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  • #41
    doodles of Tadley said:
    Ah, but there's nothing to say that people died in the afternoon, is there? I mean, lets face it, if the ship had crashed into the lighthouse within minutes of the keeper vacating his position it would be a bit silly wouldn't it? Specially if it wasn't even dark ........ honestly, you really need to think these things through
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    Ah but it says 'One afternoon he turned off all the lights...' which would imply that whatever lights we are talking about were currently 'on' during the day. Why would a lighthouse lamp be turned on during daylight? Now, you could say that perhaps it means they were in the 'on' position meaning that once it went dark they would come on automatically and therefore by turning them to 'off' he was preventing them from coming on automatically once it got dark, but why would he take such needless action when he could just walk away? Then again...why would he turn off the automated traffic lights?

    I'm going to assign a team of graduate trainees to this one and get back to you to restore my credibility :)
     
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  • #43
    LicensedToTrade said:
    Ah but it says 'One afternoon he turned off all the lights...' which would imply that whatever lights we are talking about were currently 'on' during the day. Why would a lighthouse lamp be turned on during daylight? Now, you could say that perhaps it means they were in the 'on' position meaning that once it went dark they would come on automatically and therefore by turning them to 'off' he was preventing them from coming on automatically once it got dark, but why would he take such needless action when he could just walk away? Then again...why would he turn off the automated traffic lights?

    I'm going to assign a team of graduate trainees to this one and get back to you to restore my credibility :)
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    Actually, that's a very good point .... I hadn't considered the reasons why the lights may have been on in the afternoon ..... perhaps the lighthouse keeper wasn't aware of off peak electrical tariffs? Perhaps he was just a bit of a maverick when it came to ecological issues ......... maybe the lighthouse was in Norway or somewhere like that where it is dark in the afternoons ............ let me know what you come up with. This clearly needs further discussion - I shall put off my book keeping to mull this point over properly..
     
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  • #47
    vvaannmmaann said:
    Mate,you need to get out more.
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    Yep - and whilst you're out & about take a trip to the coast and see a lighthouse.

    The main beam is always on, day and night, and so, when our disgruntled light house keeper turns off all the lights, he also turns off the main beam, so come darkness it can't be seen, ship runs aground ...

    I'm beginning to feel like that lighthouse keeper now ...!:D;)

    Jeff
     
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    dots and spots Jeff said:
    Yep - and whilst you're out & about take a trip to the coast and see a lighthouse.

    The main beam is always on, day and night, and so, when our disgruntled light house keeper turns off all the lights, he also turns off the main beam, so come darkness it can't be seen, ship runs aground ...

    I'm beginning to feel like that lighthouse keeper now ...!:D;)

    Jeff
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    It WAS you :eek::eek::eek: ... that's how you knew the answer :eek: x
     
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  • #51
    dots and spots Jeff said:
    Yep - and whilst you're out & about take a trip to the coast and see a lighthouse.

    The main beam is always on, day and night, and so, when our disgruntled light house keeper turns off all the lights, he also turns off the main beam, so come darkness it can't be seen, ship runs aground ...

    I'm beginning to feel like that lighthouse keeper now ...!:D;)

    Jeff
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    Alright you win, but you know far too much about lighthouses for it to be healthy. At least we know what your mastermind specialist subject will be.
     
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  • #54
    FaerieB said:
    I got one ....

    Why is LTT a bunny rabbit :eek: x
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    Actually my name is a riddle in itself, it means many things, more than you would realise. I will now explain to you how LicensedToTrade can be translated into a heart symbol...watch closely :p

    LicensedToTrade becomes LTT

    LTT is an ancronym for Less Than Three

    Another way of expressing a value less than three is... <3

    And that is how my name becomes a heart <3
     
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  • #55
    LicensedToTrade said:
    A woman goes to the doctor's with her two children. They are identical, both were born on the same day at around the same time in the same year from the same mother but they are most definately NOT twins. How is this possible?
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    Hmm ... tricky one this ....... is she a potential benefit cheat who has cloned one child and is tryin to get extra famly allowance?:|
     
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  • #62
    dots and spots Jeff said:
    A pair of twins were born in March but their birthday is in August. When they grew up they married each other.

    Explain!

    Jeff

    (just to clarify the twins were each others twin - i.e. they were born to the same mother, on the sane day.)
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    hehe they're Royal


    Royal birthday ;) and of course inbreeding is the norm ;)

    I know this isn't the ansmwer but once upon a time it could've been!

    I am proposing this as the answer

    Twins were born premature, so 'birthday' taken as when it should've been?

    Also they married each other cos they both got that special licence to marry other people and they thus were the person who unites the happy couple...ie...'marries' them without 'marrying them..if this makes sense?
     
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  • #64
    LicensedToTrade said:
    All of your correct guesses would have been more impressive had they not already been answered earlier in the thread. All of your incorrect guesses would have been less embarrassing had they not already been answered earlier in the thread :D
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    Hehe

    I know...but at least my wrong answes also show I didn't read any of the right ones :) It's a long thread.

    I like these puzzles but too many pages to sift through now to find them.
     
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    Ok - here's another, but you may well have seen this one before.

    Colonel Smetherington-Smetherington-Smyth, DSO, CBE, KFC is showing a group of visitors around Smetherington Hall - the ancient family home.

    He alights at a portrait of a fine man, with angular features and a distant stare.

    "Ah yes" says the Colonel. "One of my favourite portraits."

    He continues:

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son."

    What is the relationship of the man in the portrait to the our Colonel?

    Jeff
     
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    dots and spots Jeff said:
    Ok - here's another, but you may well have seen this one before.

    Colonel Smetherington-Smetherington-Smyth, DSO, CBE, KFC is showing a group of visitors around Smetherington Hall - the ancient family home.

    He alights at a portrait of a fine man, with angular features and a distant stare.

    "Ah yes" says the Colonel. "One of my favourite portraits."

    He continues:

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son."

    What is the relationship of the man in the portrait to the our Colonel?

    Jeff
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    Is the Colonel the father of the man in portrait?

    That man's father is thus himself and thus the man's father (himself) is his fathers son...
     
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    Unique Gift was right in the first instance.

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son."

    The key to solving it is to realise that my father's son is the same as saying 'me'.

    In the original phrase, replace     my father's son with me and it now reads:

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is me." So the father of the of the man in the picture is me (the Colonel), so the picture is of his son.

    Hope that's cleared things up, off back to my lighthouse now,

    Jeff
     
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    dots and spots Jeff said:
    Unique Gift was right in the first instance.

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son."

    The key to solving it is to realise that my father's son is the same as saying 'me'.

    In the original phrase, replace     my father's son with me and it now reads:

    "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is me." So the father of the of the man in the picture is me (the Colonel), so the picture is of his son.

    Hope that's cleared things up, off back to my lighthouse now,

    Jeff
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    Ah.. I was right afterall :) Thanks

    Fabulous, my late night thinkling is clearly clearer than my early morning thinking.
     
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