BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Wolfgang
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 09:37 AM

...schrieb sie uns grinste hamish.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: SharonA
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 09:47 AM

¿En Inglés, por favor? No hablo Aleman. ¡Muchas gracias!

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Wolfgang
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:16 AM

How would you feel, Sharon, if you had to explain a stupid joke based upon two different meanings of the same string of phonemes in two languages with an explanation that is in the very least ten times as long as the joke?

Fibula did allude to the song 'Cod liver oil and the orange juice' in her last post, a song made know by the late Hamish Imlach. 'Hamish' sounds similar to the German word 'hämisch' which in English means 'maliciously' and so on...

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: SharonA
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:35 AM

Ah, a bilingual pun! I love 'em when I can understand 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 01:29 PM

I ws thinking it was time for a Continued thread, but we seem to be descending into silliness, so I'm not, yet. If new brainteasers maybe? Anybody got any MUSICAL ones?

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 08:17 PM

re the mathematicians daughters why not 2x3x6=36 am I missing something?

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 11:28 AM

Guest petr. yes, you are missing the fact that it was a discussion between to mathematicians, so each could be expected to understand the logical processes. So, once the product of the three ages had been set at 36, the total of the ages was equal to the number of tables in the restaurant. The other mathematician was still unable to solve this, and so the idea of three numbers with a product of 36, and a sum of "X" had to have more than 1 solution. Once we have found all the sets of 3 digits with a product of 36, we find there are only two sets with the same sum. Mathematician No 2 is unable to choose between these until he also knows that there is an "Eldest" daughter.

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 12:26 PM

Anyone still tracing this might like "Song Quiz" posted today!
Nothing like blowing your own trumpet, tomorrow I move up to a Sousaphone!

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 12:26 PM

thanks Nigel, good puzzle.

Subject: RE: BS: Mental Workouts without Dilbert
From: Grab
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 08:35 AM

Mrzzy, that's a good reason not to work at Microsoft.

Any company which considers a good co-worker to be one who knows a particular riddle/trick/useless fact is by definition the place you most want to avoid working in, since the company is obviously populated with total pillocks! It's about as valid as only employing ppl who can pat their head and rub their stomach at the same time or who can recite the alphabet backwards. So if you see this kind of thing at an interview, leave and don't come back.

Graham.