Where does chickens come from?

devin · Post by **devin** » 22 Nov 2002, 03:28

OMG, for a non-routine problem that we had in math we had this gay question ( I couldnt figure it out, i had to cheat and look it up in the back of the book!) Ok

You have 2 jars, one is a 5 liter jar and the other is a 3 liter jar. How could you measure exactly 4 liters of water with only using these two jars???

Note- The jars do NOT have markings

OK?!?!

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 22 Nov 2002, 05:42

omg that's so simple.
1. fill the 5liter jar.
2. poor from the 5liter to the 3liter jar.
3. empty the 3liter jar and put the remaining 2liters from 5liter jar to it
4. fill the 5liter jar.
5. poor from the 5 to the 3 (u can poor just 1 liter and then jar 3 is filled)
6. enjoy the 4 liters in your 5 liter jar.

Post by **Abula** » 22 Nov 2002, 09:15

Antz wrote:omg that's so simple.

Well not _that_ simple but still. You just try everything and finally you find it :]. I've done that many times.

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 12:15

Yeah, that ones easy
and th eone about your hand isnt a riddle, its a 'trivia' question. its not something you have to think about, its a fact.
Right...
A man walks up to you and says - "Everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

Post by **Abula** » 22 Nov 2002, 12:31

Not lying: "He lies to you" -> False
Lying: "He doesn't lie to you" -> False

So the sentence is irrational and not defined in our world (maybe in Mirandan, I don't know).

Pocket: hole again?

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 12:33

Ooh, nice one Abula, but the answer i was looking for is "the riddle makes no sense, there i sno correct answer" but I'll give you the points anyway

dz · Post by dz » 22 Nov 2002, 12:34

he can lie
if not, could you explain why

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 12:37

Well if he does always tell lies, he'd be lying to you...maening that he doesnt always tell lies...makes no sense
If he never tells lies, he'd be lying when he told you he does...makes no sense
Gettit?

dz · Post by dz » 22 Nov 2002, 12:40

ye but as he says: "everything i say is lie" , and as he is a liar, of course he lies on this one as well, so it would be something else, like "not everything i say is a lie". and the "not everything", is lie as well, bcause again, he is a liar which makes him still a liar. i don't really know where he sates something true :)

Post by **Abula** » 22 Nov 2002, 13:03

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22every ... 8&oe=UTF-8

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 Nov 2002, 15:31

Paradoxes are funny aren't they?
"This sentence is false"

and th eone about your hand isnt a riddle, its a 'trivia' question. its not something you have to think about, its a fact.

It's not a trivia question either. Did you know that 'trivia' actually means 'something of small importance'? (Not that the question referred to anything important.) There's no way for you to know, so it's pointless for you to try to answer.

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 19:35

ok, ok, trivia - trivial...etc
What i meant is its a fact, not a hypothetical situation like a riddle.
Theres a difference between a riddle and a question.

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 Nov 2002, 19:47

That's excactly what I mean, yes.

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 19:56

good, then we are in agreement

dz · Post by dz » 22 Nov 2002, 19:58

after 115 post arguing, do we have an answer to the question?
would be interesting to know actually :)

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 Nov 2002, 20:16

You mean what that's in my pocket?

*Checking* Hmm, a handkerchief, some money, a keychain and, at the time of checking, my hand.

Post by **Abula** » 22 Nov 2002, 20:20

MagnusB wrote:You mean what that's in my pocket?

Or where the chicken come from?

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 Nov 2002, 20:50

Oh yeah.

Well, it's probably just evolved from some other bird, and is slowly but surely forgetting how to fly...

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 Nov 2002, 22:55

Yeah
amoeba -> some fish -> some land summin -> some bird -> some flightless bird -> some chicken -> nice meal for ChuckleS

devin · Post by **devin** » 22 Nov 2002, 23:01

My last question wasnt that simple was it??

oh well if any of u seen the movie "die hard" they had a similar problem to solve....

anywho....4 "riddles" for you guys

#1: I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

#2: How far can a dog run into the woods?

#3: What is greater than God.
More evil than the Devil.
The poor have it.
The rich don't need it.
And if you eat it, you'll die?

