Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Bob Hovious (4/3/2009)


    (groan) :pinch:

    Watch out for flying pork chops too!!



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  • Bob Hovious (4/2/2009)


    ......If each of the men paid only 90 bucks (100-10) and 3*90 = 270, and the bellboy kept 20 for a tip, that's only 290 out of the original 300 dollars.

    What happened to the other 10?

    Man, do I feel old now. My dad gave me that riddle when I was 12 or so, but in his version three traveling salesmen paid $30 for the room and the bellhop kept a $2 surreptitious tip.

  • john.arnott (4/3/2009)


    Bob Hovious (4/2/2009)


    ......If each of the men paid only 90 bucks (100-10) and 3*90 = 270, and the bellboy kept 20 for a tip, that's only 290 out of the original 300 dollars.

    What happened to the other 10?

    Man, do I feel old now. My dad gave me that riddle when I was 12 or so, but in his version three traveling salesmen paid $30 for the room and the bellhop kept a $2 surreptitious tip.

    Same here. I guess rooms are more expensive now. 🙂



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  • Yes guys, the original version is "What happened to the other dollar?"

    Actually, I think the original version may go something like...

    III centurions enter an inn and the innkeeper's son tells them that a room for the night will be XXX denarii...

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  • Bob Hovious (4/3/2009)


    Yes guys, the original version is "What happened to the other dollar?"

    Actually, I think the original version may go something like...

    III centurions enter an inn and the innkeeper's son tells them that a room for the night will be XXX denarii...

    Well it's definitely been around for a while. I know that Sam Lloyd told it and he died in 1914. And I doubt that he invented it.

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  • It's dead, Jim. Wake and afterparty to be held near Roy's place.

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  • It's just a flesh wound...

    No, I think its just the weekend. Give it time, someone is sure to post here again. Heck, you just did and so did I!

  • Have to admit that I started thinking that something is wrong with my email:-P

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  • Bob Hovious (4/5/2009)


    It's dead, Jim. Wake and afterparty to be held near Roy's place.

    Hey Bob, Currently all party is canceled. Have some bad news with family. So I am not in Curacao. I am with my Mother.

    We can have the party when I come back.

    BTW, Steve, The connection is pretty good here in India, but to load the Forum page takes a bit of time. One thing I did notice was if I stop the loading of page and reload it, it come fast.

    -Roy

  • I noticed that a lot of the pages here slowed down like crazy when the prettier code blocks were added in. There's a script that formats them, and I get warnings from the browser about a long-running script, if the code blocks are very large or there are a lot of them on a page.

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  • Roy, I'm terribly sorry to hear that. God bless your family in this time of trouble.

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  • Roy,

    Hope things are well with you and my thoughts and prayers for your family.

  • Same here, Roy. Our thoughts are with you.

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