Comments on: Brainteasers' Aftermaths Comments on MetaFilter post Brainteasers' Aftermaths Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:00:43 -0800 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:00:43 -0800 en-us 60 Brainteasers' Aftermaths <a href="">So What Happened After The Wise Man Discovered He Was Wearing The Red Hat?</a> Don Steinberg's hilarious brainteaser aftermaths inevitably makes one wonder what happens after fairy-tale endings or the punchlines in jokes.,2003:site.23215 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:34:08 -0800 MiguelCardoso NewYorker puzzles brainteasers riddles games jokes By: twine42 <i>vowing never again to book travel through the Internet</i> Okay... I laugh at strange things...,2003:site.23215-426338 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:00:43 -0800 twine42 By: Johnny Assay Also: <a href="">After the Punchline.</a>,2003:site.23215-426373 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 05:49:59 -0800 Johnny Assay By: chandy72 <i>"...I bear no small shame for the unholy means by which I have sustained myself for more than two centuries. You see, I am not only a U.S. citizen . . . I am also a vampire."</i> This just makes so much sense to me this morning. But what happened to the guy in the knock-knock joke that didn't say "banana" again?,2003:site.23215-426377 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:00:36 -0800 chandy72 By: ralawrence I must be suffering a sense of humour failure today as I didn't laugh once at either of the links :o(,2003:site.23215-426378 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:02:07 -0800 ralawrence By: LoopSouth The knight/knave one didn't make sense... The brother could have been lying either way...,2003:site.23215-426388 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:29:04 -0800 LoopSouth By: luser Pretty disappointing, tired, formulaic stuff from the New Yorker. Veronica Geng is looking down in horror.,2003:site.23215-426390 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:36:57 -0800 luser By: soyjoy Pretty disappointing, tired, formulaic stuff from luser. Don Steinberg <a href="">rocks.</a>,2003:site.23215-426395 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:43:53 -0800 soyjoy By: jozxyqk LoopSouth: Is this explanation better? The question is: "Are you and your sister the same type?" If he's a knight, and she's a knight, he will say "yes" (the truth). If he's a knave, and she's a knight, he will also say "yes" (a lie). And the opposite for the other situation.,2003:site.23215-426400 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:54:46 -0800 jozxyqk By: PinkStainlessTail <i>The knight/knave one didn't make sense...</i> Oh lord, just let that one go, or you'll have the Mensa Junior Mounted Storm Force down on us. The <i>real</i> problem with the Knight/Knave puzzler is that the only "acceptable" answer is the tricksy "no matter what he answers, my question shall expose him" one. Just ask the guy if he's a bird or a frog or a hat or something. Yes=Knave, No=Knight. <small> This technique stolen from Herzog's <i>Enigma of Kaspar Hauser</i>.</small>,2003:site.23215-426402 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:55:28 -0800 PinkStainlessTail By: skryche I'm sure I've seen something similar to this (and even more similar to the brunching link) on McSweeney's wherein jokes were told beyond the punchline. I searched for it but couldn't find it. But I did find <a href=" ">this</a>.,2003:site.23215-426409 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:07:11 -0800 skryche By: staggernation skryche: maybe <a href="">this</a>?,2003:site.23215-426417 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:20:29 -0800 staggernation By: jozxyqk PinkStainlessTail - The idea behind those puzzles is that it doesn't matter whether the person you're asking is lying or not. You're limited to one question, and you need to get a particular piece of information out of that question. If you waste your one question on "Are you a frog?" then you're no closer to your answer. If you get *two* questions, that's too easy. "Are you a frog?" (Yes -&gt; He's lying). "Is she a knight?" (No -&gt; Yes).. I've heard it most commonly with two doors. "Would the other guard say that your door is the right one?" is the trick question for that one.,2003:site.23215-426443 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:50:23 -0800 jozxyqk By: PinkStainlessTail D'oh! This would be why my application for the Mensa Junior Mounted Storm Force was turned down. Bastards.,2003:site.23215-426452 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:00:34 -0800 PinkStainlessTail By: orange swan The Mensa Junior Mounted Storm Force ought to go after the one who wrote the ending to the "mother's the doctor" one. It said in the beginning that the father died and he comes walking into the O.R. Tsk. Tsk.,2003:site.23215-426460 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:06:19 -0800 orange swan By: Frasermoo This is a job for Super Nintendo Chalmers.,2003:site.23215-426481 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:33:20 -0800 Frasermoo By: Holden I wondered why the New Yorker ran that Shouts &amp; Murmurs piece: Because some people really <i>do</i> find it funny! Miguel, we don't share a sense of humor. I still would like to meet you, though, if I ever make it to Portugal. I was thinking about you this week as I read Ryszard Kapuscinski's fine book, "Another Day of Life," about the final days before Angola achieved independence from Portugal. Typical amazing Kapuscinski stuff -- he's the best reporter alive.,2003:site.23215-426517 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:13:15 -0800 Holden By: ROU_Xenophobe Why would you be limited to only one question? Is your tongue gangrenous or maybe leprous and about to drop out of your mouth of its own accord? If so, you'd probably best forget whatever you were worrying about before, stick out yer festering tongue, and hope that its obvious ill health is taken as a sign to get you some medical treatment muy pronto, if only so that the knave, if he's a knave, doesn't have to look at your disgusting self any more or further risk infection himself. If the dude just refuses to answer more than one question, try threatening his life or gonads. He'll answer a truck full of questions after you smash a kneecap.,2003:site.23215-426531 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:29:51 -0800 ROU_Xenophobe By: soyjoy <i>It said in the beginning that the father died and he comes walking into the O.R. Tsk. Tsk.</i> orange swan, you are being sarcastic, right? I mean, that's what makes it so funny - it doesn't just extend the premise of the original but stretches it and then breaks it. Unfortunately, I think, that one is the funniest one, so it should have been last.,2003:site.23215-426555 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:04:12 -0800 soyjoy By: ROU_Xenophobe OS: To use the lawyerly reasoning these brain-teasers often do, it does not specify that the father is dead when the son is at the hospital, only that he had been killed. He could easily enough have been killed, which only means rendered legally dead, and then revived. Or [miraclemax] he could only be MOSTLY dead! [/miraclemax],2003:site.23215-426568 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:27:19 -0800 ROU_Xenophobe By: jcruelty funny. reminded me of mcsweeneys online, although mcsweeneys online isn't that funny anymore.,2003:site.23215-426861 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:49:44 -0800 jcruelty