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Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #80 on: October 20, 2002, 05:03:21 pm
oh.. past hundred  thousand years..

not Hundred thousand years in general (as in something wouldn't happen in a given amount of time x. x = 100, 000 years)

hmm i'll get back to ya
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Reply #81 on: October 20, 2002, 05:08:06 pm
No no, not "the past hundred thousand years."  It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."
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Reply #82 on: October 20, 2002, 05:13:13 pm
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
No no, not "the past hundred thousand years."  It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."


Retype the complete riddle, with no typos, please. :nod:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #83 on: October 20, 2002, 05:20:15 pm
It doesn't have any.  Go read it.  Knight Templar is just getting himself confused, and I'm trying to straighten him out.
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Reply #84 on: October 20, 2002, 05:20:34 pm
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No no, not "the past hundred thousand years." It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."


well then if thats true, than it could be the birth of a star because two could be born in the same moment, but it would take longer than a hundred thousand years. :p :D

yes please re-type :nod:

EDIT: Knight Templar is just getting himself confused, and I'm trying to straighten him out.

but you just said it was different... meh i think i'll just leave this thread be untill it burns out :blah:
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Reply #85 on: October 20, 2002, 05:22:36 pm
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Here's one:

This can happen quite frequently, as often as, say, once in a minute.  At other times, the rate of occurrence may step up until in a single moment it can happen twice, almost back to back!  And yet, it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.


If two stars are born back to back, it has happened somewhere in the course of a hundred thousand years, because it happened somewhere in the course of time.

Anyway, if people are getting frustrated with this, maybe I'll just give the answer?
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Reply #86 on: October 20, 2002, 05:26:39 pm
Maybe the answer is "the course of a hundred thousand years".  Because you can take any given period of time and say that 100,000 years are just ending or just beginning, but it takes that long to go though a complete cycle.
 

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Reply #87 on: October 20, 2002, 05:32:28 pm
Okay, here goes:  The answer is.....

The letter M!

minute, moment, hundred thousand years

*dodges tomatoes and runs*
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Reply #88 on: October 20, 2002, 05:32:55 pm
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If two stars are born back to back, it has happened somewhere in the course of a hundred thousand years, because it happened somewhere in the course of time.



no no no, you can't say it that way, if that's what you meant, then say "and yet, it never happens in the course of time"

you can't have the time period change on a whim because it could be any 100,000 years, like Goob said.

Edit: wow... that was... :doubt:
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Reply #89 on: October 20, 2002, 05:35:24 pm
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because it could be any 100,000 years, like Goob said.
 Precisely.  That's why it isn't an answer to the riddle.
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Reply #90 on: October 20, 2002, 05:37:15 pm
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Precisely. That's why it isn't an answer to the riddle.


well sure it makes sense now..

 I am going to make something liek that in a week or so.. post it... and see howmany people I can piss off. ;) :)

very clever
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Reply #91 on: October 20, 2002, 07:41:00 pm
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
*dodges tomatoes and runs*


*aims better*

Drat, I _sooo_ should have seen that one a mile away! *smacks forehead*
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Reply #92 on: October 21, 2002, 03:32:00 am
is it when you are entering digits in a computer....   99 is always 99 but 100 often clicks back to 1.   making 99 greater than 100
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Re: when 99 is more than 100
Reply #93 on: October 22, 2002, 07:11:40 pm
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is it when you are entering digits in a computer....   99 is always 99 but 100 often clicks back to 1.   making 99 greater than 100


Sorry, SB - I already gave away the answer earlier in the thread.

....Should I spill it, or are you gonna hunt it up yourself? :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #94 on: October 22, 2002, 07:54:10 pm
You got anymore for us sandy? ;)
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Reply #95 on: October 22, 2002, 08:05:13 pm
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You got anymore for us sandy? ;)


;7

*gets out "Fun with Puzzles" book from drawer*

*glances at copyright*

Holy crap - 1946!!! :eek2:

Ok, some of these are simple, some are not, and I'm not gonna pick and choose - I'll do them in order, so here goes:

"Sisters and brothers have I none, but that man's father is my father's son."

Dang, that's an easy one!

Oh, and I'm going to bed for the night, so don't solve it _too_ quick! :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #96 on: October 22, 2002, 08:11:44 pm
.... Step - Brother/ Cousin?

hmmm this i'll take some thought.

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........   Excellence
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Reply #97 on: October 22, 2002, 08:50:50 pm
Heard that one before; it is pretty easy, he is referring to his son. :D

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lol I just woke up, so I have arrived for the night... :D
 

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Reply #98 on: October 22, 2002, 09:34:24 pm
son? but wouldn't that be you? meh..

wow, i should go to bed at 4 sometime after school, wake up at 12, go to bed at 4 (p.m.) the next day, and so on. :)

that would be fun.


got any other brain teasers?
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Reply #99 on: October 23, 2002, 05:13:35 am
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Heard that one before; it is pretty easy, he is referring to his son. :D


Yep; I told ya there were some _really_ easy ones. This one is a _wee_ bit harder, but not by much:

A beggar's brother died. But the man who died had no brother.

Go fer it.
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