Bruin Fisher
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Pfft, that's easy then.
Hazardous.
Maddy (:
Yup well done - I find my brain gets railroaded - once I'm thinking Tremendous, Stupendous.... I then can't derail the train of thought sufficiently to leap to hazardous.
No-one's even attempted Einstein's Puzzle yet? It's not impossible - it took me about twenty minutes. It helps to use paper pencil and eraser - or a blank spreadsheet would do fine.
Oh, and the words ending -gry? I know we're not really looking for them, but it struck me that if one is Hungry, another is Angry, the third one is likely Hopping Mad by now....
Bruin
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Can anyone come up with an English word that ends -mt (without using a dictionary)? There is at least one!
And how about this - it's a logic puzzle.
A man lives in a house with only one clock and no other timepiece. He forgets to wind his clock and it stops so he doesn't know the time.
He walks to his friend's house, stays the night, walks back and now he knows what the correct time is so he resets his clock.
How does he do it?
Additional information: his friend's house is equipped with a clock but he doesn't borrow it or any other timepeice. He does not make use of radio or any other electronic means to get a time signal.
Bruin
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which is correct:
The yolk of an egg are white
or
The yolk of an egg is white?
Good one, Des! I'm resisting the temptation to debate whether 'yolk' should talke the plural form of verb or not - I saw the teeth of your mantrap just in time, peeking out from the screen you covered it with!
I love these puzzles - does that make me a nerd?
Hi my name is Bruin and I'm a nerd. (sniffle)
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"Excluding esoteric technical terms" is a weaseling proviso
I'm not a weasel I'm a bear.
Bruin
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Is it insanity, generously shed with amity?
Quite wonderful, Maddy, a flame of genius burning brightly.
Get this out and onto paper and then let it go. Much better on paper than on your mind! You have a great talent and a lot of folks here who care about you. Do some more writing!
Bruin
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Wow, Camy - this story just went into top gear. Absolutely brilliant - as the Welsh girl in Torchwood would say.
Now, I wonder where it's going to go next....?
Bruin in awe
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Your question is: can you name all four?
You did not specify if you wanted the words that end in 'dous', so I'm assuming that the 4 words you are looking for are these:
Excluding esoteric technical terms.
I have heard a similar riddle: There are only three words in The English Language that end in '-gry'. One is angry and the other one is hungry. Can you name the third word?
It's quite easy :D.
Maddy (::
Hmm... Of course if you're familiar with the puzzle about 'The English Language' (the third word is 'Language'), it's tempting to think other puzzles work the same way. But mine isn't as sneaky as that - I really do want the four words that end '-dous'.
I'll start you off:
Tremendous
Stupendous
Horrendous
There's three of them, now you've only got to find the fourth.
Bruin
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This is a tough one but it can be done. If you don't like it, blame Einstein! I've filched it from here:
Einstein's puzzle on H2G2 and you can check the answer there if you like.
Albert Einstein wrote this riddle in the early 20th century and claimed that 98% of the population would not be able to solve it. Can you? It takes a bit of working out, but I assure you it is possible. You might find it helps to write down your ideas as you go along.
The Fiendish Question
In a street there are five houses painted five different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The five people each drink a different beverage, smoke a different brand of cigarette and keep a different pet.
1) The Brit lives in the red house
2) The Swede has a dog
3) The Dane drinks tea
4) The green house is on the left of the white house
5) The owner of the green house drinks coffee
6) The person who smokes Pall Mall has birds
7) The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill's
8) The man living in the centre house drinks milk
9) The Norwegian lives in the first house
10) The man who smokes blends lives next to the one who has cats
11) The man who has horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill's
12) The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13) The German smokes Prince
14) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15) The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
Who keeps the fish?
Bruin with a maniacal laugh
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Oh, Bruin. That question just screams that any 'yes' or 'no' is equally correct.
Silly me. I've re-worded it. It's no good just confirming you can name all four, you've got to actually do it.
Bruin
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By appointment to His Madrigalness:
Excluding esoteric technical terms, there are only four words in the English Language that end with 'dous'.
Can you name all four?
Bruin
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Oh bugger.
In my opinion, this is the apposite logical and reasoned response to most events in life.
