John was born in 1987, and is now (2012) 12 years old

[Wilmer]

Got a riddle similar to this week's High School POTW;
not sure where to post it, so I'll post it here:
John was born in 1987, and is now (2012) 12 years old.

How can that be?

 

[topsquark]

Got a riddle similar to this week's High School POTW;
not sure where to post it, so I'll post it here:
John was born in 1987, and is now (2012) 12 years old.

How can that be?

Hmmmm...My mother married my brother, who is my Dad. Even I don't have that problem.

-Dan

 

[Wilmer]

Dan, there is a perfectly valid answer to that riddle...

And your brother being your dad...a little comedy of mine:

I was slowly getting older and confused. So confused that I gave up
when my son was born. I'll tell you about it. Won't take long: the
next four short paragraphs. But get ready: quite a few "steps" involved.
FOR OPENERS.
I meet a widow, who lives with her step-daughter. I marry her. At the
wedding, my father meets the step-daughter, falls in love, and marries
her. So now my wife is my father's mother-in-law, and my wife's step-
daughter is my step-mother. Plus I am the step-father of my step-mother.
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET.
My step-mother and father lose no time and a boy is born. Now this guy
is my step-brother. And as this guy is the son of my wife's step-daughter,
this makes my wife this guy's grandmother. Also makes me the grandfather
of my step-brother.
IT ONLY GETS WORSE.
You guessed it. Now my wife gives birth to a baby boy. My step-mother is
now my son's step-sister and also my son's grandmother since he is the son
of her step-son. And my father is now the brother-in-law of his grandson..
or is it the step-brother-in-law?
NOW FOR THE CLINCHER.
All this clearly shows that my wife is my father's mother-in-law plus that
I am the grandfather of my step-brother. Get the picture? Therefore, I am
my father's something-or-other-father-in-something-or-other which makes me
my own grandfather. Which is why I'm taking me to McDonald's. I guess I'll
be able to give myself grandfatherly advice over a Big Mac, Medium Fries
and a Large Diet Coke.

NOTES.
1- I mailed a firm of experts in family reconstructions a request for a
family-tree, along with a cheque representing their fee; the cheque was
returned to me.
2- Afraid that some other boy might be born and in all probability make
me my own great-grandfather, I asked my father's mother-in-law for a
divorce; she agreed quickly as she was aging as quickly as I was.
3- My father, who was getting younger and younger due to these births,
quickly found a new husband for my former wife: my older brother.
4- Update: yes, a boy was born out of this new union and who knows: I'm
now probably my own great-grand-uncle!

 

[Wilmer]

Guess it's time for the answer:
1987 = hospital room number !

 

[Ackbach]

Guess it's time for the answer:
1987 = hospital room number !

If the difference in "year" numbers had been 4 times the age, or 4 times the number of birthdays, I'd have suspected some Feb. 29 foolery going on.

 

[MarkFL]

(Punch)(Dance)(Rofl)(Giggle)

Good one!

 

[CaptainBlack]

OK, along the same lines (and true - for small values of true), my brother (or rather one of my brothers) was born in March but has his birthday in January (in the same year though).

CB

 

[MarkFL]

Was he born here?

March, Cambridgeshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[caffeinemachine]

Got a riddle similar to this week's High School POTW;
not sure where to post it, so I'll post it here:
John was born in 1987, and is now (2012) 12 years old.

How can that be?

is this a relativity problem?

 

[Nono713]

Got a riddle similar to this week's High School POTW;
not sure where to post it, so I'll post it here:
John was born in 1987, and is now (2012) 12 years old.

How can that be?

The semantics of the above riddle are not precise enough to formulate a meaningful answer.

(party pooper...)

 

[CaptainBlack]

Was he born here?

March, Cambridgeshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's the place (My dad's family worked on the railways, but apparently not always with due care and attention*).

CB

* It is interesting to see that as late as 1950 we have the use of job title in place of a first name - Ganger Larham.