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Pop Quiz

10/02/2007 2:10 PM

Hello,

What's half the half of two and a half, as opposed to, half of the half of two and a half?

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10/02/2007 2:21 PM

The only difference I can see is the second has an extra word added 'of'....

John ???

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10/02/2007 2:42 PM

I'm with Electroman.

I might also add that the ambiguity of the word "and" in this context suggests at least two different interpretations. Each interpretation evaluates to a different result:

1) half <of> (the half of (two and a half)): ((2+1/2)/2)/2 [Result=5/8]

2) half <of> (the half of two) and a half: (2/2)/2 + 1/2 [Result=1]

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"I saw a man on a hill with a telescope."
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10/03/2007 10:03 AM

Hi,

Does this makes sense?

½ x 5/2 =

2

½ x ½ x 5/2 =

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10/03/2007 10:39 AM

I think it is too late to input logic into this off-topic-fest.

You may have to make a new thread if you want to have a serious discussion.

Has anyone considered what the answer would be if it were the dodo instead of a goose or duck?

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10/03/2007 6:05 PM

"I saw a man on a hill with a telescope." = 313

I saw a hill with a man on a telescope = 313

I saw a man with a telescope on a hill = 313

Therefore the answer is 313

Or maybe I never saw the man or the telescope only the hill

If so then the answer is

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Beware the man eating sandwich!

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10/04/2007 5:58 AM

I saw a man on a hill with a telescope

I saw a man, on a hill, with a telescope

I saw a man on a hill, with a telescope

I saw, on a hill, a man with a telescope

I saw: a man on a hill with a telescope

I saw 3 things: a man, who was on a hill and had with him a telescope

I saw 2 things, using my telescope: a man on a hill

Whilst on a hill with my telescope, I saw a man

Whilst on a hill, I saw a man with his telescope

Why wasn't I watching the stars with Masu?

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<Why wasn't I watching the stars with Masu?>

How romantic!

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That wasn't what I meant

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Don't worry. The secret's safe. This is CR4!

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OMG. For reasons that may not be apparent unless you read the Challenge Questions, I may have made a grave error. One moment my hopes were lifted, then dashed on the cruel rocks of fickleness. I just didn't stop to check the desert ice in my jealous rage.. I know, it makes little sense, but in my tiny deluded way I was happy for a moment. Just one, brief, but joyous moment. From now on I'll stick to TLA's.

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What about this FLA: BGTM?

And you were the one who was first to be fickle , and being so abandoned I looked elsewhere for...for...for instruction on observing the night sky. I hear that the desert is the best location for this

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It's not me you need to convince, it's the ocker.< is it tue that a person can put nails in their own coffin ? )> Oh no, now I truly am done for. All right , I've stirned this onefar enough, I'll shut up.

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Sorry. The cat's out of the bag! (Just teasing).
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10/04/2007 9:44 AM

Damnation, I thought I'd secured it so Del couldn't escape again!

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Parse ?

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10/02/2007 3:18 PM

That's all very well, but how many beans make five?

Eu: is there a limit on the number of punctuation marks allowed?

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No limit.

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10/02/2007 3:24 PM

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long is it to Easter?
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What is the difference between a duck?

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2.
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Yes, but for very large values of 2, 2 + 2 = 5. Are we still talking duck here?
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I am.

"quack"
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Well, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's gotta be a number.
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True so I will raise you two eggs

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I think youse is all quakers!!

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But a duck is nought...

And a golden duck is twice nought

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Both its legs are not the same

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Close enough...

'One of it's legs is both the same'... is how I heard it!

You win tonights star prize, the nasty leg wound (presumably the nasty leg wound is a pythonism?...I can't remember, mind I can't remember much today...)

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Watch it, or I'll have you declawed!

As you've "stolen" one of my Zen jokes, I'm forced to tell you this one:

There are two daffodils on a hill. One says to the other, "My, my. You're looking yellow today."

"Yes", says the second, "I've just eaten a banana."

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So one daff says to the other...

'You're looking blue...why the long face..?'

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So it walks in circles?
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Del the Cat; could you please fill up the following blank?

difference between a duck and ___________?

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Nope..

I just write it loike my old Da' says it to me when I be a nipper...

