Slow down little Miss Dynamite before you blow a fuse. The OP made a post and then within two mins or so started moaning he didn't get a reply. Comes across as more than a tad impatient.
The OP didn't my help to 'hang himself' he done that all by himself in his first three post's...
He (mj] changed his mind based on what I said and my reasons/logic..
I understood exactly what he said. He wanted one of his CS friends to buy him a coffee. Now if he was that much of a friend with his CS buddies, wouldn't he offer?
And also, he has no vision. As I said, he must have known in advance when he was going to the 'big smoke', why didn't he ask last week for example....?
Sometimes it's a necessary evil (like war). Some people make several points at once and depending on how much I like them (or want to piss them off) depends on my response..
Take your head out of your butt and lay of the tap water. I never said he wasn't at a loose end. What I said (on of three Q's in my first post)..
3...Why didn't you have the vision to arrange to meet up with someone before (I doubt this was sprung on you at the last moment).
He must have known well in advance the date for the audition. And What actually happened was he made his OP and within TWO mins (I was answering a PM from here at the time and looked at the Irish forum) moaned that no one had replied...
So...1 He didn't think in advance and try and arrange a 'meet up'..
2 He expects someone to offer him a coffee (not link up for a coffee but EXPECTS-HOPES on of his CS buddies will pay for him..
3 Started moaning no one replied two mins after his OP...
unlaoised stop drinking tap water and cut down on the fluoride. And read what people say and not what you perceived they said...
WTF. Your daughter is allegedly going to audition for X-factor and you want someone to offer you a coffee?
1...Why didn't you bring a flask of coffee.
2...Why don't you wait for the audition and support your daughter, instead of going AWOL with a 'nice CS buddy'.....
3...Why didn't you have the vision to arrange to meet up with someone before (I doubt this was sprung on you at the last moment).
Then you post twice within a few mins of your OP¨and moan that no one seemed to take you up on your offer for them to buy you a coffee. (lay of the tap water and cut down the fluoride in take)
1. The sum of each two adjacent squares gives the number above. What number should replace the question mark?
2. Replace each set of dashes with a seven letter word. The same seven letters must be used for both words. What are the words?
"The mother said that continually sorting out the children’s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ had given her a headache and she needed a couple of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "
Answer 2a: Answer 2b:
3. Clock A was correct at midnight. From that moment it began to lose four minutes per hour. The clock stopped one hour ago showing clock B. What is the correct time now? The clock runs for less than 24 hours.
Answer 3:
4. Rearrange the letters of 'TASKS WERE CORRECT' to give two varieties of salad leaves. What are they?
Answer 4a: Answer 4b:
5. What should be the value of the fourth column?
6. On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the second letter of the words either side to give another word in each case. When completed, a word will be read downwards. What is it?
7. Add together three numbers to score 21. Each number can be used as many times as you wish. How many different combinations are there?
0 3 4 5 6 10 12 15
8. Use the letters given to complete the star so that two five letter words, one four letter word and two words of two letters can be read. What are the words?
Ahhhh makes sense.. The jester is meant to be Bob Dylan...
"The Jester" is probably Bob Dylan. It refers to him wearing "A coat he borrowed from James Dean," and being "On the sidelines in a cast." Dylan wore a red jacket similar to James Dean's on the cover of The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, and got in a motorcycle accident in 1966 which put him out of service for most of that year."
American Pie lyrics fetch more than £800,000 at auction
Handwritten lyrics to Don McLean’s 1971 hit American Pie have sold at auction for more than £800,000. The 16 pages, which include several drafts of the hit song which got to number two in 1972, sold at Christie’s in New York for 1.2 million US dollars (£805,574). The auction house described the song, which is around eight minutes long, as “alternately wistful, buoyant, and enigmatic”.
Its reference to “the day the music died” is about the deaths of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a 1959 air crash. American Pie made the charts again in 1991 when a re-issue got to number 12, before Madonna’s cover version finally topped the chart in 2000. McLean’s other hits include the 1972 chart-topper Vincent and Crying.
So the line 'The day the music died' was about the plane crash that killed JP, Riche & Buddy... The reference to the 'King & Queen' was about Elvis Presley & Connie Francis (from sources I've heard and reliable)...
12...He entered the door which the man had left unlocked
13....28eggs (Common mistake is figuring that 1 hen lays 1 egg in 1 day and they answer is 42. Actually each hen lays only 1 egg in a day and a half or two thirds of an egg a day.
14....Maryland
15....'Able was I ere I saw Elba'
16.....Gem
17....Couch
18....Nephew
19....The hard mat was sewed
20....Vale, veil
21....Gates, stage
22....That that is is. That that is not is not. Is that not so?
