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Ok see if you can work this one out.. University students couldn't but a 5 year old got it right!

What is greater than God
More evil than the Devil
Poor people have it
Rich people want it
and if you eat it, you will die

Answers on a postcard

P.S I didn't get it right either

Nothing
How about a hard one next time.

Wow! I must be loosing brain cells with old age as i didn't get it at first anyway NIbiker won the prize for being the first to answer & have a Guess what the prize was?

Well I suppose on a trivial level "nothing" would work - but it's only correct within a given framework.

For instance, "poor people have nothing" is logically invalid - they clearly have "something" (physical presence, consciousness, life etc.) and "rich people want nothing" is hard to support - rich people always want something more, although they may not "need" anything.

As relates to "nothing is greater than God" or "nothing is more evil than the devil," that's also only true for monotheists - polytheists have a different perspective, as do atheists; a category that also includes Buddhism, according to some theologians.

[n.b. Do not confuse Buddhism with Bubbaism: the former believes in Buddha, reincarnation, and nirvana; the latter believes in Budweiser, a car nation, and Toby Keith.]

"If you eat nothing you will die" again presupposes "eat" refers to regular oral ingestion. Folks can live quite happily (or maybe unhappily) by drip-feed methods using liquid nutrients injected directly into the blood.

I suppose the reason a 5-year-old can get an answer so quickly is because he/she is not yet schooled enough in logical analysis or rhetoric to appreciate that other answers may also be valid. Or it may be that most 5-year-olds (and those of you with kids know this only too well) find that answering any question with "nothing," "dunno," or "like I care" is going to get them through life 85% of the time.

Or maybe I'm just being a spoilsport and over pedantic. "So, no change there then, Siggy?"


Siggy

Whats the largest word you can write using only the top row of letters on a qwerty keyboard?

Typewriter.?

correct

Poor people have something, poverty.

If you set out to fail and you do fail are you really a failure? After all you did achieve your goal.

Wow, that's very deep man! you don't happen to be a professional Psychiatrist do you?

I always said to meet brighter people riding a Triumph

And my favorites:

1. How many grooves are thee on one side of a LP record?

2. T/F - Days get shorter in the Summer, and longer in the Winter?

one grove

and true days do get shorter in the summer and longer in the winter

...one hundred and forty three, one hundred and forty four, one hundred and forty... er... wait... er... oh bugger!

One, two, three, four, five...

Siggy

well Dwight that's not entirely true...

You see, to those who celebrate the summer and winter solstis'...

Then the Summer Solstis is traditionaly the LONGEST day of the year and so as it takes place at the begining of summer (for those here in the Northern Hemisphere) than the days would logically get SHORTER as we head toward the winter (thru the summer) and conversly as the winter solstis is traditionally the shortest day of the year, and it takes place at the begining of winter, then the days MUST be getting LONGER thru the winter.

See the problem with that question is it fails to clarify the meening of the word "day" does it meen the period of day light as in day and night

or does it meen day as in a 24 hour period of time...

Clearly days are determined by a full rotation of the earth...NOT by the revolutions of a quarts movement...thus the need for a leap year every time we elect a new joker to that big house down in DC...it was designed to correct the issues we have with our faulty system of determining what a day (24 hours) is...

Actually days are NOT 24 hours...as discovered way back in 1851 by that Bright French (spit ) Physicist Foucault when he dangled that big hunk of bronse at the Pantheon in Paris and discovered that it takes 23 hours and 56 min for the earth to rotate one full revolution

We just feel the need to standardize everything...and 24 hours (with an extra 24 tossed in every 1,460 days was the closest we could manage to get)

...two hundred and twenty one, two hundred and twenty two... hang on in there guys, I'm almost all the way to the inner groove on side one of Dark Side of the Moon... two hundred and.. er... where was I?... one, two, three, four...

Siggy

Okay Rob! You make some very valid points there.

BUT....Your argument here IS predicated on the word of a FRENCHMAN(as even YOU so "subtlely" note yourself)...so...EXCUSE ME for coming across as a bit of a "Doubting Thomas" here....BUT I'm gonna side with some of our more conservative members here while I'm munching on my FREEDOM FRIES!!!!

Cheers,
Dwight
(pass the ketchup please)

OK, Bob, the answer to "how many grooves are there on one side of an LP?" is two hundred and thirty three. Well, that's on side one of Dark Side of the Moon.

Now, let's see if I can work out how many are on the B-side... one, two, three, four, five...

Siggy

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Then the Summer Solstis is traditionaly the LONGEST day of the year and so as it takes place at the begining of summer (for those here in the Northern Hemisphere) than the days would logically get SHORTER as we head toward the winter (thru the summer) and conversly as the winter solstis is traditionally the shortest day of the year, and it takes place at the begining of winter, then the days MUST be getting LONGER thru the winter.

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Uhmm... OK, I'll give you that. On that note, since the Earth orbits the Sun on an elliptical path as do the other planets, apparently about 7% more solar radiation reaches the Earth's surface in January than in July... not that you'd think so!! Must be another Southern Hemisphere thing...