#4: It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the begining of the end, and the end of every space?

What is it?

There, think about those a while.....

dz · Post by dz » 22 Nov 2002, 23:16

devin wrote: #1: I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

a weirdo.

devin wrote: #2: How far can a dog run into the woods?

halfway. after that its running out from the woods.

devin wrote: #3: What is greater than God.
More evil than the Devil.
The poor have it.
The rich don't need it.
And if you eat it, you'll die?

human "brains".

devin wrote: #4: It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the begining of the end, and the end of every space?
What is it?

i think someone asked this one already..

cyre · Post by **cyre** » 22 Nov 2002, 23:22

only #1 and #3 haven't been asked before...

1. a windmill

3. nothing

DYW265 · Post by **DYW265** » 23 Nov 2002, 00:26

if there is a planet with only wood you cannot run out from the wood.

Chris Penrose · Post by **Chris Penrose** » 23 Nov 2002, 10:25

Here's one I learned when I was about 5 years old. It's meant to be spoken, not written so it won't work very well.

"You are a bus driver. The route has 7 stops. The bus stops at #1 and picks up eight people. It then drives on to #2, four people get off and two people get on. At #3 all the people get off and one person gets on. At #4 sixteen people get on and no one gets off. At #5 ten people get off and three retarded people get on and get off again straight away. At #6 no one gets on or off. At the final stop four get off and the rest are wearing shoes. What is the busdriver's name?"

chux · Post by **chux** » 23 Nov 2002, 12:48

ChuckleS!!! Well...not really...

chux · Post by **chux** » 23 Nov 2002, 12:50

#1: a Windmill

#2: Halfway

#3: Nothing

#4: The letter 'e'

Yep!

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 23 Nov 2002, 20:37

chris i hate busdriving.

There are two villages, and two kinds of people living in them. in village one the people always lie, and they're cannibals. Village two's folk always tell the truth, and are vegetarians.
An adventurer is trying to find the friendly village, and comes by a crossing. one of the paths leads to the friendly village. the other to the cannibals. there is a man with a full stomach standing at the crossing. the adcenturer can ask ONE question from him.
Can the adventurer get to the friendly village, and if yes, how? (the man might be a cannibal, or a vegetarian, adventurer doesn't know it)

note, the villagers have scouts, so if he chooses the wrong road there's no escaping from the cannibals!

Sun · Post by **Sun** » 23 Nov 2002, 21:26

Abula wrote:Take a cup, fill 50% of it with water. Is it now half full or half empty?

Neither, its twice as big as it needs to be. Next....

cyre · Post by **cyre** » 23 Nov 2002, 23:47

He can determine the safe road by asking:

Which road leads to your village?

And then take that road.

Post by **Abula** » 24 Nov 2002, 01:46

Gunos wrote:He can determine the safe road by asking:

Which road leads to your village?

And then take that road.

Brilliant. I didn't figure it out (maybe because of drunk, I don't know).

Post by **Abula** » 24 Nov 2002, 01:49

Antz wrote:Who is the Captain?

smith, jones and robinson are captain, first man, and stuert. possibly in this order, possibly in some other. in the same airplane there are passengers smith, jones and robinson.
to separate them, with passengers we use title mister (mr.)
this is what we know:
a) mr. robinson lives in Los Angeles.
b) first man lives in Omaha.
c) mr. jones has forgotten the maths he learnt in school a long time ago.
d) The passenger with the same surname as the first man lives in chicago.
e) first man and one of the passanger, a known physics researcher, share the same congrigation.
f) smith always beats the stuert in billiard.
What's the name of the captain?

dz · Post by dz » 24 Nov 2002, 06:44

and what's the meaning of that last post? :)

DYW265 · Post by **DYW265** » 24 Nov 2002, 10:39

it was posted in wrong section or something before

dz · Post by dz » 24 Nov 2002, 10:45

k so i guess moving posts isn't possible, what a shame

Post by **Abula** » 24 Nov 2002, 16:06

dz wrote:k so i guess moving posts isn't possible, what a shame

Just make a new version of this, it's open-source. Send it to abula@moposite.com when ready. Back to riddles.

dz · Post by dz » 24 Nov 2002, 17:45

if you're asking me, i'm afraid i can't be any of help, sorry.

