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11-11-2010, 04:11 PM
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Snowflake
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Impossible Math Problem
Three men check into a hotel room. The price is 30 dollars. They pay 10 dollars each and go to their room.
But wait, the clerk remembers that the weekday rate is 25 dollars--he overcharged them by 5 dollars! So, off he goes to refund the 5 dollars. But...he can't figure out how to divide 5 dollars evenly between the three people, so... he gives them back 1 dollar each, and pockets the other 2 dollars. Now each man has paid 10 dollars, and has been refunded 1 dollar. So, each man has paid 9 dollars. 9 times 3 = 27. The clerk pocketed 2 dollars. 27 plus 2 = 29. But...they originally paid 30 dollars. . . . What happened to the other dollar? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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11-11-2010, 04:15 PM
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The future is unwritten
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It's not 27 + 2, it's 27 - 2 = 25.
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11-11-2010, 04:16 PM
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I once impressed a date by knowing the answer to this.
I dissimulated of course, pretending to work it out there and then. In fact it had been an ice breaker on a training course I attended. Silly thing is, the chap I was hell-bent on trying to impress was probably just trying to get into my knickers anyway - we could easily have dispensed with the posturing. |
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11-11-2010, 04:34 PM
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er . . . each man hasn't paid 9 dollars. Each man paid 10 dollars less 1/3 of 5 dollars, which isn't the amount that was refunded to them. Just because the clerk can't do math, doesn't mean there's a "disappearing" dollar.
of course, I'm crap at math, so this could be completely wrong.
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11-11-2010, 04:56 PM
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a beautiful fool
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the dollar took off from the treadmill in the aeroplane
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11-11-2010, 05:00 PM
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polaroid of perfection
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Not wanting to split hairs, given that yours was probably a joking response, but I think the real answer is that Bono had it in his pocket.
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11-11-2010, 05:22 PM
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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11-11-2010, 05:27 PM
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and what were the three men doing in the hotel room in the first place, hmm?
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11-11-2010, 05:34 PM
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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11-11-2010, 05:39 PM
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the kind of place where the clerks can't divide worth shit?
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11-11-2010, 05:54 PM
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The kind of place that has rooms for $30.
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11-11-2010, 05:57 PM
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a beautiful fool
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PER HOUR
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11-11-2010, 06:34 PM
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11-11-2010, 06:54 PM
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11-11-2010, 10:24 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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If two men can dig two holes in two hours
and three men can dig three holes in three hours The how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?
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