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Those of us who are at work here bored, got an email with some riddles. There are two we can't get the answer to. I was thinking that perhaps a few of the brains on here could enlighten me.
1) What living creature is 1000 times more valuable to us injured versus in good health?
2) Everyone was on a first name basis until someone suddenly got something in his eye. What was it and when? (historical)
#1 is a virus...i'm still thinking about #2.
We guessed a virus and was told that answer was wrong. :shrug:
Well fuck 'em then. :rolleyes:
shotglass
07-29-03, 04:02 PM
No. 1 might be an oyster, where it makes a pearl.
gopsdragon
07-29-03, 04:10 PM
Could #2 by Odysseus and the Cyclops?
Pistol Pete
07-29-03, 06:36 PM
Originally posted by gopsdragon
Could #2 by Odysseus and the Cyclops?
I hate to break this to you but...they weren't real. :hehe:
#1. A rock star.
#2. Fred Flintstone at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, when a Frenchman poked him in the eye with a bread stick.
Rguess21
07-29-03, 06:42 PM
#2 would be Adam & Eve when Adam got an apple in his eye.:D
After you figure those out, would you please tell me what a
spider, an alien, and a turtle have in common.
Thanks,
Tex :)
Ether_Elemental
07-29-03, 09:14 PM
they all have an e in their name:shrug:
gopsdragon
07-30-03, 12:29 AM
Originally posted by Texan
After you figure those out, would you please tell me what a
spider, an alien, and a turtle have in common.
Thanks,
Tex :)
They all lay eggs?
MissCreant
07-30-03, 02:47 AM
The only thing I can think of that fits number 1 is the Saffron Crocus. I've never been much good at riddles.
Originally posted by Laurie
We guessed a virus and was told that answer was wrong. :shrug:
It seems that while I told the other Laurie to put in "virus" for the answer, she put bacteria. Not the same thing.
Virus IS the answer. :OOPS:
Originally posted by Laurie
It seems that while I told the other Laurie to put in "virus" for the answer, she put bacteria. Not the same thing.
Virus IS the answer. :OOPS:
What was the answer to the other question? Now you've got my curiousity up. :D
Originally posted by JDub
What was the answer to the other question? Now you've got my curiousity up. :D
No clue. The gal at work received it in the form of an email from her main squeeze, and while he gave us "rights" to our correct answers, he never bothered to tell us what the correct answers were to the few we got wrong. :shrug:
I even tried searching the web for the answer, as it was driving me crazy, but couldn't find it anywhere. :fbomb:
Rguess21
07-30-03, 04:05 PM
Originally posted by Rguess21
#2 would be Adam & Eve when Adam got an apple in his eye.:D
Ok you two, what's wrong with this answer. It satisfies the part about when "everyone" was on a first name basis as well as got something in his eye. :confused:
I'm clueless on the spider, alien, turtle connection.:shrug:
Originally posted by Rguess21
Ok you two, what's wrong with this answer. It satisfies the part about when "everyone" was on a first name basis as well as got something in his eye. :confused:
Rguess, don't make me read my Bible tonight.. I can understand the part about being on a first name basis.. but I must have missed that Sunday in church... when did he get the freakin' apple in his eye?
While you're at it.. run that whale shit thing past me one more time ;)
Rguess21
07-30-03, 04:22 PM
He didn't actually get an apple in his eye. Metaphorically speaking he did when he saw the apple and fixated thereon.
As far a the whale dung saying went, well it's like this.
That what he did was so low it would make whale shit on the bottom of the ocean look like fleecy white clouds floating through an azure blue summer sky.
Got it?
:worthy:
I wasn't typing like I talk then, was I? :OOPS:
Originally posted by Kimmy
Rguess, don't make me read my Bible tonight.. I can understand the part about being on a first name basis.. but I must have missed that Sunday in church... when did he get the freakin' apple in his eye?
While you're at it.. run that whale shit thing past me one more time ;)
Don't bother getting your Bible out Kimmy. ;) I read all of Genesis today and there's not a single mention of a "second name" anywhere in it. :confused:
shotglass
07-30-03, 04:53 PM
I think you're all taking #2 a little too literally.
Rguess21
07-30-03, 05:01 PM
Sandbaggin the answer, eh? ;)
STIBROKER
07-30-03, 05:05 PM
well here is a riddle mesage board..... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi last thing I need is to be a member of another message board.....
