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Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 17:46
1. There is a town where 5 percent of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?

2. What five letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?

3. Which English word is pronounced the same if you take away the last four letters?

4. The more I am, the less you see. Strange result! What can I be?

5. What runs, but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?

6. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not made of flesh, fish, bone, or fowl?

7. I sound like a word of one letter, but I’m actually three. Look the same from both ends - I’m a palindrome you see.

8. I’m the beginning of the end, and the end of time. Who knows? - You might even find me at the end of this rhyme.

9. Susan didn't like to tell her age, so when she was asked, her mother would answer for her. Her mother said, 'I'm just seven times as old as she is now. In twenty years, she'll be just half the age that I will be then.' How old is Susan?

10. What relationship to you is your father's only brother's wife's only brother-in-law?

Roberto
6th August 2005, 17:53
1. None
2. Wrong
3.
4. Invisible (or transparent, or diaphanous, or something like that)
5. A river (?)
6.
7.
8. The letter "e"
9. The letter "e" (is there a certain simlarity between questions 8 and 9?)
10. Your father (?)

Can't do 3, 6 or 7 ... will leave them blank for now ...

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 17:55
haha...oops...changed.

They're all right Roberto...just 3 more to go

GlosRFC
6th August 2005, 17:56
3. Queue

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 17:58
Make that two more to go...

GlosRFC
6th August 2005, 17:58
6. A glove?

bigcumba
6th August 2005, 17:58
7 - eye

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 18:02
Excellent....only 9 to go so

bigcumba
6th August 2005, 18:02
they were 4 and 28 to start with, and in 20 years, 24 and 48

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 18:04
so Susan is....

bigcumba
6th August 2005, 18:09
so Susan is....

4 :)

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 18:09
Bingo. Now go out and get pissed.

bigcumba
6th August 2005, 18:13
Bingo. Now go out and get pissed.

cheers! :D

Roberto
6th August 2005, 18:14
Excellent ... will do ... you too; thanks.

Fadetoblack
6th August 2005, 18:15
You're brain must feel in tip top shape now....it has no idea what's about to happen to it....:laugh have a good night..

bigcumba
6th August 2005, 18:26
Oh it knows alright... pop into the local supermarket to pick up a dozen mixed bottles of nice beers and lagers....