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OANST · #**301** 06-23-2009, 12:09 PM

And the answer to your new question is who the fuck knows? At no point do you tell us where the other people are going. They could be going to St. Ives, or they may not. I'm sure what you are looking for is 0.

shaman · #**302** 06-23-2009, 12:13 PM

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I'm sure what you are looking for is 0.

Read the question: As I was going to Saint Ives.
So we know i was going to saint Ives, therefor the answer is not zero.

Mind crush!

OANST · #**303** 06-23-2009, 12:16 PM

Actually, no. You asked how many were going to St. Ives out of the wives, cats, kits, etc. Soooo..... the answer is 0.

Mojo · #**304** 06-23-2009, 12:17 PM

If the family came from St Ives, then 1, if they join the "I", it's everything in the family, plus 1, the "I".

shaman · #**305** 06-23-2009, 12:19 PM

Mojo is correct with one.

I asked "How many were going to Saint Ives" i did not specifically ask how many of the family were going to saint Ives.

OANST · #**306** 06-23-2009, 12:20 PM

Yes, you did.

You said "Kits, cats, sacks, wives. How many are going to St. Ives".

That clearly implies that the question refers only to those things.

shaman · #**307** 06-23-2009, 12:23 PM

I'm pretty sure that part of the poem is just there to make the "how many people were going to saint ives" part rhyme with the rest of the poem.

The answer is one.

OANST · #**308** 06-23-2009, 12:25 PM

I'm sorry, but you can't just abandon the logic of the question because you think it only exists to make it rhyme. The logical answer is 0.

I just checked Wikipedia and they agree with me. Although, they do say that your answer is the more common one. Mine is just the logical one.

shaman · #**309** 06-23-2009, 12:29 PM

I can, because without the "Kits cats sacks wives" line; the poem would not rhyme properly. And since "I" am the only one who is said to be going to Saint Ives, logical answer is 1.

OANST · #**310** 06-23-2009, 12:32 PM

No, it really isn't. If you took any line out of it, there would be a lack of cohesion. You can't just decide that this one line isn't part of the question, even though it is. It doesn't fucking work like that. The answer is 0.

OddjobAbe · #**311** 06-23-2009, 12:35 PM

Listen to OANST. You ask "how many of them were going to St. Ives?". You are not one of them, now, are you?

shaman · #**312** 06-23-2009, 12:37 PM

Well put it this way, even if you are right. "I" am the only person who is certainly going to Saint Ives, we don't know where the others are going so the number of perople who are certainly going to saint Ives is one. Because "I" am going there.

Also, i do not ask how may of them were going to Saint Ives. I ask " How many are going to Saint Ives" that dosen't specifically mean how many of them are going.

EDIT: How many people here have actualy heard this little rhyme before?

OddjobAbe · #**313** 06-23-2009, 12:38 PM

No, no. You ask how many of THEM are going to St. Ives, not if YOU are going to St. Ives.

OANST · #**314** 06-23-2009, 12:42 PM

If the question was meant to include more than the people stated by the question then it would be completely unanswerable. However, the question clearly excludes you, the man, and everybody fucking else on the planet.

Pilot · #**315** 06-23-2009, 02:42 PM

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How many are going to St. Ives

This is a totally inappropriate time to bring this up, so....

I once knew this guy named Ivan who worked at a computer-related volunteer job I used to also volunteer at. He lived there as a night watchman in a small RV packed with crap; hardly enough room to move.

This guy was so nasty his face was perpetually greasy and his hair... God, his hair was sopping... like he had a fetish for rubbing low-quality cheese pizzas in it. His breath smelled like burning cow manure and hot garbage. Like death itself.

he also frequently rode on the forklift moving pallets around. Oh god that poor hard forklift seat... when he sat down his greasy crack hung out of his already low riding illfitting bluejeans with a blackened waistband, and he wore a grease-darkened purple puffy jacket all year long which he repaired the probably 30 years he's had it with several layers of duct tape.

...and in that hot hot warehouse in the summertime.... the stench.... and the greasy sweat which soaked his body, rolling down his back and into his crack as he operated the forklift made me throw up in my mouth a little each time. His ass looked like two hams pressed together tightly- just a flat slab of body with a seam running down.

We called him "St. Ives" because he sure needed some.

Answer THAT riddle.

