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#21
RE: Brain teaser
January 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm
OK then, assuming I'm right I'll pose another one..

What is both up and down or neither and is both past and present tense?
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RE: Brain teaser
January 13, 2009 at 5:30 pm
A subatomic particle? I'm terrible at these. Blush
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RE: Brain teaser
January 13, 2009 at 5:56 pm
(January 13, 2009 at 5:30 pm)CoxRox Wrote: A subatomic particle? I'm terrible at these. Blush

Yes!




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RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 10:03 am
My egg timer might still be right....Wink
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RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 10:12 am
Could be..
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RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Darwinian got it. It was a toilet seat Big Grin The clue was in the placing of the words "my" and "the". Only the top and bottomt belonged to the object; "the" bottom was another item...well...bottom.
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RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Okay, I have another;

49 = 7

The statement above is entirley correct, how?

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#28
RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Is it a different base? Like in hex 10 = 16



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#29
RE: Brain teaser
January 14, 2009 at 8:40 pm
The only thing i can think of is 49 as a square root.
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#30
RE: Brain teaser
January 15, 2009 at 12:44 pm
No, It's more simple than that. I've put the answer below, highlight the space if you want to know;




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