Riddles

Rearden Metal · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from darkhorse:

Man walks into a restaurant and orders roast penguin.

Takes one bite, screams, runs outside and shoots himself.

Why?

The penguin was wearing a habit?

darkhorse · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from Rearden Metal:

The penguin was wearing a habit?

No- there's a logical backstory that explains the riddle. The idea is to figure out (or guess) the story.

p.s. thx RS but I ain't no genius... smartass maybe...

TradeOff · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from Babak:

This is a thread for riddles!

So if you want to challenge your fellow ET'ers put your best one up and see if the bright minds (cough) here can solve it.

I'll start with a fairly popular one:

What can you measure but can't touch?

Only post answers if you "got it" not if you already heard it from somewhere else. And no googling!!

Lauren's picture but not her body over the Internet?

If this is right do I get my two cents?

*busts up laughing*

3:30AM... and he's still got it.

aphexcoil · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from Maharaja:

My all time favorite...

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say number 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say number 3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door number 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

Yes you should switch. We learned about this in pyschology. Nobody in the class got it really, though.

Babak · Apr 20, 2004

DING Ding ding!!!!

Yes! The correct answer the judges were looking for was "time".

Perhaps not a clever enough answer for some but it is a widely used and needed element in life these days which we can indeed measure but alas, can't touch.

darkhorse · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from aphexcoil:

Yes you should switch. We learned about this in pyschology. Nobody in the class got it really, though.

i would have figured 80% of the people on this site to have read New Market Wizards (door switch explained in detail in Jeff Yass interview)

Nolan-Vinny-Sam · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from darkhorse:

Man walks into a restaurant and orders roast penguin.

Takes one bite, screams, runs outside and shoots himself.

Why?

Final ship wreck survivor

(hint: few more survived the wreck, at first) :eek:

Epsilon · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from darkhorse:

Man walks into a restaurant and orders roast penguin.

Takes one bite, screams, runs outside and shoots himself.

Why?

The guy found out what penguin tastes like and realized that what he ate before wasn't a penguin but his friend.

Epsilon · Apr 20, 2004

Givens:

One Amoeba divides in two in one second.
If you drop one amoeba into a standard glass it will take 60 seconds for the glass to fill up in amoebas

How long will it take to fill up the standard glass if you drop two amoebas?

aphexcoil · Apr 20, 2004

Quote from Epsilon:

Givens:

One Amoeba divides in two in one second.
If you drop one amoeba into a standard glass it will take 60 seconds for the glass to fill up in amoebas

How long will it take to fill up the standard glass if you drop two amoebas?

59 seconds? Am I missing something?