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Oops didn't see your post lendav_rott...
-light? edit: or perhaps water?
-fire?
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Strange wording. If I paraphrase it as, "Is there a question to which no one can honestly answer 'yes'? If so, what is it?," am I asking the same question as you? Or have I altered your meaning?Enigman said:Ask me a question to which anyone can't honestly say 'yes' to.
lendav_rott said:nevermind. here goes
Are you dead? If they were, they wouldn't be able to utter anything
e: thought of something else, both should work, technically speaking.
Are you asleep?
Enigman said:We both are in a closed air-tight room with a single door. You have a banana, a shot gun and a box of tissue papers; I have a box full of matches. I give a psychopathic grin and tell you that the room has a 100% gaseous hydrogen as its atmosphere and take out a match to light it. What do you do?
(no Gad, this isn't the one)
zoobyshoe said:I would ignore you and shoot the lock off the door with the shotgun. If the atmosphere was really 100% hydrogen we'd both already be dead or nearly dead.
Enigman said:We are alive and asphyxiation hasn't quite set in..
There's a complication you haven't thought of, and which occurred to me this morning, which is that, if the atmosphere were actually 100% hydrogen, we both might break down laughing as soon as you spoke.Enigman said:We are alive and asphyxiation hasn't quite set in. The door isn't locked just turn the knob. But since you are so close:I can't light a match anyway- no oxygen. Best way would be to confiscate my matches and walk out of the door.
And if you are angry enough- shoot the door from a distance with the shotgun and blow me up...
-wikiThe speed of sound in helium is nearly three times the speed of sound in air. Because the fundamental frequency of a gas-filled cavity is proportional to the speed of sound in the gas, when helium is inhaled there is a corresponding increase in the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract.[7][107] The fundamental frequency (sometimes called pitch) does not change, since this is produced by direct vibration of the vocal folds, which is unchanged.[108] However, the higher resonant frequencies cause a change in timbre, resulting in a reedy, duck-like vocal quality. The opposite effect, lowering resonant frequencies, can be obtained by inhaling a dense gas such as sulfur hexafluoride or xenon.
I don't follow. The hydrogen has nothing to combine with.lendav_rott said:The match should still create a spark which is enough to incinerate both people in the room.
Gad said:otherwise Wonderland. -__-
zoobyshoe said:You could make a case for this:
beginning of the world = one
ending of end = d
word in doubt = Huh?
=
one d huh land
Enigman said:First think of the person who lives in disguise,
who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
the middle of the middle and end of the end?
Finally give me the sound often heard
during the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
what creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
-J.K.Rowling
zoobyshoe said:A cowboy rides into town on a Friday afternoon. He stays in town for three nights, and then leaves on Friday.
How is this possible?
This answer should also be counted as correct. Gad and Enigman both already got the usual answer, (which fits a bit better, considering most wouldn't ride a horse that far north or south) : the horse is named Friday.collinsmark said:The town's latitude is large, putting the town within the arctic circle or within the antarctic circle. The cowboy stays in town for around three years, more-or-less (three winters anyway, whatever the case).
consciousness said:A dragon and knight live on an island. This island has seven poisoned wells, numbered 1 to 7. If you drink from a well, you can only save yourself by drinking from a higher numbered well. Well 7 is located at the top of a high mountain, so only the dragon can reach it.
One day they decide that the island isn't big enough for the two of them, and they have a duel. Each of them brings a glass of water to the duel, they exchange glasses, and drink. After the duel, the knight lives and the dragon dies.
Why did the knight live? Why did the dragon die?
zoobyshoe said:Assuming the dragon would give him #6 water, the knight drank #5, (or a lower #) water before the duel. His drink during the duel was, in fact, his antidote. He, however, gave the dragon plain water, figuring the dragon would go straight to #7 as the pan-antidote. The dragon had no higher number to drink from once he realized he was poisoned, and hence died.