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    Posted: 24-May-2005 at 15:33
If you find your brain is slowly turning into a vegetable @ work, Try this...

The Situation...
You are out at sea sight-seeing in a glass bottomed boat.The boat is hit by a Shark looking for it's next meal. In it's attempt to scuttle the boat, it rips off the outboard motor and the glass panel springs a leak,right in the middle, and a pretty powerful leak at that. This shark then just circles the boat.

The Premise...
You have to hand a square piece of marine Ply big enough to cover the leak, a 3 Gallon Water bottle (Empty) and a 5 Gallon Water Bottle (also empty). You need to stop the leak long enough to allow the rescue service to arrive, Scare off the shark and tow you back to shore. The boat captain, tries to radio the coast guard and asks you to stop the leak, he tells you that in his years of sailing the boat, he knows that the weight of 4 Gallons of water on top of the marine Ply is enough to slow the leak without breaking the glass.

The Challenge...
Try to make 4 Gallons, exactly, in one of the containers in order to slow the leak.


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Points: 15508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 16:55
I got it! [took a bit of thought!]
Fill the 5gallon container and then pour as much as you can from this into the 3gallon can. There are now 2gals left in the 5 gal container.
Throw out the 3 gallons you poured into the 3gal container and pour the 2 in from the 5gal can.
You now have an empty 5 gal can and a 3 gal can with 2 gals in it.
If you fill the 5 gal can and then pour enough from this to fill up the 3 gal can you will be left with 4 gals as there is only enough room for 1 gal in it!
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more, more, more
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Well done Kb,
Why did we let a Mod get in 1st......
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:02
Originally posted by Floody Floody wrote:

Well done Kb,
Why did we let a Mod get in 1st......


Cos they are too damn clever by half, thats why...
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Points: 10053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:10
well, that was easy peasy.. lemon sqeezy..
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Im just dead brainy like!
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:12
Damn good pic of you Killian...almost as good as the one under a tree in a skirt and stilettoes   
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Points: 5301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:12
Originally posted by Rhys Rhys wrote:

well, that was easy peasy.. lemon sqeezy..


Just to prove that moddies have way too many grey cells for their own good
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Well done KB.
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There will be another one Tomorrow.

Class dismissed.
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Points: 10053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:44
That was an old one, just needed a bit of lateral thinking.

how about this one..

Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the floor of a villa in Egypt. Nearby is a broken bowl. There is no mark on either of their bodies and they were not poisoned. How did they die?
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Cleopatra slipped whilst passing Anthony his viagra, broke the bowl and they both died of old age trying to manage without?
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Points: 10053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2005 at 17:59
Originally posted by rubberknees50 rubberknees50 wrote:

Cleopatra slipped whilst passing Anthony his viagra, broke the bowl and they both died of old age trying to manage without?


not quite, but I think Freud would have something to say about your answer..
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As Im brainy I know the answer to this and I reckon others won't get it.
Its very 'lateral'
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Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy dog - we've got one like that at home so it was easy!!
 
And while you're at it............
 
A man is pushing his car. He stops when he reaches a hotel at which point he knows he is bankrupt. Why?
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He was playing Monopoly!
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Points: 6484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-May-2005 at 09:19

No idea?

How about:

A man lives in a tower block on the 10th floor. In the morning he gets in the lift and travels all the way down to go to work. When he returns in the evening he gets into the lift and if he is alone he gets off at the fifth floor and walks up the stairs to the tenth floor. However if there is someone in the lift with him he travels to the tenth floor. Why?

Also:

A car is driving along the motorway at a constant speed when one of the wheels falls off. Assuming there is no rolling resistance from the road why does the wheel over take the car?
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Points: 6484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-May-2005 at 09:21

Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:

Im just dead brainy like!

Killian!?

I thought it was a picture of the lead singer from the Pogues..biggrin1
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Originally posted by Derek M5 Derek M5 wrote:

Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy dog - we've got one like that at home so it was easy!!
 
And while you're at it............
 
A man is pushing his car. He stops when he reaches a hotel at which point he knows he is bankrupt. Why?

It's his hotel and it's closed due to insolvency?
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