MA · #**316** 06-23-2009, 03:18 PM

i'm sorry but i'm with OANST and Oddjob on this. i think its just an old riddle that folds under modern scrutiny.

OddjobAbe: 16
BM: 1
ArtemisPanthar: 10
MA: 6
Kastere: 7
MeechMunchie: 5
Laser: 4
Mojo: 2
Wings of Fire: 8
Nate: 2
OANST: 2
shaman: 5
drag0nbane442: 1
Fuzzle King: 1

OddjobAbe is still in the lead with ArtemisPanthar a little further behind.
(i havent added shaman's riddle answer to avoid further debate, nothing personal.)

I'm sometimes white,
Although sometimes I'm black.
I take you there,
But never bring you back.
What am I?

this one is yet to be answered.

Wings of Fire · #**317** 06-23-2009, 03:23 PM

So is my one from way back on page four or something.

Also.

Fred and Wilma were found dead in their room, there was nothing else in the room except a huge puddle of water, a broken neon light and several large shards of glass.

How did Fred and Wilma die?

***Nate*** · #**318** 06-23-2009, 05:42 PM

Fred and Wilma were fish in a fishtank that fell off the bench.

You forgot the open window from which the breeze came to knock them down.

Wings of Fire · #**319** 06-23-2009, 05:58 PM

Oh bollocks, foiled by Nate

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OddjobAbe · #**320** 06-24-2009, 06:43 AM

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I'm sometimes white,
Although sometimes I'm black.
I take you there,
But never bring you back.
What am I?

this one is yet to be answered.

A murderer or a man/woman who's humping another man's/woman's wife/husband.

MA · #**321** 06-24-2009, 12:16 PM

HA, i'm a hearse.

There was a man one night.
He started to run straight forward.
Then he turned left.
Soon after, he turned left again.
Then he started running toward home. When he got home there were 2
masked men waiting for him.
Who were they.

this is fucking hard.

OddjobAbe · #**322** 06-24-2009, 12:21 PM

Either the Al Qaeda or an umpire.

OANST · #**323** 06-24-2009, 12:22 PM

Catcher and Umpire at a baseball game?

Oh, fuck you Oddjob. I spent the time to figure that out and you beat me to it by seconds.

OddjobAbe · #**324** 06-24-2009, 12:24 PM

I believe I beat you. And a bully job I did, too!

OANST · #**325** 06-24-2009, 12:26 PM

You didn't get the catcher part. So, yeah. I claim victory in a small technicality.

OddjobAbe · #**326** 06-24-2009, 12:27 PM

But I fit a shit joke into it. That deserves something.

MA · #**327** 06-24-2009, 01:17 PM

im afraid Oddjob got there first. the official answer was;

The man running was a baseball player. The 2 masked me were the catcher and the umpire.

You are in a room that is completly bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor.
You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you.
How do you get out?

if you get this you deserve some +rep.

Mojo · #**328** 06-24-2009, 03:34 PM

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MA is correct with "a walk".

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

An old classic.

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No, no. You ask how many of THEM are going to St. Ives, not if YOU are going to St. Ives.

Please point out the "them" in that poem.

There. You're wrong. Only the last line is important. It's not stated if the narrator, or the group of people is meant. It just says how many went to St. Ives.

Therefor, the only logical answer is the one I gave:

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If the family came from St Ives, then 1, if they join the "I", it's everything in the family, plus 1, the "I".

EDIT: Also, I looked up the riddle about the room. It's very farfetched, and almost impossible to come up with the answer, if you've never heard it before.

***Nate*** · #**329** 06-24-2009, 07:12 PM

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im afraid Oddjob got there first. the official answer was;

The man running was a baseball player. The 2 masked me were the catcher and the umpire.

You are in a room that is completly bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor.
You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you.
How do you get out?

if you get this you deserve some +rep.

If it's bricked in on four sides, including the ceiling and floor, then it's open on two sides and he can just walk out.

OANST · #**330** 06-25-2009, 06:34 AM

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Please point out the "them" in that poem.

There. You're wrong. Only the last line is important. It's not stated if the narrator, or the group of people is meant. It just says how many went to St. Ives.

Therefor, the only logical answer is the one I gave:

It clearly does refer to "them", as it says "kits, cats, sacks, wives How many are going to St. Ives". As none of them are going there, the only logical answer is 0.