Hugs
Bruin
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You have a lawyer AND your from another world?
Things just got worse.
Oh yes... The Hitchhiker's Guide says never visit a galaxy beyond the limits of civilisation without reliable legal representation...
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What are you people talking about?
The planet is dying and you guys are worried about a train conductor's briefs?
How terribly, terribly human.
And people wonder why we don't get visitors from other worlds.
You do get SOME visitors from other worlds - I came, didn't I?
Ford Prefect always says you're okay so long as you know where your towel is. Planets die, universes end, but if you're in touch with your towel you don't need to worry. My lawyer says something similar about briefs.
Bruin
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What am I like?
I guess my street cred is permanently wasted now, what was I thinking of doing longwinded maths in the Flash Fiction forum....?? Duh!
Bruin pink from the neck upwards (from the neck downwards its my business..)
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I've had a idea, Cole... why don't you post that in Flash Fiction? It's very good!
(What? someone's already suggested that? Who? I didn't notice...)
Bruin with apologies and hugs to Des
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A piece of rope is wrapped tightly around the earth's equator. It is 40075 km long. Ignore mountains, seas etc - assume the earth is a smooth sphere. The rope is then lengthened by one metre, and lifted from the surface by a constant amount all around.
How far off the surface is the rope?
A) 30 cm
B) 300 cm
C) .03 cm
This one was new to me so I've very much enjoyed working on it. Thanks Kapitano!
I reckon this is all about our friend pi.
The circumference of a circle is its diameter multiplied by pi.
So the diameter of a circle is its circumference divided by pi.
The circumference of our rope pre-extension is 40,075,000 metres
So its diameter according to my spreadsheet is 12,756,268.69 metres. Wikipedia gives it as 12,756,260 metres so we're not far off.
Once we extend it, our rope's circumference is 40,075,001 metres
Now its diameter is 12,756,269.01 metres
- which is .32 metres, or 32 cm greater. This is a surprise to me - I was expecting it to be much smaller, like .03 cm. So thanks Kapitano - I love mathematical surprises!
However, the rope won't be 32 cm off the surface of the planet all round, only 16 cm one one side and 16 cm on the other side so that the diameter is increased by 32 cm.
So my answer has to be
D) None of the above
So I expect I've goofed somewhere. Somebody put me right?
Bruin
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A great, reasoned response from Blue.
In the Miriam exchange the impression given was that porn is not a matter for concern, but being gay is - as though the mother wouldn't have written in if she'd found her son was looking at straight porn.
In my view porn is cause for concern, being gay isn't.
Incidentally, is it just me or is gay porn often less violent/abusive than straight porn - by dint of the fact that ALL participants are sex objects together, and all are perpetrators together, in contrast to the straight variety??
Sorry, that last is a bit off topic.
Bruin
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He is the man that Hector Berlioz (and I) could only dream of being. But Hector and I live a life far removed from the flights of Sebastian, adding up columns of numbers for our crust. Hector got to express his frustration in music, I get to try my hand at writing. I am the only thing of value in your country and I am removing it immediately. Brilliant.
<sigh>
Bruin simpatico
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Splendid flash fiction, Kapitano!
A neatly structured piece, wistful, bittersweet and beautifully written.
Bruin
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There He Sat III - by Bruin
Off the main highway, the road became narrow and windy as it climbed upwards through the thickly wooded hillside. As I drove I tried to collect my thoughts. My mind was racing, and in there somewhere was a plaintive cry that said: "Stop, turn round and go home. This is none of your business and you may get into trouble if you continue." I was ignoring that voice, not a very loud or persuasive voice anyway. I was trying to gather my thoughts about the guy in the car ahead. So far I was keeping him in sight but he was making good speed and my big sedan was not built for windy lanes.
I needed to establish what I knew or could surmise about him. Very little. I knew he must be in his mid-twenties and I knew, as far as the sodium lights had allowed me to see, that he was drop dead gorgeous (I allowed myself that thought for the first time, now I was committed to this wild escapade). He drove a Toyota Corolla, about five years old, in red. The most reliable car in the world according to some major survey I remembered. But not a sporty car, though you'd never guess it the way he was devouring the road and making me sweat to keep up. He'd been eating fries out of a bag. Like a MacDonald's bag. There's no MacDonald's near the video rental store, I wondered where he'd got them from. So I knew not much about him.
