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age, then. which, to be fair, is just a specific case of what i've already said..The Night Shade said:
Shall we try another? I am a spy, back in ye olde days, of dungeons and dragons and whatnot. The forces of my army are approaching another, and I must collect intelligence. The armies start 20 miles away from one another. My men, being weighed down with armour and on foot, move at a sluggish 4mph, while the enemy, who are all on horseback, move at 11mph. My plan is to ride to the enemy's army, on our only horse, examine their forces and report back to my general. I will then ride back, gather more information, deliver it to the general and continue like so until the armies meet. My horse travels at 30mph, so how far do I travel before the armies meet? Also, my horse is a magic horse, and has instant acceleration and instant turn-around, so it doesn't need to slow down to turn and reaches its top speed instantly.c_westerman13 said:
Why did King Kong climb to the top of the Empire State Building? (Not much of a riddle but it contains a funny answer)
No. He's lying. this isn't a paradox, because the opposite of the statement "All Cretans are liars" is "At least one Cretan doesn't lie."Rhaff said:
the statement could be true or false. a liar does not necesarilly lie all the time.Rhaff said:
with the assumption of 'liar' being a person for whom every statement they make is a lie, then the statement given must be a lie to be logical.
Here's a few.
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
What side of a pitcher is the handle on?
In a room is a murdered man surrounded by 53 bicycles. Why was he murdered?
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
What side of a pitcher is the handle on?
In a room is a murdered man surrounded by 53 bicycles. Why was he murdered?
1 - a holeStellarViking said:
2 - do pitchers even have handles?
3 - for stealing everyone's bike? yeah, that wasn't serious.
its been on more shows than i care to list, its still a good riddle if you've never seen it.Harveypot said:
Not true. Immovable and unstoppable can coexist as they do not actually contradict each other.Professor Cubbage said:
This is partially down to the fact that English is a language that uses synonyms in a very loose sense - that is, to say, that If you take two opposites and then give them synonyms, they will not necessarily be antonyms of each other.
For example.
Dark is a synoym of Gloomy
Bright is a synonym of Intelligent.
Gloomy and intelligent, however, are not antonyms of each other.
In this case, 'immovable' is being confused with 'unbreakable', which it is not. The unstoppable force could pass straight through the immovable object, smashing it but not actually moving it from its present position. It may not even have to break it - perhaps it just passes through like water through a mesh fence?
Either way, assuming these two items could exist at all, the unstoppable force would carry on as though there had been nothing in its way while the unstoppable force would stay exactly where it was before.
This was explained by a physicist at my university who put it FAR better than I did!
1- Yesc_westerman13 said:
2- They Do
3- Not quite.
And how did you come to that conclusion?MysticToast said:
i didn't expect to get 3 right, i was being sarcastic.StellarViking said:
for 2, i haven't a clue =[
Bicycle is a brand of playing cards and standard decks have 52 cards in them.StellarViking said:
