heals wounds yet end all life
Rusts metal, grinds down bones
And beats high mountains down?

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 6:00 pm

Kakarot - Nice! :lol

[align=center]Heres my car now; if it were black it would look better...
<img src=http://www.hipnotictranz.homestead.com/ ... ca/car.jpg>
This is the good side also

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[align=center]<img src=http://hipnotictranz.homestead.com/file ... gle_1_.jpg>
<i>See what I mean? Black is better

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it works good on inscurance cause it's a Straight 6, w/ DOHC, speeddy little bugger, but the insurance company sees it as a Celica...not a Celica Supra (since this was the first year the "Supra" was introduced)

[Edited by Hipnotic_Tranz on 04-16-2001 at 07:11 PM]

Ladies Man · Post by **Ladies Man** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 6:18 pm

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 8:29 pm

LOL on the Seinfiel stuff!

On that riddle though.. I thought of water but it has weight.
Hmmmmmmmm..
I have to agree.. Is it air????

Ladies Man · Post by **Ladies Man** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 8:39 pm

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo gajoob.
Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo gajoob.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo gajoob g'goo goo gajoob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo gajoob g'goo goo gajoob.
Goo goo gajoob g'goo goo gajoob g'goo.

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 9:32 pm

WOW you car looks great in black HT! If Its got no rust go for it.!

Ladies Man · Post by **Ladies Man** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 9:46 pm

i wish guns n roses were still around.. The real band in their good years.. I love the music now and wish i could of gone to a concert.

Damn commies

Solstice · Post by **Solstice** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 10:46 pm

Nice job on the riddle guys.

And why did the Supra have to die? I think if Toyota brought it back it would make a killing. People are buying up used ones here like crazy.

MK888 · Post by **MK888** » Mon Apr 16, 2001 11:47 pm

The riddle answer is wind....