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#1 2005-04-18 03:03:44
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The four shops
Four shops stand in a town very close to each other. They want to combine together to make a huge supermarket.
They stand like this.
____ ____
l l l l
l____l l____l
____ ____
l l l l
l____l l____l
However, they can only afford to move only one wall to only one place to combine the four shops into one. The wall must not be rotated or enlarged, only translated.
How do they do it?
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#2 2005-04-18 10:53:46
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Re: The four shops
Is a wall short like "____", or long like "____ ____" ?
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#3 2005-04-19 04:00:42
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Re: The four shops
Ummmmmm..........all the shops are square.
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#4 2005-04-19 08:42:41
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Re: The four shops
Are they all attached to each other, or are they seperated by a backstreets?
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#5 2005-04-20 04:27:37
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No, they're completely separated from each other.
With backstreets.
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#6 2005-04-20 05:40:01
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Re: The four shops
ooh ooh ooh. i know... Morrisons buys them out and knocks the shops down before building a new morrisons
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I bought a large popcorn @ the cinema the other day, it was pretty big...some might even say it was "large
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#7 2005-04-20 08:31:53
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I agree with the Morrisons idea.
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I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
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#8 2005-04-20 10:51:41
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In My Humble Opinion, it can't be done in any straight-forward way. Must be a trick.
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#9 2005-04-20 22:34:32
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it cannot be done the only thing is morrisons or that stup[id tesco coz every little helps and its well dear and they have made over 8.6billion in profits in 2004 so they dont need 2 worry about cash
the allmighty spatula * want a tip* dont eat yellow snow: the meaning of life is a number and that number is 1
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#10 2005-04-21 03:46:33
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Re: The four shops
I'll tell you.
____ ____
l l l
l____ l____l
____ ____
l l l l
l____l l____l
l
l
The co-op.
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#11 2005-04-21 05:57:20
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ok. i need another medal for my genius breakthrough
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#12 2005-04-21 06:23:40
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But you didn't tell me the answer!
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#13 2005-04-21 06:53:22
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i don't hav a co-op near me. i do hav a halal meat shop though!
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#14 2005-04-21 07:03:41
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We have a sun tanning shop. And a library. And a newsagents. That's it.
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#15 2005-04-21 10:33:01
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LOL - well done Rora.
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#16 2005-04-21 11:26:56
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well i new that of course * blank stare* yeah i was testing you * didnt really know*
hey the earth may end in 2037 so there!
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#17 2005-04-22 04:18:02
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Heh, it's very cool, isn't it? Nobody's ever got it before.
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#18 2005-04-22 07:01:30
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Pft.... Cheater.
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
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#19 2005-04-23 05:53:44
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How? It's a brain teaser thingy, isn't it?
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#20 2005-04-24 22:27:39
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does any body care that the world itself may become into unexistance in the year 2037
ahh well lets eat jelly babies till then
* note to self* ( stop trying to make home made jelly babies)
and if any body wants the ingrediants for this here it is:
1 baby
1 sachet of jelly
mix!!!!!!
eat when chilled
mmmm i like pie
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#21 2005-04-25 04:08:45
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ok...i hav 2 B ova der now....*legs it in2 da distance*
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#22 2005-04-25 21:54:20
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hey come back dont you want the bowl *to lick*
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#23 2005-05-04 07:43:49
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eeeeeee! baby licker!
HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY Fatboy Slim is the band of the 90s, thats if you want to call it a band because its really a one man name
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#24 2005-05-10 09:38:22
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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! baby licker! indeed.
I come back stronger than a powered-up Pac-Man
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#25 2005-06-06 22:47:19
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Re: The four shops
a man walks in to a bar and says aaaaaa
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