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 25 Nov 2002, 06:50

i was too tired to realize i could edit the post in other topic to look like on-topic one and make a new post here. dumb me. oh well i edited the other one away and abula shows that one here so everything is fine and everyone is happy. (except me, i'm still just tired)
try solve that!

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 25 Nov 2002, 08:51

[quote="MagnusB"]You mean what that's in my pocket?[quote]

u mean

whats i got in my pocketeses

the answer shud be a ring but each to there own

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 25 Nov 2002, 15:31

Well I'm not Gollum. =)

chux · Post by **chux** » 25 Nov 2002, 17:23

Smith.....Captain Smith....Aye Cap'n

Sun · Post by **Sun** » 26 Nov 2002, 00:20

Think of words ending in 'GRY'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only thee words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses almost every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Post by **Abula** » 26 Nov 2002, 01:17

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Antz · Post by **Antz** » 26 Nov 2002, 05:40

pogry
tungry
leagry
tigry
.
.
i can think of hundreds of those words. surely at least some of them would mean something.

there're only 2 words in english where 'f' is said as 'v'. 'of' is the other word. what's the other?

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 26 Nov 2002, 10:47

Sun wrote:Think of words ending in 'GRY'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only thee words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses almost every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

the answer is really simple

the first part

Think of words ending in 'GRY'. Angry and hungry are two of them.

is just there to confuse you,

the only sentence you have to read is

There are only thee words in the English language

the third word in

the English language

is language, there fore "langauge" is the anwer

Ky.Jelly · Post by **Ky.Jelly** » 26 Nov 2002, 10:54

here is the answer if u didnt read the riddle quite rite

Aside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, there is
only one word ending with "-gry" in Webster's Third Unabridged: "aggry."
However, this word is defective in that it is part of a phrase "aggry beads."
The OED's usage examples all talk about "aggry beads."

Moving to older dictionaries, we find that "gry" itself is a word in Webster's
Second Unabridged (and the OED):

gry, n. [L. gry, a trifle; Gr. gry, a grunt]
1. a measure equal to one-tenth of a line. [Obs.] (Obs. = obsolete)
2. anything very small. [Rare.]

This is a list of 100 words, phrases and names ending in "gry":
[Explanation of references is given at the end of the list.]

aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB11]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
Badagry [Johnston; EB11]
Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; RD:164, pl.49]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
Bugry [TIG]
Chockpugry [Worcester]
Cogry [BBC]
cony-gry [OED:2:956]
conyngry [OED:2:956]
Croftangry [DFC, as "Chrystal Croftangry"]
dog-hungry [W2]
Dshagry [Stieler]
Dzagry [Andree]
eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
Egry [France; TIG]
ever-angry [W2]
fire-angry [W2]
Gagry [EB11]
gry (from Latin _gry_) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
gry (from Romany _grai_) [W2]
haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
half-angry [W2]
hangry [OED:1:329]
heart-angry [W2]
heart-hungry [W2]
higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
Hungry Bungry [Daily Illini, in ad for The Giraffe, Spring 1976]
iggry [OED]
Jagry [EB11]
kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
land-hungry [OED; W2]
leather-hungry [OED]
Langry [TIG; Times]
Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489]
MacLoingry [Phillips (as "Flaithbhertach MacLoingry")]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
man-hungry [OED]
Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
meat-hungry [W2]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
nangry [OED]
overangry [RH1; RH2]
Pelegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pelegry")]
Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
rungry [EDD:5:188]
scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
Schtschigry [LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
Seagry [TIG; EB11]
Segry [Johnston; Andree]
self-angry [W2]
self-hungry ?
Shchigry [CLG:1747; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times:185,pl.45]
shiggry [EDD]
Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
Shtshigry [Lipp]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
Sygry [Andree]
Tangry [France]
Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
Tchigry [Johnson:594]
tear-angry [W2]
tike-hungry [CSD]
Tingry [France; EB11 (under "Princesse de Tingry")]
toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
unangry [OED; W2]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Virgy [CLG:2090]
Wirgy [CLG:2090; NAP:xxxix; Times:220, pl.62; WA:948]
wind-angry.
wind-hungry [W2]
yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]

