Hangman should abide by the fine print and hang the guy for being a smart-ass. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/hanged.html [rquoter]Originally these words were pretty much interchangeable, but “hanged” eventually came to be used pretty exclusively to mean “executed by hanging.” Does nervousness about the existence of an indelicate adjectival form of the word prompt people to avoid the correct word in such sentences as “Lady Wrothley saw to it that her ancestors’ portraits were properly hung”? Nevertheless, “hung” is correct except when capital punishment is being imposed or someone commits suicide. [/rquoter] He meant to say fomfotable. Have you never had a typo?
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This blew my mind......when I was 8. Three guys walk into a hotel and say they need one room to share. Inkeep says, 30$. They each pay 10$ and the bell hop escorts them to their room. When the bellhop comes back, the inkeep says "I have made a mistake, it was only supposed to be 25$, please take this 5$ and refund it to the gentlemen. As the bellhop is riding up the elevator, he says to himself "There is no way these guys can evenly split the 5$, so I will pocket 2$ and give them each $1, thus to avoid uneeded fighting. So if each patron essentially paid 9$ (9 x 3 = $27) and the bellhop has $2 in his pocket, what happened to the last dollar?
That's probably my favorite. Would not have thought about it that way. Spoiler Each person ends up paying 9 dollars; which includes the 2 dollars the bellhop is holding (because these 2 dollars are part of the 27 dollars); so 25 + 2 = 27/3 = 9. Then each person gets 3 dollars each!
Not how it is suppose to be calculated. Guy 1 = $10 Guy 2 = $10 Guy 3 = $10 Total = $30 New Total = $25 +$5 (mistake) = $30 (original) Bellhop is keeping $2 from the $30 = $28 total paid. Not $27. Each person paid $9.33 not $9. They try to trick you into thinking that giving them $1 back makes the total = $27. Not the case.
Heh. This one has been posted on the BBS over the years. The problem is a math failure. If it was $25 for 3, thats $8.33 per person, not $8. So essentially if the bellhop kept 2 dollars, the men should have gotten $9.33 each which is $28 + 2.
When I was a kid, I watched this cartoon "Extreme Ghostbusters" and it had a riddle that went something like this: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the noon and three legs at night. First one that gets it right will get rep.
You are correct. I was 10 years old when I first heard of the riddle. It's pretty clever. It stuck with me ever since.
