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Grampy Bobby
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Another Email from Bill




" Hey, Bobby, here are four good ones for you to test your powers of perception and reasoning. Answer each one as quickly as possible:



(1) You're a participant in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?




Answer: If you said first you're absolutely wrong. Overtake the second person and you take his place in second.



(2) Try not to screw up this time and don't take as much time as you did for the first question. If you overtake the last person you are...




Answer: If you said second to last then you're dead wrong again. C'mon, how can you overtake the LAST person?



(3) Very tricky arithmetic. Must be done quickly in your head. No paper, pencil or calculator. Try it... Take 1000 and add 40 to it.

Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What's the total?




Answer: Did you get 5000? Correct answer is actually 4100. Check it out with a calculator. Maybe today isn't your day, Swede.



(4) Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono... and what's the name of the fifth daughter???




Answer: Did you answer Nunu? Of course not. Her name is Mary.




Bonus Round, so you can redeem yourself: A mute person goes into a shop wanting to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the motion of brushing

his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and makes the purchase. Next, a blind man comes into the shop and wants

to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?




Answer: It's quite simple. Opens his mouth and asks for it.


............


And before you retired, those large companies actually paid you to think? Feel free to pass this on to your smart chess friends at RHP.



Merry Christmas to all... from snowy New England.


Kind regards,


Bill"


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Nice. I failed every single question except for the bonus round. In the immortal words of Homer (Simpson...not that other guy), "I'm smart...s-m-r-t, smart."

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I failed each one except the part about reading in English. That much I did okay, I think.

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I got them all sort of right.

Question 2 - you've just lapped someone, but there isn't enough info in the question to answer

Bonus - Why would he need sunglasses?

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Grampy do you know my dad?

He sent me the same email, I'll have to see if Bill was on the list.

Oh yeah, it was all a sinch but the "maths" (adding 😞) I did it twice, checked it against my phone the third time, and excel the fourth.........oh dear!

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Originally posted by rogueboy
I got them all sort of right.

Question 2 - you've just lapped someone, but there isn't enough info in the question to answer

Bonus - Why would he need sunglasses?
Why sunglasses? Maybe poor guy has egg whites for brains... but the question is unfocused, impertinent, intrusive

of the blind guy's business and at an unhelpful tangent to Bill's crux question. Nice to know you were only kidding.



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Originally posted by Roosty
Grampy do you know my dad?

He sent me the same email, I'll have to see if Bill was on the list.

Oh yeah, it was all a sinch but the "maths" (adding 😞) I did it twice, checked it against my phone the third time, and excel the fourth.........oh dear!
Haven't had the pleasure of meeting him as of yet. Welcome to RHP.


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Originally posted by Fleabitten
Nice. I failed every single question except for the bonus round. In the immortal words of Homer (Simpson...not that other guy), "I'm smart...s-m-r-t, smart."
One honest man among 1,000 (actually make that two).




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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
One honest man among 1,000 (actually make that two).




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Two honest men?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Why sunglasses? Maybe poor guy has egg whites for brains... but the question is unfocused, impertinent, intrusive
of the blind guy's business
The blind man asking for sunglasses is like the mute trying to attain a voice changer. Sounds very much like a sketch from a 70's comedy show (before discrimination was wrong, I believe)

Speaking of voice changers - found this. He'd be better ordering online - to make sure he gets the right item with minimum confusion (presuming he wants one). Or he could just write it down

http://www.fancydressnation.co.uk/acatalog/info_SM24727.html

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Originally posted by jb70
Two honest men?
Along with Fleabitten, yours truly also struggled and was blindsided by a few.



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Originally posted by rogueboy
The blind man asking for sunglasses is like the mute trying to attain a voice changer. Sounds very much like a sketch from a 70's comedy show (before discrimination was wrong, I believe)

Speaking of voice changers - found this. He'd be better ordering online - to make sure he gets the right item with minimum confusion (presuming he wants one). Or he could just write it down

http://www.fancydressnation.co.uk/acatalog/info_SM24727.html
Rogueboy, as usual, your intellect is as penetrating as an indiscriminate awl... poking random holes at will. 'Bonus' is only a hypothetical.



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Stellar thread.

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Thanks for the fun thread Grampy. I got question 1 and 4 correct but the other 3 wrong, lol.

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Originally posted by bambee
Thanks for the fun thread Grampy. I got question 1 and 4 correct but the other 3 wrong, lol.
So glad you enjoyed it, Lisa. I'll make it a point to tell Bill. Your profile is clearly one of the very best on this RHP Site. Encouraging to know

that at least you and John have gotten it right and are protecting your treasure... a horizontal/vertical vote that life on earth should continue.

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