This list was gathered from the following articles:

George H. Scheetz, In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, Word Ways 22:195 (Nov. 1989)
Murray R. Pearce, Who's Flaithbhertach MacLoingry?, Word Ways 23:6 (Feb. 1990)
Harry B. Partridge, Gypsy Hobby Gry, Word Ways 23:9 (Feb. 1990)
A. Ross Eckler, -Gry Words in the OED, Word Ways 25:4 (Nov. 1992)

References:
(Many references are of the form [Source:volumeage] or [Sourceage].)

Andree, Richard. Andrees Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
Bartholomew, John. Gazetteer of the British Isles: Statistical and
Topographical. 1887.
BBC = BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of English Names.
Bio-Base. (Microfiche) Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980.
CE = Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907.
CED = Chambers English Dictionary. 1988.
Century = "India, Northern Part." The Century Atlas of the World. 1897, 1898.
CLG = The Colombia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. L.E.Seltzer, ed. 1952.
CSD = Chambers Scots Dictionary. 1971 reprint of 1911 edition.
Daily Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
DFC = Dictionary of Fictional Characters. 1963.
EB11 = Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.
EDD = The English Dialect Dictionary. Joseph Wright, ed. 1898.
France = Map Index of France. G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces. 1918.
FW = Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1943.
HPS = The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of
Independent Education, 66th ed. 1985.
Indians = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. F. W. Hodge. 1912.
Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. 1879-87.
Johnston, Keith. Index Geographicus... 1864.
LG/1 = Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer
or Geographical Dictionary of the World. 1888.
LG/2 = Lippincott's New Gazetteer: ... 1906.
Lipp = Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World. 1861, undated
edition from late 1800's; 1902.
NAP = Narodowy Atlas Polski. 1973-1978 [Polish language]
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number if
applicableage]
OSN: U.S.S.R. Volume 6, S-T. Official Standard Names Approved by the United
States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer #42, 2nd ed. June 1970.
Partridge, Harry B. "Ad Memoriam Demetrii." Word Ways, 19 (Aug. 1986): 131.
Phillips, Lawrence. Dictionary of Biographical Reference. 1889.
RD = The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the British Isles, 1st ed. 1965.
RH1 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1966.
RH2 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition
Unabridged. 1987.
Simmonds, P.L. Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products. 1883.
Smith, John. The True Travels, Adventvres and Observations: London 1630.
Stieler, Adolph. Stieler's Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
TIG = The Times Index-Gazetteer of the World. 1965.
Times = The Times Atlas of the World, 7th ed. 1985.
W2 = Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Second Edition, Unabridged. 1934.
W3 = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Unabridged. 1961.
WA = The World Atlas: Index-Gazetteer. Council of Ministires of the USSR, 1968.
Worcester, J.E. Universal Gazetteer, Second Edition. 1823.

Some words containing "gry" that do not end with "gry": agrypnia,
agrypnotic, Gryllidae, gryllid, gryllus, Gryllus, grylloblattid,
Gryllotalpa, gryllos, grypanian, Gryphaea, Gryll, Gryphaea, gryposis,
grysbok, gryphon, Gryphosaurus, Grypotherium, grysbuck. Most of these
are in Webster's Second also with one from Webster's Third Edition and
one from the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition Unabridged.

Post by **Abula** » 26 Nov 2002, 11:22

How interesting to read those references. Anyone noticed the link in my previous post in this topic? Don't answer.

chux · Post by **chux** » 26 Nov 2002, 17:05

I knew the answer to that one and I missed my chance...damn

Post by **Abula** » 26 Nov 2002, 17:23

ChuckleS wrote:I knew the answer to that one and I missed my chance...damn

Missed the chance to brag with your knowledge (or web searching skill) and ruin to joy of thinking of other people by revealing the answer immediately? Like I did.

Chris Penrose · Post by **Chris Penrose** » 26 Nov 2002, 17:33

What is my cat's name.

dz · Post by dz » 26 Nov 2002, 18:12

wiener