He was pulling ahead of me and the bends in the road were occasionally obscuring my sight of him. I tried to close the gap, driving my big V8 beyond the limits of the suspension system, so on the corners the car was wallowing badly and the tyres were scrabbling on the leaf-strewn road surface. Once or twice I frightened myself as the rear end swung out and I narrowly avoided going into spin. And I was now so focussed on controlling my car at speed that when the Corolla suddenly turned off the road onto a forest track I nearly missed it. As it was I overshot and had to brake, skidding nearly into a tree, reverse, and point my hood into the narrow track. His vehicle must be a foot narrower than mine, and I began to worry that I would get stuck.
We came out of the forest into an area where the trees had been recently felled and my attention was caught momentarily by the breathtaking view across the valley. Even in the dark and the wet I was impressed. The lights in the windows of homesteads on the opposite hillside looked so inviting. My attention snapped back to the track ahead of me and just in time, only just in time, I slammed on the anchors. I came to a stop about a yard short of the red Corolla, stationary and with the driver's door swinging open. Beside the car stood the blond man, his hair wet and sticking to his forehead, pointing a rifle at me.
"Who are you and why are you following me?" he called, his voice cracked and hoarse.
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... anyone want to pick up the baton?
Bruin
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Yes, the point is it works for any 24 hour period, not considering the periods before and after. The original question was:
That is, "What occurs twenty two times each and every consecutive 24-hour period?" Your solution requires that the final passing be discounted from today's 24 hours and shunted over to become the first passing in tomorrow's 24-hour period, but once we get to tomorrow, the same passing event is shunted back into the previous day, so as not to count.
It's slight of hand, like counting two Sundays to prove that there's eight days a week. In this case, we can see how the magician moves the cards, and the trick is exposed.
It isn't anything to do with sleight of hand or discounting midnight passes. The point is that the minute hand passes over the hour hand not once per hour but once every 1 hour 5 minutes 27 seconds. Or 11 times every 12 hours.
If we start with my previous example, begin at 00:01. The first time the minute hand passes over the hour hand is not 01:01, it's actually 01:05:27. The next time they pass is 02:10:54. During the first 12 hours the two hands pass at these times:
01:05.45 (for convenience, 27 seconds is .45 minutes)
02:10.91
03:16.36
04:21:82
05:27.27
06:32.73
07:38.18
08:43.64
09:49.09
10:54.55
12:00
... and during the next 12 hours they will pass another 11 times. QED.
Now my brain hurts and I'm ducking out of this, I'm sorry I ever posed this puzzle! If we're not in agreement now, can we agree to disagree?
Hugs to all
Bruin
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(stands up, looks around shyly, stands on one foot, clasps hands behind back)
Hi, my name is Bruin and I watch Heroes!
(massive relief, sits down, sobs quietly)
I still think flying's the coolest.
Bruin (well on the way to recovery now)
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I guess the challenge really is to be sure that the powers we have actually work for what we are doing. Even if our powers are ordinary, we should be aware of what we can do, or not do, and behave accordingly.
Beautifully put, Trab!
Bruin
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The usual answer is that the minute hand crosses the hour hand.
But it doesn't really stand up to analysis. The idea is that the first crossing at midnight (0000 hours) doesn't count because that crossing belongs to the previous day, and the final crossing (at the next 0000 hours) belongs to the next 24 hour period, which entails a contradiction if you say the event happens on each consecutive day.
If you want to start at midnight, you have to count EITHER the first or last crossing as part of the current day, but not both. It's easier to visualise it if you take a 24 hour period starting and ending sometime other than midnight. Say, a minute past midnight - move the minute hand on one hour and it hasn't crossed the hour hand. But in the next hour it will, and so on until after 12 hours it has crossed the hour hand 11 times, and after 24 hours it crosses it 22 times. Try it - it works. And works for ANY 24 hour period.
Bruin
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Yup that's it. As far as I know the only word that ends -mt. But I'm sure someone will now prove me wrong....
There is a logical solution, though... keep trying!
Perhaps the AD spell-checker wants it hyphenated?