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By
Trace on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 08:37 am:

    SEE IF YOU FIGURE THIS ONE OUT.....

    THE MISSING DOLLAR!

    3 MEN GO INTO A MOTEL.
    THE MAN BEHIND THE DESK SAID THE ROOM IS $30,
    SO EACH MAN PAID $10 AND WENT TO THE ROOM.

    A WHILE LATER THE MAN BEHIND THE DESK
    REALIZED THE ROOM WAS ONLY $25,
    SO HE SENT THE BELLBOY TO THE 3 GUYS'
    ROOM WITH $5.

    ON THE WAY THE BELLBOY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT
    HOW TO SPLIT $5 EVENLY BETWEEN 3 MEN,
    SO HE GAVE EACH MAN $1
    AND KEPT THE OTHER $2 FOR HIMSELF.

    THIS MEANS THAT EACH MAN PAID $9 FOR THE ROOM,
    WHICH IS A TOTAL OF $27,
    ADD THE $2 THAT THE BELLBOY KEPT = $29

    WHERE IS THE OTHER DOLLAR???????????


By semillama on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:51 am:

    "Bob" has it.



By TBone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 02:10 pm:

    There ain't no dollar.

    You're adding the 3 men's dollars to the bellboy's. But the bellboy isn't chipping in. He's got their money.

    It's a matter of sign. The three men have -9 dollars apiece. The bellboy has +2 and the hotel dude has +25. It all evens out. -27 + 2 + 25 = 0 Can't add 27 to 2 because one is loss and one is gain.

    Or if you want to count up the original $30, the hotel dude has 25, the three men have a dollar apiece, and the bellboy has 2. There's all $30.

    It's a pretty slick math error though. Well hidden.

    But semillama's right too. "Bob" always has it, Bobdammit.


By Trace on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 02:18 pm:

    amen brother man


By Tom on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 03:55 pm:

    aww, tell us another one, unca Trace! I miss that sorta shit.


By Trace on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 03:57 pm:

    One a day


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 04:06 pm:

    A man weighing 180 lbs. carrying 3 bowling balls weighing 10 lbs. each, approaches a large ravine. the only way to cross is a bridge with a weight limit of 200 lbs. The ravine is to far to throw or roll the balls across. How can the man cross the ravine in only one trip, with all 3 bowling balls?


By B on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 04:10 pm:

    juggle them


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 04:11 pm:

    And we have a winner!


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 04:13 pm:

    Name the common English 6-letter word which contains 5 different pronouns spelled out within the word.


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:23 pm:

    Would you take a 5 letter word with 5 pronouns?

    ushers

    us
    she
    he
    her
    hers


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:24 pm:

    Aw, shit. It has 6 letters. Dur... Me can't count!

    Was that it? :-)


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:30 pm:

    Yeah. Smartiepants.


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:31 pm:

    Only from a mountain in this country can you see both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. Name the country.


By Dougie on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:35 pm:

    Kansas, no wait, Costa Rica


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:38 pm:

    Panama.


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:39 pm:

    And the prize goes to Dougie. Costa Rica.


By Dougie on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:40 pm:

    My favorite riddles are from the Hobbit.

    Alive without breath,
    As cold as death;
    Never thirsty, ever drinking,
    All in mail never clinking


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:40 pm:

    A man is born in 1930, and dies in 1932, but lived to be 80 years old. How is this posible?


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:40 pm:

    Panama...


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:43 pm:

    Really bad Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome?


By Dougie on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:48 pm:

    Through the magic of time travel. Or he got on a really really really fast spaceship approaching the speed of light.


By SmartiepantS on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:49 pm:

    The spaceship than woulda made him age SLOWER...


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 06:53 pm:

    River or fish?


By Dougie on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:05 pm:

    Ok, a really really slow spaceship.


By Dougie on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:05 pm:

    Fish


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:07 pm:

    Yeah me. Actually, I think I remembered that from reading the Hobbit.


By Hal on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:08 pm:

    Maybe he wasn't really dead you know like in Starship Troopers when you think he dies and the Moble Infantry thinks he dies but it was a mistake?

    or may be he was just a two year old kid who died, and then some sick fuck needing an identity used his...

    Or am I wrong?


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:09 pm:

    Maybe he was born again to our Lord Jesus Christ when he was 78?


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:11 pm:

    nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

    This is fun.

    hehehehehehehhe

    email me if you get desperate for the answer.


