Re: [Paddlewise] And now for something completely different...

Okay,
Here's the answer to the first teaser below, which can be attributed to my
clever high school math teacher, Mr. Dave Badger.

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, K. Whilden wrote:
> 
> - A man pushes a car down a road, stops in front of hotel, gives the
> owner of the hotel $200, and continues pushing his car down the road. Why
> did he do this? (note: it's still lots of fun even though it does not 
> involve a murder...)

This one is the most fun to give, since the clues tend to cause more
and more confusion, until suddenly... a paradigm shift occurs! It's
a game of monopoly, which is doubly dastardly because most people have
a hard time thinking like the kid they used to be. The little boy (not a
grown man), is using the little race car game piece. 

Cheers,
Kevin
> 
> - A man lives on the 12th floor of a building, and every day he goes to
> work by riding the elevator to the groud floor. But when he returs home,
> he always rides the elevator up to the seventh floor, then takes the
> stairs to the 12th. Why??
> 
> - You see a teenage kid ride his bike into a warehouse. A few minutes
> later, you hear a gunshot. When you run into the warehouse, you see
> the kid lying in a pool of blood, and on the ground you see a total of
> fifty four bicycles. Who killed the boy, nd why? 
> 
> Enjoy,
> Kevin
> 
> 	 ___________________                                                            
> 	/   Kevin Whilden   \
>        |Dept. of Geosciences \___
>        |University of Washington \
>        |kwhilden_at_u.washington.edu| 
>         \________________________/                       
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Colin Calder wrote:
> 
> > Brian Wrote:
> > 
> > >What are your favorite games to play while sitting around the campfire
> > >or while sitting under the tarp waiting for the storm to blow over?
> > >(Remember that this is a family oriented list, so keep it clean ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > These old word game puzzles often crop up:
> > 
> > Someone proposes a scenario, and the rest of the group has to figure out
> > what happened by asking questions, proposer answers with just yes or no. The
> > more wit, and surprising the answer the better.
> > 
> > Example scenarios are:
> > 
> > 'Man walks into a room to find a wet carpet, a cat, and two naked bodies.'
> > What happened ?
> > 
> > 'A man is found dead next a bag in a phone box. The phone is off the hook,
> > and his wrists are slit.' What happened ?
> > 
> > ''Two men in a restaurant, both order albatross. When it arrives, after
> > eating a bit one of them throws up.' What happened ?
> > 
> > If anyone is interested, email me for the answers. Loads more where these
> > came from.
> > 
> > Then there are puzzles like Granny's picnic .... Group tries to figure the
> > puzzle by asking what Granny takes on the picnic. ... Granny would clearly
> > take apples and a banana, but she probably wouldn't take cheese ....
> > 
> > If these get a bit dull, then there is as Rich Kulawiec pointed out, the
> > fine and noble art of 'bullshiting'. First take alcohol, a group of
> > preferably male companions, and then simply lie about your prowess
> > boating/climbing/skiing/bikeing/(add sport of the moment here). This one is
> > usually played in the pub though, and is generally helpful when you want to
> > commit yourself the next day to something you probably don't actually want
> > to do :-)
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Colin Calder
> > 57º19'N  2º10'W
> > 
> > 
> > 
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