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From: james@ur-laser.uucp (James Chavin)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: an eggsacting mind teaser
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 13:15:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 13:15:03 1984
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               ---ritual sacrifice to the phantom line eater---

To the people of Earth,

   Here we are again with another mindboggling brain teaser.  Too many people
got our last riddle so these are much more difficult.

   Firstly,  if hen-and-a-half can lay an egg-and-a-half in an hour-and-a-half,
how long does it take two hens to lay three eggs?

   Hint:The answer is longer than the time it takes a monkey with a wooden leg
to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle.  Can anyone tell me which book that 
quote came from?


                                    James Chavin and Gary Krakower
                                    Laboratory for Laser Energetics
                                    University of Rochester
                                    250 East River Road
                                    Rochester, N.Y. 14623
                                    {allegra,seismo} !rochester!ur-laser!james