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:13 pm:

    Panama!


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:17 pm:

    He was really a white mouse and his age is in teeny weenie mouse years?


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:24 pm:

    Was he a fictional character?


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:24 pm:

    Nope. Nope.

    Ready to give in yet? Just email and the misery ends.


By patrick on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:34 pm:

    maybe you all need to suck on that glass dick one more time


By B on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 07:36 pm:

    you didn't say what year he was born, or what year he died


By dave on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:04 pm:

    are 1930 and 1932 addresses? like a duplex he inherited from his overbearing mother?


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:11 pm:

    Clever dave.

    They're apartment numbers, but you've got the right idea.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:18 pm:

    my first job was as a messenger in seattle. i'm down with addresses. i've always wanted to live in 668, the neighbor of the beast.


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:25 pm:

    You can find me in a rock, but not in stone,
    I'm found in marrow, but not in bone,
    I'm there when you rest, but I'm not in your bed,
    I'm not in the living, and I'm not in the dead.
    What am I?


By dave. on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:29 pm:

    letter r?


By dave. on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:35 pm:

    HEY!!


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:50 pm:

    Smartiebum.

    We're never going to hear the end of this now, are we?


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 09:53 pm:

    OK...here's a mathematical one...The following number has a rather special characteristic. What makes it unique?

    8,549,176,320


By dave. on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 10:02 pm:

    0123456789

    (boring)


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 10:10 pm:

    Nope


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 10:11 pm:

    There are a million numbers with 0-9 in them. What makes this one different?


By dave. on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 10:28 pm:

    when stared at long enough, it makes you want to kill everyone.


By Cat on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 - 11:56 pm:

    No, that would be a mirror you're looking in.

    ha.


By Daniel ssss on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 12:31 am:

    It's my phone number in Brazil.


By Daniel ssss on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 12:32 am:

    It's Cat's phone number in Brazil.


By Pug on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 02:48 am:

    This one will stump you:

    Why does the mouse when it spins?


By Hal on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 03:59 am:

    When what spins the mouse??? And why does the mouse WHAT?!? for christ's sake man don't leave us hanging like this.


By Pug on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 06:54 am:

    ANSWER:

    Left.


By Tom on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 06:54 am:

    because someone nailed it's foot to the floor?

    i hope.

    and Cat: your number is divisible wholly by every digit it contains, except 7. Is that the trick? seems sorta lame if the 7 doesn't work, too.

    that is to say, you get a whole, natural number if you divide
    8,549,176,320 by 2, or 8,549,176,320 by 3, or 8,549,176,320 by 4, etc....

    however:

    8,549,176,320 / 7 = 1221310902.85714285714285714285714

    So maybe that isn't what you're looking for?


By Trace on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 07:13 am:

    It is the price of a tank of gas in Los Angeles!


By patrick on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 12:24 pm:

    pug reread this...is this what you mean to say?

    Why does the mouse when it spins?


By Hal on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 02:19 pm:

    Thank you patrick, I was just getting to that... IT MADE NO FUCKING SENSE...


By Pug on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 04:38 pm:

    Told you it'd stump ya....


By patrick on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 04:49 pm:

    DOH!!!!


    we were duped Hal


By Cat on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 05:22 pm:

    8,549,176,320 - numbers arranged in alphabetical order :p


By TBone on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 05:26 pm:

    Monkey.

    Damn.


By Antigone on Wednesday, January 10, 2001 - 05:31 pm:

    Funny that that number has both of those properties. This page uses the numerical solution. This page uses the verbal solution.

    There must be other numbers out there with interesting verbal nad numerical properties... Cryptography, anyone?


By Daniel ssss on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 02:57 am:

    Not to be duped by an improbability:

    aRRANGING numbers in alphabetical order is as improbable as arranging letters in numerical order. Does not occur in the real world.

    But neither does LP gas read warnings upoverhead stoop. SOunds ran gey ifn you sk>+

    Cat, you have too much time on your hands. Figure why the wanterbill glosturrped above.


By Bag on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 09:07 am:

    Spelling nad grammar are way overated tipos to.


By Empty Rumpled Brown on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 10:27 am:

    Agree


By Antigone on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 11:02 am:


By patrick on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 12:21 pm:

    can we stick to linking grotesque and obnoxious pornographic pictures


By Antigone on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 12:29 pm:


By TBone on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 12:49 pm:

    criminy! No more linky at worky for TBone!