LMAO at Stib's banner.
And I'll try and get the answer tomorrow at work. Even if I have to choke it out of her. ;) It's driving me insane. :nuts:
STIBROKER
07-30-03, 08:30 PM
Originally posted by Laurie
LMAO at Stib's banner.
And I'll try and get the answer tomorrow at work. Even if I have to choke it out of her. ;) It's driving me insane. :nuts:
HAHA.....LOOK WHO JUST CAUGHT UP.......
Originally posted by Rguess21
Got it?
:worthy:
crystal clear now... thank you ;)
Sideout
07-31-03, 08:04 AM
While we're debating answers...I like Shotty's answer for the first one better...virus really doesn't fit :confused:
[i] Everyone was on a first name basis until someone suddenly got something in his eye. What was it and when? (historical) [/B]
Ok, this isn't well known because it was very embarassing for the parties involved......George Washington, Betsy Ross and Ben Franklin were having a threesome.....Ben and Betsy were on the floor on their knees while the George was jacking off in front of Betsy's face...just as George was about to explode, there was a crack of thunder and his body flinched right in the middle of his orgasm. When he looked down at the two, he was aghast to see Ben covered in his love juice....so trying to dismiss an embarassing situation, Ben in an attempt to laugh it off with humor said..."Missed her Washington" which was latter adapted to Mister Washington (kind of like the Santa Clause/Saint Nicholas thing, ya know, if you say Saint Nicholas real fast it sounds like...anyway).
So from that day on when the three were together in public, they would call old George "Mister Washington" for a chuckle....everyone always wondered what they were laughing about but the Mister thing stuck, they figured since George was such a big wig that is was a respectful way of addressing a person.........and it stuck.
To this day, I think George, Ben and Betsy are still laughing at us all from their final resting places whenever they hear us refer to somebody as Mister.
Someday I will get into the story more and talk about the origin of Miss, Ms. and Mrs.
:confused:
Originally posted by Sideout
While we're debating answers...I like Shotty's answer for the first one better...virus really doesn't fit :confused:
Actually, it fits perfectly. Vaccinations are made from the actual virus, injured, of course, to protect you from that particular strain. So essentially, when you get a vaccination, let's say, for varicella (aka, chicken pox), what they are injecting in you is that virus, only it's injured so as not to contract the actual condition, but to provide you immunity from it.
:hehe:
shotglass
07-31-03, 09:11 AM
Yeah, but injured viruses (?) are also the precursors to resistant strains. So I vote for the oyster, too. :hehe:
I think in that riddle you have to concentrate on the "a 1,000 times more valuable" that's a pretty precise number, like how do you value a virus or a pearl?
Sideout
07-31-03, 09:24 AM
Originally posted by shotglass
Yeah, but injured viruses (?) are also the precursors to resistant strains. So I vote for the oyster, too. :hehe:
yeah...that's pretty much what I was thinking...you'd be surprised how many different ways you'll see the same riddle worded and that makes a difference..."living creature"..."1000 times", etc. What living thing is much more valuable injured than in good health? That you could stretch and say virus...though i'm still not sure about "injured"...I would think that the most valuable scientific research on infectious diseases would be done on active viruses and how they attack certain types of cells, etc.
Anywho...I'm done nitpicking...NEXT! :OOPS:
Sideout
07-31-03, 09:26 AM
Originally posted by Dave
I think in that riddle you have to concentrate on the "a 1,000 times more valuable" that's a pretty precise number, like how do you value a virus or a pearl?
Oyster - $1.00
Pearl - $1000.00
Nice answer for the second one by the way LOL :rolleyes:
But, are all oysters a $1 and are all pearls a $1,000.....it has to have a set and definate value of 1,000 times it's living value.
Is a virus a creature?? I know it's living, but a creature?
Fuck Laur, I didn't FEEL like thinking today lol
Sideout
07-31-03, 09:46 AM
Originally posted by Dave
Is a virus a creature?? I know it's living, but a creature?
Fuck Laur, I didn't FEEL like thinking today lol
LOL - Dave, did you even read my other post?
of course...maybe I just didn't make sense :cool:
That's what I was saying about the wording of this particular question...specifics like "1000 times" and "creature" and "injured" change the outcome of the riddle.
