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Postby MrKev » Sep 16th, '09, 09:28



Arrogant? Yeah, fair cop!

Doh! I revise my answer to be 3 revolutions.

Furthermore, Mr Grue had the answer I had in mind.

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Postby moonbeam » Sep 16th, '09, 16:09

MrKev wrote:Doh! I revise my answer to be 3 revolutions.


......... close, but still not correct soz :oops: .

QUESTION:
If we can sue McDonalds for making us fat and cigarette companies for giving us cancer; why can't we sue Smirnoff for all the ugly gits we've sh*gged ??
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Postby MrKev » Sep 16th, '09, 17:14

Ok, last effort, slightly more thought about...

2.5

Because:
if they were gears, the smaller would rotate 1.5 times for every rotation of the large one. As the large one is stationary, then we have to add the extra rotation necessary.

I think it could be explained better though!

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Postby moonbeam » Sep 16th, '09, 18:41

MrKev wrote:Ok, last effort, slightly more thought about...

2.5

Because:
if they were gears, the smaller would rotate 1.5 times for every rotation of the large one. As the large one is stationary, then we have to add the extra rotation necessary.

I think it could be explained better though!


We have a winner :wink: .

The smaller circle rotates around 2 axes:

It rotates around its own centre 1.5 times whilst its circumference of 4pi passes around the circumference of the larger circle of circumference of 6pi ......
..... and it rotates around the centre of the larger circle, rotating one full revolution as it passes once around the circle - giving a total of 2.5 revolutions.

This is one of those puzzles that appears quite easy (ish) at first glance, but looks can be deceiving :? .

Your riddle plz MrKev :wink: .

QUESTION:
If we can sue McDonalds for making us fat and cigarette companies for giving us cancer; why can't we sue Smirnoff for all the ugly gits we've sh*gged ??
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Postby MrKev » Sep 16th, '09, 23:52

ok (I did cheekily slip one in earlier on, but as the thread is open, I'll pop one more in)


A woman had two daughters who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins.

How could this be so?

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Postby A J Irving » Sep 17th, '09, 09:04

Triplets?

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Postby MrKev » Sep 17th, '09, 09:49

Yep!

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Postby A J Irving » Sep 17th, '09, 10:14

Nuts! Now I'm going to have to find a riddle that noone has previously posted... see you in a about a week! :D

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Postby IAIN » Sep 17th, '09, 11:35

my first is in toilets, but not in stalls, my second is in dishes, but not in water, my third is in chicken, but not in fox...

what am i?

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Postby A J Irving » Sep 17th, '09, 11:40

Unhygienic? :shock:

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Postby IAIN » Sep 17th, '09, 11:43

A J Irving wrote:Unhygienic? :shock:


apart from that... :wink:

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Postby MagicalSmithy » Sep 17th, '09, 22:59

A bachelor.

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Postby moonbeam » Sep 25th, '09, 09:42

IAIN wrote:my first is in toilets, but not in stalls, my second is in dishes, but not in water, my third is in chicken, but not in fox...

what am i?


Well, the options are:

1st letter: oie
2nd letter: dish
3rd letter: chiken

.... which gives the following possible combinations:

odc, odh, odi, odk, ode, odn,
oic, oih, oii, oik, oie, oin,
osc, osh, osi, osk, ose, osn,
ohc, ohh, ohi, ohk, ohe, ohn,
idc, idh, idi, idk, ide, idn,
iic, iih, iii, iik, iie, iin,
isc, ish, isi, isk, ise, isn,
ihc, ihh, ihi, ihk, ihe, ihn,
edc, edh, edi, edk, ede, edn,
eic, eih, eii, eik, eie, ein,
esc, esh, esi, esk, ese, esn,
ehc, ehh, ehi, ehk, ehe, ehn.

...... most of these sound like gobbledygook to me - what gives ???

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If we can sue McDonalds for making us fat and cigarette companies for giving us cancer; why can't we sue Smirnoff for all the ugly gits we've sh*gged ??
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Postby Mr_Grue » Sep 25th, '09, 10:49

Urinal cake feathers?

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then the only thing left is the method.


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Postby Part-Timer » Sep 25th, '09, 12:38

A while ago, I did the same as Moonbeam. I assumed that the answer was either 'ode' or 'oik', with the latter making more sense in context, but I wasn't really happy with either answer.

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