I dun' unnerstand it then, 'an Oi du unnerstan' it now noither.

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The same as the difference between margarine.

(with apologies to 'Henry Crun' in Goon Show #161)

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Each of his feet is both the same.
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Douglas Adams his-self told me the answer is "42"!

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Douglas Adams makes up Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything on the spot. Don't buy it.

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This is just a guess but I'm gonna go with 137. Or maybe the White Album.

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Then I'm changing my answer to Number 9.

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

Number 9

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42!

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That's the answer but what is the precise question? [of everything]

If I knew I would not be asking.

Adams had no problem with the answer but the same problem with the questions that many guest post on C4. But at least he knew it. Oh and thanks for the fish, by

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"Eight eights are sixty four

Multiply by seven

When it's done, carry one

And take away eleven"

"Nine nines are eighty one

Multiply by three

If it's more, carry four

And then it's time for tea."

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TRUE or FALSE ! How much does a Battleship weigh?

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In or out of the bath?

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In or out of the bath?

You or the Battleship?

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Correct

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Red if it is Wednesday.

(This whole thread should be labeled as off-topic.)

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A battleship doesn't weigh anything. It just blows them aweigh.
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What about it's anchors ?
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My money is on the Canada Gooses.

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"If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then shoot that lyin' summa b*tch goose and suppa down!"

Couldnt resist..
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If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood.

And therefore?

A witch!
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Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
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Not I, but my liege, Arthur, King of the Britons is the one so wise in the ways of science.
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ARTHUR: Old woman!

DENNIS: Man!

ARTHUR: Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?

DENNIS: I'm thirty-seven.

ARTHUR: I...what?

DENNIS: I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.

ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.

DENNIS: Well, you could say 'Dennis'.

ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.

DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?

ARTHUR: I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--

DENNIS: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!

ARTHUR: Well, I am King!

DENNIS: Oh, King, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress with the..

WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How d'you do?

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?

WOMAN: King of the who?

ARTHUR: The Britons.

WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

ARTHUR: Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king.

WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

WOMAN: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.

DENNIS: That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of..

ARTHUR: Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

WOMAN: No one lives there.

ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?

WOMAN: We don't have a lord.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week...

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major..

ARTHUR: Be quiet! I ORDER YOU TO BE QUIET!

WOMAN: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh.

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, how did you become King, then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing] ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

ARTHUR: Shut up, will you? Shut up!

DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!

DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
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So, when danger reared its ugly head,
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Good to see that Python still lives large !!
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Spam, spam, span, spam......

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Play !

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Why all the questions? I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!

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Happy Birthday Monty Python.

The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus was made today (5th October) 1969.

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I'd multiply everything by 4 and start over . . .

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The difference can be seen with the following equation:

Pi squared x radial distance from moon x earth speed - light speed x zero =

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No that cant be right cause the question said 2 1/2 so the answer must be the Dodo or maybe 1 1/2 ducks? No its definitely the Dodo I think

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"half the half of two and a half" is the act/process,

while

"half of the half of two and a half" is the result of the act/process.

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No.

"Halve the half of two and a half" is the act/process,

whilst

"Half <of> the half of two and a half" is the result of the act/process.
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Actually, it could be an instruction "half/halve" is also the imperitive form of the verb "to half/to halve".

I believe the "lf" ending is now becoming the more usual form of this verb, just as "roofs" is becoming the accepted spelling of "rooves"

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Better get Kris to check his hooves?

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No no...it's a film question : To Half and Have Knot. Something to do with Ohms Law and Martini. The Devil Rides Ought is more my thing. Kitty Come Home is one for you Del.

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Did you have a pre-nuptial agreement, and who has the best divorce lawyer ?

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"Stop, Stop, Stop! This thread is just getting far too silly!" (in a Pythonesque-style colonel's voice)

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"Concatenate on the possibilities, never the probablities"

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Diet Pepsi!

After all , this is a 'pop' quiz, isn't it?

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What about Shirley?

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Shirley you jest?
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Don't call me Shirley!!

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Martin Kemp is goona get you all for taking the **** and mispilling. ( Go Wiki )
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You leave my aunt out of this!

Besides, I don't know what kind of pop she likes.

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