weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (03/18/86)
I think if we are going to play this, we should only play ONE at a time and set up some format for the way the game works, since those who know should not ruin it for those who don't. Thus, a posting with subject "Albatross soup" should start the puzzle, a response with "Re: Albatross soup (?)" should be a query, and a response with "Re: Albatross soup" should answer a query. Finally, "Re: Albatross soup (I got it!)" should be a putative solution, perhaps encrypted. Answers should only be of the form yes, no, irrelevant, yes but misleading, and no but misleading. Whether only one person should supply answers is not clear to me. Watch what happens when I don't follow my own advice: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> o A man is dead on the floor of a room surrounded by fifty-two >> bicycles. What happened ? > > What do you mean? In a ROOM with bicycles INSIDE? You got it. >> >> o Two sailors go into a restaurant. They both order albatross >> soup. One takes a single taste and runs outside and throws >> up. What happened ? ** hard one ** > > He saw the albatross moved. Nope. >> o Two dead bodies on the floor of a room, window open, water >> on floor. What happened ? > > This is a wide guess... no! > A man went to visit a small deserted island which rarely gets >any visitor. He reached the island by crossing a worn wooden >bridge. He found that there was absolutely no living thing, animal >or vegetation, whatsoever. So he decided to return. But when he put his >foot on the bridge he found the bridge was about to collopse. Since the >doesn't know how to swim and the bridge was the only mean he had to return >to the main land, he was confined to the island. He didn't carry any >thing at all beside his clothings. > However, by the end of the twenty-first day he made it through the >bridge without any help. What happened? He had lost a lot of weight so he had no trouble returning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my contribution: Tim and Greg were talking. Tim said "the terror of flight" and then Greg said "the gloom of the grave", so Greg was arrested. On what charges? To answer the obvious question, the exact phrases matter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who recognize the above will of course not be so egregiously obnoxious as to point out my source. I have made other stories of this sort from it. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) (03/19/86)
In article <12468@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) asks: >Tim and Greg were talking. Tim said "the terror of flight" and then >Greg said "the gloom of the grave", so Greg was arrested. > >On what charges? Allittering on public property. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Whatever I write are not the opinions or policies of Digital Research, Inc.,| |and probably won't be in the foreseeable future. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Holloway ....!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!holloway (I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)