Riddle me THIS, Batman...
#231
08-10-2005, 03:21 AM
RE: Riddle me THIS, Batman...
ORIGINAL: lidonnit
Well the clerk had to give them the money back.
Clerk has:
$30-$25 (room) = $5
$5-$2 (for the thieving *****) = 3 dollars..... The clerk must now give each guy 1 dollar. It's not a matter of adding the $2.. you have to subtract the $2 to get even with the cost of the room.
ORIGINAL: Riddler
4)this one i rember from junior high--
Three guys walk into town. They go into a hotel and ask for a room they can share. The clerk has just the thing they want for thirty dollars. The clerk sends them to the room, takes out the ledger, and realizes that he made a mistake. The room costs only twenty-five dollars. Now he has to divide five dollars evenly three ways. Can't be done. So the clerk pockets two dollars, tells the guys that he made a three dollar mistakeand gives them each a single. Now, each man paid only nine dollars for his share of the room. Nine times three equals twenty seven, plus the two in the clerk's pocket equals twenty nine. Where's the other dollar?
4)this one i rember from junior high--
Three guys walk into town. They go into a hotel and ask for a room they can share. The clerk has just the thing they want for thirty dollars. The clerk sends them to the room, takes out the ledger, and realizes that he made a mistake. The room costs only twenty-five dollars. Now he has to divide five dollars evenly three ways. Can't be done. So the clerk pockets two dollars, tells the guys that he made a three dollar mistakeand gives them each a single. Now, each man paid only nine dollars for his share of the room. Nine times three equals twenty seven, plus the two in the clerk's pocket equals twenty nine. Where's the other dollar?
Well the clerk had to give them the money back.
Clerk has:
$30-$25 (room) = $5
$5-$2 (for the thieving *****) = 3 dollars..... The clerk must now give each guy 1 dollar. It's not a matter of adding the $2.. you have to subtract the $2 to get even with the cost of the room.
#232
08-10-2005, 03:31 AM
RE: Riddle me THIS, Batman...
ORIGINAL: Toff_the_Toffee
Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I've already told you what it is.
??????????????????????????
Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I've already told you what it is.
??????????????????????????
There is no other common word ending in "-gry", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.
Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" (see below), and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer!
#234
08-10-2005, 03:46 AM
RE: Riddle me THIS, Batman...
quote:
ORIGINAL: Toff_the_Toffee
Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I've already told you what it is.
??????????????????????????
ORIGINAL: Toff_the_Toffee
Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I've already told you what it is.
??????????????????????????
There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?
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#236
08-10-2005, 03:50 AM
RE: Riddle me THIS, Batman...
oh...ok..i got you...i was on the same page as you..but whoever typed the original whould have ended that sentence in a period..not a question mark.....
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#237
08-10-2005, 03:52 AM
RE: Riddle me THIS, Batman...
The actual answer is language. there are three words in "the english language". What is the thrid one...
This thread should be called Google me this..Batman!!!
This thread should be called Google me this..Batman!!!
