Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site imagen.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!saber!imagen!jay From: jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Re: IDIOT TEST ***SPOILER*** Some answers enclosed. Message-ID: <226@imagen.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 15:41:45 EST Article-I.D.: imagen.226 Posted: Sat Feb 1 15:41:45 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 07:35:29 EST References: <923@whuxl.UUCP> <226@micropro.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Imagen Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 33 A few comments and maybe some variations, Re: > Here are my answers for the above captioned test. If you do not want > to read these, please hit 'n' now. No flames about reading this, you > got two warnings. > > I mention three answers that I'm not sure of. If you can confirm > these, or you have a better answer for any of them, I'd enjoy getting > mail from you. > > > 6. How many outs are there in an inning? > Six. (I'm not sure if there's a trick to this one.) That answer probably IS the trick -- I think many people would hastily answer three. > 7. Is it legal in N.J. for a man to marry his widow's sister? > It isn't legal for a dead man to marry anybody. Said man may be dead, but what about the "legal" part? I bet there aren't any laws on any books prohibiting it! > 10. If you have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many apples > do you have? > Three. The two you took and the one you had left. I say only 2: Namely the two you took away with you. You don't have the one you left behind if you left it behind. -- J.J. ...{decwrl,ucbvax}!imagen!jay