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#1 2005-06-21 07:25:45
- Zach
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Two, just for you.
1) When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?
2) What always comes, but never is?
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#2 2005-06-21 07:58:30
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Re: Two, just for you.
[ A pox upon Rora's correct head! ]
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#3 2005-06-21 10:09:10
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Re: Two, just for you.
A pox upon your head!
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
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#4 2005-06-21 18:55:02
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Re: Two, just for you.
1) I think.......erm, Friday? *covers head in case*
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#5 2005-06-21 21:33:26
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Re: Two, just for you.
There be no pox upon thy head today.
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
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#6 2005-06-22 02:57:28
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Re: Two, just for you.
These questions are much harder than each other.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#7 2005-06-22 08:34:46
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Re: Two, just for you.
Q2 answer is 2moro!!!
Q1 answer is well confusing!!!
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#8 2005-06-22 18:55:30
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Re: Two, just for you.
I keep trying to do it, but keep getting mixed up and give up.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#9 2005-06-22 19:23:01
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Re: Two, just for you.
These questions are much harder than each other.
I think that if you had asserted the opposite I would have disagreed with both statements.
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#10 2005-06-23 07:16:51
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Re: Two, just for you.
i am sure that the answer to Q2 is tomorrow
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#11 2007-03-17 14:17:03
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Re: Two, just for you.
The answer to Q1 is the same as the answer to Q2.
Or, if you want to analyse Q1 just for the fun of it
when the day after tomorrow is yesterday = in three days time
when the day before yesterday was tomorrow = four days ago
But in three days time it will be exactly one week after four days ago. Therefore the today in Q1 can be any day of the week and so the only way to answer the question is with reference to today not as a particular day of the week but as any day in general.
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