By sarah on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 04:06 pm:


    i'm still pissed off about the mouse question.


By Hal on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 05:06 pm:

    You and me both...

    And Antigone, I could very easily kill you right now. You have warped my fragil little mind. I might never recover.


By Antigone on Thursday, January 11, 2001 - 05:08 pm:

    Then my job here is done...


By Cat on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 01:50 am:

    Thanks for sharing your site, Antigone. I think the World was a nicer place before you got that webcam though.


By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 01:54 am:

    Yes. I've been lying all along.
    This is me...


By Hal on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 02:30 am:

    Oh thats wonderful...

    Well I was hungry, now I think I'm offically warped and sick.

    Antigone, is it your goal in life to make me vomit on my keyboard.


By Czarina on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 03:12 am:

    How anal of you,Antigone.


By J on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 09:37 am:

    I've been up since 4 a.m.,and I blame it all on Antigone,I hope your proud of yourself Antigone,and I'll be searching for something to get back at you,something really sick that will pop in your head when you go or tryyy to sleep.I bet that's one asshole that's seen alot of Preparation H.


By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 10:09 am:

    That something don't exist, J.

    Maybe.

    OK, I take that back. That little movie of that
    woman vomiting into a bowl that Nate posted a
    while ago. That disgusted me.


By J on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 11:20 am:

    I sent you a little something that begins don't open around the kids Anigone at your yahoo mail,and when you get it...think of me..hahahaha!


By sarah on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 11:34 am:


    Sorabjiland Rule #322: NEVER EVER EVER click on links posted around here, unless you've been fairly warned.



By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 11:39 am:

    J, was that a self portrait?


By J on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 11:43 am:

    Nope,but didn't you just love it?


By Trace on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 11:53 am:

    damn it damn it damn it, when the HELL am I going to learn NOT TO HIT LINKS AT WORK!!!!


By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 12:05 pm:

    Apparently it takes you longer than one hour and four minutes.

    But, what exactly is a "hot link"? I mean, is there such a thing as a cold link? A tepid link? And do you mean hot hot or spicy hot?


By patrick on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 12:18 pm:

    see i work in an institution of porn, I can share the links with coworkers, and people appreciate it. keep it up antigone....


By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 12:23 pm:

    You work in an institution of porn and you haven't seen goatse.cx yet? Jeez! I got it off Slashdot, fer cyin' out loud...


By patrick on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 01:51 pm:

    we don't scour the net for porn, we create it


By J on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 02:44 pm:

    Well anyway Cat can vouch for me,I was up and bitching about that asshole very early,she was up very late,then we gossiped.We decided it wasn't real.


By Antigone on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 03:20 pm:

    It is all real. Scout's honor! (I'm a member of the Eternal Fraternal Order of Shitspouting Scouts...)


By dave. on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 04:16 pm:

    that looks like how i felt this morning after painting the toilet.


By Hal on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 05:49 pm:

    Antigone.... I hate you... I didn't sleep more than 4 hours last night because of that decrepid asshole...

    You suck.


By Daniel ssss on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 06:52 pm:

    so that's where my goats went...


By Hal on Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 03:51 am:

    AHHHH...


By Antigone on Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 04:06 am:

    Dude...


By Hal on Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 05:16 am:

    God I'm tired, guess its time to go worship my alter of coffee.


By Czarina on Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 09:14 am:

    I'm going out right now to check on my goat.[and she better still be visible,Antigone]


By Antigone on Sunday, January 14, 2001 - 03:41 am:

    Visible?


By Hal on Sunday, January 14, 2001 - 03:51 am:

    Czarina are you seeing things... Or does your goat have the natural ability to become invisible...


By Czarina on Sunday, January 14, 2001 - 09:05 am:

    No Hal,but I think Antigone has just unraveled the mysteries of the universe.We now know where all missing items go............up that offensive anal orifice.As the site was "goatse.cx",I think I am justified in fearing for my goats well being.[But,then,I guess her horns could be a problem,on insertion.]







    On second thought,I think I'd have to describe that as one horny asshole.


By Sweet_heart_16 on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 12:23 pm:

    To Cat: WHat is the answer and where did you find this brain teaser at?

    The following number has a rather special characteristic. What makes it unique?

    8,549,176,320


By jack on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 02:02 pm:

    scroll up for the answer.


By V on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 11:07 am:


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