13. If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will seven hens lay in six days?
14. The first two syllables of the name of one of the States of the United States is suggested by a girl’s name. The third syllable is suggested by a word meaning ‘debark’. What is the name of the State?
15. How will the following sentence, attributed to Napoleon, read if you start with the last word and read all the letters and words backwards?
‘Able was I ere I saw Elba.’
If a clock is stopped for a minute every ten minutes, how long will it take the minute hand to complete a revolution? If a clock is stopped for a minute every ten minutes, how long will it take the minute hand to complete a revolution?
16. In the following word, eliminate the second letter and every alternate letter thereafter. What word do the remaining letters form?
GLEAM
17. Rearrange the following letters so that they make the name of an article of furniture:
C H O C U
18. My father is the brother of your sister. What relative am I of yours? Cousin, nephew, son, uncle, son-in-law?
19. By eliminating one letter in each of four words in the following sentence, a new sentence of an entirely different meaning will remain.
They heard meat was stewed.
20. What two four-letter words pronounced the same but spelled differently mean ‘valley’ and ‘curtain’?
21. Which two of the following words are composed of the same letters?
AGATE, AGITATE, GATES, STAGS, STAGE, GRATE
22. Write the following on your answer sheet and, by inserting two full-stops and a question mark, make the meaning clear.
That that is is that that is not is not is that not so
23. The first part of the name of a certain make of American car is suggested by a word meaning ‘call’; the second, by a word meaning ‘insinuation’. What is the make of the car?
24. There were three horses running in a race. Their names were Tally-ho, Sonny Boy, and Juanita.
Their owners were Mr Lewis, Mr Bailey and Mr Smith, although not necessarily in that sequence.
Tally-ho unfortunately broke his ankle at the start of the race. Mr Smith owned a brown and white three-year old. Sonny Boy had previous winnings of £20,000. Mr Bailey lost heavily although his horse almost won.
The horse that won was black. This race was the first race that the horse owned by Mr Lewis had run. What was the name of the horse that won?
(If you want the answers... I'll post them sometime today)
Find out with a few of the most fiendish brain-teasers ever
Book by Robert Streeter and Robert Hoehn republished from 1930s
Originally designed to discover clever people by posing hard questions
'What the nation needs is more geniuses. So said Robert Streeter and Robert Hoehn, two self-styled intelligence experts in the Thirties, who set out to discover clever people by publishing a book posing devilishly difficult brain-teasers for members of the general public.'
1. Rearrange the following letters so as to make the name of a living creature:
B R I N O
2. Four men can build four boats in four days. How long will it take one man to build one boat?
3. Test your memory on this passage: Three men and their wives and a widower left by car at noon one day for a picnic. After they had gone three miles, they saw two men and a child in another car that had broken down. ‘That is tough luck,’ said one of the picnickers. At 1 pm they arrived at the picnic grounds, where they saw only the old one-armed caretaker and his son. They immediately started to eat their luncheon of sandwiches, fruit and cake. Question: How many people have been mentioned?
4. Which is heavier, milk or cream?
5. What one word means both ‘dodge’ and ‘immerse’?
6. Rearrange the letters in the word ‘sleuth’ to make another word.
7. What word meaning ‘ship’ would mean ‘small collections of water’ if the letters were read backwards?
8. If a clock is stopped for a minute every ten minutes, how long will it take the minute hand to complete a revolution?
9. What adjective which means ‘pertaining to citizenship’ spells the same from right to left as it does from left to right?
10. When seen in a mirror, which of the following words printed in capital letters will look the same as when viewed directly?
MAN TOOT DEED
11. There is a monosyllable which, if you add to it a single letter, becomes a word of three syllables. What is it?
12. A man lived in a house that could be entered by only one door and five windows. Making certain that there was no one in the house one day, he went out for the afternoon. Upon his return, although the windows were still locked and unbroken and the door had not been forced, he discovered a thief in his house robbing it. If the thief did not use a skeleton key, or pick any of the locks, how did he get into the house?
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RE: stuck in Dublin...
Slow down little Miss Dynamite before you blow a fuse. The OP made a post and then within two mins or so started moaning he didn't get a reply. Comes across as more than a tad impatient.The OP didn't my help to 'hang himself' he done that all by himself in his first three post's...
He (mj] changed his mind based on what I said and my reasons/logic..
I understood exactly what he said. He wanted one of his CS friends to buy him a coffee. Now if he was that much of a friend with his CS buddies, wouldn't he offer?
And also, he has no vision. As I said, he must have known in advance when he was going to the 'big smoke', why didn't he ask last week for example....?