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"Justas" <liarva@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ifunan$7hg$1@trimpas.omnitel.net...
> 13 neteisingai. Turetu buti Coal.
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> On 2011.01.03 18:59, Toxis wrote:
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>>       Solutions
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>>    1. The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the
>>       elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his
>>       umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it.
>>    2. The surgeon was his mother.
>>    3. It was day time.
>>    4. At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was
>>       traveling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on
>>       March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the
>>       younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the
>>       younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older
>>       brother.
>>    5. A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal
>>       of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the
>>       manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should
>>       be round.
>>    6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man
>>       drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted,
>>       poisoning the punch.
>>    7. He recognized Adam and Eve as the only people without navels.
>>       Because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical
>>       cords and therefore they never had navels. This one seems
>>       perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological
>>       arguments. (Just what a HUMOR list needs!!) ;^)
>>    8. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets, etc.). This
>>       puzzle stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving
>>       test-tube babies or surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search
>>       for complex solutions when there is a much simpler one available?
>>    9. The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech
>>       and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured
>>       the hiccups--so the man no longer needed the water. The is a
>>       simple puzzle to state but a difficult one to solve. It is a
>>       perfect example of a seemingly irrational and incongruous
>>       situation having a simple and complete explanation. Amazingly this
>>       classic puzzle seems to work in different cultures and languages.
>>   10. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
>>   11. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband,
>>       developed it, and hung it up to dry.
>>   12. Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in
>>       the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.
>>   13. The answer is Charcoal.
>>   14. Sure you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!
>>
>>
>>       Alternate Solutions
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>>    4. Because one of them did not necessarily celebrate their birthday
>>       on the day they were born, but celebrated later or earlier. Much
>>       simpler than having Mom giving birth while crossing the
>>       International Date Line and tossing in a Leap Year and the like.
>>       Needlessly complicated.
>>    6. Because he was the one who put the poison in the punch. Of course
>>       he wouldn't drink any *after* he poisoned it. Who goes to the
>>       effort of making poison ice cubes, except Bond villains and those
>>       bad guys in the "Encyclopedia Brown" mystery stories we read in
>>       elementary school?
>>    8. Because they were adopted. It's a coincidence they were born on
>>       the same exact day. OK, so Occam's Razor could be applied equally
>>       to both solutions...
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