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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 08/23/2005 :  19:02:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
I think I got it: With one lion, the sheep is lunch. With two lions, whichever might eat the sheep would itself be lunch for the remaining lion. With three lions, one is free to pounce on the sheep, and nap while the other two lions eyeball each other. With four lions, the one which might go first would leave the island in a three-lion state, thus itself taking on the role of the sheep, so the sheep goes uneaten. With five lions, one again is free to chow down, leaving a four-lion island in which the one which ate will not itself be eaten. Etc. Even number of lions equals living sheep, odd number of lions means the sheep will be toast, and one lion will nap.

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dv82matt
SFN Regular

760 Posts

Posted - 08/23/2005 :  19:33:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message
You got it!
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the_ignored
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2562 Posts

Posted - 08/26/2005 :  22:05:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message
Well, my turn to add to this:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/eswheele/www/clue1.png

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 08/26/2005 :  23:32:45   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by the_ignored

Well, my turn to add to this:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/eswheele/www/clue1.png



This gave me a good laugh.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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dv82matt
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760 Posts

Posted - 08/28/2005 :  13:54:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by the_ignored

Well, my turn to add to this:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/eswheele/www/clue1.png

I got the first two. I'm currently stumped on number three. How many are there anyway?
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Orzo
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Posted - 08/31/2005 :  15:12:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Orzo a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by dv82matt
I got the first two. I'm currently stumped on number three. How many are there anyway?

Twelve.
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dv82matt
SFN Regular

760 Posts

Posted - 09/01/2005 :  13:47:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message
Thanks Orzo. And welcome to the SFN.
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend

Australia
249 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2005 :  18:58:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dry_vby a Private Message

This has got a little out of hand, I feel.

Are we still asking a riddle here?

Is that the riddle?

As a way of getting things back on track I will ask this.

"What is the oldest word in any language?"






"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."

Bob Dylan
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2005 :  19:14:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dry_vby
"What is the oldest word in any language?"
The first one spoken.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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Dave W.
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USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2005 :  19:16:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Hey, if you want to get something back on track, my Puzzles thread needs some major CPR.

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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend

Australia
249 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2005 :  19:25:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dry_vby a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Hey, if you want to get something back on track, my Puzzles thread needs some major CPR.



Yeah, but your puzzle thread is for brainiacs.

Leave something for us simple folk to chew on.

Sorry, H , not the answer to this particular riddle.

For a clue, the answer is somewhere in this thread for those who have been paying attention.

"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."

Bob Dylan
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Dave W.
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USA
26022 Posts

Posted - 09/06/2005 :  20:04:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dry_vby

Yeah, but your puzzle thread is for brainiacs.

Leave something for us simple folk to chew on.
Considering that a bunch of the stuff here has flown right over my head, I am forced to say that this thread is, at times at least, for fucking geniuses if my thread is for "brainiacs."

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Siberia
SFN Addict

Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2005 :  10:24:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Haha Dave, each one of us has a talent, heh? Yours is mindboggling puzzles...

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend

Australia
249 Posts

Posted - 09/07/2005 :  15:48:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dry_vby a Private Message

You're not calling me a fucking genius are you, DW.

Them's fightin' words.

Step outside, and if I'm not there in ten minutes, start without me.

Seriously, though, it's just another way of thinking, no more, no less.


"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."

Bob Dylan
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