I've seen one around the net that goes like this:
A man was looking at a photograph and he says, "Brothers and Sisters I have none, that man's father is my father's son". Who is in the photograph?
It's not a hard one, but I've seen it elsewhere in a chopped version:
"Brothers and Sisters I have none, that man's father is my father's son"
Which really isn't a question and doesn't have an answer....it's all in the wording.
though I can see a riddle thread as a good idea ;)
Sideout, I read it but I sometimes get distracted by all those voices in my head :hehe:
How about a Riddles/Puns/Limricks thread??
There once was a man from from Iraq, who's balls were too big for his sack, when the bombs began to explode, off into the desert he rode, and now his two sons lie on their backs.
Sideout
07-31-03, 09:58 AM
LOL - my favorite from one of many movies my wife doesn't care for *grin*
What do you do with an elephant with three balls?
I hate making rhymes
In my paltry spare time
For chumps who read bressler all day.
But parts of me say
Let the stupid thread stay
So long as the poems aren't gay.
http://www.tejanoloco.com/smilies/gay.gif
Sideout
07-31-03, 10:16 AM
What do you do with an elephant with three balls?
Walk him and pitch to the Rhino.
*ba-dum-bum...crash*
:OOPS:
I started an actual riddle thread...if anyone cares...you can handle the limericks, Dave :cool:
Originally posted by shotglass
Yeah, but injured viruses (?) are also the precursors to resistant strains. So I vote for the oyster, too. :hehe:
Actually, injured viruses are NOT precursors to resistant strains. It's just that they randomly mutate in some way to become stronger.
The answer is VIRUS!
http://bushwhacked.net/forum/images/smilies/nyah.gif
I love it when you talk technical :love:
I get this vision of you in your nurses outfit.....then....oh, enough said ;)
I hate to burst your bubble, Dave, but I don't wear a nurses uniform. :hehe:
Originally posted by Dave
In my mind you do ;)
Good comeback!:thumbsup:
Originally posted by Dave
In my mind you do ;)
I hope their the green scrubs. I've been told I look good in green.
Sure, with a number 4 on the back.
You'd look good in burlap!
Originally posted by Dave
Sure, with a number 4 on the back.
You'd look good in burlap!
#4 works for me.
And burlap itches. :rolleyes:
ok, saran wrap then.........sheesh, try and give a girl a compliment :shrug: :hehe:
Originally posted by Dave
ok, saran wrap then.........sheesh, try and give a girl a compliment :shrug: :hehe:
Thanks Dave :Peck:
Saran Wrap works for me, but that might make me sweat. :laugh:
shotglass
07-31-03, 08:18 PM
Originally posted by Laurie
Saran Wrap works for me, but that might make me sweat. :laugh:
The thought of you in Saran Wrap makes ME sweat, fer shure. BOI-OI-OI-OI-OOING!!!!!
Then why do I hear medical types saying that a full regimen of prescribed antibiotics must be take all the way until all the pills are gone? They say it's because the organisms they are designed to kill survive if you don't take them all, and then they become resistant to the antibiotics.
Anyway, that's what I've heard.
Originally posted by shotglass
The thought of you in Saran Wrap makes ME sweat, fer shure. BOI-OI-OI-OI-OOING!!!!!
Then why do I hear medical types saying that a full regimen of prescribed antibiotics must be take all the way until all the pills are gone? They say it's because the organisms they are designed to kill survive if you don't take them all, and then they become resistant to the antibiotics.
Anyway, that's what I've heard.
It depends upon the specific action of the antibiotic prescribed. Different classifications of antibiotics kill the organism in their own way. If you are prescribed to take 10 days of an antibiotic, depending upon which strain of antibiotic it's purpose it is to kill, and you only take 5 days, then well, you will still have some form of the organism in your system. It can sometimes take up to a week or more for an antibiotic to produce a therapeutic feeling in the patient. For some reason, the bacteria "mutates" while the antibiotic is in the system and becomes stronger and is able to survive it. Overuse of antibiotics is a huge part of this problem.
Since I am no microbiology major, here's more in-depth info. (http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/resistance.htm) :D
Hi Laurie,
did you ever get an answer to that puzzle?
Thanks.
2) Everyone was on a first name basis until someone suddenly got something in his eye. What was it and when? (historical)[/QUOTE]
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