h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's either a mop or a centipeded that hates disembodied giraffe necks.

Are you just realllllly Drrrunnkkk? hic!

Long neck, refers to the bottle of beer.
No head, you can't feel it 'cause of all the alkyhol
100 legs, ?
And of course no motor functions more complicated than lifting aforesaid long neck to mouth and swallowing.

Am I close?

Mycroft was right, it was a broom! (spanking or otherwise )

Want any more? Although I'm not going to be online much from now til Friday, which might be a bit frustrating...

Just as I was about to say "A Formula One race track".

Hi folks - I was away a bit. We are now networked at home - I hope that means a saving in phone bills - provided of course, that we all agree to go on line at the same time!!!

I don't know any riddles, but I am enjoying trying to solve them. So keep it up!

Here's one...

Tommy has two girlfriends but never can decide which one he likes the best.
From Tommy's home town there is one train per hour to Aberdeen where Angela lives and also one train per hour to Perth where Paula lives (in the opposite direction from Aberdeen).
Tommy goes to the station at a random time (he never checks the timetable to make it fair) and just gets on the first train that arrives, either north to Aberdeen and Angela or south to Perth and Paula.
After a few months of this, he has noticed that he has visted Angela about twice as often as he has visited Paula. How can this be?

Om

Timetable has 40 minutes between Perth and Aberdeen, then 20 minutes till the Perth train comes again.


Dancer

Well done, Dancer.
Just too easy I suppose!

So how 'bout laying a hard one


Dancer

Okay. Imagine you're a bus driver. You're driving along and at the first stop you pick up 5 people. At the second stop 2 get off and another 11 get on. At the third stop 6 get off and 3 get on. At the fourth stop 2 get off and 9 get on. At the fifth stop 8 get off and another 2 get on. At the sixth stop 5 get off and 2 get on. At the seventh stop 7 get off and 6 get on. At the eighth stop 4 get off and another 4 get on. At the ninth stop 1 gets off and 8 get on. At the tenth stop 7 get off and 2 get on. At the eleventh stop 8 get off and another 4 get on. At the twelth stop 3 get off and 2 get on. At the thirteenth stop 1 gets off and 5 get on. At the fourteenth stop 4 get off and another 4 get on. At the fifteenth stop 6 get off and 21 get on. At the sixteenth stop 23 get off and 3 get on.












What's the name of the driver?

38-J

JOTD: Alcohol makes you see double and feel single.

Well, in my case that would be Zantic/Suzanne
No?

There's is no name - it's all imaginary

Well, the right answer has been said so that's the only alternative.

Smarty-pants

Yes, you're right. It works quite well when spoken, though. Just keep track of the numbers (which you can make up) to make sure you don't have more people getting off than there were on the bus at the time.

38-J

JOTD: Isn't air travel wonderful? Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil.

erm i think your wrong there m8 it says your a bus driver so i think the answer would be you are the driver!!

Hmmm. I seem to be having a bit of a blonde day today, but I don't understand the Aberdeen - Perth answer.

Didn't the riddle say that there is only 1 train per hour to Aberdeen and 1 train per hour to Perth? How does that 40 minutes thing answer the riddle?

The train to Aberdeen arrives once an hour on the hour, that is, at 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 etc.

The train to Perth arrives once on the hour at 20 minutes past the hour, that is, at 13:20, 14:20, 15:20 etc.

If he arrives at a random time, one in three times he will arrive between 13:00 and 13:20 (say) so he will go to Perth. Two in three times, he will arrive between 13:20 and 14:00, so he will catch the next train which is to Aberdeen.

You have two trains and hour...one comes at twenty past the hour, the other at twenty to the next hour.
Therefore, if you just miss the twenty past train you only have to wait twenty minutes till the next one.
But if you just miss the second train, you have to wait forty minutes. Therefore you have a greater chance of arriving at the station during the fourty minute period than you do of arriving during the twenty minute one...

That help?

How come I can think this stuff through and NOT the work I'm meant to be doing???

Thank you! It seems that I just didn't engage my brain at all. I have just had my first of the day and things are now starting to make sense!

*mist is clearing*

*hair still blonde but somehow less obvious*

HOW can you attempt to do ANYTHING wihout caffine in the system?? (and if none of these turn out to be smilies..they SHOULD be.... )

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

(From high school English. Some of us were given the masculine one, some the feminine. I got the masculine.)

38-J

JOTD: I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.